{"id":1449,"date":"2026-04-18T06:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T05:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/?p=1449"},"modified":"2026-04-13T06:39:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T05:39:12","slug":"chapter-13-work-or-die095","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/04\/18\/chapter-13-work-or-die095\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 13 Work or Die095"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/04\/17\/chapter-12-the-good-apples092\/\">Previous<\/a> &#8211; Book1 Page95 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/04\/19\/chapter-13-work-or-die096\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p><strong>Chapter 13<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Work or Die<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow can there be another printer jam?\u201d asks Faraday rhetorically, \u201cthis is the fourth one in a row! And we\u2019ve done all the obvious checks!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s hotter than usual today,\u201d says NutJob, \u201cmaybe it\u2019s the paper, not the machine. Is the paper too dry?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOK,\u201d says Faraday, \u201clet\u2019s look at that before we try adjusting the callipers again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Faraday takes his chemistry set from the cabinet. They check the water hardness and the PH value. They\u2019re both fine, so it can\u2019t be the water. Their attention returns to the sheet callipers and the smoothers. Rather than fiddle with them in place again, they decide to remove the whole assembly, clean it up, and refit it.<\/p>\n<p>It does the trick! And just in time too, the full print run is completed by 19:00 in time for the pickers and packers to prepare the bundles before the couriers arrive. With an eye on the clock, NutJob is keen to clean the press, and put everything away so that he can finish on time at 21:00.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMust dash,\u201d he says, \u201cI\u2019m hoping to catch up with Kristal on the way home!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSure,\u201d says Faraday, \u201cand when you\u2019re in tomorrow, we\u2019re going to have a proper look at building our own press.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>KristalClear is already at the crossroads by the time NutJob arrives. She\u2019s been waiting for him, and she\u2019s keen to have their regular ten minute chat on the way home. Every Friday she has the same repetitive pattern at work, and every Friday NutJob has something new and different to talk about.<\/p>\n<p>Today, he\u2019s very pleased with the chemistry he\u2019s learned, and he barely pauses to let her say anything!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re obviously going to be an engineer when you leave school,\u201d she says, \u201cI hope <em>The Lancastrian<\/em> can take you on full time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd the Garrison?\u201d asks NutJob, \u201cwhat have they said about work next year?\u201d<\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/04\/17\/chapter-12-the-good-apples092\/\">Previous<\/a> &#8211; Book1 Page95 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/04\/19\/chapter-13-work-or-die096\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previous &#8211; Book1 Page95 \u2013 Next Chapter 13 Work or Die \u201cHow can there be another printer jam?\u201d asks Faraday rhetorically, \u201cthis is the fourth one in a row! And we\u2019ve done all the obvious checks!\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s hotter than usual today,\u201d says NutJob, \u201cmaybe it\u2019s the paper, not the machine. Is the paper too dry?\u201d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/04\/18\/chapter-13-work-or-die095\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chapter 13 Work or Die095&#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\/1449"}],"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=1449"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1453,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions\/1453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}