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120. Time for a cozy book. (The Spellshop) · The Book-Watchers

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  Speaker 2: I'm straight. I don't we talk about it. I'm straight.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a straight. Hi, I'm Devin. I'm a straight man.
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  Speaker 1: Hi. How Hi, I'm Jacob and look and here to
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  Speaker 1: announce the world that Devin is has internalized by phobia
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  Speaker 1: because he is actually bisexual and he literally just erased
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  Speaker 2: So wow, wow, wow the bisexual flagsticker on my computer
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  Speaker 2: is judging me, now wow wow Yeah, okay, you're right,
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  Speaker 2: You're right right, I'm a fag.
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  Speaker 1: He's always accusing me of trying to He's always accusing
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  Speaker 1: me of bioracre because I make jokes that he's just gay.
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  Speaker 1: Not really right, you know, because because this man that's
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  Speaker 1: a fagot.
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  Speaker 2: Yes okes, I am, Yes, I am, I am very much, But.
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  Speaker 1: I'm one gay as in, I do not I do
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  Speaker 1: but I do.
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  Speaker 1: that way, whereas this man right here does.
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  Speaker 2: He's more step more than I am. Oh my god, Baynetta,
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  Speaker 1: Exhibit B through C.
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  Speaker 2: And of course I'm in a gay really, I'm in
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  Speaker 2: a gay relationship with a poly man who loves pant
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, not polymn pan pan sexual man who loves
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  Speaker 2: pants is kind of kind of, but he doesn't. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: we're not doing that at the moment. We're not doing
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  Speaker 2: that anyway.
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  Speaker 1: But we're not here to talk about our relationships.
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  Speaker 2: He loves pants, he loves pants, he loves.
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  Speaker 1: Kitchen ware, boyfriends to anyway, but that's not where we're
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  Speaker 1: here today.
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  Speaker 2: Clink clink clinkers anyway. Fat Okay, so what we're doing today, faggot,
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  Speaker 2: Well before I'm terrible, I'm terrible at this.
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  Speaker 1: Yes you are.
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  Speaker 2: It's okay when I say it's not, don'tkay when you
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  Speaker 2: say it. All you have to do is show up
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  Speaker 2: and look pretty, which is very difficult for you to do.
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  Speaker 2: But I have to do everything else.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, and looks stunny, it looks.
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  Speaker 2: Simple, and edit everything and it's like I come in
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  Speaker 2: still called cute and you just have to show up. Hoh,
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  Speaker 2: not really, you do have.
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  Speaker 1: To read the books.
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  Speaker 2: I know, I know, I'm giving you a ship.
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  Speaker 1: In the last three weeks, I've read like five books already.
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  Speaker 1: I have?
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  Speaker 2: the video, look at Jacob's face. Future have a zoom
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  Speaker 2: in on Jacob's face because he's just ew the judgment.
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  Speaker 2: The fagotory of the judgment is.
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  Speaker 1: I am judging you hard. I'm judging you harder than
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  Speaker 1: your cat is currently judging you right now.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's too quiet because I'm like, she's me out
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  Speaker 2: on screamed, but it's too quiet. So I'm like, where's
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  Speaker 2: that little hat?
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  Speaker 1: It would have been so much more hilarious. Is she
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  Speaker 1: just there just trying at you?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, she was like right there, just judging me. I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: mind your own business. You three like a helfer guy.
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  Speaker 2: So what can we talk about today?
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  Speaker 1: Y'all?
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  Speaker 2: Let me talk about some books.
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  Speaker 1: Today is just gonna be a nice, cozy episode. You know.
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  Speaker 1: Here in San Antonio, Texas, it's actually really it's actually
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  Speaker 1: hold as fuck over here.
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  Speaker 2: It's nice. It's nice.
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  Speaker 1: It's nice. It's nice. It's nice for Prie from all
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  Speaker 1: the hot weather we usually get but forty degrees in
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  Speaker 1: San Antonio, forty one degrees in San Antonio, so it's chili,
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  Speaker 1: all right. I got my hoodie on.
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  Speaker 2: I have put my hoodie on that course when you
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  Speaker 2: walk outside, when I walk outside, and my and my
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  Speaker 2: nips get that's when you know this is good weather.
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  Speaker 2: It's sweat a weather, sweat a weather, Oh my.
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  Speaker 1: God, sweat weather.
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  Speaker 2: So what other.
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  Speaker 1: So if you're so, if you're currently in a part
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  Speaker 1: of the of the States or wherever you or wherever
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  Speaker 1: in the world you are, and it's currently cold, you know,
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  Speaker 1: put on your sweater. Sit back, relax. We're gonna be
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  Speaker 1: talking about a nice cozy little book called this spell Shop.
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  Speaker 2: Drink some hot coco sitting in front of the fire.
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  Speaker 2: This is one of those books, mhm.
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  Speaker 1: Spell The spell Shop is a nice cozy little literary RP,
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  Speaker 1: literary RPG style book as uh, you know, it has
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  Speaker 1: aspects of fromantasy that RPG. It's very PG, I will
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  Speaker 1: say that. So there's not any like hardcore violence or
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  Speaker 1: action that typic that are typically in the books that
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  Speaker 1: I've read so far, and so it was a nice
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  Speaker 1: little step back. I don't think I've read a book
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  Speaker 1: this cozy since I've read The House in the Cerulian
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  Speaker 1: c Yeah, and that one was a cozy, nice, very
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  Speaker 1: nice and cozy book. So this one is kind of
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  Speaker 1: is kind of all the same levels that except this
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  Speaker 1: is just I hate to say it, it's straight romantic.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we love a stan here. I've talked about
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  Speaker 2: strict romanticy here plenty of times.
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  Speaker 3: M hmm.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. But I've left straight romances like romance and like
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  Speaker 1: like the straight category behind because I got tired of it,
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  Speaker 1: and I mainly I mainly stick with like the with
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  Speaker 1: the lgbt qes because that's where I that's where I live.
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  Speaker 1: You can find me in the lgbt Q section. All right,
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  Speaker 1: they got no I got no shame. Although there is
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  Speaker 1: some lgbt Q representation in here, there are some all
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  Speaker 1: characters that in this novel that are definitely a gay,
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  Speaker 1: So a nice little bit of representation here. So spell
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  Speaker 1: Shop is written by Sarah Beth Durst. All Right, this
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  Speaker 1: is a This book was released in two thousand and four,
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and four, twenty twenty four. God, no, would
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  Speaker 1: not have this would not have sold in two thousand and.
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  Speaker 2: Four, probably not, probably not, probably not.
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  Speaker 1: We have this gay representation.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So anyway, so the spell Shop it does start off
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  Speaker 1: a bit dramatic because the story follows a young woman
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  Speaker 1: named Quila. Quila was a librarian in an imperial library
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  Speaker 1: in the Great Library of Elysium. Elysium is this is
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  Speaker 1: the capital of this widespread empire. It takes so the
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  Speaker 1: settings take place in this large archipelago type world, all right.
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  Speaker 1: So the empire controls dozens, if not hundreds, of these
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  Speaker 1: islands all across this expansive ocean, and Elysium is like
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  Speaker 1: somewhere Elysium itself, the capital is somewhere in the center.
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  Speaker 1: It's very urban, there's magic, there's widespread development. And she's
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  Speaker 1: one of the few fortunate people to actually work in
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  Speaker 1: the Great Library itself. Kila is the textbook definition of
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  Speaker 1: an introvert and a book and a bookworm. She loves books,
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  Speaker 1: but she hates human interaction. She doesn't really she doesn't
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  Speaker 1: particularly enjoy interacting with other people. And for her, the
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  Speaker 1: for her, the library was the perfect job. And when
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  Speaker 1: she finally when she had gotten her position at the library,
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  Speaker 1: she was fortunate enough to be assigned to the actual
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  Speaker 1: spell the actual spell sections, the spell books all right now,
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  Speaker 1: the section that deals with the spell books in grimoires.
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  Speaker 1: It's very it's a very large section. And there's different
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  Speaker 1: floors within the Great Library where you can find all
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  Speaker 1: the spell books. And she's and she has an entire
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  Speaker 1: section of spell books all to herself, so she spent
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  Speaker 1: the better part of a decade UH categorize, like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: taking care of these books, categorizing them, delivering them to
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  Speaker 1: uh imperial like to royals and imperials, because I think
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  Speaker 1: unfortunately the Great Library is UH is a private library.
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  Speaker 1: It's not open to the public, so the only people
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  Speaker 1: who have access to the library are members of the
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  Speaker 1: Imperial Court themselves as well as any like rich nobles
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  Speaker 1: or anybody who's wealthy enough to pay the premium fee
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  Speaker 1: to be able to access the library. And I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: be honest, like it in these kind of like settings
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  Speaker 1: make me sad because you know, the fact that not
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  Speaker 1: that you can't know that knowledge like this is consolidated,
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  Speaker 1: but with held from the public. It's to me that's
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  Speaker 1: a sign that like your society is the beginning to decline,
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  Speaker 1: because if your leadership is denying you access to knowledge
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  Speaker 1: like this, then they're not good leaders.
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  Speaker 3: You know, they're greedy fish.
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  Speaker 1: And that's pretty much what the Emperor of Elysium was
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  Speaker 1: was a greedy, selfish bastard. And later on we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: see like like far beyond like what he had done.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to see like how his decisions have affected
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  Speaker 1: people living in the most outermost islands of the Empire.
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  Speaker 1: So the book starts off with Kila categorizing and restalking
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  Speaker 1: the shelves of her spell sections, and she's assisted by
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  Speaker 1: her she's actually assisted by a sensient spider plant, so
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  Speaker 1: she has a little companion. He's a spider plant. If
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  Speaker 1: you don't know what a spider plant looks like, just
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  Speaker 1: google it. They basically you ever see any house like
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  Speaker 1: generic houseplant, ever, that's what he is. And so Kaz
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  Speaker 1: was the So the spider plant is named cause he
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  Speaker 1: can actually speak and he can move around on his own.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of funny because he uses his leaves to
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  Speaker 1: like walk around and like climb up shelves and move
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  Speaker 1: books and like stock books for her, and it's kind
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  Speaker 1: of yeah, it's pretty cute because his roots like hold
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  Speaker 1: onto a little ball of soil to like keep them alive.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Oh my god, that's adorable.
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  Speaker 1: And he's pretty caddy too, So he's like so he's
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  Speaker 1: very intelligent, very well, very well read, but also pretty caddy.
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  Speaker 1: And he's also very neurotic and has a lot of
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  Speaker 1: nervous energy, so he will often like get he'll often
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  Speaker 1: like hyper fixate on certain things that make him nervous,
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  Speaker 1: like mainly especially with plant eating animals and things like
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  Speaker 1: fire and water. Like, he doesn't he goes outside because
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  Speaker 1: he's afraid of encountering some like something that eat plants.
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  Speaker 1: So so the two of them have spent the two
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  Speaker 1: of them have spent years working in the library. Cas
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  Speaker 1: himself was originally just a normal houseplant that was accidentally
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  Speaker 1: brought to life by a by a spell and things.
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  Speaker 1: The problem is is that only licensed sorcerers are allowed
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  Speaker 1: to use magic, and if you are caught using magic,
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  Speaker 1: even like head, even like just like just a little
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  Speaker 1: spell here and there, that has a lot of legal repercussions.
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  Speaker 1: There was a time in the story where everyone was
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  Speaker 1: free to use magic how they pleased. But then the
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  Speaker 1: Emperor began to become more and more paranoid, more possessive
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  Speaker 1: of magic, and started imposing rules and laws that limited
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  Speaker 1: the use of spells to specific sorcerers, like you had
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  Speaker 1: to have certifications, you have to write approval, all right,
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  Speaker 1: couldn't just do hedge magic anymore. Yeah, And it made
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  Speaker 1: lives for people so much harder, so much Harsher Kaz
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  Speaker 1: was a result of an It was more of an
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  Speaker 1: accident really, when he was brought to life. One of
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  Speaker 1: the other librarians in the library was playing around with
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  Speaker 1: a spell and brought him back to and brought him
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  Speaker 1: to life, and she was arrested. This librarian was arrested
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  Speaker 1: and as punishment, she was turned into a wooden statue.
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  Speaker 1: So the punishments can be pretty harsh. The punishments for
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  Speaker 1: breaking the laws, especially around magic, is pretty harsh in
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  Speaker 1: this world. Keila herself had she's more interested in just
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  Speaker 1: studying it, the more theory, the theoretical behind like magic.
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  Speaker 1: She doesn't really she's never actually used magic herself and
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  Speaker 1: personally she's never really wanted to because she doesn't want to,
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  Speaker 1: of course, jeopardize her position within the within the library, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: or incur the wrath of the Imperial Inquisition, of course.
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  Speaker 1: So when this when the story starts, it's Kila and
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  Speaker 1: Kaz that both the two of them are working in
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  Speaker 1: this are working in the in the library. Keila was
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  Speaker 1: busy categorizing some books when Kaz comes running into her
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  Speaker 1: section and warns her that the revolution had that that
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  Speaker 1: revolution has reached Elysium and they're burning the library to
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  Speaker 1: the ground. So this is like, this is a little
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  Speaker 1: something that this is kind of sad about Quila is
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  Speaker 1: because she's because of how much of a shut in
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  Speaker 1: she was. She didn't really make friends even with the
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  Speaker 1: other librarians, and she would rarely interact with other librarians
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  Speaker 1: unless she absolutely had to andy and prefer to spend
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  Speaker 1: most of her time just in her section, like she
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  Speaker 1: lived in the library, like they gave her like a
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  Speaker 1: little dormit. She lives in the dormitory the library, and
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  Speaker 1: but most of the time she's she's always in her
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  Speaker 1: in her section of the library, and she performs her
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  Speaker 1: duties and only ever interacts with other people when she
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  Speaker 1: needed to. Yeah, and later on she does feel she
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  Speaker 1: she gets hit with this like sort of this reality check,
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  Speaker 1: like nobody cared to even bother warning me that like
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  Speaker 1: warning her that the revolution had reached the city, like
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  Speaker 1: she was, like, the library was big, so when you're
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  Speaker 1: inside the library, it's very like you feel very isolated
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  Speaker 1: from the outside world. So she had done a really
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  Speaker 1: good job of isolating herself, so so much so that
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  Speaker 1: she while she heard whispers and rumors of the revolution
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  Speaker 1: that have been overtaking Elysium she didn't think that. She
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  Speaker 1: didn't think or really know that it would hit like
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  Speaker 1: so close to home, so close to the capitol. And
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  Speaker 1: it was only until the very last moment when kaz
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  Speaker 1: happened to see that the revolutions have already broken into
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  Speaker 1: the library and they've burned down and there's and began
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  Speaker 1: burning down parts of it, that he was able to
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  Speaker 1: come and warn her. So the thing is that Kila did,
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  Speaker 1: at the at the very least have the foresight too
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  Speaker 1: began prepping just in case. So she began, uh, she
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  Speaker 1: began storing several crates of very important like texts and
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  Speaker 1: UH and spell books and storing them away in like
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  Speaker 1: a little in one of the libraries, uh, like delivery boats.
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  Speaker 1: Because the thing is to think of Elysium as like
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  Speaker 1: kind of like Venice, except it's not a city that's
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  Speaker 1: built on the stilts over the water. It's uh, it's
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  Speaker 1: it's a city. It's on it's an island city. It
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  Speaker 1: has canals running all throughout the island, and many of
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  Speaker 1: the many of the times whenever a librarian has to
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  Speaker 1: deliver books, it's often to other islands across Elysium. So
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  Speaker 1: at least is the center city, and then there's the
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  Speaker 1: empire and the book and the story refers to like
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  Speaker 1: the other islands is just part of the empire without
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  Speaker 1: really like talking about like the actual name of the
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  Speaker 1: empire is just referred to as the empire. And oftentimes
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  Speaker 1: she will make deliveries on her boat so these other
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  Speaker 1: islands to take, like to take to deliver spell books
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  Speaker 1: to some of the two other library members. And she
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  Speaker 1: she had already begun packing away several like several boxes
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  Speaker 1: full of important spell books. And when has warned her
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  Speaker 1: of this of the oncoming fire and the revolutionaries, she
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  Speaker 1: quickly packed as many of the books she could in
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  Speaker 1: one last box and carried it down to the down
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  Speaker 1: to her boat. They which was which already had four
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  Speaker 1: other crate which already had like four other crates of
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  Speaker 1: of books. And the one that she brought was the
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  Speaker 1: fifth crate, but she had only had enough time to
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  Speaker 1: fill it about halfway, so we got about four and
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  Speaker 1: a half, like almost five crates filled with precious books,
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  Speaker 1: and she had some she managed to pack away some
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  Speaker 1: of her own supplies, and the two of them cast
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  Speaker 1: off and began sailing away from Elicium. As they're sailing
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  Speaker 1: down the canals, they can see that the revolutionaries have
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  Speaker 1: burnt most of the city, have already set fire to
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  Speaker 1: most of the city. They've stormed the capital. They've already
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  Speaker 1: begun storming the capitol. And when looking back, she could
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  Speaker 1: see that the library was beginning to burn. And it
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  Speaker 1: was a very shocking experience for her, and she wasn't
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  Speaker 1: sure what she would she at first, she wasn't sure
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  Speaker 1: what she was going to do, but she knew that
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  Speaker 1: they had to at the very least get these books
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  Speaker 1: to safety, because her first priority was protecting her charges
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  Speaker 1: and figuring out what she's going to do with herself,
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  Speaker 1: because she wasn't sure if the revolutionaries were going to kill,
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  Speaker 1: were just killing indiscriminately, or if they even succeeded. She
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  Speaker 1: didn't really care. She didn't what I want to She
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  Speaker 1: didn't really care to know if she was more focused on,
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  Speaker 1: like you know, protecting of getting away. As a still
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  Speaker 1: further away from the city, she's their face. She and
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  Speaker 1: kas her face like where to now? And she decides
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  Speaker 1: that the best place to go would be as far
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  Speaker 1: to the farthest reaches of the empire. Uh And just
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  Speaker 1: so happens, her childhood home was an island on the
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  Speaker 1: very out on the very outskirts of the Empire. This
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: island is called Coultree. Coultree is a very remote island
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: at the very far, like as far out into the
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: sea from like the from the center, from the capital
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: as possible. All Right, She and her family, she grew
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: up there and then like when she was still a
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: little girl, her family had had packed up and moved
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: to the city for a chance at a better a
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: better life.
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: So a little backstory about Kila is that she's from,
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: like I said, she's from Coultree, and she remembers she
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: remembered Coultree as a very cozy, kind of very picturesque
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: type of island. It was, you know, it was a
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: farming It was a farming and fishing, uh, it was.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: It had a farming and fishing community. Mainly the farming
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: exports was like apple orchards and other and other like
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: types of fruit. And also they were known for their
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: herds of muorrhorses or hippocampus, So they had shepherds that
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: would they had shepherds that would care for the sea
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: for the murr horses. They had a large fishing community
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: like the muurr horses were integral for UH. They use
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: the mr horses to help them like UH basically also
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: heard schools of fishes closer to the island for the
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: fishermen to be able to catch and there was also
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: a big a large community of murfolk that lived around
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: in the waters around the islands. The coves in the
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: island were often used by the Murph folks to raise
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: their children and ah for Quila. For Kila, this was
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: a this would be a perfect a perfect you know,
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: new start in her life. It's far, it's far, it's remote,
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: and while people there would wouldn't really know would probably
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: remember her, they wouldn't really know her or and she
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: hoped they wouldn't really bother her, so she didn't cause
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: set sail to Coultree mm hm and she also fortunately
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: for her after her parents' death, their old family cottage
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: is now hers, so she does have a home that
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: she can go to and possibly start over. They do
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: eventually reach Coultree, they land her family also had a
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: little private cove, so she was able to sail into
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: the cove uh and begin and go up to the cottage.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: When she sees the cottage like by the time she
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: reached the cottage. It was pretty late in the evening.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: It was dark. She had a heart. It was hard
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: to see everything that was see everything, but from what
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: she can see in the in the late evening light,
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: was the cottage completely overgrown by vines and plants like
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: it's deaf. It's it's had the look of being in
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: complete disarray for well over for almost twenty years. But
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: Tom was still standing and she knew that for now
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: it would have to do. And they began cleaning up
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: the place. So she settled into She settles into her cottage,
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: and the next morning, when she wakes up, she meets
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: she actually that she meets her neighbor, Lauren Lauren. The
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: way she meets Lauren was kind of was kind of
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: unexpected because see, the thing is is Lauren had seen
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: her boat, saw her boat in the cove, and also
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: noticed that someone had clear some some whatt of a
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: path to the cottage. So he went up to investigate,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: just being a good neighbor because he remembered Laren remembered
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: who the cottage belonged to, and he wasn't sure somebody
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: had broken in, so he ends up. So he goes
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: up to the cottage, goes into just to check and
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: sees her in there, and it wakes her up and
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: freaks her out, and she it, you know, meeting him
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: unexpectedly did spook her, and she tells him to leave,
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: basically tells him to leave because this is like, this
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: is her home. And he, while apologetic, was just concerned
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: because he's like, well, I'm sorry, I saw the boat,
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: wasn't sure who was up here. She says, well, this
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: is my home. I'm I'm Liara Keel. Excuse me, Lea
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: damn it.
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: Chat.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: I was using Chat GBT to help me write my
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: notes and I asked it to pull up the summary
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: of the book, but it pulled up the summary of
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: a completely different story and it said the main character
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: was someone named Leela or Liara. And I was like,
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: this is not Chat, what are you doing. This is why,
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: like kids in school these days are failing a lot
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: because they're using Chat to write their essays for them
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: and and Chat is just doing it wrong. M That's
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: why a lot of teachers are going back to the
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: good old pen and paper. Yeah, you have to write it,
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: you have to write it yourself. Kids are still failing
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: because they still get chat to write the summer, to
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: write their essay for them, and it's still wrong, and
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: they just write it as is.
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, most definitely, I do not endorse.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: We're not endorsing chat here.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: No read and write your own ship.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: All right, that's right. So anyway, she kindly but as
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: certainly tells, basically tells Lauren to buzz off because she
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: because the thing is is that a Kila did not
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: come to the island to make friends. She came there
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: to hide, all right, to make a new life for
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: herself and really not get involved with the locals. But
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: unfortunately she later she quickly learns that she's going to
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: have to get involved with them one way or another,
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: because you know, she, despite having a home, she herself
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: does not know how to care for herself. I mean,
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: she knows how to care for herself in like the
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: most basic ways, but she does not know how to
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: basically survive on her own. The library had provided her
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: with all of her necessities, like you know, clothing, food,
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: and like other like necessities and amenities, and now she's
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: basically now for the first time in her life, she's
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: completely on her own, all right, And she realizes she's
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: going to need to learn basically learn how to do
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: this all on her own, but she has to learn
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: how to live if a homestead life, so she's not
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: so she knows she she she learns that, she realizes
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: she's gonna need to start growing, putting together a garden
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: Scott wish she can grow her own food and vegetables.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: She needs salt, sugar, and she also needs a chicken
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: or some other form and possibly other livestock so that
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: way she'd have like meat, eggs, a steady supply of eggs,
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: and you know, other basic necessities. And then she's also
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: gonna need to start fixing up her house because the
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: house is in disarray, it's dusty, there are vines overgrowing
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: everything her. She later realizes her chimney is clogged when
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: she makes a failed attempt to cook some eggs, and
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: when she turns on her her wood, her wood fire stove.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: The clogged chimney that is caused old smoke to like
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: billow into her house, so she so she has to
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: quickly clear it out. She goes so unfortunately, so unfortunately
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: for her, she has to go interact with the other locals,
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: especially since already one of her neighbors have realized, have
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: discovered that she's there. She can't really hide from them,
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: so she decides to try to softly integrate herself as
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: well as go into this town to get some supplies
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: that she needs. And she does go down into the store.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: She goes down into the village, and she realizes that,
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: like much of the island, the village looks like it's
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: starting to fall apart. It's in disarray. People there look
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: very like, I don't want to say, like they're starving,
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: but they they look very like. They look very serious,
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: like they don't like they don't have time to like
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: actually enjoy their lives, like it's all work for them,
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: no play. And there's signs on the on like the village,
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: on the other cottages that there's a lot of weather,
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of wear and tear, like roofs that
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: look like they were quickly patched. There's in some places
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: where people's windows are completely shuttered and boarded up. But
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: as she walks through the town like, she notices that
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: the town, the fountain, that the Mermaid fountain in the center,
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: is completely dry with no idea how like, And when
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: she clearly remembered as a child that the fountain was lively,
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: there was water billowing for uh, there was water flowing
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: through it, and she the village, the island of Coultree
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: is a pale imitation of what she remembered from her childhood. Yeah,
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: and she hint it hints that there was like there
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: was definitely a lot of changes that happened in the
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: like the twenty plus years since she'd been there. So
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: going going further into the village she'd been, she vaguely
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: remembered there used to be a grocer somewhere in the village.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: But when she finds to where, But when she goes
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: to where it used to be, instead of an actual grocery,
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: she finds a big show, a bigery, and that's where
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: most of the village is congregated. She needs some the
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: friendly locals she meets the she meets the baker Brin.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: Brinn is like a I think Brin is like a
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: satyr before I forget guys, like a lot of the
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: there's gonna be a lot of like there's a mix
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: of like humanoid characters like Kila herself is I don't
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: really know what her mythical race is, but she has
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: like pale blue skin and like dark and like real
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: like midnight blue hair that well, like in darker light
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: it looks like a midnight blue, but like in like
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: bright light or like she's in the sun, it turns
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: into like a like a deep sapphire. So I would say, like,
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: if we're going off of like D and D races,
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: she's probably like a genasi of some kind. And for
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: those of you who don't know, a genasi is like
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: a half gin. So it's it's a humanoid that has
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: like like a gin ancestor and depending on the element
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: the gin, Yeah, the gin is determines the color of
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: your skin. Like fire, you have red skin, water it's
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: blue skin, and so on. So, uh, that's what That's
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: what I'm assuming Kila is. It doesn't really like say
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: like what she like what her mythical race is. Bren
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: is a satyr of some kind because she has a
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: somewhat like goat like features and she also has like
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: little horns. She's very sweet. Brinn is very is a
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: very sweet person. She's very helpful. She's excited to meet
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: the new uh the newcomer to her village. She even
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: gets she even gives Kila a little welcome gifts like, oh, well,
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: here there's a whole basket full of cinnamon rolls.
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: Damn I know.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: And then and Keila is like, oh, thanks, Well, I'm
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: actually here for some supplies. I moved back into my
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: parents my parents cottage, and I don't have any supplies,
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: so I just need and like gives her whole lists
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: and Brynn helps get Brent gets everything for her together,
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: like salt, sugar, some seeds for her homestead, even manages
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: to wrap rustle up a chicken for her. And it's
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: kind of funny because like, Kila has all these supplies
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: that she carries back to her cottage, and she ends
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: up losing her grip on the chicken and it runs
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: off into the forest. Like She's like, ah, damn it.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: Now I'm like, now he got no chicken.
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: Got no chicken, Got no chicken.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: And yep. So while she's there, she learns that Coultree
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: has fallen on hard times that she starts. He actually
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: learns from Brinn and some of the other locals. She
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: meets a very nice centaur woman and a few other people.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: I forgot that I'm not really sure what the race
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: of this one other local is, but she has like
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: she's like four set, like four arms, and she just
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: looks like a normal person, but she has like four arms.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: Interesting.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: God, I'm so bad with the names. I gotta look
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: up their names.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: M h. We have on record. Uh, let be on
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: record that Jacob is terrible with names. That's factual. It
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: took him forever to learn mine.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: No, it didn't.
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: It's lies. Lies.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: Devin, your name was like probably one of the easiest
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: names to remember.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: Oh my God, don't think.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: It's because you're a faggot.
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: Only God think.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: Anyway. So Quila now as now Kila learns from her
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: new quote unquote friends neighbors, the locals, that culture has
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: followed onto some pretty tough times. Because the thing is
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: is that magic is very wide, is very is. The
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: use of magic is very widespread within the Empire. But
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: the thing is, because of the Emperors of the magic
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: is consolidated to like the more inner parts of the Empire.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: So they're often so like the sorcerers of the Empire
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: are using their magic for a lot of different purposes,
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: but one of those main purposes is controlling the weather. Right,
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: So oftentimes they're doing the experiments or they're doing things
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: to like regulate the weather near the center of the empire,
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: but then this often causes a lot of magical backlash
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: that radiates outward to the to the outer islands. So
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: what used to happen was whenever this what you the
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: way it used to be was whenever this began to
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: happen and the weather begins to turn like very chaotic
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: in the outer islands, the empire would send a rotation
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: of sorcerers every few months to come to like different
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: islands to cast a few spells to settle the weather down,
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: and also to cast another number of spells. Because the
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: thing is is that Coultree itself, it's not a very
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: the island itself is not really suitable for life for
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: like specific types of crops or life or livestock, and
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: the locals often relied on this. Sorry, sorry, my phone
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: kept geting his just blowing up the notifications right now.
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: I'm like, it's and it's distracting.
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: Anyway.
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: Clear sorry, clear that up. So aside from using from
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: the regular rotation of sorcerers that come in and regulate
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: the weather, these sorcerers also help them with other, uh date,
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: with other day to day necessities. So the sorcerers would
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: help the shepherds of the of the merhorse livestock. Because
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: think about myrhorses is that mrhorses are magical creatures that
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: were created by sorcerers. They are not a naturally occurring
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: species and because of that, they are not naturally fertile
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: and they do not have the ability to pro create
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: on their own act. The only way they could appro
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: create was with magical intervention like they had. Sorcerers had
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: to use special spells to help these horses conceive, and
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: they also needed to use other spells to help them
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: give birth to to their foul Yeah. And then aside
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: from that, the soil on the island isn't exactly the
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: best type of soil for other types of like foreign
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: crops like the apple orchards and other like fruits and
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: and harvests that the island typically produces. They're not native
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: to that island, so the islands like soil is not
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: naturally suited for helping these Are you okay? Yep, okay, sorry,
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: your your camera started to like, uh glitch.
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: Same with yours, but it's fine now okay cool?
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: Anyway, did you anything or like was my.
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: It just did a random skip and then it continued, No,
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: you're fine, random.
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: Lip blipp So the sorcerer would also So sorcerers would
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: have to also come, would also have to use their
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: magic to cast spells on the on the island soil,
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: the crops, even like the underground water sources that they
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: relied on, just to keep everything flow, just to keep
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: everything moving, to keep the crops growing, to keep the
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: the underground reservoir topped up. Yeah, you know, to help
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: to help the Mr. Horse's foul, and you know a
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: few other things. But the thing is is that near
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: the end of the emperor of the pre of the
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: current emperor's reign. Right now, Kila doesn't know if the
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: emperor is still in power or if the revolutionaries had
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: gotten rid of him, but either way, near the end
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: of this of his reign, he had begun pulling back
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: his sorcerers and other magical resources, and he stopped, and
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: he stopped the rotations of sorcerers coming out to regular
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: to help these outer islands with their uh, with their needs.
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: You know, crops, weather, part their livestock everything. So Caultry
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: for the last few years has been have have been
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: struggle busting, all right. Their crops are failing their reservoirs
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: are are drying up there. The mur horse population has
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: dwindled because and Lauren Uh who Lauren Kuila's friendly name,
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: overly friendly neighbor is Uh is the only shepherd in
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: the is the only horse shepherd at the moment, and
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: he's and he Uh later tells Quila that there's that
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: none of his horses have had a foul in years,
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: and their population has gone down by like half. And
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: without the sorcerers, the rotation of sorcerers coming through, they're
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: not He's afraid that eventually their horse population is going
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: to go extinct. So there's a moment like so when
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: Kila arrives back in her home after learning all this,
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: and she goes home with all of her supplies and
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: loses her chicken. She finds Lauren at her house again.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: And Lauren had cleared a path from had cleaned up
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: some of her yard. He had cut down a lot
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: of the vines from her from her house. He even
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: unclogged even unclogged her her chimney because he saw the
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: smoke coming out from her failed attempt to cook this
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: This man is a sweetheart. I'm telling you right now,
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: this man is a sweetheart. And he's just he's whatever.
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: What he's doing is just being a good neighbor, all right,
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: He's not he has no he I just want to
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: put that out there. He's not doing anything wrong. But
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: it does for someone like Kila, who does not really
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: want nosy neighbors getting up in her business, it does
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: put her on edge and it does actually upset her.
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: And when Lauren tries to, like, you know, be more neighborly,
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: help cook around, help clean up some more, and cook
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: around and cook some food for them, she lays it
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: out for him, like, listen, I value my privacy and
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: like we're not really friends, we're neighbors, and I really
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: value my privacy and I can't have you coming around
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: every day and getting up in my business. And this
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: puts off Lauren, like it feels he feels really bad
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: and he leaves and I'm just like you, I was
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: like killing you, march your ass over there, and you
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: apologize to that man, right? But no, But I understand,
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: like she she's also afraid because she has an She
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: technically stole these books from the library, and if the
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: Empire is still around and they find out that she's there,
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: they may not take into consideration that she was just
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: trying to protect those books, all right, And then also
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: on the other hand, she's afraid that if the revolutionaries
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: find her too, like what are what's to say that
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: they're not going to do the same thing exactly, So
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: she's not really she's not sure who she can trust.
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: So she's just trying. She's trying to make sure that
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: she protects her books and make sure that she doesn't
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: get caught. But the problem is is that after buying
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: all those supplies and realizing that she has no idea
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: how to grow a garden or how to really survive
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: on homestead, she realizes she's gonna need to find she's
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: gonna need some form of like some source of income,
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: yeah right, She's gonna need like some kind of cover
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: for herself, make it, integrate herself into the into the
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: island society. And she also comes up with an idea
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: to help the people of the to help the people Coultree, right,
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: because she doesn't know if sorcerers are ever going to
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: come back to help the island, and she doesn't know
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: if like, and she doesn't know if these people are
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: able to would be able to figure it out themselves.
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: So she comes with an idea to help them subtly
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: while uh while maintaining a front and like her own,
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: maintaining a storefront and bringing in some form of income
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: since she does. And she does this by deciding she's
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: going to open a secret spell shop, Coultree's first spell shop.
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: So her idea was this. She found some old cookbooks
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: in her She found an old cookbook in her family's
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: cottage and uh, and she finds several different recipes in there,
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: mainly a recipe for jam, and she decides that she's
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: going to open up a jam She's going to open
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: up a spell shop, but she's going to use uh
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: selling jam as like a front. Like she'll sell jam
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: as the primary uh as like her primary product. So
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: so the like to the public, it's it's a jam shop.
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: She sells jam, raspberry jam, and eventually she wants to
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: like make come up with other recipes of jam.
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: But to but to people that know secretly, yeah.
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: It's a spell shop. And she she consults with Kas
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: and the two of them decide that before they do
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: any before they decide like start doing that and selling
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: her like spell remedies, they want to they need to
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: experiment so the so the begin like shuffling, categorizing, and
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: shuffling through all the spell books they found, and they
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: found some very useful ones, mainly books on plant growth,
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: books on weather, books on like controlling water, and she
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: even finds a book that has recipes for helping horses
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: foul m. So she decides, since she's never actually used magic,
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: she has no formal training in magic aside from just
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: the necessary training that she has when it comes to
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: being a librarian, so research and cataloging, she decides to
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: experiment with some of the spells that she thinks would
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: be more useful as well as not that hard to complete.
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: So the very first spell she experiments with is a
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: plant growth spell. So like, So the thing is the spells,
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: the spells that they're using a component base is a
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: mix of components and magical words. So like, they use
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: an ancient language, and this ancient language an ancient language
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: that when they speak the words, it casts a spell. Right,
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: But in some cases certain spells need to be able
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: to Certain spells need like extra components in order for
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: it to work properly. And she finds that these components
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: can be found around the island easily found around the
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: island or or substituted with another similar ingredient. So she
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: begins her experiments and her one of her first experiments
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: for her plant growth her plant growth remedy results in
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: a cactus growing in her garden.
• 45:19
  Speaker 4: And the thing is is that part one of the
• 45:24
  Speaker 4: components that that this growth remedy needs this plant growth
• 45:27
  Speaker 4: remedy is it needs a gust of wind, like a
• 45:33
  Speaker 4: gust of like easterly wind.
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: And she thought, well, I mean, we can't always rely
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: on like good wind. So she decides to like point
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: herself in like an easter like an eastward direction and
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: blow and she blows on the on the components because
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: basically it's like the she needs a pine cone and
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: a bunch of other like little ingredients, and then she breathes.
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: She blows on the pine cone in like an easterly direction,
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: and then she plants the pine cone to see what happens. Well,
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: the only thing that pops out of the ground is
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: a cactus. And she's like, huh, I guess interesting, I
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: guess we do need like an actual easterly wind. So
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: she tries again, and this time the remedy works when
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: she actually adds like a like she holds up the
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: pine cone with the rest of the ingredients to the
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: winds and the east wind blows on it. She plants
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: and then she buries it in her garden and then
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: suddenly like uh, then she leaves goes back to the
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: to the village to get more supplies. And and also
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: like talk to the baker Brynn, because she decides that well,
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: the one person in this town that would benefit her
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: jam shop the most would be the baker Brind because Brent.
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: Because and she came up with an idea of going
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: into business with Brinn. Uh Kila would make the jam
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: and she can sell and she can uh and she
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: can provide like some of the some of the jam
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: stock to Brinn for a little extra profit like percentage
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: of profit. And then of course she would sell her
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: they would she would sell her own in her shop right,
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: and she already made several test patches of of her jam.
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: So she goes and pitches the idea to Brin. And
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: but when she comes back, she finds that her whole
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: garden has been become overgrown so like all of the
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: seeds that she had planted from raspberry from like raspberries
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: to other vegetables and things like that have all just
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: completely exploded, luckily for her. Luckily for her, it didn't
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: get too out of control, but her the vines growing
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: the raspberries did like extend into the out of her garden,
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: into the forest. So she was like, huh, we might
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: need to adjust the we might need to adjust the
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: formula a little bit more. Yeah, And then kaz comes
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: running up and he's like, look, look what also happens
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: and he points and the little cactus that had grown
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: from her first experiment was moving.
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: It was it's walking around.
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: It's running around.
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: Oh god, just like it's like final fantasy. Oh God, yep.
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: And they're like, huh, well, Caz, I think I figured
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: out how you were brought to life. The thing is, though,
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: I think like the thing is though, the little cactus
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: who they call now call meap because that's the only
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: word that meat can say. Oh so cute meat can
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: understand them. But like, it just goes me.
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: I love that. I'd love Caz.
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: Quickly befriends meet and Meep is now like, will now
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: help Caz well is now throughout the story, we'll be
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: seen helping Kazut with like his chords and so like
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: they're starting to like get like as they're like experimenting
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: with other spells and other remedies, they are starting to
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: like you'll see meat running around with Kaz and it's
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: pretty cute. Quila perfects the remedies. She calls them her
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: remedies because she doesn't want to like outwardly like sell
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: them as like.
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: Oh, spell of course does when get in trouble m.
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: Exactly h She quickly opens her jam shop now that
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: she has plenty of raspberries to use for her jam.
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: The locals, many of the locals are actually are excited
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: because it's something new and like, oh, the jam is
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: really nice. So they begins to She begins to earn
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: a steady income, and she also starts butting heads with
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: one of the local fishermen because he's just a grouchy
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: old fart, like he just doesn't like anything. He will.
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: He dead ass walked into her shop, and she's like,
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: would you like jam? I don't like jam? Then why
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: are you here? Just came to see? Okay, but yeah,
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: he's just like he's just a troublemaker. Lauren comes over
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: later and actually it apologizes, like he tells her that
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: he didn't mean to like step on her toes and
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: invade her privacy, It's just that he He admits that
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: he was excited that she's come back because he As
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: it turns out, Lauren used to spend a lot of
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: time with her family, like they would often let him
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: come over and play. She doesn't really remember him mainly
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: because like even as a child she was, she had
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: her nose buried in a book all the time, So
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: while she vaguely remembered playing with some of the village children,
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: she mostly kept to herself even back then, and Lauren
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: reveals that he he felt he feels like he owed
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: her parents a lot because they gave him a safe
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: haven away from them because his parents were the original
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: owners of the grower of the local grocer, but his
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: parents were abuse his parents mainly his father was abusive
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: and it wasn't a very good It wasn't a good
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: household to live in. But he eventually apprenticed to the
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: previous uh Mr Horse shepherd and he took over the
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: took over as the shepherd of the Mr Horses, So
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: they slowly start to build up a friendship. Like he
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: tries his best not to like impose too much, though
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: she realizes, well, I kind of do need him because
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: he's very handy, and she she convinces him to build
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: her some shelves for her for her jam so because
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: like she made she opens the main room of her
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: house as the jam shop so and uses the shelves
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: to separate the main the main room of the house
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: from the kitchen and uh so he was happy to
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: build it. He was more than happy to build the
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: shelves for her, and he also builds her up some
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: bookshelves because she convinces him. She tells him that she
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: needs some bookshelves for her room because of course of
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: course she uh She also gets a friendly tip for
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: one of the locals because some of the locals in
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: the in the village, they because of their body shape,
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: mainly the big centaur, they can't necessarily fit into the
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: more human sized houses and while they want to be
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: able to enjoy her shop and shop there from time
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: to time, it would be nice if there was some
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: way to accommodate them so she can. She also had
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: convinced him to help her build like a counter outside
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: of her shop so that way she could set up
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: some of her jams that way, you know, the more
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: like physically challenged locals will be able to enjoy her
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: shop too.
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: That's so cute.
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and Kiera is beginning to open up more like
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: she's opening up more to Lauren, and Lauren actually like
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: introduces her to his murrhorse herd, and there was one
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: particular Mr Horse it's like a golden scale horse who
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: is very friendly and also for some reason, loves tomatoes.
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: She like, Quila brings some tomatoes as sort of like
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: a thing as a thank you to to Lauren already
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: forgetting his name. Mhm, I was able to say, Karen, No,
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: it's Lauren, Karen, and uh, he actually like shows her
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: some of the stuff, some of the ways he takes
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: care of the of the Murr horses, even lets her
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: ride one of the Murr horses, which she realizes she
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: thoroughly enjoys. And uh it's also this was like the
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: point where he reveals to her that his that is
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: heard is a lot smaller than it used to be
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: and that the horse is han't fouled in years and
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: that's because of the lack of sorcerers. So now Kila,
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: having perfected her growth remedy, she had already begun selling
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: her magical her growth remedies to some of the locals.
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: Her first customer was the centaur the center. She had
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: pitched the idea to the centaur like she had like
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: made friends with the centaur, and the centaur told her that, well,
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: my grandfather grew. I have this cherry tree that used
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: to grow and produce a wide harvest of cherries every year.
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: But since the sorcerer stopped, the cherry tree can't grow
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: anymore because it's not suitable for the island. It can't
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: survive on the island. So Kila cautiously pitches one of
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: her remedies. She gives she made the basically, she slathered
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: the mixture onto the pine cone, wrapped it in some
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: and some linen, and she's and she says, here, just
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: take this, and just take this and bury this into
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: the bury this into the like at the base of
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: the tree, and just wait and your tree should start
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: blooming again. And the centauri takes it and it works,
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: and she comes back and she immediately starts telling others,
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: and she, of course she told others of the growth
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: of the growth of the growth remedies, and several other
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: villagers come and make purchases. The thing is though, as
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: it turned out, the island is also home to a
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: type of like forest spirits. So when they appear, they
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: look like they look like bears, like misty bears with
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: glowing eyes. And because they realize that she's using magic
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: to help the trees around the island. Because when Kila
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: was experimenting with the remedies, she actually experiments on some
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: of the apple orchards, and well, unfortunately, when because these
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: were the early experiments, some of them don't go the
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: way she was expecting, like some of them don't really
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: grow or do anything. But one causes one of her
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: experiments causes one of the apple orchard trees to turn
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: into a bird, not a big bird, but it like
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: a very colorful apple orchard color scheme like red white.
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: And because like you know, like there's this there's a
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: specific type of apple tree that grows these white petals,
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: so those are the kind of apple trees. And and
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: one of the trees she experimented on all started bursting
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: into song, so there's currently a singing apple tree.
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: Interesting, so this tree spirits.
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: Around the island all realize that, hey, someone is using
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: magic to heal the trees again. So they all come
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: to her and they all bring her like little gifts,
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: and she convinces them like, if you can bring me
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: the ingredients for my remedies, I can give you all.
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: I can help you all. They lead her to their trees. Yeah,
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: they all had lead her to the to like a
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: bunch of their trees around the island and she uses
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: like up her she had made like a big batch
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: of her remedies and she ends up using all of
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: them to heal the trees around the islands. And when
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: she comes back, she's like, I'm gonna need more. I'm
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: gonna have to make more because more customers are coming
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: for them.
• 57:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: She also experiments with remedy with spells to like began
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: helping like the water reservoirs. One of her first experiments
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: is on a fountain in the center of the village
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: which comes back to life and the thing is unfortunately,
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: another person has come to the island as well. So
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: while she was spending time with Lauren at the when
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: she wants to go visit Lauren at his at his farm,
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: a storm rolls in. Unfortunately for Coultree, the storms that
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: roll in are very chaotic and they're super charged with magic,
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: so they can be very dangerous to be caught in.
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: So unfortunately for k for Kila, while she was visiting
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: the while she was visiting the shop the village and
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: tried to make it back to her shop, she gets
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: caught in the storm. So she has to run to
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: the closest shelter, which is Lauren's cottage. Lauren lets her
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: in and they and helps her dry up, get herself dry,
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: gives her some dry clothes, and while they are waiting
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: out the storm, Lauren Lauren likes to like keep like
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: a little like shutter open just so he can just
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: keep an eye out on things out side of the storm.
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: And he noticed that there was a boat that got
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: caught in the storm, but it wasn't about that belonged
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: to any of the fishermen. So Lauren quickly runs out
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: and tries to and tries to rescue whoever was on
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: the boat. And he manages to rescue some woman who's
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: later who later tells them that her name is Redaine,
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: now Redine because she was caught in the corn in
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: the corn storm, she was and she was in bad condition.
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: She was water logged and running a fever. So after
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: the storm ends, Lauren sends Kila to the village healer.
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: The village Healer, Now, I'm not even sure what this
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: guy is because he's kind of he's kind of like
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: brand with this satyr like like physical body, like he
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: has these brothers, he has these huge antlers and for
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: the most part he looks human, but he has a
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: tail and he also has a massive pair of wings.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: Kuila calls him to go help Redaine, and she goes
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: back to her shop just to make sure everything was okay,
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: because she didn't because since she couldn't make it back
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: to the shop, she wasn't able to lock it down
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: for the storm. But Kasin Meat had managed to had
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: managed to just find on their own but before But
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: the thing is, when she got there she realized she
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: finds that she has a unusual guess a murrwoman, a mermaid.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: So earlier in the book, Kila, when Kila was visiting,
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: had gone down to the docks to see her to
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: get her books from the boat. To transport her books
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: up from the boat, she had seen a mermaid in
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: the cove and the mermaid had been playing with her child,
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: a little merbaby or a little child. The problem is
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: is that so usually when murmaid when sea creatures like
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: mermaids and the murr horses get caught in the storm,
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: what they would do whenever there's a like a chaotic
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: spell storm going on, they would just dive into deeper
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: waters to protect themselves. Well, unfortunately, the little murder child
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: didn't dive deep enough and it got caught in the storm.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: And the thing is is that there are wild surges
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: of magic that happened throughout the storm, and one of
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: these stur surges that struck the baby, and the baby
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: was now suffering from like some sort of like storm sickness.
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: And the thing is is that because its body had
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: been charged with like magic, with magic, it couldn't go
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: into the water because the water was making it worse.
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: So the mermaid had to take it out of the
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: water and she dragged it, she dragged herself up to
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: the cottage because she'd learned because she she also had
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: learned that that Kila was using magic to heal the island.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: So Kila and kas immediately jump into action. They pull
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: up the catalog of books and find one that possibly
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: has special healing remedies to especially remedies that would cure
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: like storm sickness. So Kila uses the remedy on the
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: little or the murchild and the murchild and it heals
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: the murchild, clears its body of the of the storm sickness,
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: and the mermaid was able to take take him back
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: to the water. Later on, though, Kila learns that one
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: of the Murr horses on Lawrence Farm in Lawrence Herd
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: also developed storm sickness. Is when Lauren ran out to
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: rescue Redained from her ship during the storm. The horse
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: that he the horse that he called to help him,
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: also got struck with some magic from the storm, and
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: it too was beginning to get sick. So Lauren, excuse me.
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: So Lauren tells Quila about it, and Quila realizing like, okay,
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: we can do this. I already know how to do this,
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: she uses the same remedy that she used on the
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: on the muchild. And the thing is Redane was right
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: there and not wanting to like let on that she's
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: using magic because she wasn't sure if Dane was like
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: an imperial or just another like wayward traveler like her.
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: She subtly uses this the remedy on the Mrhorse and
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: heals her. The thing is, though, later on, when they're
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: all in the village, the villagers are celebrating because the
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: fountain which she had used one of her spells on,
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: had come back to life, and Dane recognized it as magic,
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: and she stepped forward and revealed herself to be an
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: imperial inquisitor. Uh oh, and she and she demands that
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: the villagers tell her who casts a spell because this
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: is illegal magic. And the thing is, none of the
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: villagers know who who was casting the spells and the magic.
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: Bryn and a few other of the ladies that frequent
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: the bake the bakery, they all they all know it's
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: it's Quila, but they immediately, like they immediately made it
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: clear that, oh, they're not going to give her up ship. Yeah.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: Because the thing is is that when Kila was beginning
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: to like make more of her remedies for like the
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: plant growth, she let her seat, she let them in
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: on her secret, and they also started helping her with
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: making the remedies.
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: So they basically all formed a little coven for themselves,
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: a little island coven. So they're not they're not giving out,
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: like they didn't want to give Kila's identity away, but
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: Redine is basically like throwing around this like weight of
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: her authority and trying to get the villagers to give
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: up who was casting the magic.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and Dane.
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: Like, the thing is, Redaine interrogates that that same old
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: man that was giving Kila some trouble at her shop
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: a few days before, and he point immediately points fingers
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: at Quila because he's like, these have been acting strange
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: ever since she got here, all right, ever since she's
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: got here. The bakery selling jam, her cherry trees growing cherries.
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: There's an apple tree singing in the orchard. Yeah, pretty much.
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: Dane runs up to Kila's cottage. The thing is, though
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: Kila had managed to like beat Daine there and with
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: Lawrence help, they had hid the they hid the books
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: in her They managed to hide all the books in
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: uh away. But Dane stills. Thing is, Redane still somehow
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: figured out where that they were hiding spell books and
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: had tried to break into lawrence cottage where they had
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: hit them. Because the thing is that what they did
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: was they got they loaded all the books back onto
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: Kila's boat, and they there was like a little hidden
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: cove that they could hide it in, so they selled
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: the cove around. They selled the boat around into the
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: hidden cove and hit and hit the boat with the
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: books there. Now, Unfortunately, Redine somehow figured out that's where
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: they were, and she tracked down the boat, and she
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: tried threatening Dane and Kaz for the to give her
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: the books, right, but she ends up sucking up and
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: let's see here, let me get the full details. Oh yeah,
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: so like Ridane like tried to steal the books, but
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: Kaz and Meet ended up getting the outsmarting her and
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: restrains her. And Dane reveals that she's not actually an investigator,
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: She's not an imperial inquisitor. She is actually the she's
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: the heiress to the throne of the Empire.
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 2: Well fuck yeah, so here's the thing she is.
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: Actually she was actually like in terms of like in
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: the line of succession, she was like the thirtieth in line.
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: She was so far removed from the royal family that
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: she did not really have a connection with the emperor
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: like her family was they were nobility, and she herself
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: was was studying to be a storm caller, like work
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: like a wind caller. They would you know, they're the
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: type of sorcerers that would sail on imperial boats to
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: help give the boats like favorable wins, like conjure favorable winds,
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 1: and also to like steady the weather. Yeah, but the
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: thing is, after the revolution, she reveals that the revolution
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: was successful and the emperor had been deposed. But now
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: the new government, which is still like dealing with the
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: aftermath and the chaos of overthrowing the empire, they had
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: begun to hunt down any person that may have that
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: may have some sort of connection to the emperor. So
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: any person who's in line for the throne, they are
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: hunting them down and killing them, arresting and executing them.
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: And the thing is, she learns that she was next
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: in line. After they pretty much hunted down all of
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: her other cousins, she learned that they that she was
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: basically next in line. So instead of staying and allowing
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: the revolutionaries to like arrest and execute her, she decides
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: to say, fuck that, I'm out of here. She gives up,
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: She leaves behind her Like she was a pretty she
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: lived a pretty privileged life, and she was also in line,
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: and she was also studying to be a wind caller
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: or a wind speaker, and decides to just run. Yeah,
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: and that's how she ended up on Cultree because culture
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: is as far is probably as far as you can get.
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: But uh so cute. But you know, she didn't exactly
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: hide herself very well, and now she's kind of put
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: herself in a odd position with the islanders.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 3: UH.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: Cuila decides to forgive her and UH an officer offers
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: her an opportunity to just start her life over. Yeah,
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: you know, since she's a win speaker, she can she's
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: trained in magic, so she decides to include her in
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: her little island Cobin and try and learn some more
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: things about UH magic. Mainly, she wants us try learning
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: how to use wind speaking because there's this specific spell
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: that Kila has been wanting to experiment with in order
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: to regulate the weather and stop these spell storms from
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: coming through. But the problem is is that this spell
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: needs a full choir of people, like at least five
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: five sorcerers to cast a spell in Unison in order
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: to in order to stop the weather.
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 5: Yeah, but that's the time, but Quila decides to wait
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 5: hold that off until later.
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: She helps Radine reinvent herself and Brent actually gives Redain
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: a job at the bakery, and towards the end, the
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: two of them actually start a relationship. Oh yeah, a
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: little Yeah. So the thing is herd This doesn't last
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: very long because, as it turns out, Redaine was being
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: pursued by uh, was actually being pursued by an imperial vessel.
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 2: Oh dear.
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: And the thing is the Royal fleet. So the Royal
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: Fleet fleet arrives in and Coultree, the Kira and Brand
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: have to quickly hide Redain as best as they can,
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: and so that way the royal officers, Captain Verrick and
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: his men don't suspect that she's there. The problem is, though,
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: that same old man is causing trouble again. And the
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: thing is is that he knew that they give the
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: villagers had brought Redain back in and he starts and
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: he starts spilling the beans. He's like, he starts building
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: the beans. He's like, oh, no, she was here. She
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: was here, the girl you're looking for, because the Royal
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: Fleet was looking for Redaine. Yeah, they were on orders
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 1: to track her down and find her. Yeah, all right,
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: and bring her back to the capital. But uh, the
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: thing is Veric, as our Captain Verrick, he actually knew Redained,
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 1: knew Redained from from before. In fact, they used to
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: be engaged to uh engaged to marry, but the two
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: of them it was for them, it was an arranged marriage,
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: and the two of them didn't really like click together,
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: so they had ended their their engagement. So while it
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: was mutual like still it's it's somewhat personal for them.
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: And uh Vrek doesn't really want to hurt Redain. He's
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: just but he's gonna follow orders and do his job
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: to bring her back to the capital. Pila and the
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: others managed to hide Redain successfully and but because of
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: that old man's accusations, Varrek is forced to search the
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: the rest of the islands, and he ends up searching
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: Kila's cottage. But Kila manages to do a good job
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: of hiding everybody, in fact, hiding like both her spell
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: books and also hiding Redain. Because the way she hides
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 1: Redaine is could she asks these forest spirits, the tree spirits,
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: to hide her, Yeah, because she remembered because she had
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: read a she had read that the that in his
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: throughout history, the forest spirits have caused mischief before, like
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: if you if you upset one, people have been known
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 1: to vanish without a trace, and in some cases they
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 1: do return, but they're just like, I have no idea
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: what happened. I just like they had no idea what happened.
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: So she, uh, she called the tree spirits and asked
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 1: them that they could hide Redain for her, and the
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: tree spirits were like the while they couldn't speak, they agreed,
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: and they basically what they did was they enveloped Redain
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 1: in their mists and then just vanished. So when Varic
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: and his officers search the area, they don't find her,
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: and they don't find anything suspicious, and Kila speaks to
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 1: Veric and convinces him that even like she was like,
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 1: she was like, well, I'm not saying that she was here,
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 1: but even if she was, do you really think she's
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: a threat? I mean, even if she was here, like like,
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 1: they do admit that a woman of her description did
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: come to the island, but they claim that she left.
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 2: M I mean, technically they're not lying.
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah they weren't. Technically they weren't lying, but they realized.
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 1: But she's like, well, you know, I'm not saying she was,
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: not saying she's still here, but I mean she really
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: that much of a threat. I mean, she just when
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 1: she came here, she did tell me that she wanted
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: a new She just wanted to start a new life.
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 1: She has no interest in being empress or like laying
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 1: claim to the to the throne, to the old throne,
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 1: all right, she doesn't want any of that. She just
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 1: wants to live her life. And like her subtle like her,
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 1: like just her subtlety was enough to convince Veric that no,
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 1: there's not She's well, she's not here. We don't have
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 1: to keep bothering you people. And the thing is is
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: that that old man that was causing problems was like
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 1: Verrick had made an offer that if someone reveals like
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: reveals Radaine like brings Dane Ford, you'll be like given
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 1: like a huge reward and you'll be taken back to
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 1: the capital too, to uh for like a chance of
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 1: a new life and like and also like all the
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 1: other riches and shit. And the old man thinking that
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 1: he had actually given up her. Dane had already packed
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 1: his stuff and was ready to leave. But when he
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: saw that nobody that Dane wasn't with them, he's like,
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: this isn't very These people are hiding her blah, blah blah,
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 1: and they're all like, you're just a crazy, like bitter
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: old man who just causes nothing but trouble, period. And uh,
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 1: like they convinced Vereric to take the old man with
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 1: anyway because they are one. They they invoke a they
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 1: invoke a special law that basically states that that Royal
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 1: vessel is required is required to offer like safe passage
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 1: for certain people, especially if they fear reprisal, you know.
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 1: And since the old man had been causing a lot
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 1: of problems, there's a good causing a lot of problems,
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 1: and like levy false accusations at this point, I mean,
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 1: they're not kind of they're not really false, but in
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 1: this case, yeah, they were, Uh there's a chance he's
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 1: there's a chance that he would face reprisal from the community.
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 1: So Virek was like, Okay, we'll take them, but you're not.
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 1: But this isn't a luxury vote. So you're gonna We're
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 1: gonna put your ass to work, damn.
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 1: So they leave, Ordaine is brought back out of hiding,
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 1: and everyone is now ready is now able to start
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: going back to their normal lives. And since Tila and
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 1: her new covenant begun working more on spellcraft. They finally
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 1: work together to come up with a way for the
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: UH for the Mr Horses to begin fouling again, and
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 1: Kila uses this, uses her remedies on her remedies for
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 1: the for the horses, and that's when she and Lauren
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 1: began to their relationships begin. Their relationship together begins, too,
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: begins to kindle. It's not like other romance stories where
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 1: like oh, by the end, oh, like halfway through the story,
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 1: they're like in each other's arms, they're making out, they're
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 1: having like this is definitely more of a slow kindle,
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 1: like Kilan is taking it. Kila is taking it slow,
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 1: all right. And when Dane showed up, Kilan had begun
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 1: to start feeling like like a sense of like I
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: don't want to say jealousy, but like this unfairness because
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 1: she starts thinking that Lauren is giving his attention to
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 1: this other woman, and she starts wondering, like, am I
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 1: the problem? Do I just push people away?
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 6: Like?
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: But Lauren really steps up and helps and he does
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 1: a lot to help Quila, especially when he helps her
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 1: hide the books. He also uh he also uses his
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 1: horses to help remove any evidence like uh, he actually
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 1: moved Kila's boat from the from the Hidden Cove because
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 1: the the book, the boat there was uh at was
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 1: would have been enough evidence to like, uh, what's the
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 1: word in diet uh or convict Quila of being from
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 1: the capitol because like she admits she was, she had
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 1: come from the capitol, but she had not told the
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 1: the soldiers that she had taken books from the library
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 1: to hide them.
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 2: Ah, are you telling like indictment or you're trying to like, yeah,
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 2: they're trying to like, oh, you're in hiding somewhere else
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 2: or taking you back to where you're from and we're
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 2: going to prosecute you.
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 1: D Yeah, would have been enough to indict her. And
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 1: but he helped. He helped hide the evidence. Lauren helped
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 1: hide the evidence, and uh, she starts realizing that she
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 1: does she is having she does have feelings for him,
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 1: and like things begin to between the two of them
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 1: begin to become more serious, especially after she helps use
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 1: the remedies on the Murr horses so they can begin fouling.
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 1: And the book ends with a little bit of a
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 1: time skit because it like a few months after everything happens,
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 1: most of his heard is now pregnant with foul and
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 1: she actually helps them give birth because the thing about
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 1: the Mr Horses is that you need a spell in
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 1: order for them to be to be able to conceive,
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 1: and then you need a spell in order to help
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 1: in order for them to be able to give birth.
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 1: So having horses is like a full time job. And
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 1: the only way for them to breed is with magic. Yeah,
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 1: breed and give birth is with magic. And by this point,
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 1: Lauren and Kila have started their relationship together. They're taking
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 1: it slow and it you know, they actually are showing
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: that they care for each other. And they're still living
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 1: like they're still living in their own homes, but they
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 1: spend more and more time with each other every day.
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: And Kila's little shop is taken off. Her remedies are
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 1: becoming have expanded, and she's also added a few more
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 1: recipes of a few more jam recipes too, because it's
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 1: still a front she still has. The jam Shop is
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 1: still a front for the spell Shop, and which is
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 1: so this story is really cute because it's showing that
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 1: like it's the start of a new form of like
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 1: kind of like it's the start of the return of
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 1: hedge magic, like people are now it's showing that like
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 1: she's bringing back magic for every day use, and what
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 1: are you doing with your cat?
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 3: I'm looking.
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 2: I'm looking at her tail because she she has a
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 2: bald spot on her tail because she's been ripping out
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 2: her hair, and I'm trying to look at it to
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 2: make sure that it's like, no, like she hasn't ripped
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 2: skin or anything like that, because she has a lot
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 2: of randomly, she's been getting a lot of like you know,
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 2: pulling out her hair on her tail, or she has
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 2: like scabs around her neck. But I think that's more
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 2: so for the fact of because the color is really
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 2: loose on her now since she lost some weight. But
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 2: I think she's rubbing up against stuff, certain stuff or
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 2: or I guess sharper stuff or whatnot, and she's like
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 2: scratching her neck. So I'm just trying to keep it
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 2: eye on her because of course I think she's stressed
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 2: because I don't feed her as much anymore, or we
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 2: try to contray her feeding, so she's probably We figure
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 2: she's probably stressing, so that's why she's pulling her hair
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 2: out on her tail, and.
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: We're like, like, I can't be a chalk.
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 2: Anymore, even though I even though I feed her like
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 2: every every couple hours, I feed her a little a
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 2: little bit, and she basically gets the same amount, but
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 2: it's just not all at once because she ends up
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 2: throwing up. And we're trying to get her to lose
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 2: some weight, and she's already lost some weight. She's lost
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 2: like I think she's like eleven pounds, but originally she
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 2: was like fifteen or sixteen pounds. She lost some weight,
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 2: but I think we're stressing her out. And I'm just like, girl,
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 2: you can't be you can't be overweight like that. We've
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 2: got to control You're eating a little bit, baby, and
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 2: you're throwing up everywhere. We've eat too much, honey. She'll eat,
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 2: she'll swallow it and then a few second a few
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 2: minutes later, yeah, projectile. And I'm like, baby, you're eating
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 2: too quickly. You're he can't digest it like that speedy,
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 2: honey mama. And she's complaining because she's just she's just
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 2: complaining now I hear him, y allen.
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Anyway, Well, in any case, I'm sorry about that.
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 1: But going back to the story, I kind of got
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 1: out a little ahead of myself. So after so going
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 1: back before, so just going back a bit, uh when
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 1: when Captain Verrick and his crew leave, there are another
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 1: spell storm sweeps in and the problem is is that
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 1: like the villagers had tried to warn Barrick that the
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 1: storm was coming, but he was like, yeah, we're fine,
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 1: like his crew. Like, the thing is is that because
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 1: a lot this the Royal Fleet tends to stay closer
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 1: to the center islands, and when they're in the center islands,
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 1: they have plenty of windss to like cast spells to
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 1: regulate the weather. But here in the outer islands, they
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 1: we don't have they don't have that there. So they're
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 1: like we'll be fine, Like, well, that doesn't get that bad,
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 1: and they leave and then there's really hardcore spell storm
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 1: sweeps in and their ship almost gets completely drowned. But
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 1: Quila manages to rally rally her coven together like she
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 1: was taking shelter in her She and Lauren were taking
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 1: shelter in there in the cottage. But when she sees
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 1: the storm sweep in, they realize, oh, they're gonna they're
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 1: gonna die. So they run down to the bake bake
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 1: shop and tell Brenda, gather the other uh, the other
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 1: members of her of their little coven, including Redaine and Uh.
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 1: After doing some quick practice uh Kira Quila leads them
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 1: all in a new in the spell that she wanted
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 1: to use to to help regulate the weather. They managed
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 1: to do it successfully and the storm ends. In fact,
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 1: it completely like it completely neutralizes the magic in the
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 1: atmosphere to like bring it back to normal conditions. Now,
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 1: of course, like if things like this happen again, they'll
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 1: probably have to use that kind of magic again. But
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 1: they saved the vote. They saved the vote, and Virek realized.
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 1: Verk ends up coming back to the island to determine
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 1: who casts the spell because he's still somewhat operating under
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 1: the old laws of the Empire or like no un
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 1: no unregulated magic like unlicensed magic, right, But Kila convinces
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 1: him that it's not necessary. She tells him a lot.
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 1: She's like, well, I don't know casts a spell. I mean,
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 1: that's kind of weird, but I mean things are different.
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 1: The empire is gone, the Emperor is gone, okay, and
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 1: we people out here don't have what you have. We
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 1: don't have sorcerers who can regulate the weather for us,
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 1: all right. The Emperor took that all away from us,
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 1: so we have to. So I don't know who did it.
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 1: I don't know who did it, but we have no
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 1: choice but to do it. And Rek is like, you
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 1: know what, I don't care. I don't care about like,
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 1: you know what, don't matter, not my problem. It's not
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 1: my problem anymore. You got the emperor is gone. The
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 1: new government is still setting itself up, and most likely
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 1: they're going to get rid of those old laws. So
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 1: and you guys aren't like you ended. You saved whoever
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 1: did it. They saved our lives.
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 2: So m bye, bit bye.
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 1: So it's after this that it's after this that like
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 1: they start going on with their lives. Uh, Quila, Quila
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 1: and Lawrence spend more time with each other. Their relationship
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 1: begins to grow. And Quila and then of course Kila
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 1: helps Lauren with helps Lauren's horses uh to conceive using
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 1: her magic, and later she comes back, like months later,
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 1: she comes back and helps them with the fouling process.
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 1: And it's around this time, like they've spent like weeks,
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 1: they've spent like several months together by this point, and
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 1: the relationship has grown very strong, and uh it's at
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 1: that point that uh Lauren asks Kila to marry him. Yeah,
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 1: and that's where the story ends. Now there's, of course
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 1: there's some details I didn't really go into, uh there,
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 1: because of course, you know, I can't go into all
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 1: the details. You guys got to read the book, all right.
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 1: So I definitely would say this is this is a
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 1: good read. It's a cozy read, all right, if you
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 1: want it, if you want to take a break from
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 1: like just like the like the normal like you know,
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 1: smutty or like violent or action packed type of novels,
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 1: because that's what I read a lot of those. I
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 1: read a lot of a lot of like action packs
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 1: books or books with a lot of fantasy vibes that
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 1: tend to be more serious. But this one it's cozy.
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 1: It's not very serious. It's very PG all right. It's
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 1: like I wouldn't say it's like Disney, if Disney was
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 1: a book, but all right, it's like if D and
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 1: D did. It's like D and D. But if D
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 1: and D was like a lo fi on like a
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 1: low fi little setting.
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 2: Mixed lo fi D and D and Animal crossing. M
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 2: h the vibes of Amil crossing just playing a plot
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 2: and stir it mm hmm.
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 1: Because you sut like starting the pot, don't you Well,
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 1: I sure do.
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 2: M nam Bolina shut up.
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 1: Anyway, guys, that was The spell Shop. Uh, if you
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 1: definitely definitely check it out. I enjoyed it. This is
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 1: like the first in a series like, uh, this is
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 1: definitely it's more of like many romances. It's a it's
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 1: an anthology series. So uh. There. There's one other book
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 1: in this series called The Enchance in Greenhouse. I have
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 1: not read that one yet, but from what I know,
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 1: it's actually going to be telling. It's going to be
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 1: from the perspective of Kaz's creator. So the so the
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 1: librarian that cast a spell that brought Cas to life. Uh,
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 1: it's actually going to be centered around her.
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 2: Oh that's going about to talk about someday in the future,
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 2: in the future.
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 1: I haven't read it yet because I have a huge
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 1: I have a huge list of books to read, Like
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 1: I managed to like kill like the reading lists and
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 1: the books that I bought last year in the year before,
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 1: and then Christmas and my birthday.
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 6: Came along and I got more books, and I also
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 6: like decided I wanted to start a new book series,
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 6: start reading a new book series that I felt I
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 6: bought the first book last year.
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 1: It's called Bewarded Man by Peter Uh by Peter Brett.
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 3: It's the first book.
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 1: In the Demon Cycle, and I realized, like, hey, this
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 1: book is lit, so I'm gonna read this now. And
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 1: at the same time, I'm trying to read The Court
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 1: of Thorns and uh a Court of Thorns and Roses
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 1: because a friend of mine Yeah, yeah, yeah, a friend
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 1: of ours was bugging both of us to read it
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 1: because it's it's currently their favorite book. And I was like, okay, fine,
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 1: I'll read it. Like I was like, yeah, it's on
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 1: my list, but i'll read it eventually. And then she
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 1: and several other friends present company included bought me the
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 1: first three books in that series, and I was like, okay, fine,
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 1: i'll read it.
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 2: Well, we'll talk about that at some point this year too,
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 2: because I'm gonna listen to the audiobook of that, but
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 2: that's I'll be further down the line of this year
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 2: probably most likes.
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, right now, I'm trying to finish the first book
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 1: and then I'll get around to like the next the
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 1: other two books, but I want to, like, I want
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 1: to start finishing the demon Cycle because demon Cycle it's
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 1: already a completed series.
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 1: And also the like if you get the softcover books,
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 1: if you put if you line them all together, the
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 1: spine of the books have like a decal on them.
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 1: If you have the books to each other, they create
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 1: a bigger image. So that's what caught my attention the
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 1: first time because I was in Barnes and Noble was
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 1: looking through their uh, their their fantasy section, and I
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 1: see all the books together and I see like these
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 1: rows of like demons on the spine, and I was like,
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 1: what is this? And I pull up the first book
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 1: and I'm like The Warded Man what I'm reading? And
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 1: I'm like, this is interesting. I'm want to read this.
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 2: How many books are in it?
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 1: There's currently five? Let me look five. I think it's
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 1: completed on I have all my book listen, I have
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 1: all my Amazon lists. Now there are five books in
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 1: the series work and I let me see this is
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 1: the yeah, book five of five. There's only five in
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 1: the series, so it is completed. It is a completed series.
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 1: The first book is called The worded Man. The next one,
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 1: when I'm planning on reading after I finish Akatar is
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 1: The Desert Spear and then there's the Daylight War, the
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 1: Skull Throne, and then the and then the Core. Yeah,
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 1: I'm really excited to read this series because I started
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 1: reading it and it's an interesting take on like demons
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 1: because they're not like demons associated with like Hell or
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 1: like the underworld. They're not like yokai or like they're
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 1: definitely like inspired by like Western demons, but they're like
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 1: they're more like I would say, there's something like a fungus.
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 1: They kind of remind me of that because like there's
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 1: different demons and they're different. Ah, there's different demon types
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 1: of demons, like there's rock demons, there's wood demons, sand demons,
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 1: like wind demons, fire demons. And the thing is is
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 1: that every night they rise up from someplace called the Core,
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 1: and so throughout the night they attack any live they
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 1: attack any living thing. They mainly it's notack humans, and
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 1: humans had to learn how to defend themselves by using
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 1: these special kind of magical wards. So they paint these
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 1: wards around their settlements and on their and on their houses,
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 1: and the wards keep the demons from being able to
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 1: enter their houses. The problem is is that sometimes wards
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 1: fail because either the paint that they were used to
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 1: that was used to create them chips or they draw
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 1: it in like chalk or char or graphite, and like
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 1: someone accidentally like steps on them, or if you even
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 1: cover them, then it'll break the protection and the demons
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 1: will come in and like get you. So I was
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 1: just like, oh, this is brutal.
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 2: It sounds like demons mix with elementals.
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And I feel like there's a bit of a
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 1: Fay aspect to them because like the the idea of
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 1: a core, because like they come from a place called
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 1: the Core, and as far as like everyone's concerned, the
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 1: core is like down like somewhere underground. Because when the
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 1: demons come up every night, they rise up out of
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 1: the earth and like a like an ethereal mist before
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 1: solidifying into their physical form.
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 2: Interesting.
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 1: So I was reading and I'm like, huh, the thing
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 1: is people don't know how to fight demons because demons
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 1: are immortal, and I mean it's possible, it's possible to
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 1: kill them, it's very difficult because their skin is very tough,
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 1: so regular weapons don't really hurt them. But there were
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 1: low but there they have like, uh, there's like a
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 1: myth that in ancient times humans used to be able
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 1: to fight them using like special special wards that allow
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 1: them to kill demons, but those wards have been lost,
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 1: and there was like a time period where like a
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 1: solid three thousand years where humanity, like like the they
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 1: thought that they defeated demon kind because demons stopped coming
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 1: out every night and humans were able to advance, and
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 1: they forgot how to use the wards because like, okay,
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 1: well there's no demons to use the wards on. So
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 1: they lost their knowledge of like the of the attack
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 1: wards and even some of the defense the defense of lores,
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 1: the defensive wards, and there was an age where like
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 1: there it came an age of science. Then the demons
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 1: came back, and well their science wasn't enough to defeat
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 1: the demons, so like society collapsed and having and doing
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 1: their best, and everyone was like doing their best to
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 1: try to find a way to like defend themselves, and
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 1: scholars like looked into like ancient myths about the demons
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 1: and was like, huh, we got these words. So they
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 1: started using the words again, and they're like, all right, cool,
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 1: the words can can stop the demons, but they didn't
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 1: have they didn't have access to the to the attack words.
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 1: It's all they can do is just just put up
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 1: barriers every night to keep the demons out. So it's
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 1: an interesting It was interesting reading it. I was like, huh,
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 1: this is lit it. But if I'm gonna read the
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 1: whole I'm gonna go ahead and read the whole series
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 1: because right now I'm I'm like waiting for the next
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 1: not for the next book and the Dungeon Crawler series
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 1: to come out, and that's not coming out on until May. Yeah,
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 1: the rate of horribles. And also I got a Gatar
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 1: to read.
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I had like.
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 1: A whole line of books on my shelf over here
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 1: now that I got to read, Like, I already read
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 1: some of the graphic novels I've gotten. I've read the
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 1: horror finally.
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 2: Mm hmmm.
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 1: I'm believe on the Red Rising series because I got
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 1: the first, but I'm just like, well, I found a series,
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 1: another series that I want to finish read first.
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 2: I need to tackle this monster ghost Michelle one two
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 2: and three or one one one point two and no
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 2: sorry one one and a half and then two because
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 2: future episode we're doing, I'm doing a two part episode
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 2: where I'm going to be talking about the manga the
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 2: og of Ghost Michelle and its two sequels, and then
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 2: another episode talking about the animated movie and the live
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 2: action movie and comparing it an old school episode and
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 2: literally Book Watchers old school episode style episode where we
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 2: where where one of us talks about book and then
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 2: we talk about the actual film material that goes along
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 2: with it. So we're gonna get a traditional episode here soon.
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 1: We're actually well, we're actually going to get a traditional
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 1: episode with the next episode because after today we finished.
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 1: So today we finished the The spell Shop. The next
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 1: episode we are going to be talking about H. G.
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 1: Wells the War of the Worlds.
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 2: Yes, that is true. That is true too.
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 1: So until bank, guys, we'll go ahead and leave that here.
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 1: If you want to read The spell Shop, you can
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  Speaker 1: get any bookstore. It's currently it's a very popular pick
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  Speaker 1: at Barnes and Noble, and you can of course get
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  Speaker 1: off of any places that you typically get books from Amazon,
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  Speaker 1: like your local bookstore, the library.
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  Speaker 2: Always Amazon, I mean, we love Amazon. I get books
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  Speaker 2: from Amazon. But if you can get your book, if
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  Speaker 2: you can get a book from a local bookstore or
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  Speaker 2: a Barnes and Noble, that's the only books. So you
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  Speaker 2: have get it from the source because Barnes and Nobles.
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  Speaker 2: That's the last big bookstore chain saw out of the
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  Speaker 2: smaller bookstores. If you've got a small bookstore, support your
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  Speaker 2: small books or local bookstore. Millions around not down here.
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  Speaker 1: There's one in Houston.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's one certain parts of the country, like if
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  Speaker 2: you go like North Texas or in Houston, they have them,
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  Speaker 2: but like around but around, they're not spread out throughout
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  Speaker 2: the country anymore, I don't think.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Unfortunately, Yes, they had some good manga back in the day. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: I love the one that the mall, one of the
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  Speaker 2: malls here in town. I used to go there all
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  Speaker 2: the time. And then it died, and then Borders died,
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  Speaker 2: and I was like I'm crying inside.
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  Speaker 1: And then Barnes and Noble Borders and then like Books
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  Speaker 1: a Million others what they had Books a million here
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  Speaker 1: in town and then they closed it. I think like
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  Speaker 1: the Books a Million was like right there where the
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  Speaker 1: It was right next to the best.
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  Speaker 2: Buy, it was right next to the one one sixteen
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  Speaker 2: oh four in Culebra. It was right down the road
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  Speaker 2: from the Target. It was right pass like a few
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  Speaker 2: stores down.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then those books then that place closed, and
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  Speaker 1: then like Barnes and Noble has been around, Like this
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  Speaker 1: is like one of the few holdouts at least in
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  Speaker 1: our areas because like there's there's like I don't know
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  Speaker 1: how many Barnes and Nobles are in San Antinio. It's
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  Speaker 1: very popular here.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot and a lot of local bookstores here too.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there are there. I've been trying to like find
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  Speaker 1: them and like visit them. Like there's one, there's several downtown,
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  Speaker 1: and then we have a we have a used book
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  Speaker 1: chain called half Price Half Priced Bookstore, so people can
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  Speaker 1: go sell their old books there and you can also
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  Speaker 1: buy all books, like books are no longer in circulation
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  Speaker 1: or like hard to find books. There used to be
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  Speaker 1: one in our downtown area that was really nice, but
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  Speaker 1: they closed that one, and I'm mad about that. So
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  Speaker 1: there's only as far as I remember, As far as
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  Speaker 1: I can remember, there's only two others that are still open.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's one on band Era in sixteen oh four.
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  Speaker 3: And then the other one there's one.
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  Speaker 2: On Yes, there's well, actually I think there's three now
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  Speaker 2: because there's also another one near North s armon Le's
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  Speaker 2: that is the one, yeah forever, and then.
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  Speaker 1: It's very it's funny that they put up. They have
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  Speaker 1: that one there because it's Barnes and Noble like right next.
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  Speaker 2: To it, literally like right like literally within a two
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  Speaker 2: minute walk.
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  Speaker 1: And there's two other bookstores downtown, Like one is called
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  Speaker 1: Nowhere Books.
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  Speaker 2: And I love that place, love it.
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  Speaker 1: It's so cute. It's a tiny little bookstore, but it's cute.
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  Speaker 1: And then there's another one further down the street, like
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  Speaker 1: closer to the center of downtown called Pandora Books. That one,
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  Speaker 1: that one has the witchy vibes. I think you have
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  Speaker 1: you and Johnny went there.
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  Speaker 3: It's off away.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yea, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we have. We happened
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  Speaker 2: to that one. I happened to that one.
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  Speaker 1: But there's another one in that area that like I
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  Speaker 1: recently learned about it.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, there's another one, which one.
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  Speaker 1: I forgot the name, but it's like it's there. I
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  Speaker 1: gotta look it up again.
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  Speaker 2: I know there's one also downtown. It's the Horror Uhoulish
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  Speaker 2: Gulish Books. The thing is what it's called.
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  Speaker 3: I'll go today.
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  Speaker 1: I got nothing else to do.
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  Speaker 3: I'll go today.
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  Speaker 1: Say like you're you're busy with your march, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: downtown to I got it. I don't know where it's
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  Speaker 1: Martin Luther King day here in the US, but like
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  Speaker 1: and there's like a march for Martin Luther King and
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  Speaker 1: send me the link for that place again because I.
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  Speaker 2: Really like yeah, yeah, yeah, coolish books. They're also a publish,
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  Speaker 2: a little publisher as well. Like they've done a lot
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  Speaker 2: of release a lot of extreme they like to release
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  Speaker 2: a lot of extreme horror and some of the some
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  Speaker 2: of the more well known ones were released by them.
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  Speaker 2: I dame, we know that. And then at some point
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure for I Pride Month, I might I got
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  Speaker 2: a book from them called Bound in Flesh and Anthology
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  Speaker 2: of trans Body Horror, and I'm like, I want this,
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  Speaker 2: so Prime month anyways. Uh but yeah, So we got
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  Speaker 2: stuff planned as of right now, I have episodes planned
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  Speaker 2: and listed and ready to go, not ready to go
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  Speaker 2: as far as posting. We haven't recorded them yet.
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  Speaker 1: We still got to record them. But we got we
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  Speaker 1: we got got list, we got we're going to go over.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I have a list, said, I have a listed
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  Speaker 2: up through April. Mhm on what we got planned on
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  Speaker 2: some of the stuff that we've talked about that you
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  Speaker 2: want to do, and then some stuff I want to do,
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  Speaker 2: so yeah yeah, and then pro and then May and Pride.
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  Speaker 2: I'll work about that later anyways, but thank you all
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  Speaker 2: for listening to say that, because next time I just
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  Speaker 2: talk about another book. Until then, bye, I