{"id":1639,"date":"2026-07-01T06:00:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T05:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/?p=1639"},"modified":"2026-06-28T15:53:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T14:53:46","slug":"chapter-24-fate-rewards-the-brave185","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/07\/01\/chapter-24-fate-rewards-the-brave185\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 24 Fate Rewards the Brave185"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/06\/30\/chapter-24-fate-rewards-the-brave184\/\">Previous<\/a> &#8211; Book1 Page185 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/07\/02\/chapter-24-fate-rewards-the-brave186\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p>\u201cInteresting character! And HayWire, who\u2019s he?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSamuel Clark. Also known as HayWire. He\u2019s eighteen years old with no police record. His parents both work in the tanning industry. At school he was both brilliant and awful. Excelling in some subjects and bottom of the class in others. He graduated two years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBrilliant at what?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaths, physics, engineering, mechanics. He\u2019s apprenticed to <em>Harrison Time Pieces<\/em>, and apparently he\u2019s a quick learner. He\u2019s doing well. He lives at home with his parents, though from what I hear, family life is fraught. He seems to spend a lot of time at work, putting in extra hours when he doesn\u2019t have to, and he\u2019s trying to teach himself advanced skills. He\u2019s experimenting with batteries and alternative energy sources.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s also keen on trying alternative materials like bone. Through family connections, he gets access to various bone and stuff from NickTheKnacker. HayWire is the one who studied the text books and worked out how to make hydrogen with limited resources. In his specialist field he\u2019s incredibly intelligent, a savant! He prefers to be called HayWire, he\u2019s proud of the name, fond childhood memories of something. I wouldn\u2019t recommend calling him Samuel or Sam.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHayWire and MaxChaos are both friends with NutJob and Kristal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre they now?\u201d remarks CandiCrush, \u201cwe need to get all of them in for a brainstorming session. No big plans, make them think this is a one off, because it might be a one off. However, if we can get an Inventors Club going on a Wednesday afternoon, we might all benefit from their regular involvement. Ted, find out more about these two explosives experts. If Toni says they\u2019re sound we should be able to get security clearance for both of them? And get NutJob cleared too. Kristal\u2019s on the system already.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Corky returns.<\/p>\n<p>CandiCrush smiles, \u201ctea anyone?\u201d<\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/06\/30\/chapter-24-fate-rewards-the-brave184\/\">Previous<\/a> &#8211; Book1 Page185 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/07\/02\/chapter-24-fate-rewards-the-brave186\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previous &#8211; Book1 Page185 \u2013 Next \u201cInteresting character! And HayWire, who\u2019s he?\u201d \u201cSamuel Clark. Also known as HayWire. He\u2019s eighteen years old with no police record. His parents both work in the tanning industry. At school he was both brilliant and awful. Excelling in some subjects and bottom of the class in others. He graduated &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/07\/01\/chapter-24-fate-rewards-the-brave185\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chapter 24 Fate Rewards the Brave185&#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\/1639"}],"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=1639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1640,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions\/1640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}