{"id":1931,"date":"2026-10-01T06:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T05:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/?p=1931"},"modified":"2026-09-27T21:36:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T20:36:39","slug":"chapter-32-on-the-wolf-wavelength288","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/10\/01\/chapter-32-on-the-wolf-wavelength288\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 32 On the Wolf Wavelength288"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/09\/30\/chapter-32-on-the-wolf-wavelength287\/\">Previous<\/a> &#8211; Book1 Page288 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/10\/02\/chapter-32-on-the-wolf-wavelength289\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p>\u201cDave, get a grip,\u201d she says, \u201cif we do nothing SnapDragon is going to die, he can\u2019t hunt, right now he needs love and care more than we do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Once more, the thoughts are running wild in his head, \u201cthere she goes again, calling me <em>Dave<\/em> again, and quite forcefully this time! And the wolf is called <em>SnapDragon<\/em>? I don\u2019t believe this is happening to me! Anyway, I have to do as she says. Remember what Chaucer said, if you don\u2019t let the lady be in charge of her own dominion then it\u2019s going to get ugly!\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212;o&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Scarcely believing the story at first, Constable Burgess relents and takes NutJob to see CrankyHandle. He\u2019s more accustomed to moving canal boats than moving wildlife, but at least he has a pony and trap!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s sitting up there with an injured wolf, apparently,\u201d says Burgess, \u201cwe obviously can\u2019t leave her stranded!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bringing his hand to his forehead for a third time now, CrankyHandle says, \u201cI don\u2019t know what to make of young people these days, in my day you just went to school, then you went to work, and you <em>stayed away <\/em>from wolves!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, NutJob,\u201d says Burgess, \u201cany bright ideas about what we need?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>KristalClear was right. She might not have suggested a pony and trap, but a large blanket or a tarpaulin, plenty of rope, and <em>two<\/em> long poles were the main tools. Loaded onto the trap with a collection of lockkeeper\u2019s tools, pulleys and assorted junk, the unwitting saviours set off along the River Crake to the path up Colton Hill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we get to the top,\u201d says CrankyHandle, \u201cwe\u2019ll tether Primrose, I\u2019m not having her anywhere near a wolf.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOK,\u201d says NutJob, \u201cwe can manhandle the trap the last bit, as far as the start of the escarpment, but it won\u2019t fit down the narrow pathway.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/09\/30\/chapter-32-on-the-wolf-wavelength287\/\">Previous<\/a> &#8211; Book1 Page288 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/10\/02\/chapter-32-on-the-wolf-wavelength289\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previous &#8211; Book1 Page288 \u2013 Next \u201cDave, get a grip,\u201d she says, \u201cif we do nothing SnapDragon is going to die, he can\u2019t hunt, right now he needs love and care more than we do.\u201d Once more, the thoughts are running wild in his head, \u201cthere she goes again, calling me Dave again, and quite &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/10\/01\/chapter-32-on-the-wolf-wavelength288\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chapter 32 On the Wolf Wavelength288&#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\/1931"}],"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=1931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1932,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions\/1932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}