{"id":1424,"date":"2026-04-12T06:00:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T05:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/?p=1424"},"modified":"2026-04-05T05:10:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T04:10:04","slug":"chapter-12-the-good-apples087","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/04\/12\/chapter-12-the-good-apples087\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 12 The Good Apples087"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/04\/11\/chapter-11-uncivilised-society085\/\">Previous<\/a> &#8211; Book1 Page87 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/04\/13\/chapter-12-the-good-apples088\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p><strong>Chapter 12<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>The Good Apples<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere do you find good men?\u201d asks KristalClear.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere do you find good apples?\u201d replies Conning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot apples! Men!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere do you find good apples is something my grandad says,\u201d explains Conning, \u201che\u2019s a <em>good<\/em> man! Every year we go back to Mannin to visit family, and grandad has some brilliant ways of explaining things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kayt joins in, \u201cbut I thought you\u2019d found a good man? Haven\u2019t you told NutJob yet? It\u2019s obvious to everyone. When are you two going to start going out together?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot me!\u201d says KristalClear, \u201cI\u2019m talking about CandiCrush, she\u2019s 33 years old and she\u2019s still single. But what\u2019s this thing with the apples?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Before Conning can answer, Kayt butts in again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s in the Garisson,\u201d says Kayt bluntly, \u201cit\u2019s full of men!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kayt likes to dominate <em>love life<\/em> conversations like this one. If she\u2019s given half a chance, Kayt dominates all conversations, but especially ones about dreamy relationships.<\/p>\n<p>Kayt and Conning are the best of friends. They\u2019re Manx descendants and they\u2019ve made a point of keeping up with their own native language. They\u2019re also a singing partnership known as <em>The Space Girls<\/em>, because each of them repeatedly uses the catch phrase \u201cdon\u2019t invade my personal space\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Especially where boys are involved!<\/p>\n<p>They claim that they don\u2019t want to seek out romance just yet, but they\u2019re excited to learn all they can from KristalClear. If any of the girls was going to find a proper, stable boyfriend, they wouldn\u2019t have imagined that KristalClear would be first! She\u2019s normal, unassuming, polite, and intelligent.<\/p>\n<p>How she clicked with NutJob they just don\u2019t know!<\/p>\n<p>And anyway, they think NutJob\u2019s not quite normal.<\/p>\n<p>In <em>The Space Girls<\/em> it\u2019s quietly acknowledged that Kayt is the better singer and dancer and that Conning is the brainy one.<\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/04\/11\/chapter-11-uncivilised-society085\/\">Previous<\/a> &#8211; Book1 Page87 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/04\/13\/chapter-12-the-good-apples088\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previous &#8211; Book1 Page87 \u2013 Next Chapter 12 The Good Apples \u201cWhere do you find good men?\u201d asks KristalClear. \u201cWhere do you find good apples?\u201d replies Conning. \u201cNot apples! Men!\u201d \u201cWhere do you find good apples is something my grandad says,\u201d explains Conning, \u201che\u2019s a good man! Every year we go back to Mannin to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/04\/12\/chapter-12-the-good-apples087\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chapter 12 The Good Apples087&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1425,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions\/1425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}