{"id":1649,"date":"2026-07-06T06:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T05:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/?p=1649"},"modified":"2026-07-05T21:33:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T20:33:55","slug":"chapter-24-fate-rewards-the-brave190","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/07\/06\/chapter-24-fate-rewards-the-brave190\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 24 Fate Rewards the Brave190"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/07\/05\/chapter-24-fate-rewards-the-brave189\/\">Previous<\/a> &#8211; Book1 Page190 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/07\/07\/chapter-24-fate-rewards-the-brave191\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p>\u201cOh, this is terrible, if it\u2019s bad, it\u2019s terrible, if it\u2019s good, it\u2019s terrible! I don\u2019t know what\u2019s worse!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis isn\u2019t making any sense, what\u2019s good, what\u2019s terrible?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt work this afternoon, I had an unexpected visitor. He was asking about shipments of silver, and zinc. He wasn\u2019t asking about provisioning at all!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaxChaos!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaxChaos? What\u2019s so bad about that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe gave me a love letter!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stunned silence!<\/p>\n<p>Followed by more stunned silence!<\/p>\n<p>Staring at Conning with incredulity, KristalClear can sense creepy crawlies climbing up the back of her neck, becoming tangled and trapped in her clean, beautiful, long, deep brown hair. She can feel a cold, wet haddock taking hold of her hand, tugging her towards a chilly Irish Sea. Her feet are twitching as she senses quicksand begin to ooze up and engulf her shoes, with an insurmountable force pulling her down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s interesting,\u201d she says, \u201ctell me more!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Once again, not knowing whether to laugh or cry Conning can feel tears of anguish battling to cascade down her delicate, pretty face. She fights them back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was awful! He obviously wrote it himself, without any help. You know he\u2019s not good at reading and writing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did it say?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t tell you, childish gibberish, something about buttercups \u2026 that\u2019s enough!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, and how does that make you feel?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Conning\u2019s mind is wandering. She doesn\u2019t answer the question. Her thoughts are already racing in a different direction. She\u2019s thinking the horoscope said \u201cplayed well, this may be a stepping stone\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Conning blurts out, \u201coh no, is this supposed to be good news? What did I say? I told him he has BO! Well, I didn\u2019t say \u2018you have BO\u2019, I said he smelt of fish. He\u2019s probably too thick<\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/07\/05\/chapter-24-fate-rewards-the-brave189\/\">Previous<\/a> &#8211; Book1 Page190 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/07\/07\/chapter-24-fate-rewards-the-brave191\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previous &#8211; Book1 Page190 \u2013 Next \u201cOh, this is terrible, if it\u2019s bad, it\u2019s terrible, if it\u2019s good, it\u2019s terrible! I don\u2019t know what\u2019s worse!\u201d \u201cThis isn\u2019t making any sense, what\u2019s good, what\u2019s terrible?\u201d \u201cAt work this afternoon, I had an unexpected visitor. He was asking about shipments of silver, and zinc. He wasn\u2019t asking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/07\/06\/chapter-24-fate-rewards-the-brave190\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chapter 24 Fate Rewards the Brave190&#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\/1649"}],"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=1649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1650,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649\/revisions\/1650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}