{"id":1643,"date":"2026-07-03T06:00:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T05:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/?p=1643"},"modified":"2026-06-28T15:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T14:57:11","slug":"chapter-24-fate-rewards-the-brave187","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/07\/03\/chapter-24-fate-rewards-the-brave187\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 24 Fate Rewards the Brave187"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/07\/02\/chapter-24-fate-rewards-the-brave186\/\">Previous<\/a> &#8211; Book1 Page187 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/07\/04\/chapter-24-fate-rewards-the-brave188\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p>\u201cHow would I find out who\u2019s shipping what? Could you help?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMum knows more about this than I do. She\u2019s been doing this job for years. Write down what you\u2019re looking for. No promises, but I\u2019ll see if there\u2019s a way to find out. What metals in particular?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHayWire said that sodium or potassium would be ideal!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thinking that MaxChaos wouldn\u2019t even know what sodium or potassium are, she\u2019s rightly suspicious. Why is HayWire involved? What are they up to?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019d better write it down. I can ask around, even before mum gets back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve already written it down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He passes her a small envelope, and before she has time to open it, he\u2019s on his way out of the door.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSee you later!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is just plain weird!<\/p>\n<p>MaxChaos wouldn\u2019t normally visit the reception desk at InfiniDash, he\u2019d go straight round to one of the warehouses. He wouldn\u2019t normally be on his own, he\u2019d be part of a team. And he wouldn\u2019t normally write things down, let alone write something in advance. He\u2019s not particularly good at literacy.<\/p>\n<p>Mystified, Conning looks at the envelope. She opens it. It\u2019s a love letter!<\/p>\n<p>From MaxChaos! Remarkably, within the space of just 37 words, it demonstrates all the adult, and juvenile, and infantile thoughts at work inside his chaotic head!<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Twinkle twinkle little Buttercup<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 How I wonder when we\u2019ll next meet up<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Wise and pretty and incredibly bright<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I was thinking that we might<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Go out somewhere nice to play<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But can that wait until pay day?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Overwhelmed, Conning doesn\u2019t know if she should laugh or cry!<\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/07\/02\/chapter-24-fate-rewards-the-brave186\/\">Previous<\/a> &#8211; Book1 Page187 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/07\/04\/chapter-24-fate-rewards-the-brave188\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previous &#8211; Book1 Page187 \u2013 Next \u201cHow would I find out who\u2019s shipping what? Could you help?\u201d \u201cMum knows more about this than I do. She\u2019s been doing this job for years. Write down what you\u2019re looking for. No promises, but I\u2019ll see if there\u2019s a way to find out. What metals in particular?\u201d \u201cHayWire &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/07\/03\/chapter-24-fate-rewards-the-brave187\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chapter 24 Fate Rewards the Brave187&#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\/1643"}],"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=1643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1644,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643\/revisions\/1644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}