{"id":1550,"date":"2026-05-29T06:00:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T05:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/?p=1550"},"modified":"2026-05-10T07:08:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T06:08:58","slug":"chapter-18-the-bathtub-regatta143","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/05\/29\/chapter-18-the-bathtub-regatta143\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 18 The Bathtub Regatta143"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/05\/28\/chapter-18-the-bathtub-regatta142\/\">Previous<\/a> &#8211; Book1 Page143 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/05\/30\/chapter-19-innovative-technology145\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p>\u201cYour heart\u2019s in the right place you know. Loyalty and fighting spirit count for a lot. Loyalty to this community. You\u2019re not a law breaker. You\u2019d fit in better than some of the marines they already have!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MaxChaos realises that Walker is being serious. They look at each other silently. Then at HayWire, who\u2019s feeling uncomfortable, and he just shrugs. Then Walker adds, \u201cit\u2019s all about safety you know, self defence, Wolfies are not the aggressors, we just need to be sure that honest, law abiding people like us are protected from others that might do us harm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Walker finishes her coffee and puts three pennies down on the table.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Garrison and the Constabulary are all one and the same really. Two different divisions of the same government department. I can put in a good word for you if you ever change your mind. Gotta dash, I heard Hayley Wilde was a bit overcome with grief this afternoon, I need to drop by the Coliseum anyway. Several reasons!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Once Walker has left the caf\u00e9, MaxChaos turns to HayWire and asks, \u201cif we\u2019re never going to attack anybody, we don\u2019t actually need a Garrison do we?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>HayWire\u2019s brain is already a bit frazzled following Walker\u2019s extraordinarily direct and pointed conversation. HayWire had wanted to chat all about ideas for innovating new armaments, not about employment opportunities! And his new innovative ideas mean that he wants to get hold of something explosive. For the best of reasons of course. Nothing sinister! But being HayWire he knows that he can\u2019t just go around asking random people for stuff that goes bang!<\/p>\n<p>Impatiently, MaxChaos repeats the question, \u201cwe don\u2019t actually need a Garrison do we?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>HayWire hesitates, snaps out of his day dream, and then responds, \u201cyes and no, it\u2019s not as simple as that. And I don\u2019t have enough spoons right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He stands up to leave, \u201cdon\u2019t worry, I\u2019ll explain later.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Confused, MaxChaos glances at the teaspoons on the table and watches HayWire depart. He thinks, \u201cspoons?\u201d<\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/05\/28\/chapter-18-the-bathtub-regatta142\/\">Previous<\/a> &#8211; Book1 Page143 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/05\/30\/chapter-19-innovative-technology145\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previous &#8211; Book1 Page143 \u2013 Next \u201cYour heart\u2019s in the right place you know. Loyalty and fighting spirit count for a lot. Loyalty to this community. You\u2019re not a law breaker. You\u2019d fit in better than some of the marines they already have!\u201d MaxChaos realises that Walker is being serious. They look at each other &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/05\/29\/chapter-18-the-bathtub-regatta143\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chapter 18 The Bathtub Regatta143&#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\/1550"}],"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=1550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1551,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions\/1551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}