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In the last episode, we explored the world

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of Winterfell.

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We've dispatched search parties. A

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silver knife? How did she obtain such a thing? We

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believe it was hidden on her person. Hidden?

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Where? Au petit toit? Was she

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not searched for weapons? She is

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a child with those young. Arrogance.

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It will be our undoing. We've

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grown proud and careless. We

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assume just because a thing is old it must last.

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But you can never let your guard down. Come

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here, Bello. Unzip my dress. I

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don't want to tear it.

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If you insist. There

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we are. Where are you going? Just

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to have a look about. I

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can cover more distance than the ground teams. Besides,

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good to make a scene from time to time. Aaaaaah!

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Happy hunting.

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I've

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never been outside the country before. Rook

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said this place was beautiful once. I

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don't know. Maybe it was. I'm

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just glad to be leaving. I'll

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try to be brief. It makes me a little

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motion sick to be jotting down my thoughts like this.

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But I have to. I'm

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gonna be asked what happened and I need

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to do it some justice.

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After Rook and I escape the old fort, we creep

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through the snarl of medieval alleys. Wait.

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Be still. Careful

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to avoid the main squares and the smattering of

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dark figures who lingered there. Come

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on. Dubrovnik

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was a city of vampires, after all. We

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were fast. We already made it under the city wall by the time they sounded the alarm.

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There it is. They'll

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be sending out the search parties. And

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packs of impassionate are trained as bloodhounds.

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And

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if they catch us? Depends. Anything

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with a humour face will likely try to bring us in.

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The bloodhounds? Well, they'll probably

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just tear us to ribbons.

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You don't want to know. It's a perfectly acceptable

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answer.

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Come on. Keep moving. We

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had no real plan at first, just to get away.

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And as the old city fell behind

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and its footprint grew sparse, we grew bolder. Walking

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along the seaside highway, hiding

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only when we had to. Another

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car!

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No bushes. Here. Fuck.

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This one's stopping. It's fine. If

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he spots you, keep him

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busy. Keep him... where are you going?

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Look! Hello?

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Was person just here? Shit. Yes,

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I see you there, girl. Are you alone?

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Uh... Running, yes? In

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trouble? I help

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you. Car is faster

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way to go, yes?

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No, no, I'm fine, thank you. Uh, move

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along, please. No,

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it's okay. I am

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human. Friend. Resistance,

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yes? Resistance? Yes,

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a viva resistance. Humans,

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we hide in mountains. Here. You

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get in, I

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take you. I would,

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but... Well,

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here's the thing. Fuck.

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Look! Alright,

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that's enough. Look!

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Look! Stop!

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Did you have to kill him? He's

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lying. He's one of their

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toads. How can you be so sure? Because

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these are the bloodlands. There

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is no resistance. Get

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in. Let's go. We

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decided to take the car as far as the petrol would

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get us. Then we'd either find

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more fuel or get another ride. And

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so on. It

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was a plan.

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As the road was... road

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hummed under us, I finally started

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to relax, even drifted

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off, briefly. I had

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the strangest dream though,

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again.

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I was back in Devon, wandering a snowy

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forest when I saw someone, looking

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for something. Penelope?

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Oh, there you are. What are you

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doing out here? Looking for your sister's

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sword, of course. Her sword? Yes,

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she will need it in the battle to come. But

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I dropped her sword.

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Don't be ridiculous. No,

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I did in the fight with Humble John.

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Then what's that on your back? What?

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It's made of light.

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Yes, beautiful, isn't it? Where

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did it come from? Don't

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you recognize it? You carry

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it everywhere.

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You're

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not Penelope. Who

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are you really? Whoever you

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need me to be. I

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am the well you draw from, when

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all else is dry. Did

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we stop? Shh. Keep

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still. What is it? What's

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wrong? There. Look. Out

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the window, I saw it. A

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huge shape against the sky. Black

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scales shimmering in the dull, pre-dawn

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light. A chill one through

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my bones.

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Is that a fucking dragon?

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That's the wife. Paducia.

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Leader of the council.

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What's she doing? Hunting. I

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don't think she spotted us. Fuck

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me. That's a flex. Yeah,

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the council's on edge. The

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Queen hasn't shown her face yet since before the impact.

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The Queen is missing? Some say she's dead.

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Is that even possible? It's

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not as... impossible

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as you'd think. The

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sun made us all vulnerable in the times

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before the comet. Even

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the Queen herself would

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be a little more than a body on a slab during

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the daylight hours. A

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drifter with an axe could have done her

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in.

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I

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get the feeling you don't think we're so lucky.

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Well, as to nature, the dust in the sky should

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have begun to clear by now. Something

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is out there. It

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must be. Holding

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all the gloom in place. Jesus.

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Exactly how powerful is the Queen?

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You don't want to know. Right. I

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suppose I asked for that. We

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sat for a while after the wife had passed,

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just to be safe.

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But I noticed,

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Rook wasn't looking up anymore. He

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was staring ahead to a broken sign with the silhouette

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of a sailboat. And after

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a while...

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I have an idea. Follow

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me.

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We'd been discussing what we do when we reached a checkpoint.

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But Rook had arrived at a novel solution to

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avoid the roads altogether.

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So we followed the sign down to a small

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marina and assessed the seaworthiness

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of the vessels there. Not

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that either of us knew how to sail.

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But we found a yacht with an engine

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almost perfect, except that the

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lower deck was ankle deep.

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Hmm, back

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to the car then. Hold on. Are

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you sure as wise to drink that?

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It's fresh. This

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is rainwater, not seawater. That

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means... The hull is still watertight. Yeah,

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so we just need to bail it out, right? Maybe.

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There might be a pump. Somewhere

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along the way, I'd stop being intimidated

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by him. We were fugitives,

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literally in the same boat, and

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it didn't feel weird to be talking to him like a friend.

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She always worked so hard against

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the Queen. Not

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at all. Were you afraid? I

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was content. It

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seemed a kind of balance to it. The

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day belonged to you, and the night was ours. It

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was...elegant.

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You're a pragmatist.

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A philosopher, as my

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maker used to say. What's

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she like? She

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has a chronic mistrust of power.

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I like her already. Yeah. She

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was always the real firebrand.

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I was just along for the ride, for the most part. Not

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anymore. Yeah, the

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balance is gone. They

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destroyed the world. Just

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as she always said they would. Ugh.

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What?

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I found the food, but it's been steeping.

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Is any of it still acceptable? I

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don't think so, but I'll be fine. Are

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you sure? We might

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be several days at sea. I'll learn to

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fish. There's an old tavern

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on the hill. It might

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have, uh, something we could bring

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along. I'll go check. No, you stay

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and watch the pumps. Here,

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take this.

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Any trouble? Just radio me and I'll

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rush back. Roger.

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I waited below deck, watching the

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waterline creep slowly down. Until

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I heard someone come on board. Rook,

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is that you up there? Rook,

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there's someone on board. I'm hiding. I

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watched the visitor come down. It

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wasn't Rook. It was a woman

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in a black jumpsuit. I could tell

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from the careful way she moved and the flicker in her

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eyes. She was a vampire.

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She looked around, smelling the air. Then

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she fixed her attention on the closet. I

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waited.

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When she was close, I

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lunged.

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Pushing my silver boot knife straight into

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her heart. When

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she was still, I saw the fire axe on

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the wall. I

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grabbed it, raised it for the fatal blow

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and... Wait! What

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are you doing? It's all right. She's all

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right. Look!

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Thank God I found you!

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Just a moment. Josette, what are you doing here?

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You know her? What's in my... Look,

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she sent me to get you. She sent

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you? Of course. I'm sorry,

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what's happening? Hope, this is Josette

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Dupree. She's my maker's

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lieutenant. Josette, this is Hope

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Dunraven. Oh,

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hey. Sorry about the,

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you know, Dunraven. You're

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Darcy's sister. And you... Of

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course, she's with your maker.

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How did you get here? I've

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got a helicopter. I hid it in

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the mountains. A helicopter? Really?

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How far? Maybe a day's

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walk from here. Well, Hope, looks

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like you didn't see your sister again. Sooner

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than you thought.

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We left the boat and made our way into the mountains.

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I was tired, but excited by

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the thought of seeing Darce again as I chatted away.

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So Felix is alive? Yes. He

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helped repair the helicopter, actually. I

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love that. I really love that.

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So Fionnoy would be like his great-grandmaker.

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I suppose she is, yes. And

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she made you as well, Fionnoy? After

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look. I'm just a baby compared

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to him. Kind of a big brother to you then.

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He wouldn't put it like that.

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What, did you guys hook

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up or something? Me? With

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look? God, no.

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I'm right here. Ah,

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I see. So he

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and Fionnoy are a thing. Shh.

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Listen.

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Lord Downs. They're

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following us. We quickened our pace.

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The two vampires moved way faster than I

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could. Jossette would fully disappear

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from view, but Rook paused to wait, never

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letting me get out of his sight.

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I was breathless and sweating when we stopped in

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an old farmhouse by a dead olive grove. Its

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walls pop-marked from the bullets from some old war.

16:27

The blighters sounded much closer. They

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were gaining.

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They'll catch us before we get to the chopper. Any

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ideas? I don't know. How

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badly is she wounded? My arm, it's

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just a cut. I did it myself.

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We're not leaving her. It's

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nothing that would slow me down. Just go. I'll

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try harder to keep up. She means the blood.

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They can smell your blood. Oh.

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Well, I could ditch the bloody bandages

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here. It won't help, I'm afraid.

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Just let some nosets all night bath. What

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if someone, faster than me, obviously,

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ran the bandages off in some other direction?

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Like a scent decoy. Right. Send

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them on a wild goose chase. It might split the

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pack up, at least. And if they don't take the

17:16

bait? Then

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I'll make sure they wish they had. Hoping

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I will carry on, Jossette. You run the decoy.

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Here, got them. Just drop

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the scent, hurry back to us as quick as you can. I'm...

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I'm not a pilot. I know the way. I'll

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find you before you get there.

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I think it's working. I don't hear them anymore.

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Yes. Jossette

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is shrewd. You seem surprised to see

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her. I was surprised for now

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I would send someone. My

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maker can be quite reclusive.

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I was right though, wasn't I? You

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were a thing. How

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did you meet her? It was a long time

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ago. Did

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you know what she was? Not

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at first, no. It's

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funny, right? We don't

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always see who someone will be to us.

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Like, Lydia was so quiet

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when she first got to the castle, I barely noticed

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her.

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Oh. What

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changed? We had this

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chicken pox thing going around. I

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got it and was stuck in my room. But

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she'd had it before, so she was

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helping to check on the patients, bring everyone their

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medicine, you know?

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Anyway, we got on and she

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ended up staying a bit longer with me each time, keeping

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me company, watching old shows, playing games,

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just talking.

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I

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kept telling myself it wasn't anything special, but

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I watched that clock so hard, every

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day.

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I

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was a soldier when I met Fionnua. In

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the Roman occupation of Britain, she was a Celtic

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woman. A bit strange, I thought.

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But as I got to know her, her strangeness

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became, um... irreplaceable.

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You didn't stay together, though? Time

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gets away from you if you let it. Did

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you let it? Or did she? A

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bit of both. We

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always found our way back to each other, eventually.

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We always found our way back to each other, eventually.

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You still know how to make my toes, girl.

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I will never forget how to do that.

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Was that thunder? Static

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lightning. And

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the debris plume.

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I see. So

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it's here then, the winter.

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It is. But

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why are you? The

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world was ending. Where

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else would I go? So

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stay. We

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could start over together like we were

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in the beginning. Rock.

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Did they warn you about the impact?

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A few weeks ago. They

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said it would come down in the South Pacific.

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They told me, Greenland. They

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wanted me dead, Rock. They

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always have. I

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can't stay. I'm

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a problem for you. You're respected.

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I'm just reputable at

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dysenter. And now,

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as far as anyone knows, I'm no more. Where

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will you go? Where else? My

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homeland, to wait. For

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what? Opportunity.

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The winter child. Call

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her whatever you like. The

21:39

next anointed one will inherit three centuries

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of deferred potential. We will

21:43

need her. And she

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will need us.

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You know I'm not superstitious. I

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know. The story

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about how the queen had called a comet. I always said it was a metaphor

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of... propaganda.

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You were wrong. I was. This

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isn't dissent anymore Finn. You're

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talking about making war on

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the one who just blackened out

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the Sun. No

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Rook. I'm talking

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about finding the one who can bring it back. Even

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if it kills you. I found

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in my many years that there are two ways to

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spend forever. You

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can grow a loof and board or

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you can find the fight you're willing to die for. I

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could tell he was thinking about her. I

22:46

recognized the softness in his eyes to look

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of missing someone. He'd

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never seemed more

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human. Someone's

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coming. Stay close. It's

23:02

alright. It's just me. Just

23:04

me. Do it here. Any

23:06

trouble? No. I dropped the bandages

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down and all dwell but they

23:11

won't be fought for long. I recovered

23:13

your trail easy. We should hide.

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And just as she warned our reprieve was

23:24

brief. It wasn't long

23:26

before the forest was alive with shrieks and

23:29

I was

23:30

running. Ahead

23:33

the large dark outline of the aircraft mercifully

23:35

shaped in the fog. I felt a surge

23:38

of relief but Joseph passed.

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Uncertain. We're not going to

23:43

make it. We'll have to fight. What are

23:46

you talking about? We're here. Those

23:48

screams are two minutes away. So? So

23:51

I need five to get the damn thing in the air. Those

23:53

swampers pull us down. Fuck. Alright

23:57

so we stand and fight. No.

23:58

Warm up the

24:00

engine, Joce. What? Get

24:02

her out of here. I'll hold them off.

24:05

No. What am I supposed to tell Finn-Air? You

24:07

tell her, tell her that her

24:09

fight is mine. Always.

24:13

Look. Jo said, if

24:15

this girl dies, everything Finn

24:17

believes in dies with her. You have

24:19

to take her.

24:22

I will then. Goodbye.

24:26

Big brother. Goodbye, Jo.

24:29

Brooke. You two hope? No,

24:31

we got this far together. He

24:33

looked at me with dark, sad eyes,

24:36

then rested a hand on my shoulder.

24:38

Hope. Go.

24:52

It wasn't like when a shade does it. That

24:55

light creeping whiff of seduction. There

24:58

was a command punching right through

25:00

the core of my brain.

25:03

I barely even realized what he'd said

25:05

until I was already on the helicopter,

25:07

looking back. As

25:20

the helicopter began to rise, I saw him,

25:23

one black dog in a ravenous maelstrom, fighting

25:27

until he vanished under a scrabble of talons.

25:42

I wish I could tell them why he did it. Why

25:45

it's me they get instead of him. I

25:48

wish I had a better answer than to frown and say,

25:51

I don't know.

25:55

I've seen heroes suffer and sacrifice

25:57

to protect me. And

26:00

I still can't comprehend who it is they see. I'm

26:04

not ancient. I'm not powerful.

26:07

I can't turn myself into a dragon. I

26:10

can't save the world. I

26:13

only have fight enough for the people I know and love.

26:16

And my hope, my hope, is

26:19

just to somehow one

26:21

day, maybe hear my name

26:23

on their lips, and for

26:26

once to know that I've kept its

26:28

promise.

26:29

And been worth the trouble.

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