{"id":748,"date":"2026-02-13T06:00:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T06:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/?p=748"},"modified":"2026-02-13T06:20:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T06:20:35","slug":"chapter-2-charming-or-tedious015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/02\/13\/chapter-2-charming-or-tedious015\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 2 Charming or Tedious015"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/02\/12\/chapter-2-charming-or-tedious014\/\">Previous<\/a> \u2013 Book1 Page15 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/02\/14\/chapter-3-on-the-canine-wavelength017\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<table width=\"368\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"368\">We may no longer have aerospace nor rail locomotive industries, but we still have shipbuilding and power stations. And Wolfland maintains its reputation for developing some really bright engineers, like BarmyWaffle.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>\u201cBarmyWaffle!\u201d exclaims NutJob, \u201che gets a mention! How did he do that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was thirty years ago, long before you were born,\u201d says Faraday, \u201cback then he and I were working together on the Leven Dam Project.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter <em>Wolfie Windy Water<\/em> built the hydro electric power station we all moved back to Lancaster. It was then that I met Franklin and I started here at the PrintWorks. Barmy got a job at the Garrison. He was always much more into fine detail than big projects, and he led the development of a new technique for improving crossbows. He used animal bone to build a composite bow. Composites of composites if I remember correctly, though you\u2019ll have to ask him about that!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m good with copper wire. Motors and dynamos are my thing, that\u2019s why they call me Faraday!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd Franklin? Why is Bennie called Franklin?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBenjamin Franklin. He ran a newspaper. And Benita Scott runs this newspaper. When she was promoted to editor, the other journalists nicknamed her Franklin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnyway, side project time,\u201d says Faraday, \u201cwe need to look at those needle roller bearings again. Fine detail stuff, I need somebody like you or Barmy to do that. I don\u2019t have dainty, agile fingers like you!\u201d<\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/02\/12\/chapter-2-charming-or-tedious014\/\">Previous<\/a> \u2013 Book1 Page15\u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/02\/14\/chapter-3-on-the-canine-wavelength017\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previous \u2013 Book1 Page15 \u2013 Next We may no longer have aerospace nor rail locomotive industries, but we still have shipbuilding and power stations. And Wolfland maintains its reputation for developing some really bright engineers, like BarmyWaffle. \u201cBarmyWaffle!\u201d exclaims NutJob, \u201che gets a mention! How did he do that?\u201d \u201cThat was thirty years ago, long &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/02\/13\/chapter-2-charming-or-tedious015\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chapter 2 Charming or Tedious015&#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\/748"}],"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=748"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":892,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions\/892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}