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Set some twelve thousand years after

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the fall of modern civilization, humanity has

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of the ancient past. Now our first

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to each of the clans and four young people

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of new Dakota. So we have the wolves,

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the rams, the bears, and

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the birds. and we are gonna chart the

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The year is

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fifteen thousand CD.

2:01

The world for four is

2:03

lost.

2:04

Sometime near the year

2:06

two thousand six hundred, humanity

2:09

all disappeared from

2:11

the Earth.

2:12

War, plague, the

2:15

wrath of nature. The

2:17

seas came to life and swallow

2:19

the towers and machines and

2:22

weapons of their making.

2:24

The lights that burned through the night

2:26

with no flame, went

2:28

dark, and

2:30

dark was all that was known.

2:35

The

2:35

virus came next, then

2:37

ice, then rebirth.

2:42

The few survived. has wandered

2:44

alone for thousands of years,

2:47

adapting to the brutality of

2:49

the land.

2:50

their body

2:52

shaping, senses sharpening

2:54

to keep them alive.

2:57

Four tribes emerged from

3:00

the ashes.

3:01

the wolves, the

3:03

rams, the bears,

3:07

and the birds.

3:09

The people

3:09

of new Dakota.

3:12

This is the tale of the birds

3:15

of Empire. and the

3:17

birth of the dawn age.

3:21

Listen now. Unless

3:23

you for get what always

3:26

was.

3:59

You

4:04

just hit me in the battle with a giant

4:06

like a child. It's a row.

4:09

Maybe. Don't turn your back and

4:11

you won't have to wear it off. You'll

4:13

have your child. You can tell

4:16

her. Right. Whoa. Weird

4:18

to say this day will come

4:19

when I open your thrower with a fried

4:21

flavor, but you're not slicing

4:23

at dead meat. Little but you

4:25

probably will be

4:26

too. Stay

4:29

nice. Warriors to your size.

4:32

See no warriors before

4:34

me.

4:37

Sierra, sister, what he's

4:39

doing? See, Sarah, off your hands

4:41

off being absorbed. brain. All

4:44

the work we did. Where's it gone? You're

4:46

just swing way done. Holy strong.

4:48

See,

4:49

the right hand is it. It keeps

4:51

the best fighter than drive even back in

4:53

the blood death. I can. You can.

4:55

If you focus I am, focus

4:57

it. It's a fight to the death messy.

4:59

You think I'd I think you know it too well,

5:01

which is why you're fighting scared. I'm

5:03

not scared. Proving, not

5:05

to me, not to the tribe

5:08

to you. maybe you shouldn't

5:10

be taking fight him from

5:12

a blind boy. Oh, he's a better

5:14

fight than you'll ever be. Can't make

5:17

any. Look at it. Look at it. Look at

5:19

from you. It helps to have

5:21

eyes to fly. I should've killed. Hey.

5:23

Hey. Stop it. Look

5:25

here. at me, where

5:27

are you?

5:28

Yeah. I'm here. That's right.

5:30

You're here with your people, with me,

5:32

your feet on the soil that burns you.

5:34

Can

5:35

you feel it?

5:37

Answer me. What? Yes.

5:39

Can you feel it? Now

5:42

calmly.

5:43

Tell me what she's doing.

5:46

She

5:47

keeps stepping on my feet and

5:50

throwing elbows. Okay. We

5:52

didn't plan for that. Okay. I

5:55

heard how to close the cut. So I can't

5:57

hear out of my lefty. It's fine.

5:59

You need to hear to

5:59

fight. What else?

6:01

She's dropping your left hand.

6:03

I think the fingers are broken. I

6:05

managed to take them five out of

6:07

her shoulder. That will be where you focus

6:09

your strike. Next round his blades.

6:11

You know how to cut muscle from bone.

6:13

You know from joint. She's meat to a butcher.

6:15

A calf on your table. Nothing more. World's

6:17

gotta face. and then set

6:19

your mom up right now. Bye.

6:23

Come and take it. What's your name?

6:26

No. Give me the play. Yo. Yo.

6:28

Yo. for my eyes

6:32

and breathe. What

6:34

do you smell? We don't have time. What?

6:38

you, you smell.

6:41

The bodies have dirt, worms,

6:43

hides. See their smoke. Further.

6:46

I can't focus. You can.

6:48

What do you smell?

6:49

Save your mile

6:52

away.

6:53

Whatever. Use your gift. You

6:55

don't need sight. Just tell me what you

6:57

smell. Dead fish

7:00

on. Dead, how long? Two

7:02

hours, maybe three. Good. I'll bring it

7:04

here build the world around you. The eyes

7:06

deceive,

7:07

smells, listening,

7:09

feel.

7:10

What else?

7:12

Live the ice machine is with you. What

7:15

else? What else?

7:17

Wait. Is that Good.

7:19

You

7:21

smell

7:22

like you. Tell

7:24

me what it is. Fear.

7:27

Like smell

7:29

her fear. And what does that

7:31

mean? It means she's already

7:33

dead. Yes, it does. Oh.

7:36

Now, fuck. Get your sister to her,

7:38

Mark. She's ready for out myself. In your

7:40

hand. Close to your marks. Laid

7:42

out. The great

7:44

blood will keep my blade shot on my enemies'

7:47

call. It is you. I offer unflesh.

7:50

Is today the day you die? No.

7:51

I can't hear you.

7:53

Brother. I'll be here when the soil

7:56

drinks her blood. Okay.

7:58

I'm

7:59

lucky. I love you too.

8:02

I'll go pot you this child so we can end

8:04

this. Okay. now.

8:08

White. White. I

8:18

am. I was. I

8:19

will be. I am. I am.

8:21

I am. That's why I I

8:23

will be.

8:24

I am.

8:25

I

8:29

am. I am. I am a wise. I

8:31

will be. I I

8:35

can't handle it.

8:38

I can't handle it. I

8:40

can't handle it. I can't

8:42

be. I can be.

8:45

I can

8:46

be.

8:48

Weeks prior. on

8:50

the plains of Dakota.

8:58

Whoa.

9:01

Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Great

9:07

blood health. So that's

9:07

your ruler of our great people to guide my spirit

9:10

to its target folks.

9:13

Who's there? Don't

9:16

account for the wind, Sister. You don't account for

9:18

my long end to be away from pests.

9:20

Even pests have

9:20

the rightful place. Turn lights

9:23

feed the soil and the birds and turn

9:25

death into life. Like just the other

9:27

day, I was What do you want? You're

9:29

welcome, Joy, that radiates

9:31

from my sister, like, to ready to solve. Oh,

9:32

there's some oh, so so

9:33

you can

9:36

you think me helpless,

9:38

but I don't

9:44

want to try to see you best if I a blind boy.

9:46

They might never let you within the borders again

9:48

because it would never happen. Never

9:51

never never. The word

9:53

so many Come all the way out

9:55

here to talk to me, the submission was

9:57

confusing. So Yes, ma'am.

9:59

Yeah.

9:59

I get it. When is a

10:02

win? How are you

10:04

a little brother? The sun is warm.

10:06

My lungs are filled with the sweetness of

10:08

the air. One day, you'll

10:10

just say fine. Is there I'm fine?

10:12

Then you'll know him not myself. And the gods have

10:14

traded me for an evil spirit. How

10:16

goes your training? Fine. Terrible.

10:20

Let me try.

10:21

You think you'll

10:21

do better without eyes than I do with them?

10:24

No.

10:24

I just want honor you with the toss of

10:26

my own. Give it here. Coke.

10:29

So behind in my technique. You are. The

10:31

honeymoon myth even

10:32

hurtling me since they could stand since

10:34

their days in the blood dead, which --

10:35

Ira. -- should have. You have something they

10:38

don't. What? The stink of

10:40

meat forever on me? You're

10:42

smell. You're instinct. It's like nothing

10:44

our people see. Yealous. It just

10:46

lets me smell when a bitch kaya is coming,

10:48

sticking with the snake leaves, she

10:50

chewed. Just Give me the spear. Let

10:52

me try. Here. Take it if it

10:54

will quiet you.

10:55

Call

10:57

to me from the target.

11:04

master your father. Great. Hey.

11:07

What are you doing though? Did I hit

11:09

it? Myth face right next to it. He pears out.

11:11

Answer me, Asi. Actually,

11:12

yes.

11:15

Yes. You're

11:16

not lucky though. It's not

11:18

luck. I use what I can

11:20

to bend the world to me.

11:21

I

11:22

do not grope in the dark as some

11:24

belief. My world is rich.

11:26

with sound, and slight

11:29

variations in pressure, and even the

11:31

flashing shades of changing darkness. Yeah.

11:34

I feel anything but blind. In

11:36

fact, I sometimes feel sorry for those who

11:38

can't experience the world this way.

11:41

Bring me

11:42

this beer.

11:47

Close your

11:47

eyes.

11:49

Okay.

11:49

okay Now

11:52

use

11:52

your gift to paint the world around you.

11:56

Everything that you smell. Let it

11:58

live all in one moment and build the

11:59

vision in your imagination. I

12:01

smell a riot of things all at

12:03

once always. It's too much.

12:05

Just let it reveal itself

12:07

to you. Sage,

12:10

page

12:12

musk,

12:15

choke berries. bark

12:18

of all different thickness, wetness. There's

12:24

squirrel

12:24

fur and snake skin. And

12:26

to build around you and now find the scent of

12:28

the mark on the tree. With the

12:31

sound and smell and

12:33

the pressure of the wind talk to your

12:34

muscles.

12:36

Wind back. Okay.

12:40

One,

12:42

two,

12:43

ruff. Open

12:48

your eyes.

12:49

I. Get it? I

12:52

did. Wow. It's

12:54

amazing.

12:55

Perhaps, like, no. It it was

12:58

within you. I just guided you to

13:00

it. Your pupils are

13:01

lucky to have you. That's That's not

13:03

as they see it. But thank you,

13:06

Sister. One day you'll make a

13:08

great hunter. If a mother

13:10

ever allows it. She will.

13:12

made the wolf, will it? She

13:14

was looking for your mother. That's

13:17

actually what pranks me to bother you. What is it

13:19

she wants? she keeps that to

13:21

herself. The queen's right

13:23

of secrets. Even from her

13:25

son? Especially from her son. Maybe

13:27

there's fresh meat for me to butcher. More

13:29

end trails and hopeful. We can only help.

13:31

The dryers has kept the herds away. And

13:33

I have to flay

13:34

another claims rat. I'll clean if we don't handle.

13:36

The

13:36

wolf will just find our way. In

13:38

blood, she leaves us. Come.

13:41

Let me have one

13:42

more toss before we ride.

13:44

Last time was luck. I'll wager.

13:48

Luck is a God who's never favored

13:50

me, sister. Go. There must

13:52

be some other trick to it.

13:54

Come.

14:01

Is there anything better

14:03

to the Open Slates and Don? The

14:05

Open Slates and Don alone. Now,

14:07

sister, your bitterness shines a meme

14:09

on your own phone. I must love you.

14:11

Greatly. To be

14:13

a wolf is to be a god. Lay

14:15

like a child. Say it with me.

14:18

You're and I want to serve

14:20

all my friends.

14:39

I

14:41

love the smell of our dent. Don't you?

14:44

They're tanning hides today,

14:46

so no. Describe it to

14:48

me. What you see. I

14:50

haven't time, Yaffa. I need to find

14:52

mother. Please, sister, just as

14:54

we walk, like when I was a small boy.

14:58

Our tents stretch out

15:00

on the plains beyond the ice lake. cutting

15:03

into the cool air and blew it on. The

15:07

hides pulled over the frames,

15:09

sturdy as our people.

15:13

Buffalo skulls and bones adorn the

15:15

entrances. The

15:17

mud structures absorb the

15:19

light keeping cool our young and the

15:21

gatherings that feed us and meet rents

15:23

low. You'd

15:25

see the young men laboring at the Iron

15:27

Works to make our tools as is their

15:30

purpose in place.

15:30

Also, to

15:33

raise the next generation. Yes.

15:35

True. Walking

15:36

next to me you would see one of the greatest

15:38

teachers and storytellers that our people have

15:40

ever known. Master yep.

15:42

a

15:44

title I accept. Tell me more

15:46

of this master

15:48

storyteller who walks beside you right

15:50

now. He's a young man, but

15:52

much suffering in hatred claim his

15:54

place in a tribe that looked down on

15:56

those born as he was. Our

15:58

people do not suffer

15:59

weakness in any form.

16:01

Thankfully, I was never weak. Far from

16:03

it. You've achieved the greatest item man

16:05

can achieve among our

16:06

people to raise and rear our

16:09

young, guiding them in

16:09

our ways and making sure they know their

16:12

his series, the fables of our

16:14

spirit, the legends of our great

16:16

queens, and hunters going

16:18

back to the first den mother and

16:20

wolf queen, Azeroth the

16:22

Fay.

16:22

for who you are so named?

16:24

It's a

16:25

great name wasted on

16:28

the butcher. That's

16:31

a kill call. There was no hunt. Come.

16:32

Let's find out what's the matter. Japa, I have to find mother.

16:35

She's the queens. She'll find you come.

16:36

Yep. But slow down. You're

16:39

likely to trip. By trip, you'll

16:41

catch me. No. Maybe maybe

16:42

not. Excuse me. Coming

16:44

through. What's happening?

16:46

What what's everyone cheering

16:48

for? It's I

16:50

need to get them.

16:52

Who?

16:54

Kaya and Rosa. They've

16:56

returned with a buffalo. Don't

16:58

be jealous, Azie. This

17:00

means some of us eat It's only

17:02

a cat. It looks like it hasn't fed a day.

17:04

Still, it's real meat. Azera,

17:06

who cares

17:08

who's beers are dinner?

17:09

I do. Kaya and Reza have always been cruel

17:11

to me going back to our training days in the blood

17:13

den. If it weren't for their torment, I might

17:15

come the future I will admit to be

17:17

a warrior or something more

17:19

than a butcher. Your wolf wielded differently. That

17:23

she

17:23

did.

17:30

edit Whoa.

17:35

People love the planes.

17:38

tonight, we

17:39

you should

17:41

have seen Kyla on

17:43

the mouse chasing down

17:46

this cop. Talking word. Running it down. The

17:48

blood wolf

17:48

came to life. It was like in

17:50

the old ledgies. Ressa,

17:53

rescue card. I simply would not

17:55

rest until my people had

17:57

food. I did my Judy s Hunting

17:59

pack leader.

18:01

You

18:01

had been hungry for fatted meats, while here you

18:03

have it. And soon,

18:06

we'll bring

18:06

enough for all to see. We need

18:08

a butcher to play the skin quickly before

18:11

the price spoils. We need

18:13

preservatives. That's one. Just a cold

18:15

cold. Let another do it. Lania,

18:17

perhaps. she sucks at these. It just tips any

18:19

time she's around them. Chaya. Yeah. Right here.

18:21

You have the most skilled butcher art people who

18:23

ever know standing before your ass.

18:26

Suck.

18:27

Cathy. We should've smelled you

18:29

as we always do when you're nearby. Don't

18:31

worry, Kaya. Your instincts have always

18:33

been

18:33

weak. Well, So glad you

18:36

could be here to see what a real war you're

18:38

returning from a hunt looks like.

18:39

Closest you're likely to

18:41

get. Little assy is always

18:43

stuffed away in her meat, canned,

18:45

cleaning shit, and disappointing

18:48

clean mommy.

18:48

the

18:50

better be ready to use that blade if you pull

18:53

it in the presence of a true

18:55

hunter. Do you want this butcher? Or do you

18:57

prefer to sit atop your mount basking in

18:59

your own shit like a hawk. You think you're the only

19:01

buster? I'm the best.

19:03

You know what? No.

19:04

Bring it to my tent later when I've

19:06

had my grass milk alts or you and

19:09

to grass smoke if you don't do your duty to the strike

19:11

right now.

19:12

You're a wolf, not a

19:14

fish. Don't take the bait. I

19:17

do it for the tribe. Not for

19:19

you.

19:19

As you wish. It's

19:22

cute. How the little blind

19:24

boy tags along. Like I'm

19:26

too blind to feel

19:27

the ugliness coming off of you like hate from

19:29

shit. Deal with

19:30

you later. You're lucky. The

19:32

queen's favor protects you.

19:34

Boy. Get

19:34

me bowls and water if anyone can manage that

19:36

and the torch. You want me to work? I

19:38

need my

19:39

things. So get them and stop

19:41

talking. Bring

19:42

it to her. How

19:45

did our blood

19:46

queen be as such

19:48

fitter. The queen is weak, so

19:50

her daughter hones our hunger sit

19:52

to her face see

19:54

how bitter your nose tastes when she fainted to you.

19:56

Sad,

19:57

really. Perhaps it's time for a

19:59

new queen.

20:01

Rumories

20:01

she's ill. lies from jealous rivals

20:03

with big mouths. Like to both of

20:05

you. challenge her if you think she's weak.

20:07

Show this

20:08

tribe what you have beyond

20:10

plus of blood tournament to make your play

20:12

for the crown. It's open to all our people

20:14

so long as you get nine others to join with

20:16

you. Perhaps I will. failed to summon at

20:18

least nine, you'll be strapped to the binding post

20:21

and opened up for all the tribe to

20:23

steal the wolf's butcher. Now,

20:25

do your

20:26

work

20:27

Is

20:32

there much meat?

20:34

There's some,

20:35

but but what? Bestring me. I

20:37

need to wait.

20:42

the way turn

20:45

her over.

20:52

I'm

20:55

done here. Yep. Hey.

20:57

Get

20:57

back. What are you laughing at? Where

20:59

are you going? Hey.

21:02

Sick

21:02

cleanup. What's the matter? Job

21:04

two hard. This

21:05

calf was sick.

21:07

Anyone who eats

21:09

this meat will die. What are you talking about?

21:11

I can smell the liver in her blood.

21:14

Also, he didn't just

21:16

kill her. She's been dead for

21:18

at least a day. Maybe

21:19

more. How do you know that? Nothing

21:21

smells like carrying. Like the stink

21:23

of old

21:24

death. and it's everywhere. Why are you calling

21:26

us sliders? I'm not calling you anything, Reza,

21:28

because you aren't anything. Ask another

21:30

butcher. She'll tell you the same. I'm just trying to show

21:32

up your petters. like a

21:34

jealous little cat. She wants to be one of us.

21:37

We've seen you practicing

21:39

with your sad little

21:41

spear. You made your self.

21:43

A beautiful dream for an ugly

21:46

girl. And now lie.

21:49

Shame. better

21:51

butcher anyway. Okay

21:54

then.

21:59

Here.

21:59

hair eat the

22:00

heart if you don't believe

22:02

me. Go on.

22:04

You're the Miley Hunter?

22:06

No. This is the tradition. Go

22:08

on. Show the drive

22:09

how you take the life force into your

22:12

bloodstream from the heart. They don't get to see it. It'll

22:14

be a

22:14

treat for them.

22:15

Don't you wanna see Kaya in the

22:18

heart of I killed. I need

22:20

to strive to bless

22:22

it first. Ruth is cursed and

22:24

master mission deeply.

22:27

Come on. I'm not I'm not hungry.

22:30

Fine. If that appetite comes back,

22:32

go on, just take a bite.

22:33

Just know that it's

22:34

the last bite of anything you'll ever

22:36

take. a joke on your pride. A

22:39

death befitting of Yukaiya. Put your

22:41

liver out

22:41

as we'll deal with you later. Reza,

22:43

why don't you take a bite? It would be a change

22:45

from your normal of Haya's

22:47

ass. You fucking cow.

22:48

Zero.

22:52

You got big,

22:55

challenging.

22:55

You would electives. session in the

22:57

fight game with me. Let's go.

23:01

Stop. Stop. Enough.

23:03

know

23:03

And queen. Mike, myth

23:06

of you. off the ground.

23:08

What

23:08

is this? Childishness.

23:10

Nothing with your time mother.

23:13

My queen. queen. Cayan

23:14

resident of Korps and they tried to pass

23:16

her off as a kill. And this Sarah Well,

23:18

Sarah helped them save the tribe from

23:20

bad meat. Well, Yes. My

23:22

god. And it's true

23:23

that we'll be able to use the skin and

23:25

the bones and the bladder and the sinews of

23:27

this animal the wolf has blessed us with. Myth

23:29

clean. That's

23:30

that's what we

23:32

wanted. Thank my daughter for saving your

23:34

life from your mistake. Thank

23:37

So

23:40

There

23:40

doesn't seem to be much of a

23:43

problem.

23:43

Except time waste Yes, ma'am.

23:46

Bring the corpse to Azera's tents. She'll break it

23:48

down with the tanner. Bring it to a I'm

23:50

done with this. Bend

23:51

a knee. Mother queen.

23:53

I am

23:54

your queen first. Azera, and

23:56

you will address me as such.

23:58

Now, bend a

23:59

knee. Guess

24:03

my

24:03

queen. Why are

24:05

you

24:06

too just looking at me like drowning

24:08

golfers? Go. Get this rotten meat out of

24:09

my site. And if you do ever try to

24:12

pass off find as a kill again,

24:14

you'll be stripped of your titles and spend a

24:16

cycle on the binding post is

24:18

that clear? That is really good.

24:21

People of the

24:23

grass, descendants of the great

24:25

blood wolf, give

24:27

thanks to the sun and the warmth she

24:29

gives us on this day.

24:31

The wolf

24:31

gets our people with her

24:34

fighting spirit, her ferocity,

24:37

her nose for the kill, but it

24:39

mustn't burn against

24:41

each other. We must harness

24:44

it wisely. Our

24:46

enemies lie beyond that tree

24:49

line. The bears have stopped up the river to

24:51

a trickle choking our people in the

24:53

dust of the plains, trapping

24:55

our game so we squabble over

24:57

rats and mice,

24:58

clutch at our throats.

25:01

To the

25:01

north, the dams build new settlements

25:03

on our holy land, thinking

25:06

the dryness has left us

25:08

bitter and divided. Has

25:11

it? Are we divided? No.

25:14

No. Never.

25:17

No. We

25:18

are united as the greatest warriors

25:21

Dakota has ever seen,

25:23

and we fear no one.

25:25

Even the birds, people

25:27

of the sky who look ever

25:29

down upon us right now, there you

25:31

can see them above

25:35

Spying, watching, but

25:37

we fear no one and no one must

25:39

think we fear each

25:41

other. It's

25:42

true. The

25:43

buffalo are long overdue,

25:46

but I have faith in our scouts that the

25:48

hunt will fall to us

25:49

soon. We will eat.

25:52

I promise, but

25:54

we must stay ready.

25:56

wolves are the greatest

25:59

people, the

25:59

first terror of Dakota

26:02

and the masters of this land.

26:05

We will haunt

26:05

it with blood and spears until

26:08

they hang our heads on

26:10

pikes. Now, go

26:12

to your duties and make proud

26:14

your people.

26:15

build, forge, gather

26:18

ready yourselves. The

26:21

shaman speaks

26:21

of darker days on the horizon

26:24

we will need our strength to fight for what the

26:27

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26:27

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27:22

Why? Why must you use me as some

27:25

excuse to make a speech to our people? You think

27:27

I like dressing you down in front of the truck?

27:29

I think you do. Then you don't truly

27:31

know my heart. So stand up for me. Be

27:33

my mother when I need you instead

27:35

of making an example of

27:37

me, humiliating me in front of

27:39

everyone. You know nothing of what

27:41

it is be a mother or a queen. I get I know what

27:43

it feels like to be failed by But,

27:45

mister, please. She has to lead

27:47

in Yupa. Yupa.

27:49

Why

27:49

are you even here. Don't you have cubs to tell

27:51

useless stories too so they can grow up to be

27:53

as

27:53

useless and blind to the world as you are.

27:56

Actually, you're right.

27:57

My pupils

27:59

will be are now waiting me.

28:02

I'll

28:02

lab

28:04

I'll take my leave

28:04

of you gladly.

28:06

gladly The

28:09

queen, you yafa, wait.

28:13

Let

28:13

him go, may I be

28:16

excused? Mother,

28:18

I don't need a great deal.

28:20

Starting first with respect.

28:23

I've done nothing but respectings my

28:25

whole

28:25

life. So

28:27

respect the elders, respect the traditions,

28:29

respect the path you chose for me.

28:31

A lowly butcher. Butchers are

28:33

sacred among our people. I don't feel

28:36

sick great. I feel humiliated. I I feel like a

28:38

girl surrounded by death and the stink of

28:40

blood and shit and meat. The wolf

28:42

chooses our path. Well, shit.

28:45

just let me hunt.

28:48

I can

28:49

do it. I never

28:51

got a fair chance. After Gaia died,

28:53

I wasn't myself for For

28:58

so long, I

29:01

couldn't focus on anything but the burn of

29:03

grief. But It's

29:05

been years, and I know that

29:07

the hunt is my calling. And if

29:09

you'd only let me show you, your

29:12

calling is what I say it

29:14

is Azera. Why would you Do

29:16

this? Because I am your mother and I know

29:18

what's best for you. How is my misery? What's

29:20

best for

29:20

me? I don't need you to protect me, and

29:23

mine was a hunch I know those girls

29:25

are ruthless. It's not

29:26

just hunting. It's a life that

29:28

I can handle those. Bill, you cut your

29:30

throat while you're not

29:31

looking in our ways would let them they

29:33

wouldn't. I did.

29:36

Queen

29:38

Ilara, she favored me

29:41

after watching me fight a wild dog to the death.

29:44

She inducted

29:45

me into the hunting pack, too

29:48

young, I had

29:49

only started my time in

29:51

the blood den. I

29:53

was wild, cocky. The

29:55

fight

29:55

wolf was still beating lessons

29:58

into me. I wasn't formed.

30:00

My teeth just newly

30:02

sharpened to points, but

30:04

the Queen insisted I joined the pack and

30:06

it made me feel I could take on anything.

30:09

Anyone.

30:12

I was

30:13

wrong. Those

30:16

girls tortured me in

30:17

ways that would have made the

30:20

warriors of the crow aged bush

30:22

for shame. Mother. I

30:23

tell our people that I cut my breast off

30:25

to be

30:25

more fierce with the bow, but

30:28

it's a lie.

30:30

It was to

30:31

for me by a hunter in the

30:34

pack. Her name

30:35

was

30:37

Sukari.

30:38

tall

30:39

as a hook she hated me from

30:42

sight. And one day, she decided to

30:44

act on that hate. Zakari

30:47

tied me to a tree and cut

30:49

off the buds of my chest, leaving me

30:51

to die. Mother, I broke my

30:53

wrist to get free. and waited

30:56

till nightfall to sneak

30:57

into her tent. In

30:59

the morning, the shaman found me in the

31:02

chanting place with Sukari suffered

31:04

head in my lap wearing

31:06

her skin. I

31:07

drank her blood for strength,

31:10

chewed her heart.

31:12

I felt her soul moving in

31:14

my body.

31:15

I felt

31:17

that girl, the one

31:19

who was too young.

31:23

I felt

31:23

her die so a hunter, and later

31:26

a queen could be born.

31:28

You never told me. Myth

31:30

wounds healed and

31:31

no one ever again challenged me. Pat

31:35

Laws

31:35

protected me from exile.

31:38

I rose to alpha, and

31:40

later, when

31:41

the queen was weak, I called the blood tournament.

31:43

She had many enemies, so twenty

31:45

warriors entered. vicious warriors,

31:47

some of them wanting a chance

31:49

to avenge the car. I

31:52

battered my weight to the death match,

31:54

killing an old warrior named Canal.

31:56

The queen saw her

31:58

end in my eyes and choles,

32:01

exile, rather than risk her

32:03

life to keep her crown.

32:06

Is this? the path you want for yourself

32:08

myth daughter. I just want more.

32:10

There has to

32:13

be more.

32:14

I'm your mother. and I'm

32:16

protecting what I see.

32:18

Not snuffing it out.

32:21

Even if

32:21

it sometimes feels that way.

32:24

Yes. My

32:25

queen. Are

32:29

you alright? I'm fine.

32:34

I'm fine. What

32:35

does the healer say?

32:37

No. Nothing if she wants

32:39

to see another sunrise.

32:42

Oh,

32:42

heaven. Goughing

32:45

blood into my hand like a wounded puppy and

32:47

you didn't keep it from our people. Our

32:49

people don't suffer weakness and certainly

32:52

not in their queen. Why should they?

32:54

This looks like strength to me.

32:56

You're all different to my girl.

33:00

Borne

33:00

of some other clay. I am

33:02

my

33:02

mother's daughter. Too

33:06

true. The moment

33:09

they knew the wind world was calling me.

33:12

My

33:12

reign would be over and this moment

33:14

is too important for our people. What do you mean? Come to

33:16

counsel tonight. I'll show

33:19

you. Is that why you were looking for me

33:21

earlier? Yes. I want

33:23

you there for this moment. It

33:25

may change the

33:26

course of our people. I'll

33:27

be there. And this

33:30

era, Keep

33:32

your right hand up when you fight.

33:34

You

33:34

drop it too easily and it gives these

33:36

bitches

33:36

in opening. I

33:39

will. Taya, Like

33:41

it or not, she may be our next

33:44

queen. I can't protect

33:46

you from her forever. you

33:48

won't have to. Of course,

33:52

until tonight.

33:56

Let

34:00

me

34:03

joke. of a great and mighty

34:06

people, of the wolves.

34:10

deep

34:11

deep in the black of silence. In

34:12

the early days of time, the four beasts

34:14

roamed an empty landscape.

34:18

The birds. the

34:22

rams, the bears,

34:24

and the mighty sleepless

34:28

blood Through

34:36

the plains, The mighty Wolf started to pray with claws of his

34:38

steel in a mouthful of

34:40

blades. The

34:41

earth then

34:42

was part

34:44

fire, and huge billows of smoke towered into the sky.

34:46

The four beasts would meet upon

34:48

the planes and clash in combat.

34:51

from their blood were born the first

34:54

people, beings of great wonder and

34:56

ancient magic, but

34:58

forgetful, arrogant,

35:01

they forgot the beats that

35:03

bore them, scarred the

35:06

land, that fed them, forgot that

35:08

they too were animals. They structures

35:10

to their false gods, then made

35:12

gods of themselves, claim to be

35:14

bringers of death and life.

35:16

A great battle consumed death.

35:19

and fires and floods

35:21

and ice and a sickness that

35:23

fell all but a

35:26

few. The

35:26

first people bled into the earth returning from whence they came.

35:29

All was still in

35:31

the land for thousands of

35:34

years. as the earth healed

35:36

the forebeast return. This

35:39

time with Malzavaches, with the blood of

35:41

the first people, with the bones of

35:43

their follies, they made the four great tribes and the

35:45

likeness of the first people.

35:48

The mightiest of them all was

35:50

our tribe. The

35:53

wolves. People of the grass

35:55

who dwell on the plains, descended of

35:57

the sleepless blood wolf. Hunters

35:59

of unmatched skill faster than a

35:59

stag. We stare

36:00

into the sun without blinking and

36:03

burst the most vicious warriors

36:05

of the land. We

36:07

are unchallenged rulers of the planes

36:10

that spread across the vastness

36:12

of Dakota, and so

36:14

too shall we

36:16

always be. and you.

36:18

You are the future warriors

36:20

and tanners and scouts

36:23

and fire master I

36:26

can help you see

36:28

our past and great

36:31

future ahead. The old

36:33

stories will make us new. the

36:36

plague of the mountains, the

36:38

lady of Red River,

36:41

the green war, the Queen's going back to our very

36:43

first, Azera, the and

36:46

look who's arrived to share her trade with us.

36:49

Yeah. Azera of

36:52

this day. Come, sacred butcher.

36:54

Do you have meat to show us?

37:00

No. master yaffa, I come to beg

37:02

forgiveness.

37:02

Ah, forgiveness

37:04

is what she seeks. Well,

37:07

What is she willing to do for this

37:10

forgiveness? Yaffa. Please.

37:12

I believe she says she

37:15

would beg. Would you like to hear

37:16

like to hear that

37:17

that? Master

37:20

Yaffe, and you can

37:22

use the video hot dented system.

37:26

I

37:26

will consider

37:30

it. Are

37:32

we done? Yes.

37:33

Go go. You're not my

37:35

problem anymore. Next moon we'll be learning

37:37

about

37:38

Forget it. You don't care.

37:41

I'm

37:48

sorry brother. So I hear?

37:50

I mean it. Mother

37:52

brings it out in you. I should be used to

37:54

it by now. She does, but

37:57

didn't mean to Come here.

38:00

What will become

38:02

of us? Not myth.

38:06

fear. Therefore, what you wish for, sister.

38:08

The Blood Wolf teaches the stubborn with hardship

38:10

and pain, then I must be her favorite

38:14

student. Come. I meant to help

38:16

you saw the dig. There's were that

38:18

some water bubbled up through the ground.

38:20

The ground?

38:22

Yes. out where we forage. Sounds strange, but Water from

38:24

any direction would be a blessing. The dry

38:26

season has never stayed this long. We'll find

38:29

a way There's won't be the undoing of the mighty wolves,

38:31

that much. I know. Mother asked me to

38:33

the den of souls tonight to

38:35

hear the elder speak. she

38:37

doesn't

38:37

see herself. She has many cells.

38:40

It's how she's remained queen for so

38:42

long. One three blood

38:44

turnemies. Young men after me will tell her

38:46

story with awe. and cubs will

38:48

scarcely believe a woman so fierce ever

38:50

lived. And who will follow her, I

38:52

wonder? That is for mother and the shaman to

38:54

decide when the time is dry. or the

38:56

wolf if a turn

38:57

caught. Sounds like

39:00

you're thinking of

39:02

making a play for the blood crown

39:04

perhaps. Queen

39:06

Azera, the grumpy. I had

39:08

seen her spend a life expending the ship

39:11

from buffalo intestines. Better you than I.

39:13

Go without me to your puddle. I need

39:15

to pray. I'll be without my eyes and my heart if you

39:17

leave me to it. No manage. Just

39:19

watch your back. Guy and Reza, no,

39:21

I have to something.

39:23

I can handle myself, sister.

39:30

Sister, Telkaya,

39:32

that tell

39:34

her hello

39:35

her

39:38

hello. Hello.

39:53

Mighty blood wolf. To

39:56

you, I offer my blood

39:58

and spirit and to you I shall return

39:59

in the wind world when my purpose is fulfilled upon your

40:02

plane. I ask now your

40:04

permission speak

40:06

to one who lives across the divide and the clutch of your jaws.

40:08

You carry her now as you did

40:10

when she was among us.

40:13

My sister,

40:16

Gaya,

40:18

it is to her, I now

40:22

speak.

40:31

Sister, I

40:34

thought

40:34

much of

40:37

you today as it was near this

40:39

day that I first lost you.

40:42

I

40:43

worry. I

40:46

feel

40:46

that you are now drifting.

40:50

farther

40:51

and farther

40:52

away.

40:54

Today,

40:55

when those

41:00

when

41:00

they taunted me and came

41:02

from me. Normally in those

41:04

moments, I can feel you just

41:07

at my shoulder just as we were in

41:09

the womb. Usually,

41:13

I I

41:14

can feel your forehead. on

41:17

mine as we did when hiding

41:20

from from everyone.

41:26

but

41:26

now

41:28

it's so faint.

41:31

In my dreams? have

41:34

been reliving your death as if it is

41:36

happening

41:39

again. And again, I

41:42

keep going over it. I felt ill

41:44

when I woke. They said your horse had been

41:46

taken by an evil spirit and that you'd

41:48

fallen, that it was couldn't

41:50

have been.

41:51

I never

41:54

felt ill like that. Your

41:57

horse was

41:59

bonded to you,

41:59

like,

42:01

it was

42:04

as

42:04

if

42:05

some evil come across the plains. It clips the sun.

42:08

Like, I walked through to some

42:10

other world and I've remained here ever

42:12

since the world

42:14

where you're buried beneath the earth, and I am always alone

42:16

wanting to show you I can't be good

42:18

enough, brave enough, fixing enough

42:20

for the both

42:22

of us.

42:25

uptide.

42:26

hi

42:31

I

42:36

feel

42:36

like

42:36

something is coming.

42:40

so

42:43

evil.

42:46

I

42:46

can't explain it. And

42:49

if you were here, I wouldn't have to. He'd just look at me and

42:51

know, but instead, it's just

42:54

this.

42:56

Fuck

42:56

me. emptiness. This yawning darkness staring back at me every

42:58

day, and I can't bear it anymore.

43:03

So

43:11

send me

43:15

Aaside. Aside

43:18

from your world tells

43:20

me that this one means something

43:23

that I mean, something that I

43:26

meant for

43:28

something.

43:34

When we were children, you'd always lead

43:35

the way to breakfast, to the

43:37

blood down along the

43:39

path, to the dead legs

43:41

where

43:41

we'd eat her.

43:44

Who's stolen, a biscuit

43:46

syrup and scream that

43:47

we were horrible.

43:49

I need.

43:51

god. I need you to show me

43:53

the path again

43:54

show me

43:56

so that

43:59

so that

43:59

I

44:00

don't follow

44:04

down yours. I

44:08

love you, mister.

44:10

May you walk

44:13

and wind and the

44:15

blood of the ancient?

44:27

Elder's. I welcome you in the name of

44:29

the great wolf. Thank you for

44:31

gathering on this night. Let's keep

44:33

the

44:33

king. The decree.

44:35

and may the wolf keep you. Sit.

44:38

Why

44:38

does the Zaracidamaus? My

44:41

daughter is here

44:42

at myth urging to learn our

44:44

ways. She's a butcher, not anointed to discuss the

44:46

ways of the gods and

44:47

elders, and the business of our people. She should

44:50

not be here. My daughter's

44:51

presence bothers you. I

44:54

strive to keep the

44:56

traditions. Is that not what keeps us

44:58

great? I keep

45:00

us great. I have kept our band of thousands

45:02

thriving in the dust of drought with enemies

45:04

pressing in on all

45:06

sides. So I

45:08

will share our business with whoever I see fit. Mother,

45:11

I sit down.

45:12

shaman, anoint

45:14

Azera into

45:15

the den of souls. As

45:18

there

45:18

of Narra, give

45:21

me your

45:21

hand. Yes, shaman.

45:24

Does your

45:24

blood run the color of

45:27

a sunrise, deep

45:28

into rivers, high

45:30

into the tall grass of

45:33

the plains, yes, shaman. Are

45:36

you now an evermore of the

45:38

wolf driver, Dakota? And

45:40

will your heart wither under this

45:42

soil as you move into the

45:44

next life? eyes? Yes. Some the

45:46

thing of the wolf now takes your blood.

45:52

drink of

45:54

your own blood as the wolf would and hear

45:57

her holy business among her

45:59

people and

45:59

our queen.

46:02

Thank you. Showman, there. Are

46:04

you satisfied the

46:05

traditions are upheld real? Yes,

46:07

my

46:07

queen. I never meant

46:10

to offend.

46:11

rise. My queen.

46:15

Bring it

46:16

in.

46:18

Behold. Our future.

46:21

It's a wooden chest. That's

46:23

the mark of the rams

46:26

of on it. Open

46:28

it.

46:28

Are these bits of metal? They're

46:30

just small circles. Drinkers

46:33

like on a necklace

46:36

or a worse behavior. It's some kind of new

46:38

metal we've never known, not iron

46:40

as our tools and weapons are

46:44

made of. This shines

46:46

like water and is softer. How

46:48

did we come upon it? Zen and her raiding

46:50

party captured it from a group of

46:53

REMS. We

46:54

came upon them as they made for the green trail. The sun

46:57

was high and it was clear many

46:59

of them had never seen battle

47:01

or swung an

47:04

axe against anything more than a tree. They

47:06

stunk of fears. We gutted them

47:08

without ceremony.

47:11

The wolf

47:12

keep you then. Our people

47:14

will thank you. Come. Let

47:16

me carve a

47:17

mark into

47:18

here are your arm. May

47:21

the wolf protect you, my

47:22

queen, and also you.

47:26

Rise. Suck

47:29

with your warriors. You're as brave as

47:30

the wolf is fierce. Go.

47:34

Yes, my queen.

47:38

It's called

47:39

silver. Some new form of butter

47:41

that begun between the rams and

47:43

the bears. This chest was on its way

47:45

to green palm. what

47:47

business is this of ours? A new system of

47:50

trade is being forged between our enemies

47:52

that leaves us out. Why leave us out?

47:54

Because we have nothing

47:56

they want. We used to feed Dakota with the finest of meats in

47:58

exchange for metals and tools from

47:59

the rams and elixters and crops

48:01

from the bears, but the dryness has

48:03

left us with

48:06

nothing to but now now we

48:08

remind

48:08

them of who we are and what

48:10

falls to those who ignore

48:13

our strength. Yes. And

48:16

now we

48:16

have something that they both value

48:18

that is

48:19

our business.

48:22

Leverage.

48:23

harms will see this as an act of

48:25

war. Let them They build

48:27

their settlements on the edges of

48:29

our land. Let to remind them of what we

48:31

are. Are we prepared for what? Aaron and the Stone Council

48:34

will sue for peace and negotiate terms

48:36

as he always

48:38

has. If people faint at the

48:40

sight of blood will tell him

48:42

that it was regrettable. Offer back

48:44

half the silver for some tools, and then

48:46

while I have his ear, will move their load

48:48

lenders off the plane. You

48:50

speak as if you are in the mind of the

48:52

very man. What

48:54

if he? Get

48:56

up real. The people of this land

48:59

must fear us first

49:00

or we have nothing. Just

49:03

as

49:03

the moment you stop fearing

49:06

me, you'll stab me in my

49:08

back.

49:09

Do you

49:10

fear me? my

49:12

queen, as you should,

49:14

shilling as

49:16

all of the

49:16

tribes of Dakota should fear us. From

49:20

the

49:20

birds in the

49:21

sky to the bears in the

49:23

green expanse, the rams

49:25

simply want to be left

49:27

alone with their toys and wheels and contraptions

49:29

and trinkets. The age when

49:32

they were warriors is long past.

49:36

Our

49:36

scouting party was outnumbered myth were no

49:38

match. We do not

49:40

allow

49:40

our enemies to shape

49:43

us, but act to shape

49:45

them. There is rumor that Aaron's

49:47

son calls for war,

49:49

that he

49:51

longs for their

49:53

warrior day. Their

49:56

warrior days were marked by blood

49:58

and failure. We

50:00

are the true warriors of the Dakota.

50:03

what

50:03

says the shaman.

50:07

the

50:08

shaman. A

50:10

distant

50:10

wing a distant horn.

50:12

The gathering storm

50:13

froze inside her,

50:16

belly, death

50:17

from below. The water

50:19

black with the skin of the ancients, black with the eyes

50:21

of the dead,

50:22

the lips, the poison.

50:28

There

50:28

is danger in the damage. As

50:30

there is danger in the edges

50:32

of the night each time we sleep, But

50:34

the queen is

50:35

wise, not to give in to an

50:37

urge to cower with her hides. I

50:39

think the opening. No one wants

50:41

us to cower. just

50:43

not ride into a war when

50:45

we're started. The shaman

50:48

speak a war. Different than

50:51

any we have known is coming.

50:53

The old prophecies will come

50:55

to pass. We must prepare we

50:57

must prepare our

51:00

blades and the very ground threatens to open

51:02

a new death, a new world, a

51:04

seed is growing in the mountains

51:06

and wicked,

51:08

a

51:08

new like you see.

51:10

The shaman herself speaks

51:12

of the importance of the mountains and the

51:14

battle that

51:15

may come. We will are you?

51:17

I call you.

51:18

Could it be so?

51:20

That's my car

51:24

to the clothes. Like the fires. The

51:26

hunt is upon us.

51:28

Come. We must ready the packs.

51:29

Get your

51:32

planes ready. tonight, we eat, yes, mother. We need

51:34

to get you to the packs. They'll want to

51:36

hear from their queen before setting out. You

51:38

see

51:38

Azera. the

51:40

best days of our people are ahead. But

51:42

the wolf smiles upon us.

51:45

Yes, mother. My queen, the call

51:47

is from the west. That means

51:50

the bears able to have it than hers. Your horse Azera.

51:52

I'll see you in the morning. We'll

51:54

share the best meat and a cup of

51:57

fresh blood. I'll make ready

51:59

my plate. In

52:17

the morning

52:20

will be

52:22

your horse. She's here. But

52:25

why is No. Yes,

52:28

brother. No. No.

52:38

Hunter,

52:43

you stand before your

52:45

queen and the spirit

52:47

of the great blood runs through us

52:50

all. Do you fear

52:51

it? You are

52:54

the

52:55

fiercest of our people.

52:57

I was once one of

53:00

you. You must be the

53:02

animal you are hunting.

53:04

You must die its death

53:06

along with it. feel

53:08

it's life kicking and wailing out

53:10

of its body as you

53:11

plunge in the spear. Cut

53:13

out the heart. Our people

53:16

are hungry.

53:17

There hasn't been a hunting

53:19

month that we need

53:22

to feast. Will you end your people's

53:24

story? We will. The

53:26

scout say the

53:26

herd is thin but fast

53:30

and for They are desperate. They're

53:32

still alive. They'll be

53:34

fighting hard. They've grown

53:36

clever and wily in their

53:38

desperation. Last

53:41

hunt, we lost good warriors, keep going

53:43

and stampede. But if

53:45

you find and

53:48

killed the alpha, chaos will run through the herd and they'll be

53:51

easy killing. Anyone who brings

53:53

me the head of

53:54

the alpha a rich

53:56

reward of their labor.

53:59

You are the daughters of

54:02

death and kill eyes of the

54:04

plane. No person

54:06

shall no fear until they stand

54:10

debora. you're

54:12

ready. Use the cloak

54:14

of night and make your

54:16

people cry.

54:27

they must not be less

54:30

covered. Hide

54:31

using the rhythm

54:33

of

54:33

their stamping. shift your step.

54:38

Now,

54:38

tonight

54:42

cruise. Isn't

54:48

it amazing?

54:48

to the hunt here. I can't

54:50

believe him out here with you. If

54:53

they catches out here,

54:54

Kai can slit our throats.

54:57

The elders forbid non hunter

54:59

left. I'm sick of living just to

55:01

live. I wanna live. There hasn't been

55:03

a night hoax since I've been alive. They're

55:05

not disturbing for blind boy and

55:07

a girl who rides by her new. The moon is barely

55:10

sliver. It'll take a lot

55:12

to even find the alpha let alone kill her.

55:14

It'll take all we have. Maybe even her

55:16

last breath. So be

55:17

it. And

55:18

with that last

55:20

breath, I'll say. I

55:22

am a sarah. God of

55:25

the hunt and all

55:27

thou know me.

55:39

Birds of

55:42

Empire

55:42

stars Bianca Norwood as Azera.

55:45

Gwendolyn Riley Strand as the

55:47

keeper, Mac Dolacey

55:48

as Raza, Andrew Weiner

55:50

as Yaffa, Heidi Kwan as Kaya,

55:52

Michelle Bonilla,

55:53

Aznara, Candice Edmonston

55:55

as Riel, with

55:57

additional performances by Carolina

55:59

Hoyos, Chris Watkins, Mashari

56:02

Bain, Sharon Muthu,

56:04

written and directed by Jason Liu.

56:06

Executive produced by Jason Liu, Rob Harding, Sandra Yealink,

56:09

Michelle Zarate, and Shenian

56:11

Hu. Co executive producer,

56:14

Bianca Norwood. Story consultant

56:16

Quinn Perry, original score and

56:18

composition by Darren Johnson

56:20

and Matthew Carcenty. Music

56:23

editor David Tadashore, Audio Engineering by Ryan Walsh and

56:25

David Tadashore, edited by Nealy

56:28

Offtering. Additional editor,

56:30

Jeffrey Fedig,

56:31

Supervising Sound Effects editor and Sound

56:33

Designer Randy

56:34

Torres, followed by Dan O'Connell,

56:36

one step up, mixed by Ben

56:39

Milchiff, additional mixer, Alex Chuck, casting director,

56:41

Chrissy Furelli, assistant director,

56:43

Kelsey Adams, script supervisor,

56:46

Beth Ann

56:48

Morgan. Production

56:48

coordinator Tom Breck, head production assistant, Alex

56:51

Buda, production assistant,

56:52

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56:54

post coordinator, Emma Jacobson, production

56:57

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57:00

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57:00

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57:02

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57:04

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