{"id":292,"date":"2021-11-10T02:02:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T02:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/?p=292"},"modified":"2021-11-06T11:28:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-06T11:28:31","slug":"beforetimes-the-broodthrall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/2021\/11\/10\/beforetimes-the-broodthrall\/","title":{"rendered":"Beforetimes: The Broodthrall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-top\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"468\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/BeforetimesCoverBroodthrall_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-335 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/BeforetimesCoverBroodthrall_thumb.jpg 468w, https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/BeforetimesCoverBroodthrall_thumb-195x300.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>The third short story in the <em>Beforetimes<\/em> series is \u201cThe Broodthrall\u201d in which Nix, having been indentured to the King for fourteen years, finally has an opportunity to be set free&#8211;if the deteriorating Kingdom can hold itself together long enough for the King to grant his emancipation.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New to <em>Afterlands<\/em>? The first novella in the series (Book I) will be available December 18, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, four short stories about what happened <em>before<\/em> the opening pages of Book I will be presented on this website for <em>free<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each story highlights main characters of <em>Afterlands<\/em> and reveals events leading to the end of the Continent\u2019s twenty-year war between the King and his sister\u2019s cult of \u201cthe Mother\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7.5k words. Click format to read now:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/003-Afterlands-Beforetimes-The-Broodthrall.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PDF<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/epubs\/003%20Afterlands%20_%20Beforetimes%20The%20Broodthrall.epub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">EPUB<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">[Please keep in mind that Beforetimes tales may be dark as they all occur well before the \u201cdawn\u201d. This story carries an extra content warning for containing references to suicide, infanticide, and sexual slavery.]\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The third short story in the Beforetimes series is \u201cThe Broodthrall\u201d in which Nix, having been indentured to the King for fourteen years, finally has an opportunity to be set free&#8211;if the deteriorating Kingdom can hold itself together long enough for the King to grant his emancipation. New to Afterlands?&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beforetimes","wpcat-5-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340,"href":"https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}