1 00:00:01,720 --> 00:00:03,240 Speaker 1: Cool Zone Media. 2 00:00:05,920 --> 00:00:08,240 Speaker 2: Book Club book club club. 3 00:00:09,800 --> 00:00:10,200 Speaker 1: Club? 4 00:00:14,960 --> 00:00:16,040 Speaker 2: What it make? 5 00:00:16,960 --> 00:00:20,919 Speaker 1: I was doing more of like a spaghetti western type deal. 6 00:00:21,280 --> 00:00:23,959 Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, fortunately we were like really in sync with 7 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:26,440 Speaker 2: each other, so that's really what that matters. 8 00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:27,520 Speaker 1: That's what made it work. 9 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:31,639 Speaker 2: Yeah, well, welcome to Cool Zone Media book Club. The 10 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:33,320 Speaker 2: only book club that you don't have to do the 11 00:00:33,360 --> 00:00:35,800 Speaker 2: reading for it, because I do the reading for you. 12 00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:37,760 Speaker 2: There might be other book clubs where you don't have 13 00:00:37,800 --> 00:00:40,280 Speaker 2: to do the reading. Actually, every book club I've ever 14 00:00:40,320 --> 00:00:43,000 Speaker 2: been part of as an adult is a book club 15 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:46,199 Speaker 2: I didn't do the reading for. So I feel like 16 00:00:46,280 --> 00:00:49,240 Speaker 2: this is a we're like, well in line with normal 17 00:00:49,240 --> 00:00:50,159 Speaker 2: book club behavior. 18 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:53,840 Speaker 1: I think, yes, absolutely, And to keep in line with it, 19 00:00:53,880 --> 00:00:57,280 Speaker 1: I also brought my sword to this book club. Oh 20 00:00:57,400 --> 00:00:57,960 Speaker 1: I'm ready. 21 00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:00,440 Speaker 2: That's a nice sword, thank you. 22 00:01:01,320 --> 00:01:03,560 Speaker 1: It's based off a sword in a novel that I 23 00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:06,560 Speaker 1: read recently for a new fantasy series. Okay that a 24 00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:09,360 Speaker 1: bladesmith I know just happened to also read and made 25 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:11,959 Speaker 1: this sword, and I said, I will buy this sword, 26 00:01:12,240 --> 00:01:14,279 Speaker 1: and now it's a good sword. 27 00:01:15,080 --> 00:01:17,080 Speaker 2: I recently I did a bunch of episodes about the 28 00:01:17,160 --> 00:01:20,560 Speaker 2: raiders on Harper's Ferry. Besides John Brown, Yeah, and I 29 00:01:20,600 --> 00:01:23,000 Speaker 2: went to Harper's Ferry and I took photos of the 30 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:27,480 Speaker 2: sword that the Bleeding Kansas sword that he had, yeah, 31 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:30,000 Speaker 2: or that the other raiders had. And I was like 32 00:01:30,920 --> 00:01:32,840 Speaker 2: talking about the sword and how I thought it was 33 00:01:32,880 --> 00:01:36,840 Speaker 2: this one French artillery sword. But then a listener told 34 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:39,920 Speaker 2: me that it was actually the American copy of the 35 00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:43,240 Speaker 2: French artillery sword. And I found a place and I 36 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:47,080 Speaker 2: bought one, and then like two weeks later, I got 37 00:01:47,120 --> 00:01:49,000 Speaker 2: an email telling me that actually they were out of 38 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:51,040 Speaker 2: them and they were going to give me my money back. 39 00:01:52,120 --> 00:01:55,320 Speaker 1: That's heartbreaking, I know, I know I had actually bought two, 40 00:01:55,480 --> 00:01:58,240 Speaker 1: one for someone else. Well, I am also on a 41 00:01:58,360 --> 00:02:02,600 Speaker 1: John Brown related arms. I'm having my blacksmith put together 42 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:05,920 Speaker 1: like a short spear with a bowie knife type tip 43 00:02:05,960 --> 00:02:08,280 Speaker 1: to it, a good old pike. Uh, it's more of 44 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:12,040 Speaker 1: a glave. But yeah, okay, yeah yeah, inspired by the 45 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:13,079 Speaker 1: John Brown. 46 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:16,600 Speaker 2: I definitely was looking harder for the John Brown pikes 47 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:18,560 Speaker 2: than I was for the John Brown sword. But I 48 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:20,280 Speaker 2: did not find the John Brown pikes. 49 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:21,720 Speaker 1: Yeah that makes sense. 50 00:02:22,720 --> 00:02:27,480 Speaker 2: But what I did it find was my own copy 51 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:30,240 Speaker 2: of my book. I actually had to go buy the 52 00:02:30,240 --> 00:02:32,560 Speaker 2: e book of my book because I don't know if 53 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:34,480 Speaker 2: people know this, but when you send a book off 54 00:02:34,480 --> 00:02:37,440 Speaker 2: to a publisher, they do like final edits that are 55 00:02:37,440 --> 00:02:41,760 Speaker 2: not in your file, So you don't have a copy 56 00:02:41,840 --> 00:02:45,440 Speaker 2: of the final book on your own computer. But I 57 00:02:45,440 --> 00:02:51,000 Speaker 2: do now. Anyway, we're on chapter three of The Barrel 58 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:52,959 Speaker 2: Will Send What It May, the second book in the 59 00:02:53,040 --> 00:02:55,600 Speaker 2: Danielle Kaine series. By the time you're listening to this, 60 00:02:56,080 --> 00:02:59,400 Speaker 2: you missed the kickstarter or participated in the kickstarter for 61 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:02,239 Speaker 2: this book. But don't worry. There's pre orders for the 62 00:03:02,280 --> 00:03:04,560 Speaker 2: third book in the series. But that's not what we're reading. 63 00:03:04,639 --> 00:03:10,360 Speaker 2: We're reading the second one. Hell yeah, chapter three. Morning 64 00:03:10,440 --> 00:03:14,240 Speaker 2: came too soon for my taste. I'd scarcely been asleep 65 00:03:14,360 --> 00:03:17,480 Speaker 2: before the first birds announced their desire to herald the Dawn. 66 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:21,320 Speaker 2: Brynn was spooning me, and the idea of staying there 67 00:03:21,600 --> 00:03:24,640 Speaker 2: like that was a lot more interesting than getting up 68 00:03:24,639 --> 00:03:30,360 Speaker 2: to go chase down what a demon, a resurrectionist zombies. 69 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:36,360 Speaker 2: There'd be coffee, though, if I woke up. Sometimes I 70 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:38,640 Speaker 2: think I let myself get addicted to coffee, not because 71 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:41,600 Speaker 2: I liked it, not because caffeine did me any favors, 72 00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:44,760 Speaker 2: but because it takes the urge of a physical addiction 73 00:03:44,840 --> 00:03:46,960 Speaker 2: to provide any kind of upside to getting out of 74 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:50,440 Speaker 2: bed in the morning. It didn't bother me thinking like that. 75 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:54,760 Speaker 2: Brynn liked coffee even more than I did, so as 76 00:03:54,840 --> 00:03:57,640 Speaker 2: the dawn light came in through the window, I untangled 77 00:03:57,640 --> 00:04:00,600 Speaker 2: myself from her and went off to figure out the kitchen. 78 00:04:01,760 --> 00:04:05,800 Speaker 2: Vasillis was already there, chopping potatoes. He brought the blade 79 00:04:05,840 --> 00:04:09,320 Speaker 2: down slowly with each cut, working silently so as to 80 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:12,960 Speaker 2: not wake the house. I found myself the coffee grinder. 81 00:04:14,120 --> 00:04:19,479 Speaker 2: It would be fine. Waking up was fine. Over breakfast, 82 00:04:19,480 --> 00:04:22,800 Speaker 2: we worked out our plans. Vulture and Thursday would take 83 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:26,640 Speaker 2: the library's car, actually the old bookmobile, and head up 84 00:04:26,640 --> 00:04:29,080 Speaker 2: to Glacier for the day see what they could find. 85 00:04:30,279 --> 00:04:32,960 Speaker 2: Doomsday and Vasillis, we're going to go through the library 86 00:04:33,320 --> 00:04:36,080 Speaker 2: see how much information they could dredge up about the 87 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:40,640 Speaker 2: Book of Barrow and Resurrection. The rest of us, Heather, 88 00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:43,599 Speaker 2: Brann and myself would see what we could find out 89 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:47,880 Speaker 2: in town. Presumably we'd start by talking to Asola and Gertrude. 90 00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:51,480 Speaker 2: We'd reconvene at sunset or whenever the boys came back 91 00:04:51,480 --> 00:04:56,160 Speaker 2: from Glacier. Now that I was awake, fed and caffeinated. 92 00:04:56,560 --> 00:04:59,440 Speaker 2: I was actually fairly excited to get this thing figured out. 93 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:03,599 Speaker 2: Everyone likes a good puzzle. Turns out a puzzle with 94 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:07,760 Speaker 2: magic in it is twice as interesting. Brynn, Heather and 95 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:11,159 Speaker 2: I hopped on bicycles, janky old cruisers, perfect for a 96 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:14,479 Speaker 2: town as flat as Pendleton, and went off to find 97 00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:17,839 Speaker 2: a sola. I had my travel pack with me, emptied 98 00:05:17,839 --> 00:05:21,640 Speaker 2: in case we found anything. The few people we saw 99 00:05:21,720 --> 00:05:25,799 Speaker 2: looked friendly enough. Outside the gas station slash grocery store 100 00:05:25,880 --> 00:05:29,680 Speaker 2: slash diner combo, an older fellow waved at Heather, who 101 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:33,280 Speaker 2: waved back. The tattoo on her arm was fresh. A 102 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:39,040 Speaker 2: simplified or Aboris this town actually likes its punks, I asked, 103 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:43,080 Speaker 2: we run the library. Vasillis and a Sola are from 104 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:46,240 Speaker 2: here too, well, Vasillis is from Greece, but he's been 105 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:49,840 Speaker 2: here twenty years. People don't really understand us, but they 106 00:05:49,839 --> 00:05:52,760 Speaker 2: also don't really mind that they don't. If that makes sense, 107 00:05:54,240 --> 00:05:57,320 Speaker 2: it did. I'd never really stayed put long enough to 108 00:05:57,320 --> 00:05:59,560 Speaker 2: get that kind of feeling in a town, but I 109 00:05:59,560 --> 00:06:01,960 Speaker 2: had met a few folks who had over the years. 110 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:06,839 Speaker 2: It sounded nice, a bit lonely, though living in one 111 00:06:06,880 --> 00:06:11,120 Speaker 2: place always sounded kind of lonely to me. It took 112 00:06:11,200 --> 00:06:13,600 Speaker 2: us maybe ten minutes to bike out to the western 113 00:06:13,680 --> 00:06:16,599 Speaker 2: edge of town. It had been a tourist town that 114 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:20,080 Speaker 2: was easy to see the gateway to the great outdoors 115 00:06:20,200 --> 00:06:23,200 Speaker 2: or some shit. We must have been closer to Glacier 116 00:06:23,240 --> 00:06:27,680 Speaker 2: than I realized. The last block of town held four 117 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:30,760 Speaker 2: bed and breakfasts in a row. One of them, the 118 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:34,480 Speaker 2: first we passed, even, looked like it was probably still operational. 119 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:38,400 Speaker 2: The lawn was maintained, and a little fountain shot water 120 00:06:38,520 --> 00:06:40,839 Speaker 2: up about a foot from some rocks in the front yard. 121 00:06:41,960 --> 00:06:44,480 Speaker 2: The other three b and b's, though, were boarded up 122 00:06:44,480 --> 00:06:47,719 Speaker 2: and overgrown, and to my eye at least all the 123 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:52,080 Speaker 2: more beautiful for it. This one's it, Heather said, parking 124 00:06:52,080 --> 00:06:54,479 Speaker 2: her bike along the wrought iron fence of the last 125 00:06:54,480 --> 00:06:58,560 Speaker 2: house on the block. The building itself was small, barely 126 00:06:58,600 --> 00:07:01,520 Speaker 2: more than a cottage, but its yard was expansive and 127 00:07:01,560 --> 00:07:05,520 Speaker 2: it backed onto forest. If I was rich, I would 128 00:07:05,520 --> 00:07:09,640 Speaker 2: live somewhere like that, or you know, since I was poor, 129 00:07:09,680 --> 00:07:12,680 Speaker 2: I'd squat someplace like that. It would be nice to 130 00:07:12,720 --> 00:07:14,960 Speaker 2: live somewhere where you didn't have to worry about the 131 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:17,720 Speaker 2: cops kicking down your door. But the trade off of 132 00:07:17,760 --> 00:07:22,200 Speaker 2: being law abiding didn't sound worth it. We didn't lock 133 00:07:22,280 --> 00:07:26,760 Speaker 2: the bikes. We didn't even have bike locks. You two 134 00:07:26,840 --> 00:07:28,920 Speaker 2: might want to go up there alone, Heather told us. 135 00:07:29,520 --> 00:07:31,360 Speaker 2: I think if a solo wanted to talk to me, 136 00:07:31,840 --> 00:07:35,240 Speaker 2: she would have by now, you know. So, bren and 137 00:07:35,280 --> 00:07:38,320 Speaker 2: I opened the iron gate and started up the front walk. 138 00:07:39,480 --> 00:07:41,840 Speaker 2: Never been on a zombies' doorstep, I said, after I 139 00:07:41,920 --> 00:07:46,280 Speaker 2: rang the doorbell, I figure it's more like Lazarus's doorstep. 140 00:07:47,280 --> 00:07:51,640 Speaker 2: The guy Jesus resurrected. That's the one. What's the story 141 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:54,800 Speaker 2: with him? I asked, Hell, if I know just that 142 00:07:54,880 --> 00:07:57,920 Speaker 2: Jesus brought him back from the dead, why was he 143 00:07:57,960 --> 00:08:02,520 Speaker 2: so special? Go away? This last bit came from inside 144 00:08:02,560 --> 00:08:04,360 Speaker 2: the house, right on the other side of the door. 145 00:08:05,160 --> 00:08:08,600 Speaker 2: Brenn and I looked at each other. We uh, we 146 00:08:08,720 --> 00:08:11,960 Speaker 2: come in peace, I offered, And if you want to 147 00:08:11,960 --> 00:08:14,320 Speaker 2: come in peace, you should bring a piece offering, a 148 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:17,720 Speaker 2: piece offering like the things that you can get from Oh. 149 00:08:17,920 --> 00:08:19,680 Speaker 1: I thought you were going at a very different place 150 00:08:19,760 --> 00:08:21,120 Speaker 1: when you said come. 151 00:08:23,560 --> 00:08:25,560 Speaker 2: No, no, no, all of our prosing. 152 00:08:25,600 --> 00:08:31,520 Speaker 1: Oh, we are we advertising for hymns again? Right? That's right, 153 00:08:31,680 --> 00:08:34,720 Speaker 1: and there are other product them's which I'm very excited 154 00:08:34,840 --> 00:08:36,120 Speaker 1: to see hit the market. 155 00:08:38,120 --> 00:08:51,640 Speaker 2: And here are the ads for that. And we're back. 156 00:08:53,679 --> 00:08:57,400 Speaker 2: We're not cops or nothing. Brnn added, Yeah, I didn't 157 00:08:57,480 --> 00:09:00,480 Speaker 2: think the two crosspunks at the door were cops. But 158 00:09:00,520 --> 00:09:04,040 Speaker 2: I'm not trying to talk to anyone. Why not, I asked, 159 00:09:04,720 --> 00:09:07,240 Speaker 2: that's a shitty question to ask, and I knew it. 160 00:09:08,480 --> 00:09:11,000 Speaker 2: Sola wanted to be left alone. She'd made that clear 161 00:09:11,160 --> 00:09:16,040 Speaker 2: in a thousand ways, Yet here we were prying. I'm 162 00:09:16,040 --> 00:09:18,080 Speaker 2: going to open the door, but only because I'm too 163 00:09:18,160 --> 00:09:20,720 Speaker 2: tired to yell through it. As Sola said, you can't 164 00:09:20,760 --> 00:09:25,000 Speaker 2: come in, all right, Brina greed. The door swung open. 165 00:09:26,960 --> 00:09:28,680 Speaker 2: I don't know why I expected her to look like 166 00:09:28,679 --> 00:09:32,400 Speaker 2: a zombie or something. I mean, i'd met Gertrude already 167 00:09:32,400 --> 00:09:35,599 Speaker 2: and she looked normal enough, But I legit assumed a 168 00:09:35,679 --> 00:09:38,800 Speaker 2: Sola was going to look like a zombie. A Sola 169 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:43,160 Speaker 2: didn't look like a zombie. She looked instead like well, 170 00:09:43,640 --> 00:09:46,560 Speaker 2: one of us. She wore a slip dress that showed 171 00:09:46,559 --> 00:09:48,760 Speaker 2: off her full figure, and her hair was tied up 172 00:09:48,800 --> 00:09:52,080 Speaker 2: in a loose bun, revealing tattoos across her neck. Even 173 00:09:52,160 --> 00:09:55,160 Speaker 2: though she probably wasn't a day over twenty two. She 174 00:09:55,240 --> 00:09:59,920 Speaker 2: had a claw hammer in her hand. No, wait, both hands. 175 00:10:00,320 --> 00:10:03,120 Speaker 2: She had a claw hammer in each hand. It's just 176 00:10:03,160 --> 00:10:10,000 Speaker 2: that only one of the two was raised. Instant friend, crush, 177 00:10:10,040 --> 00:10:12,199 Speaker 2: what are you doing here? She asked, You're going to 178 00:10:12,280 --> 00:10:16,680 Speaker 2: get yourself killed on a long enough timeline. Brina agreed. 179 00:10:17,240 --> 00:10:19,520 Speaker 2: She had her hand hovering near the folding baton on 180 00:10:19,559 --> 00:10:23,120 Speaker 2: her belt. No, I mean, if anyone sees me talking 181 00:10:23,120 --> 00:10:25,320 Speaker 2: to you, I don't know what's going to happen, you 182 00:10:25,400 --> 00:10:29,240 Speaker 2: might wind up dead. That's an argument for letting us inside. 183 00:10:29,240 --> 00:10:34,560 Speaker 2: Then I offered, that's an argument for y'all leaving. She countered, true, 184 00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:39,240 Speaker 2: I agreed, but we didn't go. Who would kill us? Barrow? 185 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:45,280 Speaker 2: I don't know. She thought about it. No, not Barrow. 186 00:10:46,920 --> 00:10:48,880 Speaker 2: What happened to you and everyone up at Glacier? 187 00:10:48,920 --> 00:10:49,360 Speaker 1: I asked. 188 00:10:50,360 --> 00:10:55,040 Speaker 2: She put the hammer down and met my gaze unflinching. Somehow, 189 00:10:55,160 --> 00:10:57,360 Speaker 2: this was even more intimidating than when she had the 190 00:10:57,360 --> 00:11:03,360 Speaker 2: weapon raised. We all die. Okay, that's all I'm gonna 191 00:11:03,360 --> 00:11:07,800 Speaker 2: say about it. Okay. I waited for her to tell 192 00:11:07,800 --> 00:11:11,760 Speaker 2: me more. Anyway, Look, you're wasting your time talking to me, 193 00:11:12,720 --> 00:11:15,680 Speaker 2: who should we talk to? Then I asked Gertrude what 194 00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:19,360 Speaker 2: she got to do with it? No, No, Gertrude's innocent. 195 00:11:19,960 --> 00:11:22,920 Speaker 2: I don't think she knows anything. A soul aside. Then 196 00:11:22,920 --> 00:11:26,360 Speaker 2: set the hammers down on a table near the door. Look, 197 00:11:26,760 --> 00:11:29,079 Speaker 2: if I tell you where to look next, I am 198 00:11:29,120 --> 00:11:32,600 Speaker 2: guessing you'll die. Magic is too fucked up to be 199 00:11:32,679 --> 00:11:36,680 Speaker 2: safe at all for anyone hunting down mad men with 200 00:11:36,760 --> 00:11:41,400 Speaker 2: access to it. That's worse. You really really should just 201 00:11:41,440 --> 00:11:44,960 Speaker 2: skip town and never look back. Forget the name Barrow, 202 00:11:45,360 --> 00:11:52,120 Speaker 2: forget the name Pendleton, Forget me, Forget Gertrude. Ain't gonna happen, though, 203 00:11:52,200 --> 00:11:55,720 Speaker 2: Brenn said. You want to know what's going on, you 204 00:11:55,760 --> 00:12:01,280 Speaker 2: want a man named Sebastian Miller, Gertrude's husband ex husband. 205 00:12:01,320 --> 00:12:03,840 Speaker 2: A Sola said, he runs the gift shop on the 206 00:12:03,840 --> 00:12:08,080 Speaker 2: east edge of town with the dinosaurs, I asked, with 207 00:12:08,160 --> 00:12:11,600 Speaker 2: the dinosaurs. Don't confront him, don't let him know you're 208 00:12:11,640 --> 00:12:15,560 Speaker 2: investigating him, don't let him know you exist, don't tell 209 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:19,640 Speaker 2: him I talk to you. Thank you, I said. She 210 00:12:19,720 --> 00:12:23,840 Speaker 2: started to close the door. Wait, I said, I still 211 00:12:23,840 --> 00:12:27,839 Speaker 2: have so many questions to ask. Yeah, well, I've got 212 00:12:27,840 --> 00:12:30,160 Speaker 2: about three more seasons of Xena. I planned to watch 213 00:12:30,200 --> 00:12:32,880 Speaker 2: while I pretend like I don't exist. So I'm afraid 214 00:12:33,200 --> 00:12:37,560 Speaker 2: I'm too busy for questions. I'm sorry, bryn said, as 215 00:12:37,600 --> 00:12:40,640 Speaker 2: the door was closing. I'm sorry about whatever happened to you. 216 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:49,880 Speaker 2: The door hesitated, thank you. The door closed. We reconvened 217 00:12:49,880 --> 00:12:51,960 Speaker 2: with Heather out by the street and told her what 218 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:55,280 Speaker 2: we'd learned. Hey, that's more than I've gotten out of her, 219 00:12:55,280 --> 00:12:59,719 Speaker 2: Heather said, And we used to live together, so Sebastian 220 00:12:59,760 --> 00:13:03,280 Speaker 2: Miller I said, I bet he's at Dawson's right now, 221 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:07,239 Speaker 2: the diner or grocery store or whatever. He's there most weekdays, 222 00:13:07,520 --> 00:13:10,720 Speaker 2: only opens the gift shop on the weekends. Do we 223 00:13:10,760 --> 00:13:14,280 Speaker 2: go to Dawson's or the gift shop? I asked, Are 224 00:13:14,320 --> 00:13:17,440 Speaker 2: you kidding? Brynne asked, A SOULO is pretty clear about that. 225 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:20,560 Speaker 2: We'll go to his place now while he's not home 226 00:13:21,320 --> 00:13:26,360 Speaker 2: and just break in. Heather asked, yeah, Brent said. Heather 227 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:29,360 Speaker 2: seemed to think that over for a minute. All right. 228 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:34,120 Speaker 2: We had to bike down side streets to avoid Dawson's, 229 00:13:34,280 --> 00:13:37,080 Speaker 2: but it still didn't take us longer than maybe ten minutes. 230 00:13:38,320 --> 00:13:41,360 Speaker 2: Everyone we passed looked friendly, but riding through town during 231 00:13:41,400 --> 00:13:45,120 Speaker 2: the day, you could tell that the town was poor destitute. 232 00:13:45,160 --> 00:13:48,080 Speaker 2: Maybe about a third of the houses were abandoned and 233 00:13:48,120 --> 00:13:51,760 Speaker 2: most of the rest were poorly maintained. Every road but 234 00:13:51,840 --> 00:13:55,680 Speaker 2: the main one, was full of potholes. They were probably 235 00:13:55,720 --> 00:13:58,920 Speaker 2: maintaining the main road for the sake of tourists if 236 00:13:58,960 --> 00:14:02,800 Speaker 2: one day the tourists came back, or maybe they were 237 00:14:02,840 --> 00:14:05,360 Speaker 2: maintaining the main road for their own sake, for their 238 00:14:05,360 --> 00:14:09,559 Speaker 2: own dignity. It was hard to tell. We cut through 239 00:14:09,559 --> 00:14:12,800 Speaker 2: an alley, the small town kind that goes between backyards 240 00:14:12,840 --> 00:14:16,160 Speaker 2: instead of brick buildings, to approach the gift shop. From 241 00:14:16,200 --> 00:14:19,360 Speaker 2: the back it was easy to pick out the right place. 242 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:23,520 Speaker 2: A twenty foot tall brontosaurus with purple paint shipping off 243 00:14:23,520 --> 00:14:28,080 Speaker 2: its concrete kept watch over the backyard. How will we 244 00:14:28,120 --> 00:14:31,720 Speaker 2: get in, Heather asked, what are we looking for? I asked, 245 00:14:32,640 --> 00:14:35,320 Speaker 2: don't know and don't know. Bryn said, well, know and 246 00:14:35,400 --> 00:14:39,640 Speaker 2: we see it. To both questions. The building was a 247 00:14:39,640 --> 00:14:44,080 Speaker 2: plane cube, two stories tall and peppered with windows. I 248 00:14:44,120 --> 00:14:46,640 Speaker 2: went to the closest one, popped the screen out and 249 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:50,240 Speaker 2: tried to lift the glass locked. I put the screen 250 00:14:50,280 --> 00:14:53,000 Speaker 2: back in and went to the next one. You get 251 00:14:53,080 --> 00:14:57,200 Speaker 2: much crime in Pendleton, Brenne asked, no, not really. Heather answered, 252 00:14:57,640 --> 00:15:00,840 Speaker 2: no cops in town either. Sometimes the cam sheriff comes 253 00:15:00,880 --> 00:15:03,680 Speaker 2: in to handle something, but we're pretty much on her own. 254 00:15:04,880 --> 00:15:08,080 Speaker 2: People usually lock their windows. I asked, the next window 255 00:15:08,120 --> 00:15:12,800 Speaker 2: was locked too, No, Heather said, acol is something to hide. 256 00:15:12,800 --> 00:15:16,840 Speaker 2: Brynn said, I mean we are trying to break in. 257 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:21,640 Speaker 2: I said, kind of justifies as paranoia. Help me up. 258 00:15:21,640 --> 00:15:24,960 Speaker 2: This a potosaurus? Brynn said. It was deceptively hard to 259 00:15:24,960 --> 00:15:26,680 Speaker 2: get a hold of, since the ridge of its back 260 00:15:26,840 --> 00:15:28,800 Speaker 2: was just out of reach from the ground and the 261 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:31,240 Speaker 2: whole belly of the thing was round. I think it's 262 00:15:31,240 --> 00:15:34,000 Speaker 2: a brontosaurus, I said. I gave her a boost with 263 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:36,440 Speaker 2: my good arm, and she straddled the beast like she 264 00:15:36,520 --> 00:15:39,440 Speaker 2: was riding it. Vulture would have wanted a photo for 265 00:15:39,480 --> 00:15:43,280 Speaker 2: his Instagram. Help. I wanted a photo because Brynn looked 266 00:15:43,280 --> 00:15:46,840 Speaker 2: awesome as a crosspunk Dinah writing Cowboy. But you know 267 00:15:47,120 --> 00:15:49,080 Speaker 2: you're not supposed to take pictures of yourself at the 268 00:15:49,120 --> 00:15:53,280 Speaker 2: scene of any given crime in progress. I thought brontos 269 00:15:53,280 --> 00:15:55,560 Speaker 2: weren't real, Brynn said, I thought they were all a 270 00:15:55,600 --> 00:15:59,880 Speaker 2: Potosaurus is now Nope. My youngest niece had been obsessed 271 00:15:59,920 --> 00:16:02,560 Speaker 2: with dinosaurs. Last time i'd gone to see her in Illinois, 272 00:16:03,040 --> 00:16:04,920 Speaker 2: she'd schooled me good when I tried to say that 273 00:16:04,920 --> 00:16:10,240 Speaker 2: brontos weren't real. They count as real dinosaurs. Again. This, 274 00:16:10,360 --> 00:16:12,600 Speaker 2: by the way, unrelated is how I feel about Pluto. 275 00:16:13,880 --> 00:16:17,200 Speaker 1: Yeah. I feel strongly this way about brontosauruses. Yeah, because 276 00:16:17,240 --> 00:16:19,880 Speaker 1: it's one of the dinosaurs that I used to know 277 00:16:19,960 --> 00:16:22,280 Speaker 1: all of the dinosaurs, Margaret. When I was like a 278 00:16:22,280 --> 00:16:24,640 Speaker 1: little six year old kid, I had an eight hundred 279 00:16:24,680 --> 00:16:28,600 Speaker 1: page dinosaur encyclopedia, not a kid's book, like very small print, 280 00:16:29,040 --> 00:16:31,680 Speaker 1: and every dinosaur in that book I knew I could 281 00:16:31,680 --> 00:16:34,720 Speaker 1: recognize them from their skulls. Elliet, I can name my 282 00:16:34,880 --> 00:16:39,040 Speaker 1: four dinosaurs today. It's like all the Latin I learned, 283 00:16:39,040 --> 00:16:41,280 Speaker 1: it's just gone, you know. I as a teenager, I 284 00:16:41,360 --> 00:16:43,960 Speaker 1: was translating the fucking a neeod into English, and I 285 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:45,320 Speaker 1: have like four words now. 286 00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:48,040 Speaker 2: See, I took careers a lot, and then I only 287 00:16:48,120 --> 00:16:50,720 Speaker 2: learned four words the whole time. But yeah, I'm more 288 00:16:50,760 --> 00:16:51,800 Speaker 2: to do with the teacher who. 289 00:16:51,680 --> 00:16:54,240 Speaker 1: Love us cheat right right right? Yes or yes? 290 00:16:54,440 --> 00:16:56,760 Speaker 2: Kicked out of the school for acting inappropriately, but that's 291 00:16:56,800 --> 00:17:00,400 Speaker 2: besides the point. Ah, we all liked him. He let 292 00:17:00,480 --> 00:17:00,920 Speaker 2: us cheat. 293 00:17:01,640 --> 00:17:03,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, my best teacher also got kicked out of the 294 00:17:03,880 --> 00:17:07,679 Speaker 1: school for something away. He broke the law, but not 295 00:17:07,760 --> 00:17:08,920 Speaker 1: that way, so it's fine. 296 00:17:09,320 --> 00:17:11,800 Speaker 2: Yeah, is this like, there's a completely normal thing that 297 00:17:11,840 --> 00:17:13,560 Speaker 2: if you go to high school at something wishing to 298 00:17:13,640 --> 00:17:17,959 Speaker 2: drug dealers. Yeah, like yeah, yeah, we had a teacher 299 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:21,879 Speaker 2: who was the art teacher was stealing kids paintings and 300 00:17:21,920 --> 00:17:23,920 Speaker 2: putting his own name on them and selling them. 301 00:17:24,160 --> 00:17:28,880 Speaker 1: That is that's actually kind of awesome, and that's that's fun. 302 00:17:28,960 --> 00:17:30,000 Speaker 1: He was a good grift. 303 00:17:30,320 --> 00:17:32,400 Speaker 2: He was passing. I don't think he knew any art, 304 00:17:32,760 --> 00:17:36,000 Speaker 2: and he was passing like he would print out from 305 00:17:36,040 --> 00:17:39,719 Speaker 2: course catalogs from colleges their art and put it up 306 00:17:39,720 --> 00:17:41,840 Speaker 2: on the wall as like his art as an example 307 00:17:41,880 --> 00:17:42,680 Speaker 2: of what we should do. 308 00:17:43,560 --> 00:17:44,399 Speaker 1: Amazing, you know. 309 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:46,800 Speaker 2: And then when he got kicked out, everyone like through 310 00:17:46,840 --> 00:17:50,000 Speaker 2: a well he actually got kicked out for another inappropriate thing. 311 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:51,280 Speaker 2: He was doing students right. 312 00:17:51,200 --> 00:17:53,280 Speaker 1: Right, of course, Yeah, that seems obvious. 313 00:17:53,400 --> 00:18:00,280 Speaker 2: Yeah, anyway, something about bronosauruses. So oh jeez, okay, well 314 00:18:00,600 --> 00:18:03,880 Speaker 2: I didn't look at the next line. Uh huh, next 315 00:18:03,880 --> 00:18:06,760 Speaker 2: thing you'll tell me that Pluto is a planet. Bryn 316 00:18:06,920 --> 00:18:09,080 Speaker 2: reached down to help me up, but I waved her away. 317 00:18:09,640 --> 00:18:12,520 Speaker 2: My shoulder was way too still stitched up to climb 318 00:18:12,520 --> 00:18:15,880 Speaker 2: something like that. Brynn started to climb up the beast's 319 00:18:15,920 --> 00:18:19,320 Speaker 2: neck towards the building. You think it'll hold, I asked, 320 00:18:19,560 --> 00:18:23,480 Speaker 2: by which I meant I don't think it'll hold. But 321 00:18:23,600 --> 00:18:25,680 Speaker 2: in a second she had scrambled up to the little 322 00:18:25,680 --> 00:18:28,520 Speaker 2: brono head and was looking at the wall of the building, 323 00:18:28,560 --> 00:18:32,919 Speaker 2: about five maybe six feet away. She was gonna jump, 324 00:18:33,560 --> 00:18:35,560 Speaker 2: She would have had to cross the distance and get 325 00:18:35,560 --> 00:18:38,439 Speaker 2: a hold of the narrow window ledge pull herself up, 326 00:18:38,520 --> 00:18:40,600 Speaker 2: then hope the window was unlocked, because there was no 327 00:18:40,680 --> 00:18:46,680 Speaker 2: other logical way down. Hey, uh, I started, I'd really 328 00:18:46,760 --> 00:18:52,280 Speaker 2: rather you didn't, Heather shouted. Brynn jumped. Time didn't slow 329 00:18:52,320 --> 00:18:56,080 Speaker 2: down or anything. Maybe it's sped up one second, I 330 00:18:56,119 --> 00:18:59,120 Speaker 2: was yelling. In the next second, No, the same second 331 00:19:00,080 --> 00:19:02,480 Speaker 2: was clinging to the window sill, which couldn't have been 332 00:19:02,520 --> 00:19:05,600 Speaker 2: more than three inches deep. She pulled herself up and 333 00:19:05,640 --> 00:19:10,680 Speaker 2: crouched on the sill. Brinn should have been a cat burglar. Actually, 334 00:19:11,160 --> 00:19:15,040 Speaker 2: for all I knew, she was a cat burglar. She 335 00:19:15,080 --> 00:19:18,800 Speaker 2: got the window open and disappeared inside. What do we do, 336 00:19:18,840 --> 00:19:22,040 Speaker 2: Heather asked, unspoken. Do we try to follow her? Because 337 00:19:22,080 --> 00:19:26,280 Speaker 2: I don't want to. No, I said, answering her unspoken 338 00:19:26,359 --> 00:19:28,960 Speaker 2: question instead of her spoken one. I went to the 339 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:32,439 Speaker 2: closest window. About ten seconds later, Brynn was on the 340 00:19:32,480 --> 00:19:35,400 Speaker 2: other side of it and let us in. And what 341 00:19:35,560 --> 00:19:40,680 Speaker 2: was inside, Robert Evans, was the most amazing deals. 342 00:19:41,480 --> 00:19:46,600 Speaker 1: Just oh yeah, yeah, I mean like, yes, yeah. I 343 00:19:46,640 --> 00:19:47,720 Speaker 1: didn't have anything funny to say. 344 00:19:47,760 --> 00:19:51,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, no, probably please, here we go. 345 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:55,240 Speaker 1: Gambling. I love gambling. Yeah, sports, gambling, good idea. 346 00:19:55,119 --> 00:19:55,720 Speaker 2: Yeah, gambling. 347 00:19:55,760 --> 00:19:58,560 Speaker 1: You always what is people? They said, gamble on everything. 348 00:19:58,680 --> 00:20:01,160 Speaker 2: People who gamble all the time, always doing great. That's 349 00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:02,199 Speaker 2: what everyone says. 350 00:20:02,880 --> 00:20:06,439 Speaker 1: Uh huh. It's a good thing to do constantly, every 351 00:20:06,480 --> 00:20:08,000 Speaker 1: hour of every day that you're away. 352 00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:26,840 Speaker 2: Here's that, and we're back. I lost ten thousand dollars 353 00:20:27,160 --> 00:20:29,600 Speaker 2: during the ad break because I had a gambling machine 354 00:20:29,600 --> 00:20:30,280 Speaker 2: in my pocket. 355 00:20:31,119 --> 00:20:35,240 Speaker 1: But on the upside, you continued your addiction to dopamine, 356 00:20:35,680 --> 00:20:39,720 Speaker 1: that's true, which is constantly spiking every like six seconds 357 00:20:39,760 --> 00:20:42,480 Speaker 1: as a result of all of the different compulsion devices 358 00:20:42,640 --> 00:20:44,240 Speaker 1: that have been forced into your life. 359 00:20:44,280 --> 00:20:50,800 Speaker 2: That's a good point. So with the story, I wonder 360 00:20:50,840 --> 00:20:52,440 Speaker 2: what was going through the head of the person who 361 00:20:52,440 --> 00:20:55,240 Speaker 2: decided that the world needed hundreds of shot glasses with 362 00:20:55,280 --> 00:20:59,560 Speaker 2: the words Pendleton, Montana emblazoned on the side. Because I 363 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:02,720 Speaker 2: didn't air that particular opinion, But what do I know. 364 00:21:03,320 --> 00:21:07,360 Speaker 2: Maybe they'd moved thousands of them already. I pocketed one, 365 00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:10,960 Speaker 2: then spent a full minute having an ethical argument with myself. 366 00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:14,800 Speaker 2: I don't have any particular issue justifying theft of necessities 367 00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:18,160 Speaker 2: or from big box stores. But a shot glass wasn't food, 368 00:21:18,200 --> 00:21:21,159 Speaker 2: and this wasn't exactly a Walmart. The store looked like 369 00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:25,080 Speaker 2: any roadside bullshit gift store anywhere. On the other hand, 370 00:21:25,600 --> 00:21:28,240 Speaker 2: the guy who owned the place was probably a bad man. 371 00:21:28,800 --> 00:21:32,159 Speaker 2: Isn't that why we'd broken into his place? That was 372 00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:35,120 Speaker 2: terrible logic. That was state logic. A man wasn't guilty 373 00:21:35,320 --> 00:21:38,960 Speaker 2: just because he was being investigated. I put the shotglass back. 374 00:21:39,640 --> 00:21:41,919 Speaker 2: I am pretty sure eighteen year old me would have 375 00:21:42,040 --> 00:21:44,959 Speaker 2: laughed at twenty eight year old me, But eighteen year 376 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:47,280 Speaker 2: old me was kind of an asshole, so I didn't 377 00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:50,440 Speaker 2: really hold myself responsible to her. I also didn't need 378 00:21:50,480 --> 00:21:53,800 Speaker 2: a shot glass there wasn't much. We could imagine him 379 00:21:53,840 --> 00:21:56,920 Speaker 2: hiding inside the store itself, so after the briefest of searches, 380 00:21:56,920 --> 00:21:59,760 Speaker 2: we went up the stairs to his apartment. Heather took 381 00:21:59,760 --> 00:22:02,240 Speaker 2: while by the front window, since she knew what the 382 00:22:02,240 --> 00:22:05,320 Speaker 2: guy looked like and the truck he drove. Brynn and 383 00:22:05,359 --> 00:22:08,160 Speaker 2: I combed through the apartment, careful to set everything back 384 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:11,280 Speaker 2: into its right place, since we weren't wearing gloves. We 385 00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:14,840 Speaker 2: absolutely should have been wearing gloves. We wanted to make 386 00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:19,840 Speaker 2: sure he never even suspected we were there. It was frustrating, 387 00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:23,399 Speaker 2: anxious work. One slip up could land us in prison. 388 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:26,879 Speaker 2: Even the natural joy of snooping was diminished by how 389 00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:30,560 Speaker 2: careful we had to be. There were two photos framed 390 00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:33,000 Speaker 2: on the wall, one of Gertrude and a man who 391 00:22:33,040 --> 00:22:36,240 Speaker 2: must be Sebastian, holding hands on a mountaintop with a 392 00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:39,359 Speaker 2: valley and a river in the distance below. He was 393 00:22:39,359 --> 00:22:43,000 Speaker 2: an unremarkable old white man, hard to distinguish from any other. 394 00:22:44,280 --> 00:22:46,399 Speaker 2: The other photo was of a younger couple in the 395 00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:51,000 Speaker 2: same place, probably the two of them thirty years earlier. Younger, 396 00:22:51,920 --> 00:22:55,080 Speaker 2: he looked happy and handsome. The difference between the two 397 00:22:55,119 --> 00:22:58,560 Speaker 2: made me sad. Happy old couples give me a sort 398 00:22:58,560 --> 00:23:02,480 Speaker 2: of hope. But by these photos the happiness had been 399 00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:06,639 Speaker 2: gone for decades. There were glaciers in the background of 400 00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:09,440 Speaker 2: the older photo, but they had melted by the time 401 00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:13,679 Speaker 2: the newer one had been taken. More sadness. Why should 402 00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:17,160 Speaker 2: the march of time be inherently melancholic? It didn't seem fair. 403 00:23:18,520 --> 00:23:22,600 Speaker 2: I opened the frames carefully, no hidden notes, not even 404 00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:26,880 Speaker 2: a date written on the corner to sate my curiosity. 405 00:23:27,160 --> 00:23:29,400 Speaker 2: I hadn't done snooping like this more than a handful 406 00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:32,479 Speaker 2: of times. The first time, a couple of us had 407 00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:35,520 Speaker 2: robbed some rich asshole's house and sold his stuff for food. 408 00:23:36,240 --> 00:23:38,600 Speaker 2: I was young, reckless, and I'd never been to jail, 409 00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:42,120 Speaker 2: so it was just kind of fun. The second time, 410 00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:45,640 Speaker 2: the whole affair had been deadly serious. My friend's mother 411 00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:48,959 Speaker 2: had been trapped in an abusive relationship, so we'd broken 412 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:51,320 Speaker 2: into the man's summer home for blackmail to hold over 413 00:23:51,359 --> 00:23:53,960 Speaker 2: his head so that she could leave him in comparative safety. 414 00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:57,399 Speaker 2: That time, the stakes were too epic for it to 415 00:23:57,400 --> 00:24:00,560 Speaker 2: be thrilling, but righteousness imparts a kind of high of 416 00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:05,120 Speaker 2: its own. Both of those men had had entertaining secrets 417 00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:09,280 Speaker 2: like embarrassingly crass porn collections or a false bottom drawer 418 00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:14,600 Speaker 2: with cheesy ninja weapons hidden inside. Sebastian Miller had an 419 00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:17,800 Speaker 2: easy chair, a bed, a bookshelf full of mediocre but 420 00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:21,800 Speaker 2: not embarrassing books, and a fuck off big TV, a 421 00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:24,800 Speaker 2: mounted deer nothing impressive, and a run of the mill 422 00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:28,440 Speaker 2: hunting rifle hung on the wall. My pack stayed empty. 423 00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:32,640 Speaker 2: Their a basement, I asked, at last, after I checked 424 00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:35,280 Speaker 2: every damn horror book on his shelf for a hidden compartment. 425 00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:41,560 Speaker 2: Maybe through the office downstairs. Heather said, okay, office basement, 426 00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:45,679 Speaker 2: and then I give up. We'll find something. Heather said, 427 00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:50,960 Speaker 2: what's he like? I asked, he weird or anything. I 428 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:53,840 Speaker 2: never thought twice about him until Gertrude came back. Heather said, 429 00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:57,240 Speaker 2: he drives a nineteen fifties truck. That's about the most 430 00:24:57,240 --> 00:24:59,760 Speaker 2: interesting thing about him. He used to come by the 431 00:24:59,760 --> 00:25:04,000 Speaker 2: live sometimes check out thrillers for himself, romance for Gertrude, 432 00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:07,520 Speaker 2: called her Gertie. He was the only one in town 433 00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:10,080 Speaker 2: who called her that. I don't think she liked it. 434 00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:14,240 Speaker 2: The office door behind the checkout counter of the gift 435 00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:16,800 Speaker 2: shop was locked with a dead bolt. I got out 436 00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:19,600 Speaker 2: my tools. I keep attention wrench and a basic rake 437 00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:21,800 Speaker 2: and a hidden pouch on the waistbelt of my pack, 438 00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:25,840 Speaker 2: usually to break into dumpsters for food and set to work. 439 00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:30,480 Speaker 2: Who the hell are you people, Heather asked, climbing into 440 00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:33,399 Speaker 2: second story windows busting out lock picks like it's nothing. 441 00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:37,159 Speaker 2: Brynn laughed in that out of character giggle of hers. 442 00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:41,800 Speaker 2: We told you we're demon hunters. We should get a 443 00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:45,959 Speaker 2: crew name. I said, the eulixeans. Brynn said, without hesitating, 444 00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:50,600 Speaker 2: we can't name ourselves after a demon we banished. I said, no, no, 445 00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:53,520 Speaker 2: think about it. Brynn said, Eulixe wasn't bad because of 446 00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:56,399 Speaker 2: what he did, stopping those who wheeled power over others. 447 00:25:56,680 --> 00:25:59,159 Speaker 2: He was bad because he was a single manifestation of 448 00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:01,920 Speaker 2: that ideal. We could do the same work, but as 449 00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:06,080 Speaker 2: people not omnipotent, it doesn't really roll off the tongue. 450 00:26:06,160 --> 00:26:12,040 Speaker 2: Heather said, fine. Brynn said fine. The tension wrench gave 451 00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:15,239 Speaker 2: way in my hand, The lock turned over, and I 452 00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:19,520 Speaker 2: opened the door. Just an office, well, an office straight 453 00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:22,440 Speaker 2: out of the eighties or nineties or whatever. Big ugly 454 00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:24,840 Speaker 2: monitor on a big ugly desk, and the carpet was 455 00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:28,480 Speaker 2: about twice as thick as could be reasonably justified. There 456 00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:31,679 Speaker 2: were two other doors on the far wall, one of 457 00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:35,440 Speaker 2: you a hack or two, Heather asked. I shrugged, sure, 458 00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:39,840 Speaker 2: Brynn said, vulture is. We went through the drawers found 459 00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:43,600 Speaker 2: nothing but business receipts and junk mail. To be honest, 460 00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:45,720 Speaker 2: I don't think we'll find anything on the computer either, 461 00:26:46,119 --> 00:26:48,960 Speaker 2: I said. I think this whole thing is a bust. 462 00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:52,359 Speaker 2: I opened one of the two doors, a closet with 463 00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:56,440 Speaker 2: cleaning supplies and office supplies. I opened the other door. 464 00:26:58,040 --> 00:27:01,840 Speaker 2: Now here was something interesting. The door led to a 465 00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:04,919 Speaker 2: short hallway about ten feet long, with another door at 466 00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:09,080 Speaker 2: the other end. Above the door, someone had crudely carved 467 00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:14,119 Speaker 2: in Greek letters to Pota's ontana den parasai brene and 468 00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:19,080 Speaker 2: I stared blankly. Uh, Heather said, squinting to Poto's ontana 469 00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:26,000 Speaker 2: den tha parasi, What does that mean? I asked, No clue. 470 00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:28,280 Speaker 2: I can't really speak Greek. I just learned how to 471 00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:31,080 Speaker 2: sound it out a couple of years ago. Bacillis's Greek. 472 00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:34,520 Speaker 2: I think I was trying to impress him. How long 473 00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:37,800 Speaker 2: have you and him? Brent started to ask, I don't 474 00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:39,560 Speaker 2: know if she trailed off because she was shy to 475 00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:42,000 Speaker 2: ask with me around, or she realized it wasn't the 476 00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:47,800 Speaker 2: time and place five years. Heather said, it's good mostly. 477 00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:52,080 Speaker 2: She opened the door. A set of plain wooden steps 478 00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:56,560 Speaker 2: led down into darkness. I sometimes wish, I don't know, 479 00:27:56,680 --> 00:28:01,720 Speaker 2: Heather said, I wish things were easier between us, more relaxed. 480 00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:05,639 Speaker 2: He's not controlling, but somehow I just I wish I 481 00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:10,920 Speaker 2: felt more free. She took a step through the doorway. 482 00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:15,040 Speaker 2: This time, my perception of time slowed down. I saw 483 00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:19,800 Speaker 2: her hand move and green light rippled out across something 484 00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:23,880 Speaker 2: like someone had strung an invisible window screen across the doorway. 485 00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:28,520 Speaker 2: Her whole arm pierced that veil, and she screamed. She 486 00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:32,960 Speaker 2: didn't have time to stop. Momentum carried her forward. Every 487 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:34,880 Speaker 2: bit of her on the far side of the doorway 488 00:28:35,359 --> 00:28:40,840 Speaker 2: glowed with green fire. I grabbed for her the fingers 489 00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:43,640 Speaker 2: of my hand, my goat bitten hand went right through 490 00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:47,960 Speaker 2: the doorway, and it tingled. My wrist though passed through 491 00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:51,440 Speaker 2: and it hurt like fire. While most of the times 492 00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:54,120 Speaker 2: I've gotten burned, fire only hurt later once the nerve 493 00:28:54,200 --> 00:28:58,600 Speaker 2: ending started growing back or whatever. This time, it hurt immediately, 494 00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:01,720 Speaker 2: like how fire hurts left. I got a hold of 495 00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:06,000 Speaker 2: her jacket and yanked back. She fell on top of me. 496 00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:11,760 Speaker 2: She stopped screaming. If she was breathing, it was too 497 00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:16,920 Speaker 2: faint to hear. Dune dun dun. 498 00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:17,840 Speaker 1: Whooo. 499 00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:20,520 Speaker 2: That's the end of chapter three. 500 00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:25,720 Speaker 1: Hell yeah, Well what an episode. 501 00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:27,840 Speaker 2: It's a book, all right, See you all next week. 502 00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:32,520 Speaker 1: Huh, see you all next week for more chapter It 503 00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:34,800 Speaker 1: Could Happen here as a production of cool Zone Media. 504 00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:37,720 Speaker 1: For more podcasts from cool Zone Media, visit our website 505 00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:39,960 Speaker 1: cool zonemedia dot com, or check us out on the 506 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:43,440 Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. 507 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:46,080 Speaker 1: You can find sources where it Could Happen here, updated 508 00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:50,240 Speaker 1: monthly at cool zonemedia dot com slash sources. 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