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  Speaker 1: Coming up on Relatables Baddies Book Club.
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  Speaker 2: She smells dead witch on Manon. And she says, she's like, you're.
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  Speaker 1: A witch killer. You bitch. You're a witch killer. And
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  Speaker 1: then Manon lies.
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  Speaker 2: And she says that she was attacked by the Yellowlegs witch.
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  Speaker 2: And that she was doing it because the Yellowlegs wanted
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  Speaker 2: to kill Dorian while Manon wanted to get Dorian alive
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  Speaker 2: and the Yellowlegs Coven Witch was trying to steal Manon's thunder.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome to Relatable's Baddies Book Club, where we will embark
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  Speaker 3: on a journey reading some of the finest pieces of
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  Speaker 3: literature you have ever laid eyes, or ears, if that's
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  Speaker 3: your preferred way to consume a book, on.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, no, no, no, no, no. Empire of Storms, chapters
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  Speaker 1: 0 to 20. Woo-hoo! Here we go, eh? Question to start.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Fuck, that's a big book. It's thick, eh? Because I'm
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  Speaker 1: on the Kindle. I just, I don't see. So, did
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  Speaker 1: you get on the Kindle the nightfall bit at the start? Maybe.
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  Speaker 1: Can you tell me what it is? There was like
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  Speaker 1: a meeting at the start between like Selena, Elaine, Princess Elaine,
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  Speaker 1: and then the king was there too, I think, or
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  Speaker 1: someone else. It was wigging me out. I didn't know
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  Speaker 1: what was going on. It was the very start and
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  Speaker 1: then it gets into Empire of Storms and then I
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  Speaker 1: understood what was going on. It's just like a little-
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, a prequel of something? It was wigging
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  Speaker 1: me out by day. I was like, I don't understand.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, should I understand? I actually have been...
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  Speaker 1: Do you know what?
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  Speaker 2: For some reason, I seem to remember this. I do
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  Speaker 2: think I read it. Do you remember what it was about?
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  Speaker 2: I feel like I smashed through these chapters and then
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  Speaker 2: waited a few days, so I've forgotten.
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  Speaker 1: It was like a meeting between them all, and then
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  Speaker 1: Selena was all cocky, and she's fully the queen now.
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  Speaker 1: It was like in the future. Oh, okay. I don't
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  Speaker 1: remember that. Maybe I don't have it. Gavin's there. No,
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  Speaker 1: I don't remember this. I didn't read this. The Dark Lord.
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  Speaker 1: It didn't make any sense. Someone tell me what's going on.
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  Speaker 1: It seems like it was in the future. And then
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  Speaker 1: we jumped back to the start. Because I was like, fuck,
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  Speaker 1: have I missed something? And I'm like, I haven't concentrated
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  Speaker 1: for ages. I was like, what's going on? No, I
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  Speaker 1: didn't get that in the Kindle. Fucking dogs. I need
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  Speaker 1: to start reading the books. Anyway, what are your thoughts?
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  Speaker 1: Do you like it? Yeah, good. A little bit slow,
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  Speaker 1: but no, it's good. I'm enjoying the Lorcan... Kind of
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  Speaker 1: parts as well. I reckon he's cool. His character development
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  Speaker 1: is going to be sick. He is going to be
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  Speaker 1: such a good bloke. You can already see. Oh, bro.
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  Speaker 1: You can tell it's in him. I like that. He's
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  Speaker 1: kind of giving the Lucian of this book. Also. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you know what? Actually, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Just like loyal to some fucking shit tyrant.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And, you know, trying to do his best to probably
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  Speaker 2: tread a line between good and bad. But anyway, I
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  Speaker 2: saw a comment. Number one, the reason Lorcan went back
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  Speaker 2: and ended up helping them fight the word hounds.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yes. Because... Number one, he was on his way
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  Speaker 1: to go check if his trap worked, right?
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  Speaker 2: And then number two, the reason he stayed and helped
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  Speaker 2: fight was because he smelt that Adion was Gavriel's son.
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  Speaker 2: And he said that he could not look Gavriel in
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  Speaker 2: the face knowing he left his son to die.
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  Speaker 1: And so someone commented that. Someone commented that. Where was that?
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  Speaker 1: Was that in the book? Yeah, yeah. And actually, I
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  Speaker 1: think it was in the book and we just completely forgot.
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  Speaker 2: But then, and then another thing was, oh, Lorcan, he
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  Speaker 2: is the leader.
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  Speaker 1: Of the Cordray. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And Rowan was just, like, his best. He trained Rowan.
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  Speaker 2: And Rowan's just, like, the second best, I guess, out
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  Speaker 2: of the whole Cordray. And Lorcan is the leader.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. To me, it seems like Lorcan's up here. And after, like,
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  Speaker 1: getting to know Rowan. When we first met Rowan, I
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  Speaker 1: was thinking Rowan was up here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Rowan's fucking, like,
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  Speaker 1: down here, eh? Softie, eh? Nah, nah. Wait, wait. When
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  Speaker 1: he goes. Obviously, we'll get to it. But when the
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  Speaker 1: witches go sack, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: City and he goes in and he just like straight
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  Speaker 2: up kills a couple wyverns and which is no no
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  Speaker 2: problem after flying for two days straight and then he's
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  Speaker 2: about to fucking kill manon i was thinking bro this
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  Speaker 2: guy is a beast because manon's got her magic back
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  Speaker 2: and she's a beast manon is a beast so anyway
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  Speaker 2: well well yeah look i'm pretty happy i'm keen i
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  Speaker 2: was i was reading and then i read chapter 20
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  Speaker 2: and um i was reading i finished chapter 20 and
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  Speaker 2: then i went to just keep reading because like i
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  Speaker 2: just was reading and i thought oh i just got
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  Speaker 2: 20 chapters i just got heaps of chapters don't worry
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  Speaker 2: about it don't worry about it And then I go
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  Speaker 2: and I click on next page, finish chapter 20, keen
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  Speaker 2: as to read the next chapter because it leaves, you know,
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of a cliffhanger.
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  Speaker 1: And then it says chapter 21. And I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: fuck my life. Genuinely, I like didn't read, I didn't
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  Speaker 1: read Crescent City. I didn't read anything else apart. And
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  Speaker 1: then a couple of days later, I started reading this
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  Speaker 1: different book, Luke Bateman fucking recommended about patriarchy. And it's like,
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  Speaker 1: I was just so upset. I was like, I just,
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  Speaker 1: I need to read that. Yeah. Mate, well, we're here.
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  Speaker 1: Book Club is starting, so we can continue to read
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  Speaker 1: after this episode. Bro, I'm so fucking excited. So, let's
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  Speaker 1: see how we go.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll see how we go. We'll try and do
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  Speaker 2: our best, but let's get into the recap. Chapter one,
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  Speaker 2: we get an elite chapter.
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  Speaker 1: In the audio book, is it elite? Yeah. Yeah. So,
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  Speaker 1: we've got an elite chapter. Kind of, actually, you know what?
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  Speaker 1: In the beginning, her chapters were boring. But in the
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  Speaker 1: first 20 chapters of this book, I think they've been
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  Speaker 1: quite interesting. I like them. I would agree, too. I'm
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  Speaker 1: actually looking forward to them. And I like the dynamic.
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  Speaker 1: The dynamic's cool. Because both of them are in these
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  Speaker 1: chapters now. That's why I like them. It's kind of like,
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  Speaker 1: not underdog. It's not quite the right word, but they're
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  Speaker 1: both like... They're not the big teams. No, no, no, true.
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  Speaker 1: They're like side characters. They're like, run solo, run solo,
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  Speaker 1: now they're together.
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  Speaker 2: They would have hectic episodes if it was a TV series.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, 100%.
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  Speaker 2: You get the episodes with Aelin and Rowan and that,
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  Speaker 2: and you think, yeah, this is hectic, blah, blah, blah.
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  Speaker 2: But then you get like, it's kind of like maybe
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  Speaker 2: in Game of Thrones when you just get like a
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  Speaker 2: Tyrion Lannister episode. You're just like, oh, this is sick,
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  Speaker 2: like side quest.
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  Speaker 1: Fucking let's go do some hectic shit, bro. Agreed, agreed, agreed. Anywho,
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  Speaker 1: so a lead.
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  Speaker 2: She's been, one thing we forgot to mention is that
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  Speaker 2: Manon gave her, no, no, no. So when Kautain gave
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  Speaker 2: her the word key, she folded it in a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of the cloak that Selene gave her when Kautain
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  Speaker 2: was in the dungeons and she was freezing cold.
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  Speaker 1: You remember that? Yeah. One thing we forgot to mention.
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  Speaker 2: Is Kautain says to a lead, take this key and
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  Speaker 2: find Selene Sardothien.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: This is the only person you can trust. And it's
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  Speaker 2: the only person that I trust with this key. Tell
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  Speaker 2: her this key opens any door, right? Now, Elid's like,
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  Speaker 2: who the fuck is Selina? And so it's really annoying
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  Speaker 2: that we're like literally Aelin. And then she said, Kaltan
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  Speaker 2: says to tell Selina that to just like, I think
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  Speaker 2: she just says like, you know, kill them all, burn
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  Speaker 2: the world or whatever. And she said, especially tell her
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  Speaker 2: that they didn't let me take her cloak when they
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  Speaker 2: took me. Which is just going to like piss Aileen
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  Speaker 2: off because she's like, I gave her that cloak for warmth.
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  Speaker 1: I saw a comment actually. And someone was angry at
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  Speaker 1: us when we still reference Aileen as Selena because of
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  Speaker 1: like her growth. And now she's claimed the name is Aileen.
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  Speaker 1: And I was like, I don't know. She's still pretty Selena.
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  Speaker 1: Like people still reference her here and there as Selena.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like you can go either way. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: why are they angry at us? I don't know. I
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  Speaker 1: read it as... That whole dialogue where Selene is like,
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  Speaker 1: I am Aelin Galathin. Selene is not who I am.
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  Speaker 1: I found my identity kind of bullshit in the last book.
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  Speaker 1: Give us a minute. Yeah, it was like three books
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  Speaker 1: about Selene. It was like four, bro. It's like the podcast.
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  Speaker 1: It's four years of me saying my name's Oddie and
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  Speaker 1: then now I'm Otway and I expect everyone to call
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  Speaker 1: me Otway. You're like, I am now? I've shed the
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  Speaker 1: skin of Oddie and I am now Otway. No one
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  Speaker 1: may call me that. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone's going to be like, it's fucking Oddie and Jake.
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  Speaker 2: And then you're going to be like, what did I say?
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  Speaker 1: Cunt. But anyway, so yeah. How about give us a
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  Speaker 1: fucking break? Yeah. All right.
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  Speaker 2: Anywho, so those are the things we forgot about. But yes,
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  Speaker 2: we're getting a lead chapter. She's in Oakwood Forest and
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  Speaker 2: she's struggling. She is struggling in her quarters. Also, how
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  Speaker 2: do you picture her ankle?
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  Speaker 1: Just like, I don't, like, cause she can't walk properly,
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  Speaker 1: but then she hides her limb. Bro, I like straight
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  Speaker 1: up picture her ankle being like her foot being bent
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  Speaker 1: on a right angle degree. And she just walks on
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  Speaker 1: her ankle. That's how I picture it.
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  Speaker 2: Because they said it's like the most mangled looking leg.
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  Speaker 2: But then they also say that a lead is like,
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  Speaker 2: is like this. She's actually quite beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: Right and she's got these nice big breasts they mention
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  Speaker 1: her breasts for some reason she tries to hide them
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  Speaker 1: but she's got these big breasts and curves or whatever
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  Speaker 1: and so she's quite beautiful but whenever they.
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  Speaker 2: Whenever she talks about herself and hiding her beauty and
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  Speaker 2: the fact that she's a cripple i don't know why
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  Speaker 2: this is very terrible for me but when i hear
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  Speaker 2: cripple i just think.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah you know what i mean i think you know
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  Speaker 1: you can't when i think cripple i remember in um
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  Speaker 1: What's it called? Ragnar Lothbrok. What's that called? Viking. Viking. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: when his kid comes out of cripple. That's what I
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  Speaker 1: think when you say cripple.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, bro.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, that's what I think as well. But her ankle,
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  Speaker 1: I'm thinking just like I've pictured like mad swollen and black.
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  Speaker 1: Like it's just really badly sprained and you're meant to
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  Speaker 1: stay off it for like a week, but you're just
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  Speaker 1: still walking on it vibes.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I straight up am thinking like bent to the side,
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  Speaker 2: just fucked up.
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  Speaker 1: To be fair, it said mangled and like, yeah, the
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  Speaker 1: worst it's ever seen.
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  Speaker 2: But so she's, She's just still thinking about this debt.
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  Speaker 2: She's got to repay to Kauten. She owes her a
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  Speaker 2: life debt. She still has the stone. And she has
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  Speaker 2: the sense someone is following her. She gets that sense.
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  Speaker 2: You know, she's also starving, eating berries, doing her best
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  Speaker 2: to stay alive. She doesn't really know where she's going.
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  Speaker 1: She's following the sun.
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  Speaker 2: Well, she's using the sun for her directions but then
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  Speaker 2: same chapter we get a lorkhan is it salvatier we
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  Speaker 2: did his last name but who cares his name's lorkhan
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  Speaker 2: lorkhan and so he is being hunted by witches because
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  Speaker 2: he killed like four witches or some shit and then
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  Speaker 2: he interrogated one and got all this info about what's
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  Speaker 2: happening so he's so he knows um That there's two
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  Speaker 2: witch armies, one in Morath and one at the Faerian Gap.
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  Speaker 2: He knows that they're fighting for, you know, the side
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  Speaker 2: of which he probably is against. And that the witches,
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  Speaker 2: they don't know.
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  Speaker 1: About the word keys.
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  Speaker 2: He still thinks he has the word key that Rowan
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  Speaker 2: gave him that actually just has one of the rings
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  Speaker 2: in it. He still thinks that's a word key. And
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  Speaker 2: then he talks about how he's been following this girl, Elide.
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  Speaker 2: He doesn't know her name, but he's been following this
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  Speaker 2: girl and he thinks that because she's wearing witch flight
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  Speaker 2: leathers and also smells like a witch, he thinks that
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  Speaker 2: she is possessed by a Valg. And so he's hunting.
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  Speaker 2: He says she doesn't move like it, but she smells
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  Speaker 2: like it because she's been around it. And so he
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  Speaker 2: basically is just going to, he's like, I'll just hunt
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  Speaker 2: her for a bit and see what happens, see where
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  Speaker 2: she leads me.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter two. Back with Aelin. Happy guys? Aelin. Fuck you.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to start calling her Selena on purpose. Back
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  Speaker 2: with Aelin and crew. So Aelin is with Adion, Rowan, Evangeline,
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  Speaker 2: and Lysandra. And they're on their way through. They're in Tarasin.
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  Speaker 1: We all know that.
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  Speaker 2: And she's chilling and she's having a good time. She's
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  Speaker 2: thinking about how this is her new family.
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  Speaker 1: It's cool. It's this.
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  Speaker 2: She has some thinking thoughts. And we get, like, a
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  Speaker 2: kissing scene between her and Rowan. And he just is
• 11:39
  Speaker 2: constantly talking about how, like, when I bed you, it's
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  Speaker 2: going to be in a bed, not in the forest.
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  Speaker 2: And they just have been talking about fucking a lot.
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  Speaker 2: But also, they haven't showered for, like, a month.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know. I just want them to fucking get
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  Speaker 1: it over with. But I know it's not going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: Why was this book written in PG? I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe a bit younger.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, fuck. I've spilled smoothie all over me somewhere. I, like, sprayed.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway... Yeah, I don't know. And I'm not getting like...
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I feel like.
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  Speaker 1: Do you get... So, in A Court of Silver Flames, right?
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  Speaker 1: I felt the sexual tension. You're not feeling it here.
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  Speaker 1: I don't feel it here. It feels forced. Ooh, forced.
• 12:24
  Speaker 1: I was going to use that word as well. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: good point. I... Maybe because it's not written from a
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  Speaker 1: sexual POV at all, maybe that's why we aren't connecting
• 12:37
  Speaker 1: the dots there. Yeah. Crescent City. There's no chemistry.
• 12:41
  Speaker 2: The sexual tension in Crescent City between Bryce and Hunt
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  Speaker 2: is like, you've never read anything like it.
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  Speaker 1: It's almost like, I don't know if this is how
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  Speaker 1: she did it, but she wrote this with zero sexual
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  Speaker 1: tension in it at all. And she went and wrote ACOTAR.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Which is really, really sexual. And then she came back
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  Speaker 1: and finished this, which I don't think is the order
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  Speaker 1: she did it, but this is how it seemed like.
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  Speaker 1: And then she goes, oh, it would be nice if
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: there was a little bit of sex in there, but
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  Speaker 1: I can't really add anything. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: She's like, I need to keep it fucking, who knows? Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: I'm just, I was going to say, I'm not feeling
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  Speaker 2: any tension between Aelin. I felt more tension between Selina
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  Speaker 2: and Kale. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, then we find out that Selina was a bit off.
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  Speaker 1: Was it true that Rowan was married to someone else
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  Speaker 1: and she died? Mm-hmm. Yeah. So, like, Selena's a bit
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  Speaker 1: off that. I don't even know if they're going to
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  Speaker 1: stay together for the long run. I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: they are made a day, those two. Do you think
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  Speaker 1: they are? Rowan and Selena? Yeah. Bro. I reckon it's
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  Speaker 1: something else, hey? Nah, bro.
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  Speaker 2: They, you can't, they can't, nah, there's no way she's
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  Speaker 2: moving on again.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. They're mated for sure. I don't think
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: they are. I don't think they're mated. I think it's
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  Speaker 1: something else. They're connected, but they're not mated.
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  Speaker 2: I agree to disagree on that one.
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  Speaker 1: If she moves on, I'm not going to be mad,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm just going to be like... It's giving fucking...
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  Speaker 1: Who with? It's giving Tamlin and Feyre at the start
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. Not toxicity, but their love is an
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  Speaker 1: actual proper love. Nah, bro, that's not true.
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  Speaker 2: Her love with Kale, she literally, her love with Kale
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  Speaker 2: wasn't proper love.
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  Speaker 1: True, true, true.
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  Speaker 2: Because he explains what being a mate is like, because
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  Speaker 2: he explained how he felt with his mate. And then
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  Speaker 2: she's like, oh, I never felt that with Kale.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. She feels it with this guy. I think Manon
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  Speaker 1: and Dorian are mated. 100%, bro. I think they're mated.
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  Speaker 3: 100%.
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: See the chemistry difference there, Bart? Like fucking Rowan and
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  Speaker 1: Selena look like when they see each other naked, they go, oh. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You know what it is? It's this. This is why.
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  Speaker 2: Rowan and Selena are friends turned lovers.
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  Speaker 1: True. They didn't like each other at the start.
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  Speaker 2: Then they grew to like each other.
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  Speaker 1: True. Because they were just together for so long. It's
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: that proximity thing, and you know I don't like that.
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: Maybe that's where you're coming from. Yeah, you don't like
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: the proximity thing. Maybe I don't either. This is proof
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: I don't. Because I don't ship them. I don't ship
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: them anyway. Yeah, I think that's it. You know when
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: you see a couple out, and they're like, oh, we're
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: so in love, and then you go talk to your girlfriend,
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: and you're like, fuck, they were weird, and they didn't
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: even seem like they liked each other. Yes, it's that. Literally.
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: Fucking literally. All right. Chapter three.
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: Chapter three, long chapter, but it's actually a lot, it's
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: pretty simple. So we've got a man on chapter and
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: it is, she's been summoned into, so Morath has been destroyed,
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: as we remember a part of it. She's been summoned
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: into fucking, what's his name? Well, it's just Erewhon now.
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: It's just Erewhon. It doesn't, it's not even the other guy.
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: I forgot his name, loser. And summoned into his office.
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: Her mom, her grandmother is there. I know Grandmother suspects
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: that Manon is the one behind destroying Morath. She's like,
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: I don't know what you're talking about, whatever. And also,
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: Erewhon is in a new body. Young, handsome man. He's
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: chosen a young, handsome man. And he's kind of like, look,
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: it's not really worth hiding it anymore. And being in
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: whatever his name is. was his body for fucking so long.
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: It was just disgusting. Oh, Duke Parrington, bro. He's just...
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: That guy was disgusting. Absolutely gross.
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: So, obviously, he's killed that body, I would assume. But
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: he's got another new body.
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: Do you reckon Duke's just gone, though? I reckon. Unless
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: he put a vowed prince in him. I reckon he's
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: still hanging about, eh? Yeah.
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: Unless.
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he might have put a vowed prince in him.
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: He would have something to do with Dorian and, like,
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: redemption for the king's story in the end. Yeah, okay. Fair, fair, fair.
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: And then what Erewhon is saying is that he has
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: a mission... a man on and that mission is you
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: need to go and you need to take rift halt
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: for me she goes is that a good idea and
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: he's like don't talk back bitch you're going so he's
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: also sent a yellow legs crew coven whatever they're called
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: from from the ferry and gap right and it's the
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: yellow legs air with her with her crew with her
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: wing or whatever it's called and He says, she's already
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: on her way. You guys need to go get there,
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: you know, and just get me the city.
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: That's all I want.
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: Make sure you destroy the big glass wall that Aelin
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: Galathinia has made because if that comes down, they will
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: all be broken. Also, he says, I want the king.
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: I want the king brought back to me alive.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: Alive, I tell you.
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: Anyway, cool. And then we talked to Ghislaine. And so,
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: Ghislaine is... the witch that grew up in the human school,
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: so she knows a bit of the history. And Manon
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: asks what she knows of Erowyn. So Erowyn is one
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: of three Vowed Kings that came to the continent.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: Back in the day.
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: Two of them were sent back to whatever world they're from,
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: whatever dimension. And then Erowyn, he stayed. And he basically,
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: so he fled the continent when Maeve and Brannan defeated
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: him And he spent a thousand years rebuilding his numbers
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: up until this point. And, oh no, sorry. He spent
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: a thousand years rebuilding his numbers. He then launched another attack.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: And I think then Gavin and Elena had to fight him.
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: And that's what was at the very beginning of the book.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: And I do remember it now. It was Gavin and
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: Elena about to go into a battle and everyone was
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: going to die, correct?
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: And then she says, no one has to die. Come
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: with me. And what they go do... They don't say it,
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: but what they go do is they basically trap him
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: using the eye of Elena.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: Do you remember how he was asleep? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: And then Duke Parrington and the king wake him up again.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: Is that what the start is? The start is. That's
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: what the start is. Okay.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: So the start was back in the day, like way
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: back in the day when Elena was still alive.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: I think I had to be like, I think you
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: have to be read audio book. Either I'm dumb or
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: I could not fucking clock. I went and listened to
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: it twice, what was going on. And I'm like, what
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: the fuck's going on? Yeah, no. Confusing, but I remember
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: reading that now. Okay, I'm with you.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: Anyway, look. That's what we know about Erwin. And he's
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: just a fucking.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: We hate his guts. We just hate his guts. Chapter four.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: This chapter pisses me off. Pisses me off.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: Right? New least favorite character. So, we have a meeting. So,
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: they're supposed to have this. So, Aelin and crew are
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: chilling in this place where they're supposed to meet the
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: lords of Tarasin, right? And they're going to have a
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: meeting and she's come to say, your queen's back.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: Let's go. Let's go F some shit up. They get it.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: A someone a messenger comes and it's bad weather and
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: he says you know the lords are at this inn
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: down four miles away and adion's like bro really like
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: come on you gotta you know we have this is
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: gonna take a minute we're gonna have to scope out
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: the area blah blah blah anyway okay we get to
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: the meeting whole crew's there we got murtog I don't
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: know if that's how you say his name. But he's
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: the old fella that was a big part of Heir
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: of Fire. His grandson, Ren, who was a big part
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: of Heir of Fire as well.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: And then we've got... Side note, sorry, keep your thoughts.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: Ren for a girl's name. I love that, eh? Same,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: but Ren's a boy. Yeah, no, but if I had
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: a daughter, Ren, I reckon that's sick. I like the
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: name Ren. I like the name Ren. Ren Clark. Oh,
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: that's a good name. I like that.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: And so, Aelin recognizes Murtaugh and Ren from... the scene
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: where she goes and saves Kale when the rebels catch him.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: That was ages ago. It's like book two. Holy shit.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: It feels like a lifetime ago. Anyway, but Darrow, fucking Darrow,
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: which is so annoying that his name is Darrow because
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: the main character of Red Rising's name is Darrow. And
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: I love Darrow.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: The main character of Red Rising is amazing. He puts
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: respect on the name.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: I thought you were going to say annoying because Darrow
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: sounds like Darrow. No, no, no, bro.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: The Red Rising's main character is named Darrow. This guy
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: puts disrespect on the name Darrow.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you. Disrespect. This guy is a Darrow. Fuck
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: this guy. Anywho.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: So, Aelin's uncle was the king of Tarasin.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: And so, she is the only living bloodline relative. That's
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: why she is the princess in the air. And so,
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: her uncle was actually, I believe, it says in here. So,
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: he was a gay man and Darrow was his lover.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: And Darrow has spent... the last 10 years doing everything
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: he possibly can for terrison so it's like i can
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: sort of see where he's coming from but also you
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: don't have to be a cunt you know big one
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: anyway basically he just is saying all this gnarly stuff
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: he's like who the hell are you who have you
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: you've been fucking Going around Riftold enjoying the riches for
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: 10 years and now you want to come back and
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: be queen?
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: Like, nah. You bring one of these Fae up in here,
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: how do we know he can be trusted? He might
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: be serving Maeve herself. I'm with him, mate. And I
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: was like... Rowan can't be trusted.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: Fuck this guy. He's talking shit to Aedion. She introduces
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: Lysandra as Lady Lysandra of fucking the... She names it
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: Carveria or whatever.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: Caravere.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: Darrow's like, there is no Kara over here. Aelin goes,
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: there is now. Darrow goes, no, there's not.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: I was like, who are you?
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: Who are you?
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: He didn't say something like, and you bring a whore
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: in here too or something. He did, yeah. He's like,
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: you bring a whore in here. You bring this whore
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: in here. Like, bro, for fuck's sakes.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: And then, look, it is just like the most jarring
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: chapter to read because of like, we've obviously read this
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: entire journey that Aelin's gone through.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Right.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: To get to this point, she didn't want to be queen.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: She didn't want to save the fucking continent. She didn't
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: want to do any of that. And then she's like,
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: I'll do it. I'll do it for Nehemia.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: And then she's like, I'll do it and I'll do
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: it for myself. I'll do it for everyone I love.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: I'll do it for this. I'll do it for that.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: And so she's like.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: Grown to this point where she's going to be obviously
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: a great queen. And then this dumb old fuck named Darrow,
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: who's the Lord of fucking some shitty piece of land.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: in Tarasin, even though I think it's the biggest piece
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: of land anyway. And he's like, this guy, she has
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: all these inner monologue moments of like, not, she's like,
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: I want to kill this guy, but I.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: Can't type of thing.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: Right. And so basically at the end, it comes to
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: this point where he has a written signed documents from
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: the majority of the Lords of Tarasin that they don't
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: recognize her as queen. He says, you may be the princess,
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: but we don't recognize you as our queen. He says,
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: if you step foot in Orinth, it's on your head, bro.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: bounty on your hair he doesn't say that but he's
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: like you better not go to oranth which is the
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: city you better not do this you better not do
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: that like and then it's really fucking just i can't
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: even begin to explain to you how fucking.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: It i was picturing like a old white man with
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: a beer belly i know he probably doesn't have that
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: and then like he's got a little bit of hair
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: but he's holding on for dear life he's like you
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: cover it here this is my place telling you holding
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: a drink anyway look she ends up just coming to
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: terms with the fact that she's just gonna have to
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: play his little game And... Does Darrow have any powers? Eh?
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: What's his powers? I don't think he has any. He doesn't. Why?
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Fucking just kill... Behead him. Fuck him. I know. Just... Dead. Literally. Like, just.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: Just scare your whole fucking court into bowing for you.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, do a resand. And then just become a hectic queen. Yeah, exactly.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: You've got the power for it. Anyway, she wants to
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: do it properly. She wants to play his little game. Boring.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: I would have just loved it if it goes and
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: then Rowan... dove across the table and chopped Dara's head off.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: When she said, who's this whore in here? And then
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: fucking Ellen goes, fucking she's my whore and cuts his throat. Yeah, true.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: No one gets to call her that but me. Anyway, look,
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: it'll all come good. But basically, I believe that what
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: the plan is now is that they're going to just
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: go and find people to fight for them.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: That's the whole thing. Unfortunately, yeah.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: Unfortunately, they take this trip to Tarasin and now they
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: have to fucking leave Tarasin, which is super lame.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: Anyway, it is what it is, I guess. It is
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: what it is. Chapter five.
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: Aelin is told, right? A messenger comes in and says,
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: the spies from here, the spies from here. They get basically,
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: they get word that the witches are sacking Riftholt or
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: they're on their way to sack Riftholt to go get
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: the city back. And so what happens is Aelin says
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: to Rowan, you've got to go save Dorian.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: Get him out of the city, take a boat to
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: Skull's Bay. We're going to go talk to Rolf and
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: he's going to fight for us. She goes, myself, Adion
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: and Lysandra, we're going to go somewhere else and we'll
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: get a boat. We'll be two weeks behind you. Evangeline
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: is staying with Murtog and Wren. Murtog, he likes Aelin.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: He's like calling her majesty. He's like apologizing for Darrow, this, that,
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: the other. You know, Darrow's up in arms about what's
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: going on right now and Aelin's not telling him shit
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: because like, fuck him.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: Ren, right?
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: Who, for some reason, Ren in Heir of Fire, bro,
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: talking to Aedion, just about wanting to serve his queen,
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: getting her back on the throne.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: He knows she's alive. Like, then, he's like fucking acting
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: like Darrow. Why? I don't know either. It's a good point.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: Is it because he didn't know that Selenus Ardothion was Aelin?
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: And now, just because of that fact, he's like, well,
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: fuck you. You used to be an assassin or like, Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: Like, maybe he feels threatened. Bro, what the fuck? Anyway,
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: it pissed me off. I was like, what?
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: Anyway, just massive switch up. And so, but also she
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: leaves Evangeline and Fleetfoot with Murtog. And she says, it
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: was really cool, actually. I do really like this. She
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: basically is testing the people in her court, right?
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: In her lands. So, she's left Evangeline and Fleetfoot with Murtog.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: And Darrow in that.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: And he's like, she says, she goes, if either one
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: of these two get hurt, just know that.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: I will kill you. It's on sight, bitch. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: Which is sick.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: But also, she's testing them to see if they can
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: take care of someone that like doesn't, just someone that's innocent,
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: you know, just innocent, just an innocent person. She's seeing
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: if like the people in her court are still good people.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: Because it's like, if they're not, then maybe they're hopeless
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: and she has to just overthrow.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Very smart. Yeah. Fucking hectic. And then.
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: So, Rowan, he buggers off, right? This is the first, like,
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: mission his queen has sent him on, which is sick.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: They talk about, like, he goes, I don't even care
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: where it is. When I see you again, we're fucking...
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: They're not.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: Going to, bud. They're not going to. We're fucking on
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: site in Skull's Bay. Some sweaty session. Let's go. Shit. Anyway. Okay. Also.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: Um, so she talks about, she was going to go
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: to the coast, but then randomly she sees in the
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: corner of her eye, one of the little fit of little,
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: you know how there's like the little tree people, the little,
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: the little, the little gnomes or whatever.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah. She talks about seeing eyes and they look back
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: to her, but they serve her. I don't know.
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: Anyway, they leave a little replica of Brannon's temple. Um,
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: and Brannon's temple is on the coast. And so she goes, well,
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: I'm going to take that as a sign because they
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: clearly know what's up because they also gave her a
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: little like Wyvern sculpture, um, And she just thought it
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: was cool. But they were telling her that witches are
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: going to sack the city.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: Anywho. So she goes, looks like me, Adion.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: And Lysandra are headed to the fucking temple.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: Which is cool. Which is cool. All right.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: Chapter six. Dorian chapter. This bro, this guy's alone. Like alone, alone.
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: He just basically is like, talks a bit of in
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: a monologue. You know, he's told his mom and brother.
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: They're in this place called Ararat. Is that how you
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: say it? Anyway, they're in a different town and he
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: sent them a message saying, stay there because he doesn't
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: want to face them. And then he hears like sirens,
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: he hears screaming and he goes out on his balcony
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: and he notices that there's wyverns just like fucking sack
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: in the city.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: Now, chapter seven. Can I say something? Dorian.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: Once this guy gets a handle on his magic, unstoppable.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, 100%.
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: I think, is he going to be the most powerful
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: person in this whole thing?
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: Maybe.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: Right now, he's just like battling the ego of like
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: asking for help, like a classic man. Yeah. He's like,
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: I don't know, I'll just fucking figure it out myself.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: And he realizes he sucks like pretty much in these
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: next chapters. Yeah.
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: In the most powerful way. It's so sick.
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: Anyway, so Wyvern's just like flocking in, killing people, destroying shit.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: And then they start to go for him.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: And he's out on his balcony and just straight up like,
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: he just is like, he just points and just magic
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: just like shreds the witches.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: And the Wyverns. So cool.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: It's fucked up. But what he does is he kills
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: like four of them. And then he's like basically drained
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: his magic already because he doesn't have a good handle
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: on it. And then one of them breaks into his room.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: And he gets like kind of attacked. And the barb
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: of the poison barb of the wyvern cuts him. And
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: so he realizes like, this has poisoned me, but my
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: magic's clearly doing its best to keep me alive. So
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: he should be dead, but he's not dying because of
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: his magic anyway.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: Cool. He's about to die.
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: And Manon, she fucking comes in. Her wyvern just rips
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: one of the fucking yellow legs wyverns to shreds. And
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: then she kills the yellow legs coven witch, right? No
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: one sees it. No one sees it. But anyway, that's
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: what happens. And then she goes and she saves Doran.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: She says, get up, go. You need to get out
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: of the fucking castle. Get out of here. I wish
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: I kissed too. I wish I kissed.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: And then she's about to, she's going down these stairs
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: with him and she hears something and she smells this like,
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: there's like all this wind apparently. It gets really windy
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: and she's like, it smells like snow and pine.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: Right? And she goes, what's that smell? Why do I
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: remember it? Why is that familiar?
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: And then she hears some shit going down. Rowan down
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: the bottom of these stairs. Broski, Rowan down at the
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: bottom of the stairs.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: She goes.
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: Manon's like, he just kills like... He just one-on-ones four witches.
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: No fucking problem. And then she's like... Rowan looks up
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: at her and she just said all the air out
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: of her lungs is just gone.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: So cool.
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: So fucking cool. Dorian realizes what's happening. And he goes
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: over to Manon and he says to Rowan, stop, stop, stop.
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: So Rowan stops. And then she goes, go, go, go, go, go. Anyway,
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: Dorian gets... Rowan gets Dorian out of the fucking castle.
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: They escape, find a boat. Chapter 8. They sail away.
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: My man, they sail away.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: So, yeah. Pretty fucking crazy. Is that when... Or is
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: it later when Dorian admits to Rowan that he needs
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: help and then Rowan's like, you're going to be a
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: good king? Oh, it's in... Yeah. It's not... It's soon.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: It's like... It's very soon. They have some little chapters
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: of them. Yeah. Rowan and shit. But, yeah. Yeah.
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: Chapter nine, a lead. Back to a lead in Lorcan.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: Let's go. So, so much happens. Like we're only on
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: chapter nine. I feel like from here on out, like
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: the book was just like, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow. Right.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: Fucking literally we're on chapter nine. Straight away. It took
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: nine chapters to get like fucking yes, yes, yes. Oh
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: my God. Anyway.
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: So, a lead's in the forest. She knows she's being
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: followed and she's at a river, but she can hear
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: these fucking beasts. surrounding her she's like what's going on
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: here anyway she's wigging out she keeps hearing these like
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: weird noises crazy scary noises and then lorkhan reveals himself
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: and they have a bit of a chit chat back
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: and forth but he also knows that they're being hunted
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: by something and he thinks that he's being hunted because
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: the witches were hunting him for killing the witches but
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: and he's like oh they've sent some different beasts after
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: me because they're cowards lo and behold these beasts are
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: hunting a lead yeah so what happens is they run
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: But then he says, look, you're slow as fuck, girl.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: All right? You go. I'll stay back. Now, we get
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: a little thing of Lorcan's magic. His magic is, it's not.
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: Like raw power like Dorian's, but it's kind of dark wind,
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: if that makes any sense. It's sort of like Rowan's,
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: but not like Rowan's.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. Yeah. It's more subtle maybe. His queen Maeve said,
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: you know, when they discovered what his power was, she said,
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: yours is relatively unknown, but it's, but it's, no, it's like, sorry,
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: it's not relatively unknown. It's very unknown.
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: And it's very, you know, use it to your advantage
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: type shit. I think he just has sick powers. I
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: think he just kind of can do cool shit, but
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: who knows. But so he stays back. He puts up
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: a wall of magic and then these three beasts, disgusting looking,
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: terrifying things break through his wall of magic. And then
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: they can talk. And so he's talking to them. He's like,
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: what are you? And then they say, we are Ilken.
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: They're beasts that Erewhon has been making.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: Very powerful, he says. He's never seen them before in
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: his life.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: Very powerful. Looks like they're made from humans, but they're
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: just big, gross looking ghosts. So scary.
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: And so they have a bit of a back and
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: forth and the leader of these Ilken reveals that they
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: were sent to find a lead or like, you know,
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: the girl that has a limp.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: I have no idea.
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: Anyway, basically what happens is Lorcan, he just.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: Goes, fuck it, kills him.
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: He goes, sword, knife, whatever it is, in the throat,
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: in the throat, two of them get knocked over. And
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: then the main one's like, what? Comes up, they're about
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: to fight. He notices the other two, one of them
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: that had a knife like straight into its throat, it
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: doesn't get up. but one of them that had a
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: knife to the heart, it gets up. So he says
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: in his head, well, it looks like it's a beheading.
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: Beheading it is. So this guy, what's really annoying is,
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: as soon as he's like, let's get this, let's get
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: down and dirty, let's dance, goes back to a lead.
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah. We don't even get to like hear about his fight.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: I know. Anywho. But I think that's hiding his magic
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: a bit. There's a reason behind like no one knows
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: what it is. Yeah. Chapter 10. I think we're not
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: finding out for a reason. Yeah, that's a good point.
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: Chapter 10 is a lead... tries to run and then
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: there's another ilken that finds her and so she holds
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: on to the word stone and she gets like this
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: sense of power and so she thinks to herself like
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: what can i do what would manon do what would
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: um fucking like uh not caldane what would astran do
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: she thinks about that and so she actually tries to
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: fool the ilken i don't actually completely remember what happens
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: but she kind of just is like you know i'm
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: out here looking for the fucking what you're looking for
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: because she looks like a witch smells like a witch
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: smells like a vogue she's trying to convince the ilken
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: that she's actually higher above in the food chain than
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: it and she's doing a good job until she fucking
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: says like and then when you guys started chasing me
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: i hurt my ankle and the ilken goes oh how
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: convenient we're looking for someone with.
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: A bad ankle she goes fuck oh fuck i fucked
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: this up.
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: Dang it anyway i also want to mention that she
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: told lorkhan that her name's marion Yeah, she lied.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: She said, yeah, she didn't want to know the truth.
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, her name's Marion. Also crazy, she has a word key.
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: Lorcan's looking for the word keys. I know.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: I'm surprised Lorcan can't sense that his word key is
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: fake and then that he wasn't drawn to a lead. Yeah.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: For any reason. Because if a lead can feel it,
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: like surely fucking, I suppose he's a witch, but Lorcan
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: should be able to. Yeah. I thought that. Anyway, maybe
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: you have to be holding it. Is it because of
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: what it's wrapped in? Is Selene what she ripped off?
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: Is that her spider silk shit? Nah, she's not in
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: spider silk. When she ripped that piece off... Nah, I
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: don't think the cloak is spider silk. You don't? Nah.
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: I was like, could that mask the... Maybe. Yeah, that
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: was the only thing I knew.
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: Somehow, they either kill the other Ilken or they get away.
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: I can't actually remember, but they get away, right? I
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: think he picks her up and they just run. And
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: he can just run like a beast because he's fucking Ilken.
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: And then they stop and they have a rest. And
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: that's when I think they actually exchange names.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: And also he says why he's out here. She says
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: what she's doing. And she says to him, I need
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: to find Selene a Sardothian. And he knows who that is.
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: And he knows that it's Aelin, but he doesn't tell her,
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: but he talks to her. She just, she talks about
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: how she spent so many months in Morath. And like,
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: he goes, well, I'm going there. I'm going to go
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: there and I'm.
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: Going to fuck shit up. Right.
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: Actually a sick chapter will be Lorcan at Morath fucking
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: shit up. Anyway, she goes, well, let's make a deal.
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: You get me, to the north safely or some shit.
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: And he's like, I need information about Morath. They basically
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: make a deal, right? They need to travel together to
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: a certain point. And then he's like, you head north
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: and I'll head south, but I'll get you there safely.
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: And they make this deal. And she's like, put, you know,
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: promise me. And he promises. And he talks about how
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: the only thing that's, again, the only thing Lorcan has
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: is his promises.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: I don't know, something about promises. He's a man of
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: his word. He's a man of his word. He's a
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: man of his word. Right.
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: Chapter 11. Iskra, who is the yellow legs heir, right?
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: She smells dead witch on Manon. And she says, she's like, you're.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: A witch killer. You bitch. You're a witch killer. And
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: then Manon lies.
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: And she says that she was attacked by the yellow
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: legs witch. And that she was doing it because the
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: yellow legs wanted to kill Dorian while Manon wanted to
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: get Dorian alive. And the yellow legs coven witch was
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: trying to steal Manon's thunder anyway. And then she tells
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: her that the other four which is we're killed by Rowan,
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: the fey warrior.
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: Anyway, cool.
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: We're back at Morath now and Manon is summoned again
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: to her grandmother and the other matrons are also there too.
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: So there's the three matrons and then the three heirs.
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: We've got Petra, who is the blue blood's heir or
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: whatever they're called. The yellow legs, heir is Iskra. And
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: I can't remember like the matrons names, but anyway. So
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: what happens is they're like, Manon, did you kill a witch?
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: Are you a witch killer? Manon says, no, fuck, no,
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: I'm not. And so then the matrons are talking, right?
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: Petra does this thing about, you know, she's like, backs Manon. Petra's,
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: we like Petra. But Petra backs Manon up, type of shit, whatever.
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: So then Manon's fucking grandma, she.
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: Goes, well, because blood was spilled. This is bullshit, eh?
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: Some of our blood needs to be spilled. Bullshit. You know?
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: The yellow legs need to be able to spill blood too.
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: So what's going to happen, Manon? is one of your
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: 13 are going to be sacrificed and killed. And it's
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: going to be Astrid, and it's going to be tomorrow
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: morning at dawn.
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: You're kidding. When that happened, I genuinely was like, what
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: the fuck? I know. I was like, you are kidding.
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: I like Astrid. Anyway, bro.
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: Any fucking way. So much happens in this book. I
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: can't even begin to explain to you how much more
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: we have to talk about. I need to have a
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: sip of my drink. We're already like an hour in.
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: All right, buddies, me and Odie have conversed and we're
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: going to leave you on a cheeky cliffhanger.
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: Even though you probably all know what's happened, but we
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: don't want to miss anything. I don't want to be skipping.
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: I feel like I've been going into relatively good detail here.
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah. What usually happens is like we get to 40,
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: 50 minutes. I'm like, oh shit, we got eight chapters left.
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: Let's just speed run it.
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: So I'm like, let's speed run it.
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: So, but what we're going to do is, We're going
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: to end the episode here and we're going to split
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: this 20 chapters into two episodes.
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: And we might have to fuck. I don't know.
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: I like reading 20 chapters because I just like it,
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: but we might have to fucking do 10.
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: We'll have to think about it anyway.
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: But here's the thing. What you can do is sign
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: up to Patreon, right?
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: If you're listening to this on a Friday on Spotify
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: or YouTube or Apple, podcasts, you can sign up to
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: Patreon because in two days, the next 10 chapters will
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: be out on Patreon. They go out five days early. So...
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: You don't have to wait pretty much. You don't have
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: to wait very long. You know what I'm saying? You
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: might be listening to this on a Sunday. You might
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: be listening to this on a Monday. And it's already there.
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: And it's already there.
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: But if you're listening to this on a Monday that
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: it came out on Patreon, then it's not going to
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: be there.
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: It's going to wait a week. Anyway, sorry about that, Bad.
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: It's not really sorry about it because I want to
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: be able to go into it and I don't want
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: to rush it.
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: So... With that, baddies, we love ya. Stay bad.