{"id":740,"date":"2026-02-09T06:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T06:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/?p=740"},"modified":"2026-02-08T06:45:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T06:45:20","slug":"chapter-2-charming-or-tedious011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/02\/09\/chapter-2-charming-or-tedious011\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 2 Charming or Tedious011"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/02\/08\/chapter-2-charming-or-tedious010\/\">Previous<\/a> \u2013 Book1 Page11 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/02\/10\/chapter-2-charming-or-tedious012\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p>A bit of everyday intuition about other humans is fine, but actually reading their minds? That could be a burden as much as a blessing! Emphasising that her psychic powers only work with animals, KristalClear prefers to describe herself as being demi-psychic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we get to the Lab,\u201d says CandiCrush, \u201cI want you to be on the look out for any signals. Even if you can\u2019t do humans you might pick up on something subtle that the rest of us have missed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOr perhaps one of the dogs will let you know if they\u2019ve spotted something?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212;o&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Constable Walker is already at the Lab, chatting with her Garrison counterpart TedTalker.<\/p>\n<p>Walker is a bright, cheerful, attractive young lady in her mid twenties, and she wears the customary police summer uniform all year round. The badge on her peaked cap has an impression of a silver wolf symbolising the Wolfland Constabulary. At 23 years of age, TedTalker resembles the smart character on the recruitment posters. He\u2019s the archetypal British Military Police officer with a red peaked cap, bearing the same silver wolf badge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInside job is what they\u2019re saying,\u201d says TedTalker, \u201cbut whoever it is, is cleverly masking their activity. We\u2019ve not detected any misuse of keys, nor anything strange about the doors or windows.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt can\u2019t be the lab staff themselves?\u201d asks Walker.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNever in a million years! All the civilian staff in the Garrison are high calibre. Everybody has security clearance. And it\u2019s not Captain Thomson nor Commander Crush either, they\u2019re the only other people who know how the Lab works.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd no other possible leads?\u201d asks Walker, \u201cnobody with a grudge or a grievance?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cZilch!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat do we know actually went missing?\u201d<\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/02\/08\/chapter-2-charming-or-tedious010\/\">Previous<\/a> \u2013 Book1 Page11 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/02\/10\/chapter-2-charming-or-tedious012\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previous \u2013 Book1 Page11 \u2013 Next A bit of everyday intuition about other humans is fine, but actually reading their minds? That could be a burden as much as a blessing! Emphasising that her psychic powers only work with animals, KristalClear prefers to describe herself as being demi-psychic. \u201cWhen we get to the Lab,\u201d says &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/02\/09\/chapter-2-charming-or-tedious011\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chapter 2 Charming or Tedious011&#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\/740"}],"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=740"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":776,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions\/776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}