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BOOKCLUB: ASSASSIN'S BLADE PT 2 · Relatables

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Speaker 1: Previously on Relatables Baddies book Club. Ah'm ahti, No it's not. No,
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Speaker 1: it's not because I because.
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Speaker 2: I have in my head that he's like, because I
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Speaker 2: only have my mental description of what I've read. He
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Speaker 2: just has a normal accent, and he's just called a
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Speaker 2: pirate and he doesn't actually have like an aha mites
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Speaker 2: type thing.
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Speaker 1: Welcome to Relatables Baddie's Book Club, where we will embark
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Speaker 1: on a journey reading some of the finest pieces of
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Speaker 1: literature you have ever laid eyes or 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 called The Assassin and the Heiler technically part two. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: this is the second short novella. Yeah, this one was
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Speaker 1: very much a novella.
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Speaker 2: I thought it was, and I jim of the prediction
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Speaker 2: I made last episode where I said, I have a
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Speaker 2: feeling every single one of these is going to be
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Speaker 2: someone or someone who can't really help themselves and Selene
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Speaker 2: is going to do something about it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, this next one.
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Speaker 2: The next one's called The Assassin in the Desert, so
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Speaker 2: there's no one in the desert, so.
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Speaker 1: I was happy it was in the right timeline. It
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Speaker 1: was still after the Pirate one same, I thought it
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Speaker 1: would be a completely different story with no connection at all.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I like that, and how the next one
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Speaker 2: is obviously also where she's going. Yeah, it's like a
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Speaker 2: bit of I saw someone comment on I think Patreon,
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Speaker 2: you know, relatables.
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Speaker 1: What's what's our patron called again, lettle sixty nine? This
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Speaker 1: is your thing forward slash fucking whatever for a long time.
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Speaker 2: Anyway, the description you can binge every book Club episode
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Speaker 2: over there before they come out of Spotify.
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Speaker 1: Someone commented over there.
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Speaker 2: That they picture in their mind the book of Assassin's
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Speaker 2: Blade being Aileen.
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Speaker 1: Who is Selena? I'm pretty sure obviously her name is
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Speaker 1: changed to Aileen, which in my opinion is kind of annoying.
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Speaker 2: But anyway, Aileen her thinking about the story, if that
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Speaker 2: makes any sense, her reminiscing type of thing. Oh I
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Speaker 2: get it, Yeah, I know, man, Like hopefully I hope
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Speaker 2: she her name just stays as Selena, because it's stuck
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Speaker 2: in my head, my head, two full books with the
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Speaker 2: name Selena, and then we have to think about, like
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Speaker 2: we have to call her fucking But she doesn't know,
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Speaker 2: she knows who she is, She's known who she is
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Speaker 2: as well, because someone else commented, like, I like to
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Speaker 2: think that the reason she never says it in Throne
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Speaker 2: of Glass or Crown at Midnight is because she just
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Speaker 2: wasn't ready to say it yet.
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Speaker 1: She wasn't prepared, And in this she's quite jarring a
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Speaker 1: little bit. Oh my god, she's young. Yeah, she's very young.
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Speaker 1: And there's a few sly comments and and Dovia fucking
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Speaker 1: humbled her. Yeah, she's gassing herself up. I think she's
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Speaker 1: a bad Maybe she is, but also she's just like
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Speaker 1: two cocky.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, she's one of those like people that have
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Speaker 2: been told their whole life like she she is what
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Speaker 2: I would be if I stayed in Canada. Every time
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Speaker 2: I call my mom, she's like, hello, handsome boy, and
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Speaker 2: I'm like, oh yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 1: There was one line she was in like the pub
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Speaker 1: or whatever, and she was describing one of the rageresses
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Speaker 1: getting like I don't know, groped and like talked up,
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Speaker 1: being like what are you doing later? And she's like, oh,
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Speaker 1: I wish that would happen to me so I could
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Speaker 1: like punch someone like I must not be looking good tonight.
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Speaker 1: Fucking shut up, Selena, right mate. He always thinks They're
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Speaker 1: like a tanner, like I can get anyone tonight, and
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Speaker 1: then they go home with no one and it's like yeah, yah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: they're like I could get anyone, but I choose not to.
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Speaker 1: Yeah that's Selena. That's literally Selena. But before we get
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Speaker 1: into the recaps, I had something fun to do and
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Speaker 1: this came from So I've been editing all the book
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Speaker 1: clubs and uh in one of I think it might
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Speaker 1: have been the finale of the last book. Yeah, Jake, well,
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Speaker 1: you've been actually very passionate in all of the books.
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Speaker 1: How you feel about Dorian. Yeah, I I, for some
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Speaker 1: reason a Median hater, which seems to be contradictory of
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Speaker 1: all the baddies. So I have a feeling I will
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Speaker 1: change my mind's that's the feeling I get. But as
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Speaker 1: of right now, it's like everyone loves Dorian and I'm
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Speaker 1: just thinking like why Yeah, And so I put on
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Speaker 1: our Instagram what do we think of Dorian. I've got
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Speaker 1: a few responses, and this is we have no context
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Speaker 1: to where they are or we are in the book.
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Speaker 1: Does it give spoilers? No? No, no, no at all? Okay,
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Speaker 1: goo good good. I thought it was just kind of funny. Okay,
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Speaker 1: I'll bleed whatever color he tells me to. Oh my god. Okay,
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Speaker 1: so Dorian's got fair. What do we think of Dorian? Yummy?
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Speaker 1: What guys, this guy's genuinely red flag territory. Hold the
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Speaker 1: faith boys go on a journey. See what you think
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Speaker 1: of him in the final book, so I'll see you sing.
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Speaker 1: So I've got to hate him for the whole series
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Speaker 1: and then just start liking him. Yeah, I actually sympathized
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Speaker 1: with him. He's actually a lovely guy, and I felt
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Speaker 1: a little bit sorry for him. That's kind of what
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Speaker 1: I was saying. Yeah, yeah, Slenda didn't give him a chance. True, true,
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Speaker 1: like she doesn't like she didn't even she had this
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Speaker 1: reason for not giving him a chance. But it's also
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Speaker 1: like that really like you just don't want to be
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Speaker 1: with him type of thing, you know? Oy, oh this one?
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Speaker 1: What do we think of Dorian? Little emo kid in
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Speaker 1: the beginning, daddy Dorian by the end?
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Speaker 3: Okay, shit brokay, okay, I'm gonna lie second book boyfriend
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Speaker 3: behind Cassie and what for ree, We're gonna just.
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Speaker 1: Love heart emogi love heart emogy ice emerji ice emoji
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Speaker 1: sweat emogic kiss kiss kiss, blush emoji, mirror emoji bird.
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Speaker 1: Wizard's going to get some cool powers. I can feel
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Speaker 1: you're going to get hectic powers. Yeah, capital's l O
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Speaker 1: v E. Wait, not a single person has disliked him yet.
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Speaker 1: Now there's been. So there's there's one that says mid yeah,
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Speaker 1: one that says lame, Yeah, one said hottie. Okay, not
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Speaker 1: too many, No, that's all. There's only two bad ones.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, I've clipped. Actually, i'll send it to you
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Speaker 1: after this. You'll post it next week. It was you
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Speaker 1: going on a round about Dorian and I reckon a
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Speaker 1: lot of people will comment because you said, like where
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Speaker 1: I am in the book doesn't make sense? Why are
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Speaker 1: you giving me so much shit? Yeah, but everyone seems
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Speaker 1: to be like, yeah, he's this good anyway. They're giving
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Speaker 1: him the benefit of debt for some reason, but there's
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Speaker 1: nothing to give him the benefit of doubt and actions speak
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Speaker 1: loud in words, that's what That's what I think.
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Speaker 2: I'm thinking, Like, if everyone loved him from the beginning,
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Speaker 2: then I'm sorry, but everyone's fucked.
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Speaker 1: First. You can't love that motherfucker the beginning. He is
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Speaker 1: straight up a spoiled prince. Yeah, well, that's what. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and he acts like prince. He does act like it.
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Speaker 1: But I said something funny in one of the last episodes,
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Speaker 1: and it was like he's only just developing his frontal
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Speaker 1: albe and he's still figuring it out. Yeah yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: nineteen especially, yeah, like nineteen or twenty or some shit. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean trigued to see just like the little mention
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Speaker 1: of him in this book. Anyway, same, okay, but before
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Speaker 1: we move on, we're we move on.
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Speaker 2: I just want to put out there that I am
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Speaker 2: actually going to be I think I predicted that this
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Speaker 2: is going to happen, but I don't know if I
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Speaker 2: said anything after it. I said, I am going to
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Speaker 2: be so upset if him and Alan get married and
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Speaker 2: end up together.
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Speaker 1: You haven't said that.
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Speaker 2: I could have sworn I said it as a prediction,
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Speaker 2: like I think that they are gonna end up combining
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Speaker 2: the kingdoms or some shit like uniting the kingdoms.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, maybe.
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Speaker 2: And I just want to say that I'm going to
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Speaker 2: be livid if that happens and he does it.
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Speaker 1: But no, I would be pretty livid.
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Speaker 2: Historian gives me the type of vibe that like he
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Speaker 2: you know, he's like, oh, I've let her go, like
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Speaker 2: Kale and her thing, blah blah blah blah blah, Kale's
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Speaker 2: my best friend, yadda, YadA YadA.
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Speaker 1: But like if Selena said to Dorian like maybe I want.
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Speaker 2: This, he'd throw every single fucking belief he has out
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Speaker 2: the door and he take her.
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Speaker 1: He would, he would, he would would. And why do
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Speaker 1: you guys sympathize with this motherfucker? That's what I'm trying
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Speaker 1: to get at. It must be the next book. It
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Speaker 1: must be like they're saying, this is the last book.
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Speaker 1: What are you talking? This guy must have the sickest
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Speaker 1: arc in the last If it's the last book, I
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Speaker 1: feel like they would be on your side though, Like
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Speaker 1: you know how we all hated Tamlin and everyone kept
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Speaker 1: their mouth shut. They were like yeah, valid, granted, yeah,
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Speaker 1: Like no, we loved it. We did the opposite where around. Sorry,
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Speaker 1: actually that won't I take that back. We loved him
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Speaker 1: at the start, then hated him, but they still kept
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Speaker 1: their mouth shut for that anyway, Exactly, they kept their
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Speaker 1: mouth shut when we loved him. We're like Tamon's hectic
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Speaker 1: blah blah, And no one even said like just you wait,
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Speaker 1: just you wait, yeah, but everyone's like, just you wait
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Speaker 1: about door and you must have a good character arc anyway, guys,
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Speaker 1: just do the summary or the recap.
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Speaker 2: We're recapping every chapter, thoughts and theories to every blond
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Speaker 2: Twist will break it down for you.
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Speaker 1: Okay. Chapter one, I like how they restart the chapters,
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Speaker 1: so I was surprised by that. I like that thoroughly.
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Speaker 2: In surprise chapter one, at a rundown in in the
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Speaker 2: port town of Innish bar Made, Irene Towers is captivated
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Speaker 2: by a mysterious hooded stranger who turns out to be
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Speaker 2: Selena so Sardothian, the Empire's most feared teenage assassin.
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Speaker 1: Selena is stranded.
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Speaker 2: Here, has punishment for her master from her master for
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Speaker 2: sabotaging a slave trade deal, waiting for a ship while
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Speaker 2: you bruised, furious and bored. She's been fixed picking fights
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Speaker 2: just to cope, and with another long night ahead, she's
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Speaker 2: itching to start one.
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Speaker 1: So we've find out.
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Speaker 2: She gets bumped by Arab in a yeah, good pumped.
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Speaker 1: Chapter two.
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Speaker 2: As last Call approaches, Irene notices the tavern's atmosphere turns
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Speaker 2: predatory thieves are circling the hooded stranger. Tonight sorry to stranger,
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Speaker 2: tonight being their last chance before she says sail at dawn.
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Speaker 2: Irene wants to warn her, but can't risk losing her job.
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Speaker 2: After closing, Irene takes out the rubbish alone and is
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Speaker 2: ambushed by four mercenaries demanding her tips. Just as one
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Speaker 2: holds a blade to her throat, figures emerged from the mist,
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Speaker 2: silently taking the men down by one, one by one.
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Speaker 2: It's the hooded stranger. Dagger's drawn and blades already bloody.
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Speaker 2: Chapter three, Selena dispatches the mercenaries in the alley with
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Speaker 2: with brutal efficiency. It's over before it really starts. She
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Speaker 2: hadn't planned to save Irene. She'd simply followed the men
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Speaker 2: looking for a fight. When Irene begs her not to
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Speaker 2: kill her, Selene just laughs it off. Selena, sorry, just
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Speaker 2: laughs it off. But she took a cut to the
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Speaker 2: arm in the process, and when Irene insists on clear
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Speaker 2: something about the girl's quiet composure after nearly falling apart
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Speaker 2: intrigues Selena enough to let her. Chapter four, Irene tends
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Speaker 2: Selena's wound and the two have a surprisingly frank exchange.
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Speaker 2: Irene admits she's been stranded here on her way to
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Speaker 2: a healer's academy, too afraid to leave. Selena has little
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Speaker 2: patience for that and tells her bluntly to stop rotting
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Speaker 2: in this town and go pursue her dream. Then, almost
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Speaker 2: against her own instincts, she takes Irene into the alley
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Speaker 2: and spends the rest of the night teaching her basic
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Speaker 2: self defense moves.
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Speaker 1: Just as Irene tries to thank her.
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Speaker 2: More men close in and Selena draws her sword. Chapter five,
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Speaker 2: the escaped mercenary returns with reinforcements. While Selena fights him
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Speaker 2: in the alley, A sixth man seeks sneaks through the
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Speaker 2: inn and grabs Irene with a blade to her throat,
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Speaker 2: using her as leverage. Selena refuses to drop her weapons
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Speaker 2: and eyes silently, and her eyes silently dare Irene to
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Speaker 2: fight back, summoning everything she summoning everything she was just taught.
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Speaker 2: Irene stomps and elbows and breaks free. She does it.
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Speaker 2: Selena finishes the rest, then coolly tells Irene it was
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Speaker 2: a controlled environment, a live test. Irene is furious, shaking
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Speaker 2: and promptly vomits.
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Speaker 1: Chapter six.
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Speaker 2: As dawn breaks, Irene cleans the blood from her clothes
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Speaker 2: and braces for another wretched day until she finds a
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Speaker 2: letter pouch, a leather pouch on her bed with a
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Speaker 2: note for wherever you need to go, and then some
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Speaker 2: the world needs more healers. Inside is a small fortune
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Speaker 2: in gold coins, plus Selena's ruby brooch. It's enough to
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Speaker 2: change everything. An hour later, Irene walks out of the
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Speaker 2: White Pig and never looks back. The White Pig was
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Speaker 2: the inn. I don't know if that was said in
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Speaker 2: the beginning. Meanwhile, Selena boards her ship, finally at peace,
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Speaker 2: quietly hoping the healer she just freed will one day
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Speaker 2: return to mend a broken world. Whoo told you this
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Speaker 2: shit was happening.
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Speaker 1: So Also, one thing that my summary left out was
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Speaker 1: that Irene comes from a mad good bloodline. Yes yes, yes, yes,
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Speaker 1: her mother the reason she so, She's from a different
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Speaker 1: town a little ways away. She was going to go
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Speaker 1: to this place where across the ocean, where Ardalande has
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Speaker 1: not yet reached and probably never will reach. And there's
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Speaker 1: this really good healer's academy, and her mother was a
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Speaker 1: magical healer. It was her gift from someone or whatever.
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Speaker 1: And then her mother got murdered by the Ardoline forces
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Speaker 1: and so Irene she wants to go become a healer. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: which is cool. I guess. I gotta say this one
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Speaker 1: to me was kind of boring. This one was very,
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Speaker 1: very boring, and I was thinking, like, so Sarah J.
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Speaker 1: Maass wrote the whole series of throwne Glass went back
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Speaker 1: and forught, fuck this will be good to add, Like
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Speaker 1: what's he's the only thing that this will add to
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Speaker 1: the series?
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Speaker 2: Right is obviously at some point in like book five,
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Speaker 2: six or seven or something like that, Irene is going
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Speaker 2: to come back and we're gonna know who Irene is.
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Speaker 1: And I guess the only other part is like it's
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Speaker 1: showing Selene's character that she's always been caring, empathetic and
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Speaker 1: looked after others huanas even though she's not that fortunate,
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Speaker 1: she's in a better position than her and anyone else,
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Speaker 1: and she tries to help, which explains my rebuttals in
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Speaker 1: the first two books, I guess, but it still doesn't
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Speaker 1: explain to me that how she's a good assassin.
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Speaker 2: So, Okay, I was going to say, I almost wanted
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Speaker 2: to put in the group channel on Instagram, right, I
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Speaker 2: wanted to ask, like, is the entire series of Throne
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Speaker 2: of Glass, just like is the entire trope of the series,
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Speaker 2: just the fact that Selena never wanted to be an assassin,
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Speaker 2: was forced to be an assassin, and basically just spends.
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Speaker 1: The whole Are we just learning the whole series? Like
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Speaker 1: the reason why she's a good person, I don't know,
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Speaker 1: it must be. But also, like I don't know, I
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Speaker 1: feel like I'm allowed to be pissed. You're allowed to
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Speaker 1: be pissed about Dora. And because she got nicked in
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Speaker 1: a sword fight there, Yeah, she should. She should be
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Speaker 1: fucking annihilating all of them in like four fucking and
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Speaker 1: then in the last one she got the bloodbain stabbed
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Speaker 1: on her and she almost bloody died because she was
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Speaker 1: whatever blood with a blood blain. One of the potions?
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Speaker 1: Which book is this? In the office where she found
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Speaker 1: the letter?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, she goes and she somehow gets cut by some
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Speaker 2: fat old fuck Yeah what.
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Speaker 1: Am I talking about? Oh my? Why should keep getting cut?
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Speaker 1: She should be like bloody bouncing off the walls and
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Speaker 1: slitting throats. That's what I think. That's what I'm thinking.
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Speaker 1: There's two cuts now. I don't know. Maybe I'm unrealistic, yeah,
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Speaker 1: but I'm hoping there should be a story arc where
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Speaker 1: like she just trains and she annihilates everyone, assuming all
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Speaker 1: the men in the training camp when she's a child.
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Speaker 1: I would like a lot of these stories has to
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Speaker 1: be that she's done.
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Speaker 2: She's done some bee stuff, right, but kind of each
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Speaker 2: time she does something beast she comes out of it.
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Speaker 1: With an injury. Yeah. What I want, right, is for
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Speaker 1: just once in the whole Like I kind of understand
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Speaker 1: why you do that, because like we don't want to
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Speaker 1: think of her as invincible. I do like I want that,
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Speaker 1: but like also at the same time, if she was
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Speaker 1: just invincible, we might be like that's kind of boring,
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Speaker 1: you know, and so but just once, just once, I
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Speaker 1: want her to absolutely fucking pump someone that is like
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Speaker 1: a supposed to be a ba's day. Like the whole
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Speaker 1: book of Throat of Glass, she talks about how she
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Speaker 1: could beat Cane if she wants, but then she gets
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Speaker 1: poisoned at the end so she couldn't do it. So
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Speaker 1: I'm like, come on, I just want to see you
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Speaker 1: go up against someone who was supposedly unstoppable and just
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Speaker 1: pump them just once in the whole series. Just once.
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Speaker 1: I suppose like when Kale was tied up. She beat
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Speaker 1: like all the Archer's men. True, there were nobody nobody.
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Speaker 1: Then yeah, there's gonna be like there's gotta be like
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Speaker 1: some demon ll like no no. I feel like, kao,
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Speaker 1: do you reckon not? Kaok? I feel like Kane could
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Speaker 1: come back to last o A.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I wouldn't doubt that I reckon Kine's going to
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Speaker 2: come back. So, because at the end of Crown of Midnight,
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Speaker 2: we have the King's POV how he has been building
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Speaker 2: all of his wife urns right, or he's been birthing
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Speaker 2: wi urns somehow, I don't know, but they're.
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Speaker 1: All right urns for fourth Wing as well.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but urns are just like a thing, just like
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Speaker 2: a dragon's a thing. So the King in his monol,
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Speaker 2: in his inner monologue, is talking about how he's got his.
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Speaker 1: Wife urns, but they're all riderless. And so I have
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Speaker 1: a feeling that obviously Nolan was Nolan the cousin, No
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Speaker 1: Roland Roland Roland is going to be turned into like
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Speaker 1: a monster by the king and be a writer of
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Speaker 1: the wi urns. I think Cowtane could be the same.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I have a feeling that we're gonna have
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Speaker 2: like a big war and all this big old flock
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Speaker 2: of fucking wiurns with riders.
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Speaker 4: Are on the right.
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Speaker 1: They're going to be pretty cool. They're going to be
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Speaker 1: led by Caine. That would be pretty cool. I think
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Speaker 1: that's how Caine's going to return it. And the opposite
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Speaker 1: side will be led by Dorian. Would be pretty sick.
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Speaker 1: And I have a feeling okay, they'll be led by
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Speaker 1: Dorian and they'll be dragons instead of Why Burns is
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Speaker 1: there dragons in this?
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Speaker 2: I feel like that's just literally fourth Wing. Fourth Wing
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Speaker 2: came out after so fourth Wing would be copying.
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Speaker 1: Everyone said not to go on TikTok and look at
18:29
Speaker 1: like the AI versions or whatever AI animations of throwing
18:35
Speaker 1: a glass, But I accidentally found one and it was sick.
18:39
Speaker 1: I reckon, we should do a reaction. Now we've like
18:41
Speaker 1: read three books.
18:42
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've I've accidentally come come across a couple of
18:45
Speaker 2: things of like the the Glass Palace.
18:48
Speaker 1: Yeah, I had I got Selina and was it Dora?
18:52
Speaker 1: Okay plan Billard's and I underestimated one Selena and also
18:59
Speaker 1: was it Dori? It was doing Yeah, and I underrest it.
19:02
Speaker 1: I feel like it helps just because like you've said
19:04
Speaker 1: it before, like sometimes your imagination just sucks. Yeah, my
19:07
Speaker 1: imagination sucks because also I'm never going to imagine someone
19:10
Speaker 1: more attractive than me because I'm selfish. Yeah, and these
19:12
Speaker 1: AI things always like over exaggerate features like muscles, boobs, faces. Yeah,
19:18
Speaker 1: it's good and it's fantasy. Yeah, and maybe to be fair,
19:25
Speaker 1: maybe you've been thinking Dorian isn't that good looking and
19:27
Speaker 1: all the bad he's in their head to think and
19:28
Speaker 1: this man's a fucking ten. So yeah, I mean I
19:33
Speaker 1: was picturing Dorian as like, fuck it, I honestly thought
19:35
Speaker 1: he was black. Yeah, yeah, you were wrong, there was,
19:38
Speaker 1: and I was wrong he's white. But also you're allowed
19:40
Speaker 1: to think whatever you want to think. That's a good point.
19:43
Speaker 1: It's been hard to picture a white guy now though
19:45
Speaker 1: I won't lie to you. Yeah, when I'm the same
19:48
Speaker 1: with that, when you picture one thing in your head, yeah,
19:50
Speaker 1: it's hard to get rid of that one thought if
19:52
Speaker 1: you originally started with it. Yeah, and I'm picturing Kale right.
19:57
Speaker 2: For some reason, every time a character gets brought up
20:01
Speaker 2: as like someone who's sort of like a rugged but
20:05
Speaker 2: handsome but this, but that, I don't have a specific
20:08
Speaker 2: person I picture, but I always have a specific character
20:11
Speaker 2: I picture on my head, and it's been going along
20:13
Speaker 2: different books I've noticed. Yeah, So like that series Red
20:17
Speaker 2: Rising that I read, I pictured the main character of
20:20
Speaker 2: that is now how I picture Kale. And then I
20:24
Speaker 2: read this other series called it was a duology, something
20:27
Speaker 2: about like One Dark Window or something like that, and
20:30
Speaker 2: the main male character in that I pictured him the
20:32
Speaker 2: same way I'm picturing Kale as well. I just got
20:35
Speaker 2: the same character from character. I just don't have an imagination.
20:39
Speaker 2: I just have one person that's just serious. Series two series.
20:42
Speaker 1: For Kale, I've got semi Chris Hammsworth vibes. That's Anus,
20:46
Speaker 1: that's heinous, that's hot. Yeah, I know, I know, I
20:50
Speaker 1: know that's semi what I'm picturing. I've got the biggest
20:53
Speaker 1: soft spot for Kale. But I have a feeling he's
20:56
Speaker 1: just going to be this righteous, loyalist guy. I do too,
20:59
Speaker 1: and I think you predicted it. I think he will
21:01
Speaker 1: just like kind of peter out. Someone commented Kale reminds
21:06
Speaker 1: him of Dane from Fourth Wing. Oh yeah, he does,
21:10
Speaker 1: a bit, just a bit jarring. There was a comment
21:14
Speaker 1: on the Patreon high group chat that I thought you
21:17
Speaker 1: especially could help with So Sannie I think her name
21:21
Speaker 1: was Sorry if I pronounced that wrong, said this is
21:23
Speaker 1: from the last book, but I thought we could recap
21:25
Speaker 1: it because I struggled at the same point. Okay, so
21:28
Speaker 1: I'm still on chapter forty three, just discovering the library catacombs.
21:32
Speaker 1: I am confused about how the library connects to Elaine
21:35
Speaker 1: or Elena. Except for the fact that Selena found these catacombs,
21:39
Speaker 1: there have been no signs of any sort of clue
21:41
Speaker 1: that made her her thing that or the library dungeons
21:45
Speaker 1: have the answer. Am I missing something aside from the
21:48
Speaker 1: hooded black figure that caused her to explode? Sorry, they
21:53
Speaker 1: caused her to explore, Yes, but there was no other reason. Really,
21:57
Speaker 1: No one told her it's a library where you'll find answers,
21:59
Speaker 1: no spoilers.
22:00
Speaker 2: But so she there's the one night, right, So one
22:08
Speaker 2: night she goes to go to the library because she
22:09
Speaker 2: can't sleep, and that's when she sees the like figure
22:12
Speaker 2: that she can feel in her bones is not human,
22:15
Speaker 2: and then she walks away and she's like terrified. And
22:18
Speaker 2: so then there's part of her that's like God, like,
22:22
Speaker 2: I need to figure out what that thing is, right,
22:25
Speaker 2: And then there is. This isn't like really a spoiler.
22:31
Speaker 2: I'm sure of that there.
22:32
Speaker 1: Is a either. I think there's either.
22:38
Speaker 2: That is the only reason, right, So she needed answers
22:42
Speaker 2: for something, and Elena like steered her in the direction
22:47
Speaker 2: that that thing she confirms it's not human. Yeah, I
22:53
Speaker 2: for some reason I remember that, like she confirms it's
22:55
Speaker 2: not human, and then she's like, oh, I need to
22:58
Speaker 2: go just like see where it would hide, because like
23:02
Speaker 2: where would I hide if I was it? And she's like, oh,
23:07
Speaker 2: I've been told before that there's like a secret library
23:09
Speaker 2: under the library that no one knows about, so I'd
23:12
Speaker 2: probably hide there. That's where I would hide. So I
23:14
Speaker 2: don't know if it was just like an easy answer
23:15
Speaker 2: to start a storyline. But I mean, in my opinion,
23:22
Speaker 2: just like the fact that Elena's given her this whole
23:24
Speaker 2: task of finding the evil in the castle, I feel
23:28
Speaker 2: like that's good enough.
23:29
Speaker 1: That connects it. I do agree, that's all I was thinking.
23:31
Speaker 1: But I did struggle there to like connect the dots.
23:34
Speaker 1: It was very hop skipping a jump. But I feel
23:36
Speaker 1: like maybe it's one of those ones where like it
23:39
Speaker 1: is what it is, it doesn't have to be there
23:41
Speaker 1: doesn't have to be a war. I don't know.
23:43
Speaker 2: So the only reason I can think of is literally
23:46
Speaker 2: the reason that that baddie commented, Yeah, just like wanting
23:49
Speaker 2: to know what it is.
23:51
Speaker 1: But I don't know if I'm creating this memory.
23:53
Speaker 2: I have a feeling that Elena does steer in the
23:56
Speaker 2: direction of going to find it.
23:57
Speaker 1: No, I feel like you weren't, you know, I feel
23:58
Speaker 1: like there was something that happened.
24:00
Speaker 2: Yeah, I could have sworn there was something that happened,
24:01
Speaker 2: but I don't know how. I don't know if it's
24:03
Speaker 2: like linked to Elena or if Elena is just like, yeah,
24:06
Speaker 2: you gotta find that fucking thing and kill it type
24:07
Speaker 2: shit true true true.
24:09
Speaker 1: What are we going to talk about now?
24:10
Speaker 2: Predictions?
24:11
Speaker 1: Predictions? Yeah, predictions are hard with this because like we
24:15
Speaker 1: should start doing the podcast novelas what do you mean
24:20
Speaker 1: we're doing one right now? No? No, no, no, like
24:22
Speaker 1: with our episodes, not reading books, So like you know,
24:25
Speaker 1: main episodes every once in a while, we should do
24:27
Speaker 1: like a little like three part series where nothing happens.
24:37
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's not a bad idea.
24:40
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, So we have a couple of big, big hitters,
24:44
Speaker 1: A couple of big hitters go in there, you'll just
24:47
Speaker 1: tell like the random a story about like when you're
24:49
Speaker 1: like fifteen, and it'll go for ten minutes. Can I
24:52
Speaker 1: actually just say something that is not the worst idea
24:55
Speaker 1: you've ever had, that is actually probably up there with
24:57
Speaker 1: like a half decent idea, because I was just going
24:59
Speaker 1: to say it seems to me the reason that writers
25:02
Speaker 1: have anything, like the reason why they have a novella
25:06
Speaker 1: in the first place in a series is for this
25:09
Speaker 1: because like at least Surgey mass in so in Akatar,
25:15
Speaker 1: the fourth book is a novella, and the it's almost
25:19
Speaker 1: like she didn't want to finish this series because she
25:22
Speaker 1: had more characters she wanted to hit and they have
25:25
Speaker 1: stories about so she needed to like end Farra and Reese,
25:29
Speaker 1: and she ended Farah and Reese's story in book three right,
25:33
Speaker 1: and then in book four it was kind.
25:36
Speaker 2: Of like a look, we won, We're happy, but like
25:40
Speaker 2: there's some unanswered questions. So this is just a setup
25:42
Speaker 2: for almost like another full series within this series type
25:46
Speaker 2: of shue. And so she's also sort of I guess
25:49
Speaker 2: in this instance there's a novella because it's like, oh,
25:53
Speaker 2: there's so many unanswered questions about Selena because I literally
25:56
Speaker 2: just started a series by saying she's the best assassin
25:59
Speaker 2: that ever lived and no one and she hasn't done.
26:01
Speaker 1: Those I guess it adds depth to the characters too,
26:05
Speaker 1: and if we hid it on the pod, it'd add
26:07
Speaker 1: depth to us. Who else? Yeah? True? Actually right? Yeah,
26:10
Speaker 1: go on. So, so say someone had only been listening
26:13
Speaker 1: to us for a month and they obviously know who
26:15
Speaker 1: Jake and Audi are, but they don't really know who
26:17
Speaker 1: are because we've already told all of our stories from
26:19
Speaker 1: when we were like younger in the first ten episodes, yeah,
26:22
Speaker 1: up to like episode three hundred. Then we go back
26:24
Speaker 1: and go, yeah, so Jake Craig moved to fucking Australia
26:27
Speaker 1: when it was fucking blah blah blah, I had massive cabs,
26:29
Speaker 1: my first girlfriend break up blah blah blah blah, and
26:32
Speaker 1: then like the next one's me, And then we can
26:34
Speaker 1: do something about our family if.
26:36
Speaker 2: It's not honestly a very bad idea, Like every now
26:38
Speaker 2: and then, what we should do is we should do
26:42
Speaker 2: like a Q and A for all the new listeners.
26:44
Speaker 2: And so it's like every every tenth episode, we you
26:47
Speaker 2: a Q and A for new listeners, and we post
26:48
Speaker 2: it and it's like old listeners might get some new
26:50
Speaker 2: questions they get to hear about, or it's like they
26:53
Speaker 2: would just follow along knowing all the answers, or.
26:55
Speaker 1: I will say, I'll give ourselves credit. I think our
26:59
Speaker 1: podcast is very involving, hopefully. It's not like I've listened
27:04
Speaker 1: to a lot of pods and it's like I have
27:06
Speaker 1: no idea who the fuck you're talking about, And it's
27:09
Speaker 1: like it's it's like a friendship group and you're on
27:11
Speaker 1: the outskirts, whereas we I feel like a good at
27:13
Speaker 1: giving context, which we struggle a little bit sometimes, but
27:15
Speaker 1: we're also good at involving someone to be part of
27:17
Speaker 1: the conversation. Have friends, yeah, true, exactly, we're wanting more
27:24
Speaker 1: friends and purpose exactly they're all friends. But all right,
27:31
Speaker 1: predictions do you have anything new? Lots of fearless predictions
27:36
Speaker 1: to one of the fictional men, like we always do
27:42
Speaker 1: you feed and streaming again, this is the Relatables book work.
27:47
Speaker 1: Let the Throw and the Dogs begin. M not really.
27:55
Speaker 2: Apart from honestly not really at all.
28:02
Speaker 3: I know.
28:02
Speaker 1: So the next one is like where Selena is going
28:05
Speaker 1: right now is to train with the mute Assassins and
28:11
Speaker 1: they are in the desert, and.
28:12
Speaker 2: So I feel like she's gonna become stronger, quicker, better assassin,
28:18
Speaker 2: and she's going to train hard. But I think what
28:21
Speaker 2: all these novellas are alluding to is that Arabin is
28:25
Speaker 2: the reason she's in.
28:26
Speaker 1: Endovia, Okay, and I'm with her.
28:29
Speaker 4: Ah.
28:30
Speaker 1: My only prediction that I want to predict something about
28:33
Speaker 1: is her and Sam's relationship. Yeah. How how do they
28:41
Speaker 1: fall in love but don't have sex? That's what I
28:43
Speaker 1: want to know, because right now it seems like Selena
28:48
Speaker 1: doesn't really like Sam. Yeah. I think Sam gets really
28:52
Speaker 1: good at being an assassin and it gets almost equivalent
28:55
Speaker 1: to Selena and she goes, you know what, fuck, he
28:57
Speaker 1: got something about you, Sam, and they start to teach
28:59
Speaker 1: it other things. I reckon that the other way around.
29:05
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, well you disagree. I think that Sam once
29:11
Speaker 1: out out of the assassins.
29:13
Speaker 2: And I think Selena falls in love with Sam's personality,
29:18
Speaker 2: his character just like what I said, yes better, And
29:24
Speaker 2: I think that they don't maybe they kiss once, Like
29:27
Speaker 2: I think that she just realized it's gonna be one
29:30
Speaker 2: of those moments where she's realized, like, oh, it's just
29:32
Speaker 2: always been Sam, even when I hated him, I loved
29:34
Speaker 2: him type thing, like I just didn't know what that
29:36
Speaker 2: feeling was. And and then they're gonna kiss once in
29:39
Speaker 2: their life and then Sam's gonna die and she's just
29:41
Speaker 2: gonna be like, you long to have got away?
29:43
Speaker 1: Sam died blah blah blah. It's classic young love, where
29:46
Speaker 1: like you give each other ship because you can't tell
29:49
Speaker 1: each other how you feel. You don't know how to
29:51
Speaker 1: arpeculate it. Yeah, you just banter and you're like, fucking
29:54
Speaker 1: el Sam, You're an assassin, I can kill better. You're yeah, yeah, no, yeah,
30:04
Speaker 1: I think that's better than what I said for sure. Okay,
30:08
Speaker 1: that is.
30:09
Speaker 2: Let's hope that the next novella is well, the next
30:12
Speaker 2: part of this novella is better.
30:17
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Well Desert it's gonna have something to do
30:19
Speaker 1: with dry and running out of water hopefully.
30:22
Speaker 4: Yeah.
30:22
Speaker 2: And she's like she's made a point of letting us
30:24
Speaker 2: know that she's got to like make sure her money
30:26
Speaker 2: lasts now because she gave.
30:27
Speaker 4: It all to w Irene, Like yeah, yeah, yeah, all right,
30:33
Speaker 4: So next book is part three or what was the
30:37
Speaker 4: name of it, something Desert, The Assassin and the Desert.
30:40
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Assassin and the desert, and it's like fifteen
30:43
Speaker 1: or sixteen chapters, isn't it. Yeah, so it'd be a
30:45
Speaker 1: bit longer. It'll be good, yeah, perfect, all right, We
30:47
Speaker 1: love you. Stay bad.