{"id":1494,"date":"2026-05-04T06:00:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T05:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/?p=1494"},"modified":"2026-05-03T06:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T05:56:10","slug":"chapter-14-the-french-pirate112","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/05\/04\/chapter-14-the-french-pirate112\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 14 The French Pirate112"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/05\/03\/chapter-14-the-french-pirate111\/\">Previous<\/a> &#8211; Book1 Page112 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/05\/05\/chapter-15-a-barrel-of-laughs115\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p>\u201cSmall, nimble fingers you see,\u201d says Mme. Troyes, \u201cjust like you Dave.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot so nimble now,\u201d he says, \u201cI\u2019m getting too old for leather work. Dave, Kristal was telling me you make model aircraft? So you\u2019re a bit of a craftsman too?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBalsawood gliders mainly. I find it strangely satisfying. Small propellers are tricky to make though. And the only way to control powered models is to circle them on the end of a piece of string. I\u2019d love to do radio control like the old days, but that\u2019s impossible now. Clockwork motors are my next step to get increased flight times. But then it gets expensive, so I stick to gliders, mainly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are several watchmakers in town you know? You should get in touch with one of them. Maybe they have Saturday jobs?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of my friends is apprenticed to <em>Harrison Time Pieces<\/em>. He left school a couple of years ago, he loves it there!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we have more time, you\u2019ll have to introduce me to your hobby. Leatherware is tough and heavy. Balsawood\u2019s soft and light, it could satisfy my need to tinker, and keep my brain active.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>KristalClear smiles at NutJob, and knowing that her parents are not demi-psychic she tries reaching out on the wavelength again.<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab You\u2019ve done it Dash, you\u2019ve struck the right chord, this could not have gone better. \u00bb<\/p>\n<p>He has no idea what the message is, but he can pretty much guess.<\/p>\n<p>M. &amp; Mme. Troyes have no idea what the message is either. Nor do they have any idea where their daughter picked up her demi-psychic powers.<\/p>\n<p>Some people are born with a sixth sense. Some are not.<\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/05\/03\/chapter-14-the-french-pirate111\/\">Previous<\/a> &#8211; Book1 Page112 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/05\/05\/chapter-15-a-barrel-of-laughs115\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previous &#8211; Book1 Page112 \u2013 Next \u201cSmall, nimble fingers you see,\u201d says Mme. Troyes, \u201cjust like you Dave.\u201d \u201cNot so nimble now,\u201d he says, \u201cI\u2019m getting too old for leather work. Dave, Kristal was telling me you make model aircraft? So you\u2019re a bit of a craftsman too?\u201d \u201cBalsawood gliders mainly. I find it strangely &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/05\/04\/chapter-14-the-french-pirate112\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chapter 14 The French Pirate112&#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\/1494"}],"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=1494"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1496,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions\/1496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}