{"id":1869,"date":"2026-09-05T06:00:52","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T05:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/?p=1869"},"modified":"2026-09-01T03:06:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T02:06:00","slug":"chapter-29-behind-the-scenes257","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/09\/05\/chapter-29-behind-the-scenes257\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 29 Behind the Scenes257"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/09\/04\/chapter-29-behind-the-scenes256\/\">Previous<\/a> &#8211; Book1 Page257 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/09\/06\/chapter-29-behind-the-scenes258\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p>\u201cPassion! Electricity! Immersion! Total focus, almost trance like focus!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, you can do that, I know! It was obvious earlier. But you\u2019ve heard me practise, and you know that I\u2019m a mediocre drummer. Does everybody have to be able to do it the same way as you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKayt and Conning have passion. Kayt\u2019s a brilliant singer! And a brilliant dancer! I\u2019ve watched her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With half an idea about where the discussion is going, NutJob gently prompts for more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKayt?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, why are there no girls in my year like Kayt?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re thirteen aren\u2019t you? Maybe you\u2019re maturing faster than the others! Everybody in your year is twelve or thirteen?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>AngryBard nods, \u201cuh huh.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou sound like me when I was fifteen. You\u2019re going to be fine. It takes a little time, and it needs a bit of patience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoes Kayt have a boyfriend?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think she does,\u201d says NutJob, \u201cbut I don\u2019t think she\u2019s looking. We can talk more about this later. The interval\u2019s nearly over, aren\u2019t you needed back in the orchestra for the second half?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212;o&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In the ladies\u2019 dressing room Kayt, whilst not intending to cause any deliberate friction, starts off a little too aggressively. She often does that with love life conversations. All Conning wanted to do was ask calmly about recent developments. The problem these days is that it\u2019s hard to get KristalClear on her own for a chat without NutJob being within earshot. A backstage dressing room solves that problem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow did you do it? Why did you do it?\u201d demands Kayt, \u201cwhat is it with you and NutJob? He\u2019s not normal!\u201d<\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/09\/04\/chapter-29-behind-the-scenes256\/\">Previous<\/a> &#8211; Book1 Page257 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/09\/06\/chapter-29-behind-the-scenes258\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previous &#8211; Book1 Page257 \u2013 Next \u201cPassion! Electricity! Immersion! Total focus, almost trance like focus!\u201d \u201cYes, you can do that, I know! It was obvious earlier. But you\u2019ve heard me practise, and you know that I\u2019m a mediocre drummer. Does everybody have to be able to do it the same way as you?\u201d \u201cKayt and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/09\/05\/chapter-29-behind-the-scenes257\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chapter 29 Behind the Scenes257&#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\/1869"}],"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=1869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1870,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869\/revisions\/1870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}