{"id":298,"date":"2021-10-13T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/?p=298"},"modified":"2021-10-12T21:53:58","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T21:53:58","slug":"beforetimes-the-lostling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/2021\/10\/13\/beforetimes-the-lostling\/","title":{"rendered":"Beforetimes: The Lostling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right 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\/10\/BeforetimesCoverLostling_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-317 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/BeforetimesCoverLostling_thumb.jpg 468w, https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/BeforetimesCoverLostling_thumb-195x300.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>The second prequel short story in this series is \u201cThe Lostling\u201d in which tiny young Hyrhyn crosses paths with an unhappy stranger in the rainy winter forest. Her loneliness and compassion unknowingly set in motion events that will end the decades-long war between the beleaguered King and his bellicose sister, the Mother. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7k 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\/10\/002-Afterlands-Beforetimes-The-Lostling.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PDF<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/epubs\/002%20Afterlands%20_%20Beforetimes%20The%20Lostling.epub\">EPUB<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>These four short <em>Beforetimes <\/em>stories are about what happened <em>before<\/em> the opening pages of Book I, and are available on this website for <em>free<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each prequel story introduces 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. They are not <em>required<\/em> reading, but supplement the series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first full <em>Afterlands<\/em> novella (Book I) will be available December 18, 2021.<\/p>\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 one is mostly tooth-rotting fluff, however.]\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second prequel short story in this series is \u201cThe Lostling\u201d in which tiny young Hyrhyn crosses paths with an unhappy stranger in the rainy winter forest. Her loneliness and compassion unknowingly set in motion events that will end the decades-long war between the beleaguered King and his bellicose sister,&#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-298","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\/298","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=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329,"href":"https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions\/329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}