{"id":1862,"date":"2026-09-02T06:00:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T05:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/?p=1862"},"modified":"2026-09-01T03:20:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T02:20:21","slug":"chapter-29-behind-the-scenes254","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/09\/02\/chapter-29-behind-the-scenes254\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 29 Behind the Scenes254"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/09\/01\/chapter-29-behind-the-scenes253\/\">Previous<\/a> &#8211; Book1 Page254 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/09\/03\/chapter-29-behind-the-scenes255\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p>\u201cI spent it all in Chadwicks!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo no cupcake for you then!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t be too sure about that. Look, it\u2019s those girls doing the cake stall again. What else do we have?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve got an apple in my bag!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGive me that then. And watch this!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Aged thirteen and fourteen, the two boys have a shared room in the Coliseum, and ShortFuse is accustomed to having to play second fiddle to his older brother.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to get a free cupcake!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With the air smelling faintly of lemon and chocolate and overconfidence, ClaireVoyant has transformed the cake stall into a temple of beauty. RoughDi, armed with her apron, her tongs, and an unshakable sense of superiority, is on the case the moment that MegaBite tries to swipe a cake from the corner of the table. Drawn by the scent of chocolate and the promise of some drama, a group of youngsters coalesces at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ll be on report again,\u201d says RoughDi, \u201cif you\u2019re trying to nick that!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MegaBite grins, \u201cnow now Di, that\u2019s no way to talk to a paying customer!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou haven\u2019t paid! And you\u2019re not a customer. You\u2019re a public nuisance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ClaireVoyant joins in, \u201cyou\u2019d better watch it, Di is doing karate lessons now!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the mention of karate Hayley tunes in, quickly bringing her entire clique with her.<\/p>\n<p>MegaBite decides that charm is his preferred martial art, \u201ctell you what, how about I trade you one of these fine apples for a cupcake?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s got teeth marks in it,\u201d observes ClaireVoyant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProof of freshness!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Unaware that diplomacy is failing faster than the chocolate chip cookie supply, none of the older crowd are on hand to help. So eight year old FullyCharged decides to be the mature adult in the room. Copying the stance from one of his comic<\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/09\/01\/chapter-29-behind-the-scenes253\/\">Previous<\/a> &#8211; Book1 Page254 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/09\/03\/chapter-29-behind-the-scenes255\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previous &#8211; Book1 Page254 \u2013 Next \u201cI spent it all in Chadwicks!\u201d \u201cSo no cupcake for you then!\u201d \u201cDon\u2019t be too sure about that. Look, it\u2019s those girls doing the cake stall again. What else do we have?\u201d \u201cI\u2019ve got an apple in my bag!\u201d \u201cGive me that then. And watch this!\u201d Aged thirteen and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/09\/02\/chapter-29-behind-the-scenes254\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chapter 29 Behind the Scenes254&#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\/1862"}],"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=1862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1863,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862\/revisions\/1863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}