{"id":1703,"date":"2019-08-17T09:02:33","date_gmt":"2019-08-17T16:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nobiliserotica.com\/site\/?p=1703"},"modified":"2019-08-17T09:02:33","modified_gmt":"2019-08-17T16:02:33","slug":"ep-433-spawning-ground-by-julie-cox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nobiliserotica.com\/site\/2019\/ep-433-spawning-ground-by-julie-cox\/","title":{"rendered":"Ep 433 Spawning Ground by Julie Cox"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- iframe plugin v.6.0 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border:none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/10886237\/height\/100\/width\/480\/thumbnail\/no\/render-playlist\/no\/theme\/legacy\/tdest_id\/105741\" height=\"100\" width=\"480\" scrolling=\"no\" 0=\"allowfullscreen\" 1=\"webkitallowfullscreen\" 2=\"mozallowfullscreen\" 3=\"oallowfullscreen\" 4=\"msallowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n<p>This month&#8217;s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href= \"http:\/\/patreon.com\/nobilis\" target=\"_blank\" rel= \"noopener\">patron-funded<\/a><\/span> story is &#8220;Spawning Grounds&#8221; by <a href=\"https:\/\/writingwhilehuman.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel= \"noopener\">Julie Cox<\/a>, narrated by <a href= \"https:\/\/nikkidelgado.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nikki Delgado<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I shifted my weight back and forth and stretched my wings, fidgeting, rolling them in their sockets. I still wasn&#8217;t used to them; they were new, only a few months old. The feathers had finally come in all the way, the central shafts opening like strange mottled brown blossoms. They were lighter than they looked, but I still had trouble with my balance. I knocked into things. These days, I was far more graceful in the air.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;Angela, you gotta relax,&#8221; Ester said as she tightened the straps of my backpack. &#8220;You&#8217;re going to be alright. Some tentacle monsters are scary, but Celpin are as docile as they come.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I nodded. I knew that better than she did; I was the park ranger, after all. She might study them in the lab, but I watched them day after day. I&#8217;d watched their numbers dwindle, falling as the birds they cooperated with for spawning disappeared along with so many other species on the planet. Climate change was a bitch. At least this time it was because of a volcanic event, and wasn&#8217;t our species mucking about that did it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;You&#8217;ll be ok,&#8221; she said again, but I think she was talking more to herself than to me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;I&#8217;m ready,&#8221; I said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;I&#8217;ll be waiting when you get back.&#8221; She wasn&#8217;t looking at me. She was nervous and didn&#8217;t want me to see it. &#8220;Break a leg.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I stepped to the edge of the ledge, opened my wings, and jumped.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/directory.libsyn.com\/episode\/index\/id\/10886237\/tdest_id\/105741\">Check out this episode!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month&#8217;s patron-funded story is &#8220;Spawning Grounds&#8221; by Julie Cox, narrated by Nikki Delgado. I shifted my weight back and forth and stretched my wings, fidgeting, rolling them in their sockets. I still wasn&#8217;t used to them; they were new, only a few months old. 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