{"id":1981,"date":"2026-10-25T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/?p=1981"},"modified":"2026-10-18T15:30:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T14:30:23","slug":"chapter-36-sympathy-and-patience317","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/10\/25\/chapter-36-sympathy-and-patience317\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 36 Sympathy and Patience317"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/10\/24\/chapter-36-sympathy-and-patience316\/\">Previous<\/a> &#8211; Book1 Page317 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/10\/26\/chapter-36-sympathy-and-patience318\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p>As they leave the terrace Mrs Barr can be heard saying to her son, \u201cthey\u2019re really nice aren\u2019t they? And so clever! That\u2019s what happens when you study hard!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs it really your turn to pay?\u201d asks NutJob, \u201cI thought it was mine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmpathy Dash! I didn\u2019t want her to feel pressured the moment we sat down. You can pay, it <em>is<\/em> your turn! And maybe we should be eating at home more often. We can\u2019t afford to keep eating out the way we do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She looks at him, hoping that he\u2019s got the message. The message is <em>the definite purpose<\/em> and she has now decided that her definite purpose is a decent standard of living, and complete peace of mind \u2026 with NutJob \u2026 if he can apply his\u00a0 <em>power of thought<\/em> to building a stable life together. However, she wants him to cultivate that same thought without any pressure or coercion. How can she gently guide him to making that choice of his own free will? This is going to be a real test of her patience and of her powers of communication!<\/p>\n<p>He already has half an idea of what she\u2019s thinking. In his sincere, sympathetic voice he says, \u201cyes, we should stop spending, and start saving more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCome on,\u201d she says, \u201cto the library, who\u2019s going to get that book first?\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 The staff and volunteers at the Noble Coliseum are beginning to get things ready for another Saturday evening variety show. Nothing special tonight, just an ordinary OpenMike Night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re early,\u201d says NurseCathy, \u201cSylvie\u2019s still &#8230; \u201c<\/p>\n<p>Abruptly interrupting her sentence, NurseCathy looks at HayWire\u2019s face.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c &#8230; what happened?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>HayWire says nothing. He\u2019s not crying, but he looks as if he might want to. He takes a deep breath and he tries to stabilise<\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/10\/24\/chapter-36-sympathy-and-patience316\/\">Previous<\/a> &#8211; Book1 Page317 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/10\/26\/chapter-36-sympathy-and-patience318\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previous &#8211; Book1 Page317 \u2013 Next As they leave the terrace Mrs Barr can be heard saying to her son, \u201cthey\u2019re really nice aren\u2019t they? And so clever! That\u2019s what happens when you study hard!\u201d \u201cIs it really your turn to pay?\u201d asks NutJob, \u201cI thought it was mine.\u201d \u201cEmpathy Dash! I didn\u2019t want her &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/10\/25\/chapter-36-sympathy-and-patience317\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chapter 36 Sympathy and Patience317&#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\/1981"}],"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=1981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1982,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981\/revisions\/1982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}