{"id":1973,"date":"2026-10-21T06:00:59","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T05:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/?p=1973"},"modified":"2026-10-18T15:25:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T14:25:00","slug":"chapter-36-sympathy-and-patience313","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/10\/21\/chapter-36-sympathy-and-patience313\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 36 Sympathy and Patience313"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/10\/20\/chapter-35-marshmallow-time311\/\">Previous<\/a> &#8211; Book1 Page313 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/10\/22\/chapter-36-sympathy-and-patience314\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p><strong>Chapter 36<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Sympathy and Patience<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Handsome and Romeo, are out for a gentle amble around the countryside, taking KristalClear and NutJob along with them for the ride. Of course, that\u2019s not how the humans see it.<\/p>\n<p>KristalClear thought it might be fun to take NutJob on a relaxing ride and then canter through the dales. She wants to show him what recreational horse riding is like, in contrast to the routine of a trip to Skipton and back.<\/p>\n<p>Secretly she\u2019s trying to imagine what life might be like when school ends next month. What will the next year hold for them? What will the next five years or the next ten years be like. The Garrison is taking her on full time as a stable hand. That\u2019ll be fine for a while, but ultimately? She doesn\u2019t want to be a marine, that\u2019s for sure. Nor is she quite certain about NutJob yet. He\u2019s weird and charming, and he\u2019s extremely kind, but is he the right person to settle down with?<\/p>\n<p>NutJob has regular work lined up too, at <em>The Lancastrian.<\/em> Although it\u2019s not as simple as saying \u201cfull time\u201d or \u201cpart time\u201d. A handyman is needed when things need fixing. Preventative maintenance is all well and good, but can Franklin and Faraday actually afford an extra full timer? They probably can.<\/p>\n<p>Faraday is getting old. He\u2019s anxious to build new presses before he retires. It\u2019s all about money. Running a newspaper is a stable business, but according to them, it\u2019s not overburdened with cash!<\/p>\n<p>In an ideal world, KristalClear would love to be running her own stable and stud, or even running one of those recreational equestrian centres that they used to have hundreds of years ago.<\/p>\n<p>However, life is not easy. Most people don\u2019t have spare cash to play with. It\u2019s only because she\u2019s friends with CandiCrush that she can access military horses for free. Without that, she and NutJob couldn\u2019t afford to hire horses just to enjoy a ride and a canter through the dales. Lancaster does<\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/10\/20\/chapter-35-marshmallow-time311\/\">Previous<\/a> &#8211; Book1 Page313 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/10\/22\/chapter-36-sympathy-and-patience314\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previous &#8211; Book1 Page313 \u2013 Next Chapter 36 Sympathy and Patience Handsome and Romeo, are out for a gentle amble around the countryside, taking KristalClear and NutJob along with them for the ride. Of course, that\u2019s not how the humans see it. KristalClear thought it might be fun to take NutJob on a relaxing ride &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/10\/21\/chapter-36-sympathy-and-patience313\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chapter 36 Sympathy and Patience313&#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\/1973"}],"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=1973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1974,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973\/revisions\/1974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}