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 revealed. The Seventh Daughter. Good, you're awake, yes, ma'am?
Speaker 1: Clear me some room on the table. Got your cleaning done, yes, ma'am.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm, not bad, not bad. Now that the cleaning
Speaker 1: is done, you can help me with some cooking. Oh good,
Speaker 1: I'm starring. Not for you, not for me either. We'll
Speaker 1: eat a meal after after what after we've owned it?
Speaker 1: What are we cooking? Medicine? We bottle it up right
Speaker 1: here in the room. I'm miraculous, mixture of rare isles,
Speaker 1: exotic urban divine spirit ah, a miracle drug with absolutely
Speaker 1: no medicinal value. But but what, come on? Ask me
Speaker 1: what you want to know? What do we do with
Speaker 1: medicine that doesn't do anything? Sell it to people who
Speaker 1: don't actually need it. I'm going slow so you can
Speaker 1: see exactly how it's done, and you can learn the
Speaker 1: proper mixture of ingredients, like cleaning the room, cooking the
Speaker 1: medicine will be your job. Now. Once I feel it,
Speaker 1: you cork it and glue one of these labels on
Speaker 1: the front lotus blood. Is it like patent medicine if
Speaker 1: you want to call it that. Sell it in a shop,
Speaker 1: no door to door, No on the street. We do
Speaker 1: what's called a high pitch, a high pitch from the
Speaker 1: back of a carriage. When the sun goes down, we
Speaker 1: light gasoline torches that hang from the ends of poles.
Speaker 1: Dramatic lighting catch people's eyes. And I'll set up a
Speaker 1: display of medical curiosities, shrunken heads, jar babies, tapeworms, like
Speaker 1: a museum. Where do we do this? Wherever we can
Speaker 1: attract a crowd. How do we attract the crowd? That
Speaker 1: will be your job me. That's right, We're gonna attract
Speaker 1: the crowd by putting you on display. People will look
Speaker 1: at me. They won't know what to make of you.
Speaker 1: Why would people be interested in looking at me? We'll
Speaker 1: make them interested. Got around good people last year City.
Speaker 1: Permit me to share what you a message your truth
Speaker 1: and of hope, the mystery of the Caribbean island, and
Speaker 1: the redeeming grace of our heavenly Lord. And see if
Speaker 1: you're Jesus Christ. These marvels, mysteries, and the blessings are
Speaker 1: personicide and the unlimited lily white flesh of one extra
Speaker 1: ordinary child. A childhood is an ambassador of God's tender
Speaker 1: messes and evidence of his ferruscious power. Oh is the
Speaker 1: child who represent the power youth of which I speak.
Speaker 1: Oh is the embodiment of purity and perfection, filled with
Speaker 1: the wisdom of the ages. Permit me to introduce you,
Speaker 1: good people are Steel City to the seven daughter. By
Speaker 1: that time we should have a crowd of a dozen
Speaker 1: or so. And then what you perform? Perform? We'll start
Speaker 1: with something simple, the absolute lowest form of decorin the
Speaker 1: alphabet code. I'll list twenty six ordinary items in no
Speaker 1: apparent order, but you'll memorize them in this particular sequence
Speaker 1: A through Z. The alphabet is simply a means of
Speaker 1: keeping track of their order. For example, A is this box, yes, yes, okay?
Speaker 1: B is this pencil, C is the door, D is
Speaker 1: the chair, got that A B C D box pencil?
Speaker 1: Door chair? What's see the door and the box D?
Speaker 1: Now do you see change? An aggregation of urban oil
Speaker 1: heretofore known only to the mystics and healers of the Orient.
Speaker 1: I shall now move among you and randomly point two
Speaker 1: items in your position. Pandora, blindfolded and without any coaching whatsoever,
Speaker 1: will accurately name these items. You there? What's that in
Speaker 1: your hand? A walking stick? You there? Show me your yes, Pandora,
Speaker 1: a flower in the lapel of a young gentleman. Carnation,
Speaker 1: I believe. And what color is the carnation? White? Yes, white,
Speaker 1: as white and pure as your virgin and soul at place.
Speaker 1: Applause is not necessary. Pandora performs for your eddie Vakisha,
Speaker 1: not for your approven I'll be doing all the work.
Speaker 1: I'll find the items we're looking for in the sequence
Speaker 1: we've established. You just have to sit there and recite
Speaker 1: your A, B c's. But if someone watches us perform
Speaker 1: a second time, won't they figure out the pattern? That's right?
Speaker 1: And that is why we never perform the alphabet code
Speaker 1: the same way twice. The next day we do the
Speaker 1: alphabet backwards. The day after, we rearrange the letters to
Speaker 1: spell a sentence the quick brown Fox. But the alphabet
Speaker 1: code is child's play, the lowest form of ducker in.
Speaker 1: You know what duckering is. I assume it's like triggery. Wow,
Speaker 1: you're more clever than you look. As quickly as we can,
Speaker 1: will move beyond the alphabet code. I'll teach you other signals, modifiers.
Speaker 1: I will be able to communicate names and dates. Eventually
Speaker 1: we won't use the alphabet at all. We'll be able
Speaker 1: to carry on separate conversations, hidden within the words everyone
Speaker 1: else is hearing. Anyway, Once the audience is hungry for more,
Speaker 1: I'll turn the tip and close the sale. Hide out
Speaker 1: behind the banner and change into your dress while I
Speaker 1: drum up the crowd you have around? What people I'm
Speaker 1: permitted to share with? True part? I didn't realize anybody
Speaker 1: was back there. What are you doing anyway? I'm waiting
Speaker 1: for the show. Oh yeah, you're your Andora? Is that right? Yeah?
Speaker 1: You're really something. Look I don't I don't mean to
Speaker 1: get you in no trouble, but those big guys and
Speaker 1: that pale skin, just like a baby dough and not
Speaker 1: so much of a baby either practically a grown up
Speaker 1: dough soft and white. Anybody ever tell you you know?
Speaker 1: She probably don't tell you how beautiful you are? And
Speaker 1: I think we both know why that is. Tell me
Speaker 1: what she h? What's she calling herself these days? The
Speaker 1: gal running the show? I think she might used to
Speaker 1: be a friend of mine. Rose, China Rose. China Rose
Speaker 1: sounds like perfume or soap or something. I respect. That's
Speaker 1: her stage name? What's tell me? What's your real name?
Speaker 1: Can you tell me that? Say? China Rose is the
Speaker 1: only name I know? Yes, huh, funny? She ever called
Speaker 1: herself by the name? Leave the girl alone? You should
Speaker 1: be back here, Leave us alone. I'll call the cops.
Speaker 1: Whatever you say, duchess, I'll be watching. Who was that?
Speaker 1: How should I know? I ever ever catch you talking
Speaker 1: to that man or others like him? Did I not
Speaker 1: hear your voice telling him my name? Pay attention to
Speaker 1: your work. You let a man distract you, and he'll
Speaker 1: destroy our act. We'll perform the word apostle just like
Speaker 1: we planned. Yeah, yeah, yes, man, all right, then stop sulking,
Speaker 1: clean yourself up, and I'll go drum up a crowd.
Speaker 1: I did all that that's good. Isn't it not as
Speaker 1: good as it seems? I spent fifty cents on bottles,
Speaker 1: two dollars to print the labels, the rental of the wagon,
Speaker 1: your dress, the ingredients, torches. What does that leave one
Speaker 1: and six? What's that dollar? Oh? That's not so good.
Speaker 1: It's a respectable beginning. We should start seeing real money
Speaker 1: in three or four days. You you performed well, burl Oh,
Speaker 1: thank you? How much do we need for the passage? Passage?
Speaker 1: To what to see my father in Haley? You ask
Speaker 1: too many questions. You do your job, allow me to
Speaker 1: do mine. And speaking of jobs, there is one more
Speaker 1: duty that I'll expect you to perform every evening after supper.
Speaker 1: First light the lamp and bring me my toy, the toy,
Speaker 1: the silver tray with the lacquered box, my toy box.
Speaker 1: Hop you know, hop your medicine. I can survive without
Speaker 1: it for a time, eating spoonfuls of yen she scraped
Speaker 1: from the damper. But it's no substitute for this proper
Speaker 1: curative restorative. Are you ill? Mm hmm? Some would say, here,
Speaker 1: let me show you how to prepare it. Use the
Speaker 1: knife to slice a piece of opium from the loaf.
Speaker 1: Then you take this little hook called a yen hock huh,
Speaker 1: and as the cooked opium thickens, you gently work it
Speaker 1: into a little ball of putty like so the little
Speaker 1: brown pearl just like this, And then we place it
Speaker 1: in the bowl and tilt the pipe at an angle
Speaker 1: so the flame warms the pearl. Careful that we don't
Speaker 1: scorch it. You just want to heat it so the
Speaker 1: breath of the dragon will travel up the pipe. And
Speaker 1: I turned the pearl with the yin howk, so a
Speaker 1: new area is exposed to the heat of the lamp,
Speaker 1: and I just breathe. Ah. Some nights I will smoke
Speaker 1: two pipes, sometimes three, scrape the yn she into the box,
Speaker 1: and prepare another pearl, just like I showed you. If
Speaker 1: a smoker is not able to obtain a proper toy,
Speaker 1: she can eat a spoonful of yen she instead. Yes
Speaker 1: you told me that. M oh, yes, Well it isn't pleasant,
Speaker 1: but keeps the demons away. Pay attention. You might need
Speaker 1: to know this someday rose mm hmm. Who was that man?
Speaker 1: What man? The man and the bowler hat and the
Speaker 1: coat with the fur color h The man who sugar
Speaker 1: talked you. He didn't sugar talk me. Oh he did.
Speaker 1: You just didn't know it. Didn't you notice the way
Speaker 1: his eyes were skating across your face. It's the surest
Speaker 1: sign of what off his lust. Ah. A woman doesn't
Speaker 1: know she's being sugar talked until it's dripping down her
Speaker 1: neck like molasses. I'm not a woman, I'm a girl.
Speaker 1: Doesn't make any difference to them. Sooner the better, as
Speaker 1: far as they care. Huhm. Take you away from me,
Speaker 1: take away our livelihood, take away your power. If I
Speaker 1: ever catch you talking to one of them, I'll have
Speaker 1: you back at the convent before sunrise and you can
Speaker 1: live the rest of your life there. M hmm. With
Speaker 1: its ponds, it swans, the sisters lined up in a row,
Speaker 1: Oregan music playing all the time. Oh, nothing to do
Speaker 1: but watch the grass grow and breathe the air. Nothing
Speaker 1: to do but breathe during the performance. You called me
Speaker 1: a seventh daughter? What does that mean? Old Roman knee
Speaker 1: superstition when they say the seventh daughter can commune with spirits,
Speaker 1: and so you shall read minds conju voices from the
Speaker 1: grave cause spirits to rise and frolic in the dark
Speaker 1: under my guidance and hypnotic control. I'll do all that.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm, it'll be just like tonight. Did you see
Speaker 1: their faces tonight? The way the people looked at me,
Speaker 1: It was almost as if I were some kind of freak. No,
Speaker 1: m what were you going to say? Confidence is good,
Speaker 1: it strengthens you. But don't believe the lies you're telling.
Speaker 1: Don't eat the slop you're selling. Don't think of yourself
Speaker 1: as anything other than what you are, which is what exactly,
Speaker 1: at best, a diversion, the magician's misdirection. You're like a
Speaker 1: dancing bear, the organ grinder's monkey in a white crept sheen,
Speaker 1: and at worst a liar and a fraud. But it's
Speaker 1: nothing to be ashamed of. The line between illusionist and
Speaker 1: deceiver is a fine one, and your toes must always
Speaker 1: touch upon it. Don't look so sad. You will find
Speaker 1: this line of work quite rewarding. Continue to perform well,
Speaker 1: and I'll take you to someone who can train you
Speaker 1: in more elaborate skills, show you the real secrets, so
Speaker 1: that maybe one day you can get your face painted
Speaker 1: on a canvas banner, just like her, Just like her, Davina,
Speaker 1: the woman on the canvas. Yeah? Was she? Was? She
Speaker 1: my mother? What makes you ask that I look like her?
Speaker 1: M h, I guess you're doing that. Did you know her? Yes?
Speaker 1: I was told that she died when I was born.
Speaker 1: H Did I kill her by being born? No? She
Speaker 1: was dead already by the time they pulled you out
Speaker 1: of her. Her life was over. Hush now sleep. Am
Speaker 1: I a seventh daughter? Don't be silly? If you are
Speaker 1: the seventh? Where are the other six? No? There is
Speaker 1: only you and I and my father? What about my father? Rose?
Speaker 1: When will we see my father? Rose? I must now
Speaker 1: replace my blind fold. As my vision begins to fade,
Speaker 1: Your own senses will gradually return, Return to the warmth
Speaker 1: and the light of your own reality. The Seventh Daughter
Speaker 1: is a production of I Heart Radio, written and directed
Speaker 1: by Brett Wood, recorded and mixed by Rob Gal, featuring
Speaker 1: Nca Wilkes as Rose and Elizabeth Hunter as Pearl. There,
Speaker 1: you may now open your eyes.