{"id":1484,"date":"2026-04-30T06:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T05:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/?p=1484"},"modified":"2026-04-26T22:32:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T21:32:55","slug":"chapter-14-the-french-pirate108","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/04\/30\/chapter-14-the-french-pirate108\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 14 The French Pirate108"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/04\/29\/chapter-14-the-french-pirate107\/\">Previous<\/a> &#8211; Book1 Page108 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/05\/01\/chapter-14-the-french-pirate109\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p>he\u2019s been forced to meet her parents before he was mentally prepared for it!<\/p>\n<p>A bit displeased, but not raging, he uses his demi stern voice with his teeth clenched together.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t do the wavelength you know! I look at your face and your hands, and I can only guess what\u2019s going on!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re doing fine,\u201d she says, \u201cthey like you!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Relaxing the tenseness of his teeth, he muses, \u201cand they call you Mademoiselle?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUsually they only do that when they\u2019re upset with me! They start by saying <em>Mademoiselle Troyes<\/em>, <em>if you \u2026 something, something, something<\/em>. This time I think <em>Maman <\/em>was doing it just for emphasis, to show that we have French heritage. She\u2019s actually 100% Wolfie. <em>Papa\u2019s<\/em> the one who\u2019s 2% French. Or something like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo you\u2019re 1% French?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t feel like that! I\u2019m just the same as everybody else here. In our case, you have to go back 300 years to trace the original Monsieur Troyes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy did he leave France?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Great Famine!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At that precise moment a minor crashing noise is heard from the kitchen. As if somebody has dropped a plate on the floor, breaking it into four or five pieces.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Great Famine? In 2162?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c2162 was the year of The Decimation. The famine came a little bit later. Anyway, he was trying to find a better life, away from Paris, and he ended up in the Navy. He was captured in the Second Battle of Hastings, imprisoned in Woolwich, and on his release he chose to go into London rather than go back to France.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy did he join the Navy, why didn\u2019t he stay in Paris?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>KristalClear knows the story well, but has never had to lead a discussion like this before.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOriginally, he had a good job, with a good family, working as a groom in their stables. <em>Papa<\/em> says they had lots of horses, and Monsieur Troyes was part of a big team. He was<\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/04\/29\/chapter-14-the-french-pirate107\/\">Previous<\/a> &#8211; Book1 Page108 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/05\/01\/chapter-14-the-french-pirate109\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previous &#8211; Book1 Page108 \u2013 Next he\u2019s been forced to meet her parents before he was mentally prepared for it! A bit displeased, but not raging, he uses his demi stern voice with his teeth clenched together. \u201cI can\u2019t do the wavelength you know! I look at your face and your hands, and I can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/04\/30\/chapter-14-the-french-pirate108\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chapter 14 The French Pirate108&#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\/1484"}],"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=1484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1485,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions\/1485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}