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Speaker 1: Previously on Relatables Baddie's book Club and what about my

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Speaker 1: story research?

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Speaker 2: What about me?

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Speaker 1: Don't protect me like him?

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Speaker 3: He's like, do not compare.

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Speaker 1: Me to him?

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Speaker 2: Everywhere we are together, I can barely focus because I

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Speaker 2: want you so bad, and this room is too small

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Speaker 2: to bed you, to bed you properly, because I can't

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Speaker 2: even you up against the wall.

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Speaker 4: Ye, sad.

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Speaker 2: Bro It stunts winnowing, slicing throats left right and center.

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Speaker 2: Bro I wanted you so bad in the Human City

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Speaker 2: when we were putting on that show.

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Speaker 1: But what I wanted the most was this.

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Speaker 2: Takes his fingers out of him and puts him in

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Speaker 2: his mouth and starts tasting over.

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Speaker 5: Oh, Sad.

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Speaker 6: Welcome to Relatables Baddie's Book Club, where we will embark

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Speaker 6: on a journey reading some of the finest pieces of

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Speaker 6: literature you have ever laid eyes or he is if

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Speaker 6: that's your preferred way to consume a book.

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Speaker 4: On a court of missed and fury Chapters fifty four

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Speaker 2: This is you knew this was coming. We're going to

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Speaker 2: preface a couple of things here. What this episode is

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Speaker 2: is us live reactions to chapters fifty four and fifty five.

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Speaker 1: The hype better live up.

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Speaker 4: You guys have hyped the fuck out of these two chapters.

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Speaker 4: I think you guys have said that these are the

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Speaker 4: best two chapters in the whole.

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Speaker 2: Series, in the whole of existence of worlds now. Second

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Speaker 2: thing Spotify YouTube. We don't know if this is going

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Speaker 2: to get taken down. It is a licensed thing.

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Speaker 1: We're playing a risky game.

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Speaker 2: We're going to turn off monetization on these episodes, all right,

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Speaker 2: So we don't know if this is gonna get taken down,

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Speaker 2: but if it does, it is gonna be on Patreon.

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Speaker 2: So if you're not on Patreon and you want to

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Speaker 2: hear this, you either go up sign upright now and

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Speaker 2: you know it's not gonna get taken down, or if

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Speaker 4: Well, if this episode is like five minutes long, word time,

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Speaker 4: you get to it the actual episodes on Patreon.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because we'll re upload it without yea yea yea yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 4: But this episode is going to be a little different

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Speaker 4: because we're basically just gonna listen along with you. We've

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you guys, if you just listened to. If you

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Speaker 1: listen to our last episode, you know where we're up to.

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Speaker 3: Mmmm.

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Speaker 1: But this is gonna be fun.

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Speaker 4: We got further du let's just enjoy chapters fifty four

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Speaker 4: and fifty five together.

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Speaker 5: Stirred at Race. He stirred at me. His cheeks were

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Speaker 5: tinged pink with cold, his dark hair ruffled, and he

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Speaker 5: But Reese took in the painting I'd done, gobbling down

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Speaker 3: Hallway as reel Moore, Amerin and Cassian. You do know

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Speaker 5: That day, I clamped my lips to keep the smile in.

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Speaker 5: I glanced at the shut door. You flew here.

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Speaker 3: He nodded. Moore wouldn't tell me where you'd gone, And

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Speaker 3: completely quickly considering the bloodbain. Thanks to you, I avoided

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Speaker 5: Heat I can't cook. It didn't seem to make a difference,

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Speaker 3: It's an important moment. When a female offers her food.

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Speaker 3: I was captured during the war by Amarantha's army.

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Speaker 3: But the day before I was to kill Amarantha, to

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Speaker 5: My hands were shaking as I started the soup. I'd

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Speaker 3: When Amarantha returned to these shore centuries later, I still

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Speaker 5: Day, his lips were pale tight.

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Speaker 3: horror fra as I did when I watched you make

436
00:23:45,359 --> 00:23:50,760
Speaker 3: that bargain, irrational, stupid terror. I didn't know you, I

437
00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:54,720
Speaker 3: didn't even know your name, but I thought of those painters' hands,

438
00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:58,520
Speaker 3: the flowers i'd seen you create, and how she'd delight

439
00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:01,879
Speaker 3: in breaking your fingers. Upon part, I had to stand

440
00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:04,760
Speaker 3: and watch as the Adder and its cronies beat you.

441
00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:08,520
Speaker 3: I had to watch to discuss and hatred on your

442
00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:12,199
Speaker 3: face as you looked at me, watched me threaten to

443
00:24:12,359 --> 00:24:16,880
Speaker 3: shatter Lucian's mind. And then then I learned your name.

444
00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:20,840
Speaker 3: Hearing you say it, it was like an answer to

445
00:24:20,880 --> 00:24:23,760
Speaker 3: a question I've been asking for five hundred years. I

446
00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:26,119
Speaker 3: decided then and there that I was going to fight,

447
00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:30,159
Speaker 3: and I would fight dirty and kill, and torture and manipulate,

448
00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:33,119
Speaker 3: but I was going to fight. If there was a

449
00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:38,159
Speaker 3: friend us from Amarantha, you were it, I thought. I

450
00:24:38,280 --> 00:24:40,879
Speaker 3: thought the Cauldron had been sending me these dreams to

451
00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:43,200
Speaker 3: tell me that you would be the one to save us,

452
00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:48,920
Speaker 3: save my people. So I watched your first trial, pretending,

453
00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:53,000
Speaker 3: always pretending to be that person you hated when you

454
00:24:53,040 --> 00:24:55,639
Speaker 3: were hurt so badly against the Worm, I found my

455
00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:58,919
Speaker 3: way in with you, a way to defy Amarantha, to

456
00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:01,280
Speaker 3: spread the seeds of home to those who knew how

457
00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:03,560
Speaker 3: to read the message, in a way to keep you

458
00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:07,120
Speaker 3: alive without seeming too suspicious, And a way to get

459
00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:11,919
Speaker 3: back at Tamlin, to use him against Amarantha. Yes, but

460
00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:15,199
Speaker 3: to get back at him from my mother and sister,

461
00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:22,439
Speaker 3: and for having you when we made that bargain. You

462
00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:25,439
Speaker 3: are so hateful that I knew I'd done my job well,

463
00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:28,320
Speaker 3: so we endured it. I made you dress like that

464
00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:31,600
Speaker 3: so Amarantha wouldn't suspect it, made you drink the wine

465
00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:34,400
Speaker 3: so you would not remember the nightly horrors in that mountain,

466
00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:37,840
Speaker 3: And that last night when I found you two in

467
00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:42,480
Speaker 3: the hall, I was jealous. I was jealous of him,

468
00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:45,639
Speaker 3: and pissed off that he'd used that one shot of

469
00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:48,800
Speaker 3: being unnoticed not to get you out, but to be

470
00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:53,320
Speaker 3: with you. And Amarantha saw that jealousy. She saw me

471
00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:56,119
Speaker 3: kissing you to hide the evidence. But she saw why

472
00:25:56,800 --> 00:26:01,360
Speaker 3: for the first time. She saw why. So that night,

473
00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:06,240
Speaker 3: after I left you, I had to service her. She

474
00:26:06,359 --> 00:26:09,800
Speaker 3: kept me there longer than usual, trying to squeeze the

475
00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:12,439
Speaker 3: answers out of me. But I gave her what she

476
00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:15,239
Speaker 3: wanted to hear, that you were nothing, that you were

477
00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:21,040
Speaker 3: human garbage, that I use and discard you. Afterward, I

478
00:26:21,119 --> 00:26:25,920
Speaker 3: wanted to see you one last time alone. I thought

479
00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:30,080
Speaker 3: about telling you everything, but who had become who you

480
00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:34,280
Speaker 3: thought I was. I didn't dare shatter that deception. But

481
00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:38,159
Speaker 3: your final trial came, and when she started torturing you,

482
00:26:38,280 --> 00:26:41,520
Speaker 3: something snapped in a way I couldn't explain. Only that scene,

483
00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:45,000
Speaker 3: you bleeding and screaming, undid me. It broke me at last,

484
00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:47,359
Speaker 3: and I knew as I picked up the knife to

485
00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:51,399
Speaker 3: kill her. I knew right then what you were. I

486
00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:54,560
Speaker 3: knew that you were my mate, and you were in

487
00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:59,160
Speaker 3: love with another male and had destroyed yourself to save him,

488
00:26:59,320 --> 00:27:02,720
Speaker 3: and that that I didn't care if you were going

489
00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:05,679
Speaker 3: to die. I was going to die with you. I

490
00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:08,840
Speaker 3: couldn't stop thinking it over and over as you screamed

491
00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:11,520
Speaker 3: as I tried to kill her. You were my mate,

492
00:27:11,960 --> 00:27:17,080
Speaker 3: my mate, my mate. But then she snapped your neck.

493
00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:20,800
Speaker 5: Tears rolled down his face, and I felt you die.

494
00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:23,320
Speaker 5: Tears were sliding down my own cheeks.

495
00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:27,160
Speaker 3: And this beautiful, wonderful thing that had come into my life,

496
00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:31,760
Speaker 3: this gift from the cauldron. It was gone, and my

497
00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:36,119
Speaker 3: desperation I clung to that bond, not the bargain. The

498
00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:39,440
Speaker 3: bargain was nothing. The bargain was like a copweb. But

499
00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:43,199
Speaker 3: I grabbed that bond between us and I tucked. I

500
00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:47,000
Speaker 3: willed you to hold on, to stay with me, because

501
00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:50,280
Speaker 3: if we could get free, if we could get free,

502
00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:53,400
Speaker 3: then all seven of us were there. We could bring

503
00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:55,879
Speaker 3: you back. And I didn't care if I had to

504
00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:58,520
Speaker 3: slice into all of their minds to do it, I'd

505
00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:00,000
Speaker 3: make them save you.

506
00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:01,560
Speaker 5: His hands were shaking.

507
00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:05,399
Speaker 3: You'd freed us with your last breath and my power.

508
00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:08,800
Speaker 3: I wrapped my power around the bond, the mating bond.

509
00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:13,840
Speaker 3: I can feel you flickering there, holding on home Home

510
00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:15,480
Speaker 3: had It's.

511
00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:16,520
Speaker 2: A mating bond.

512
00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:19,200
Speaker 1: It's not just some bond.

513
00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:22,800
Speaker 4: It's a mating bond she.

514
00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:26,200
Speaker 1: Which we know is so rare.

515
00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:31,080
Speaker 4: Oh dude, this laid up man.

516
00:28:31,119 --> 00:28:35,360
Speaker 1: I said it before. This is crazy. I think you're

517
00:28:35,359 --> 00:28:36,520
Speaker 1: going to be wrong with the bond.

518
00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:40,560
Speaker 5: I told the Bone carver, not Talon, not the spring Court,

519
00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:42,320
Speaker 5: but hand.

520
00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:45,440
Speaker 3: So I'm Moranta died and I spoke to the high

521
00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:49,000
Speaker 3: Lord's mind to mind, convincing them to come forward to

522
00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:52,880
Speaker 3: offer that spark of power. None of them disagreed. I

523
00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:54,800
Speaker 3: think they were too stunned to think of saying no.

524
00:28:55,760 --> 00:28:59,400
Speaker 3: And I again had to watch as Tamlin held you,

525
00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:03,760
Speaker 3: kissed you. I wanted to go home to Volars, but

526
00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:06,280
Speaker 3: I had to stay to make sure things were set

527
00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:09,640
Speaker 3: in motion, that you were all right. So I waited

528
00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:12,400
Speaker 3: as long as I could. Then I sent a tug

529
00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:16,080
Speaker 3: through the bond. Then you came to find me. I

530
00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:20,880
Speaker 3: almost told you then, but you were so sad and tired,

531
00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:25,400
Speaker 3: and from once you looked at me like like I

532
00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:28,880
Speaker 3: was worth something. So I promised myself that the next

533
00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:31,480
Speaker 3: time I saw you, i'd free you of the bargain,

534
00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:34,040
Speaker 3: because I was selfish and I knew that if I

535
00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:36,680
Speaker 3: let you go right then he'd lock you up and

536
00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:39,640
Speaker 3: I'd never get to see you again. When I went

537
00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:42,840
Speaker 3: to leave you, I think transforming you into fame made

538
00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:47,120
Speaker 3: the bond lock into place permanently. I'd known it existed,

539
00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:50,160
Speaker 3: but it hit me then, hit me so strong that

540
00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:53,320
Speaker 3: I panicked. I knew if I stayed a second longer,

541
00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:57,000
Speaker 3: I'd damn the consequences and take you with me, and

542
00:29:57,040 --> 00:29:59,880
Speaker 3: you'd hate me forever. I landed at the night Court

543
00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:02,200
Speaker 3: right as Moore was waiting for me, and I was

544
00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:06,520
Speaker 3: so frantic, so unhinged, that I told her everything. I

545
00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:09,600
Speaker 3: hadn't seen her in fifty years, and my first words

546
00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:13,160
Speaker 3: to her were, She's my mate. And for three months,

547
00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:16,720
Speaker 3: for three months, I tried to convince myself that you

548
00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:20,680
Speaker 3: were better off without me. I tried to convince myself

549
00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:24,080
Speaker 3: that everything I'd done had made you hate me. But

550
00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:28,200
Speaker 3: I felt you through the bond, through your open mental shields.

551
00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:33,120
Speaker 3: I felt your pain and sadness and loneliness. I felt

552
00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:35,960
Speaker 3: you struggling to escape the darkness of Amarantha the same

553
00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:39,320
Speaker 3: way I was. I heard you were going to marry him,

554
00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:41,959
Speaker 3: and I told myself you were happy. I should let

555
00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:45,080
Speaker 3: you be happy, even if it killed me, even if

556
00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:48,680
Speaker 3: you were my mate, you'd earn that happiness. The day

557
00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:51,680
Speaker 3: of your wedding, I planned to get ripprooring drunk with Cassian,

558
00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:56,320
Speaker 3: who had no idea why. But then I felt you again.

559
00:30:57,080 --> 00:31:02,440
Speaker 3: I felt your panic and Despair'd you pick someone, anyone, yeah,

560
00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:05,520
Speaker 3: to save you? I lost it. I went out to

561
00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:08,760
Speaker 3: the wedding and barely remembered who I was supposed to be,

562
00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:12,640
Speaker 3: the part I was supposed to play. All I could see,

563
00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:17,040
Speaker 3: was you in your stupid wedding dress, so thin, so

564
00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:20,160
Speaker 3: so thin and pale, And I wanted to kill him

565
00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:23,160
Speaker 3: for it, but I had to get you out, had

566
00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:26,320
Speaker 3: to call in that bargain just once, to get you away,

567
00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:28,200
Speaker 3: to see if you were all right.

568
00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:30,960
Speaker 5: Reese looked up at me, eyes desolate.

569
00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:34,480
Speaker 3: It killed me, Pharaoh, to send you back, to see

570
00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:37,800
Speaker 3: you waste away month by month. It killed me to

571
00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:41,320
Speaker 3: know he was sharing your bed, not just because you

572
00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:42,760
Speaker 3: were my mate, but because I.

573
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:45,240
Speaker 5: He glanced down, then up at me again.

574
00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:48,680
Speaker 3: I knew, I knew I was in love with you

575
00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:51,800
Speaker 3: that moment I picked up the knife to kill Amarantha.

576
00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:55,600
Speaker 3: When you finally came here, I decided I wouldn't tell

577
00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:57,880
Speaker 3: you any of it. I wouldn't let you out of

578
00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:00,480
Speaker 3: the bargain, because your hatred was better than facing the

579
00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:04,120
Speaker 3: two alternatives that you felt nothing for me, or that

580
00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:08,040
Speaker 3: you might feel something similar. And if I let myself

581
00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:11,280
Speaker 3: love you, you would be taken from me the way

582
00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:15,920
Speaker 3: my family was, the way my friends were. So I

583
00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:19,520
Speaker 3: didn't tell you. I watched as you faded away until

584
00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:23,400
Speaker 3: that day, that day he locked you up. I would

585
00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:26,120
Speaker 3: have killed him if he had been there, but I

586
00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:29,560
Speaker 3: broke some very very fundamental rules in taking you away.

587
00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:32,400
Speaker 3: Amron said that if I got you to admit that

588
00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:35,280
Speaker 3: we were mates, it would keep any trouble from our door.

589
00:32:35,360 --> 00:32:39,080
Speaker 3: But I couldn't force the bond on you. I couldn't

590
00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:43,280
Speaker 3: try to seduce you into accepting the bond either, even

591
00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:45,920
Speaker 3: if it gave Tamlin license to wage war on me.

592
00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:49,520
Speaker 3: You had been through so much already. I didn't want

593
00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:51,840
Speaker 3: you to think that everything I did was to win you,

594
00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:56,760
Speaker 3: just to keep my land safe. But I couldn't. I

595
00:32:56,760 --> 00:33:00,720
Speaker 3: couldn't stop being around you and loving you and wanting you.

596
00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:03,120
Speaker 3: I still can't stay away.

597
00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:08,040
Speaker 5: Finally healing that.

598
00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:13,360
Speaker 4: Okay, Okay, I think that was the other chapter, chapter

599
00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:13,760
Speaker 4: fifty four.

600
00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:19,480
Speaker 2: Okay, chapter fifty four, being fat juicy lead up. Whoa,

601
00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:22,080
Speaker 2: I but you feel real fucking stupid right about now?

602
00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:26,000
Speaker 4: Yeah? Bro, I want to say, how does Sarah j

603
00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:30,440
Speaker 4: Mask think of that? How does she possibly plan that?

604
00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:33,040
Speaker 1: I can't how does anyone think about it? I couldn't

605
00:33:33,560 --> 00:33:35,560
Speaker 1: be genuinely could mind blown.

606
00:33:36,760 --> 00:33:39,640
Speaker 4: It's better than I thought. Yeah, I knew something good

607
00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:40,840
Speaker 4: was happening, but that story.

608
00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:42,480
Speaker 1: Wow, No better than I thought?

609
00:33:44,360 --> 00:33:44,600
Speaker 5: Wow?

610
00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:45,000
Speaker 1: Bro?

611
00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:48,680
Speaker 2: Well no, yeah, I'm not gonna I it. It felt

612
00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:50,360
Speaker 2: really good. Just hearing him talk for a whole for

613
00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:54,680
Speaker 2: a whole chapter, felt really good. I love to be fair.

614
00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:56,120
Speaker 2: I do we talk. We talked about it, but I

615
00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:58,920
Speaker 2: do love him. I'm gonna be honest, dude. But that

616
00:33:59,080 --> 00:33:59,600
Speaker 2: felt good.

617
00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:01,320
Speaker 1: Wow. I'm so excited.

618
00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:02,400
Speaker 3: Wow.

619
00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:07,120
Speaker 1: Okay, guys, so how do we prepare? I don't know,

620
00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:14,839
Speaker 1: but I guess I guess we just get into it.

621
00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:16,080
Speaker 1: What do you think sauld happened?

622
00:34:16,160 --> 00:34:18,000
Speaker 4: I think she's gonna be like, oh my god, I

623
00:34:18,040 --> 00:34:20,400
Speaker 4: didn't realize, as she always does. Yeah, I didn't know

624
00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:21,200
Speaker 4: you did all that.

625
00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:24,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well, to be fair, he didn't tell us.

626
00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:24,800
Speaker 5: Yeah.

627
00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:26,840
Speaker 4: But still, and then I reckon, how can she assume?

628
00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:28,840
Speaker 4: I reckon, you're right, and he's gonna go, yes, Fairwell,

629
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:29,640
Speaker 4: I love you.

630
00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:33,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, so there's no argument because I said predictions last

631
00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:35,239
Speaker 2: episode that there's going to be an argument, and he's going.

632
00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:37,719
Speaker 4: To say because I fucking love you very well.

633
00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:41,359
Speaker 2: But he said it very gently just then, so it's

634
00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:42,440
Speaker 2: going to be more of a loving thing.

635
00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:46,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, that's fine to whur.

636
00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:49,839
Speaker 5: The soup was now boiling, and lightdled it into a ball.

637
00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:52,920
Speaker 5: He watched every step I took to the table, the

638
00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:57,359
Speaker 5: steaming ball in my hands. I stopped before him, staring down.

639
00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:01,920
Speaker 5: You love me, receded, and I wondered if love was

640
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:04,560
Speaker 5: too weak a word for what he felt, what he'd

641
00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:07,799
Speaker 5: done for me, for what I felt for him. I

642
00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:11,200
Speaker 5: set the bowl down before him, then eat. I watched

643
00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:14,920
Speaker 5: him consume every spoonful, his eyes starting between where I

644
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:17,719
Speaker 5: stood in the soup, and when he was done, he

645
00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:18,800
Speaker 5: sat down his spoon.

646
00:35:19,239 --> 00:35:20,400
Speaker 3: Aren't you going to say anything?

647
00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:22,680
Speaker 5: I was going to tell you what I decided the

648
00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:25,319
Speaker 5: moment I saw you on the threshold. Raes twisted in

649
00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:28,880
Speaker 5: his seat toward me, and now aware of every breath,

650
00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:33,120
Speaker 5: every movement, I sat in his lap. His hands gently

651
00:35:33,160 --> 00:35:36,160
Speaker 5: braised my hips as I studied his face. And now

652
00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:38,880
Speaker 5: I want you to know, reesand that I love you.

653
00:35:39,920 --> 00:35:42,759
Speaker 5: I want you to know. His lips trembled, and I

654
00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:45,680
Speaker 5: brushed away the tears that escaped down his cheek. I

655
00:35:45,719 --> 00:35:48,560
Speaker 5: want you to know that I am broken and healing,

656
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:52,239
Speaker 5: but every piece of my heart belongs to you, and

657
00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:55,879
Speaker 5: I am honored, honored to be your mate. His arms

658
00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:59,120
Speaker 5: wrapped around me, and he pressed his forehead to my shoulder,

659
00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:03,440
Speaker 5: his shaking I stroked a hand through his silken hair.

660
00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:07,080
Speaker 5: I love you. I hadn't dared see the words in

661
00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:09,919
Speaker 5: my head, and I'd endure every second of it over

662
00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:12,600
Speaker 5: again so I could find you. And if war comes,

663
00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:15,880
Speaker 5: we'll face it together. I won't let them take me

664
00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:18,200
Speaker 5: from you, and I won't let them take you from

665
00:36:18,239 --> 00:36:22,480
Speaker 5: me either. Race looked up, his face gleaming with tears.

666
00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:26,439
Speaker 5: He went still as I leaned in, kissing away one tear,

667
00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:30,400
Speaker 5: then the other, as he had once kissed away mine,

668
00:36:30,560 --> 00:36:33,000
Speaker 5: and my lips were wet and salty with them. I

669
00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:36,640
Speaker 5: pulled back far enough to see his eyes. You're mine.

670
00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:40,040
Speaker 5: His body shuddered with what might have been a sob,

671
00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:45,000
Speaker 5: but his lips found my own. It was gentle, soft,

672
00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:47,440
Speaker 5: the kiss he might have given me if we'd been

673
00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:50,240
Speaker 5: granted time and peace to meet across our two separate

674
00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:53,920
Speaker 5: worlds to court each other. I slid my arms around

675
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:57,440
Speaker 5: his shoulders, opening my mouth to him, and his tongue

676
00:36:57,440 --> 00:37:04,240
Speaker 5: slipped in, caressing my own mate, my mate. He hardened

677
00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:08,399
Speaker 5: against me, and I crowned into his mouth. The sound

678
00:37:08,440 --> 00:37:11,200
Speaker 5: snapped whatever leash she'd had on himself, and r Sam

679
00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:13,880
Speaker 5: scooped me up in a smooth movement before laying me

680
00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:17,040
Speaker 5: on the table amongst and on top of all the paints.

681
00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:20,959
Speaker 5: He deep into the kiss, and I wrapped my legs

682
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:24,320
Speaker 5: around his back, hooking him closer. He tore his lips

683
00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:26,600
Speaker 5: from my mouth to my neck, where he dragged his

684
00:37:26,680 --> 00:37:29,439
Speaker 5: teeth and tongue down my skin. As his hand slid

685
00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:32,880
Speaker 5: under my sweater and went up up to cut my breasts.

686
00:37:33,320 --> 00:37:36,239
Speaker 5: I arched into the touch and lifted my arms as

687
00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:39,880
Speaker 5: he peeled away my sweater in one easy motion, Ese

688
00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:42,960
Speaker 5: pulled back to survey me. My body naked from the

689
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:47,480
Speaker 5: waist up. Paint soaked into my hair, my arms, but

690
00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:49,279
Speaker 5: all I could think of was his mouth as it

691
00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:52,680
Speaker 5: lowered to my breast and sucked, his tongue flicking against

692
00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:56,400
Speaker 5: my nipple. I plunged my fingers into his hair, and

693
00:37:56,520 --> 00:37:59,520
Speaker 5: he breezed a hand beside my head, smack atop a

694
00:37:59,520 --> 00:38:04,920
Speaker 5: pellette of paint. I watched breathless as he took that

695
00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:08,280
Speaker 5: hand and traced a circle around my breast, the lower

696
00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:11,560
Speaker 5: until he painted a downward arrow beneath my belly button.

697
00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:13,960
Speaker 3: Unless you forget where this is going to end.

698
00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:18,799
Speaker 5: O his mouth on my heather breast, he ground his

699
00:38:18,880 --> 00:38:22,840
Speaker 5: hips against me, teasing, oh, teasing me so horribly that

700
00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:25,239
Speaker 5: I had to touch him, had to just feel more

701
00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:28,800
Speaker 5: of him. There was paint all over my hands, my arms,

702
00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:31,320
Speaker 5: but I didn't care. As I grabbed at his clothes,

703
00:38:31,719 --> 00:38:34,880
Speaker 5: he shifted enough to let me remove them, weapons and weather,

704
00:38:34,960 --> 00:38:39,120
Speaker 5: thudding to the ground, revealing that beautiful tattooed body, the

705
00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:43,400
Speaker 5: powerful muscles and wings now peeking above them. My mate,

706
00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:48,799
Speaker 5: My mate. His mouth crashed into mine, his bearskin so

707
00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:52,040
Speaker 5: warm against my own, and I gripped his face, smearing

708
00:38:52,080 --> 00:38:55,520
Speaker 5: paint there too, smearing it in his hair until great

709
00:38:55,560 --> 00:38:58,000
Speaker 5: streaks of blue and red and green ran through it.

710
00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:01,120
Speaker 5: His hands fell my waist, and I bucked my hips

711
00:39:01,120 --> 00:39:04,239
Speaker 5: off the table to help him remove my socks, my leggings.

712
00:39:04,719 --> 00:39:07,200
Speaker 5: Raese pulled back again, and I let out a park

713
00:39:07,239 --> 00:39:09,960
Speaker 5: of protest that choked off into a gasp as he

714
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:13,080
Speaker 5: gripped my thighs and yanked into the edge of the table,

715
00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:16,799
Speaker 5: threw paints and brushes and cups of water, cooked my

716
00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:19,200
Speaker 5: legs over his shoulders to rest on either side of

717
00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:22,799
Speaker 5: those beautiful wings, and knelt before me, knelt on those

718
00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:26,080
Speaker 5: stars and mountains inked on his knees. He would bow

719
00:39:26,160 --> 00:39:30,280
Speaker 5: for no one and nothing but his mate, his equal.

720
00:39:30,640 --> 00:39:31,000
Speaker 6: Oh.

721
00:39:31,040 --> 00:39:33,600
Speaker 5: The first lick of Riisan's tongue set me on fire.

722
00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:36,200
Speaker 3: I want you split out on a table like my

723
00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:37,640
Speaker 3: own personal feast.

724
00:39:38,280 --> 00:39:41,560
Speaker 5: He growled his approval at my moan, my taste, and

725
00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:45,400
Speaker 5: unleashed himself on me entirely, a hand pinning my hips

726
00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:48,520
Speaker 5: to the table. He worked me in great sweeping strokes,

727
00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:51,520
Speaker 5: and when his tongue slit inside me, I reached up

728
00:39:51,520 --> 00:39:53,520
Speaker 5: to grip the edge of the table, to grip the

729
00:39:53,600 --> 00:39:55,400
Speaker 5: edge of the world that I was very near to

730
00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:57,960
Speaker 5: falling off. He licked and kissed his way to the

731
00:39:58,040 --> 00:40:01,080
Speaker 5: apex of my thighs, just as his fingers replaced where

732
00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:03,920
Speaker 5: his mouth had been pumping inside me. As he sucked

733
00:40:04,160 --> 00:40:07,719
Speaker 5: his teeth, scraping ever so slightly, I flowed off the

734
00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:12,000
Speaker 5: table as my climax shuttered through me, splintering my consciousness

735
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:16,160
Speaker 5: into a million pieces. He kept licking me, fingers still

736
00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:22,600
Speaker 5: moving grace Now. I wanted him now, but he remained kneeling,

737
00:40:22,880 --> 00:40:26,000
Speaker 5: feasting on me, that hand pinning me to the table.

738
00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:29,160
Speaker 5: I went over the edge again, and only when I

739
00:40:29,239 --> 00:40:33,719
Speaker 5: was trembling, half sobbing limp with pleasure, greased rise from

740
00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:37,600
Speaker 5: the floor. He looked me over naked, covered in paint,

741
00:40:38,120 --> 00:40:41,080
Speaker 5: his own face and body smeared with it, and gave

742
00:40:41,160 --> 00:40:43,840
Speaker 5: me a slow, satisfied male smile.

743
00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:45,960
Speaker 3: Your mind all.

744
00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:49,560
Speaker 5: He hefted me up into his arms. I wanted the wall.

745
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:51,959
Speaker 5: I wanted him to just take me against the wall,

746
00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:54,399
Speaker 5: but he carried me into the room I'd been using

747
00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:57,200
Speaker 5: and set me down on the bed with heart breaking gentleness.

748
00:40:57,920 --> 00:41:01,640
Speaker 5: Holy naked, I watched his un buttoned his pants and

749
00:41:01,719 --> 00:41:05,839
Speaker 5: the considerable length of him sprang free, and mouth went

750
00:41:05,920 --> 00:41:09,280
Speaker 5: dry at the side of him. I wanted him, wanted

751
00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:12,320
Speaker 5: every glorious inch of him, and me wanted to clawed

752
00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:15,680
Speaker 5: him until our souls were forged together. He didn't say

753
00:41:15,719 --> 00:41:18,240
Speaker 5: anything as he came over me, wings tucked in tight.

754
00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:20,799
Speaker 5: He'd never gone to bed with the female while his

755
00:41:20,840 --> 00:41:23,799
Speaker 5: wings were out, but I was his mate. He would

756
00:41:23,880 --> 00:41:27,720
Speaker 5: yield only for me, and I wanted to touch him.

757
00:41:28,080 --> 00:41:30,600
Speaker 5: I leaned up, reaching over his shoulder to caress the

758
00:41:30,640 --> 00:41:37,920
Speaker 5: powerful curve of his wing. I watched his cock twitch later, indeed,

759
00:41:39,600 --> 00:41:42,759
Speaker 5: his mouth fell mine, the kiss open and deep, the

760
00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:45,640
Speaker 5: clash of tongues and teeth. He laid me down on

761
00:41:45,680 --> 00:41:48,319
Speaker 5: the pillows, and I locked my legs around his back,

762
00:41:48,719 --> 00:41:51,440
Speaker 5: careful of the wings, though I stopped caring as he

763
00:41:51,480 --> 00:41:57,319
Speaker 5: nudged at my entrance and paused play. Later, his laps

764
00:41:57,400 --> 00:42:02,520
Speaker 5: scattered along my bones, and in and in and in.

765
00:42:03,719 --> 00:42:07,000
Speaker 5: I could hardly breathe hardly think beyond where our bodies

766
00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:11,040
Speaker 5: were joined. He stilled inside me, letting me adjust, and

767
00:42:11,080 --> 00:42:13,279
Speaker 5: I opened my eyes to find him staring.

768
00:42:13,040 --> 00:42:16,360
Speaker 3: Down at me. Say it again, dear Mine.

769
00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:20,799
Speaker 5: Reese pulled out slightly and thrust back in slow, so

770
00:42:21,239 --> 00:42:27,560
Speaker 5: tortuously slow, dear Mine Again. He pulled out, then thrust

771
00:42:27,600 --> 00:42:34,000
Speaker 5: in dear Mine again, faster, deeper this time. I felt it. Then,

772
00:42:34,480 --> 00:42:38,359
Speaker 5: the bond between us like an unbreakable chain, like an

773
00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:42,640
Speaker 5: undimmable ray of light. With each pounding stroke, the bond

774
00:42:42,680 --> 00:42:47,960
Speaker 5: glowed clearer and brighter and stronger. Hear Mine. I tracked

775
00:42:47,960 --> 00:42:51,400
Speaker 5: my hands through his hair, down his back, across his wings.

776
00:42:52,160 --> 00:42:55,920
Speaker 5: My friend through many dangers, my lover who had healed

777
00:42:55,920 --> 00:42:59,440
Speaker 5: my broken and weary soul, My mate who had waited

778
00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:03,800
Speaker 5: for me again all hope, despite all odds. I moved

779
00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:06,440
Speaker 5: my hips in time with his. He kissed me over

780
00:43:06,560 --> 00:43:10,160
Speaker 5: and over, and both of our faces turned damp. Every

781
00:43:10,239 --> 00:43:14,719
Speaker 5: inch of me burned and tightened. I love you, oh,

782
00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:18,400
Speaker 5: at least tore fu my body. And he pounded into me,

783
00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:21,920
Speaker 5: hard and fast, drawing out my pleasure until I felt

784
00:43:21,920 --> 00:43:25,600
Speaker 5: and saw and smelled that bond between us, until our

785
00:43:25,640 --> 00:43:29,399
Speaker 5: sense merged, and I was his and he was mine,

786
00:43:29,520 --> 00:43:33,000
Speaker 5: and we were the beginning and middle and end. We

787
00:43:33,080 --> 00:43:35,279
Speaker 5: were a song that had been sung from the very

788
00:43:35,320 --> 00:43:40,160
Speaker 5: first ember of light in the world. Prace came slamming

789
00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:44,960
Speaker 5: into the hilt outside. The mountains trembled the remaining snow

790
00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:48,440
Speaker 5: rushing from them in a cascade of glittering white, only

791
00:43:48,520 --> 00:43:50,680
Speaker 5: to be swallowed up by the waiting night below.

792
00:43:51,640 --> 00:43:55,240
Speaker 1: That's kind of sure, silence fell.

793
00:43:56,120 --> 00:43:58,640
Speaker 5: I took his paint smeared face between my own colorful

794
00:43:58,680 --> 00:44:01,960
Speaker 5: hands and made him look at me. His eyes were

795
00:44:02,040 --> 00:44:05,840
Speaker 5: radiant like the stars I'd painted once long ago, and

796
00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:08,640
Speaker 5: I smiled at Reese's I let that meeting bud shine

797
00:44:09,280 --> 00:44:11,200
Speaker 5: clear and luminous between us.

798
00:44:17,520 --> 00:44:18,800
Speaker 1: Dude, I think that's the end of the chapter.

799
00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:19,719
Speaker 5: I think so true.

800
00:44:20,200 --> 00:44:22,000
Speaker 4: Wow, I'm so happy.

801
00:44:22,640 --> 00:44:26,960
Speaker 1: Oh wow, that was so wholesome I am. I am

802
00:44:27,280 --> 00:44:29,680
Speaker 1: it too unstoppable.

803
00:44:30,920 --> 00:44:37,040
Speaker 4: Oh, I think they just made a baby.

804
00:44:37,920 --> 00:44:41,160
Speaker 1: I think you're right, that was your prediction.

805
00:44:41,320 --> 00:44:44,879
Speaker 4: Yeah, she didn't even question it.

806
00:44:46,400 --> 00:44:49,160
Speaker 1: Dude, I could cry. I could cry from happiness.

807
00:44:49,719 --> 00:44:53,319
Speaker 4: Oh the lead up, Oh it was so I'm glad

808
00:44:53,360 --> 00:44:55,799
Speaker 4: we were wrong about like a fire and then some

809
00:44:55,920 --> 00:44:58,200
Speaker 4: angry sexy we did say, but I love making.

810
00:44:58,239 --> 00:44:59,640
Speaker 1: But it was so beautiful and pure.

811
00:45:00,800 --> 00:45:01,239
Speaker 4: You're right.

812
00:45:01,280 --> 00:45:02,320
Speaker 1: It was very long.

813
00:45:04,440 --> 00:45:04,640
Speaker 4: Long.

814
00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:07,359
Speaker 1: I was that sounded like it was missionary the whole time.

815
00:45:07,560 --> 00:45:12,080
Speaker 2: It was, Yeah, I'm a mission man.

816
00:45:12,160 --> 00:45:14,560
Speaker 1: Broese's or talk. He's like, I want to pin you

817
00:45:14,640 --> 00:45:16,279
Speaker 1: up against the wall. Yeah, I'll be able to.

818
00:45:16,640 --> 00:45:18,279
Speaker 2: He's like, the first time I beg you, I want

819
00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:21,400
Speaker 2: to be fucking you against the wall. Okay, bro you

820
00:45:21,560 --> 00:45:23,040
Speaker 2: ate her out then sucked up for two minutes.

821
00:45:27,320 --> 00:45:28,360
Speaker 1: Holy relatable.

822
00:45:29,760 --> 00:45:32,000
Speaker 2: See that's what I love about recent all Right, he

823
00:45:32,120 --> 00:45:34,879
Speaker 2: is the most powerful high lord Printhian has ever had.

824
00:45:35,080 --> 00:45:38,200
Speaker 1: Yet still relatable. He's a high lord of the people.

825
00:45:38,239 --> 00:45:41,160
Speaker 1: Two minutes, let's go, baby, two minutes all you need?

826
00:45:41,440 --> 00:45:43,520
Speaker 4: Let's I love you?

827
00:45:45,520 --> 00:45:45,800
Speaker 3: Shit.

828
00:45:46,680 --> 00:45:50,880
Speaker 4: Okay, Well that was something a little bit different for everyone.

829
00:45:51,000 --> 00:45:52,280
Speaker 1: That was something a little different.

830
00:45:52,760 --> 00:45:57,160
Speaker 4: So next week we're going to be finishing the book.

831
00:45:57,600 --> 00:45:59,360
Speaker 1: Next week you will be done. How many chapters are

832
00:45:59,360 --> 00:46:02,280
Speaker 1: that's sixty two, so I believe it's sixty.

833
00:46:01,960 --> 00:46:06,480
Speaker 2: Nine, sixty nine, so fifty six up to So look,

834
00:46:06,680 --> 00:46:09,319
Speaker 2: I had my chapter on fifty four, so I don't

835
00:46:09,320 --> 00:46:12,560
Speaker 2: need to read these now, Damn, bro, I kind of

836
00:46:12,600 --> 00:46:13,120
Speaker 2: want to read them.

837
00:46:13,200 --> 00:46:13,439
Speaker 1: Still.

838
00:46:13,680 --> 00:46:14,280
Speaker 3: That was good.

839
00:46:14,600 --> 00:46:15,359
Speaker 1: That was so good.

840
00:46:15,400 --> 00:46:19,200
Speaker 2: So around fifty six and the chapters go all the

841
00:46:19,200 --> 00:46:20,480
Speaker 2: way up, so there's not much left.

842
00:46:20,719 --> 00:46:23,200
Speaker 4: There's way more than the last six short ones all

843
00:46:23,640 --> 00:46:25,319
Speaker 4: what all the like things at the end. Here we

844
00:46:25,360 --> 00:46:30,600
Speaker 4: go acknowledgments, acknowledgments sixty nine, okay, sixty nine, but they

845
00:46:30,640 --> 00:46:33,280
Speaker 4: look like they get kind of short, and then like, yeah,

846
00:46:33,360 --> 00:46:36,560
Speaker 4: so we're finishing the book and we also have to

847
00:46:36,600 --> 00:46:39,120
Speaker 4: give predictions before we leave.

848
00:46:39,160 --> 00:46:39,959
Speaker 3: You, dude, I can't.

849
00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:43,200
Speaker 1: I don't know. I reckon. All they're going to get

850
00:46:43,239 --> 00:46:43,600
Speaker 1: up to.

851
00:46:44,280 --> 00:46:48,719
Speaker 2: Is the they will get the Book of Breathings from

852
00:46:48,719 --> 00:46:51,080
Speaker 2: the queens, and.

853
00:46:52,160 --> 00:46:55,680
Speaker 3: I think, like, not much.

854
00:46:55,880 --> 00:46:56,319
Speaker 1: I don't know.

855
00:46:56,440 --> 00:46:58,800
Speaker 4: I think there's going to be some animosity we Tamlin

856
00:46:59,080 --> 00:47:00,000
Speaker 4: within these chapters.

857
00:47:00,600 --> 00:47:01,440
Speaker 3: I like that a lot.

858
00:47:01,480 --> 00:47:01,920
Speaker 1: I think so.

859
00:47:02,120 --> 00:47:05,760
Speaker 4: I like that because he was mentioning if Farah admitted

860
00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:10,960
Speaker 4: their mate ship, he had nothing to play on.

861
00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:13,080
Speaker 2: Do you think, Tamlin, that that would set into place,

862
00:47:13,120 --> 00:47:14,800
Speaker 2: and Tamlin would now not do something.

863
00:47:14,560 --> 00:47:18,000
Speaker 4: Any maybe maybe because she's now admitted it. I think

864
00:47:18,080 --> 00:47:22,400
Speaker 4: there's so yes, the mortal queens give the there'll be

865
00:47:22,440 --> 00:47:24,680
Speaker 4: some something boring about that, and they'll get the other

866
00:47:24,719 --> 00:47:27,560
Speaker 4: half of the book and Admiral will try and read

867
00:47:27,560 --> 00:47:30,760
Speaker 4: it all. And then I reckon, Tamlin's something with Tamlin's

868
00:47:30,760 --> 00:47:32,719
Speaker 4: gonna happen with high burn and high burns all the

869
00:47:32,760 --> 00:47:34,759
Speaker 4: next book, but something within that, I reckon.

870
00:47:34,520 --> 00:47:36,319
Speaker 2: Well, the other one's called a Court of Wings and Ruin,

871
00:47:36,400 --> 00:47:41,520
Speaker 2: which really the acronym is akka war so war man.

872
00:47:41,719 --> 00:47:42,400
Speaker 3: I can't believe.

873
00:47:42,440 --> 00:47:43,479
Speaker 4: How does she think of that?

874
00:47:44,120 --> 00:47:47,400
Speaker 3: Unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable, believable.

875
00:47:47,640 --> 00:47:50,960
Speaker 2: Basically, yeah, So I think that all they're going to

876
00:47:51,040 --> 00:47:52,160
Speaker 2: do is get the Book of Breathings.

877
00:47:52,200 --> 00:47:53,319
Speaker 1: Amron's going to do her thing.

878
00:47:53,640 --> 00:47:56,719
Speaker 4: What do you reckon the group's gonna like do after

879
00:47:56,760 --> 00:47:57,920
Speaker 4: they find out they're fucked.

880
00:47:59,520 --> 00:48:03,520
Speaker 2: You can like as like my boy, I reckon Asrael

881
00:48:03,600 --> 00:48:09,319
Speaker 2: will not say anything Cassian because if you ever heard

882
00:48:09,360 --> 00:48:13,839
Speaker 2: about it's a thing, right, dudes don't get it, but

883
00:48:13,880 --> 00:48:17,680
Speaker 2: it's a thing about girls know when one of their

884
00:48:17,719 --> 00:48:21,080
Speaker 2: friends often a coworker, right, they know when a coworker

885
00:48:21,120 --> 00:48:25,560
Speaker 2: got lucky, then it's a thing. Right, Ah, so Moore's

886
00:48:25,600 --> 00:48:27,880
Speaker 2: going to know. But I think it's going to be

887
00:48:27,920 --> 00:48:30,360
Speaker 2: So it was such a fucking good love making session

888
00:48:30,360 --> 00:48:31,880
Speaker 2: that I think Cassian's also going to see it on

889
00:48:31,920 --> 00:48:32,239
Speaker 2: fair Well.

890
00:48:32,239 --> 00:48:34,680
Speaker 4: They probably heard it from the mountains.

891
00:48:34,520 --> 00:48:36,520
Speaker 3: When he came maybe.

892
00:48:36,680 --> 00:48:41,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, wow, dude, it's fucking interesting.

893
00:48:41,960 --> 00:48:45,560
Speaker 1: That was so much more wholesome than that. I thought, like,

894
00:48:45,680 --> 00:48:47,040
Speaker 1: I thought there was going to be like a lot

895
00:48:47,040 --> 00:48:47,880
Speaker 1: of like I loved.

896
00:48:47,719 --> 00:48:50,120
Speaker 4: It, still very different to what I had and pitch it.

897
00:48:50,160 --> 00:48:51,279
Speaker 4: In my mind, I thought it was gonna be a

898
00:48:51,280 --> 00:48:53,400
Speaker 4: lot of throwing against the wall, a lot of like

899
00:48:53,480 --> 00:48:55,839
Speaker 4: he's got me bent over and he's doing it from

900
00:48:55,880 --> 00:48:59,080
Speaker 4: my own type of stuff. Yeah, the paint played a part,

901
00:48:59,160 --> 00:49:02,200
Speaker 4: and that that bomb drop when she started paying the

902
00:49:02,280 --> 00:49:04,719
Speaker 4: night sky and she recently made her do it through

903
00:49:04,760 --> 00:49:05,120
Speaker 4: the bond.

904
00:49:05,200 --> 00:49:09,040
Speaker 1: Crazy. That's crazy, my dropped type moment. Fucking crazy. Guys.

905
00:49:09,440 --> 00:49:11,960
Speaker 1: We love ya, We got mate. We are pumping through

906
00:49:11,960 --> 00:49:12,440
Speaker 1: these books.

907
00:49:12,520 --> 00:49:15,520
Speaker 2: Yeah ye, we'll order the next book as well. So

908
00:49:15,960 --> 00:49:17,080
Speaker 2: yeah we're looking good.

909
00:49:17,160 --> 00:49:18,879
Speaker 1: Yeah, we love you. Stay bad