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BOOK CLUB: A COURT OF MIST AND FURY (CHAPTERS 54-55) · Relatables

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Speaker 1: Previously on Relatables Baddie's book Club and what about my
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Speaker 1: story research?
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Speaker 2: What about me?
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Speaker 1: Don't protect me like him?
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Speaker 3: He's like, do not compare.
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Speaker 1: Me to him?
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Speaker 2: Everywhere we are together, I can barely focus because I
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Speaker 2: want you so bad, and this room is too small
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Speaker 2: to bed you, to bed you properly, because I can't
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Speaker 2: even you up against the wall.
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Speaker 4: Ye, sad.
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Speaker 2: Bro It stunts winnowing, slicing throats left right and center.
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Speaker 2: Bro I wanted you so bad in the Human City
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Speaker 2: when we were putting on that show.
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Speaker 1: But what I wanted the most was this.
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Speaker 2: Takes his fingers out of him and puts him in
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Speaker 2: his mouth and starts tasting over.
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Speaker 5: Oh, Sad.
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Speaker 6: Welcome to Relatables Baddie's Book Club, where we will embark
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Speaker 4: On a court of missed and fury Chapters fifty four
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Speaker 4: and fifty five.
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Speaker 2: This is you knew this was coming. We're going to
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Speaker 2: preface a couple of things here. What this episode is
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Speaker 2: is us live reactions to chapters fifty four and fifty five.
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Speaker 1: The hype better live up.
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Speaker 4: You guys have hyped the fuck out of these two chapters.
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Speaker 4: Well, if this episode is like five minutes long, word time,
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Speaker 1: Yeah, because we'll re upload it without yea yea yea yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 4: But this episode is going to be a little different
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Speaker 4: because we're basically just gonna listen along with you. We've
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Speaker 4: got the dramatized audio in front of us.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you guys, if you just listened to. If you
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Speaker 1: listen to our last episode, you know where we're up to.
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Speaker 3: Mmmm.
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Speaker 1: But this is gonna be fun.
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Speaker 4: We got further du let's just enjoy chapters fifty four
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Speaker 4: and fifty five together.
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Speaker 5: Stirred at Race. He stirred at me. His cheeks were
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Speaker 5: tinged pink with cold, his dark hair ruffled, and he
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Speaker 5: honestly looked freezing as he stood there, wings tucked and tight.
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Speaker 5: And I knew that one word from me and he'd
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Speaker 5: go flying off into the crisp night. That if I
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Speaker 5: shut the door, he'd go and not push it. His
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Speaker 5: asss flared, scenting the paint behind me, but he didn't
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Speaker 5: break a stair Waiting, mate, mine, mate, this beautiful, strong,
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Speaker 5: selfless male who had sacrificed and wrecked himself for his family,
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Speaker 5: his people, and didn't feel it was enough. That he
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Speaker 5: wasn't enough for anyone as real thought, he didn't deserve
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Speaker 5: someone like more. And I wondered if Reese, if he
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Speaker 5: somehow felt the same about me. I stepped aside, holding
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Speaker 5: the door open for him. I could have sworn. I
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Speaker 5: felt a pulse of knee wobbling relief through the bond.
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Speaker 5: But Reese took in the painting I'd done, gobbling down
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Speaker 5: the bright colors that now made the cottage come alive.
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Speaker 5: You painted us, I hope you don't mind. He studied
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Speaker 5: the threshold to the Petroum.
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Speaker 3: Hallway as reel Moore, Amerin and Cassian. You do know
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Speaker 3: that one of them is going to paint a mustache
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Speaker 3: under the eyes of Forverd pisses them off.
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Speaker 5: That day, I clamped my lips to keep the smile in.
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Speaker 5: Oh more already promised to do that.
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Speaker 3: And what about my eyes?
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Speaker 5: All right then? Now dancing around it. My heart was
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Speaker 5: pounding so wildly I knew he could hear it. I
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Speaker 5: was afraid to paint them, Reese faced me fully, Why
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Speaker 5: no more games, no more banter? At first, because I
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Speaker 5: was so mad at you for not telling me, Then
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Speaker 5: because I was worried I'd like them too much and
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Speaker 5: find that you didn't feel the same. Then because I
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Speaker 5: was scared that if I painted them, I'd start wishing
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Speaker 5: you were here so much that I'd just stare at
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Speaker 5: them all day. And it seemed like a pathetic way
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Speaker 5: to spend my time. A twitch of his lips. Indeed,
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Speaker 5: I glanced at the shut door. You flew here.
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Speaker 3: He nodded. Moore wouldn't tell me where you'd gone, And
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Speaker 3: there are only so many places that are as secure
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Speaker 3: as this one. Since I didn't want our highburn friends
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Speaker 3: tracking me to you, I had to do it the
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Speaker 3: old fashioned way. It took a while. You're better healed
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Speaker 3: completely quickly considering the bloodbain. Thanks to you, I avoided
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Speaker 3: his stare, turning for the kitchen.
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Speaker 5: You must be hungry. I'll heat something up. Race straightened.
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Speaker 3: You make me food.
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Speaker 5: Heat I can't cook. It didn't seem to make a difference,
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Speaker 5: but whatever it was the act of offering him food.
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Speaker 5: I dumped some cold soup into a pan and lit
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Speaker 5: the burner. I don't know the rules. I kept my
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Speaker 5: back to him, so you need to explain them to me.
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Speaker 5: Finger in the center of the cabin, watching my every move.
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Speaker 3: It's an important moment. When a female offers her food.
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Speaker 3: It goes back to whatever beast we were a long
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Speaker 3: long time ago. But it still matters. The first time matters.
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Speaker 3: Some mated pairs will make an occasion of it during
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Speaker 3: a party, just so the female can formally offer her
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Speaker 3: made food. That's usually done amongst the wealthy, but it
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Speaker 3: means that the female accepts the bond.
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Speaker 5: I stared into the soup. Tell me the story, Tell
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Speaker 5: me everything. He understood my offer. Tell me while I cooked,
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Speaker 5: and I decided at the end whether or not to
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Speaker 5: offer him that food. A chair sprayed against the wood floor.
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Speaker 5: As he sat at the table. For a moment, there
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Speaker 5: was only silence, interrupted by the clack of my spoon
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Speaker 5: against the pot.
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Speaker 3: I was captured during the war by Amarantha's army.
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Speaker 5: I paused my stirring, my cut twisting.
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Speaker 3: Cassian and Asriel were in different legions, so they had
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Speaker 3: no idea that my forces and I had been taken prisoner,
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Speaker 3: and that Amarantha's captains held us for weeks, torturing and
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Speaker 3: slaughtering my warriors. They put ash bolts through my wings,
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Speaker 3: and they had those same chains from the other night
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Speaker 3: to keep me down. Those chains are one of Hyburne's
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Speaker 3: greatest assets. Stone Delve from deep in their land, capable
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Speaker 3: of nullifying a high face powers even mine. So they
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Speaker 3: chained me up between two trees, beating me when they
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Speaker 3: felt like it, trying to get me to tell them
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Speaker 3: where the night Court forces were, using my warriors their
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Speaker 3: deaths and pain to break me. Only I didn't break,
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Speaker 3: and they were too dumb to know that I was
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Speaker 3: an Illyrian and all they had to do to get
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Speaker 3: me to yield would have been to try to cut
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Speaker 3: off my wings, and maybe it was luck, but they
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Speaker 3: never did. And Amarantha, she didn't care that I was there.
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Speaker 3: I was yet another high lord's son, and Jurian had
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Speaker 3: just slaughtered her sister. All she cared about was getting
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Speaker 3: to him, killing him. She had no idea that every second,
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Speaker 3: every breath, I plotted her death. I was willing to
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Speaker 3: make it my last stand, to kill her at any cost,
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Speaker 3: even if it meant shredding my wings to break free.
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Speaker 3: I'd watch the guards and learn her schedule, so I
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Speaker 3: knew where she'd be. I said a day and a time,
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Speaker 3: and I was ready. I was so damn ready to
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Speaker 3: make an end of it and wait for Cassian and
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Speaker 3: Asrael and Moore on the other side. There was nothing
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Speaker 3: but my rage and my relief that my friends weren't there.
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Speaker 3: But the day before I was to kill Amarantha, to
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Speaker 3: make my final stand and meet my end, she and
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Speaker 3: Juriane faced each other on the battlefield. I was chained
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Speaker 3: in the mud, forced to watch as they battled, to
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Speaker 3: watch as Julian took my killing blow, only she slaughtered him.
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Speaker 3: I watched her rip out his eye, then rip off
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Speaker 3: his finger, and when he was prone, I watched her
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Speaker 3: dragon came back to the camp. Then I listened to
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Speaker 3: her slowly, over days and days, tear him apart. Screaming
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Speaker 3: was endless. She was so focused on torturing him that
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Speaker 3: she didn't detect my father's arrival. In the panic, she
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Speaker 3: killed Jurian rather than see him liberated and fled. So
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Speaker 3: my father rescued me and told his men told Asrael
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Speaker 3: to leave the ash spikes in my wings as punishment
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Speaker 3: for getting caught. I was so injured that the healers
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Speaker 3: informed me if I tried to fight before my wings healed,
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Speaker 3: i'd never fly again. So I was forced to return
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Speaker 3: home to recover. While the final battles were waged. They
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Speaker 3: made the treaty and the wall was built. We'd long
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Speaker 3: ago freed our slaves in the night Court. We didn't
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Speaker 3: trust the humans to keep our secrets, not when they
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Speaker 3: bred so quickly and frequently that my forefathers couldn't hold
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Speaker 3: all their minds at once. But our world was changed. Nonetheless,
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Speaker 3: we were all changed by the war. Cassian and Asriel
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Speaker 3: came back different. I came back different. We came here
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Speaker 3: to this cabin I was still so injured that they
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Speaker 3: carried me here between them. We were here when the
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Speaker 3: messages arrived about the final terms of the treaty. They
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Speaker 3: stayed with me. When I roared at the stars that Amarantha,
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Speaker 3: for all she had done, for every crime committed, would
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Speaker 3: go unpunished, that the King of Highburne would go unpunished.
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Speaker 3: Too much killing occurred on either side for everyone to
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Speaker 3: be brought to justice, they said. Even my father gave
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Speaker 3: me an order to let it go, to build toward
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Speaker 3: a future of coexistence. But I never forgave what Amorantha
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Speaker 3: had done to my warriors, and I never forgot it either.
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Speaker 3: Tamlin's father, he was her friend, and when my father
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Speaker 3: slaughtered him, I was so damn smug that perhaps she'd
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Speaker 3: feel an inkling of what I'd felt when she murdered
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Speaker 3: my soldiers.
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Speaker 5: My hands were shaking as I started the soup. I'd
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Speaker 5: never known, I ever thought.
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Speaker 3: When Amarantha returned to these shore centuries later, I still
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Speaker 3: wanted to kill her. The worst part was she didn't
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Speaker 3: even know who I was, didn't even remember that I
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Speaker 3: was the high Lord's son that she'd held captive to her.
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Speaker 3: I was merely the son of the man who had
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Speaker 3: killed her friend. I was just the high Lord of
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Speaker 3: the night Court. The other high lords were convinced she
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Speaker 3: wanted peace and trade. Only Tamlin mistrusted her. I hated him,
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Speaker 3: but he'd known Amarantha personally, and if he didn't trust her,
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Speaker 3: I knew she hadn't changed, So I planned to kill her.
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Speaker 3: I told no one, not even Amorin. I let Amarantha
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Speaker 3: think I was interested in trade an alliance. I decided
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Speaker 3: I'd go to the party thrown under the mountain for
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Speaker 3: all the courts to celebrate our trade agreement with Highburn,
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Speaker 3: and when she was drunk, I'd slip into her mind,
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Speaker 3: make her reveal every lie and crime she'd committed, and
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Speaker 3: then I'd turn her brain liquid before anyone could react.
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Speaker 3: I was prepared to go to war for it.
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Speaker 5: I turned leaning against the counter. Reese was looking at
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Speaker 5: his hands as if the story were a book he
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Speaker 5: could read between them.
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Speaker 3: But she thought faster, acted faster. She had been drained
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Speaker 3: against my particular skill set and had extensive mental shields.
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Speaker 3: I was so busy working to tunnel through them that
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Speaker 3: I didn't think about the drink in my hand. I
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Speaker 3: hadn't wanted Cassian or Asriel or anyone else there that
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Speaker 3: night to witness what I was to do, so no
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Speaker 3: one bothered to sniff my drink. And as I felt
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Speaker 3: my powers being ripped away by that spell she put
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Speaker 3: on it at the toast, I flung them out one
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Speaker 3: last time, wiping Vlarus, the wars, all that was good
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Speaker 3: from the minds of the Court of Nightmares, the only
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Speaker 3: ones I'd allowed to come with me. I threw a
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Speaker 3: shield around Valars, binding it to my friends so that
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Speaker 3: they had to remain or risk that protection collapsing, and
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Speaker 3: use the last dregs to tell them mine to mind
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Speaker 3: what was happening and to stay away. Within a few seconds,
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Speaker 3: my power belonged wholly to Amarantha.
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Speaker 5: His eyes lifted to mine, haunted blak.
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Speaker 3: She slaughtered half the Court of Nightmares right then and there,
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Speaker 3: to prove to me that she could as vengeance for
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Speaker 3: Tamlin's father, and I knew. I knew in that moment
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Speaker 3: that there was nothing I wouldn't do to keep her
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Speaker 3: from looking at my court again from looking too long
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Speaker 3: at who I was and what I loved. So I
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Speaker 3: told myself that it was a new war, a different
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Speaker 3: sort of battle. And that night, when she kept turning
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Speaker 3: her attention to me, I knew what she wanted. I
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Speaker 3: knew it wasn't about fucking me so much as it
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Speaker 3: was about getting revenge at my father's ghost. But if
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Speaker 3: that was what she wanted, then that was what she
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Speaker 3: would get. I made her bag and scream and use
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Speaker 3: my lingering powers to make it so good for her
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Speaker 3: that she wanted more, craved more.
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Speaker 5: I gripped the counter to keep from sliding to the ground.
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Speaker 3: Then she cursed Hamlin, and my other great enemy became
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Speaker 3: the one loophole that might free us. All every night
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Speaker 3: that I spent with Amarantha, I knew that she was
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Speaker 3: half wondering if I'd tried to kill her. I couldn't
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Speaker 3: use my powers to harm her, and she had shielded
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Speaker 3: herself against physical attacks. But for fifty years, whenever I
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Speaker 3: was inside her, I think about killing her. She had
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Speaker 3: no idea, none, because I was so good at my
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Speaker 3: job as she thought, I enjoyed it too, so she
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Speaker 3: began to trust me more than the others. Especially when
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Speaker 3: I proved what I could do to her enemies.
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Speaker 4: He was so good at fucking that mad ETHA. Trust him.
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Speaker 2: What that is, just how good he is and fucking
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Speaker 2: and that's someone that he doesn't want to fuck that line.
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Speaker 4: When I was inside her, all I could think about
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Speaker 4: was killing her.
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Speaker 1: Dude, this shit's fucking ins.
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Speaker 3: I was glad to do it. I hated myself, but
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Speaker 3: I was glad to do it. After a decade, I
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Speaker 3: stopped expecting to see my friends or my people again.
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Speaker 3: I forgot what their faces looked like and stopped hoping.
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Speaker 5: Silver cleaned in his eyes and he blinked it away.
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Speaker 3: Three years ago, I began to have these dreams. At first,
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Speaker 3: they were glimpses, as if I was staring through someone
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Speaker 3: else's eyes, a crackling hearth in a dark home, a
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Speaker 3: bale of hay in a porn, a worn of rabbits.
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Speaker 3: The images were foggy, like looking through cloudy glass. They
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Speaker 3: were brief, a flash here and there every few months.
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Speaker 3: I thought nothing of them until one of the images
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Speaker 3: was of a hand, this beautiful human hand holding a
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Speaker 3: brush painting flowers on a table. Stopped beating it, and
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Speaker 3: that time I pushed the thought back of the night sky,
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Speaker 3: of the image that brought me joy when I needed
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Speaker 3: it most.
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Speaker 1: That's when she pictured the night sloud.
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Speaker 2: That's why she painted the night sky, because that was
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Speaker 2: the year that they had a little bit extra money.
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Speaker 2: She got the paints. She painted the night sky. She
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Speaker 2: said she doesn't know why. She doesn't even like it,
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Speaker 2: and it was because recent sent it to her.
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Speaker 1: Unpros.
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Speaker 2: These motherfuckers have been bonded since before she was even
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Speaker 2: in prithy Hell though.
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Speaker 1: How strong their bond is, sex is going to be
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Speaker 1: that strong.
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Speaker 3: Open night sky, stars and the moon. I didn't know
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Speaker 3: if it was received, but I tried anyway.
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Speaker 5: I wasn't sure.
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Speaker 3: I was breathing those streams, the flashes of that person,
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Speaker 3: that woman. I treasured them. They were a reminder that
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Speaker 3: there was some peace out there in the world, world,
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Speaker 3: some light, that there was a place and a person
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Speaker 3: who had enough safety to paint flowers on a table.
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Speaker 3: They went on for years until a year ago. I
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Speaker 3: was sleeping next to Amarantha and I jolted awake from
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Speaker 3: this stream, this dream that was clearer and brighter, like
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Speaker 3: that fog had been wiped away. She you were dreaming.
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Speaker 3: I was in your dream watching as you had a
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Speaker 3: nightmare about some woman slitting your throat while you were
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Speaker 3: chased by the bog. I couldn't reach you, speak to you,
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Speaker 3: but you were seeing our kind, and I realized that
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Speaker 3: the fog had probably been the wall, and that you
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Speaker 3: you were now in Priythian. I saw you through your dreams,
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Speaker 3: and I hoarded the images, sorting through them over and
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Speaker 3: over again, trying to place where you were, who you were.
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Speaker 3: But you had such horrible nightmares, and the creatures belonged
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Speaker 3: to all courts. I'd wake up with your scent in
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Speaker 3: my nose and it wouldn't haunt me all day, every step.
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Speaker 3: But then one night you dreamt of standing among screen hills,
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Speaker 3: seeing unlit bonfires for callum May.
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Speaker 5: There was such silence in my head.
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Speaker 3: I knew there was only one celebration that large. I
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Speaker 3: knew those hills, and I knew you'd probably be there.
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Speaker 3: So I told Amarantha. I told her that I wanted
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Speaker 3: to go to the Spring Court for the celebration, to
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Speaker 3: spy on Tamlin and see if anyone showed up wishing
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Speaker 3: to conspire with him. We were so close to the
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Speaker 3: deadline for the curse that she was paranoid, restless. She
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Speaker 3: told me to bring back traders. I promised her I would.
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Speaker 5: His eyes lifted to mine again.
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Speaker 3: I got there and I could smell you, so I
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Speaker 3: tracked that scent, and there you were, utterly human and
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Speaker 3: being dragged away by those piece of shit picks who
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Speaker 3: wanted to He shook his head, slaughtering them then and there.
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Speaker 3: Then they shoved you, and I just moved. I started speaking,
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Speaker 3: without knowing what I was saying, only that you were
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Speaker 3: there and I was touching you, and there you are.
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Speaker 3: I've been looking for you.
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Speaker 5: His first words to me, not a lie at all,
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Speaker 5: not a threat to keep those ferries away.
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Speaker 3: Thank you for finding her for me.
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Speaker 5: I had the vague feeling of the world slipping out
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Speaker 5: from under my feet, like sand washing away from the shore.
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Speaker 3: You looked at me, and I knew you had no
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Speaker 3: idea who I was. That I might have seen your dreams,
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Speaker 3: but you hadn't seen mine. And you were just human.
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Speaker 3: You were so young and breakable and had no interest
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Speaker 3: in me whatsoever. And I knew that if I stayed
18:47
Speaker 3: too long, someone would see and report back and she'd
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Speaker 3: find you. So I started walking away, thinking you'd be
18:55
Speaker 3: glad to get rid of me. But then you called
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Speaker 3: after me, like you couldn't let go of me just yet,
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Speaker 3: whether you knew it or not, and I knew, I
19:05
Speaker 3: knew we were on dangerous grounds. Somehow, I knew that
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Speaker 3: I could never speak to you, or see you or
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Speaker 3: think of you again. I didn't want to know why
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Speaker 3: you were in Printhion. I didn't even want to know
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Speaker 3: your name, because seeing me in my dreams had been
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Speaker 3: one thing, but in person, right then, deep down, I
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Speaker 3: think I knew what you were, and I didn't let
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Speaker 3: myself admit it, because if there was the slightest chance
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Speaker 3: that you were my mate, they would have done such
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Speaker 3: unspeakable things to you, Pharaoh. So I let you walk away.
19:38
Speaker 3: I told myself after you were gone that maybe maybe
19:41
Speaker 3: the Cauldron had been kind and not cruel, for letting
19:44
Speaker 3: me see you just once, a gift for what I
19:48
Speaker 3: was enduring. And when you were gone, I found those
19:52
Speaker 3: three picks. I broke into their minds, reshaping their lives,
19:57
Speaker 3: their histories, and drag them before Amarantha. I made them
20:01
Speaker 3: confess to conspiring to find other rebels. That night, I
20:05
Speaker 3: made them lie and claimed that they hated her. I
20:08
Speaker 3: watched her carve them up while they were still alive,
20:12
Speaker 3: protesting their innocence. I enjoyed it because I knew what
20:16
Speaker 3: they had wanted to do to you. I knew that
20:19
Speaker 3: it would have paled in comparison to what Amarantha would
20:21
Speaker 3: have done if she found you.
20:23
Speaker 5: I wrapped a hander on my throat.
20:25
Speaker 3: I had my reasons to be out. Then, Do not think, Farah,
20:29
Speaker 3: that it did not cost me. I didn't know that
20:33
Speaker 3: you were with Tamlin, that you were staying at the
20:35
Speaker 3: spring Court. Amarantha sent me that day after the summer solstice.
20:39
Speaker 3: Because I'd been so successful on camlon May, I was
20:43
Speaker 3: prepared to mock him, maybe pick a fight. But then
20:46
Speaker 3: I got into that room, and the scent was familiar,
20:50
Speaker 3: but hidden. And then I saw the plate and felt
20:54
Speaker 3: the glamor, and there you were, living in my second
21:00
Speaker 3: most enemies house, dining with him, reeking of his scent,
21:05
Speaker 3: looking at him like like you loved him.
21:10
Speaker 5: The whites of his knuckles showed.
21:12
Speaker 3: And I decided that I had to scare Tamlin. I
21:15
Speaker 3: had to scare you and Lucian, but mostly Tamlin, because
21:19
Speaker 3: I saw how he looked at you too, So what
21:21
Speaker 3: I did that.
21:22
Speaker 5: Day, his lips were pale tight.
21:25
Speaker 3: I broke into your mind and held it enough that
21:28
Speaker 3: you felt it, that it terrified you, hurt you. I
21:32
Speaker 3: made Tamlin beg as Amarantha had made me beg, to
21:36
Speaker 3: show him how powerless he was to save you. And
21:39
Speaker 3: I prayed my performance was enough to get him to
21:42
Speaker 3: send you away back to the human realm, away from Amarantha,
21:46
Speaker 3: because she was going to find you if you broke
21:49
Speaker 3: that curse. She was going to find you and kill you.
21:52
Speaker 3: And I was so selfish, I was so stupidly selfish
21:56
Speaker 3: that I couldn't walk away without knowing your name. And
21:58
Speaker 3: you were looking at me like I was a monster.
22:01
Speaker 3: So I told myself it didn't matter anyway. But you
22:04
Speaker 3: lied when I asked. I knew you did. I had
22:06
Speaker 3: your mind in my hands, and you had the defiance
22:09
Speaker 3: and force it to lie to my face. So I
22:11
Speaker 3: walked away from you again. I vomited my guts up.
22:14
Speaker 3: As soon as I left.
22:16
Speaker 5: My lips wobbled, and I pressed them together.
22:20
Speaker 3: I checked back once to ensure you were gone. I
22:23
Speaker 3: went with them the day they sacked the manner to
22:26
Speaker 3: make my performance complete I told Amarantha the name of
22:30
Speaker 3: that girl, thinking you had invented it. I had no idea.
22:34
Speaker 3: I had no idea she'd send her cronies to retrieve Claire.
22:38
Speaker 3: But if I admitted my lie, I broke into Claire's
22:43
Speaker 3: head when they brought her under the mountain. I took
22:45
Speaker 3: away her pain and told her to scream when expected to.
22:49
Speaker 3: So they they did those things to her, and I
22:53
Speaker 3: tried to make it right. But after a week I
22:56
Speaker 3: couldn't let them do it hurt her like that anymore.
23:00
Speaker 3: While they tortured her, I slipped into her mind again
23:02
Speaker 3: and ended it. She didn't feel any pain, She felt
23:06
Speaker 3: none of what they did to her, even at the end.
23:09
Speaker 3: But I still see her and my men and the
23:13
Speaker 3: others that I killed for Amorantha.
23:16
Speaker 5: Two tears slipped down his cheeks, swift and cold. He
23:20
Speaker 5: didn't wipe them away.
23:21
Speaker 3: I thought it was done after that of Claire's death.
23:24
Speaker 3: Amarantha believed you were dead, so you were safe and
23:27
Speaker 3: far away, and my people were safe, and Tamlin had lost,
23:31
Speaker 3: so it was done. We were done. But then I
23:37
Speaker 3: was in the back of the throne the day the
23:39
Speaker 3: adder brought you in, and I have never known such
23:42
Speaker 3: horror fra as I did when I watched you make
23:45
Speaker 3: that bargain, irrational, stupid terror. I didn't know you, I
23:50
Speaker 3: didn't even know your name, but I thought of those painters' hands,
23:55
Speaker 3: the flowers i'd seen you create, and how she'd delight
23:58
Speaker 3: in breaking your fingers. Upon part, I had to stand
24:01
Speaker 3: and watch as the Adder and its cronies beat you.
24:05
Speaker 3: I had to watch to discuss and hatred on your
24:08
Speaker 3: face as you looked at me, watched me threaten to
24:12
Speaker 3: shatter Lucian's mind. And then then I learned your name.
24:18
Speaker 3: Hearing you say it, it was like an answer to
24:20
Speaker 3: a question I've been asking for five hundred years. I
24:23
Speaker 3: decided then and there that I was going to fight,
24:26
Speaker 3: and I would fight dirty and kill, and torture and manipulate,
24:30
Speaker 3: but I was going to fight. If there was a
24:33
Speaker 3: friend us from Amarantha, you were it, I thought. I
24:38
Speaker 3: thought the Cauldron had been sending me these dreams to
24:40
Speaker 3: tell me that you would be the one to save us,
24:44
Speaker 3: save my people. So I watched your first trial, pretending,
24:49
Speaker 3: always pretending to be that person you hated when you
24:53
Speaker 3: were hurt so badly against the Worm, I found my
24:55
Speaker 3: way in with you, a way to defy Amarantha, to
24:59
Speaker 3: spread the seeds of home to those who knew how
25:01
Speaker 3: to read the message, in a way to keep you
25:03
Speaker 3: alive without seeming too suspicious, And a way to get
25:07
Speaker 3: back at Tamlin, to use him against Amarantha. Yes, but
25:12
Speaker 3: to get back at him from my mother and sister,
25:15
Speaker 3: and for having you when we made that bargain. You
25:22
Speaker 3: are so hateful that I knew I'd done my job well,
25:25
Speaker 3: so we endured it. I made you dress like that
25:28
Speaker 3: so Amarantha wouldn't suspect it, made you drink the wine
25:31
Speaker 3: so you would not remember the nightly horrors in that mountain,
25:35
Speaker 3: And that last night when I found you two in
25:37
Speaker 3: the hall, I was jealous. I was jealous of him,
25:42
Speaker 3: and pissed off that he'd used that one shot of
25:45
Speaker 3: being unnoticed not to get you out, but to be
25:48
Speaker 3: with you. And Amarantha saw that jealousy. She saw me
25:53
Speaker 3: kissing you to hide the evidence. But she saw why
25:56
Speaker 3: for the first time. She saw why. So that night,
26:01
Speaker 3: after I left you, I had to service her. She
26:06
Speaker 3: kept me there longer than usual, trying to squeeze the
26:09
Speaker 3: answers out of me. But I gave her what she
26:12
Speaker 3: wanted to hear, that you were nothing, that you were
26:15
Speaker 3: human garbage, that I use and discard you. Afterward, I
26:21
Speaker 3: wanted to see you one last time alone. I thought
26:25
Speaker 3: about telling you everything, but who had become who you
26:30
Speaker 3: thought I was. I didn't dare shatter that deception. But
26:34
Speaker 3: your final trial came, and when she started torturing you,
26:38
Speaker 3: something snapped in a way I couldn't explain. Only that scene,
26:41
Speaker 3: you bleeding and screaming, undid me. It broke me at last,
26:45
Speaker 3: and I knew as I picked up the knife to
26:47
Speaker 3: kill her. I knew right then what you were. I
26:51
Speaker 3: knew that you were my mate, and you were in
26:54
Speaker 3: love with another male and had destroyed yourself to save him,
26:59
Speaker 3: and that that I didn't care if you were going
27:02
Speaker 3: to die. I was going to die with you. I
27:05
Speaker 3: couldn't stop thinking it over and over as you screamed
27:09
Speaker 3: as I tried to kill her. You were my mate,
27:11
Speaker 3: my mate, my mate. But then she snapped your neck.
27:17
Speaker 5: Tears rolled down his face, and I felt you die.
27:21
Speaker 5: Tears were sliding down my own cheeks.
27:23
Speaker 3: And this beautiful, wonderful thing that had come into my life,
27:27
Speaker 3: this gift from the cauldron. It was gone, and my
27:31
Speaker 3: desperation I clung to that bond, not the bargain. The
27:36
Speaker 3: bargain was nothing. The bargain was like a copweb. But
27:39
Speaker 3: I grabbed that bond between us and I tucked. I
27:43
Speaker 3: willed you to hold on, to stay with me, because
27:47
Speaker 3: if we could get free, if we could get free,
27:50
Speaker 3: then all seven of us were there. We could bring
27:53
Speaker 3: you back. And I didn't care if I had to
27:55
Speaker 3: slice into all of their minds to do it, I'd
27:58
Speaker 3: make them save you.
28:00
Speaker 5: His hands were shaking.
28:01
Speaker 3: You'd freed us with your last breath and my power.
28:05
Speaker 3: I wrapped my power around the bond, the mating bond.
28:09
Speaker 3: I can feel you flickering there, holding on home Home
28:14
Speaker 3: had It's.
28:15
Speaker 2: A mating bond.
28:17
Speaker 1: It's not just some bond.
28:19
Speaker 4: It's a mating bond she.
28:24
Speaker 1: Which we know is so rare.
28:27
Speaker 4: Oh dude, this laid up man.
28:31
Speaker 1: I said it before. This is crazy. I think you're
28:35
Speaker 1: going to be wrong with the bond.
28:36
Speaker 5: I told the Bone carver, not Talon, not the spring Court,
28:41
Speaker 5: but hand.
28:42
Speaker 3: So I'm Moranta died and I spoke to the high
28:45
Speaker 3: Lord's mind to mind, convincing them to come forward to
28:49
Speaker 3: offer that spark of power. None of them disagreed. I
28:52
Speaker 3: think they were too stunned to think of saying no.
28:55
Speaker 3: And I again had to watch as Tamlin held you,
29:00
Speaker 3: kissed you. I wanted to go home to Volars, but
29:03
Speaker 3: I had to stay to make sure things were set
29:06
Speaker 3: in motion, that you were all right. So I waited
29:09
Speaker 3: as long as I could. Then I sent a tug
29:12
Speaker 3: through the bond. Then you came to find me. I
29:16
Speaker 3: almost told you then, but you were so sad and tired,
29:21
Speaker 3: and from once you looked at me like like I
29:25
Speaker 3: was worth something. So I promised myself that the next
29:28
Speaker 3: time I saw you, i'd free you of the bargain,
29:31
Speaker 3: because I was selfish and I knew that if I
29:34
Speaker 3: let you go right then he'd lock you up and
29:36
Speaker 3: I'd never get to see you again. When I went
29:39
Speaker 3: to leave you, I think transforming you into fame made
29:42
Speaker 3: the bond lock into place permanently. I'd known it existed,
29:47
Speaker 3: but it hit me then, hit me so strong that
29:50
Speaker 3: I panicked. I knew if I stayed a second longer,
29:53
Speaker 3: I'd damn the consequences and take you with me, and
29:57
Speaker 3: you'd hate me forever. I landed at the night Court
30:00
Speaker 3: right as Moore was waiting for me, and I was
30:02
Speaker 3: so frantic, so unhinged, that I told her everything. I
30:06
Speaker 3: hadn't seen her in fifty years, and my first words
30:09
Speaker 3: to her were, She's my mate. And for three months,
30:13
Speaker 3: for three months, I tried to convince myself that you
30:16
Speaker 3: were better off without me. I tried to convince myself
30:20
Speaker 3: that everything I'd done had made you hate me. But
30:24
Speaker 3: I felt you through the bond, through your open mental shields.
30:28
Speaker 3: I felt your pain and sadness and loneliness. I felt
30:33
Speaker 3: you struggling to escape the darkness of Amarantha the same
30:35
Speaker 3: way I was. I heard you were going to marry him,
30:39
Speaker 3: and I told myself you were happy. I should let
30:42
Speaker 3: you be happy, even if it killed me, even if
30:45
Speaker 3: you were my mate, you'd earn that happiness. The day
30:48
Speaker 3: of your wedding, I planned to get ripprooring drunk with Cassian,
30:51
Speaker 3: who had no idea why. But then I felt you again.
30:57
Speaker 3: I felt your panic and Despair'd you pick someone, anyone, yeah,
31:02
Speaker 3: to save you? I lost it. I went out to
31:05
Speaker 3: the wedding and barely remembered who I was supposed to be,
31:09
Speaker 3: the part I was supposed to play. All I could see,
31:12
Speaker 3: was you in your stupid wedding dress, so thin, so
31:17
Speaker 3: so thin and pale, And I wanted to kill him
31:20
Speaker 3: for it, but I had to get you out, had
31:23
Speaker 3: to call in that bargain just once, to get you away,
31:27
Speaker 3: to see if you were all right.
31:28
Speaker 5: Reese looked up at me, eyes desolate.
31:31
Speaker 3: It killed me, Pharaoh, to send you back, to see
31:34
Speaker 3: you waste away month by month. It killed me to
31:37
Speaker 3: know he was sharing your bed, not just because you
31:41
Speaker 3: were my mate, but because I.
31:43
Speaker 5: He glanced down, then up at me again.
31:45
Speaker 3: I knew, I knew I was in love with you
31:48
Speaker 3: that moment I picked up the knife to kill Amarantha.
31:52
Speaker 3: When you finally came here, I decided I wouldn't tell
31:55
Speaker 3: you any of it. I wouldn't let you out of
31:57
Speaker 3: the bargain, because your hatred was better than facing the
32:00
Speaker 3: two alternatives that you felt nothing for me, or that
32:04
Speaker 3: you might feel something similar. And if I let myself
32:08
Speaker 3: love you, you would be taken from me the way
32:11
Speaker 3: my family was, the way my friends were. So I
32:15
Speaker 3: didn't tell you. I watched as you faded away until
32:19
Speaker 3: that day, that day he locked you up. I would
32:23
Speaker 3: have killed him if he had been there, but I
32:26
Speaker 3: broke some very very fundamental rules in taking you away.
32:30
Speaker 3: Amron said that if I got you to admit that
32:32
Speaker 3: we were mates, it would keep any trouble from our door.
32:35
Speaker 3: But I couldn't force the bond on you. I couldn't
32:39
Speaker 3: try to seduce you into accepting the bond either, even
32:43
Speaker 3: if it gave Tamlin license to wage war on me.
32:46
Speaker 3: You had been through so much already. I didn't want
32:49
Speaker 3: you to think that everything I did was to win you,
32:52
Speaker 3: just to keep my land safe. But I couldn't. I
32:56
Speaker 3: couldn't stop being around you and loving you and wanting you.
33:01
Speaker 3: I still can't stay away.
33:06
Speaker 5: Finally healing that.
33:10
Speaker 4: Okay, Okay, I think that was the other chapter, chapter
33:13
Speaker 4: fifty four.
33:13
Speaker 2: Okay, chapter fifty four, being fat juicy lead up. Whoa,
33:19
Speaker 2: I but you feel real fucking stupid right about now?
33:22
Speaker 4: Yeah? Bro, I want to say, how does Sarah j
33:26
Speaker 4: Mask think of that? How does she possibly plan that?
33:30
Speaker 1: I can't how does anyone think about it? I couldn't
33:33
Speaker 1: be genuinely could mind blown.
33:36
Speaker 4: It's better than I thought. Yeah, I knew something good
33:39
Speaker 4: was happening, but that story.
33:40
Speaker 1: Wow, No better than I thought?
33:44
Speaker 5: Wow?
33:44
Speaker 1: Bro?
33:45
Speaker 2: Well no, yeah, I'm not gonna I it. It felt
33:48
Speaker 2: really good. Just hearing him talk for a whole for
33:50
Speaker 2: a whole chapter, felt really good. I love to be fair.
33:54
Speaker 2: I do we talk. We talked about it, but I
33:56
Speaker 2: do love him. I'm gonna be honest, dude. But that
33:59
Speaker 2: felt good.
34:00
Speaker 1: Wow. I'm so excited.
34:02
Speaker 3: Wow.
34:02
Speaker 1: Okay, guys, so how do we prepare? I don't know,
34:07
Speaker 1: but I guess I guess we just get into it.
34:15
Speaker 1: What do you think sauld happened?
34:16
Speaker 4: I think she's gonna be like, oh my god, I
34:18
Speaker 4: didn't realize, as she always does. Yeah, I didn't know
34:20
Speaker 4: you did all that.
34:21
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well, to be fair, he didn't tell us.
34:24
Speaker 5: Yeah.
34:24
Speaker 4: But still, and then I reckon, how can she assume?
34:26
Speaker 4: I reckon, you're right, and he's gonna go, yes, Fairwell,
34:29
Speaker 4: I love you.
34:30
Speaker 2: Yeah, so there's no argument because I said predictions last
34:33
Speaker 2: episode that there's going to be an argument, and he's going.
34:35
Speaker 4: To say because I fucking love you very well.
34:38
Speaker 2: But he said it very gently just then, so it's
34:41
Speaker 2: going to be more of a loving thing.
34:42
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, that's fine to whur.
34:47
Speaker 5: The soup was now boiling, and lightdled it into a ball.
34:50
Speaker 5: He watched every step I took to the table, the
34:52
Speaker 5: steaming ball in my hands. I stopped before him, staring down.
34:57
Speaker 5: You love me, receded, and I wondered if love was
35:02
Speaker 5: too weak a word for what he felt, what he'd
35:04
Speaker 5: done for me, for what I felt for him. I
35:07
Speaker 5: set the bowl down before him, then eat. I watched
35:11
Speaker 5: him consume every spoonful, his eyes starting between where I
35:15
Speaker 5: stood in the soup, and when he was done, he
35:17
Speaker 5: sat down his spoon.
35:19
Speaker 3: Aren't you going to say anything?
35:20
Speaker 5: I was going to tell you what I decided the
35:22
Speaker 5: moment I saw you on the threshold. Raes twisted in
35:25
Speaker 5: his seat toward me, and now aware of every breath,
35:29
Speaker 5: every movement, I sat in his lap. His hands gently
35:33
Speaker 5: braised my hips as I studied his face. And now
35:36
Speaker 5: I want you to know, reesand that I love you.
35:39
Speaker 5: I want you to know. His lips trembled, and I
35:42
Speaker 5: brushed away the tears that escaped down his cheek. I
35:45
Speaker 5: want you to know that I am broken and healing,
35:49
Speaker 5: but every piece of my heart belongs to you, and
35:52
Speaker 5: I am honored, honored to be your mate. His arms
35:55
Speaker 5: wrapped around me, and he pressed his forehead to my shoulder,
35:59
Speaker 5: his shaking I stroked a hand through his silken hair.
36:03
Speaker 5: I love you. I hadn't dared see the words in
36:07
Speaker 5: my head, and I'd endure every second of it over
36:09
Speaker 5: again so I could find you. And if war comes,
36:12
Speaker 5: we'll face it together. I won't let them take me
36:15
Speaker 5: from you, and I won't let them take you from
36:18
Speaker 5: me either. Race looked up, his face gleaming with tears.
36:23
Speaker 5: He went still as I leaned in, kissing away one tear,
36:26
Speaker 5: then the other, as he had once kissed away mine,
36:30
Speaker 5: and my lips were wet and salty with them. I
36:33
Speaker 5: pulled back far enough to see his eyes. You're mine.
36:37
Speaker 5: His body shuddered with what might have been a sob,
36:40
Speaker 5: but his lips found my own. It was gentle, soft,
36:45
Speaker 5: the kiss he might have given me if we'd been
36:47
Speaker 5: granted time and peace to meet across our two separate
36:50
Speaker 5: worlds to court each other. I slid my arms around
36:53
Speaker 5: his shoulders, opening my mouth to him, and his tongue
36:57
Speaker 5: slipped in, caressing my own mate, my mate. He hardened
37:04
Speaker 5: against me, and I crowned into his mouth. The sound
37:08
Speaker 5: snapped whatever leash she'd had on himself, and r Sam
37:11
Speaker 5: scooped me up in a smooth movement before laying me
37:13
Speaker 5: on the table amongst and on top of all the paints.
37:18
Speaker 5: He deep into the kiss, and I wrapped my legs
37:21
Speaker 5: around his back, hooking him closer. He tore his lips
37:24
Speaker 5: from my mouth to my neck, where he dragged his
37:26
Speaker 5: teeth and tongue down my skin. As his hand slid
37:29
Speaker 5: under my sweater and went up up to cut my breasts.
37:33
Speaker 5: I arched into the touch and lifted my arms as
37:36
Speaker 5: he peeled away my sweater in one easy motion, Ese
37:39
Speaker 5: pulled back to survey me. My body naked from the
37:43
Speaker 5: waist up. Paint soaked into my hair, my arms, but
37:47
Speaker 5: all I could think of was his mouth as it
37:49
Speaker 5: lowered to my breast and sucked, his tongue flicking against
37:52
Speaker 5: my nipple. I plunged my fingers into his hair, and
37:56
Speaker 5: he breezed a hand beside my head, smack atop a
37:59
Speaker 5: pellette of paint. I watched breathless as he took that
38:05
Speaker 5: hand and traced a circle around my breast, the lower
38:08
Speaker 5: until he painted a downward arrow beneath my belly button.
38:11
Speaker 3: Unless you forget where this is going to end.
38:14
Speaker 5: O his mouth on my heather breast, he ground his
38:18
Speaker 5: hips against me, teasing, oh, teasing me so horribly that
38:22
Speaker 5: I had to touch him, had to just feel more
38:25
Speaker 5: of him. There was paint all over my hands, my arms,
38:29
Speaker 5: but I didn't care. As I grabbed at his clothes,
38:31
Speaker 5: he shifted enough to let me remove them, weapons and weather,
38:34
Speaker 5: thudding to the ground, revealing that beautiful tattooed body, the
38:39
Speaker 5: powerful muscles and wings now peeking above them. My mate,
38:44
Speaker 5: My mate. His mouth crashed into mine, his bearskin so
38:48
Speaker 5: warm against my own, and I gripped his face, smearing
38:52
Speaker 5: paint there too, smearing it in his hair until great
38:55
Speaker 5: streaks of blue and red and green ran through it.
38:58
Speaker 5: His hands fell my waist, and I bucked my hips
39:01
Speaker 5: off the table to help him remove my socks, my leggings.
39:04
Speaker 5: Raese pulled back again, and I let out a park
39:07
Speaker 5: of protest that choked off into a gasp as he
39:10
Speaker 5: gripped my thighs and yanked into the edge of the table,
39:13
Speaker 5: threw paints and brushes and cups of water, cooked my
39:16
Speaker 5: legs over his shoulders to rest on either side of
39:19
Speaker 5: those beautiful wings, and knelt before me, knelt on those
39:22
Speaker 5: stars and mountains inked on his knees. He would bow
39:26
Speaker 5: for no one and nothing but his mate, his equal.
39:30
Speaker 6: Oh.
39:31
Speaker 5: The first lick of Riisan's tongue set me on fire.
39:33
Speaker 3: I want you split out on a table like my
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Speaker 3: own personal feast.
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Speaker 5: He growled his approval at my moan, my taste, and
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Speaker 5: unleashed himself on me entirely, a hand pinning my hips
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Speaker 5: to the table. He worked me in great sweeping strokes,
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Speaker 5: and when his tongue slit inside me, I reached up
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Speaker 5: to grip the edge of the table, to grip the
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Speaker 5: edge of the world that I was very near to
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Speaker 5: falling off. He licked and kissed his way to the
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Speaker 5: apex of my thighs, just as his fingers replaced where
40:01
Speaker 5: his mouth had been pumping inside me. As he sucked
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Speaker 5: his teeth, scraping ever so slightly, I flowed off the
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Speaker 5: table as my climax shuttered through me, splintering my consciousness
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Speaker 5: into a million pieces. He kept licking me, fingers still
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Speaker 5: moving grace Now. I wanted him now, but he remained kneeling,
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Speaker 5: feasting on me, that hand pinning me to the table.
40:26
Speaker 5: I went over the edge again, and only when I
40:29
Speaker 5: was trembling, half sobbing limp with pleasure, greased rise from
40:33
Speaker 5: the floor. He looked me over naked, covered in paint,
40:38
Speaker 5: his own face and body smeared with it, and gave
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Speaker 5: me a slow, satisfied male smile.
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Speaker 3: Your mind all.
40:46
Speaker 5: He hefted me up into his arms. I wanted the wall.
40:50
Speaker 5: I wanted him to just take me against the wall,
40:52
Speaker 5: but he carried me into the room I'd been using
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Speaker 5: and set me down on the bed with heart breaking gentleness.
40:57
Speaker 5: Holy naked, I watched his un buttoned his pants and
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Speaker 5: the considerable length of him sprang free, and mouth went
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Speaker 5: dry at the side of him. I wanted him, wanted
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Speaker 5: every glorious inch of him, and me wanted to clawed
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Speaker 5: him until our souls were forged together. He didn't say
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Speaker 5: anything as he came over me, wings tucked in tight.
41:18
Speaker 5: He'd never gone to bed with the female while his
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Speaker 5: wings were out, but I was his mate. He would
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Speaker 5: yield only for me, and I wanted to touch him.
41:28
Speaker 5: I leaned up, reaching over his shoulder to caress the
41:30
Speaker 5: powerful curve of his wing. I watched his cock twitch later, indeed,
41:39
Speaker 5: his mouth fell mine, the kiss open and deep, the
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Speaker 5: clash of tongues and teeth. He laid me down on
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Speaker 5: the pillows, and I locked my legs around his back,
41:48
Speaker 5: careful of the wings, though I stopped caring as he
41:51
Speaker 5: nudged at my entrance and paused play. Later, his laps
41:57
Speaker 5: scattered along my bones, and in and in and in.
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Speaker 5: I could hardly breathe hardly think beyond where our bodies
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Speaker 5: were joined. He stilled inside me, letting me adjust, and
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Speaker 5: I opened my eyes to find him staring.
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Speaker 3: Down at me. Say it again, dear Mine.
42:17
Speaker 5: Reese pulled out slightly and thrust back in slow, so
42:21
Speaker 5: tortuously slow, dear Mine Again. He pulled out, then thrust
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Speaker 5: in dear Mine again, faster, deeper this time. I felt it. Then,
42:34
Speaker 5: the bond between us like an unbreakable chain, like an
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Speaker 5: undimmable ray of light. With each pounding stroke, the bond
42:42
Speaker 5: glowed clearer and brighter and stronger. Hear Mine. I tracked
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Speaker 5: my hands through his hair, down his back, across his wings.
42:52
Speaker 5: My friend through many dangers, my lover who had healed
42:55
Speaker 5: my broken and weary soul, My mate who had waited
42:59
Speaker 5: for me again all hope, despite all odds. I moved
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Speaker 5: my hips in time with his. He kissed me over
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Speaker 5: and over, and both of our faces turned damp. Every
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Speaker 5: inch of me burned and tightened. I love you, oh,
43:15
Speaker 5: at least tore fu my body. And he pounded into me,
43:18
Speaker 5: hard and fast, drawing out my pleasure until I felt
43:21
Speaker 5: and saw and smelled that bond between us, until our
43:25
Speaker 5: sense merged, and I was his and he was mine,
43:29
Speaker 5: and we were the beginning and middle and end. We
43:33
Speaker 5: were a song that had been sung from the very
43:35
Speaker 5: first ember of light in the world. Prace came slamming
43:40
Speaker 5: into the hilt outside. The mountains trembled the remaining snow
43:45
Speaker 5: rushing from them in a cascade of glittering white, only
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Speaker 5: to be swallowed up by the waiting night below.
43:51
Speaker 1: That's kind of sure, silence fell.
43:56
Speaker 5: I took his paint smeared face between my own colorful
43:58
Speaker 5: hands and made him look at me. His eyes were
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Speaker 5: radiant like the stars I'd painted once long ago, and
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Speaker 5: I smiled at Reese's I let that meeting bud shine
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Speaker 5: clear and luminous between us.
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Speaker 1: Dude, I think that's the end of the chapter.
44:19
Speaker 5: I think so true.
44:20
Speaker 4: Wow, I'm so happy.
44:22
Speaker 1: Oh wow, that was so wholesome I am. I am
44:27
Speaker 1: it too unstoppable.
44:30
Speaker 4: Oh, I think they just made a baby.
44:37
Speaker 1: I think you're right, that was your prediction.
44:41
Speaker 4: Yeah, she didn't even question it.
44:46
Speaker 1: Dude, I could cry. I could cry from happiness.
44:49
Speaker 4: Oh the lead up, Oh it was so I'm glad
44:53
Speaker 4: we were wrong about like a fire and then some
44:55
Speaker 4: angry sexy we did say, but I love making.
44:58
Speaker 1: But it was so beautiful and pure.
45:00
Speaker 4: You're right.
45:01
Speaker 1: It was very long.
45:04
Speaker 4: Long.
45:05
Speaker 1: I was that sounded like it was missionary the whole time.
45:07
Speaker 2: It was, Yeah, I'm a mission man.
45:12
Speaker 1: Broese's or talk. He's like, I want to pin you
45:14
Speaker 1: up against the wall. Yeah, I'll be able to.
45:16
Speaker 2: He's like, the first time I beg you, I want
45:18
Speaker 2: to be fucking you against the wall. Okay, bro you
45:21
Speaker 2: ate her out then sucked up for two minutes.
45:27
Speaker 1: Holy relatable.
45:29
Speaker 2: See that's what I love about recent all Right, he
45:32
Speaker 2: is the most powerful high lord Printhian has ever had.
45:35
Speaker 1: Yet still relatable. He's a high lord of the people.
45:38
Speaker 1: Two minutes, let's go, baby, two minutes all you need?
45:41
Speaker 4: Let's I love you?
45:45
Speaker 3: Shit.
45:46
Speaker 4: Okay, Well that was something a little bit different for everyone.
45:51
Speaker 1: That was something a little different.
45:52
Speaker 4: So next week we're going to be finishing the book.
45:57
Speaker 1: Next week you will be done. How many chapters are
45:59
Speaker 1: that's sixty two, so I believe it's sixty.
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Speaker 2: Nine, sixty nine, so fifty six up to So look,
46:06
Speaker 2: I had my chapter on fifty four, so I don't
46:09
Speaker 2: need to read these now, Damn, bro, I kind of
46:12
Speaker 2: want to read them.
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Speaker 1: Still.
46:13
Speaker 3: That was good.
46:14
Speaker 1: That was so good.
46:15
Speaker 2: So around fifty six and the chapters go all the
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Speaker 2: way up, so there's not much left.
46:20
Speaker 4: There's way more than the last six short ones all
46:23
Speaker 4: what all the like things at the end. Here we
46:25
Speaker 4: go acknowledgments, acknowledgments sixty nine, okay, sixty nine, but they
46:30
Speaker 4: look like they get kind of short, and then like, yeah,
46:33
Speaker 4: so we're finishing the book and we also have to
46:36
Speaker 4: give predictions before we leave.
46:39
Speaker 3: You, dude, I can't.
46:40
Speaker 1: I don't know. I reckon. All they're going to get
46:43
Speaker 1: up to.
46:44
Speaker 2: Is the they will get the Book of Breathings from
46:48
Speaker 2: the queens, and.
46:52
Speaker 3: I think, like, not much.
46:55
Speaker 1: I don't know.
46:56
Speaker 4: I think there's going to be some animosity we Tamlin
46:59
Speaker 4: within these chapters.
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Speaker 3: I like that a lot.
47:01
Speaker 1: I think so.
47:02
Speaker 4: I like that because he was mentioning if Farah admitted
47:07
Speaker 4: their mate ship, he had nothing to play on.
47:11
Speaker 2: Do you think, Tamlin, that that would set into place,
47:13
Speaker 2: and Tamlin would now not do something.
47:14
Speaker 4: Any maybe maybe because she's now admitted it. I think
47:18
Speaker 4: there's so yes, the mortal queens give the there'll be
47:22
Speaker 4: some something boring about that, and they'll get the other
47:24
Speaker 4: half of the book and Admiral will try and read
47:27
Speaker 4: it all. And then I reckon, Tamlin's something with Tamlin's
47:30
Speaker 4: gonna happen with high burn and high burns all the
47:32
Speaker 4: next book, but something within that, I reckon.
47:34
Speaker 2: Well, the other one's called a Court of Wings and Ruin,
47:36
Speaker 2: which really the acronym is akka war so war man.
47:41
Speaker 3: I can't believe.
47:42
Speaker 4: How does she think of that?
47:44
Speaker 3: Unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable, believable.
47:47
Speaker 2: Basically, yeah, So I think that all they're going to
47:51
Speaker 2: do is get the Book of Breathings.
47:52
Speaker 1: Amron's going to do her thing.
47:53
Speaker 4: What do you reckon the group's gonna like do after
47:56
Speaker 4: they find out they're fucked.
47:59
Speaker 2: You can like as like my boy, I reckon Asrael
48:03
Speaker 2: will not say anything Cassian because if you ever heard
48:09
Speaker 2: about it's a thing, right, dudes don't get it, but
48:13
Speaker 2: it's a thing about girls know when one of their
48:17
Speaker 2: friends often a coworker, right, they know when a coworker
48:21
Speaker 2: got lucky, then it's a thing. Right, Ah, so Moore's
48:25
Speaker 2: going to know. But I think it's going to be
48:27
Speaker 2: So it was such a fucking good love making session
48:30
Speaker 2: that I think Cassian's also going to see it on
48:31
Speaker 2: fair Well.
48:32
Speaker 4: They probably heard it from the mountains.
48:34
Speaker 3: When he came maybe.
48:36
Speaker 4: Yeah, wow, dude, it's fucking interesting.
48:41
Speaker 1: That was so much more wholesome than that. I thought, like,
48:45
Speaker 1: I thought there was going to be like a lot
48:47
Speaker 1: of like I loved.
48:47
Speaker 4: It, still very different to what I had and pitch it.
48:50
Speaker 4: In my mind, I thought it was gonna be a
48:51
Speaker 4: lot of throwing against the wall, a lot of like
48:53
Speaker 4: he's got me bent over and he's doing it from
48:55
Speaker 4: my own type of stuff. Yeah, the paint played a part,
48:59
Speaker 4: and that that bomb drop when she started paying the
49:02
Speaker 4: night sky and she recently made her do it through
49:04
Speaker 4: the bond.
49:05
Speaker 1: Crazy. That's crazy, my dropped type moment. Fucking crazy. Guys.
49:09
Speaker 1: We love ya, We got mate. We are pumping through
49:11
Speaker 1: these books.
49:12
Speaker 2: Yeah ye, we'll order the next book as well. So
49:15
Speaker 2: yeah we're looking good.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we love you. Stay bad