{"id":720,"date":"2025-09-24T12:07:39","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T10:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iotacism.com\/2025\/?page_id=720"},"modified":"2025-09-24T14:35:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T12:35:43","slug":"28-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.iotacism.com\/2025\/28-2\/","title":{"rendered":"28"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You fairly hiss with disbelief. \u201cWhere do boys like you get off, Sparrar?\u201d you ask. You\u2019re not sure where you plagiarised this line from, but it sounds quite assured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>\u201dWhat is this?\u201d Sparrar stands up, playing to the crowd. \u201cWhat is this little\u2026?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>\u201dEpson Moore is the name,\u201d you reply, \u201cbut you can call me The Shadow.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Bae gestures to you to stand down. \u201cEpson is my friend. Is that so hard for you to understand?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>\u201dYeah, don\u2019t be a plonker, mate!\u201d Jinge shouts from somewhere at the back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cShut it, Jinge! I\u2019ll tell you what I find hard to understand, darling,\u201d says Sparrar, \u201cI find it hard to understand why you prefer <em>that<\/em>,\u201d he jabs one accusing finger into your chest, \u201cto me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not your <em>darling<\/em>, Sparrar. And neither am I a princess.\u201d Bae pushes Sparrar\u2019s finger away from your chest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>\u201dI was just trying to be nice,\u201d Sparrar looks deflated. \u201cWhat did I do wrong?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>\u201dEven Jinge knows what you did wrong,\u201d you tell him.<br><br>A growl starts in Sparrar\u2019s throat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><br><strong>Do you stride out like The Shadow, your work now done? (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iotacism.com\/2025\/66-2\/\">goto 66<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><br>Or do you watch what will happen next? (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iotacism.com\/2025\/71-2\/\">goto 71<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You fairly hiss with disbelief. \u201cWhere do boys like you get off, Sparrar?\u201d you ask. You\u2019re not sure where you plagiarised this line from, but it sounds quite assured. \u201dWhat is this?\u201d Sparrar stands up, playing to the crowd. \u201cWhat is this little\u2026?\u201d \u201dEpson Moore is the name,\u201d you reply, \u201cbut you can call me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-720","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iotacism.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iotacism.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iotacism.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iotacism.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iotacism.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.iotacism.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":898,"href":"http:\/\/www.iotacism.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/720\/revisions\/898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iotacism.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}