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- 0:00Speaker 1: Previously on The Chosen People Jerusalem was less a city
- 0:05Speaker 1: and more a wound wrapped in stone. And now they
- 0:09Speaker 1: watched again, waiting to see if the next chapter was
- 0:12Speaker 1: salvation or siege.
- 0:15Speaker 2: Don't let Hezekiah lie to you! What makes you think
- 0:18Speaker 2: your god is any different?
- 0:20Speaker 3: Save us, Lord.
- 0:21Speaker 2: Not for us, not for our name. But so that
- 0:26Speaker 2: all the kingdoms of the earth may.
- 0:28Speaker 4: Know You alone are Yahweh.
- 0:31Speaker 3: This is what the Lord says.
- 0:36Speaker 4: You will not see one arrow fly over this wall,
- 0:40Speaker 4: not one.
- 0:41Speaker 1: And on that night, in the quiet, the angel of
- 0:45Speaker 1: the Lord entered the camp. Jerusalem survived, not because it
- 0:51Speaker 1: was strong, but because.
- 0:53Speaker 2: God is strong.
- 1:04Speaker 1: The valley of Hinnom stretched out beneath the night sky,
- 1:08Speaker 1: a ghastly wound carved into the earth, swollen with fire
- 1:14Speaker 1: and agony. Great flames clawed skyward, their flickering tongues lighting
- 1:20Speaker 1: up the darkness like torches of hell itself. Smoke twisted
- 1:26Speaker 1: thickly through the air, bitter with the scent of burning
- 1:30Speaker 1: flesh and acrid incense that choked every breath. Drums beat incessantly,
- 1:38Speaker 1: their rhythm heavy, oppressive, primal, almost hypnotic. Amidst the chaos
- 1:45Speaker 1: stood Josiah, just five years old, trembling. His tiny hand
- 1:52Speaker 1: was engulfed by the rough, gem-encrusted grasp of his father,
- 1:57Speaker 1: King Amon. The heat pressed against Josiah's skin, blistering, suffocating,
- 2:04Speaker 1: so intense his eyes watered from fear and sheer physical pain.
- 2:10Speaker 1: It was Josiah's first time at the ceremony, an occasion
- 2:15Speaker 1: Amon had proudly insisted his young heir witness take. But
- 2:19Speaker 1: pride was the furthest emotion from the boy's heart as
- 2:23Speaker 1: he gazed around, eyes wide with horror. A circle of
- 2:28Speaker 1: priests raised their voices in a dark chant, their faces
- 2:33Speaker 1: hidden beneath masks, shaped into the grotesque visage of Moloch,
- 2:38Speaker 1: with empty eyes that glittered cruelly in the firelight.
- 2:43Speaker 5: Bring forth your offerings, faithful ones.
- 2:46Speaker 2: Cast off your weakness, love.
- 2:49Speaker 3: Family, home, these are weaknesses.
- 2:53Speaker 2: It is Molech who makes you strong.
- 2:56Speaker 4: Let your seed fuel Molech's endless hunger.
- 3:01Speaker 1: A shriek split through the chanting, piercing, terrified. A mother's
- 3:07Speaker 1: cry sliced through the drums. Josiah flinched, gripping his father's
- 3:13Speaker 1: hand tighter. But Amon remained as unmoving as stone, his
- 3:18Speaker 1: gaze cold and unfeeling. Young Josiah beheld a mother, face
- 3:25Speaker 1: twisted with agony, fighting desperately as priests tore her child
- 3:30Speaker 1: from her arms. Josiah recognized the woman. She was the
- 3:34Speaker 1: wife of a palace guard. She locked eyes with Josiah, desperate, pleading,
- 3:40Speaker 1: begging him silently for help he could not give. Her
- 3:44Speaker 1: gaze seared into his soul as she wailed, collapsing to
- 3:48Speaker 1: the dust, fingers clawing uselessly at empty air.
- 3:52Speaker 4: Do not weep, my dear.
- 3:55Speaker 2: Moloch is glorified by this delicious offering. The gods demand blood!
- 4:03Speaker 4: The gods demand sacrifice!
- 4:06Speaker 1: Josiah watched as the priest raised the struggling infant aloft.
- 4:11Speaker 1: The child wailed, tiny limbs thrashing against a grip that
- 4:16Speaker 1: offered no mercy.
- 4:17Speaker 3: Father.
- 4:19Speaker 1: King Amon did not respond. His eyes remained fixed on
- 4:24Speaker 1: the massive fire pit, hollow and devoid of empathy. The
- 4:29Speaker 1: priest stepped forward, his voice growing feverish, and he raised
- 4:33Speaker 1: the child high.
- 4:35Speaker 2: Behold, Molech! Accept this pure flesh! Consume, devour, and grant
- 4:42Speaker 2: us favor!
- 4:44Speaker 1: Amon dropped to his knees, yanking Josiah down beside him,
- 4:49Speaker 1: the sudden force jarring the boy's bones. Before he could protest,
- 4:54Speaker 1: his father shoved a bowl of smoldering incense into his
- 4:58Speaker 1: trembling hands. The heat licked at his skin, the acrid
- 5:03Speaker 1: smoke curling into his nostrils, stinging his eyes, coiling down
- 5:07Speaker 1: his throat like a living thing. Josiah's little chest heaved,
- 5:13Speaker 1: desperate for clean air, but all he could smell was
- 5:16Speaker 1: the earthy incense and the smell of charring flesh. The
- 5:21Speaker 1: priest lifted the infant higher, his crimson-drenched robes catching the
- 5:27Speaker 1: fire's violent glow. The child's shrieks pierced through the night, thin, reedy, desperate.
- 5:36Speaker 1: The mother's screams didn't cease. She fought against the priests
- 5:40Speaker 1: who held her back, her nails raking through dirt to
- 5:44Speaker 1: get closer to her baby. Josiah caught the wild, helpless
- 5:49Speaker 1: gleam of her eyes through the firelight. The drums pounded.
- 5:53Speaker 1: The chants rose. The fire swallowed the sky, its tongues
- 5:58Speaker 1: writhing hungrily, waiting. Then the priest moved. The child tumbled
- 6:05Speaker 1: from his grasp in a perfect practiced arc, arms flailing,
- 6:11Speaker 1: mouth open in a scream that would never be finished.
- 6:15Speaker 1: The flames caught him midair. What happened after was horror.
- 6:21Speaker 1: horror that lasted moments but seemed to stretch on for hours.
- 6:26Speaker 1: The wailing did not stop immediately.
- 6:29Speaker 2: It should have. It should have been instant.
- 6:32Speaker 1: But it wasn't. It stretched, merging with the mother's howls,
- 6:38Speaker 1: with the crowd's frenzied chanting, with the pounding of the drums,
- 6:43Speaker 1: until the entire valley of Hinnom became a single unholy
- 6:48Speaker 1: symphony of agony. A hymn. to Moloch. Josiah's stomach lurched,
- 6:56Speaker 1: his knees buckled beneath him. He tried to tear his
- 7:00Speaker 1: gaze away, tried to silence the sound, but it was everywhere.
- 7:05Speaker 1: Inside his head, inside his ribs, inside his very soul.
- 7:10Speaker 1: He turned to his father, King Amon. He searched his
- 7:14Speaker 1: father's face for any ounce of regret, a sign that something,
- 7:18Speaker 1: Anything in the man before him could still be human,
- 7:22Speaker 1: but there was nothing. Amon, king of Judah, descendant of David,
- 7:28Speaker 1: watched the sacrifice with cold, glassy detachment. The flickering flames
- 7:35Speaker 1: reflected in his pupils, casting a golden glow across his
- 7:39Speaker 1: expressionless face. Josiah's voice, small but certain, tore through the darkness.
- 7:46Speaker 3: Listen. This is wrong. Wrong? No, my son.
- 7:55Speaker 2: This is worship.
- 7:58Speaker 1: Josiah stared into the flames. For a horrifying instant, as
- 8:03Speaker 1: the flames devoured the child, Josiah swore he saw the
- 8:08Speaker 1: idol's monstrous eyes gleam, its lips twist into a cruel smile.
- 8:14Speaker 1: Josiah knew, deep in his heart... that he would never
- 8:18Speaker 1: forget this night, nor forgive the darkness that had birthed him.
- 8:28Speaker 1: The royal chambers were dim and hot, scented heavily by
- 8:33Speaker 1: incense and something darker, something bitter, like betrayal itself had
- 8:39Speaker 1: a smell. Josiah said, Eight years old and wide-eyed, stood
- 8:45Speaker 1: stiffly beside the deathbed of King Aemon, his father. The poison,
- 8:50Speaker 1: delivered by some unknown hand, was an open secret.
- 8:55Speaker 3: It's done. Nothing more we can do.
- 8:59Speaker 1: Aemon reached weakly, fingers grabbing at Josiah's hand like a
- 9:03Speaker 1: drowning man clutching driftwood.
- 9:08Speaker 3: Josiah....
- 9:12Speaker 2: Closer, son.
- 9:15Speaker 1: Josiah leaned in, afraid and obedient.
- 9:20Speaker 3: Power is fear. Fear is strength. Let them tremble. Or
- 9:42Speaker 3: they'll do this to you.
- 9:54Speaker 1: His father's grip slackened and his eyes drifted into a
- 9:59Speaker 1: place Josiah couldn't follow. Josiah, now king of Judah at
- 10:05Speaker 1: a mere age of eight, stood frozen. Josiah felt ridiculously
- 10:13Speaker 1: small on the throne, the crown heavy, his feet dangling.
- 10:18Speaker 1: barely scraping the cold stone floor. Noblemen circled like vultures,
- 10:24Speaker 1: their faces masked with false smiles, voice dripping with patronizing sweetness.
- 10:31Speaker 5: Your Majesty, it is customary for the council to handle
- 10:34Speaker 5: the complex affairs of the state. Perhaps you'd like some
- 10:39Speaker 5: toys sent to your chambers instead?
- 10:42Speaker 1: A ripple of suppressed laughter filled the throne room. Josiah
- 10:47Speaker 1: raised his eyes slowly, something fierce and unnerving flickering behind them.
- 10:52Speaker 1: Perhaps you'd prefer chains around your wrists for treason. A
- 10:57Speaker 1: hush fell on the crowd of advisors. Josiah's voice, quiet
- 11:02Speaker 1: and firm.
- 11:04Speaker 5: I'm your king. You speak to me with respect, but
- 11:09Speaker 5: not at all.
- 11:11Speaker 1: The nobles exchanged wary glances, recalculating hastily. suddenly unsure of
- 11:17Speaker 1: the math they'd done earlier. Later that night, Josiah sat alone,
- 11:24Speaker 1: crown discarded on the bed beside him. The room felt huge, oppressive,
- 11:31Speaker 1: filled with whispers of expectation he wasn't sure how to meet.
- 11:36Speaker 1: A soft knock broke his spiraling thoughts.
- 11:40Speaker 2: Yes?
- 11:41Speaker 1: The door creaked open hesitantly. revealing his maidservant, Hannah. She
- 11:47Speaker 1: was a gentle woman, young but wise. She carried a
- 11:51Speaker 1: comforting calm into the room with her.
- 11:54Speaker 2: You haven't slept, my king.
- 11:57Speaker 4: No, I can't.
- 11:59Speaker 1: He wanted to say more. He wanted to tell her everything.
- 12:03Speaker 1: He wanted to tell her about his nightmares, the weight
- 12:07Speaker 1: pressing on his chest, the way the crown felt too big,
- 12:12Speaker 1: too heavy. The way the king's chambers smelled like his father,
- 12:17Speaker 1: and that made him tense. But he didn't say any
- 12:20Speaker 1: of it. Who could possibly understand what it meant to
- 12:24Speaker 1: be thrust into kingship at eight years old? To wake
- 12:28Speaker 1: up one day not just an orphan, but a ruler,
- 12:33Speaker 1: surrounded by men who smiled like jackals and whispered behind
- 12:37Speaker 1: their hands. His father's voice echoed in his skull. Never
- 12:43Speaker 1: show weakness. Fear is strength. Power is fear. So Josiah
- 12:50Speaker 1: swallowed it down, forcing his spine straight. Hannah watched him carefully,
- 12:56Speaker 1: a child forced to wear a crown before he had
- 12:59Speaker 1: even lost all his baby teeth, and no one had
- 13:02Speaker 1: ever told him it was okay to be afraid. She
- 13:06Speaker 1: knelt slightly, lowering herself just enough so that she wasn't
- 13:11Speaker 1: speaking to a king.
- 13:12Speaker 2: But to a boy. Whenever I'm frightened, I like a
- 13:16Speaker 2: good story. My mother used to tell me about a
- 13:19Speaker 2: god named Yahweh.
- 13:21Speaker 1: Josiah hesitated, curiosity slowly piercing through the fog of weariness.
- 13:28Speaker 1: He looked up at her, hope flickering weakly in his eyes.
- 13:32Speaker 5: Who's Yahweh?
- 13:34Speaker 1: Hannah smiled, but there was a sadness to it. She
- 13:38Speaker 1: didn't know much. No one did anymore. The old stories
- 13:43Speaker 1: had been buried beneath idols and politics, pushed so far
- 13:47Speaker 1: into the shadows that only fragments remained. But she did
- 13:52Speaker 1: know one.
- 13:53Speaker 4: Once, there was a man named Moses who stood before
- 13:58Speaker 4: the Red Sea.
- 14:00Speaker 1: Josiah leaned forward, something in his heart suddenly awake in
- 14:05Speaker 1: a new and fragile way. Eight years had passed. Josiah,
- 14:16Speaker 1: now a young man, knelt alone in a patch of moonlight,
- 14:20Speaker 1: murmuring halting prayers to a god who remained silent. Yet
- 14:25Speaker 1: the silence felt oddly full, dense with presence, a comforting
- 14:30Speaker 1: tension pulling gently at his chest.
- 14:33Speaker 5: Yahweh, if you're truly there, please say something.
- 14:37Speaker 3: Anything.
- 14:38Speaker 1: No audible response.
- 14:41Speaker 5: I will not pray to Moloch or Baal or Ashtaroth.
- 14:46Speaker 5: I seek you. Please, help me to find you.
- 14:50Speaker 1: But he felt something. Some quiet weight pressing gently on
- 14:55Speaker 1: his heart like a hand on his shoulder. A sudden
- 14:59Speaker 1: knock interrupted this spiritual tension.
- 15:03Speaker 3: Apologies, my king. The priests prepare a Moloch offering tomorrow.
- 15:08Speaker 2: I thought you should know.
- 15:09Speaker 1: Josiah felt his chest tighten. Memories of flames, screams, smoke,
- 15:15Speaker 1: the idol's pitiless bronze face all rushed back. No matter
- 15:21Speaker 1: how many times the priests performed this dark ritual, Josiah
- 15:26Speaker 1: never stopped hating it. Anger surged through him, pure and uncalculated.
- 15:32Speaker 1: He seized a golden Moloch statue from a table beside
- 15:36Speaker 1: him and, without thinking, hurled it violently against the wall.
- 15:41Speaker 1: The idol shattered brilliantly, shards scattering like sharp stars across
- 15:46Speaker 1: the floor. He breathed heavily, fists clenched, trembling, certain of
- 15:53Speaker 1: his rage but uncertain what it meant, how far he
- 15:56Speaker 1: could take it, how far he'd have to go. Two
- 16:03Speaker 1: years had passed. Josiah, 18 now, had become something else entirely.
- 16:10Speaker 2: Taller, yes.
- 16:12Speaker 1: Stronger, certainly. But more importantly, he carried himself with the
- 16:18Speaker 1: solemn gravity of someone who had tasted truth and found
- 16:23Speaker 1: it worth chasing. His advisors had learned caution around him,
- 16:28Speaker 1: His youth had ceased to be a weakness, becoming instead
- 16:32Speaker 1: a blade, sharp and unpredictable. Now seated upon the throne,
- 16:37Speaker 1: Josiah leaned forward, elbows on his knees, the crown perched
- 16:42Speaker 1: lightly atop his brow, watching Hilkiah, the high priest, enter
- 16:47Speaker 1: the hall. Hilkiah was no priest of Molech, no follower
- 16:52Speaker 1: of Baal or servant of Ashtoreth. He belonged to an
- 16:57Speaker 1: older order, nearly forgotten. Hilkiah was a Levite. Much of
- 17:03Speaker 1: their order had been exterminated, yet Hilkiah remained, faithfully tending
- 17:09Speaker 1: to the spiritual wounds of the royal house. He moved
- 17:13Speaker 1: toward Josiah with uncertain steps. Clutched carefully in his trembling
- 17:18Speaker 1: hands was an ancient scroll, darkened with age, weighted heavily
- 17:24Speaker 1: by forgotten words.
- 17:26Speaker 5: My king, we have found something, something hidden deep beneath
- 17:31Speaker 5: the ruins of the Temple of Solomon.
- 17:34Speaker 1: Josiah's heartbeat quickened, but he steadied his voice, masking anticipation
- 17:40Speaker 1: beneath careful control.
- 17:43Speaker 4: Show me.
- 17:44Speaker 1: Shaphan the scribe stepped forward, reverently accepting the scroll from Hilkiah.
- 17:50Speaker 1: His aged fingers trembled as he unrolled it. the sound
- 17:54Speaker 1: of ancient parchment crackling like a whisper from the grave.
- 17:59Speaker 1: The nobles and priests leaned in, some with intrigue, others
- 18:04Speaker 1: with suspicion, but all drawn into the silent gravity of
- 18:09Speaker 1: what was about to be spoken. Shaphan cleared his throat,
- 18:13Speaker 1: the room stilled, breathless, and then.
- 18:17Speaker 2: In the beginning, God created the heavens... and the earth.
- 18:25Speaker 1: The words struck the air like lightning. A single spark,
- 18:30Speaker 1: small at first, but electric. A name nearly forgotten, now
- 18:36Speaker 1: breathing again. The silence in the throne room deepened, thickened,
- 18:42Speaker 1: as if the very stones were listening. Josiah inhaled sharply,
- 18:48Speaker 1: something in his chest pulling taut. Chaffin read on, Slowly
- 18:53Speaker 1: at first, reverent, careful, each word a stone laid upon
- 18:58Speaker 1: a forgotten path.
- 19:01Speaker 2: And from dust he formed man, breathing into him life
- 19:06Speaker 2: and placing him in Eden, a paradise of peace, a
- 19:12Speaker 2: garden of holy presence.
- 19:15Speaker 1: The story began in a garden. where man was molded
- 19:19Speaker 1: from dust and given breath by the hand of the Almighty.
- 19:24Speaker 1: It is a paradise of communion, of wholeness.
- 19:28Speaker 2: But the serpent came, cutting, whispering doubt, twisting truth, until
- 19:35Speaker 2: paradise was shattered, and man hid himself from God.
- 19:40Speaker 1: The fall, the exile, the breaking of everything meant to
- 19:45Speaker 1: be whole, Josiah's hand curled into a fist, his finger knotted.
- 19:50Speaker 1: biting into his palm. The words did not stop. They
- 19:55Speaker 1: moved like a tide, sweeping forward, carrying him through ages
- 20:00Speaker 1: long buried beneath idol worship and royal decrees. Josiah listened intently.
- 20:07Speaker 1: The story of Cain's jealousy... The first blood spilled on
- 20:11Speaker 1: cursed ground. The story of Noah and the floodwaters rising
- 20:16Speaker 1: in judgment. He heard the name Abraham and the story
- 20:21Speaker 1: of God's promise. Josiah's breath became shallow, the world of
- 20:26Speaker 1: the throne room shrinking as the words pulled him deeper, deeper.
- 20:32Speaker 1: Shaphan read about the covenant of Isaac, then Jacob and
- 20:36Speaker 1: his sons. Then came the story of Egypt, chains, and
- 20:40Speaker 1: the call of Moses. The story pressed forward relentless, like
- 20:46Speaker 1: a storm gathering on the horizon. Israel rebelled over and over,
- 20:52Speaker 1: a cycle of faithfulness and failure, devotion and betrayal. Splintered kingdoms, war, betrayal.
- 21:02Speaker 1: Prophets crying out, warning, pleading, turn back, turn back. But
- 21:08Speaker 1: they did not listen. Josiah felt his chest tighten. Shaphan's
- 21:14Speaker 1: voice lowered, steady, yet edged with sorrow. The final warning
- 21:20Speaker 1: rang through the throne room like a death knell.
- 21:23Speaker 4: But beware, O Israel, lest your hearts turn away, lest
- 21:28Speaker 4: you forget the Lord your God. For if you forsake
- 21:33Speaker 4: the covenant, if you chase after other gods, I declare
- 21:38Speaker 4: this day that you shall surely perish, scattered, lost, destroyed.
- 21:45Speaker 1: The words landed like stones, each syllable striking deeper, heavier.
- 21:54Speaker 1: The throne room was silent, no murmurs, no shifting feet.
- 22:00Speaker 1: only the quiet weight of conviction settling like dust on
- 22:04Speaker 1: every soul present. Josiah sat frozen. He had not realized
- 22:11Speaker 1: his hands were trembling until he saw the faint quiver
- 22:14Speaker 1: in his fingertips. It was all here, written before his birth,
- 22:20Speaker 1: before his father's birth, before his great-grandfather's wicked reign. A
- 22:26Speaker 1: warning unheeded. a prophecy ignored. Suddenly, Josiah's breath hitched. His
- 22:34Speaker 1: vision blurred as something deep inside him broke. The words
- 22:39Speaker 1: of the scroll faded into the distance, drowned beneath a
- 22:44Speaker 1: rising tide of memory, of fire, of drums. His chest tightened.
- 22:50Speaker 1: His hands clenched against the throne's arms. His body knew
- 22:55Speaker 1: before his mind did. Suddenly, He was a child again. Suddenly,
- 23:01Speaker 1: he was back. Back at the valley of Hinnom. Visions
- 23:06Speaker 1: of horror flooded his mind. The mother wailing. The baby screaming.
- 23:13Speaker 1: His father smiling. The fire raging, writhing, licking at the
- 23:19Speaker 1: sky like something alive, something aware. The priests, faceless behind
- 23:25Speaker 1: their masks, lifting their arms, their voices curling into the
- 23:29Speaker 1: night like black smoke, praising, calling, demanding. The smell, God,
- 23:36Speaker 1: the smell, thick and sweet and rancid, flesh and incense
- 23:42Speaker 1: burned together, indistinguishable. The crowd swayed, the drums pounded, and
- 23:49Speaker 1: the child cried, The child, the child, the child, lifted
- 23:53Speaker 1: high like an offering, limbs flailing, voice shrill, too small
- 23:59Speaker 1: to fight. And his father, Amon, holding Josiah's tiny face
- 24:06Speaker 1: in his hands, forcing him to watch. This is worship,
- 24:11Speaker 1: he had said. His voice even, his eyes alight with
- 24:15Speaker 1: the reflection of flames. And then, the throh. The fall,
- 24:22Speaker 1: the fire swallowing, the scream, stretching, twisting, morphing into something else,
- 24:31Speaker 1: morphing into a vision of a serpent. Josiah felt it,
- 24:37Speaker 1: felt it again here now in this moment as if
- 24:40Speaker 1: the fire had never gone out. His stomach lurched, his
- 24:45Speaker 1: body trembled. His hands clenched into fists so tight his
- 24:50Speaker 1: nails bit through skin. He was shaking, gasping, drowning in heat,
- 24:56Speaker 1: in smoke, in the weight of a crime too vast
- 24:59Speaker 1: to comprehend. His voice cracked from his throat, raw and anguished,
- 25:05Speaker 1: the words ripped from his ribs.
- 25:08Speaker 3: We are undone. We have betrayed him.
- 25:12Speaker 1: Josiah rose suddenly. the legs of the throne scraping against
- 25:16Speaker 1: the stone floor. His breath hitched in his throat, his
- 25:20Speaker 1: hands shaking at his sides. A raw, guttural sound clawed
- 25:25Speaker 1: its way up from his ribs, a grief too deep
- 25:29Speaker 1: for words. He grabbed the fine fabric of his royal robes,
- 25:34Speaker 1: his fingers digging into the cloth, and then, with a
- 25:38Speaker 1: single violent motion, he tore them apart. The sound of
- 25:43Speaker 1: it was nothing compared to the screams that had never
- 25:46Speaker 1: stopped ringing in his ears. Gasps echoed through the chamber,
- 25:52Speaker 1: but Josiah barely heard them. The seams ripped, a physical
- 25:57Speaker 1: reflection of the break within him, the fracture of his
- 26:00Speaker 1: heart under the weight of truth. He stood there, trembling,
- 26:06Speaker 1: his chest rising and falling in ragged breaths. his eyes
- 26:10Speaker 1: burning with unshed tears. The silence stretched long and unbearable. Then, finally,
- 26:20Speaker 1: Josiah raised his gaze to Hilkiah, his voice raw, scraping
- 26:26Speaker 1: against his throat like the.
- 26:28Speaker 2: Edge of a blade. Find me a prophet.
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