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BOOKCLUB: ASSASSIN'S BLADE PT 3 · Relatables

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  Speaker 1: Previously on The Relatables Baddi's book Club.
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  Speaker 2: I think what all these novellas are alluding to is
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  Speaker 2: that Arabin is the reason she's in Endovia.
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  Speaker 1: Ah. My only prediction that I want to predict something
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  Speaker 1: about is her and Sam's relationship. How How do they
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  Speaker 1: fall in love but don't have sex? That's all I
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  Speaker 1: want to know.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to Relatables Baddie's book Club, where we will embark
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  Speaker 2: on a journey reading some of the finest pieces of
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  Speaker 2: literature you have ever laid eyes or is if.
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  Speaker 1: That's your preferred way to consume a book.
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  Speaker 2: On Assassin's Blade, The Assassin and the Desert.
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  Speaker 1: The Desert. Yeah, so we're here, We're making our way
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  Speaker 1: through the novella. Yeah, I mean, don't get a novella?
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  Speaker 1: Sounds like a pasta novella. Yeah, noveda could have some
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  Speaker 1: novella with a side of garlic bread. Sounds to me
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  Speaker 1: like it could be a dessert.
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  Speaker 2: You're going to say, there's ease he's riddled with novedad.
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  Speaker 1: Could I please get a novella? I could see it
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  Speaker 1: as like a chicky little chocolate cake with like some
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  Speaker 1: cherry in the middle of some sort of lava cake
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  Speaker 1: or something. Yeah, yeah, that's enough talking about food. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: what do we think it's so far? Look, I'm okay
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  Speaker 1: with it. Yeah, I'm okay too. I'm glad we've read
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  Speaker 1: it or reading it a lot of bad it's not no, no,
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  Speaker 1: I don't. Surely it's not anyone's favorite book in the
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  Speaker 1: series so far. Yeah. I saw a lot of comments
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  Speaker 1: saying like, I don't know how anyone could say you
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  Speaker 1: don't need to read this book. So I am glad
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  Speaker 1: we're reading it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yes, same, No, definitely if it's there, it's obviously
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  Speaker 2: meant to be read.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but like it also like kind of isn't what
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  Speaker 1: I thought it would be. I thought there would be
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  Speaker 1: a lot more depth to it. It's more of like
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  Speaker 1: everyone kept saying, like, remember when I said, like Sarah J.
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  Speaker 1: Mass went back and said this would be good to
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  Speaker 1: add because it was written after Yeah, everyone's like Seratomas
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  Speaker 1: does everything for a reason, Like there's a reason, that's
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  Speaker 1: the way, this is the way it's written. Who told you?
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  Speaker 1: I don't.
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  Speaker 2: The comments I'm asking the bad Is it a comment
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  Speaker 2: in that like did she literally tell you that? Or
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  Speaker 2: you guys all just like gaslating yourselves into thinking that because.
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  Speaker 1: Also, like as an author, if I was an author
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  Speaker 1: and like say I made a million dollars a book
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  Speaker 1: and then someone's like, you know, if you could probably
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  Speaker 1: do want like a novella to start and make another
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  Speaker 1: million dollars, I'd be like, fucking oath, I can. Let's
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  Speaker 1: write that ship. Let's just give a bit of backstory,
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  Speaker 1: give me three months. Yeah, I don't know what to
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  Speaker 1: talk about a pirate, so I forgot what the middle
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  Speaker 1: one was a bar made and a desert.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well people do say that a lot of the
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  Speaker 2: side characters in the latest later in the series, some
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  Speaker 2: of them come from this book. Yeah, so it's nice
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  Speaker 2: to know.
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  Speaker 1: But I think part of me is kind of like I.
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  Speaker 2: Think it's like I don't like knowing that she's going
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  Speaker 2: to end up in Indophia, if that makes sense, Like
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  Speaker 2: I assume that the end of this book is her
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  Speaker 2: getting caught.
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  Speaker 1: And Sam getting killed. Like that's just this an assumption
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  Speaker 1: I'm making.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if it is or not, but it's
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  Speaker 2: it's leading that way for me, And I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if I like knowing that, because like what they're doing
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  Speaker 2: is even though I think Selene is like super cocky
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  Speaker 2: and arrogant. I do like her, and then same as Sam,
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  Speaker 2: like it's annoying me that I'm you know, reading and
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  Speaker 2: I'm like going through her falling in love with him
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  Speaker 2: and come in to terms with the fact that she
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  Speaker 2: likes him and it's going to end up just like
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  Speaker 2: him dying.
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  Speaker 1: Like I don't know if I like feeling that I
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  Speaker 1: agree to it, and like, I guess because we know
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  Speaker 1: what's going to happen is taking away from the enjoyment slightly. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's also like it's a non fans it's a bit
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  Speaker 1: of a ship book. So like I'm glad we read
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  Speaker 1: it in the way we did. Yeah, yeah, Like.
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  Speaker 2: I still don't know what makes it good and a
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  Speaker 2: bad book, Like because if we read this first, you
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  Speaker 2: and I would have fucking been like, this is the
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  Speaker 2: most boring book I know.
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  Speaker 1: I reckon I would have I think I would have
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  Speaker 1: liked reading it first.
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  Speaker 2: Actually, so I don't mind the way we've done it, right,
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  Speaker 2: I know, I like to be a purist, like we
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  Speaker 2: spoke and read is the way that they But so
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  Speaker 2: I've had thoughts while reading this of like I think
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  Speaker 2: I would enjoy it more if I didn't know what
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  Speaker 2: was going to happen, Yeah, and then read reading Throne
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  Speaker 2: of Glass would almost be like, I don't even know
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  Speaker 2: how to explain it, kind of like you're.
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  Speaker 1: In the know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like you're inside the inside joke or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what made us do it the way
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  Speaker 2: we did it. Again, you said, yeah, I got recommend
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  Speaker 2: it from baddies. So there was a lot offer. Some
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  Speaker 2: people said read it first, some people said read it
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  Speaker 2: like here, some people said you don't need to read
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  Speaker 2: it and then, but the most overwhelming advice was read
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  Speaker 2: it third. So I thought I'll go with the majority. Okay, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: a majority of rules when we have a podcast, But.
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  Speaker 1: I think I would.
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  Speaker 2: Probably recommend someone if they're reading a series to read
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  Speaker 2: it this one first.
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  Speaker 1: That's one thing I've learned a long hour VERA. You're
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  Speaker 1: not as much me. I'm more so a novice. Is
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  Speaker 1: I suppose this is a good tip actually, just going
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  Speaker 1: through life. Don't let other people's opinions change what you
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  Speaker 1: think is right. Yeah, because we everyone was like the
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  Speaker 1: same with forthing and stuff. Everyone's like it's like the
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  Speaker 1: the best thing everybody. We all love it. Guys, it
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  Speaker 1: would be so good, and they're not in my They're
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  Speaker 1: not in my brain, so they don't know exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway. Shall we get into the recap? Yes, yes, yes,
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  Speaker 2: let's do it. We're recapping every chapter, thoughts and theories
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  Speaker 2: to every plan.
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  Speaker 1: Twist will break it down for you, okay.
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  Speaker 2: Chapter one Selena right the silent assassin's desert fortress, sent
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  Speaker 2: by Arabin as punishment for freeing slaves on a botched
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  Speaker 2: mission with Sam. She endos a brutal two mile trek
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  Speaker 2: to reach the Oasis stronghold, then meets the Mute Master,
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  Speaker 2: a silent testing figure who inspects all her old bruises
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  Speaker 2: before demanding she proved herself. The chapter ends as he
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  Speaker 2: signals four men.
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  Speaker 1: To attack her.
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  Speaker 2: Chapter two, Selena passes the Master's combat combat test, defeeding
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  Speaker 2: four attackers. She's paired with Ansel, a wealthy, wise cracking
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  Speaker 2: assassin in training who's oddly still untrained by the Master
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  Speaker 2: five years in. They bond a little on the way
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  Speaker 2: to the baths, Angel, probing about her bruises and kill count. Alone,
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  Speaker 2: Selena reflects on missing Sam. The chapter closes on a
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  Speaker 2: flashback Arabin beating her severely while forcing Sam to watch
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  Speaker 2: as punishment for freeing the slaves. So Arabin's a fucking
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  Speaker 2: dang bruh.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter three.
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  Speaker 2: At dinner, Selena meets more assassins. We've got Mikhail, who's
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  Speaker 2: Ansel's secret boyfriend, and Ilias the Master, the mute Master's
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  Speaker 2: attractive son who she loves. This sog about how sexy
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  Speaker 2: is eh. She learns that the fortress's local enemy is
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  Speaker 2: Lord Barrick, and that assassins can be bid for by
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  Speaker 2: foreign courts. When Michael asks if she deserved her beating,
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  Speaker 2: she admits she did by Arabin standards, but not by
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  Speaker 2: the slaves she freed. Ansel then makes her run a
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  Speaker 2: brutal six mile desert trek as informal training. Selena struggles
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  Speaker 2: badly and returns humbled. She tries to formally request the
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  Speaker 2: master's training, but he gestures that she must wait. Ilius
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  Speaker 2: intervenes when she almost follows the master, and they share
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  Speaker 2: a warm introduction. That night, Ansel reveals her secret relationship
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  Speaker 2: with Mikhale while Selena lies awake, missing Sam. Chapter four,
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  Speaker 2: Selena keeps training with Ansel, noticing the silent assassins are
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  Speaker 2: far more collaborative than Arabin's cutthroat guilt.
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  Speaker 1: On her fifth night Lord.
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  Speaker 2: Barrick, so Lord Barrack's soldiers ambush the fortress. Selena joins
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  Speaker 2: the defense, helping ignite an oil trap ring of fire
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  Speaker 2: that routes the attack without bloodshed. So afterward, Macau delivers
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  Speaker 2: orders Angel must travel to Xandria to deliver a message
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  Speaker 2: to Barrack. Selena decides to go with her, hoping the
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  Speaker 2: mission will prove her worth to the Master. Chapter five,
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  Speaker 2: On the Desert Journey, Anzel shares a chilling, blood sorry
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  Speaker 2: chilling childhood story about a witch abducting her friend, setting
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  Speaker 2: up arm the Iron Teeth Clan threat as real and
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  Speaker 2: dangerous in Xandria. Answer disappears alone into Barrack's palace in
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  Speaker 2: secret Master's business in quotes, leaving Slena to shop the Souk,
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  Speaker 2: which is the markets. She there meets a mysterious merchant
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  Speaker 2: selling priceless spider Silk, who traded twenty years of his
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  Speaker 2: life for it.
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  Speaker 1: He gives her a valuable scrap as.
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  Speaker 2: A reminder that everything has a price after she cryptically
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  Speaker 2: tells him to seek out Arabin. When Ansel resurfaces, agitated
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  Speaker 2: and secretive about her meeting, she drags Selena into Barrack's stables,
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  Speaker 2: where they steal two priceless Asterian horses and bolt. So
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  Speaker 2: remember when Kao gets gifted at a stay mayor, yes,
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  Speaker 2: and or is it a mayor anyway? An Asterian horse
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  Speaker 2: and she and then that's when Elena's sorry. That's when
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  Speaker 2: fucking Selena's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, I used to have one.
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  Speaker 2: I stole it from someone from the desert.
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  Speaker 1: I remember.
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  Speaker 2: Chapter six, Asel and Slena make wild, dangerous escape from
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  Speaker 2: barracks guards on the stolen horses, including a death defying
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  Speaker 2: jump across a canyon ravine. Once safe, Selena punches Ansel
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  Speaker 2: for the reckless stunt. Then they camp for the night
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  Speaker 2: under the stars. Ansel reveals her whole backstory was a lie.
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  Speaker 2: Her family and home are from Briercliffe, were destroyed years
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  Speaker 2: ago by a tyrant Lord Locke, who slaughtered her father
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  Speaker 2: and sister. Why Ansel hid helplessly She's been training in
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  Speaker 2: secret ever since.
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  Speaker 1: Driven by a vow refrange with her.
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  Speaker 2: Father's sword, Selena moved. Selena moved, and, grieving in her
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  Speaker 2: own way, promises they'll make the men responsible pay.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter seven.
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  Speaker 2: Back at the Fortress, Selena and Ansel face the Master
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  Speaker 2: over the stolen horse. Rather than punishing them harshly, he swayed,
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  Speaker 2: especially after Selena takes the blame the assassin's light or
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  Speaker 2: sorry and assigns light stable duty. He finally agrees to
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  Speaker 2: train Selena, starting the next evening. Her first lesson isn't
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  Speaker 2: combat but observation, studying an asp, which is a snake,
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  Speaker 2: then bats, jack, rabbits, and crabs, learning to move and
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  Speaker 2: think like each creature weeks past. In this rhythm, training
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  Speaker 2: distance from Ansel, who grows strangely gleeful. No further attacks
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  Speaker 2: from Barrack, while Selena quietly wrestles with the theory sorry
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  Speaker 2: with the memory of Sam vowing to kill arabin Oooh.
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  Speaker 2: Chapter eight, at the Midsummary Festival, Selena and Ansel bondover
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  Speaker 2: cosmetics and dancing in the silent musicless celebration. Ilias dances
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  Speaker 2: with Selena all night and tries to kiss her, but
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  Speaker 2: she pulls back, not because a relationship is impossible, but
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  Speaker 2: because she still hung up on Sam. Anne disappears with
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  Speaker 2: Michael the next morning. Playful teasing turns sour wa Ansel
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  Speaker 2: reveals bitter jealousy that the Master trains Selena, but not her,
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  Speaker 2: and that she only gets attention through Michael. Selena lashes
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  Speaker 2: out cruelly, telling Ansel no one will ever care about
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  Speaker 2: her revenge quest. Ansel wounded so he wounded, calls her
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  Speaker 2: a spoilt, selfish bitch, and storms their friendship, badly damaged
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  Speaker 2: who Chapter nine, Selena, distracted by guilt over the fight,
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  Speaker 2: finally opens up to the Master, confessing her fear of
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  Speaker 2: returning home and how everything changed after Arabin's punishment. Later,
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  Speaker 2: Angel and Selena reconcile, with Ansel, calling her a true
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  Speaker 2: friend she'll miss, but that night, sharing wine to make amends,
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  Speaker 2: Selena notices the drink tastes off right before she blacks out,
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  Speaker 2: poisoned by Ansel. Chapter ten, Selena wakes up drugged and
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  Speaker 2: abandoned in the desert with a fake note from Ansel,
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  Speaker 2: claiming the Master sent her away with a letter of approval.
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  Speaker 2: Writing towards Andrea, she spots two hundred of Barrack's soldiers
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  Speaker 2: marching on the Assassin's fortress in the city, doubts creep
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  Speaker 2: in why would the peace loving Master banish her and
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  Speaker 2: not warn the others. When she finally opens a letter
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  Speaker 2: of approval, it's blank sealed with what must be a
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  Speaker 2: stolen signet ring. She realizes Ansel has betrayed everyone, likely
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  Speaker 2: as Barrack's spy all along, and that the fortress is
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  Speaker 2: walking into an ambush. Determined, Selena turns her horse around
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  Speaker 2: and races back to warn them. Chapter eleven, Selena races
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  Speaker 2: back to the fortress under siege and finds carnage everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: She reaches the master's chamber to find Mikhail dead, Ilias
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  Speaker 2: bleeding out, and Ansel standing over the drugged, paralyzed Master
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  Speaker 2: with sword raised for the killing blow. Selena disarms her
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  Speaker 2: with a thrown dagger, and the two fight brutally. Ansel
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  Speaker 2: reveals she orchestrated the whole betrayal for Barrack's promised army
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  Speaker 2: to reclaim the flat lands, even offering Selena a place
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  Speaker 2: beside her as conquerra. Selena refuses. They fight again, and
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  Speaker 2: she ultimately overpowers Ansel, but can't bring herself to kill her,
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  Speaker 2: undone by her real sorry undone by her real friendship,
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  Speaker 2: and Ansel's admission that leaving Selena in the desert had
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  Speaker 2: been a genuine act of mercy. Instead, she lets Ansel
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  Speaker 2: go with a warning and her father's sword, and Ansel
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  Speaker 2: flees the fortress as the assassins reclaim victory. Chapter twelve,
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  Speaker 2: Ilias survives, and the poison is confirmed as Gloriela enough
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  Speaker 2: to paralyze, not to kill, since Ansel wanted the Master
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  Speaker 2: conscious for his bearding true to her word, Ansel sorry,
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  Speaker 2: Selena fires a single warning arrow at fleeing Ansel, deliberately
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  Speaker 2: missing since she'd promised her a twenty minute head start.
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  Speaker 2: Twenty of the fortress's assassins died in the attack, though
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  Speaker 2: all two hundred of Barrack's soldiers were killed. The next
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  Speaker 2: morning the re the Master reveals his note about Ansel's
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  Speaker 2: tragic past four years and chose not to expose her,
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  Speaker 2: hoping she'd learned to face her pain rather than let
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  Speaker 2: it curdle into hatred. He believes Angela genuinely cared for Selena,
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  Speaker 2: evidenced by sparring her in the desert and no sparing
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  Speaker 2: her in the desert sorry, and that sparing Ansel's life
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  Speaker 2: in return may leave a lasting humanizing mark on her.
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  Speaker 2: He gives Selena the true letter of approval, plus a
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  Speaker 2: trunk of gold and as thanks for saving his and
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  Speaker 2: Ilias's life and asks her to tell Arabin that Disciples
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  Speaker 2: aren't abused in the Red Desert. As she prepares to
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  Speaker 2: leave for home, Selena finally feels ready to face rift
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  Speaker 2: Hold again.
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  Speaker 1: Rift Holt. Yeah again, no longer afraidfld rift Hold, rift Hold.
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  Speaker 2: Look, it was entertaining, it was cool, it was cool,
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  Speaker 2: it's cool.
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  Speaker 1: Interesting. This is the Okay, this is the best one.
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  Speaker 1: I think this is the best one so far. As well.
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  Speaker 2: I want to say, did you get this as well?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if you if we were meant to
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  Speaker 2: get it at this point, but I think we were.
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  Speaker 1: When they went.
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  Speaker 2: Into the town of Xandria and Hansel goes to speak
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  Speaker 2: to Lord Barrick and doesn't let Selena come, I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: answers the villain.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I knew from that. I was like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't. I Nah, I didn't pick up on that.
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  Speaker 1: Oh I knew from that. I was like, yes, she's
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  Speaker 1: a villain, obviously, Nah, nah, I didn't pick up on that.
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  Speaker 1: These are I listened to all of these once again,
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  Speaker 1: there's are very jagged for me. So that all brought
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  Speaker 1: it back, which is good for me as well, because
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  Speaker 1: in the background, Jake and I have been doing a
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  Speaker 1: lot of random stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we've been living We've been living a busy life,
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: yeah we have.
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  Speaker 1: But firstly, good reading, mate, you got into that one.
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  Speaker 1: You must have enjoyed the chapters. You have a fucking
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: couple of accents going on here or there.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what I.
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  Speaker 1: Just did it.
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  Speaker 2: I just was thinking, like, fuck, these are kind of long,
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  Speaker 2: I need to rush.
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  Speaker 1: Was trying to make it entertaining me. Did you screenshot
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  Speaker 1: Kindle again? Is that he did it? The Kindle pages? Yeah? Mate? Business.
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  Speaker 1: I know we talk about business on the main episodes,
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  Speaker 1: but there's no chapter summaries for this book. You could
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  Speaker 1: do them. I've got them all with the help of
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  Speaker 1: claud Yeah. Yeah, yeah. What I did was.
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  Speaker 2: I went on so I went on the Kindle up
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  Speaker 2: on my phone and I made the writing as small
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  Speaker 2: as possible so it was less pages to screenshot. Ended
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  Speaker 2: up being sixty six pages or something.
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  Speaker 1: Still, but still yeah, yeah, this was the big the
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  Speaker 1: longest chapters for sure. But no, that was good and
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  Speaker 1: I also, I guess we got to see once again
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  Speaker 1: Solanna's character skill once again, which was kind of cool.
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  Speaker 1: And then also there was a bit where she was
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  Speaker 1: like didn't want to show her cards. I guess of
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  Speaker 1: how good she was to the master or like respected,
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  Speaker 1: how good he was. I guess as well. You know
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  Speaker 1: how she's been like a teenage brat for the first two. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like this one she was more. She still
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  Speaker 1: was a little bit, but she was it's kind of
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  Speaker 1: changing to I assume where the mindset is. By the
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  Speaker 1: end of it, she's more like open and honest about
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  Speaker 1: who she is. She's not just fucking stuck up and confident. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I could kind of sense that feeling in this one
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  Speaker 1: a little bit.
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm here. She definitely was getting a little more humble. Yeah, yeah,
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: humble is the word. She was getting slightly more humble,
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: And I think she was just humbled by the desert
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: in general. True, but a lot of character development happened
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: in this this So she was there for like basically,
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: I think it's like a three month ordeal. So she
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: traveled for like a month out there. She was there
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: for a month, and then she's gonna have to travel
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: a month home.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: I was picturing, like for the desert. You haven't watched
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: the Book of Boba Fett, but it's into Mandalorian too.
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: You know when Mandalorian like meets Boba Fett in like
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: those deserted desert towns, and then there's just like one
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: western kind of like building. That was what I was picturing,
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: like Star Wars desert. Wait, that's that's what you're.
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: Picturing as the silent assassins, Like yeah, fortress. Yeah, oh really,
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: I was picturing like I was picturing just I guess
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: as as they'd written it. Like I was picturing proper desert, right,
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: just sand dunes on sand dunes as far as I
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: could see, and then randomly, just like at the base
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: of one of the sand dunes, there was just like
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: this random big ass fortress kind of like sort of
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: think winter Fell from Game of Thrones. Yeah, yeah, so
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: sort of like that. And then for some reason there.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: Was just creaks and ship running through it. Yeah, they
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: had water for some Now I feel like we've deserts too.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: I always think of Mirage as in that too.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: And then like that it's called like an oasis or
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: some shit, and and so they ran to another oasis. Okay,
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: but he like, what I want to know is, so
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: the purpose of this was for a bit of character development, right,
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: and she made mentions so In Crown of Midnight, she
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: made a mention of, like, you know, I used to
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: have an Asterian horse and I stole it from some
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: lord in fucking the you know, desert. But other than that,
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: it's like the only other reason I could think that
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: this story is in here, apart from maybe, like I
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: said before, a bit of character development, is the fact
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: that Anzil will show up later in the series, or
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: the Silent Assassins will show up later in the series.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: Like she's going to go ask for their aid or
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: some ship, and like the Ilius will come help and
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: maybe maybe Ilius. So she's obviously quite fond of Ilius, right, yeah,
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: And Dorian and Kay are going to be like, who's
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: this fucking guy.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: Like this, I don't think in this book Dorian and
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: Caw will have like dialogue, not in this in this
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: series someone in the series they're gonna call on the
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: aid of this assassins. But like, here's the thing as well,
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: It's like to me, so what we're so I think
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: the next book after this is Air of Fire, yep.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: And what she's going to go do is she she's
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: been sent off to like the Land of the fucking Elves,
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: where Elves no no Elves Fay where Fay still exists.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: Sorry, I'm watching I'm watching Lord of the Rings. I'm
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: thinking else sorry, where Fay still exists. They are similar,
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: to be fair, and it's like kind of I'm thinking, like,
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: that's such a big story line for her going to
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: like uncover her past that's even further back than this
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: past that we're reading right now, Like I feel like
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: it's so fucking wild what we're about to go through.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: Sow how like how could like that's so much more
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: interesting to me about what we're about to read an Aerifire,
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: Like she's gonna go fucking find her kin.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Maybe this is actually what's happened. So Sarah J. Maass
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: wrote all the books, say Aerifire has what you're talking
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: about in it, and then once it was written, someone's like,
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: where the fuck did the some assassin's come from? Like
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: that doesn't make any sense? And then you didn't know
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: about them? Yeah, and then she's like, oh, like in
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: my head, I kind of like thought it didn't really matter,
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: but like I'll go back and tell you why it
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: makes sense. Yeah, true, true, Like that for all the rebuttals,
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: so they might be even like throughout the series, even
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: more books, and then like something to do with the pirate, yeah,
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: and then something to do with that that girl who
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: wanted to be like a healer or whatever, and maybe
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: she comes through too in a different time.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: I'm so confident she's coming back. And so what I
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: think is going to happen is I think that we're
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: going to eventually see magic restored to the lands to
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: a degree.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: That's a fucking prediction. Let's get into it, oh, ship predictions,
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: lots of fear less predictions to one of the fictional men,
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: like we always do. We're gonna be and streaming again.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: This is the Relatables Book Club. Let the throw and
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: the docks begin.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: So I think I'm gonna I think what we're gonna have.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: We're going to see magic restored to the land of
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: a realia to a degree, like not flee, but to
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: a degree.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: And and we're going to see like the Healer come back,
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: I forget her name, and we're going to see some
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: fucking shit go down.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: Okay, so you reckon magic will come back. At this
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: point of time, magic still banned. Yeah it is, Okay,
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: I kind of see that too. I'm wondering, like, so
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: we're finding out about her character. I want a prediction
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: of like I said it, I think in the first
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: episode where like something's got to happen where she's like,
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: she goes, where did that like come out of me?
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Like why did that just happen? And nothing makes sense?
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: But we know it's because she has magic heritage. Nah,
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: he's a thing.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: Though, It's like it's implied that she knows all along.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: But if it's why didn't I don't know. That doesn't
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: comprehend to me. I feel like, how can you know
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: all along and not do anything about it? Though? Because
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: magic is illegal and she also doesn't like her so
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: so but if I told you you could fly and
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: you're like, I know, but like it's illegal. No, no, no,
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: she can't fly. Yeah no, but that's just like say,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: a magical power, like if you like and so she okay.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: So in Throne of Glass near the beginning, when she
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: gets taken to rift Hole, yeah yeah right, they're staying
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: in the forest and she has some inner monologue dialogue
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: moment or whatever how she remembers using magic like over
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: ten years ago, just before it all got banned, right,
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: And then we don't hear much about it until again,
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: so you ever, don't hear much about it yet until
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: Crown of Midnight when she turns into a fucking fairy
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: in that when she goes through that portal, because whatever
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: world she went to, magic has not been banned, like
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: the king is the one suppressing the magic. So when
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: she's like, so she knows. Basically what we know as
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: well is that Selena can shift from human to fairy
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: when magic is not banned. But magic isn't banned, like
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: the King actually has made it so magic it can't
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: be used suppressed, so it's just fully suppressed. So like
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: she knows, and she she would if she could, but
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: she can't.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: She physically can't.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: That's why she shifted back into a human as soon
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: as she came back into the fucking so.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: It's out of her control. That's what I'm having trouble
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: wrapping my head around a little bit.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: It.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Okay, that makes sense, all right? When you were saying that,
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: do you reckon? Remember I think it was throwing a glass.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: How there was that weird mention of was it gnomes?
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, this is around the same time. Yeah,
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: gnomes in the forest. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I reckon, Yeah,
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: that's directly that might be in this little story and
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: like the last novella or something. I feel like we
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: both said.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: That was a weird mentioned oh yeah, mentioning subtle foreshadowing
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: the fucking Gnomes then.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: And like that they might play a part too, because
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: they're going to see Faye Gnomes do something.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: Faye used to own that forest or some ship or
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: just like rule that forest.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they couldn't be in the next book. What's the
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: next one called? I didn't look Air of Fire? No,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: the next story in this.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: Ah the Assassin and the Underworld.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: The Underworld. That's kind of cool. Okay, predictions I don't
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: really I feel like because we've done like this book
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: doesn't really tell you much, and we've done our predictions,
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: I don't really have much n nothing's.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: Changing, and the predictions we can make is also does
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: what I say.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: We can predict that world.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: I guess the baddies fucking love our predictions.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: You hit no because I edit all these and you
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: fucking hit the nail on the head for one of them.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, you fucking like literally, And then when I
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: edited the next episode and I was like, this guy
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: just fucking did he read ahead? And I was like,
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: this guy, haven't. Yeah, I just like thought, this is
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: what it should be, like literally described like scene for
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: seeing what happened and all the bad fire.
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: I saw another comment saying that if Sarah J. Mass
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: intended on you reading book six and seven tandem, I
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: saw this exact one written a bigger book.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: I still am so I don't know what to do.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: I still don't know.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: I'm torn to because, like, but everyone says if you
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: don't and read, everyone says it's long. Yeah, and everyone
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: knows I don't like long. Yeah, it's a tough. I'm
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: thinking tandem because like some people say they've didn't read
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: it tandem and they regretted it. But I haven't seen
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: anyone say they've read it tandem and they've regretted it. True, true, True,
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: that's a very good observation. Yeah, I don't know, Okay,
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: and we'll get to that. Let's predict something to do
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: with the assassin in the under underworld Underground Underworld. Have
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: you seen that movie the Underworld? I think it's called
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: that's a good movie. Anyway, I reckon there's gonna be
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: Is it Underworld or water World. I could be getting confused.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: The heaps good movie. It's famous underworld movie Underworld. It's
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: probably be about something. I feel like I could see
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: that being a movie or a movie. There's a fucking
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: four part series films called Underworld. Button That's not what
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: I was thinking. I reckon there's gonna be giant worms
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: that eat the ground.
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: Nah, I reckon.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: That. She always she's going back to Riftthold. She said, yeah,
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: she said she was ready, So you'd think so the
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: next one she's going next.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: I think the next one is just going to be
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: kind of like her. So there must be some sort
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: of little dilemma drama. But I think, like right now,
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: we're only fifty way fifty percent of the way through
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: the book.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: Maybe like just over what do you think the underworld
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: has nothing to do with coming under ground? I don't
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: think so.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: I think it's just like it could think about like
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: what you what we would consider the underworld, like slums
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: in that, so like slums in that, but also just
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: kind of like dealings with the black market, like assassins.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: An assassin's job would be part of the underworld.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: Under the soil's way cooler. But if we fucking battled
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: a pirate and then we went to the desert. I
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: wouldn't be surprised if we went underground, can that'd be cool.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: That's why I said, giant worms that dug the ground
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: out now they're extinct or something that'd be hectic, that'd
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: be cool. I hit there character development and we get
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: from that.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: But the fact that she'll be like fair and fight
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: a big ass worm.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: What character development do we get from fucking fighting a
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: pirate and then freeing slaves? Slaves? Bro, Yeah, she can.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: She can free some worms, get the soil nutritious. Again.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: She's like, she gets someone pays it, So someone pays
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: her to go kill like the nest of this big
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: ass worm so they can't repopulate the fucking underworld.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: And then she goes and she's like, but they're just babies.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: I've got to save them. I wouldn't be surprised.
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: No.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: I think it's something to do with like she has
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: to bring back structure to like the dirty deals going
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: on behind with Told or some bullshit like that. So
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: it's gonna be it's gonna be something like that.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: And then just like I don't know, Sam will be
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: in there'll kill come back.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Sam will come back. Can they start to confess
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: their love in this one or not?
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: I hope yeah yeah, if not, if not to each other,
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: at least in their heads.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't to each other. I think he'll be
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: in the heads at this point. Yeah, she'll be like
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: fucking damn, Sam, what that tongue do? Well, we know
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: that she only kisses him. Yeah, she lost it? Yeah,
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: what it was? That's twice now that Selene's pulled away
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: from kissing. Though. I know she's very young here, but
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: still that doesn't seem to be a defining factor in
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: they like women and she doesn't know it. Oh yeah,
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: that too, but I'm thinking like maybe too, she's just
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: really shy. That's why. Also she's probably not like true
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: and that's actually such a classic thing, Like she's so
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: confident in full of herself and everything else when it
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: comes to being an assassin and being like hottest ship,
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: but then when it comes to like kissing so much,
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: she's like, oh no, she's like wait and think she's seventeen. Yeah,
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: at this point in time, age in this book doesn't
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: seem to matter to me. Nah, I'm having struggle picturing
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: I've having I've had had I've struggled to picture how
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: old she is the whole time. Yeah, no, same here.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: One last thing I want to say before he finishes
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: that suss thing was that Anzel was dating Michale. Michale's
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: twenty six and she's like, oh.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: I forgot about that. She's forty eight or some shit
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: when they started that.
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: It's like twenty five and she was fourteen when they
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: started like sleeping together.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's got that like background of like old England
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: in it. Yeah, so true.
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: And then Angel's kind of and Slain's kind of like, wait,
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: so if you're my age, if you're one year older
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: than me now, and Angel's this old now, that means
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: you guys were this age in this age when you
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: got together or whatever. And Ansel's like yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: it's like, don't worry. In the flat Lands, it was
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: common for a thirteen year old to be married.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: I was like, I don't know what. I was like, Jesus, yeah,
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know what that has to
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: plan the book. I guess it's just like fantasy. Yeah,
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: true is fantasy, and also to be fair, like in
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: this world that happens so yeah. True, we're just like,
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: we're unbeknownst to it.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so we're so removed, daddie, thank.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: You for listening.
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: Come back next week and we will be doing The
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: Assassin and the Underworld.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: I think it's similar chapters too, as it maybe a
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: few less.
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's just the same amount or just
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: a bit less.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: All right, we love you, Stay bad.