Previous<\/a> – Book1 Page169 \u2013 Next<\/a><\/p>\n Slender looks in the direction of the regular conscripts, beckons over the two nearest her, \u201cget him back on his feet and get him into the Asylum. And get his leg fixed, don\u2019t make it worse! We don\u2019t have enough strong men as it is, and this idiot might actually come in useful \u2026 one day!\u201d<\/p>\n She looks at MickeyWarr, who\u2019s now sitting on the ground, struggling to take off one of his boots.<\/p>\n \u201cI could have killed you!\u201d she says, \u201cI don\u2019t know why I didn\u2019t! Any of the others would have!\u201d<\/p>\n As she says that, the sword in her right hand is drawn back, but not returned to its scabbard. To everybody it looks like she could be poised and ready to lunge.<\/p>\n At the same time she\u2019s cautiously gesturing with her left hand. It\u2019s done in an instant, and she hopes that nobody other than MickeyWarr saw it.<\/p>\n With a flat palm facing the ground, all the fingers held together and extended forward, the wrist barely moved but the tips of the fingers did, moving sharply to the left as if to say \u201ccancel\u201d.<\/p>\n The wavelengths are crowded with too many thoughts. The frenzy to recapture the recalcitrant vegetables is still in progress. Slender might be a demi-psychic, but she can\u2019t distinguish one channel from another when there are dozens of people about, and lots of them are shouting. On a good day she can barely cope with two<\/em> concurrent transmissions, three<\/em> is her absolute limit. One to one is best, but even that requires a calm peaceful environment, not this chaos!<\/p>\n MickeyWarr is being lifted up by his armpits, and he\u2019s assuming that the \u201ccancel\u201d gesture means \u201cdon\u2019t take my words literally, I\u2019m certainly not going to kill you.\u201d<\/p>\n Unfortunately there\u2019s no opportunity for either of them to do any more body language, or any spoken language, as MickeyWarr is half carried, and half dragged away towards the Asylum. It\u2019s too risky for him to turn his head and look back.<\/p>\n Slender can\u2019t detect MickeyWarr\u2019s thought pattern at all. She watches for only a few seconds, and starts thinking to herself, \u201cwhy did I do that? Is this wise? How can I leave? It\u2019s<\/p>\n Previous<\/a> – Book1 Page169 \u2013 Next<\/a><\/p>\n Previous – Book1 Page169 \u2013 Next Slender looks in the direction of the regular conscripts, beckons over the two nearest her, \u201cget him back on his feet and get him into the Asylum. And get his leg fixed, don\u2019t make it worse! We don\u2019t have enough strong men as it is, and this idiot might … Continue reading “Chapter 22 A Delicate Question169”<\/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\/1605"}],"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=1605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1606,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605\/revisions\/1606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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