{"id":651,"date":"2026-02-08T06:00:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T06:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/?p=651"},"modified":"2026-02-08T06:44:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T06:44:00","slug":"chapter-2-charming-or-tedious010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/02\/08\/chapter-2-charming-or-tedious010\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 2 Charming or Tedious010"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/02\/07\/chapter-2-charming-or-tedious009\/\">Previous<\/a> \u2013 Book1 Page10 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/02\/09\/chapter-2-charming-or-tedious011\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p>that only the most experienced and confident riders are allowed to ride an Akhal Teke. He and I have been friends for years. Then, when I started work at the stables in January, you let me ride him for the first time. You said I\u2019m experienced now. I\u2019ve been riding for nearly eight years!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know, I don\u2019t mind. I just hadn\u2019t expected it to be every other week! Anyway, to answer your question, I\u2019m supposed to do one week at sea, then one week ashore, but it doesn\u2019t always work out like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>KristalClear adds, \u201cHandsome is such a ridiculously beautiful horse some people think he ought not to be a military horse at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know there\u2019s another Akhal Teke too, don\u2019t you?\u201d asks CandiCrush, \u201cSamson, the Captain\u2019s horse? You\u2019ve talked with them both \u2026 and you said that they can both talk to you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, I chat with all of them, not just the two thoroughbreds. Working here has taught me a lot about horses. I get it straight from the horse\u2019s mouth!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Garrison in Lancaster has only two Akhal Teke horses. Handsome is Commander Crush\u2019s horse, a sturdy pure bred, he\u2019s muscular and athletic, and he has endless stamina. He stands out, because his smoky black coat has a silvery grey metallic sheen. Samson has a deep, rich, liver chestnut coat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI still find it hard to believe that you can talk with horses,\u201d says CandiCrush.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd dogs! All sorts of animals. Until you told me that I must be psychic I thought that everyone could do it! For fifteen years I thought that mind reading and chatting with animals was completely normal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd you\u2019re sure you can\u2019t do humans?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sure. I\u2019ve tried. It\u2019s a different wavelength. I can\u2019t connect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Once the news was out it spread quickly, and now everybody knows that KristalClear has psychic powers. They also think that she might be able to read humans when she gets older. However, she\u2019s not sure if that would be a good thing.<\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/02\/07\/chapter-2-charming-or-tedious009\/\">Previous<\/a> \u2013 Book1 Page10 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/02\/09\/chapter-2-charming-or-tedious011\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previous \u2013 Book1 Page10 \u2013 Next that only the most experienced and confident riders are allowed to ride an Akhal Teke. He and I have been friends for years. Then, when I started work at the stables in January, you let me ride him for the first time. You said I\u2019m experienced now. I\u2019ve been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/02\/08\/chapter-2-charming-or-tedious010\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chapter 2 Charming or Tedious010&#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\/651"}],"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=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":775,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions\/775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}