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Speaker 1: discretion advised. Kay h they're searching for something out there

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Speaker 1: by the island. They'll probably never find it. Nothing comes

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Speaker 1: Where where am I h you've got quite the cut

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Speaker 1: on your forehead. Well, how did that happen? I don't know.

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Speaker 1: How did you get here? All right, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I don't know anything. Okay. Well, what's the last thing

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Speaker 1: that you remember? Nothing, mm HMM, poor girl, crack on

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Speaker 1: the skull must have knocked at you. Things loose. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: take my hand, let's get you to the doctor. Alright, steady, steady, steady,

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Speaker 1: steady day. All right, good. How do you feel? Fine, stiff,

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Speaker 1: a little bit of headache. Well, we'll take it easy

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Speaker 1: as we go. You follow me? MM HMM. And Dire Brook.

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Speaker 1: To answer your question, I'm sorry, you asked where you were.

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Speaker 1: This is the township of dire brook. Oh, we were

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Speaker 1: once a prosperous fishing village and then we were famous,

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Speaker 1: famous for producing parts for merchant ships. But that was

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Speaker 1: a long time ago, though. We tried our hand at

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Speaker 1: the tourism trade. Voters called US bleak and I'm sorry.

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Speaker 1: Who Are you? Of course, I'm so sorry. And the

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Speaker 1: people here call me mother. Mother, it's a strange thing

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Speaker 1: to be called, I know, but I've grown to enjoy it.

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Speaker 1: It feels warm, doesn't it, and this world could use warm,

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Speaker 1: especially this corner of the world. I've grown so accustomed

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Speaker 1: called beforehand. Mother, it just feels natural, doesn't it? Yes,

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Speaker 1: are you cold? No, sort of numb. Well, we should

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Speaker 1: find you a coat. Nonetheless, these winds get brutal this

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Speaker 1: time of year. Oh what look Jonathan, who the fisherman

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Speaker 1: up there? His family has been here since the dawn

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Speaker 1: of dire brook. You have something to warm you, Surely, Jonathan? Hello, come,

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Speaker 1: we'll meet him by his boat. This used to be

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Speaker 1: a bustling place, this marina now of total disrepair, a

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Speaker 1: only Jonathan uses it anymore, and not to fish. Hello, mother,

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Speaker 1: who's this fool girl? My guest? Well, she's dripping wet.

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Speaker 1: She'll not last long in this wind dressed like that

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Speaker 1: and old soggy to boot. That's a nasty Gash you've

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Speaker 1: got on your head there. I'll hang on then. This

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Speaker 1: old jacket is dusty and moth eaten, but it'll do

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Speaker 1: the job. Go on, take it, put it on. Thank you.

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Speaker 1: How are you there? Mother? Well enough, Jonathan, and you know,

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Speaker 1: about the same as yesterday. With apologies, still, what happened

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Speaker 1: yesterday the same thing as happens every other day. Girl,

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Speaker 1: I don't understand. Well, girl, here everything returns to the sea.

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Speaker 1: Not so many years ago this was a bustling little marina.

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Speaker 1: Men made their living here. It was hard, dangerous, backbreaking Labor,

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Speaker 1: but the sea here was generous to us, and so

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Speaker 1: as long as we weren't afraid to put in the time,

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Speaker 1: keep our families bellies full. My father fished, and his

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Speaker 1: father before Him God only knows how far back the

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Speaker 1: salt in the bloodlines ago. But with the salt come

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Speaker 1: the stories. You've probably heard some of them before, or

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Speaker 1: the famous ones. Mermaids and sirens and Kraken's stories, passed

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Speaker 1: from sailor to sailor as they travel across the globe,

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Speaker 1: stories which eventually make their way inland from the ports.

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Speaker 1: My grandfather used to put me to bed with them,

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Speaker 1: the stories his gruff voice would recall six headed sea

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Speaker 1: that lit up my imagination, all but assuring that I'd

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Speaker 1: follow the family tradition of making my living trolling the tides.

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Speaker 1: His favorite, though, and mine by default, was the story

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Speaker 1: of the mortal fish, long with smooth, silvery scales and

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Speaker 1: beautiful to behold and just as elusive. Story was. If

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Speaker 1: repeating rumors. He said that when he was a younger man,

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Speaker 1: he'd caught one and wished for his true love, and

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Speaker 1: wouldn't you know it, he met my grandmother the very

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Speaker 1: next day of the market. He was a believer, my grandfather,

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Speaker 1: as our most who live here, we keep these stories

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Speaker 1: was just such a story that was running through my

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Speaker 1: As I mended nets one early morning, the full moon

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Speaker 1: to perhaps catch breakfast, my mind was drifting, dreaming of mermaids.

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Speaker 1: to reflect the Dusky Pre dawn light with some sort

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Speaker 1: The fish knew that I knew him what he was,

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Speaker 1: the mortal fish. Now, I was never accused, even in

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Speaker 1: am not above a little superstition, and so I made

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Speaker 1: to the dark when I heard the cries. There she was,

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Speaker 1: I'd never seen beauty before I laid eyes on her.

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Speaker 1: Her hair was a silvery type of blonde, like moonlight,

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Speaker 1: soaked to the bone she was. I asked what brought

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Speaker 1: It's a name I'll not repeat now, a name that

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Speaker 1: I was hopelessly smitten. She came home with me that

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Speaker 1: could describe him in great detail. Strong arms and a

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Speaker 1: He was beautiful as well, small and delicate, but with

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Speaker 1: hair and piercing green eyes. We named him Edward, after

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Speaker 1: my father, though I suspect that she whispered another name

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Speaker 1: to him as he slept in his bassinet. I felt complete.

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Speaker 1: that well. I'm no expert on these things, but I

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Speaker 1: And she turned. Her face was not hers. The snarl

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Speaker 1: She screamed at me holding Edward and Mo swiped at

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Speaker 1: and I fought and pulled and finally he was free.

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Speaker 1: And terrified, I moved as quickly as I could back

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Speaker 1: I turned turned back to see if she'd followed, but

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Speaker 1: Edward and I both slept fitfully that night. I dreamt

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Speaker 1: my child, she said. It made my blood run cold.

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Speaker 1: Edward must have heard it too, and he kickled and

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Speaker 1: of that night. Again, days passed, again, weeks, and again

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Speaker 1: give me back my child, and no, I said. And

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Speaker 1: Edward laughing in his bassinet at the Funny Game Mommy

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