Previous<\/a> – Book1 Page142 \u2013 Next<\/a><\/p>\n He has chests stuffed full of junk. And bone. He\u2019s made friends with one of the middle men near the abattoir and can get calibre bone at knock down prices before it ends up on the commercial markets. He can\u2019t get gunpowder though. Nor sulphur. He\u2019s not a master engineer, just an apprentice, and in any case, even if he was a GuildMaster why would a watchmaker be trying to buy explosives?<\/p>\n HayWire thinks that MaxChaos might be the route to follow, because he knows some questionable characters, and he\u2019s more likely to find opportunities on the black market. HayWire sometimes feels uncomfortable around normal people, let alone the shady types who live down by the docks.<\/p>\n \u201cAre you two talking about gunpowder again?\u201d says Constable Walker as she draws up a chair to their table. She calls Julia over and asks her for a nice strong coffee, then smiles at the youngsters.<\/p>\n \u201cI thought I\u2019d find you in here.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHayWire, what happened to your face?\u201d asks Walker as she notices a bruise developing just below his left eye.<\/p>\n \u201cOh, it\u2019s nothing,\u201d he says, \u201cI walked into a door again! Sometimes my mind\u2019s on other things and I\u2019m not looking where I\u2019m going.\u201d<\/p>\n Walker\u2019s not sure that she could help in this sort of situation, and she does one of her half smiles. She assumes it\u2019s merely a fact of life, given HayWire\u2019s neurodivergent nature. Then she turns to MaxChaos.<\/p>\n \u201cI wanted to catch up with you Max, and say two things. Firstly, you did a great job with the regatta earlier today. And more importantly, you\u2019re the talk of the Garrison having disabled The Frumious Bandersnatch<\/em> the way you did. Have you ever thought about joining the Garrison?\u201d<\/p>\n With a look of incredulity, MaxChaos summons up the most diplomatic language he can muster and looks Walker in the eye.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve got a diploma of sod all,\u201d he says, \u201cand anyway, I\u2019m still too much of a rebel, I wouldn\u2019t fit in, I couldn\u2019t cope with being told what to do all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n Previous<\/a> – Book1 Page142 \u2013 Next<\/a><\/p>\n Previous – Book1 Page142 \u2013 Next He has chests stuffed full of junk. And bone. He\u2019s made friends with one of the middle men near the abattoir and can get calibre bone at knock down prices before it ends up on the commercial markets. He can\u2019t get gunpowder though. Nor sulphur. He\u2019s not a master … Continue reading “Chapter 18 The Bathtub Regatta142”<\/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\/1545"}],"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=1545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1546,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545\/revisions\/1546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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