Speaker 1: The Seventh Daughter contains scenes of realistic violence and graphic sexuality.
Speaker 1: It is intended for mature listeners. Have you come seeking knowledge?
Speaker 1: Do you wish to know the truth? Allow me to
Speaker 1: show you. Close your eyes and follow the sound of
Speaker 1: my voice. Allow it to lead you further into the past.
Speaker 1: When I remove my blindfold, you may look into my eyes.
Speaker 1: Don't just look at them, look through them, and you
Speaker 1: will see what they have seen, and all my secrets
Speaker 1: will be revered. The Seventh Daughter. As much as I
Speaker 1: want to let Corbeau unwrap his present, I can't help
Speaker 1: taking a peek. Would you mind anything you say? Miss
Speaker 1: Baxter younger than I expected, and I have to agree
Speaker 1: she is not I'm attractive. I wasn't expecting the such
Speaker 1: thick dark hair. Tell me, my dear, did you have
Speaker 1: a comfortable journey? I am here? Do you know where
Speaker 1: here is a conservatory? It seems not exactly the stately
Speaker 1: pleasure dome I would have imagined. And don't worry, when
Speaker 1: you step into the ceremonial hall tomorrow you'll have quite
Speaker 1: a different reaction. We apologize for masking your head. It's
Speaker 1: important that the location of the Blackbird's little nest remains
Speaker 1: secret and you are. You can't just look at me
Speaker 1: and divine my identity. I'm sorry, but my perceptions respond
Speaker 1: to human warmth and genuine emotion. I have a bit
Speaker 1: more difficulty reading cold fish. I am misspexter, but my
Speaker 1: friends call me backs. I hope you will someday call
Speaker 1: me backs and be my friend. I should like that
Speaker 1: very much. I managed the house, I arranged the soirees,
Speaker 1: I've supervised the servants. Today, I will show you around
Speaker 1: the grounds, explain the operations of the estate, and prepare
Speaker 1: you for tomorrow's ceremony. How does that sound very well?
Speaker 1: For the time being, you and Carbo will sleep in
Speaker 1: separate chambers. I've never had to remove my own. They'll
Speaker 1: spend a lot of time alone while Carbo is busy
Speaker 1: with other matters. He's up at all hours performing various workings,
Speaker 1: writing and correspondence. Not a bad little room. A wardrobe
Speaker 1: has been prepared for you. Wear what you wish. Tell
Speaker 1: us if there is anything you desire, but please understand
Speaker 1: that all your garments must suit the Master's taste. He
Speaker 1: can be very particular. For example, all your clothing will
Speaker 1: be white, all of it, all of it. Must I
Speaker 1: always wear white. You must for as long as it's appropriate.
Speaker 1: At a certain point, you will be expected to wear
Speaker 1: a different color. And what color will that be? Oh?
Speaker 1: My dear, don't you know? Red? Superceptive? See? I knew
Speaker 1: you had warm up to me. You don't share a
Speaker 1: Corbo's belief in the spiritual significance of colors numbers. It's
Speaker 1: fine for him. I prefer to look at things a
Speaker 1: little more deeply. Yeah, can you see him? To me?
Speaker 1: Right now? I can't actually, Yeah, what do you see?
Speaker 1: Look into my eyes? Okay, not at them through them? Here,
Speaker 1: stand closer and look through my eyes and try to
Speaker 1: see what's on the other side of them, and that
Speaker 1: will allow me to see what's on the other side
Speaker 1: of yours. Got it? Sure? Go? I need to stop.
Speaker 1: Are you okay? Sit down? No, I need to go
Speaker 1: upstre There's a pookcord in the corner. Should you need anything?
Speaker 1: But you haven't told me what I'm supposed tonight is
Speaker 1: a formal introduction to his closest friends. Look pretty, be charming,
Speaker 1: and you'll have nothing to worry about. Okay, then the
Speaker 1: blackbird A's come. For more than fifteen years, I have
Speaker 1: sought of her, and to night, our faith and my
Speaker 1: diligence are being rewarded. Tonight I introduced to you the
Speaker 1: Seventh Daughter, my spiritual princess. She was discovered by a
Speaker 1: Negro priestess and put to work performing magic tricks on
Speaker 1: the sidewalks of Steel City. But her light could not
Speaker 1: be hidden under a bushel for long. An esteemed man
Speaker 1: of science brought her out of the gutter. He conducted
Speaker 1: rigorous examinations and pronounced her genuine beyond doubt. In time
Speaker 1: I will share her with you. But tonight I offer
Speaker 1: you only advance. Let us welcome my Madonna, my Virgin
Speaker 1: Mary Pandora. I sense that there are some among you
Speaker 1: who are wondering who I am and how I earned
Speaker 1: the privilege of standing before you. I am eager for
Speaker 1: the opportunity to demonstrate my gifts, to dispel the merest
Speaker 1: shadow of your doubts. I have won the confidence of
Speaker 1: the dark Lord, and I have no doubt that I
Speaker 1: shall command your faith as well. Yes, well, that does
Speaker 1: not delay to night's festivities, a bachelor's feast of sensual
Speaker 1: delights worthy of Lucifer Sun. And for the bride, prepare
Speaker 1: the loving cop let it brim to overflowing, and let
Speaker 1: everyone partake before it passes to my bride, so that
Speaker 1: she may taste the essence of your lustful yearnings. I
Speaker 1: am honored that you have come to my temple of indulgence,
Speaker 1: so that we may worship together. My will be done
Speaker 1: on earth as it seldom is in heaven. I shall
Speaker 1: give you this day a little more than bread, and
Speaker 1: I shall forgive you your trustpasses. So long as you
Speaker 1: allow others to trespass against you. Let me lead you
Speaker 1: into temptation and deliver you some evil. For thine is
Speaker 1: the kingdom, mind, the power, and all of ours the glory.
Speaker 1: If not forever, at least for the next six hours. Amen,
Speaker 1: bring forth the five supplicants and have them kneel at
Speaker 1: each point of the star. All right, ladies, take your positions.
Speaker 1: I won't do it anymore. You've said tonight would be different.
Speaker 1: Come on, don't be that way. Don't you see what
Speaker 1: a privilege you're being good to. Let some wrinkled promy
Speaker 1: tell you who one of the priests is under his mask.
Speaker 1: I don't really care to know, Wally Read, you're lying?
Speaker 1: Am I lying? The King of Speed just came in
Speaker 1: last night on the express direct from Hollywood, stayed in
Speaker 1: the guest room, which one is in Not at liberty
Speaker 1: to say, but look at the symbols on their robes.
Speaker 1: Smart girl like you could figure it out. What if
Speaker 1: he doesn't line up at my point of the star,
Speaker 1: You'll never know unless you play go on spen Wheal
Speaker 1: trudy between you and me. I'm putting my money on red.
Speaker 1: In the name of the priests of the Shadows of Darkness,
Speaker 1: gathered this night, I call for the ceremony of betrothal
Speaker 1: to commence a contract of marriage this night. Shall we
Speaker 1: write inked in blood, sealed with the unholy elixir formulated
Speaker 1: by the priests and concubines, consecrated in my own name
Speaker 1: and in the name of the Unholy Father, Prince of Darkness,
Speaker 1: Lord of Chaos. Yeah right, you drink, so tell me
Speaker 1: was it everything you expected? No one could have prepared
Speaker 1: me for this. This is nothing one of Garbo's more
Speaker 1: formal affairs. So impress this patrons' thank you, go on
Speaker 1: taking everybody drinks here cost it will help mask the
Speaker 1: taste of the loving cup. Wait until I throws a
Speaker 1: real party. So what is it? I'm supposed to do
Speaker 1: with these. My advice is to drink enough that it
Speaker 1: makes it all seem like a crazy dream. But you
Speaker 1: don't want to drink so much that you lose consciousness support.
Speaker 1: You're a clever girl. Figure it out, Backs, Wait, let
Speaker 1: me ask you. You call me backs. We're going to
Speaker 1: be friends. You and I write nothing. I want more,
Speaker 1: but listen, at what point will I be expected to
Speaker 1: perform sittings or readings? Sittings? Come here, come here. We
Speaker 1: don't do a lot of that here. I don't understand
Speaker 1: that was the whole reason I was brought here. Well, yes,
Speaker 1: and sit down. Let back spell it all out for
Speaker 1: the new girl. Corbou you see, goat fucker that he is,
Speaker 1: excuse me, is a very important man, got a lot
Speaker 1: of people he needs to impress, actual believers in this
Speaker 1: who do voodoo. He's peddling, and a man like that
Speaker 1: has got a line himself with a woman of absolute
Speaker 1: spiritual power, shares a wife that commands the respect of
Speaker 1: his peers. Once they're married, we'll just like any woman,
Speaker 1: say'm married, her career is over. She'll do the same
Speaker 1: wifely chores that all women perform. Rich and Paul easy
Speaker 1: sip it, My dear, there are certain chores of a
Speaker 1: housewife that I am unwilling to perform. Anyway, I have
Speaker 1: probably said too much, so please forget everything I've said
Speaker 1: in the west five minutes. You're fine. Facts. I appreciate
Speaker 1: your candid Hey, Pandora, you stuck a booda needle into
Speaker 1: me today, did I? Yeah? Stuck it in really deep?
Speaker 1: You asked for it backs. I guess I did, didn't I?
Speaker 1: And now that the needle is in, I suppose you'd
Speaker 1: better do everything I ask, hadn't you? You just say
Speaker 1: the word A toast to the brightest star of the
Speaker 1: firmanent Pandora and Ms Pandora. Yes, Nelly, someone to see you.
Speaker 1: It's Mr Shrink Albert surn him in. Yes, ma'am, that'll
Speaker 1: be all, Nelly. Um, I'm not allowed to leave you
Speaker 1: alone with a guest. Could you at least outside? You
Speaker 1: can leave the door open. Very good, ma'am. You were
Speaker 1: at the initiation party, but you hardly spoke to me.
Speaker 1: Your attention seemed occupied with other things, and to be honest,
Speaker 1: I was rather ashamed to fash you. Listen, I'll keep
Speaker 1: this brief, since I brought you into the circumstance, Pandora,
Speaker 1: I feel a certain responsibility and I have you to think,
Speaker 1: and that is not exactly reassuring to me. M What
Speaker 1: is the matter? Should you be drinking fine to hour
Speaker 1: at any hour? It was searched me at the initiation.
Speaker 1: I'm a married woman, I think, am I? Anyway? I
Speaker 1: see no harm that as it may. After that's night's bucking,
Speaker 1: I have to wonder if he's appropriate for a girl
Speaker 1: like yourself to be left here. I really wish you
Speaker 1: would stop worrying about me. This is what we all wanted,
Speaker 1: isn't it? You? Me? Rose? It's just not at all
Speaker 1: that I expected. Frankly, I found the entire spectacled, cheap,
Speaker 1: integrating and unfolding of a fullment of your sensibility. What
Speaker 1: did you think I do here? Sit on a throne
Speaker 1: and read palms every night? Rose warmed me many times
Speaker 1: of corbos appetites, And you are willing to accept this?
Speaker 1: Can you honestly say you had no idea what was
Speaker 1: in store for me? Or did you just not bother
Speaker 1: to think about it? You're being unfair. I have only
Speaker 1: had the noblest of intentions on straight and not saying
Speaker 1: don't act so wounded. I'm the one who has to
Speaker 1: sit on that throne and preside over a bunch of
Speaker 1: drunken fools, not if I can help it. You already
Speaker 1: helped it, and now there's nothing you can do to
Speaker 1: stop it. If it's forgiveness you seek, I cannot absolve you,
Speaker 1: I understand, but I will hold no grudge against you
Speaker 1: if you can fulfill a promise to me, how through anything,
Speaker 1: I want you to find Rose. I couldn't face her.
Speaker 1: Just find her, Pandora. Please pardon me for saying, but
Speaker 1: you don't seem quite yourself. Perhaps you should put away
Speaker 1: the vine with pleasure there now? And you were saying
Speaker 1: you're on the immense strain I cannot imagine. No, you can't,
Speaker 1: And you mustn't let your emotions get the better of
Speaker 1: your emotions. I don't share the same emotions that ordinary
Speaker 1: beings seem to feel, lust and loss, desire and regret.
Speaker 1: I'm merely observe. Is your heart made of stone? Surely
Speaker 1: you know that love feels like I know what it
Speaker 1: looks like. I've read about it in books, but I've
Speaker 1: never touched it, nor has it touched me. I'm so sorry. No,
Speaker 1: lack of feeling is a blessing, not a curse. It's
Speaker 1: what enables me to detect the emotions of others. Is
Speaker 1: what will enable me to get through Saturday's ceremony and
Speaker 1: the next and the next. You see, Albert, emotions cloud
Speaker 1: the mind in ways you cannot imagine. I'll show you.
Speaker 1: Don't pity me because I feel no love. I also
Speaker 1: feel no pain. Oh my God, though my flesh may bleed,
Speaker 1: I assure you my heart is as cold as clay.
Speaker 1: This I could you let me? Let me pick the
Speaker 1: glass from your palm. I'll be very gentle as you wish,
Speaker 1: wheather you wish to have my help or not. I
Speaker 1: feel do everything I can to save you. Pandora find
Speaker 1: her Ah, oh lord, Oh what's this? M hm? Yes,
Speaker 1: my Lord called the piano tune. I have him come
Speaker 1: and fix this. This won't do at all. I'll see
Speaker 1: to it right away. Oh what is it now? Your kingdom? Come?
Speaker 1: My will be done well? The High binder himself to
Speaker 1: what do I owe the pleasure? M Oh, don't worry
Speaker 1: about Baxter. She knows all my secrets. A letter arrived
Speaker 1: in today's post for Pandora. Pandora no one knows she's
Speaker 1: here well. Baron von Shrank does ah has the love
Speaker 1: sick schoolboy written her letter? It's marked personal and confidential.
Speaker 1: Didn't I tell you? Do you have it? I went
Speaker 1: ahead and steamed open the seal in case you want
Speaker 1: to deliver it after How considerate of you, But I
Speaker 1: have saved the pleasure of reading the note for you.
Speaker 1: Open it, Baxter. I am just boarding a liner, but
Speaker 1: wanted to pen this letter before we leave port. I
Speaker 1: completed my tour of the East and witnessed almost forty
Speaker 1: psychics and mentalists along the way. I am pleased to
Speaker 1: report that I have located Rose Rose, as you requested.
Speaker 1: While in New York, I visited a dime museum in
Speaker 1: the Bowery Worley's Museum of Marvels. Not a fit place
Speaker 1: for a gentleman such as myself, but for your sake
Speaker 1: and in the name of science, I pressed onward. This
Speaker 1: amusement hall had none of the charm of Paradise. Pier
Speaker 1: was a dark and feted place, filled with constant noise,
Speaker 1: a place in which the most morbid of curiosities could
Speaker 1: be indulged. The mostular attraction ever presented, indeed, United I
Speaker 1: went into the booth of a medium that calls herself Minerva.
Speaker 1: She was dressed in black, had a black veil covering
Speaker 1: her face. She took my hand, turned it palm up
Speaker 1: and asked me, what do you wish to know, my
Speaker 1: old friend. I remembered what you told me to ask.
Speaker 1: I had repeated the message to dozens of other mediums
Speaker 1: already and had never gotten a response. If it pleases
Speaker 1: the spirits, can I ask? Is it possible for an
Speaker 1: earthbound mortal to see in to the mirror of dreams?
Speaker 1: I'm sorry the noise? Would you mind repeating the question?
Speaker 1: I couldn't detect her reaction because her face was so
Speaker 1: heavily veiled If it pleases the spirits, asks your forgiven
Speaker 1: and needs your help dreams. She seemed shaken by this.
Speaker 1: She released my hand so I wouldn't feel her strengthing.
Speaker 1: Is she in danger? For I have from shrink? Tell
Speaker 1: me what has happened? Afraid you have me at a disadvantage.
Speaker 1: And that's when she lifted the veil. That's when I
Speaker 1: knew it was ross. Is Pandora say she is safe
Speaker 1: for the moment, But to be honest, I don't know
Speaker 1: for how long. Having spent some time in Corbo's circle,
Speaker 1: I've come to believe he is not the spiritual seeker
Speaker 1: he pretends to be. Corbo is still alive, fine, for't
Speaker 1: t be. He is alive and fellow, and he has
Speaker 1: deceived us. And you, kind hearted, ignorant man. Has your
Speaker 1: eagerness to believe really made you that blind? Do you
Speaker 1: not see how many people are deceiving you? Who is
Speaker 1: deceiving me? All of us, not Pandora, especially Pandora. Oh yes,
Speaker 1: you're wrong. You were a stepping stone that allowed her
Speaker 1: into Corbo's nest. Your jealous. She's left you behind, and
Speaker 1: now you want to tear her down. You've want to
Speaker 1: destroy her chances of success. Says If Corbo is alive,
Speaker 1: then she has already failed. Failed in vain. Corbo tried
Speaker 1: to take my child away from me. My husband had
Speaker 1: What is it? How did I not see it? Or
Speaker 1: you either? The woman Rose? It's Divina, That's impossible. Davina
Speaker 1: was white, Roses black? Really think about it, just how
Speaker 1: black is Rose? And how white was Davina? Now it
Speaker 1: can't be think about it. She knew exactly what I wanted.
Speaker 1: She groomed the girl in such a way that I
Speaker 1: would find her irresistible. She put her on a platter
Speaker 1: and practically waved her under my nose. Every step of
Speaker 1: her career was calculated to bring her one step closer
Speaker 1: to me. But why if she didn't want you to
Speaker 1: have her daughter, why would she turn around and drop
Speaker 1: the girl on your doorstep? The trojan horse, a poisoned apple,
Speaker 1: and anarchist's bomb tossed into my window? But what harm
Speaker 1: can a girl do by herself? Nothing? As soon as
Speaker 1: someone exposes the truth, let her be expa to say
Speaker 1: I was a fool or a fraud. We won't give
Speaker 1: her that opportunity. We can't hurt her, can't we. It's
Speaker 1: Rosa's fault, Pandora's. She hasn't done anything to harm us.
Speaker 1: When people learned that she is a fake, and I
Speaker 1: have made her my queen, it will corone my empire
Speaker 1: from within. The newspapers have been waiting for something like
Speaker 1: this to happen so they can smear me with their filth.
Speaker 1: All these years I looked for finally found her, only
Speaker 1: to be publicly humiliated by that pow. The woman had
Speaker 1: no right to put her here. It's obvious Pandora never
Speaker 1: belonged in our circle. Innocent school girl like that, No
Speaker 1: harm will come to her. We just need to checkmate her.
Speaker 1: Force her into a corner so she'll do as she
Speaker 1: is told and take away her privileges. The woman Rose Davina,
Speaker 1: whatever she's calling herself. Now bring her here. Hold a
Speaker 1: proverbial gun to her head. Second thoughts, let's put a
Speaker 1: literal gun to her head. Let the hag live out
Speaker 1: her life with a muzzle press to her temple and
Speaker 1: a finger resting on the trigger. If Pandora fails to
Speaker 1: perform her duties as our queen, we will paint the
Speaker 1: walls red first with the woman's blood. And if that's
Speaker 1: not enough, then the girls begging the lord's pardon. Yes,
Speaker 1: if Pandora is a fake, and I still don't believe
Speaker 1: she is, how can she fulfill her obligations as the
Speaker 1: High Priestess. Now that you mention it, maybe it is
Speaker 1: taking too big a risk allowing Pandora to preside over
Speaker 1: our followers. M we've encouraged this notion that the medium's
Speaker 1: power is dependent upon her virginity, have we not, Yes,
Speaker 1: it would be quite a simple matter to deprive her
Speaker 1: of her powers, gather our most influential members to witness
Speaker 1: her ceremonial deconsecration before their very eyes, before the eyes
Speaker 1: of her own mother. How poetic would that be? It's disgusting, Yes,
Speaker 1: it is, isn't it. Thank you for the suggestion. Carry on, Baxter,
Speaker 1: put together a guest list, engrave the invitations. It will
Speaker 1: be the most decadent gesture a man could perform, to
Speaker 1: destroy something rare and beautiful for the sheer pleasure of
Speaker 1: doing so. As you wish. Come in. I was hoping
Speaker 1: it was you backs, come to have your palm red.
Speaker 1: I'm dying of boredom in this place, not for long. Listen, kid,
Speaker 1: Carbo would skin me alive if he knew I was
Speaker 1: telling you this. But you need to think of a
Speaker 1: way to leave the compound. But I just got there,
Speaker 1: onto you, onto me. How they think you're a fake?
Speaker 1: They figured Rose sent you here to embarrass Carbo. But
Speaker 1: I'm not a fake. Come on, Pandora, I promise you
Speaker 1: backs the spirit of truth. Even if it does, it
Speaker 1: won't for much longer. What do you mean by that?
Speaker 1: Corbo's planning a new kind of ceremony, one in which
Speaker 1: your powers are take away if you get my meaning,
Speaker 1: So you and I need to start packing. I can't
Speaker 1: do that back. You really don't know what's about to happen, Baxter,
Speaker 1: you're not listening. They're planning. To know what they're planning,
Speaker 1: and you're willing to stay here and let it happen.
Speaker 1: Since you've become something of a friend to me, I
Speaker 1: would rather you not be here to witness it. Pandora,
Speaker 1: When the time comes, will you promise me not to
Speaker 1: attend the ceremony? Neither one of us promise me. You
Speaker 1: can't be there. If I don't attend to Corbobile thinkrust me.
Speaker 1: After the ceremony, none of that will matter anymore. Thanks,
Speaker 1: and here give us a little privacy. Will you open
Speaker 1: for business? Have a seat? What do you wish to know?
Speaker 1: My friend? I need answers, and I'm told you the
Speaker 1: woman to give him. If you would make an offering
Speaker 1: in this box, I would be happy to help you.
Speaker 1: You look a lot like a woman I used to know,
Speaker 1: damnedest thing. In fact, you look like two women I
Speaker 1: used to know. What a coincidence you see? I am
Speaker 1: both of them, so you are. Now? How about the
Speaker 1: two of you who get up and follow me outside.
Speaker 1: We're taking a little trip. I've been waiting for you,
Speaker 1: high binder. I've had my bag packed for almost a
Speaker 1: week of predicting the future? Are you I am? Then?
Speaker 1: Tell me, sister, what's the future? Wholes bloodshed, suffering, death?
Speaker 1: My god, it is you. M. I never expected this
Speaker 1: day to come. You have no idea how long I've
Speaker 1: searched for you, how deeply I've hated you all these years.
Speaker 1: I think I do. Every carnival, every midway, every music halls.
Speaker 1: We looked everywhere, and now I understand why we couldn't
Speaker 1: find you. Brilliant really an unimaginable mask garage. On the contrary,
Speaker 1: you were so used to seeing my mask that when
Speaker 1: I showed my real face, you didn't recognize it. The
Speaker 1: great deceiver. Indeed, tell me, how shall I address you?
Speaker 1: M Minerva ruse the Vena? Call me what you will?
Speaker 1: What is it you wish to know the truth? No fortune's,
Speaker 1: no philosophizing, just the truth. Do that and I just
Speaker 1: might let you live. Ask what you will? Is it true?
Speaker 1: Pandora is the girl. She is the seventh daughter of
Speaker 1: the seventh daughter, Your daughter, my daughter? Why did you
Speaker 1: take her from here? I didn't take her. She was
Speaker 1: never yours. She was promised to me. I bought her
Speaker 1: for the girl's father I paid for. The girl was
Speaker 1: not his to sell. She was mine. You know, just
Speaker 1: because you carry a child in your belly, it doesn't
Speaker 1: mean your own her. No, that is true. Now she
Speaker 1: belongs to me. If you'll forgive me for saying you
Speaker 1: should not assume that just because a girl lives under
Speaker 1: your roof, that she is your property, or that she
Speaker 1: will obey your commands. That was the mistake I made.
Speaker 1: Tell me, Rose, what sort of sabotage are you planning?
Speaker 1: You kept her heaven for years, but then, for no
Speaker 1: good reason, you put her on display. Didn't you think
Speaker 1: we notice? This? You see, is the truth that I've
Speaker 1: come to tell Pandora is here, not because I put
Speaker 1: her here, but because it is her destiny. You deceive
Speaker 1: me once, Rose, I'd be a fool to trust you
Speaker 1: a second time. You hold all the cards, Corbea, You've
Speaker 1: won the game, You've got what you wanted. There's no
Speaker 1: reason for me to lie. Then tell me this, honestly,
Speaker 1: are her powers real? Hear me out? I will tell
Speaker 1: you everything, and if you listen, you will understand and
Speaker 1: you will believe. Go on. For years, I kept her hidden.
Speaker 1: I planned to give her a different life, any life,
Speaker 1: but this. I shaped her and molded her, raised her
Speaker 1: to be a proper young lady, and I almost succeeded.
Speaker 1: But a few years ago she began to change. It
Speaker 1: was becoming difficult for her to become this thing I
Speaker 1: wanted her to be. She wanted to please me, but
Speaker 1: I could see the struggle inside her. Something was gnawing
Speaker 1: at her, making her unhappy. She couldn't describe it, couldn't
Speaker 1: give it a name, but I could. Don't forget. I too,
Speaker 1: was a seventh daughter, So when I saw her struggling,
Speaker 1: I knew exactly what was happening. I took a chance.
Speaker 1: I thought, perhaps if I allow her a taste, a
Speaker 1: small taste, she will be satisfied. Allow her flame to burn,
Speaker 1: but not too brightly. Maybe I could control it. So
Speaker 1: I began to teach her. I showed her how to
Speaker 1: let the spirit flow through her, and as I hoped
Speaker 1: it would, this calmed the disturbance within her. The spirit
Speaker 1: cannot be consumed in small doses. Each chaset only fuels
Speaker 1: the appetite, so I gave her more. Eventually I taught
Speaker 1: her everything I knew, but still it was not enough.
Speaker 1: I tried to protect her, keep her identity a secret,
Speaker 1: prolong her childhood, but it was useless. Once she spread
Speaker 1: her wings, she couldn't possibly remain in a cage. That's
Speaker 1: when she began to perform. But you knew what would
Speaker 1: happen if I found her. Yes, I knew. And it
Speaker 1: was at that moment that I suddenly realized what it
Speaker 1: means to be a mother, that there were limits to
Speaker 1: my protection, and having endowed her with certain skills, I
Speaker 1: had no choice but to open the cage and release her.
Speaker 1: I had to let her live the life she chose,
Speaker 1: even if it resulted in certain death, because it's her life,
Speaker 1: not mine. And that is how she came to be
Speaker 1: here Corboud, not because of me, but in spite of me.
Speaker 1: She wanted this, not me. You asked me, if she
Speaker 1: is real? Yes, she is real. She has the potential
Speaker 1: to be more powerful than either you or I, and
Speaker 1: I came here without a struggle to ask you to
Speaker 1: beg you not to crush the spirit out of her.
Speaker 1: Thank you Rose for your confession and your sincerity. It's
Speaker 1: important for me to know that she is not just
Speaker 1: a common grifter, but is a living, breathing vessel of
Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit. Yes, it has been most illuminating. You see,
Speaker 1: when I'm prepared ring to destroy something, I like to
Speaker 1: mow its value first. It enhances the pleasure. You know.
Speaker 1: I once burned painting by Vermere for the simple satisfaction
Speaker 1: of destroying something unique, beautiful and treasured by others. And
Speaker 1: so it shall be with Pandora, you best hand, I
Speaker 1: shall deprive you of everything you are, all you have been,
Speaker 1: and anything you hope to become. My will be done. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I must now replace my blindfold. As my vision begins
Speaker 1: to fade, your own senses will gradually return, Return to
Speaker 1: the warmth and the light of your own reality. The
Speaker 1: Seventh Daughter is a production of I Heart Radio, written
Speaker 1: and directed by Brett Wood, recorded and mixed by Rob Gow,
Speaker 1: featuring Minco Wilts as Rose, Elizabeth Hunter as Pearl, and
Speaker 1: Kevin Godley as Corbo. There, you may now open your eyes.