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BOOKCLUB: ASSASSIN'S BLADE PT 1 · Relatables

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  Speaker 1: Previously on Relatables Baddie's book Club, there is no word
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  Speaker 1: yet about the fate of Roe and Evelyn's daughter Aileen.
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  Speaker 1: That's Elena Selene is the Slayer is the air. Welcome
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  Speaker 1: to Relatables Baddie's book Club, where we will embark on
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  Speaker 1: a journey reading some of the finest pieces of literature
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  Speaker 1: you have ever laid eyes or he is if that's
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  Speaker 1: your preferred way to consume a book on Assassin's Blade
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  Speaker 1: Part one.
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  Speaker 2: But that was a bit anti climatic part.
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  Speaker 1: What Well, we know that it's a group of five novellas, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it is, so. The first one is I think it's
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  Speaker 1: called the Assassins. It's the Assassin and the Pirate.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so. And you don't know. Hey, so
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  Speaker 2: have you listened to any of the audiobook of this
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  Speaker 2: no bro the Pirates as the Pirates Axe Hen what
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  Speaker 2: is it?
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  Speaker 1: Ah, I'm a Hodey. No it's not. No, it's not
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  Speaker 1: because I because I have in my head that he's
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  Speaker 1: like because I only have my mental description of what
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  Speaker 1: I've read. He just has a normal accent, and he's
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  Speaker 1: just called a pirate and he doesn't actually have like
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  Speaker 1: an Ah. No, no, no, it's so.
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  Speaker 2: So this is what I hade about audiobooks and not
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  Speaker 2: dramatized audios. Is that the same voice actor voices everyone. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so we've got this woman actress voice actor who's doing
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  Speaker 2: all the voices. One of the Bobby yellow Legs was like,
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  Speaker 2: had a your long Island accent in the last one,
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  Speaker 2: and this one's like, Slena, what are you doing to me? Lad?
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  Speaker 1: Stop?
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  Speaker 2: It's terrible. That's claughed, bro.
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  Speaker 1: They need to get I've been reading this other series
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  Speaker 1: called Dungeon Crawler. Carl and Luke Bateman said to me,
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  Speaker 1: you need to listen to it, and I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: is it like a graphic audio type, you know, full cast?
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  Speaker 1: And he goes, no, no, no one, dude, but but
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  Speaker 1: you think it's a full cast, And so I started
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  Speaker 1: and dude, you couldn't. You can't convince me this is
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  Speaker 1: one guy. Really, he's amazing.
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  Speaker 2: I suppose that's what you got to do if you're
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  Speaker 2: want to hire one person for the whole book.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you need someone that's got rain, Yeah, dynamic vocal rain,
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  Speaker 1: Like this girl's normal reading voice sounds great as Selena,
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  Speaker 1: but then everyone else terrible. I wonder if men have
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  Speaker 1: an advantage in that sense, because like it's a lot
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  Speaker 1: easier for a man to go deeper than his normal voice,
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  Speaker 1: and then he's got his normal voice, which is like
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  Speaker 1: sort of normal, like you and I kind of thing.
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  Speaker 1: And then it's not uncommon for a man to be
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  Speaker 1: able to train himself to go very high. You sound
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  Speaker 1: like a woman maybe, but for a woman to go deep,
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  Speaker 1: it's very difficult.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: The Adam's Apple, Yeah, is that what it is?
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  Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure that's why our voice is deeper, because
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  Speaker 2: we have an Adam's Apple.
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  Speaker 1: Is it not? For your sake? I hope it is.
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  Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure that's why. Because I'm pretty cools near
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  Speaker 2: the vocal chords.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be let's look it up. Here's that.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to be very.
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  Speaker 1: Impressed if the fact we have an Adam's Apple is
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  Speaker 1: because our voices are deeper, does having? I hope it's yes? Yes, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: thank God, good for you. I thought you just heard
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  Speaker 1: it from someone one day back in the day and
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  Speaker 1: you were like living by that.
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  Speaker 2: A more prominent Adam's Apple is often associated with a
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  Speaker 2: deeper voice. It's not actually the Adams Apple. It's like
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  Speaker 2: what happens with when an Adam's apple grows, Like.
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  Speaker 1: If we didn't, if it didn't come out, O, voys
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't be as deep.
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  Speaker 2: No, because it's a larger lavinex or something and that's
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  Speaker 2: the part of Adams apple in the back or something.
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  Speaker 2: A fucking genius, Jack ib a fucking genius you fliped
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  Speaker 2: to that.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, Let's I'm a ball of knowledge. Let's get into
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  Speaker 1: the summary. Were recapping every chapter thoughts in Who's to
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  Speaker 1: every God Twist will break it down for you. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: So the summary that I've got is like the whole party,
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  Speaker 1: the assassin and the pirate lord. So there is. It's
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  Speaker 1: not like chapter by chapter, but it'll be. Actually, it's
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  Speaker 1: actually pretty good, all right. So, following the deaths of
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  Speaker 1: two fellow assassins in Rifthold, Selena Sardothian and Sam Cortland
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  Speaker 1: are sent by Arabin Hamil to Skull's Bay in order
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  Speaker 1: to exact retribution from the Lord of Pirates Captain Rolph,
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  Speaker 1: who's Captain Rolf obviously for three assassins killed by his
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  Speaker 1: fellow pirates. Upon arrival, Slena and Sam soon discover that
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  Speaker 1: Arabin is using the assassin's deaths to broker a slave
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  Speaker 1: trade agreement with Captain Rolph. Selena doesn't like the idea
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  Speaker 1: of being part of slave trading. She decides to meet
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  Speaker 1: with Ralph to see what she can do to disrupt
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  Speaker 1: the trade. She insists on inspecting the slaves. When they arrive,
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  Speaker 1: Ralph says they will stay on the boat for the inspection.
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  Speaker 1: When shown the slaves, Sam squeezes Slenna's hand to let
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  Speaker 1: her know, so to let her know she knows what
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  Speaker 1: she's going to do. Like Sam knows that she's gonna
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  Speaker 1: fuck with Rolf, she realized just upsetting the deal wasn't
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  Speaker 1: enough to free the slaves. Both disgusted by the inhuman
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  Speaker 1: conditions that the slaves are in and the immorality of
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  Speaker 1: it all, they plot in secret to free all the
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  Speaker 1: slaves in Skull's Bay before they are shipped off to sail.
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  Speaker 1: The night before the slaves departure, Slenna and Sam sneak
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  Speaker 1: aboard the two slave ships, the Loveless and the Golden Wolf,
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  Speaker 1: disabling the guards aboard. Speaking through a multi lingual slave,
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  Speaker 1: Selena informs them of her plan and their impending freedom
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  Speaker 1: should they follow her instructions, instigating a bar fight that
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  Speaker 1: involves into an entire city fight. Sam and Slenna attempt
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  Speaker 1: to sneak away to destroy the Shipbreaker, a large chain
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  Speaker 1: that prevents entrance to and from the bay, but are
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  Speaker 1: confronted by Rolf. Distracting him by showing her usually masked face.
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  Speaker 1: Selena allows Sam to escape while she duels with Rolf,
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  Speaker 1: narrowly defeating him. She watches in horror as Sam destroys
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  Speaker 1: the shipbreaker, the watch tower, and seemingly himself in the process.
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  Speaker 1: The slaves who had been rowing the ships since dawn broke.
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  Speaker 1: Since Dawn broke, managed to escape as the other ships
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  Speaker 1: were disabled the night prior. Miraculously, Sam survives the destruction
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  Speaker 1: of the watch tower, much to Selena's relief, and the
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  Speaker 1: two begin a more amicable, if not slightly awkward friendship,
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  Speaker 1: with a contractual agreement that Rolf will never again enter
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  Speaker 1: the slave trade and will harbor escape slaves if they
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  Speaker 1: return home. And then they return home to Rifthold. Does
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  Speaker 1: that ring a bell?
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  Speaker 2: That does ring a bell? Okay, Yeah, I've got heaps
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  Speaker 2: of thoughts and feelings and stuff to talk about this.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was It's kind of like a weird premise
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  Speaker 1: of the book.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think not that we've made it confusing for ourself,
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  Speaker 2: but yeah, we've gone back in time. It's also a prequel.
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  Speaker 2: It's done differently and then like now we kind of
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  Speaker 2: already know the future. But no, still for a prequel,
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  Speaker 2: I thought it was quite entertaining.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I didn't know she hated Sam from the beginning.
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  Speaker 1: I also it makes sense, well she wears a fucking mask.
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  Speaker 1: How no one knew her identity in the Challenge for
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  Speaker 1: the King? Like, yeah, that's why I always thought, like,
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  Speaker 1: how do these people not recognize her? So that does
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  Speaker 1: answer a huge question because she always kept so Arabin
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  Speaker 1: always wanted her identity kept like safe.
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  Speaker 2: And they also explained it because beauty can be used
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  Speaker 2: as a power as well as like a fault, I guess,
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  Speaker 2: And she's very beautiful, so they hide that as well,
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  Speaker 2: other than just hiding her identity. Yeah, yeah, but no,
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  Speaker 2: pretty interesting, I want to say, because like obviously it
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  Speaker 2: goes into way more detail in the book.
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  Speaker 1: So Selena is like, so, what's the word cocky in
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  Speaker 1: this very jarring? Yeah, jarring is the word, Like she
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  Speaker 1: is so so just arrogant.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I kind of got used to it. I really
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  Speaker 2: thought that at the start. It kind of pissed me
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  Speaker 2: off because I was hoping my prayers would be answered
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  Speaker 2: in a sense of like I thought she would just
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  Speaker 2: be like a fucking cold, hard killer with no morals,
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  Speaker 2: no empathy. He's fucking slittant, roads, fucking drolling knives at people,
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  Speaker 2: and now she's saving slaves for no reason. Obviously it's good,
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  Speaker 2: but I was like, this isn't what I want.
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  Speaker 1: I know. It's kind of like they're trying to so
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  Speaker 1: Sarah jo Mass is trying to get us to like
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  Speaker 1: maybe understand her character and her personality a bit more,
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  Speaker 1: but maybe the reason In like so Throne of Glass,
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  Speaker 1: she talks about how good she used to be and
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  Speaker 1: how good she is, but she's like obviously been starved
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  Speaker 1: for a year at the camp at Endovia, but she's
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  Speaker 1: almost humble.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah she's been Maybe she got humbled, but she must
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  Speaker 2: get humbled in this book somehow.
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  Speaker 1: I think she gets humbled by getting caught and the
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  Speaker 1: fact that like obviously we know Sam dies, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And like her.
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  Speaker 1: Gets given up, like she gets humbled.
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  Speaker 2: I think it almost happened in part one where like
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  Speaker 2: Sam almost dies because of Selena and she thought he
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  Speaker 2: wasn't coming back, and she's like, this is all because
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  Speaker 2: of me. He definitely dies because of her.
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  Speaker 1: He's definitely gonna die because of her. Also, it's cool that, like,
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  Speaker 1: I so off with this book's obviously going to be
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  Speaker 1: like we get to see them falling in love over
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  Speaker 1: the next because she's sixteen in this nearly seventeen. She
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  Speaker 1: gets caught at eighteen, so she's gonna get caught soon. Yeah. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I was a little annoyed that Ralph could just like
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  Speaker 1: go hand to hand with her. Well, he was a
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  Speaker 1: pirate lord though, Yeah, pirate lord. He's supposed to have
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  Speaker 1: like this this map on the back of his hand
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  Speaker 1: that like was he sold his soul for and he
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  Speaker 1: can like know the weather, he knows where other pirates are,
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  Speaker 1: he knows where the enemies are and't shit like and
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  Speaker 1: that's why he's the pirate lord. Yeah, but apparently hit
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  Speaker 1: that magic for that also got taken away when the
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  Speaker 1: king found his word key.
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  Speaker 2: Interesting because it's a cool premise. I was thinking, like
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  Speaker 2: kind of Pirates of the Caribbean, Like it was his name,
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  Speaker 2: Davy Jones Locker, that bloke, Yeah, like that kind of vibe.
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  Speaker 2: So I was thinking he was a weapon, and like
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  Speaker 2: I was thinking he would be better than Selena because
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  Speaker 2: she's sixteen. But I was wrong.
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  Speaker 1: I had high hopes for Selena. I thought she was
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  Speaker 1: just gonna suck him up. But he went hand to
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  Speaker 1: hand with the no problem. But I was picturing someone more.
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  Speaker 1: I was picturing like someone handsome for the pirate. She
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  Speaker 1: I swear. She explains him as like handsome.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, maybe it was the voice or like
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  Speaker 2: just the word pira. I was picturing like a grub
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  Speaker 2: full of tattoos and dirty and shit like long Dready's
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  Speaker 2: and that I see.
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  Speaker 1: I was picturing all the tattoos, but like I was
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  Speaker 1: almost picturing, Like how do I explain this? Like like
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  Speaker 1: I was picturing Let's just say if you or me
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  Speaker 1: were just like covered in tattoos and we wore a
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  Speaker 1: pirate's outfit so.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of like sexy. Yeah, that's fair.
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  Speaker 1: I suppose that's more.
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  Speaker 2: Fitting for the book. And I was maybe my imagination
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  Speaker 2: was taken away by pirates of the Caribbean.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, anywho's So She's like, I don't know, that's There's
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  Speaker 1: not a huge amount that goes on apart from the
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  Speaker 1: fact that she just tries to three all these slaves.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and the reason she was doing it was just
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  Speaker 2: because she felt bad for him and no one else
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  Speaker 2: was doing it.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, she's like her whole thing was so Sam,
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  Speaker 1: he's not a big fan of it, but he wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: have gone against Arabin's words. No, like of you know,
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  Speaker 1: go broke it this deal. And then here's the thing
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  Speaker 1: as well, right, so number one, Slam is like, I
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  Speaker 1: don't give no fucks like I'm his heir, I'm the
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  Speaker 1: heir to Arabin's assassin throne or whatever. So she doesn't.
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  Speaker 1: She thinks like she's safe, so she thinks she can
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  Speaker 1: do whatever she want. And she's like, she's like, I
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  Speaker 1: refuse to let Arabin deal with slaves like I thought
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  Speaker 1: he was literally like as rich as the king, why
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  Speaker 1: is he doing this? And she's also like so Sam
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  Speaker 1: and her have an argument when she's like I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: free them and he's like don't, please, don't. She's like
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing it whatever, and he's like she's like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we didn't have a choice, but we have a choice now.
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  Speaker 1: So like when we got picked up by Arab and
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  Speaker 1: we didn't have a choice to be trained and become killers,
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  Speaker 1: but we get to choose who we kill now, and
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  Speaker 1: who we kill is like nine to nine percent of
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  Speaker 1: the time corrupt politicians type shit people that deserve to die.
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  Speaker 1: And so She's like, these slaves they fucking you know.
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  Speaker 1: Some of them might have been fighting for their country.
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  Speaker 1: Some of them might have just been living in small
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  Speaker 1: towns on the outskirts of a city or like a territory,
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  Speaker 1: and they just got picked up in the commotion. Like
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  Speaker 1: these people are innocent, Like what are they doing here?
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  Speaker 1: They don't need Like this is crazy. And so then
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  Speaker 1: Sam finally agrees with her.
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  Speaker 2: So I feel like maybe it does go a little
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  Speaker 2: bit deeper because I think Selena mentioned or maybe it
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  Speaker 2: was Sam, like why were we sent Sam and Selena
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  Speaker 2: to kind of yeah, broach this, he broached this deal.
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  Speaker 2: We don't need to be here.
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  Speaker 1: This could have been some peeni weenie nobody. Basically, Sam's like,
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  Speaker 1: I think Arabin wanted us out of the city for
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  Speaker 1: a month.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, But also I think Arabin knows that Selena will
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  Speaker 2: fuck this up for some reason, he knows her better
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  Speaker 2: than she knows herself. She's sixteen. It the d of
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  Speaker 2: the day, Like she's still figuring out who she is. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and I reckon he really knows it. And he seems
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  Speaker 2: to be like the pinnacle to all of these stories
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  Speaker 2: because he would have known that she's heir to the throne,
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  Speaker 2: but she doesn't know it yet. I reckon, he's like
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  Speaker 2: the pain. He's sent her there for some reason. Maybe,
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  Speaker 2: So what was the what happens to now? The slaves
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  Speaker 2: aren't coming? What's the repercussions with the pirate lord? But
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  Speaker 2: he signed those document there was basically.
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  Speaker 1: No repercussions because she's said to him, I've got I've
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  Speaker 1: written out these two contracts. Contract number one is you
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  Speaker 1: will never ever do a deal with Arab and Hammel
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  Speaker 1: again or some shit. And then the other contract she
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  Speaker 1: forced him to sign was you that he's never ever
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  Speaker 1: going to deal in the slave trade again, and Skull
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  Speaker 1: Bay as and the city of Skull Bay is to
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  Speaker 1: be used as a like they will take slaves in
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  Speaker 1: that are fleeing. And he's like, what if I just
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  Speaker 1: don't don't do that? What if I just keep dealing
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  Speaker 1: in slaves? And she's like, well, she's fought him twice.
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  Speaker 1: She's like, I've disarmed you and like you twice the
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  Speaker 1: third the third time, you won't be so lucky as
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  Speaker 1: as obviously she's saying I'll kill you next time.
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  Speaker 2: So I mean, I think either part one means absolutely
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  Speaker 2: fuck all or it means everything. It means everything.
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, here's the thing though, was like all of this stuff, right,
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: like everything that's gonna happen in this book is like
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  Speaker 1: doesn't mean does it mean anything to the story of
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: Throne of Glass.
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: I saw a comment the baddies rebuttled it that someone said,
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: don't even bother reading Assassin's Blade.
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: I saw someone say don't even bother reading it too,
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: and then I did see a lot about it be
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: like no, no, no, no no. But at the same time,
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: it's like the majority of people are going to be purists. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: So it's like, is the person that is saying don't
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  Speaker 1: read it like objectively right in a sense of like
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  Speaker 1: you don't actually need to, it's more of a choice.
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: But then the purists are like, no, no, no, you need it.
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: You need it, you need it, like you need the backstory,
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: you need this, you need that. But like, at the
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: same time, do you really need that? Did we need
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: to know who Sam Cortland is? What he was like
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  Speaker 1: why Selena loved him, like or do you just need
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: to take her word for it in the books that
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: she did love him.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm leaning towards you probably don't have to read it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but it does add to the storyline, and I think
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  Speaker 2: for us we'll enjoy that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it gives it depth. Yeah, give it a bit
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  Speaker 1: of depth. Yeah, it gives it a bit of depth.
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  Speaker 1: I think I agree with that.
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  Speaker 2: As long as we find out how Sam died, I'll
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  Speaker 2: be happy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but we know how Sam died, like the detail
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  Speaker 1: of it. Oh true, No, we don't know the detail,
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  Speaker 1: but we know that, yeah, he was killed because actually, wait,
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  Speaker 1: I remember reading something about how he died.
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  Speaker 2: But I want to know that, Like it's Selena's fault
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  Speaker 2: and that's why she changed, and that's why she was caught.
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  Speaker 2: Like all the depth we know that was when she
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  Speaker 2: was caught, but we don't know what well.
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, look, I mean it was cool what they did, Yeah,
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: it was it was cool, something a little bit different.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: It's kind of cool that you just like start and
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: stop a short story and like we don't have to
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: do any predictions for the short story. We don't have
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: to do It's kind of funny A.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, we don't have any predictions for or that
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  Speaker 2: you can't story at all. But do you want to
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: do predictions for this book? Sure?
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, lots of fear less predictions to one of the
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: fictional men like we always.
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: Doigenough and streaming again. This is the Relentables Book Club.
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  Speaker 2: Let the throw on the docks begin, all right, predictions time.
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: Predictions for this book's a little bit different because, like
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: Jake just said that each we've got four more stories.
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: Each one I assume has a conclusion, like it's not
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: a chapter and leads on Yeah, yeah, each one will
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: come into a conclusion.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I don't know.
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: Obviously I reckon it's a love story for Sam and Selena,
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: but also there's gonna be one of the stories mentions
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: Selena figuring out her powers, but she has no idea
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: what it is, no really, and I think she finds
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: out with something to do with someone makes her angry
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  Speaker 2: around Sam and prostitution with his mum.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: Okay, thats mom, his mom's dead.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, but you know how that mentioned with
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: the slaves, how the pirate lord said like, oh, some
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: of some of them tore the right person will go
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: to be in the prostitute. Yeah, and then Sam Sam
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: got really angry and Selena was like, that was the
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: first time you could see like she cared about him.
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  Speaker 2: I reckon, that will cause her to get really angry
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: and you'll see the power and it'll come through somehow.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's my prediction. Okay, you think I think there's
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: zero magic.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: You don't reckon. I don't reckon there will be like
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: an answer to it. But I reckon something will happen
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: you can't explain it, and we know it's magic, but
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: Selena doesn't know it's magic.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: I think that's actually a fair point. I think that
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: every single one of these stories is going to be
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: like a m you know, Selena is got to go
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: do something that's for her work, which is being an assassin.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: So number one she got sent to broker a slave
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  Speaker 1: trade deal and she's like, fuck, no, freeze the slaves,
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  Speaker 1: right Yeah. I reckon the next one, she's going to
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: save someone that doesn't need to be saved, or some
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: shit or like or like you know, she's like she's
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: just like I think every single one there's going to
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: be something that pulls on her heart strings and like
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: we're just going to keep on seeing feet deeper and
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: deeper that her character is just like, No, all I
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: actually want to do is help people.
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  Speaker 2: Damn it. That sounds so right, but I don't want
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: it to be right.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: I think that's all. That's I think that's what every
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: single one of these stories is going to be. Also,
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: I have a feeling that the next one is super short.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: Oh really, I think so a I could actually tell
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: you exactly how many pages it is.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: Do you want to do too? Is that what you're saying?
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: I don't know what do you reckon? Like, we don't
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: have to We could just like, like, we don't have
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: to do too, We could just do a short one.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: True, just a little short epy.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: So the Assassin and the so here we go. So Assassin,
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: the Assassin in the Pirate Lord was seventy seven pages.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: So from the Assassin and the Healer starts at page
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: seventy seven and finishes at page one hundred and seventeen.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: Okay, so it's like fifty So it's.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: A bit shorter. But then the one after that is
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: over one hundred pages, and the one after that again
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: over all the other ones of that are all one
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: hundred pages. Oh no, we'll leave it as just do
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: one party, one novella each time.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, one little And I think to make the baddies
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: happy is I will release all of these at once. Okay,
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: So I reckon the baddies will be like, no, doabll
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: It was not that much happens. But if you get
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: every single episode at one time, then you actually do
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: get it all once.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you'll be happy. And I reckon I'm going to
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: try and go like just quick summary off the top
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: of my head nearly, okay, especially if they're sure yeah yeah, true, true, true.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: Well you something reds are good. And with that, I
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: guess two batties. If you want to binge, you're not
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: on Patreon, and you want to binge all episodes of
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: Assassin's Play, They're now available on Patreon for eight ninety
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: nine a month. The value over on Patreon. Not just
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: saying that because I'm one of the co owners, but
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: it's good value. Eight brilliant value. I gotta say something, Okay, I'm.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: So excited to read Air of Fire?
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: Is that just the book after this? Is that? Where
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: where are we going to discuss the you read them together? No,
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: that's the.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: One I don't know where where where like no, no, no, no, no, no, bro,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: we got like, so we've got fu. I we need
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: to read books six and seven together. Oh okay, and
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: read is six and seven?
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: I say it's two three? For fuck, we're ages away,
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: don't I'm sure.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: I think it's like Queen of Shadows, Tower of Dawn,
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: tandem read those and then the last book is Kingdom
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: of Ash.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: Oh shit, So you got me excited. I thought, well,
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: near it because you were asking about it.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: Nah. Nah, I went on near it. I just kept
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: on seeing. So I asked on the Instagram about I
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: was like, do we do the tandem read? And majority
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: of people is yes, do the tandem read.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: One of the baddies commented, I voice message you comment again,
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: they have the Kindle version and Cassie's got a Kindle,
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: so I can do it where it's tandem red split
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: up perfectly so you get it right and it makes sense.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: It's cohesive and that's what we need. Where if I
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: feel like I was reading two books, I don't know
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: how the fuck I do it with audio books.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it would be hard. It's gonna be some people.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: So someone said, don't do it because it fucks up
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: the momentum. But then some people are saying the complete opposite,
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: that you need to do it or else the momentum
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: is shit.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: How do is it chapter for chapter or is.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: It I have a feeling it must be like I
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: guess you know, you might read like three chapters from
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: one of them and then go read one chapter from
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: the other. And then with the way some of the
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: people all the Badi is well, Sarah J. Mass fans
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: that someone must have worked it out proper timeline wise,
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: like you're reading it, but like the series of events
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: are happening on the opposite side of the world in
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: all like different parts of the world, but each thing's
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: like someone commented, like, the reason I think you need
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: to do to the tandem read is because for number
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: one like you, it's better for momentum. So people are
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: saying it's better for momentum.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: And then.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: There is things that happen in one book that directly
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: impact the same for the same time of like, and
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: it's like, so I feel like you need to I
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: think the tandem reads the go. Everyone's saying it's the go.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: A lot of people are saying like some people are saying,
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: don't do it. Beth Reckons read them as they were released.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: I was gonna say, it's interesting the whole book world.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: I guess maybe it's just Sarah J. Mass. I'm a
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: bit naive to the whole thing. Now we're reading.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: The first book.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: Third we might do a tandem read.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, literally, who knows what else we'll do. It went
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: from chapters to parts like yeah, yeah, bro, like it's fing.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: To be fair, Like I've always struggled to comprehend, like
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: as a writer planning however, many books must be fucking hard,
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: and then you have then and then you have a
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: thought one day like oh shit, I could have added
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: this here, I'm as well do another book. Yeah, And
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: then finally, in uh this book Assassin's Blade, apparently, one
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: of the batties said we need to look out for
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: Dorian and Kale. Not giving anything away. It's like where's Wally.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: There'll be a mention about them, and yeah, I don't
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: think their names are mentioned, but something they do must
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: be mentioned and be like, oh, we know who they
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: are because we've read it in this sick Yeah. Apparently,
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: I think Dorian should be easy to spot. Kale might
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: be a bit harder.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: I assume that she's just going to talk about like
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: the Captain of the Guard or some shit.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I feel like maybe maybe true true true,
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: or someone does something that affects something. I don't know.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: I wonder what, I wonder what. I feel like I
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: will notice it? No, will I?
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: Okay, you will. I. Also, the first part wasn't as
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: much as oh my god, it explains so much for me.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: No, nothing.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: It was more like, oh, yeah, explains a bit.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: The final question that we're going to find out And
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: if you're listening to this on Patreon, then you're also
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: going to find out with us, probably within the next
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: couple of episodes.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: Well that's another pole being on Petreon. You get to
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: experience with us.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah true, this isn't actually something you'll find out. But
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: I want to know if Arabin Hamil is going to
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: become a part of the wider series. Ah, he has to.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: And like, is Arab Hamil like a fucking beast assassin too? Like?
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: Is he way better than Selena?
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: That's a good point because he taught her everything. She
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: knows everything. He must not have magic.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, true, we know that Selena's fae.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: What's their relationship now? Like, has anything been mentioned? Nothing
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: has a She.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: Thinks that I'm pretty sure he betrayed her, so she's like,
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: fuck that guy.
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. I feel like he.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Archer, Archer says in Crowned Midnight, like Arabin told me
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: who you are?
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: But did he know he thought? Did he know Archer
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: was bad? I don't know.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: And does Arabin know that.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: He's the slave bread crumbing that Arabin is bad and
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: he doesn't really care? Maybe yeah, I think it's Basby
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: and slaves and ship.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, anyway, thank you for listening.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: Come back next week for part two. We Love You,
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: Stay Bad