Wolf Trouble: Chapters 6&7

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Passages contains graphic and explicit sexual content. Listener discretion is advised.
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Welcome.
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Oh yeah, welcome.
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To Passages. Passages!
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There's never been a female on the Dallas SWAT team.
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Special wolf alpha team.
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And Xander Riggs prefers it that way.
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But Khaki Blake is no ordinary woman.
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Wolf woman.
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This season of Passages is very serious.
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We are all in trouble. Wolf trouble.
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Passages. Passages.
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I'm ready. I don't know what Robert's doing. He's messing
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around and googling stupid stuff on his phone nobody cares about.
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Something about a button factory. Hi. Hi. My name is Joe.
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My name is Robbie. Aaron? Yeah?
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Do you work at a button factory?
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Not currently.
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Do you have a wife, a dog, and a family?
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No.
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Then push the button with your right hand.
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Uh, no thank you. Hi.
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Hi.
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Oh, there's something in my nose.
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It's your nose ring.
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No, other side. I guess it goes through both.
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Well, in the middle. And there's one on the other side.
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In the middle.
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In the middle. Have we told that story?
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Oh, yeah, we did. I just listened to it on passages.
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Speaking of, you texted me. You texted passages yesterday.
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I did.
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Some questions. And I want to know, does this mean
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you're also re-listening to puppets?
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Oh, yeah.
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Because it's amazing.
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I think the question I asked was, have I ever
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sounded more manic than during episode one of Puppets? Like,
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I sound like I... Maybe episode one of the whole show.
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The glee you had at the launch of Puppets is
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kind of unmatched.
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I was so happy. Yeah.
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It's incredible.
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I think it's just, it was the... Full-throated audacity. Audacity,
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it's a word that, like, Steph and I have been
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talking about a lot when we talk about, like, what
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is it that makes something bad fun? Because there's so
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bad it's good, and then there's can't be fun bad,
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aware of itself bad. But there's that awful no man's
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land of the like Sharknado kind of stuff where it's like, oh,
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we're bad. You know? But then there's this other thing
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that we've been trying to, that is bad and it
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is unenjoyable, but it is kind of transfixing.
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No, it's not unenjoyable.
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For me, it's unenjoyable. But it's like transfixing because of
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the sheer fucking audacity of the presentation. Like we were
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watching Under Paris. And the way... Oh, God. The way
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that it just says things so wrong about reality, logic,
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but it says it with such, like, a full... Like,
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what did you say? Being wrong with your whole chest.
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With your whole chest. That's that. That is... And I
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think that's kind of where we're at with Wolf Trouble.
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Is these episodes... Or these two chapters that I read
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have crossed over into... audacious. Oh, like, like I do
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roll my eyes and I do go like, I don't
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have to skip all this. It's so boring. And like,
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there is our few moments like that, but I think
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we've gotten into the story. I think things actually happen.
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Oh fuck.
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Yeah. It's not just them yiffing and sniffing each other.
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So some shit starts to go down, both character development
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wise and plot and action wise.
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Okay.
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So shit starts to happen. Um, So before we find
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out what happens next, let's... Aaron. Let's go back and
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find out what happened last week.
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Remind us what happened in your episode, because.
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Other than sniffing khaki.
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Oh, God, what happened?
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Sniffing where she sat on the bench, which was... Yeah,
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last week... Khaki sweaty ass prints. Yeah, Xander... In the
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locker room.
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Yeah, it's hard not to interpret it that way. Thought
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about his boner a lot.
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He did, and he will again.
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How he could smell her on that bench.
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Mm-hmm. Uh, and then they did some training and we
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got the sexy training montage.
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Haki wasn't able to do it in the dark because
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she can't.
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Oh, she doesn't have her night vision yet. Oh, and
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didn't she shoot a hostage?
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A paintball shot a hostage in the fake scenario.
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She failed and kind of got yelled at.
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She went home and her shitty ex-boyfriend was there oh.
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Yeah she cussed.
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Him out he's scary and then after that her there
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was blood on her fingers.
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Right oh because her little her little.
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Claws an unintentional she had her finger period nail ejaculation
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well that's what she thinks happened we don't actually know
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what happened but it is then there's.
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No way it's not that to talk to mac mac oh.
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Yeah to be like help me how do i.
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Phase stuff and she's like i don't know i'm just
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a girl but you can't talk.
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To the alpha about it She went to.
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Talk to the one non-werewolf in the story about wolf stuff.
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She doesn't have that many friends yet.
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And then Mac was like, you should really talk to Xander.
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Yeah, don't be alone with the alpha, the guy who
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brought you into this mess, because that's my man. You
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stay the fuck away from my man. I mean, there
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wasn't anything like that. She didn't really seem to be.
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I was like, what?
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Robert thinks that's what's happening.
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No, I injected that because I just desperately want there
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to be anything funny to happen.
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I think Mac floated talking to Gage.
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Yeah.
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But she was like too embarrassed. I don't want the
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alpha to know that I can't shift.
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Yeah, she was like worried because he recruited her and
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he didn't want her to. him to think that he
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had made a mistake.
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Right.
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Right.
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So then she's like, all right. So yeah, honestly, your
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only option really.
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Yeah. If you're having a problem in this sort of scenario,
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you go to your squad leader, you go to your
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like manager or the person, not two steps above you.
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The hierarchy is supposed to work. And so, and so
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she's like, fine, I guess I'll talk to him for
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the first time ever.
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And yeah. Thinking he hates her. Yeah. But she's like, fine,
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we can just, I'll just try and keep it professional. Yeah.
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Oh, but I will slide off my chair.
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Oh, no. And then she does.
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Her nipples get hard.
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Probably. All six rows. All six of them. Ew, ew.
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Does she have extra?
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She better get rows.
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Do they come out when she gets angry, like her clouds?
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I think that they should. I think you should have
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extra nipples.
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Nub and tail.
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Yeah, nub and tail, like nipples. Come on. If you're
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going to be a wolf, be a wolf.
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So you want to go full body horror fantasy. Yeah,
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but I don't want you to become a dog.
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I want you, like, okay.
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No, a hybrid.
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Like on The Boys, for example.
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The shit TV show?
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Each of their pecs has a nipple, but then like
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each ab square. Each ab square also gets a nipple.
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Also gets a nipple.
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When they phase. Yeah, when they shift.
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And they have to have, they all have to wear
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jock straps.
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And their balls get really big.
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Ew. I don't think that's a thing.
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No, but I do like the idea that their dick
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turns into, like, the dog lipstick.
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Ew!
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I really like that.
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Fucking so nasty. I really like that a lot. That's gross.
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That's so gross and funny.
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That's so gross. And you know what? It's gross enough
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that it has to be a thing in the, like, more, like,
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Omegaverse side. It's out there.
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It's been fan-fixed.
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Which it seems like the Omegaverse has split into, like,
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werewolf fiction, but also, like, human mutant fiction, where it's
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more about, like, I hear it called as a secondary gender.
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So like I'm male or female, but then I also
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am an alpha beta or an Omega. And like the
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Omegas are like male that can get pregnant and they
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all like emit pheromones that. Oh my God.
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In Teen Wolf when Derek is like, There's an alpha
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out there and we're betas.
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And Amanda goes, yeah, you are. So, yeah, what we
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should probably say is that while I was reading the
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two chapters of Wolf Trouble, Amanda and Aaron were listening
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or watching a much superior werewolf fiction.
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Well, and then after this, we're going to watch Eclipse.
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So we're going to have more wolves.
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Oh, no. We are really immersing ourselves in the woof.
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It's woof-over. It's Hoa Hoa season. It's Hoa Hoa woof-over.
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And you bought all the Twilight movies.
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God damn. Okay, they were on sale.
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Okay, but he will not admit this on mic.
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No.
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But he did say the other day that I couldn't
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watch the third one because it's his favorite.
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No, I didn't say that.
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Yes, he did.
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That is not accurate. I said I like Cuck Tent.
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You said you wanted to watch it with me. No,
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I didn't. So I didn't watch it.
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I didn't say that.
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Yes, you did. You.
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Everybody, mark my words.
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Oh, yeah, you're a very reliable.
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I'm a reliable narrator.
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All right.
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Okay, is that all that happened, Aaron?
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Yes. Sadly, yes.
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All right, let's talk to Xander Riggs.
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Much more happens here in the next two chapters, I'm
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excited to say.
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Does she grow her personality? penis?
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No, she doesn't grow a penis. She grows a disgusting
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wolf gina. I do think that all the boys should
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have to wear jockstraps because their tails come out and
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they're like, they're bad. legs bend backwards. Their hinders. Their
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hinders get all yiffy and squiggly. So that's the only
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part of it we get. We get a lot of
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squiggly nethers in this.
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Okay.
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All right. So Kaki goes to Xander's apartment and stands
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outside the door like a chicken. Just stand. I just
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love picturing her outside his door.
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Why does she go to his house?
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Talk to him at work. His apartment. No, she goes
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to his fucking home. This is already weird. She lifted
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her hand and knocked. He might not even be home.
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Maybe she should have called first.
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Yeah, make an appointment to talk to him about this
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at work.
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No, no.
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Send a Google Meet request.
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No, go to his house and stare at his door
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in the dark. Freak out. And go like this.
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Rub your leavings all over the doorknob.
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He'll smell you.
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I know.
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He'll be like, Kaki.
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Kaki was here.
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Kaki rubbed her leavings here. Kaki.
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That's not his voice.
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Kaki. She weft her weavings here.
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Kaki weft her weavings here.
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Get pissed. Call the police. Call the police. All right,
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I'm back in the voice. I'm back in the voice.
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Get in. All right, so she lifts her hand and knocks.
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She was just about to knock again when the door opened,
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she blinked. The speech she'd rehearsed on the way over
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disappearing at the sight of Xander. He was wearing jeans
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and a t-shirt that showed off his well-muscled biceps.
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Oh my god.
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They were so mesmerizing. She could barely take her eyes
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off of them. Kaki, what are you doing here? Can
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I come in?
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I brought you some cookies and bars. I brought you bars.
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Fucking bars.
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Made you a hot dish and bars. Thought I'd welcome
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myself to the team.
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I just wanted to welcome myself to the team with
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a nice hot dish. Corn casserole and bars.
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Look, I arranged the tater tots in a wolf shape.
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You like that? Isn't that festive? Is that hot? That's hot.
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You wanna fuck me? Does that make you hot?
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Oh, you getting hot?
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Are you hot for my sneal? Oh, you smell my sneal?
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It's wet. Can you smell it? Okay, okay. Can I
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come in? Yeah, yeah, sure. So she remarks that there's
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like very little decor in his place. It's very like
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serial killer man cave. Yeah. It's just like got like
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a well-worn couch, nothing on the walls. He's just a
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gross loner. And a TV with the like baseball game playing.
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With a sport ball.
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With a sport ball playing, but it's muted. Baseball game on.
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And then she's like, it was, the smell hits her.
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It's like being immersed in a bottle of Xander scented cologne.
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It actually made it hard to breathe without drooling at least.
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So then they have this super fucking awkward, like stand
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and stare at each other. Derp, derp, derp, kind of
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back and forth. And then she's finally like, I know
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you don't like me very much. And he's like, what
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makes you think I don't like you? Had he seriously
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just asked her that? She let out a snort. I
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may be new to this werewolf thing, but my ears
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work just fine.
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Oh.
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I heard you told Sergeant Dixon the first day I
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arrived about not wanting me on your squad.
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Yeah.
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Since then, you've made the feelings pretty obvious. Oh, yeah.
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Yeah, he's cold.
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And she's like, let's just agree. So he's like, and
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then she just moves on. Let's just agree to not
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get into that right now, okay? I didn't come over
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here to talk about why you hate women caps or
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whatever your issue is with me. I came because I
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could use your help. And then Xander, instead of interrogating
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what she just said at all, goes, up with what?
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So she finds herself kind of, unbiddenly kind of spilling
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her guts to him a little bit. And, and eventually,
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and tells him about Xander and Xander Xander, sorry, Xander
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about Jeremy showing up the X. Okay. And then Xander says,
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did he hurt you to him? Um, so he interrupts
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even before she gets to the part about her nails bleeding. Um,
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khaki did a double take at the vehemence and Xander's voice.
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He looks so furious. He probably would have snapped Jeremy's
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neck if her ex had been there.
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God, I can't wait to see that play out, because
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it will.
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No, and Jeremy isn't why I'm here anyway. Okay. And
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then he tells her, or she tells him, I've never
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shifted before. You've never shifted? Not even by accident? I
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thought maybe female werewolves didn't shift. Hmm. Xander shook his head.
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I'm not the authority on female werewolves, but from what
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Gage has told me, you can do anything a male
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werewolf can do. I can't even see in the dark,
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much less cut loose with all the claws and stuff
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like you guys can. Wanted to tell me this sooner.
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And then she raises a brow and he's like, all right,
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because I've been.
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Being a dick to you and you thought I hated you.
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And he asks her, like, how did you do so
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well in the House of Doors? And she tells him
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about how she just uses her sniffer. And he's, like,
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super blown away that she can do that.
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Can huff like that.
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You actually can pinpoint a person at a precise location
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in a room purely by sense of smell? Enough to
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shoot them, I mean? Well, I actually not very well.
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I did hit Becker. Barely. Yeah. You barely killed the hostage.
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You barely killed the hostage. It was one time.
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You would suck at killing hostages.
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And it doesn't really matter anyway. At least not when
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you have a pinball gun. We all have good noses,
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but none of us can smell our way through a
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dark womb. It's freaking incredible.
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Oh my God. I love it.
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So he like hypes her up.
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Yeah.
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And she's like, oh, fucking shit. I can't believe you
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just complimented me. He does like me. And he asked
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her more about it. And she's like, talks about how
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she can pick up every scent and remember it forever.
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And he's like, whoa, that's even more freaking incredible than
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sniffing your way through a dark room. Okay, okay, okay.
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I think.
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What did you just say? That's even more incredible than
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sniffing your way through a dark room.
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Yeah, he's just super impressed. And that's how he says it.
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That's even more incredible.
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That's even more incredible than sniffing your way through a
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dark room. That's how he says it. And she's like,
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you think my nose is good? Oh, gal. Hey, gal.
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Tell me more about how good my nose is.
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What else do you like about my sniffer?
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You like anything lower than my nose?
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Maybe I could stuff my sniffer somewhere and get a whiff.
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She starts licking her own crotch.
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Like a dog. Turn around, let me get a good whiff.
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Stanky old deed. All right.
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Ahem.
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Okay, so he's like, he's like, you're so amazing. You're
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fucking awesome. You're so cool. We're going to be, you're
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going to be such a benefit to the team. And
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then she gets this image of them like leading her
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around like a bloodhound. And she's like, oh, I don't
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know if I like that, but whatever. I'm just happy
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to be useful. And she doesn't want him to tell
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The pack.
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That she can't shift.
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That she can't shift. She's like, I don't want them
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to know. And he's like, that's fine, but you really...
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That's fine with me, but you really don't have to
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hide this stuff from the pack. We've all been through
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it to a... Sorry. It is funny how the voice
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just does seem perfect.
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I know.
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Like... Just the way he's just so like.
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It's because the lines are written. This is so badly written.
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It's so tropey. It's so obvious. So duh, duh. That
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it kind of comes across that way.
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And also it just is badly written.
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Yes, obviously. I mean, that is my opinion as well.
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So he's like going to sit her down and teach
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her how to shift. And by teach her. More or
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less run her through like a meditation. Okay. Because he's like,
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the first thing you have to do is relax.
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Focus.
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Is relax.
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Oh, wait.
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Relax. So she closes her eyes and he starts like
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running her through this guided meditation. Like you're running through
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a forest. Imagine the wind in your hair, the sun
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on your skin, all that stuff. She's just giving her
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this like kind of relaxation. And then... Now you feel
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yourself fall onto all fours. And then she resists. She's like,
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I can't. I can't.
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Yes, you can, bitch.
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Yes, you can, bitch, Xander said. His cold voice suddenly
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gazed out. And then the sun is going down now.
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Xander whispered, his mouth only inches from her ear.
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His mouth never closing.
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Yeah. You're in the woods now.
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The sun is going down.
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The sun is going down. Yeah, so he has gotten
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really close to her, apparently. Sudden lack of imagined sunlight
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and warmth caressing the sensitive skin on her shoulders and neck.
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It's dark now. but you can see as clearly as
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if it was bright daylight. You're running through the dark,
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able to see every tree and rock and leaf around you.
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It's amazing.
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Very Twilight, very Cullen.
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Yes, yeah, this is obviously all pulled from the same well.
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Told God the treadmill's in the woods!
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Mm-hmm.
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Now get on your woa skates and swide, baby. So, Amanda.
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Yeah.
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How do you feel about capitalism? Ads. She opens her eyes.
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Xander's sitting in the same spot as before. As hard
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as it was to tear away her gaze from his,
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she couldn't resist looking down to see if her claws
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had popped out. She's disappointed that they hadn't. but then
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she realizes that he had some surreptitiously turned off the
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lights while they were meditating. Oh, the room should have
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been completely dark, but it wasn't. She could see, she
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could see everything from the subtle colors of the rug.
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She was sitting on to the finest features of the
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hunky guy who seemed to be regarding her with amusement,
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twinkling in his gold eyes. Oh, I can see.
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Are his eyes always gold or only when.
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He's, I think it's like a night vision filter. Okay.
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I think they, they twinkle gold. When the night vision
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filter goes on, I can see I didn't do anything.
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Oh no, you didn't do anything, but you let something happen. Oh,
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so he, he says this multiple times throughout the scene.
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He's talking about, um, how the wolf is a natural
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part of you. And so forcing it out doesn't happen. Um,
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But when you relax into it and just sort of
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naturally accept it, like when it can pass into your
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autonomic functions, a word that is not used in the book,
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then it'll happen. But it can also be triggered by
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getting angry. So it sort of contradicts. It seems like
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you could werewolf out by... kind of hulking, like Victor Frankenstein,
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or not Frankenstein, Jekyll and Hyde-ing, like getting mad and
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having that do it. But the way the good guys
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do it is they just relax and chill into it.
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Yeah, and it probably, in the long run, allows for
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more control because if you can just get to know
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your natural abilities and what kind of coaxes them, what
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triggers them, then you can.
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Rely on doing it that way rather than just getting
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pissed and reacting to it. Which they do– the next
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scene is like kind of an action scene and– It
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does still seem like the guys are always, like, one step,
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one moment away from, like.
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Killing everyone.
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Fucking killing everyone around them. So, I don't think they're
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all really very good at this, but that is maybe
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the idea. Okay. Is to try to be a zen,
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kind of. More zen, kind of.
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Yeah, it's like breathing. You can think about it and
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control your breathing when you need to do that. That's
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such a pain in the ass. But otherwise, it's just
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gonna kind of do its thing.
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Yeah.
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Until you need to focus on it and, like, use
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that ability or whatever.
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Yeah. So... So she's like super happy kid on Christmas morning.
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She's freaking out, giggling. She gets up and bounces around
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the apartment and then like jumps onto his bed and
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is like jumping up and down on his bed and
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then is like, oh, fuck. Because the smell that comes
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up off of his bed hits her right in the puss.
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When she found herself in his bedroom, her laugh turned
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into something lower and more animalistic.
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Jesus Christ.
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I'm just picturing what that would actually sound like.
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No, that's exactly what happened.
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As the overwhelming scent coming from his big bed told
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her that Xander Riggs slept in it completely naked.
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Oh, it was big blue balls hanging out.
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Big blue bare butt balls and back hanging out. Nothing
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else could explain how completely his scent blended with the sheets.
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So.
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I get what she's saying.
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Yeah, but it just sounds like you're in a reeking, like,
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college boy dorm.
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Yes, but what it sounds like you're saying.
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Old pennies stuck to his sheets. Why are there always
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pennies in teenage boy's sheets?
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Weed resin crumbled all over the fucking side of the bed.
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One of his blankets was really hard. Yeah, it just
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sounds like. Like, you'd walk into that room and be like, ugh. Yeah, stank.
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Because out of werewolf context, I can tell you sleep naked,
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and I can tell you sat here are fucking nasty. Now,
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00:24:32.369 --> 00:24:35.230
I know that it's, like, beyond our range of scent,
497
00:24:35.730 --> 00:24:38.109
but it is not beyond their range of scent. And
498
00:24:38.150 --> 00:24:41.950
now you are, like, yuffing his fucking bedsheets. He loves it.
499
00:24:42.170 --> 00:24:48.009
And he's like, this is... Give it that spice I like.
500
00:24:48.029 --> 00:24:51.990
This is stank enough that his balls must touch these sheets.
501
00:24:52.019 --> 00:24:56.220
All right, so that's what happens. That's what happens next.
502
00:24:57.000 --> 00:25:03.799
Ignoring the urge to bury her nose in their softness,
503
00:25:03.940 --> 00:25:06.440
Kaki turned and ran to the living room before she
504
00:25:06.460 --> 00:25:09.930
could think too much about Xander's naked body, his bed,
505
00:25:10.210 --> 00:25:11.809
and what it would be like to be wrapped up
506
00:25:11.869 --> 00:25:12.430
in both.
507
00:25:12.630 --> 00:25:13.150
I have a question.
508
00:25:14.420 --> 00:25:15.430
Oh, God, I hope I can answer that.
509
00:25:15.440 --> 00:25:18.849
So I was re-listening... Well, listening to episode one from
510
00:25:18.869 --> 00:25:21.289
this book, which I'm going to have to do every
511
00:25:21.309 --> 00:25:24.349
week because I can't remember what happens in this book
512
00:25:24.390 --> 00:25:33.450
because I fucking hate it. But Xander... knows about the one,
513
00:25:33.710 --> 00:25:36.849
like the werewolf. You talk about that in the first chapter.
514
00:25:36.930 --> 00:25:37.190
Yeah.
515
00:25:37.230 --> 00:25:40.339
They're aware of this soulmate connection.
516
00:25:40.359 --> 00:25:43.240
But he said he doesn't really believe in that.
517
00:25:43.460 --> 00:25:44.039
That's true.
518
00:25:44.140 --> 00:25:46.460
Okay, but he's aware of the lore.
519
00:25:46.480 --> 00:25:48.339
So how does that not cross his mind yet? It's
520
00:25:48.359 --> 00:25:51.619
like how you and I don't really believe in ghosts,
521
00:25:51.720 --> 00:25:53.369
but we are aware of ghosts.
522
00:25:53.509 --> 00:25:55.470
I kind of believe in ghosts.
523
00:25:55.549 --> 00:25:58.450
It's like how I don't really believe in, and Aaron
524
00:25:58.470 --> 00:26:01.420
doesn't really believe in ghosts. But we are very aware
525
00:26:01.480 --> 00:26:01.960
of ghosts.
526
00:26:02.059 --> 00:26:03.579
I a little bit do believe in ghosts.
527
00:26:03.640 --> 00:26:08.039
Oh my god. So if... Stuff is creepy. Stuff is creepy.
528
00:26:08.079 --> 00:26:10.640
And I'm, you know, I'm agnostic. I can't say no
529
00:26:10.660 --> 00:26:12.460
to anything. You can't prove a negative or whatever.
530
00:26:13.079 --> 00:26:13.259
And.
531
00:26:14.039 --> 00:26:17.130
But I am aware of ghosts. To the degree that
532
00:26:17.210 --> 00:26:21.880
if I started being haunted, I'd probably go, huh, this
533
00:26:21.950 --> 00:26:23.259
sure seems like ghosts.
534
00:26:23.299 --> 00:26:26.140
Yeah, yeah. Ghosts that I've heard of so many times,
535
00:26:26.160 --> 00:26:29.240
but I never really believed in. Wait, maybe is it real?
536
00:26:29.460 --> 00:26:32.579
Yeah, my furniture is moving around unbidden, so maybe ghosts.
537
00:26:32.599 --> 00:26:33.250
But also, like....
538
00:26:35.170 --> 00:26:41.109
They're heightened werewolf smells, and he didn't know female werewolves
539
00:26:41.250 --> 00:26:43.849
existed like a week ago.
540
00:26:44.250 --> 00:26:46.410
But he's noticed that the other guys.
541
00:26:46.150 --> 00:26:49.380
Are reacting to that. Yes, we are getting it.
542
00:26:49.380 --> 00:26:52.039
He's noticed that he's the only one who's going this crazy.
543
00:26:52.059 --> 00:26:54.559
Exactly. None of the other guys are behaving weird.
544
00:26:54.960 --> 00:26:58.380
Right, but I'm just saying, like, if you were being haunted,
545
00:26:58.539 --> 00:27:01.859
but it was just like, When I go into this room,
546
00:27:01.960 --> 00:27:06.460
I get a weird, like, electrical tingle or something. Your
547
00:27:06.529 --> 00:27:10.789
mind wouldn't necessarily go to, oh, that's a ghost.
548
00:27:11.410 --> 00:27:14.309
Sure, but this feels like a lot more than a
549
00:27:14.390 --> 00:27:19.900
little electrical tingle. What they are both experiencing, it makes
550
00:27:19.920 --> 00:27:21.940
perfect sense to me that she has no clue why
551
00:27:21.960 --> 00:27:24.299
this is happening. She's just horned up. She's a brand
552
00:27:24.319 --> 00:27:27.819
new wolf. But he knows about the lore. He's had
553
00:27:27.900 --> 00:27:32.619
conversations with Gage Pinkerton or whatever his fucking name is.
554
00:27:32.660 --> 00:27:35.900
If he's in denial, I could believe that he is
555
00:27:35.980 --> 00:27:41.319
just like, oh, shit, I have a crazy attraction to
556
00:27:41.339 --> 00:27:41.859
this person.
557
00:27:42.099 --> 00:27:44.160
I just think it's bad writing.
558
00:27:44.240 --> 00:27:46.000
Yes, because you're... That it hasn't.
559
00:27:45.680 --> 00:27:49.970
Even crossed his mind, having already discussed it. We have
560
00:27:50.029 --> 00:27:52.789
established that this is a thing in the wolf community
561
00:27:53.329 --> 00:27:54.509
that he is aware of.
562
00:27:54.650 --> 00:27:55.950
And he's behaving differently.
563
00:27:55.970 --> 00:27:57.470
And it hasn't even crossed his mind.
564
00:27:57.490 --> 00:27:59.769
And he's behaving differently than the rest of the pack.
565
00:27:59.990 --> 00:28:03.039
So is Tyler Perry or whoever wrote this.
566
00:28:03.160 --> 00:28:03.680
Tyler Perry.
567
00:28:04.180 --> 00:28:08.490
Trying to set us up? Tyler Perry is... Madea's wolf trouble.
568
00:28:08.549 --> 00:28:11.950
Yeah, Madea's wolf trouble. Special wolf alpha team. Madea's wolf trouble.
569
00:28:12.049 --> 00:28:13.990
Is she trying to set us up for, like, an
570
00:28:14.049 --> 00:28:16.759
epiphany moment where he believes in the one?
571
00:28:16.990 --> 00:28:18.759
The bullshit writerly reason.
572
00:28:18.799 --> 00:28:20.980
That we shouldn't have got an introduction to the one
573
00:28:21.039 --> 00:28:22.660
in chapter the one.
574
00:28:22.960 --> 00:28:26.960
Also, it was... This is book two in the series. So, like,
575
00:28:27.019 --> 00:28:29.900
we already know about it from book one. So, like.
576
00:28:29.920 --> 00:28:32.640
Because that's another theory I have. And I have this
577
00:28:32.660 --> 00:28:36.569
theory about Chuck Tingle. I think that having read several.
578
00:28:37.049 --> 00:28:37.289
Yeah.
579
00:28:37.630 --> 00:28:41.170
Tinglers now. It's a Mad Lib. I think that she
580
00:28:41.250 --> 00:28:45.369
has a list of standard structures that she can pop
581
00:28:45.390 --> 00:28:47.730
these insane names into.
582
00:28:47.750 --> 00:28:48.150
Yeah.
583
00:28:48.390 --> 00:28:50.319
And that's how she can churn out books.
584
00:28:50.650 --> 00:28:50.859
Yeah.
585
00:28:51.230 --> 00:28:54.200
Because if it's not without using AI, because she's been
586
00:28:54.220 --> 00:28:55.920
doing this longer than generative AI.
587
00:28:55.960 --> 00:28:59.400
To do this that many times, that quickly.
588
00:28:59.500 --> 00:29:02.099
I think she has templates of her own creation. Right.
589
00:29:02.519 --> 00:29:05.619
She has a pattern that she probably likes, like a
590
00:29:05.660 --> 00:29:06.299
serial killer.
591
00:29:06.539 --> 00:29:06.660
Mm-hmm.
592
00:29:07.920 --> 00:29:08.019
Yeah.
593
00:29:08.039 --> 00:29:11.119
Okay, cool. So I just had to talk about anything
594
00:29:11.769 --> 00:29:12.650
interesting for a second.
595
00:29:12.750 --> 00:29:14.990
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think that you're right that the
596
00:29:15.089 --> 00:29:20.130
meta reasons are the meta reasons. Um, but I think
597
00:29:20.170 --> 00:29:22.109
we can give a little bit of grace to the, like,
598
00:29:22.150 --> 00:29:24.109
he just thinks he's super horny for her cause she's
599
00:29:24.130 --> 00:29:26.319
the first female werewolf he's ever met. Sure. But it
600
00:29:26.380 --> 00:29:27.819
doesn't make sense that he would be like, why aren't
601
00:29:27.839 --> 00:29:29.960
the other guys like this? Like what's wrong with me? Um,
602
00:29:31.690 --> 00:29:33.470
But then he gets a good look at her eyes,
603
00:29:33.490 --> 00:29:36.900
and he's breathtaking. Oh, man. Her eyes are different.
604
00:29:36.980 --> 00:29:37.849
They're brown.
605
00:29:38.009 --> 00:29:42.970
Her eyes are green, gorgeous. compared to other werewolves who
606
00:29:43.009 --> 00:29:43.549
are yellow.
607
00:29:44.109 --> 00:29:45.410
She's not like other werewolves.
608
00:29:45.430 --> 00:29:48.269
Do you think they're, do you think they're okay? Of
609
00:29:49.930 --> 00:29:53.089
course they're okay. They're just unique. Like you sit down.
610
00:29:53.109 --> 00:29:55.809
Oh, so he's made a comment about her eyes, how
611
00:29:55.849 --> 00:29:56.690
her eyes are different.
612
00:29:56.769 --> 00:29:56.950
Okay.
613
00:29:56.990 --> 00:29:58.430
Sit down. I'll show you how to back out of
614
00:29:58.450 --> 00:30:04.019
the process. Um, So she meditates her way back out
615
00:30:04.119 --> 00:30:07.400
of the eye shift. And she's so happy that she
616
00:30:07.440 --> 00:30:10.680
grabs Xander's hand. And his hand is warm.
617
00:30:10.720 --> 00:30:11.880
Shoves it down her pants.
618
00:30:12.380 --> 00:30:15.960
And calloused. And it's so big compared to hers. And
619
00:30:16.059 --> 00:30:19.579
her breath hitched. And his gold eyes flared. So they
620
00:30:19.599 --> 00:30:23.319
have this, like, moment. But then she, like, pulls her
621
00:30:23.359 --> 00:30:26.630
hand away. And she's like, teach me something else. And...
622
00:30:29.279 --> 00:30:31.019
He doesn't want to push it too hard because apparently
623
00:30:31.059 --> 00:30:35.200
shifting can be really tiring when you're new to it.
624
00:30:35.279 --> 00:30:37.279
She's got training to do tomorrow.
625
00:30:37.319 --> 00:30:39.079
But she asks if he can show her how to
626
00:30:39.119 --> 00:30:42.259
do the claws. And he goes, claws are a few
627
00:30:42.380 --> 00:30:45.059
rungs up the ladder from night vision. They can be
628
00:30:45.119 --> 00:30:52.299
tough if you're tired. She's super disappointed. And she's like, meh.
629
00:30:52.339 --> 00:30:56.940
And he's like, okay. He just teaches her anyway. Your
630
00:30:56.960 --> 00:30:59.309
claws are a part of you, like your eyes. You
631
00:30:59.349 --> 00:31:01.710
can't make them come any more than you can make
632
00:31:01.750 --> 00:31:04.450
your legs longer or your hair turn blue. But if
633
00:31:04.470 --> 00:31:07.630
you let them out, they'll be there every time for you. What?
634
00:31:08.549 --> 00:31:12.869
It's the basic rule of werewolf abilities. You have to
635
00:31:12.910 --> 00:31:15.509
be calm and relaxed and allow your inner wolf to
636
00:31:15.569 --> 00:31:18.250
come out. Sometimes claws and fangs will come out if
637
00:31:18.289 --> 00:31:19.109
we're angry.
638
00:31:19.630 --> 00:31:19.950
Angry.
639
00:31:20.190 --> 00:31:28.230
Angry. But that's not control. That's just rage. Um, okay.
640
00:31:28.490 --> 00:31:32.599
So then we get the first like look at her
641
00:31:32.759 --> 00:31:35.539
claws actually coming out. And I just put a bunch
642
00:31:35.579 --> 00:31:38.259
of question marks in because I do not understand it. Okay.
643
00:31:38.440 --> 00:31:43.019
So her claws come out naturally. They weren't bloody at all. Um,
644
00:31:43.579 --> 00:31:45.640
shakes a deep breath. Imagine her nails the way they
645
00:31:45.920 --> 00:31:49.619
always were oval shaped. And then her, she didn't try
646
00:31:49.640 --> 00:31:51.589
to force her claws back into that shape, but simply
647
00:31:51.769 --> 00:31:55.089
saw them that way. As you watch the cause slowly retracted.
648
00:31:55.740 --> 00:31:58.299
It felt strange, but it wasn't painful. How could they
649
00:31:58.339 --> 00:32:03.369
possibly hide themselves in her slender fingers? What was she thinking?
650
00:32:03.450 --> 00:32:05.150
She was a werewolf. None of this is logical. So
651
00:32:05.849 --> 00:32:10.509
the nails seem to, like, literally come out of her fingertips.
652
00:32:10.549 --> 00:32:14.430
Yeah, it seems a lot. I think of, like, cat claws,
653
00:32:14.470 --> 00:32:18.119
except she has, like, a normal nail, a human nail.
654
00:32:18.160 --> 00:32:19.359
And they come out from, like.
655
00:32:19.380 --> 00:32:22.539
The tip. Like, underneath or, like, yeah, like, right here.
656
00:32:22.599 --> 00:32:22.859
Yeah.
657
00:32:22.940 --> 00:32:25.960
Or they, like... Or does the nail itself kind of
658
00:32:26.000 --> 00:32:28.220
like grow out into the claw?
659
00:32:29.039 --> 00:32:29.420
Here's the thing.
660
00:32:29.440 --> 00:32:31.309
And then she sees the nail go back to the
661
00:32:31.349 --> 00:32:31.680
natural nail.
662
00:32:31.769 --> 00:32:35.289
It says both. Oh, good. So I don't know what
663
00:32:35.329 --> 00:32:37.289
to picture because I wrote question mark, question mark. Her
664
00:32:37.329 --> 00:32:42.089
nails change and go inside. So, yeah. So she says like.
665
00:32:42.150 --> 00:32:44.190
Oh, out of her fingertips. So maybe she's watching the
666
00:32:44.289 --> 00:32:47.779
nail grow and it's like there's more nail that's like
667
00:32:47.859 --> 00:32:51.069
hidden that's coming out through the nail bed. And sharpening,
668
00:32:51.109 --> 00:32:52.990
but it's still nails growing outside of her.
669
00:32:53.029 --> 00:32:55.190
That's how I'm picturing it. Yeah, she looked closer at
670
00:32:55.210 --> 00:32:57.359
the nail beds to see that they weren't bloody at all.
671
00:32:58.180 --> 00:33:00.079
So they come out of the nail bed, but then
672
00:33:00.119 --> 00:33:02.940
she also says that they go into her finger. So
673
00:33:02.960 --> 00:33:04.700
I guess it may be from the top of the finger.
674
00:33:04.819 --> 00:33:07.019
The finger is, it's not like the tip, your whole
675
00:33:07.059 --> 00:33:08.480
finger is not just the tippy.
676
00:33:08.759 --> 00:33:08.960
Yeah.
677
00:33:09.319 --> 00:33:12.039
So she's probably like, how is all that stored in
678
00:33:12.200 --> 00:33:14.960
my finger meat? There's so much nail there.
679
00:33:15.200 --> 00:33:18.180
All I have to say is it kind of describes it,
680
00:33:18.660 --> 00:33:21.460
but not in a way that is very clear to me.
681
00:33:21.519 --> 00:33:23.880
So I can't quite picture it. Also, I've always thought
682
00:33:23.900 --> 00:33:26.589
like if just your fingernails got really long, they'd be
683
00:33:26.619 --> 00:33:29.569
really like cantilevered. They'd be really likely to like rip off.
684
00:33:30.430 --> 00:33:33.509
But I don't think that it's just, I think they
685
00:33:33.529 --> 00:33:34.630
probably harden.
686
00:33:35.069 --> 00:33:38.390
And maybe attached to something inside. Because I think that
687
00:33:38.410 --> 00:33:43.349
like animal claws are like, deep in, like, rooted to
688
00:33:43.390 --> 00:33:47.319
the bone. So anyway, this is just weird. And they
689
00:33:47.380 --> 00:33:49.579
aren't fingernails like us with, like, keratin just sitting on
690
00:33:49.619 --> 00:33:51.859
top of your fingy to give you a little tool.
691
00:33:52.440 --> 00:33:56.640
But anyway, so needless to say, I was a little confused,
692
00:33:56.759 --> 00:33:57.960
and I wish I got a little bit of a
693
00:33:57.980 --> 00:34:01.180
better description. But she's super happy because she pulls it off.
694
00:34:01.940 --> 00:34:06.509
You're never going to get better from Tyler Perry.
695
00:34:06.549 --> 00:34:07.789
Tyler Perry, fucking.
696
00:34:07.809 --> 00:34:08.050
Paige Perry.
697
00:34:08.110 --> 00:34:08.750
Paige Perry.
698
00:34:09.650 --> 00:34:13.159
We got there. So my critique is I don't understand
699
00:34:13.219 --> 00:34:17.110
exactly still. But again, I'm thinking it might be described
700
00:34:17.150 --> 00:34:19.920
more clearly in the first book. And then Xander says
701
00:34:19.960 --> 00:34:20.900
they should call it a night.
702
00:34:20.920 --> 00:34:23.480
This first book is doing a lot of heavy lifting
703
00:34:23.500 --> 00:34:26.639
because everything we don't understand, we're like, it's probably perfectly
704
00:34:26.699 --> 00:34:30.260
explained in the first book. But having read any of
705
00:34:30.280 --> 00:34:32.480
the second book, like, no, it's not.
706
00:34:32.500 --> 00:34:34.659
This is not a good writer. You're right. Why am
707
00:34:34.719 --> 00:34:36.710
I giving Tyler Perry the benefit of the doubt?
708
00:34:36.730 --> 00:34:39.789
Giving Mrs. Tyler Perry so much credit.
709
00:34:41.650 --> 00:34:44.269
So then she realizes like how badly she just wants
710
00:34:44.329 --> 00:34:48.090
to stay. and is stalling sit she wants to stay
711
00:34:48.429 --> 00:34:55.099
stay make make kaki stay heal so she wants to
712
00:34:55.139 --> 00:35:00.179
stay she's like having fun being with xander um it's
713
00:35:00.239 --> 00:35:02.219
crazy because just a few hours ago she was sure
714
00:35:02.239 --> 00:35:05.800
he hated her guts she didn't know what had changed
715
00:35:05.889 --> 00:35:07.610
or why he was being so nice to her now
716
00:35:08.019 --> 00:35:10.679
But she wasn't going to complain. He was a gorgeous
717
00:35:10.739 --> 00:35:14.389
guy with a great voice, apparently infinite patience, and a
718
00:35:14.530 --> 00:35:21.590
rocking body that would make any female werewolf growl. Yeah. No.
719
00:35:22.340 --> 00:35:30.139
Erin loves this book. Thanks for taking time to teach
720
00:35:30.159 --> 00:35:32.860
me this stuff, she said, standing up. I know it's
721
00:35:32.909 --> 00:35:37.230
not your normal duty description, but I really appreciate it. Oh, fuck, yeah.
722
00:35:37.269 --> 00:35:39.210
He grinned as he got to his feet. Don't worry
723
00:35:39.250 --> 00:35:43.489
about it. Training you, no matter the subject, is my
724
00:35:43.570 --> 00:35:47.030
most important job. I'm glad you decided to trust me
725
00:35:47.070 --> 00:35:49.349
enough to tell me you needed help. I know we
726
00:35:49.389 --> 00:35:56.969
haven't exactly hit it off well. So she wants... He
727
00:35:57.309 --> 00:36:05.230
fucks her in the mouth, and I... Uh, and she's like, uh, uh, uh, you're,
728
00:36:05.269 --> 00:36:07.789
you're a one.
729
00:36:08.369 --> 00:36:09.250
All right.
730
00:36:09.510 --> 00:36:13.489
So she's kind of like stalling and as if they
731
00:36:13.510 --> 00:36:17.329
can do more lessons and he's like, get out of
732
00:36:17.449 --> 00:36:19.550
my house. We can do this again. The TV, the
733
00:36:19.590 --> 00:36:22.739
baseball game is still on. spend like two or three hours.
734
00:36:22.820 --> 00:36:24.159
Apparently the baseball is so long.
735
00:36:24.199 --> 00:36:27.110
Fucking baseball is still fucking on, which is the most
736
00:36:27.139 --> 00:36:31.550
believable thing about this scene. Cause baseball never fucking stops. Um,
737
00:36:32.489 --> 00:36:35.659
and she's like looking at him and she's like, fuck him. Um,
738
00:36:37.789 --> 00:36:39.909
Why did he have to be her squad leader? He
739
00:36:39.929 --> 00:36:43.389
was so unbelievably hot, and he smelled divine. In fact,
740
00:36:43.429 --> 00:36:45.949
the longer they stood there, the better he smelled. Then
741
00:36:45.989 --> 00:36:48.019
her nose picked up the smell that almost made her
742
00:36:48.039 --> 00:36:53.780
knees give out. Xander's scent was blending. That sounds like stinky.
743
00:36:54.260 --> 00:36:58.699
He did a little puff. She didn't hear it, but... No,
744
00:36:59.369 --> 00:37:00.369
it wasn't really awful.
745
00:37:00.389 --> 00:37:01.809
What's that new smell?
746
00:37:01.929 --> 00:37:05.550
It was just a little puff. One of those airy
747
00:37:05.710 --> 00:37:07.289
ones that you know is going to stink.
748
00:37:07.309 --> 00:37:09.309
But it's like hot. Yeah. So you know it's going
749
00:37:09.329 --> 00:37:11.840
to be bad. It's going to be bad. So she
750
00:37:11.880 --> 00:37:17.579
smells this new smell. And Xander scent was blending with
751
00:37:17.619 --> 00:37:18.860
something completely different.
752
00:37:18.960 --> 00:37:22.719
Did one tiny drip of Precum come out of his penis?
753
00:37:22.739 --> 00:37:27.940
Stop guessing what the fucking stink is.
754
00:37:28.139 --> 00:37:28.420
Okay.
755
00:37:28.480 --> 00:37:28.719
Okay.
756
00:37:28.739 --> 00:37:29.699
Tell me what the stink is.
757
00:37:29.909 --> 00:37:34.269
Oh my God. It smells like Precum. Okay. What's that
758
00:37:34.409 --> 00:37:38.659
freaking smell? She goes for it.
759
00:37:40.269 --> 00:37:41.309
Rips his throat out.
760
00:37:43.170 --> 00:37:47.510
Fucking... She wakes up in his guts in his apartment.
761
00:37:47.760 --> 00:37:49.840
There's blood all over the walls.
762
00:37:50.000 --> 00:37:50.679
Oh, my God.
763
00:37:50.699 --> 00:37:55.099
The neighbors are dead. The whole building. The whole fucking
764
00:37:55.179 --> 00:37:57.900
building is dead. She's walking down the street in, like,
765
00:37:57.960 --> 00:38:00.059
a daze while there's corpses everywhere.
766
00:38:00.079 --> 00:38:00.139
Ha!
767
00:38:02.199 --> 00:38:04.559
She walks to the grocery store, they're all dead there, too.
768
00:38:04.639 --> 00:38:06.800
She killed everyone in a mile radius.
769
00:38:06.840 --> 00:38:08.570
I would watch the shit out of this.
770
00:38:08.659 --> 00:38:11.179
I caught a little sniff of his preco, and I
771
00:38:11.199 --> 00:38:12.989
killed every living thing in a mile.
772
00:38:13.010 --> 00:38:14.570
A sort of frenzy begins.
773
00:38:14.710 --> 00:38:16.929
I killed every living thing in a mile radius.
774
00:38:16.949 --> 00:38:19.909
No one will survive.
775
00:38:19.929 --> 00:38:20.550
No, no.
776
00:38:20.929 --> 00:38:24.710
Do you think these werewolves have their own Volturi?
777
00:38:24.730 --> 00:38:27.130
Oh, God, we can only hope so.
778
00:38:27.150 --> 00:38:28.210
Do you think it's the president?
779
00:38:30.300 --> 00:38:34.840
Fucking what? How high does this thing go?
780
00:38:34.860 --> 00:38:38.570
I think our version of the Volturi is just the
781
00:38:38.750 --> 00:38:40.469
Trump administration.
782
00:38:40.989 --> 00:38:45.389
These fucking werewolves cannot fucking get away with this. They're
783
00:38:45.429 --> 00:38:52.219
yiffing and sniffing and smelling preakum. All right. Xander's scent
784
00:38:52.260 --> 00:38:57.739
was blending with something completely different and so masculine. Oh.
785
00:38:57.820 --> 00:39:00.280
But so sweet at the same time. And a little
786
00:39:00.300 --> 00:39:03.969
bit like bleach and grapes. No. That her nose tingled
787
00:39:04.030 --> 00:39:08.510
at her mouth watered crap. She was literally starting to
788
00:39:08.610 --> 00:39:10.369
drool over her boss.
789
00:39:12.210 --> 00:39:13.530
She was literally drooling?
790
00:39:13.650 --> 00:39:16.690
So she like literally is water. Her mouth is watering
791
00:39:16.730 --> 00:39:19.619
and she's trying not to like drool on the fucking floor. Um,
792
00:39:19.639 --> 00:39:21.679
she wants to kiss him so badly. She wants to
793
00:39:21.699 --> 00:39:25.219
do a lot more than that. And then she's like, fuck.
794
00:39:25.360 --> 00:39:28.809
And she leaves. So she's proud of herself for being
795
00:39:28.849 --> 00:39:31.860
able to walk away from it. that had bad idea
796
00:39:31.960 --> 00:39:34.519
written all over it. But that didn't mean she wasn't
797
00:39:34.679 --> 00:39:42.019
kicking herself at the same time. Hey, Kaki. Hey, Kaki.
798
00:39:42.039 --> 00:39:47.210
You've got a little drool on your snout.
799
00:39:48.469 --> 00:39:52.880
You're... leaking profusely out of your mouth. Are you okay?
800
00:39:54.050 --> 00:39:57.469
I know I come off like a jackass sometimes, he said.
801
00:39:58.150 --> 00:39:59.809
But if you think it means that I don't like you,
802
00:40:00.230 --> 00:40:06.090
you're wrong. Amanda, do we get paid less if we
803
00:40:06.309 --> 00:40:08.030
mock the concept of ads?
804
00:40:09.050 --> 00:40:09.349
No.
805
00:40:10.170 --> 00:40:16.019
Ads. And then she's like, what the fuck? And then
806
00:40:16.039 --> 00:40:19.389
she leaves. Common sense finally won out. Oh, so she
807
00:40:19.449 --> 00:40:23.070
finally gets herself to drive away. To dry off. To
808
00:40:23.090 --> 00:40:26.530
dry off, yeah. She hangs her lower body out the
809
00:40:26.570 --> 00:40:30.809
window for a while while she's driving home. She's like,
810
00:40:31.710 --> 00:40:34.050
common sense finally won out, but the decision was a
811
00:40:34.130 --> 00:40:39.849
lot closer than it probably should have been. Yeah, so
812
00:40:39.869 --> 00:40:43.440
she almost goes back inside and is just like, you're dead.
813
00:40:44.199 --> 00:40:45.079
I'll kill you.
814
00:40:45.739 --> 00:40:46.739
Fuck me or I'll kill you.
815
00:40:47.380 --> 00:40:50.679
Okay, so I skipped the next two pages because it
816
00:40:50.860 --> 00:40:55.679
was so boring. So Xander is pissed off because he's
817
00:40:57.460 --> 00:40:59.139
in the middle of training. He's supposed to be on
818
00:40:59.179 --> 00:41:02.199
limited service, but he gets pulled in by the FBI,
819
00:41:02.300 --> 00:41:09.360
those fucking faggots. She, so throughout the, he doesn't say that,
820
00:41:09.619 --> 00:41:14.210
but throughout the, what would you even do? Be so happy.
821
00:41:14.269 --> 00:41:16.250
If Paige Tyler wrote that in.
822
00:41:16.949 --> 00:41:23.730
FBI stands for faggot bureau of intersex people. What? Yeah,
823
00:41:24.349 --> 00:41:27.030
if she just put some like nasty slurs about the
824
00:41:27.150 --> 00:41:27.929
FBI in there.
825
00:41:28.130 --> 00:41:30.130
F slur boys.
826
00:41:32.210 --> 00:41:37.070
Incorporated. Incorporated. I would be so happy because something really
827
00:41:37.159 --> 00:41:39.739
interesting would have happened. Fair. Because I would have been like, oh,
828
00:41:40.000 --> 00:41:40.760
my God, we found.
829
00:41:40.780 --> 00:41:41.519
Jolt you awake.
830
00:41:41.800 --> 00:41:45.480
We found a bigot book. Ugh. Yeah. And the first
831
00:41:45.500 --> 00:41:47.300
thing I would have said when you walked in today was,
832
00:41:47.449 --> 00:41:53.849
guess what I've got? Something interesting. Rather than the lukewarm, like, oh,
833
00:41:53.889 --> 00:41:59.429
things happen. Neat. So... He's now on a stakeout with
834
00:41:59.449 --> 00:42:02.550
the FBI, and he's not happy because he has a rookie,
835
00:42:02.570 --> 00:42:05.570
you know, he hasn't finished training, and he fucking hates
836
00:42:05.610 --> 00:42:06.050
the feds.
837
00:42:06.110 --> 00:42:06.929
And it's taking him away.
838
00:42:06.969 --> 00:42:09.750
He's like, they're fucking losers. They're not even, like, wheelhouse.
839
00:42:09.849 --> 00:42:12.889
They're not even special wolf alphas.
840
00:42:12.949 --> 00:42:15.699
They have their own special wolf alpha team. He literally
841
00:42:15.719 --> 00:42:17.519
says that. He's like, don't they have their own SWAT? Like,
842
00:42:17.559 --> 00:42:20.400
why do they need us? He means regular, like.
843
00:42:20.440 --> 00:42:21.800
Whatever special weapons.
844
00:42:21.820 --> 00:42:22.099
Not wolf.
845
00:42:22.139 --> 00:42:22.840
Human SWAT.
846
00:42:22.920 --> 00:42:23.800
Tactical or whatever.
847
00:42:23.820 --> 00:42:25.260
Uh-uh.
848
00:42:26.360 --> 00:42:29.559
Xander checked, so this is in a stakeout, essentially. They're
849
00:42:29.699 --> 00:42:33.380
all over Dallas, downtown Dallas, in some buildings.
850
00:42:33.480 --> 00:42:37.019
And these giant, hunky friends don't stand out at all,
851
00:42:37.079 --> 00:42:39.409
so it's super inconspicuous for them to stake out.
852
00:42:39.420 --> 00:42:43.059
Yeah, these fucking huge muscle monsters everywhere in downtown Dallas.
853
00:42:44.260 --> 00:42:46.829
Xander checked in with his squad again. the senior agent
854
00:42:46.869 --> 00:42:50.289
in charge of the FBI task force, Philip Thompson.
855
00:42:50.789 --> 00:42:53.329
Oh, could there be a cockier name that she could
856
00:42:53.349 --> 00:42:55.670
have given this guy than Philip Thompson?
857
00:42:55.789 --> 00:43:03.360
Dickie Smalls. Dickie Smalls! Fucking Christ. Tiny Tim Tinker. Timmy
858
00:43:03.500 --> 00:43:04.480
Tiny Tunk.
859
00:43:04.500 --> 00:43:09.360
Officer Tiny Tim Tinker and his corporal Dickie Smalls.
860
00:43:09.530 --> 00:43:15.070
John No Seaman. No semen.
861
00:43:15.280 --> 00:43:17.239
Dry dug no semen.
862
00:43:18.780 --> 00:43:29.349
Dry dug no semen. It's no semen. Steve Dogshit. Steve Dogshit.
863
00:43:29.750 --> 00:43:33.050
Jim Henson. Jim Henson and Steve Dogshit.
864
00:43:33.730 --> 00:43:35.250
We're the FBI now.
865
00:43:35.269 --> 00:43:38.710
We're the FBI. That's what we left sticks and stones
866
00:43:38.809 --> 00:43:40.769
to do is join the FBI.
867
00:43:41.769 --> 00:43:44.679
We're protecting America.
868
00:43:44.960 --> 00:43:49.760
The fancy Bureau of Interlopers. Yes. Yes!
869
00:43:49.920 --> 00:43:53.400
The Fancy Bureau of Interiors.
870
00:43:53.719 --> 00:43:57.469
All right, so Philip Thompson had said he didn't want
871
00:43:57.570 --> 00:44:00.309
any of the locals using their own radios because there's
872
00:44:00.389 --> 00:44:04.889
too much chance of compromising the operation. But Thompson could
873
00:44:05.010 --> 00:44:09.769
kiss my ass. Xander is monitoring the FBI channel through
874
00:44:09.889 --> 00:44:12.329
one radio and earpiece while talking to his squad on
875
00:44:12.349 --> 00:44:16.570
a completely different radio frequency. Who said men couldn't multitask?
876
00:44:17.280 --> 00:44:19.340
I guess all you have to be is a werewolf
877
00:44:19.380 --> 00:44:22.230
with superpowers to be able to multitask if you're a man.
878
00:44:22.300 --> 00:44:22.659
Agreed.
879
00:44:22.719 --> 00:44:26.920
Like, set the bar outside of hell and then maybe
880
00:44:26.960 --> 00:44:27.820
we'll be impressed.
881
00:44:27.860 --> 00:44:31.119
Just outside the gates of fucking the abyss and we
882
00:44:31.179 --> 00:44:32.199
will be impressed.
883
00:44:32.239 --> 00:44:34.760
Against men can multitask.
884
00:44:34.860 --> 00:44:35.980
If they're supernatural.
885
00:44:36.000 --> 00:44:36.940
Yeah, as long as they're supernatural.
886
00:44:36.960 --> 00:44:39.559
What is that? That's literally the exception that proves the rule.
887
00:44:39.599 --> 00:44:44.650
That is literally that. Nothing here, Trevor reported over the
888
00:44:44.710 --> 00:44:48.010
internal SWAT channel. Not surprising, since we're so far from
889
00:44:48.050 --> 00:44:50.489
the bank that someone would have stolen the whole building
890
00:44:50.530 --> 00:44:53.510
and we wouldn't even know it. I've decided that Trevor
891
00:44:53.590 --> 00:44:55.150
on their squad is just a high five.
892
00:44:55.170 --> 00:44:57.389
I like that all the FBI guys are just little
893
00:44:57.449 --> 00:44:58.050
gay boys.
894
00:44:58.130 --> 00:45:01.360
No, Trevor's on special wolf outfit.
895
00:45:01.380 --> 00:45:03.820
Okay, but statistically there's one cute little gay one.
896
00:45:03.840 --> 00:45:05.920
Yeah, there has to be one little cutie gay one.
897
00:45:06.820 --> 00:45:07.780
Trevor may as well be it.
898
00:45:07.800 --> 00:45:10.960
I guess it's you, Trevor. Then we should go read
899
00:45:11.019 --> 00:45:14.260
his book. And I do him as a little cocky
900
00:45:14.280 --> 00:45:17.179
gay boy. Oh my God, she smells so divine. I
901
00:45:17.219 --> 00:45:21.880
want to get into her pussy. So this is blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
902
00:45:21.960 --> 00:45:25.050
And he's super bored and pissed and annoyed. But like,
903
00:45:25.329 --> 00:45:29.349
as far as I understand, this kind of FBI staking out,
904
00:45:29.389 --> 00:45:32.289
they're trying to catch bank robbers who have hit multiple
905
00:45:32.309 --> 00:45:34.230
places around the South.
906
00:45:34.369 --> 00:45:35.150
This is serious.
907
00:45:35.349 --> 00:45:37.900
This is serious. And this is like, a lot of
908
00:45:37.940 --> 00:45:41.639
that work is waiting and being patient and like, I
909
00:45:41.679 --> 00:45:45.030
don't know a ton about high-end policing, but I know that.
910
00:45:45.340 --> 00:45:48.369
And so he's all like, I want action. I'm too
911
00:45:48.429 --> 00:45:51.309
torqued to stake out. I'm too muscular and hot to
912
00:45:51.349 --> 00:45:54.349
be sitting here. But it's very annoying, and he hates
913
00:45:54.849 --> 00:45:57.809
that he's doing it. And he also is being very,
914
00:45:57.849 --> 00:46:02.070
very annoying about khaki. Where is she? I guess it'll
915
00:46:02.090 --> 00:46:03.489
be cool that I get to see her in action,
916
00:46:03.530 --> 00:46:04.769
but I'm worried about her.
917
00:46:04.849 --> 00:46:05.989
Oh, so she's on this too?
918
00:46:06.630 --> 00:46:08.369
Yeah, she has to because they need the full team.
919
00:46:08.949 --> 00:46:11.239
Oh, it's not just him moonlighting for the FBI.
920
00:46:11.260 --> 00:46:11.519
No, no, no.
921
00:46:11.570 --> 00:46:12.110
It's the whole team.
922
00:46:12.139 --> 00:46:14.860
The whole team is here. They brought in the whole squad. Oh, okay.
923
00:46:14.960 --> 00:46:18.360
And they did that because there are... This is kind
924
00:46:18.400 --> 00:46:22.099
of crazy. And throughout this chapter, they are... He does
925
00:46:22.139 --> 00:46:25.559
refer to them multiple times as the bad guys, which
926
00:46:25.639 --> 00:46:29.599
made me cringe and laugh every time. But they are...
927
00:46:29.960 --> 00:46:34.400
There is this outfit of bank robbers that are performing
928
00:46:34.420 --> 00:46:37.269
at a very professional level to the degree that they
929
00:46:37.349 --> 00:46:40.269
think that they must have some kind of, like, military
930
00:46:41.090 --> 00:46:43.949
tactical policing background or whatever because they seem to know
931
00:46:43.989 --> 00:46:46.949
their practices so well and have been able to evade them. Like,
932
00:46:47.010 --> 00:46:49.650
you don't see, like, bank robbers.
933
00:46:49.769 --> 00:46:50.010
Yeah.
934
00:46:50.510 --> 00:46:53.139
Like– The last time I think I ever saw bank
935
00:46:53.179 --> 00:46:55.590
robbers was in the movie Heat. Yeah. Which is like
936
00:46:55.610 --> 00:46:56.619
from the 90s.
937
00:46:56.670 --> 00:46:57.590
Ocean's Eleven.
938
00:46:57.829 --> 00:46:58.989
You can't. Well, that's a heist.
939
00:46:59.010 --> 00:46:59.769
Casino robbers.
940
00:46:59.849 --> 00:47:01.730
That's a heist. That's totally different. You're right.
941
00:47:01.750 --> 00:47:02.449
They're not bank robbers.
942
00:47:02.469 --> 00:47:05.110
These are guys going in with guns and tactical gear
943
00:47:05.250 --> 00:47:09.610
and like robbing a bank. Drive. It's like drive. Yeah.
944
00:47:09.869 --> 00:47:10.929
So it's.
945
00:47:10.949 --> 00:47:11.710
Yeah.
946
00:47:11.849 --> 00:47:14.849
But so they're very serious and they have killed three people. Oh, fuck.
947
00:47:14.929 --> 00:47:19.530
So these guys are like. Very fucking serious and definitely
948
00:47:19.570 --> 00:47:22.010
need to be caught. And I don't know why he's
949
00:47:22.050 --> 00:47:23.789
bitching so much about having to do that.
950
00:47:23.989 --> 00:47:25.840
Having to do his job.
951
00:47:27.179 --> 00:47:29.460
Xander had known this operation was going to be a
952
00:47:29.579 --> 00:47:34.099
soup sandwich the moment they met Thompson. Talk about a clusterfuck.
953
00:47:34.639 --> 00:47:37.130
Even the people in the local FBI field office didn't
954
00:47:37.170 --> 00:47:39.389
like the way this new agent in charge had come
955
00:47:39.530 --> 00:47:42.480
swinging his weight around. Xander couldn't blame them. No one
956
00:47:42.519 --> 00:47:44.880
liked outsiders coming in and trying to run the show,
957
00:47:45.239 --> 00:47:49.070
as if everyone else were a bunch of idiots. Xander's
958
00:47:49.139 --> 00:47:53.349
not like other cops. Apparently, these particular bank robbers had
959
00:47:53.389 --> 00:47:56.550
hit nine banks in the last three months without leaving
960
00:47:56.590 --> 00:48:00.429
a single usable clue. That was Xander's first... Oh, this
961
00:48:00.469 --> 00:48:02.889
line made me fucking roll my eyes so hard. That
962
00:48:02.909 --> 00:48:05.690
was Xander's first indication that these guys weren't a bunch
963
00:48:05.730 --> 00:48:09.840
of amateur smash-and-grab types. Nobody could hit nine banks without
964
00:48:09.880 --> 00:48:13.530
leaving evidence behind unless they were professional professionals.
965
00:48:14.369 --> 00:48:16.010
Not professional professionals.
966
00:48:16.050 --> 00:48:22.030
Serious professionals. Yeah, duh, Xander. Obviously, he's saying this like
967
00:48:22.070 --> 00:48:25.599
he's like, whoa, my instincts. I'm a genius. My instincts
968
00:48:25.619 --> 00:48:28.539
tell me this. And it's like, Jesus Christ. They're disciplined, organized,
969
00:48:28.579 --> 00:48:33.059
not afraid to shoot. They've killed three people. If they're
970
00:48:33.099 --> 00:48:35.139
so good, what makes you think they're going to hit
971
00:48:35.260 --> 00:48:37.389
banks here in Dallas? Like, how did you find this out?
972
00:48:37.719 --> 00:48:40.920
Turns out that they have an informant who knew things
973
00:48:40.960 --> 00:48:45.050
about the cases that weren't released publicly. She said that
974
00:48:45.090 --> 00:48:47.329
their next target was in Dallas. And they're like, how
975
00:48:47.369 --> 00:48:50.150
reliable is it? And they're like, we have no fucking idea.
976
00:48:50.630 --> 00:48:53.210
So they're just staking out the entire city of Dallas
977
00:48:53.230 --> 00:48:55.230
at this point? All the banks? The major banks?
978
00:48:55.250 --> 00:48:57.369
The bank they think is the most likely to be hit.
979
00:48:57.750 --> 00:48:58.130
Okay.
980
00:48:58.269 --> 00:49:00.889
They're like, with everything we know about them and how
981
00:49:00.929 --> 00:49:02.969
they operate, they're going to hit this bank if they
982
00:49:03.010 --> 00:49:04.219
hit a bank in Dallas today.
983
00:49:04.340 --> 00:49:04.619
Okay.
984
00:49:04.780 --> 00:49:09.460
And so they stake that bank out. Okay, so while
985
00:49:09.480 --> 00:49:13.079
he's sitting there being pissed off about the whole operation,
986
00:49:13.099 --> 00:49:16.369
Heath is replaying the events of last night.
987
00:49:16.610 --> 00:49:18.989
Khaki in his house, huffing his sheets.
988
00:49:19.210 --> 00:49:19.929
On the one hand.
989
00:49:20.389 --> 00:49:24.840
Learning how to crank for the first time.
990
00:49:25.030 --> 00:49:27.079
On the one hand he was thrilled that khaki had
991
00:49:27.119 --> 00:49:29.360
trusted him enough to ask for help but on the
992
00:49:29.440 --> 00:49:32.659
other hand his whole damn apartment was so thoroughly saturated
993
00:49:32.719 --> 00:49:35.769
with her incredible scent that he was probably going to
994
00:49:35.809 --> 00:49:38.730
have to move if he ever wanted to sleep again.
995
00:49:40.449 --> 00:49:43.050
It was like he'd discovered some new form of torture.
996
00:49:43.070 --> 00:49:45.769
Lie in bed all night with a hard-on that won't
997
00:49:45.809 --> 00:49:49.769
go away, inhaling the overwhelming perfume of the most beautiful
998
00:49:49.869 --> 00:49:53.269
woman on the planet. And the funny thing was, he'd
999
00:49:53.309 --> 00:49:55.150
put up with it forever if it meant having a
1000
00:49:55.210 --> 00:49:59.469
chance to spend more time alone with her like he
1001
00:49:59.570 --> 00:50:01.559
had last night.
1002
00:50:01.619 --> 00:50:02.639
Oh, he wants it.
1003
00:50:03.789 --> 00:50:06.010
When Kaki had shown up at his door in those
1004
00:50:06.130 --> 00:50:10.599
curve-hugging jeans, with her long hair free of its usual
1005
00:50:10.659 --> 00:50:13.260
ponytail or bun, he thought for sure she was going
1006
00:50:13.280 --> 00:50:16.639
to lay into him about being such an ass. So
1007
00:50:16.679 --> 00:50:19.400
he'd been stunned when she admitted she needed help to
1008
00:50:19.440 --> 00:50:24.719
learn how to shift. Being alone with her and her
1009
00:50:24.739 --> 00:50:29.940
alluring scent, she put off with hard enough at work.
1010
00:50:30.519 --> 00:50:32.840
Getting hit with it up close for hours as they
1011
00:50:32.880 --> 00:50:36.099
were in the living room. Sitting on the living room
1012
00:50:36.159 --> 00:50:39.960
floor had been maddening. Then there was that sexy little
1013
00:50:40.000 --> 00:50:43.349
way she pursed her lips when she was concentrating. Which
1014
00:50:43.429 --> 00:50:46.090
I do picture as her being like, doing a Jennifer Tilly.
1015
00:50:48.489 --> 00:50:49.550
These gays.
1016
00:50:49.809 --> 00:50:53.360
They're trying to murder me. They're trying to murder me.
1017
00:50:54.139 --> 00:50:56.639
It had taken, definitely get on our Patreon so you
1018
00:50:56.659 --> 00:50:59.920
can listen to us talk about Jennifer Tilly at length.
1019
00:51:00.079 --> 00:51:01.570
Oh, there's a Jennifer Coolidge.
1020
00:51:02.869 --> 00:51:06.150
I meant Jennifer Coolidge, but I had Jennifer Tilly on
1021
00:51:06.170 --> 00:51:09.710
my brain because we talk about her at length in
1022
00:51:09.730 --> 00:51:11.150
an upcoming.
1023
00:51:10.869 --> 00:51:13.199
Episode of Inflix.
1024
00:51:13.219 --> 00:51:17.400
Inflix! It had taken all of his strength not to
1025
00:51:17.679 --> 00:51:20.760
kiss her when she did that. Whenever she purses her lips,
1026
00:51:20.800 --> 00:51:24.570
he wants to just go and get in there. Um, afterward,
1027
00:51:24.610 --> 00:51:26.949
he'd been sorely tempted to ask her to stay. Okay.
1028
00:51:27.289 --> 00:51:31.469
I actually, I found a paragraph that I actually found
1029
00:51:31.510 --> 00:51:32.130
kind of charming.
1030
00:51:32.590 --> 00:51:34.449
That she wanted to stay and he.
1031
00:51:34.309 --> 00:51:36.949
Wanted her to stay. Afterward, he'd been sorely tempted to
1032
00:51:37.139 --> 00:51:40.260
ask her to stay for a beer or dinner or
1033
00:51:40.360 --> 00:51:43.920
even to watch the game. He didn't really care what she,
1034
00:51:44.340 --> 00:51:47.449
what they did as long as she stayed. But if
1035
00:51:47.469 --> 00:51:49.710
he had, his control would have slipped and he would
1036
00:51:49.730 --> 00:51:52.550
have done something stupid. Like bury his hands in her
1037
00:51:52.650 --> 00:51:55.610
silky hair and kissed her. They just got into a
1038
00:51:55.679 --> 00:51:58.519
place where she might not hate him completely. He decided
1039
00:51:58.559 --> 00:52:00.980
to count himself lucky and just leave it well alone.
1040
00:52:01.400 --> 00:52:04.619
I like that because when you're in love with somebody
1041
00:52:04.659 --> 00:52:07.550
and you're like, don't go, just stay here. Like every
1042
00:52:07.590 --> 00:52:09.670
time you say you're going home and I'm like, no,
1043
00:52:09.690 --> 00:52:11.550
just stay here forever.
1044
00:52:11.889 --> 00:52:13.050
You're in love with me?
1045
00:52:13.070 --> 00:52:20.250
A little bit. Of course, a little. I have to go. No, stay.
1046
00:52:20.289 --> 00:52:21.550
That changes everything.
1047
00:52:21.610 --> 00:52:22.530
No, stay.
1048
00:52:22.650 --> 00:52:25.829
After 17 years or over, the fuck do you want
1049
00:52:25.849 --> 00:52:26.800
to be good friends?
1050
00:52:28.519 --> 00:52:30.480
No, no, I just, you know, in love with you
1051
00:52:30.519 --> 00:52:31.719
in the way that like you're in love with your
1052
00:52:31.739 --> 00:52:33.679
friends and you want them to stay around all the time.
1053
00:52:33.699 --> 00:52:34.260
I know, I know.
1054
00:52:34.280 --> 00:52:37.780
And that is part, I like when romance is both,
1055
00:52:38.730 --> 00:52:42.050
Because it is. It's a mix of friendly feelings and
1056
00:52:42.230 --> 00:52:45.460
more romantic feelings. It's not all just, I want to
1057
00:52:45.619 --> 00:52:48.639
fuck you. So you do kind of love your friends.
1058
00:52:48.659 --> 00:52:49.500
Just want to be around.
1059
00:52:49.760 --> 00:52:52.099
I just don't want you to leave. If you have
1060
00:52:52.159 --> 00:52:55.079
someone who you don't want them to leave and it's
1061
00:52:55.139 --> 00:52:56.420
not just for more sex.
1062
00:52:56.440 --> 00:52:56.940
You're in love.
1063
00:52:57.420 --> 00:52:58.880
That's the good stuff.
1064
00:52:58.900 --> 00:53:00.260
You're in love with your friends.
1065
00:53:00.320 --> 00:53:07.239
Now you're talking. So Xander's still daydreaming when alarms start ringing. What?
1066
00:53:07.980 --> 00:53:08.559
Real ones?
1067
00:53:08.780 --> 00:53:11.940
What the hell is happening? Thompson demanded over the radio.
1068
00:53:11.960 --> 00:53:18.550
Someone give me a status report. Gosh, you're sitting on
1069
00:53:18.570 --> 00:53:22.090
the wrong bank. Khaki's voice was angry in Xander's earpiece.
1070
00:53:22.110 --> 00:53:22.969
Oh my God.
1071
00:53:23.309 --> 00:53:26.369
They're hitting the one in the building we're set up on,
1072
00:53:26.489 --> 00:53:32.559
the bank on Jackson Street. So they miscalculated. Uh-oh. Actually,
1073
00:53:32.579 --> 00:53:36.280
it turns out Xander thinks that they either were onto
1074
00:53:36.320 --> 00:53:39.110
them or... Well, I'll get to that later.
1075
00:53:39.190 --> 00:53:41.949
I think there's a rat. Could be. I think there's
1076
00:53:41.989 --> 00:53:46.300
someone from the inside feeding information and if these bank
1077
00:53:46.340 --> 00:53:50.880
robbers are like so elite, so tactical, so high level,
1078
00:53:50.940 --> 00:53:52.599
then they maybe militarize.
1079
00:53:52.679 --> 00:53:53.039
Yeah.
1080
00:53:53.059 --> 00:53:56.599
They have access to things that typically only the special
1081
00:53:56.639 --> 00:54:00.679
wolf alpha team maybe they're vampires maybe they're rival wolves
1082
00:54:00.739 --> 00:54:00.920
oh I.
1083
00:54:00.900 --> 00:54:03.360
Want so fucking.
1084
00:54:02.639 --> 00:54:05.880
Bad are there any other beasties in these books or
1085
00:54:05.900 --> 00:54:08.619
is it only wolves we have no way of knowing.
1086
00:54:08.400 --> 00:54:10.760
That well Aaron would know Aaron are any of the
1087
00:54:10.780 --> 00:54:14.489
names like wolf versus vampire or anything what like are.
1088
00:54:14.429 --> 00:54:17.469
There any other kinds of beasties in her books or
1089
00:54:17.809 --> 00:54:21.210
are these all like this series just wolves in.
1090
00:54:21.150 --> 00:54:26.289
This series there's no indication of other beasties.
1091
00:54:25.650 --> 00:54:27.889
Okay Because it is one of those things, like, if
1092
00:54:28.110 --> 00:54:31.639
I saw genuine supernatural phenomena... No, she seems to be
1093
00:54:31.840 --> 00:54:36.710
just in the wolves. Cool. I... If I saw genuine
1094
00:54:36.769 --> 00:54:40.530
supernatural phenomena, I would start going to church. I don't
1095
00:54:40.550 --> 00:54:44.199
think I would do that. If magic is real, now
1096
00:54:44.360 --> 00:54:48.519
everything could be real. I would be incentivized to actually
1097
00:54:48.559 --> 00:54:52.099
pay attention to some more supernatural shit.
1098
00:54:52.139 --> 00:54:57.070
Especially Christianity just feels so innately human.
1099
00:54:57.769 --> 00:55:01.150
Yes, I agree. But I'm saying if I saw magic,
1100
00:55:01.230 --> 00:55:03.190
that changes the calculus on everything.
1101
00:55:03.449 --> 00:55:06.500
I'd be going to church. witch shop yes go into
1102
00:55:06.519 --> 00:55:07.739
spirit halloween.
1103
00:55:07.360 --> 00:55:10.059
That's what i'm saying i would be like i yes
1104
00:55:10.659 --> 00:55:11.659
but i'm just saying like if you go.
1105
00:55:11.619 --> 00:55:15.869
Into chris angel is where the real witch shit is
1106
00:55:15.969 --> 00:55:20.710
yeah fucking christ the spirit halloween that's where amanda gets
1107
00:55:20.750 --> 00:55:24.210
all her coven supplies yes Well, I'm just saying like
1108
00:55:24.429 --> 00:55:26.909
if werewolves are real, then anything can be real.
1109
00:55:27.250 --> 00:55:28.150
Then it opens up.
1110
00:55:28.190 --> 00:55:29.909
It's a can of worms. That's why I just think
1111
00:55:29.949 --> 00:55:32.489
it's kind of– well, okay. But that– I mean it's fair.
1112
00:55:32.530 --> 00:55:34.400
I think you'd have to go in one or the
1113
00:55:34.440 --> 00:55:38.099
other direction. Or you could– go into always a third
1114
00:55:38.219 --> 00:55:40.199
option like Stephanie Meyer did where it's like, no, no, no.
1115
00:55:40.300 --> 00:55:44.219
It's just werewolves and vampires. Everything else is not real.
1116
00:55:44.480 --> 00:55:46.880
I think so. Cause we never encounter any other creatures.
1117
00:55:47.219 --> 00:55:50.519
I would be willing to bet if she wrote more books,
1118
00:55:51.119 --> 00:55:52.219
she would probably open.
1119
00:55:52.260 --> 00:55:53.000
Do other creatures.
1120
00:55:53.360 --> 00:55:57.079
Cause by the end of the fifth, fourth book, are
1121
00:55:57.099 --> 00:55:57.480
there four?
1122
00:55:57.500 --> 00:55:59.559
Yeah. There's four books, five movies.
1123
00:55:59.599 --> 00:56:01.199
Five movies. Got it. So by the end of the
1124
00:56:02.019 --> 00:56:06.239
fifth movie, fourth book, we have like water benders and fucking.
1125
00:56:06.300 --> 00:56:06.699
Oh yeah.
1126
00:56:07.000 --> 00:56:07.880
Their abilities are crazy.
1127
00:56:07.900 --> 00:56:11.840
They give supernatural powers that are far beyond the scope
1128
00:56:11.880 --> 00:56:15.380
of anything that like vampires, like vampires have a lot
1129
00:56:15.420 --> 00:56:19.800
of magic powers in the, like the war, but like
1130
00:56:20.409 --> 00:56:23.949
elementalism and like shit is like not part of it.
1131
00:56:24.030 --> 00:56:29.429
And anyway, uh, Kaki, Kaki, go figure out what the
1132
00:56:29.469 --> 00:56:31.710
hell is happening and give me a sit rap. He
1133
00:56:31.730 --> 00:56:34.530
said into his mic. Even though his first instinct was
1134
00:56:34.550 --> 00:56:36.489
to stay out of this and let the FBI go
1135
00:56:36.530 --> 00:56:39.829
down in flames. Cool. Good job. Again, these bank robbers
1136
00:56:39.869 --> 00:56:40.769
have killed three people.
1137
00:56:40.789 --> 00:56:42.449
Do your fucking job.
1138
00:56:42.670 --> 00:56:44.389
Xander was up and running to the far side of
1139
00:56:44.409 --> 00:56:48.630
the roof as he raced across it. Like the action
1140
00:56:48.650 --> 00:56:51.639
music starts. This is a whole action scene. He gave
1141
00:56:51.679 --> 00:56:53.559
hand signals to the other guys who were with him.
1142
00:56:53.699 --> 00:56:56.219
Converge on the new target. Max and Hale were catching
1143
00:56:56.300 --> 00:56:57.519
up to him even as he reached the edge of
1144
00:56:57.539 --> 00:57:00.420
the roof. As he neared the low wall that ran
1145
00:57:00.460 --> 00:57:03.030
around the perimeter of the roof, Xander shifted. Thrilling in
1146
00:57:03.050 --> 00:57:05.150
the surge of power racing through him and his leg
1147
00:57:05.190 --> 00:57:05.949
and core muscles.
1148
00:57:06.090 --> 00:57:09.210
They are so willy nilly about the shifting when they're
1149
00:57:09.269 --> 00:57:11.610
not supposed to be letting people know.
1150
00:57:11.389 --> 00:57:15.949
That they're werewolves. John, that SWAT members kind of looks
1151
00:57:16.010 --> 00:57:18.579
kind of fucked up. What if we have this wrong?
1152
00:57:18.800 --> 00:57:27.150
Has any one said explicitly? Anything about keeping it a secret,
1153
00:57:27.210 --> 00:57:29.010
not doing it in front of people.
1154
00:57:29.030 --> 00:57:29.099
Yes.
1155
00:57:29.429 --> 00:57:31.690
They have. There have been lines in this book that
1156
00:57:31.710 --> 00:57:32.789
have explicitly said that.
1157
00:57:32.849 --> 00:57:36.900
Insinuated. I don't think they've said it out loud, but.
1158
00:57:37.559 --> 00:57:39.639
I just feel like then just have it be a
1159
00:57:39.679 --> 00:57:42.329
world where, yeah, werewolves exist and people just know about it.
1160
00:57:42.400 --> 00:57:45.119
That would be more fun, but it would change the
1161
00:57:45.159 --> 00:57:47.460
world more than Paige Tyler wants because she wants it
1162
00:57:47.480 --> 00:57:48.920
to be that naughty little secret.
1163
00:57:49.019 --> 00:57:49.659
Yeah, I guess.
1164
00:57:51.119 --> 00:57:55.699
So he leaps, he's like leaping across the rooftops. Even
1165
00:57:55.739 --> 00:57:59.179
in his heavy tactical gear and doing like rolls and ducks.
1166
00:57:59.239 --> 00:58:03.860
And he's like, action man, action man.
1167
00:58:03.880 --> 00:58:07.000
Big old sexy action man.
1168
00:58:07.019 --> 00:58:10.519
Thank you. Yes. The robbers must have figured out something
1169
00:58:11.380 --> 00:58:14.119
or someone leaked the plans to the FBI. Yet instead
1170
00:58:14.139 --> 00:58:18.480
of abandoning Dallas completely, they'd switched to another bank position
1171
00:58:18.599 --> 00:58:20.980
just outside of the textbook perimeter.
1172
00:58:21.000 --> 00:58:21.079
Yeah.
1173
00:58:21.769 --> 00:58:23.690
So these guys are nuts.
1174
00:58:23.869 --> 00:58:26.849
And they knew what bank they were staking out. So
1175
00:58:26.889 --> 00:58:29.110
either they got Intel or they noticed.
1176
00:58:28.829 --> 00:58:30.010
All these people. Or they knew they were going to
1177
00:58:30.050 --> 00:58:32.409
get staked out and were like, which bank would we
1178
00:58:32.449 --> 00:58:34.030
stake out? And they guessed correctly.
1179
00:58:34.150 --> 00:58:34.610
I guess.
1180
00:58:34.909 --> 00:58:36.840
It's just that if you know there was going to
1181
00:58:36.880 --> 00:58:41.360
be FBI and like tactical presence in the area still
1182
00:58:41.480 --> 00:58:42.469
going for it.
1183
00:58:42.519 --> 00:58:43.480
I know. It's crazy.
1184
00:58:43.599 --> 00:58:47.420
I literally just wrote crazy in the margins. That's so crazy.
1185
00:58:47.780 --> 00:58:49.760
They must really be the most elite.
1186
00:58:49.880 --> 00:58:53.139
That prior military slash law enforcement background theory was looking
1187
00:58:53.179 --> 00:58:54.139
better by the second.
1188
00:58:54.449 --> 00:58:57.510
Because that's the only kind of people that can outsmart us.
1189
00:58:57.650 --> 00:59:01.769
Exactly. And they were ballsy. Sniper, can you engage? I
1190
00:59:01.809 --> 00:59:05.869
need suspects pinned down for a few minutes. Negative, Alex replied.
1191
00:59:05.889 --> 00:59:08.610
The target zone is full of civilians and it's chaos
1192
00:59:08.630 --> 00:59:11.380
down there. I do not have a clear shot damn
1193
00:59:11.500 --> 00:59:16.289
it sorry damn it thompson swore take the shot anyway
1194
00:59:16.550 --> 00:59:21.010
oh shoot the suvs tires just slow them down So
1195
00:59:21.070 --> 00:59:24.650
Xander is like cursing and he's about to curse Thompson
1196
00:59:24.690 --> 00:59:27.130
out like for shooting into a bay of civilians. Yeah.
1197
00:59:27.329 --> 00:59:30.340
And khaki beats him to it. We can't do that.
1198
00:59:30.500 --> 00:59:32.199
Even if we hit the target, the chances of a
1199
00:59:32.239 --> 00:59:35.760
through and through ricochet hitting a bystander is too high.
1200
00:59:35.840 --> 00:59:37.030
Good girl. Speak up.
1201
00:59:38.079 --> 00:59:40.460
Amanda, Amanda, we have to run some ads so we
1202
00:59:40.480 --> 00:59:46.610
can keep getting paid. You're getting paid? Actually, no. Aaron
1203
00:59:46.639 --> 00:59:47.969
won't let me have anybody.
1204
00:59:47.989 --> 00:59:51.989
Oh, so Aaron's getting paid.
1205
00:59:52.050 --> 00:59:58.449
No, he buries it. I guess we'll run ads. So
1206
00:59:58.610 --> 01:00:00.429
one of the SUV cruisers.
1207
01:00:00.449 --> 01:00:03.280
She's going to fix the police thing from the inside.
1208
01:00:03.300 --> 01:00:03.449
Shut up.
1209
01:00:04.570 --> 01:00:06.360
She's the only one who can do it.
1210
01:00:06.360 --> 01:00:09.150
She's being the change she wants to see.
1211
01:00:09.480 --> 01:00:12.639
She's the daughter of the witches they couldn't burn.
1212
01:00:14.170 --> 01:00:15.969
Oh, my God. What?
1213
01:00:15.989 --> 01:00:17.409
She's the granddaughter.
1214
01:00:17.429 --> 01:00:20.469
Well, I don't remember what. We're all the way down.
1215
01:00:21.090 --> 01:00:25.070
One of the SUVs gets away. DPD, Dallas Police Department,
1216
01:00:25.090 --> 01:00:28.639
cruiser in pursuit. DPD. Thompson. I'll have agents on the
1217
01:00:28.659 --> 01:00:31.780
scene in 10 seconds. Whatever you do, don't let that
1218
01:00:31.860 --> 01:00:35.579
second SUV out. Oh, I'm like Paul Lynde. That's what
1219
01:00:35.719 --> 01:00:36.519
I'm doing.
1220
01:00:36.599 --> 01:00:39.309
I love these. These voices are great.
1221
01:00:39.329 --> 01:00:42.809
So Xander's like two blocks away and he's like, fuck, fuck,
1222
01:00:42.829 --> 01:00:44.590
these guys are going to fuck this up. He said
1223
01:00:44.630 --> 01:00:48.659
earlier soup sandwich. Yeah. Which I fucking love as an expression.
1224
01:00:49.409 --> 01:00:51.679
And then he hears gunfire.
1225
01:00:52.000 --> 01:00:53.239
Oh my God.
1226
01:00:53.260 --> 01:00:56.300
This was going to be a blow bath. Not a
1227
01:00:56.400 --> 01:01:01.880
blow bath. Damn it, Thompson! Sorry. Damn it, Thompson! Khaki yelled.
1228
01:01:02.199 --> 01:01:04.500
Tell your people to stop shooting! There are at least
1229
01:01:04.500 --> 01:01:07.260
20 civilians behind the same row of cars the suspects
1230
01:01:07.320 --> 01:01:11.260
are using as cover! But no orders to ceasefire ever came.
1231
01:01:11.730 --> 01:01:14.929
Xander put on more speed. Xander heard Alex curse. Two
1232
01:01:14.969 --> 01:01:17.250
of the suspects are using kids as shields. I can't
1233
01:01:17.289 --> 01:01:19.570
get a shot at them. And the frigging SUV is
1234
01:01:19.719 --> 01:01:24.440
armored and has solid run flat tires. So even if
1235
01:01:24.460 --> 01:01:26.079
they shoot the tires out, they can still drive on
1236
01:01:26.139 --> 01:01:29.099
this thing. Without armor-piercing rounds, I'm not going to be
1237
01:01:29.139 --> 01:01:31.539
able to do a damn thing to stop these guys.
1238
01:01:31.780 --> 01:01:32.269
Oh, my God.
1239
01:01:32.280 --> 01:01:34.719
Because the only thing that can stop a bad guy
1240
01:01:34.800 --> 01:01:39.340
with a gun is a good guy with a bigger gun. Yeah. God.
1241
01:01:40.219 --> 01:01:43.920
The feds are going to hit the kids! Khaki ground
1242
01:01:44.039 --> 01:01:48.340
out in exasperation in his SWAT earpiece. I'm going down
1243
01:01:48.380 --> 01:01:49.460
there to get them!
1244
01:01:49.619 --> 01:01:50.360
Dead it, girl.
1245
01:01:51.400 --> 01:01:57.409
Save the children! Khaki, like, rappels down the building.
1246
01:01:57.469 --> 01:01:58.650
Hell yeah, she learned that last week.
1247
01:01:58.670 --> 01:02:02.070
To get to the kids below who are being used
1248
01:02:02.130 --> 01:02:02.449
as shields.
1249
01:02:02.469 --> 01:02:03.969
Fucking Miss Rachel over here.
1250
01:02:04.130 --> 01:02:09.070
Negative! Stand down, Xander says. That's an order! And Kaki
1251
01:02:09.130 --> 01:02:13.480
believes that order and goes anyway. Oh. The answer to
1252
01:02:13.519 --> 01:02:16.800
that was obvious as she, what the hell is she doing?
1253
01:02:17.199 --> 01:02:19.349
The answer to that was obvious as she dropped down
1254
01:02:19.389 --> 01:02:21.690
behind the bad guys. Good.
1255
01:02:22.090 --> 01:02:23.889
Good to keep them separated like that.
1256
01:02:24.710 --> 01:02:27.469
Right into the FBI's target zone. Luckily, some of the
1257
01:02:27.699 --> 01:02:30.719
feds realized she'd entered the fray and stopped shooting, but
1258
01:02:30.800 --> 01:02:34.579
others seemed completely oblivious. Xander sped towards her.
1259
01:02:35.519 --> 01:02:38.360
So it was the feds that wouldn't cease fire. They
1260
01:02:38.380 --> 01:02:39.119
just kept shooting.
1261
01:02:39.280 --> 01:02:42.400
Thompson's men are just like, we can't let this be
1262
01:02:42.440 --> 01:02:44.340
a botch job. We can't let them get away.
1263
01:02:44.480 --> 01:02:45.619
So we'll kill everyone.
1264
01:02:45.639 --> 01:02:48.300
So kill all the civilians in the street to get
1265
01:02:48.340 --> 01:02:50.980
at them. Got it. Yep.
1266
01:02:51.199 --> 01:02:51.940
It's giving.
1267
01:02:51.960 --> 01:02:57.679
The feds are in thin. The federal government can't be twisted,
1268
01:02:57.699 --> 01:02:59.519
said Xander Riggs.
1269
01:02:59.679 --> 01:03:00.539
Oh, my God.
1270
01:03:00.940 --> 01:03:06.219
Yeah, this is not a vibe. No Mulder and Scully
1271
01:03:06.340 --> 01:03:10.920
worship here, I guess. Werewolves are tough as nails, but
1272
01:03:10.960 --> 01:03:14.820
a lucky shot could still kill them. And for all
1273
01:03:14.860 --> 01:03:17.480
they knew, female werewolves might not have the same healing
1274
01:03:17.519 --> 01:03:22.030
powers as their male counterparts. Okay. Which we actually know.
1275
01:03:22.260 --> 01:03:24.510
Yeah, didn't she get shot like 18 times?
1276
01:03:24.550 --> 01:03:27.269
And stabbed in the stomach and healed. And she actually
1277
01:03:27.349 --> 01:03:30.630
talked to them all about that. So Xander. So fuck you.
1278
01:03:30.969 --> 01:03:33.989
Fuck you, Xander. Like pay attention when women are talking,
1279
01:03:34.010 --> 01:03:34.570
I guess.
1280
01:03:34.889 --> 01:03:37.139
Well, not me. Not Xander.
1281
01:03:37.239 --> 01:03:40.880
Not Xander. Wigs. Wigs. Kaki ignored the hail of bullets.
1282
01:03:41.199 --> 01:03:44.760
She lashed out with a well-placed kick to knock one
1283
01:03:44.780 --> 01:03:46.989
of the suspects to the ground, then grabbed the other
1284
01:03:47.030 --> 01:03:49.769
and threw him half a dozen feet into a brick wall.
1285
01:03:49.789 --> 01:03:50.269
Oh, shit.
1286
01:03:50.409 --> 01:03:53.369
Xander could hear her rumbling growl all the way from here.
1287
01:03:53.389 --> 01:03:54.170
She's going to shift.
1288
01:03:54.210 --> 01:04:02.170
Which means she's going... She's hulking. This moderately sized woman
1289
01:04:02.610 --> 01:04:07.000
rappels down a building. Kick. He throws the guy into
1290
01:04:07.039 --> 01:04:12.460
the wall and is now growling. He only prayed she
1291
01:04:12.500 --> 01:04:14.780
didn't lose control and pick now is the time to
1292
01:04:14.840 --> 01:04:18.800
finally shift completely. So again, he doesn't want that to happen,
1293
01:04:18.840 --> 01:04:21.599
which means people don't know about werewolves. But again, you're right.
1294
01:04:21.619 --> 01:04:23.039
They probably should hit on that a little bit more. Yep.
1295
01:04:24.199 --> 01:04:25.800
But the moment the suspects were out of play.
1296
01:04:25.820 --> 01:04:27.289
Or maybe he just doesn't want her to fully shift
1297
01:04:27.309 --> 01:04:29.030
because then she would lose control.
1298
01:04:29.050 --> 01:04:32.969
No. Right. Because all the people are around. She scoops
1299
01:04:33.030 --> 01:04:34.670
up the little kids in her arms as soon as
1300
01:04:34.690 --> 01:04:37.510
the bad guys are clear and starts running, hurting a
1301
01:04:37.550 --> 01:04:39.829
group of other children and women in front of her
1302
01:04:39.869 --> 01:04:44.170
as she went. The amount of just like, oh my god, heroism.
1303
01:04:44.210 --> 01:04:45.409
She's amazing.
1304
01:04:45.730 --> 01:04:50.010
She's amazing. That goes on here is crazy. So the
1305
01:04:50.030 --> 01:04:53.929
two suspects, after getting their fucking asses kicked by a
1306
01:04:54.469 --> 01:04:59.829
moderate to small-sized woman... throwing them 12 feet in their
1307
01:04:59.869 --> 01:05:03.800
tactical gear. They go, let's get out of here. And
1308
01:05:03.820 --> 01:05:06.099
they fucking get in the car and blast through the
1309
01:05:06.119 --> 01:05:08.840
police barricade with their big armored vehicle that they're in
1310
01:05:09.019 --> 01:05:12.699
and escape. And there were no flock cameras around, so
1311
01:05:12.900 --> 01:05:16.809
nobody could follow them. That's why we need flock cameras, everybody.
1312
01:05:16.849 --> 01:05:17.690
Wait, does it say that?
1313
01:05:17.869 --> 01:05:21.429
It says that about flock cameras. Here, here, flock cameras. No,
1314
01:05:21.610 --> 01:05:22.929
it doesn't say anything about flock cameras.
1315
01:05:23.769 --> 01:05:25.630
But do destroy your local flock cameras.
1316
01:05:26.889 --> 01:05:31.469
Or if, like, something bad happened to it, like... Oh, no. Oh, no. Anyway,
1317
01:05:31.929 --> 01:05:38.389
so Thompson comes in blustering and presumably wiping the sides
1318
01:05:38.449 --> 01:05:42.150
of his mustache free of semen. Oh, no. Because that's
1319
01:05:42.170 --> 01:05:45.170
probably what he was doing during this whole debacle. You
1320
01:05:45.269 --> 01:05:48.429
had them and you let them get away. What the
1321
01:05:48.610 --> 01:05:52.449
hell is wrong with you? An animalistic rage like he'd
1322
01:05:52.550 --> 01:05:57.230
never felt before crawled up Xander's back. Trevor, Becker, Cooper
1323
01:05:57.329 --> 01:06:00.170
all came running in from the same direction as Thompson,
1324
01:06:00.230 --> 01:06:06.440
and they look equally pissed. And Max, the team's youngest werewolf,
1325
01:06:06.719 --> 01:06:09.599
the youngest, sexiest pup, looked like he was ready to
1326
01:06:09.699 --> 01:06:13.719
shift and rip Thompson's ass to shreds. No, it's not
1327
01:06:13.780 --> 01:06:16.539
rip Thompson to shreds. Xander was going to have a
1328
01:06:16.699 --> 01:06:23.289
full-scale werewolf riot on his hands any second. But... Haki
1329
01:06:23.389 --> 01:06:26.170
jumps in and takes charge before he has a chance.
1330
01:06:26.289 --> 01:06:27.989
What if she becomes the alpha?
1331
01:06:29.010 --> 01:06:32.880
Funny you should say that. Because she jumps in and
1332
01:06:32.909 --> 01:06:37.920
takes charge and talks down the boys before Xander even
1333
01:06:37.960 --> 01:06:42.619
has a chance to. There were kids hiding behind those
1334
01:06:42.659 --> 01:06:45.489
cars you just shot the crap out of. Why did
1335
01:06:45.510 --> 01:06:48.349
I let the suspects get away to save those kids
1336
01:06:48.929 --> 01:06:52.199
from you? Oh, yeah. Thompson.
1337
01:06:52.239 --> 01:06:52.960
You tell him, girl.
1338
01:06:52.980 --> 01:06:57.630
Save it. You screwed up here, girly. Not us, bitch. No,
1339
01:06:58.210 --> 01:07:00.650
he's like, you save it. You screwed up here. Not us.
1340
01:07:01.250 --> 01:07:03.750
Brushing past him, she walked past the kid she just
1341
01:07:03.849 --> 01:07:07.869
rescued and then knelt down beside the little girl and, like,
1342
01:07:07.949 --> 01:07:11.949
comforts her and rubs her face. Damn. But Thompson, like,
1343
01:07:12.050 --> 01:07:16.730
backs down and, like, flounces away. Jeez, I can't believe
1344
01:07:16.769 --> 01:07:21.570
she talked to me that way. Damn straight, Max said softly,
1345
01:07:21.679 --> 01:07:24.320
dropped his ass like a dirty toilet seat. That's what
1346
01:07:24.380 --> 01:07:27.900
I'm talking about. They love her. They love her. The
1347
01:07:27.960 --> 01:07:32.000
boys are like gaga over her. The other guys in
1348
01:07:32.039 --> 01:07:35.119
the squad let out low chuckles. Bip, bip, bip, bip, bip.
1349
01:07:35.139 --> 01:07:38.219
Xander could understand why. Khaki had just put Thompson in
1350
01:07:38.260 --> 01:07:40.860
his place like a seasoned pro. They hadn't caught the
1351
01:07:40.989 --> 01:07:45.730
bad guys, but she'd saved lives. That was a win
1352
01:07:45.789 --> 01:07:49.730
in his book. His specifically, not in other police books.
1353
01:07:49.750 --> 01:07:51.389
No, no, just his. His is the only one that matters.
1354
01:07:52.210 --> 01:07:55.869
Duh. He's pissed that she threw herself into danger against
1355
01:07:55.909 --> 01:07:59.869
his wishes. Yep. If Khaki had been one of the guys,
1356
01:07:59.889 --> 01:08:02.289
and then he interrogates himself a little bit. He goes,
1357
01:08:02.789 --> 01:08:04.750
if Khaki had been one of the guys on the team,
1358
01:08:04.769 --> 01:08:07.739
Xander would have expected whoever it was to jump in
1359
01:08:07.800 --> 01:08:10.639
and save those kids. So why hadn't he demanded the
1360
01:08:10.699 --> 01:08:14.539
same of Khaki? Because he was scared as hell she'd
1361
01:08:14.599 --> 01:08:15.219
get hurt.
1362
01:08:15.280 --> 01:08:17.039
Yeah, he's too protective.
1363
01:08:18.689 --> 01:08:20.569
Why the hell didn't you stop Khaki from climbing down
1364
01:08:20.590 --> 01:08:26.380
that whelp? You're kidding, right? Alex snorted. Kaki has a
1365
01:08:26.420 --> 01:08:28.739
mind of her own. Maybe you've been too focused on
1366
01:08:28.760 --> 01:08:31.149
the details to see the big picture, but she's as
1367
01:08:31.279 --> 01:08:36.890
alpha as any of us. And he's like, I could
1368
01:08:36.970 --> 01:08:39.569
not have stopped her without knocking her out or something.
1369
01:08:41.090 --> 01:08:45.140
Xander stared at Alex, dumbfounded. He knew Kaki got along
1370
01:08:45.159 --> 01:08:47.720
well with the guys, but he thought that was simply
1371
01:08:47.779 --> 01:08:51.800
because she was, well, a woman. I revved. If Alex
1372
01:08:51.840 --> 01:08:54.000
was right, she'd vaulted to the top of the pack's
1373
01:08:54.039 --> 01:08:57.770
testosterone-laden pecking order in less than a week without ever
1374
01:08:57.810 --> 01:09:01.720
having to snarl, punch, or body slam, anybody. That didn't
1375
01:09:01.779 --> 01:09:03.010
happen in the pack.
1376
01:09:03.729 --> 01:09:04.829
Holy shit.
1377
01:09:05.069 --> 01:09:08.329
Seriously? Seriously? Yes?
1378
01:09:08.430 --> 01:09:09.390
This is serious.
1379
01:09:09.960 --> 01:09:12.520
Yeah, Alex Grand, you better watch out or she'll take
1380
01:09:12.640 --> 01:09:13.619
over the whole squad.
1381
01:09:15.020 --> 01:09:17.880
Oh, if this book doesn't end with her as squad leader,
1382
01:09:17.920 --> 01:09:19.739
I'm going to be fucking pissed.
1383
01:09:19.770 --> 01:09:20.670
Well, actually.
1384
01:09:20.989 --> 01:09:23.710
With Zandy just cuckling under her.
1385
01:09:23.829 --> 01:09:27.189
With wolves, it's often a mated pair are in charge.
1386
01:09:27.329 --> 01:09:31.140
The like lead female and lead male. So that's what
1387
01:09:31.149 --> 01:09:32.560
I think we're getting at is they are going to
1388
01:09:32.600 --> 01:09:34.539
be like a unit that runs the team.
1389
01:09:34.560 --> 01:09:36.100
Why do you know so much about wolves?
1390
01:09:36.750 --> 01:09:38.340
I know a lot about wolves. I know a lot
1391
01:09:38.380 --> 01:09:40.300
about animals in general. I used to go to zoo
1392
01:09:40.319 --> 01:09:41.100
camp every summer.
1393
01:09:43.260 --> 01:09:43.600
Nerd.
1394
01:09:43.800 --> 01:09:47.300
And I love animals and just know a ton about
1395
01:09:47.340 --> 01:09:50.930
them and love them. We watch a lot of nature documentaries.
1396
01:09:52.010 --> 01:09:53.329
I haven't watched one in a while, though. I should.
1397
01:09:53.829 --> 01:09:56.050
He's really in touch with nature.
1398
01:09:56.229 --> 01:10:00.810
With his natural side. Somewhere that's green.
1399
01:10:03.569 --> 01:10:04.390
I love that movie.
1400
01:10:04.590 --> 01:10:07.649
We don't have a little Audrey in this book yet.
1401
01:10:07.850 --> 01:10:10.310
Let's get Mac. Can we redo Mac?
1402
01:10:10.510 --> 01:10:14.159
No, she's too badass. Not that Audrey wasn't badass, but
1403
01:10:14.319 --> 01:10:15.840
Audrey was.
1404
01:10:15.859 --> 01:10:16.920
She's got a gentleness, too.
1405
01:10:16.960 --> 01:10:19.119
Yeah, we need someone a little softer.
1406
01:10:19.479 --> 01:10:23.689
She's a little beta. We need a beta wolf lady. Okay,
1407
01:10:23.739 --> 01:10:29.739
so I think... Oh, yeah, we got to watch that.
1408
01:10:29.979 --> 01:10:32.439
And I got to show you the alternate ending. They've
1409
01:10:32.479 --> 01:10:35.380
refurbished it on, like, the Blu-ray. So, originally, it has
1410
01:10:35.420 --> 01:10:38.699
this stage play ending, the sad, like, fucking horrible ending
1411
01:10:38.739 --> 01:10:41.159
where the bad guy wins. And they were like, well,
1412
01:10:41.229 --> 01:10:45.149
that's fucking awesome. And I can't wait to show you the, like...
1413
01:10:45.909 --> 01:10:49.430
They did crazy puppet work for that with all these
1414
01:10:49.550 --> 01:10:53.930
Audrey's destroying the world. But... they were like, oh, it
1415
01:10:53.989 --> 01:10:56.840
is a pretty feel bad. Can we try an alternate ending?
1416
01:10:56.880 --> 01:10:59.500
And they came up with the, I think very good.
1417
01:10:59.539 --> 01:11:03.539
You just see the plants in the, in the box. So,
1418
01:11:03.579 --> 01:11:06.000
you know, that like, there'll be more, there will be more,
1419
01:11:06.079 --> 01:11:10.020
but we don't have to have Audrey get eaten. Yeah.
1420
01:11:10.479 --> 01:11:13.909
And like, I just kind of like the movie ending too.
1421
01:11:14.010 --> 01:11:18.130
I don't think it's necessarily better, but I, okay, whatever.
1422
01:11:18.149 --> 01:11:20.149
I'm a sucker for a happy ending, I guess.
1423
01:11:20.970 --> 01:11:21.529
Yeah, you are.
1424
01:11:22.229 --> 01:11:23.869
I just think it's done really well, and the final
1425
01:11:23.890 --> 01:11:31.159
confrontation is great and looks great. Nobody was blaming Xander
1426
01:11:31.220 --> 01:11:33.539
or his squad for the way things had gone down.
1427
01:11:33.640 --> 01:11:38.029
In fact, due to the magic of YouTube, their SWAT team,
1428
01:11:38.109 --> 01:11:41.789
especially Khaki, had come out smelling like roses. They went viral!
1429
01:11:41.810 --> 01:11:45.569
They went viral! But a bank had been robbed. The
1430
01:11:45.609 --> 01:11:48.630
suspects had gotten away. And more than one lawyer was
1431
01:11:48.710 --> 01:11:51.949
already up front of cameras talking about suing the city. Uh-oh.
1432
01:11:51.979 --> 01:11:55.149
The chief and deputy chief wanted details and they wanted
1433
01:11:55.180 --> 01:12:01.300
them now. So Gage, our alpha, is talking to Xander
1434
01:12:01.340 --> 01:12:05.359
about what went down. And she's pretty impressive. And he's like, yeah,
1435
01:12:05.819 --> 01:12:08.319
I saw the videos. What voice should we do for Gage?
1436
01:12:12.850 --> 01:12:14.779
Just like a girl he's the alpha yeah just like
1437
01:12:14.800 --> 01:12:17.020
a gruff gentleman yeah he can be serious all.
1438
01:12:16.939 --> 01:12:20.420
The videos pretty impressive stuff look i know there's been
1439
01:12:20.539 --> 01:12:22.939
friction between the two of you and i've heard that
1440
01:12:22.979 --> 01:12:24.659
some of the guys have what some of the guys
1441
01:12:24.680 --> 01:12:28.220
have been saying but keep her keep riding her hard
1442
01:12:28.359 --> 01:12:31.539
oh my god it's paying off so he says like
1443
01:12:31.560 --> 01:12:34.380
whatever you're doing it's working because she's fucking badass yeah
1444
01:12:34.939 --> 01:12:38.640
and making us all look really good Uh, so he
1445
01:12:38.659 --> 01:12:40.800
heads up to the shower and he's like, uh, I
1446
01:12:40.819 --> 01:12:42.350
should shower and sleep. But if I go up to
1447
01:12:42.359 --> 01:12:43.659
the shower, I'm.
1448
01:12:43.310 --> 01:12:45.229
Going to smell like her and I'm just.
1449
01:12:45.069 --> 01:12:47.989
Going to be sitting around all hard. Her set filled
1450
01:12:48.090 --> 01:12:49.789
every corner of the compound too.
1451
01:12:49.829 --> 01:12:50.569
It's so strong.
1452
01:12:50.609 --> 01:12:52.569
He can't get away from it. Why the hell did
1453
01:12:52.609 --> 01:12:56.010
it affect him so much? What possible lore could be
1454
01:12:56.050 --> 01:12:57.710
behind it affecting me so much?
1455
01:12:57.949 --> 01:12:59.770
I mentioned three chapters ago.
1456
01:13:00.279 --> 01:13:02.300
He was so busy trying to figure out the answer
1457
01:13:02.359 --> 01:13:05.779
that he didn't even realize anyone was up there until
1458
01:13:05.819 --> 01:13:07.979
he got onto the top of the landing and and
1459
01:13:08.100 --> 01:13:11.930
saw Kaki wrapping a towel around her very wet, very
1460
01:13:11.989 --> 01:13:12.729
naked body.
1461
01:13:13.010 --> 01:13:13.789
Oh my god.
1462
01:13:14.029 --> 01:13:17.390
Xander stared at the towel-draped piece of perfection in front
1463
01:13:17.430 --> 01:13:23.390
of him, unable to breathe. His heart was pounding nearly
1464
01:13:23.470 --> 01:13:26.989
as hard as his cock. So his cock is pounding,
1465
01:13:27.020 --> 01:13:31.899
which is intense. Kaki looked up, her eyes locking with his.
1466
01:13:32.979 --> 01:13:35.380
He expected her to run back into the showers or
1467
01:13:35.420 --> 01:13:38.590
turn her back, But she merely stood there, holding his
1468
01:13:38.670 --> 01:13:41.149
gaze as she slowly tucked the towel more tightly around
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01:13:41.189 --> 01:13:45.600
her wet body. The move made her breasts squeeze together,
1470
01:13:45.720 --> 01:13:48.859
giving them an enticing glimpse of cleavage. And then she
1471
01:13:48.899 --> 01:13:50.979
let the towel fall. Nah, I'm just kidding.
1472
01:13:51.420 --> 01:13:53.180
Oh, you fucking asshole.
1473
01:13:53.239 --> 01:13:56.100
He forced his gaze away from her breasts, only to
1474
01:13:56.159 --> 01:14:02.970
find himself ogling her legs. Awooka! Sexy legs instead. Shit!
1475
01:14:04.000 --> 01:14:08.000
Xander jerked his head up to find her regarding him
1476
01:14:08.039 --> 01:14:11.819
with those big dark eyes of hers. Oh, God. He
1477
01:14:11.840 --> 01:14:14.789
needed to get out of here before I completely lost it.
1478
01:14:15.329 --> 01:14:18.649
Mumbling an apology. Sorry, sorry. He turned and stumbled back
1479
01:14:18.689 --> 01:14:20.729
down the stairs, practically falling over his feet.
1480
01:14:20.789 --> 01:14:21.909
Tripping over his boner.
1481
01:14:21.949 --> 01:14:24.399
This is my favorite part of the book right here
1482
01:14:24.439 --> 01:14:27.329
so far. Mumbling an apology, he turned and stumbled back
1483
01:14:27.409 --> 01:14:30.359
down the stairs, practically falling over his feet. It wasn't
1484
01:14:30.399 --> 01:14:33.380
his fault. Walking down steps with a heart on was
1485
01:14:33.479 --> 01:14:34.800
nearly impossible.
1486
01:14:34.819 --> 01:14:40.159
I knew it. Have you ever tried? I want you
1487
01:14:40.260 --> 01:14:42.109
to get super hard and go up and down these
1488
01:14:42.170 --> 01:14:42.869
crazy stairs.
1489
01:14:42.930 --> 01:14:47.170
What? It's not difficult. Not to mention the fact that it's, well,
1490
01:14:47.229 --> 01:14:50.310
when it's eight feet long, maybe it would be hard.
1491
01:14:50.329 --> 01:14:52.289
It takes all the blood in your body to lift it.
1492
01:14:52.390 --> 01:14:55.329
And it's red. It's bright red and protruding out of
1493
01:14:55.590 --> 01:14:59.529
a lipstick. Out of a mound. Out of a furry mound.
1494
01:14:59.869 --> 01:15:01.649
Come on, I have like two paragraphs left.
1495
01:15:01.670 --> 01:15:02.310
Fur tube.
1496
01:15:03.149 --> 01:15:08.300
Ugh. his head is no longer functioning properly. How could
1497
01:15:08.319 --> 01:15:10.659
he not have known Kaki was up there? He just
1498
01:15:10.720 --> 01:15:13.600
walked in on her half naked. This is what happens
1499
01:15:13.619 --> 01:15:15.359
if you have co-ed showers, guys. What do you think
1500
01:15:15.399 --> 01:15:18.260
is going to fucking happen? Then he stared at her
1501
01:15:18.300 --> 01:15:20.720
like a perverted peeping Tom. What the hell had he
1502
01:15:20.760 --> 01:15:23.880
just done? More importantly, what was Kaki going to do
1503
01:15:23.939 --> 01:15:27.720
about it? Call her union rep? Human resources? Get her gun!
1504
01:15:29.199 --> 01:15:32.380
Soft laughter drifted. He didn't, like, break into her house. No. Like,
1505
01:15:32.399 --> 01:15:35.590
what the fuck? Soft laughter drifted down the stairs, stopping
1506
01:15:35.619 --> 01:15:38.609
him in his tracks. If Xander thought his heart was
1507
01:15:38.630 --> 01:15:40.890
beating fast before, it was nothing compared to how it
1508
01:15:40.909 --> 01:15:41.689
was racing then.
1509
01:15:41.710 --> 01:15:42.970
Is she laughing at his boner?
1510
01:15:42.989 --> 01:15:51.130
Holy fudge monkey. No. She had the most beautiful laugh
1511
01:15:51.149 --> 01:15:52.510
she'd ever heard. No, it doesn't say that.
1512
01:15:53.029 --> 01:15:56.100
Prove it. No, prove it.
1513
01:15:56.979 --> 01:15:59.279
If Xander thought his heart was beating fast before, it
1514
01:15:59.319 --> 01:16:01.479
was nothing compared to how it was racing then.
1515
01:16:01.520 --> 01:16:02.010
Give me the book.
1516
01:16:02.100 --> 01:16:03.829
Holy fudge monkey.
1517
01:16:03.949 --> 01:16:04.529
Give me the book.
1518
01:16:04.949 --> 01:16:13.989
She had the most beautiful laugh you'd ever heard. It
1519
01:16:14.050 --> 01:16:18.949
says holy fudge monkey. Holy fudge monkey.
1520
01:16:20.739 --> 01:16:21.720
I can't do this.
1521
01:16:21.880 --> 01:16:23.460
I know. It's so fucked.
1522
01:16:23.500 --> 01:16:25.859
That's crazy.
1523
01:16:25.880 --> 01:16:30.060
Why? Who? No one. Middle school. I remember boys saying
1524
01:16:30.090 --> 01:16:32.949
stuff like, holy fudge monkey. Okay, but. Because you want
1525
01:16:32.970 --> 01:16:35.890
to say like a swear without swearing and getting in trouble.
1526
01:16:35.909 --> 01:16:38.149
But is this, isn't there fucking in this book?
1527
01:16:39.350 --> 01:16:42.090
I mean, she said cock a bunch. So what? If
1528
01:16:42.170 --> 01:16:46.029
we can say cock. He says fuck. He says fuck.
1529
01:16:46.050 --> 01:16:46.770
He says shit.
1530
01:16:46.869 --> 01:16:50.859
It's to give him character. It's because it's cute. It's
1531
01:16:51.199 --> 01:16:54.689
got to be the thought. Holy fudge monkey. Agree that
1532
01:16:54.729 --> 01:16:55.609
that's fucking funny.
1533
01:16:56.350 --> 01:16:57.229
It's crazy.
1534
01:16:57.550 --> 01:17:01.189
That this guy. It's so cringe. This guy, this action
1535
01:17:01.250 --> 01:17:05.770
Jason Bourne guy says, holy fudge monkey. Call the police.
1536
01:17:06.060 --> 01:17:08.439
Call the police. He is that guy.
1537
01:17:08.460 --> 01:17:08.880
He is.
1538
01:17:09.199 --> 01:17:12.279
Yeah. She had the most beautiful laugh he'd ever heard.
1539
01:17:12.880 --> 01:17:16.170
Then it struck him. He'd walked in on his one
1540
01:17:16.250 --> 01:17:19.609
and only female teammate, gawked at her almost naked body
1541
01:17:19.689 --> 01:17:23.170
for who knew how long, and she didn't seem the
1542
01:17:23.329 --> 01:17:25.130
least bit upset.
1543
01:17:25.350 --> 01:17:27.170
And then she laughed at me. I have to tear
1544
01:17:27.229 --> 01:17:27.890
her to shreds.
1545
01:17:28.449 --> 01:17:34.060
Didn't seem the least bit upset. What the hell? So
1546
01:17:34.100 --> 01:17:37.460
the next part is we jump to Kaki, and she
1547
01:17:37.479 --> 01:17:39.600
talks to Mac. So that is where we will be
1548
01:17:40.279 --> 01:17:42.939
jumping in with the tail end of this chapter. Okay.
1549
01:17:44.210 --> 01:17:47.069
And she's going to be like, I'm in love with him.
1550
01:17:47.569 --> 01:17:49.689
I don't know. I have no idea. Honestly, I have
1551
01:17:49.760 --> 01:17:50.340
no idea.
1552
01:17:50.409 --> 01:17:51.640
I'm ready for some girl talk.
1553
01:17:51.659 --> 01:17:55.500
She just did a super action hero rappel down a
1554
01:17:55.560 --> 01:17:56.899
building and save children.
1555
01:17:56.979 --> 01:17:58.859
And then a teehee, my boobies.
1556
01:17:59.020 --> 01:18:03.600
My queevage was seen by Xander Wiggs. Lots going on.
1557
01:18:03.720 --> 01:18:08.380
I couldn't imagine what happens next. Okay. I guess I'm
1558
01:18:08.439 --> 01:18:13.180
excited to find out. I am. Yeah. You see what
1559
01:18:13.199 --> 01:18:16.939
I mean? There needs to be some sex. I mean,
1560
01:18:16.960 --> 01:18:18.420
that's really going to help, I think.
1561
01:18:18.500 --> 01:18:19.600
It's going to help a lot.
1562
01:18:19.649 --> 01:18:20.270
If we get some.
1563
01:18:20.619 --> 01:18:23.470
There's no way these sex scenes are going to be
1564
01:18:23.489 --> 01:18:26.090
well written and that's at least fun.
1565
01:18:26.510 --> 01:18:28.430
Yeah, we got her in the towel and we got
1566
01:18:28.470 --> 01:18:28.949
his bouncing boner.
1567
01:18:28.970 --> 01:18:31.510
I loved her action scene saving the kids from.
1568
01:18:31.930 --> 01:18:40.350
I loved the fruitcake bureau of internment. Internment? Internment. Interbreeding?
1569
01:18:40.770 --> 01:18:41.090
I don't know.
1570
01:18:41.109 --> 01:18:45.579
Oh, my God. Yeah. So we've got some villains now.
1571
01:18:45.800 --> 01:18:47.630
We've got a case that they have to solve. It's
1572
01:18:47.649 --> 01:18:50.970
like tactical bank folks. and meanwhile the two of them
1573
01:18:51.090 --> 01:18:52.229
are just wanting.
1574
01:18:51.949 --> 01:18:55.829
To fuck yeah that's interesting enough this book.
1575
01:18:55.689 --> 01:18:57.850
Is essentially i want to fuck my co-worker yeah or
1576
01:18:57.869 --> 01:18:59.909
my boss but we're having a busy season.
1577
01:18:59.649 --> 01:19:01.890
There's a power there's a power i want to fuck.
1578
01:19:01.810 --> 01:19:04.029
My boss yeah that's true so they're gonna have to
1579
01:19:04.069 --> 01:19:09.170
make them co-leads yeah of the team calphas calpha Co-alphas?
1580
01:19:09.329 --> 01:19:12.470
Co-alphas.
1581
01:19:14.170 --> 01:19:19.109
So that's not a conflict of interest anymore. Yes, yes. Oh,
1582
01:19:19.409 --> 01:19:22.300
baby cats. You know what? I have to go snuggle
1583
01:19:22.340 --> 01:19:23.100
my kitties now.
1584
01:19:23.300 --> 01:19:26.560
Yeah, we do. We've had enough dog for right now. Yeah,
1585
01:19:26.600 --> 01:19:29.380
no more dog, more cat. Now we need cat.
1586
01:19:29.600 --> 01:19:31.520
All right, Aaron, are you good? Can we be done now?
1587
01:19:32.779 --> 01:19:36.039
Are you satisfied? Are you satiated?
1588
01:19:36.619 --> 01:19:38.899
Aaron, did you enjoy that? Because Amanda and I are
1589
01:19:38.920 --> 01:19:42.119
like getting through it. So this is what you wanted
1590
01:19:42.140 --> 01:19:47.029
from Wolf Twobble? Yep. You disgust me.
1591
01:19:47.729 --> 01:19:48.829
He's getting everything you wanted.
1592
01:19:48.850 --> 01:19:50.270
This is wonderful.
1593
01:19:50.550 --> 01:19:52.989
It's just like how I got everything I wanted.
1594
01:19:53.970 --> 01:19:55.329
Please read more.
1595
01:19:55.350 --> 01:19:57.460
Please write more. I thought it was great.
1596
01:19:58.140 --> 01:20:00.340
I'll read more. I'll take it from here.
1597
01:20:00.359 --> 01:20:00.920
Awesome.
1598
01:20:01.020 --> 01:20:02.739
And then it'll be Aaron's turn again.
1599
01:20:02.760 --> 01:20:04.159
Aaron's turn.
1600
01:20:04.199 --> 01:20:05.699
Aaron's turn.
1601
01:20:05.840 --> 01:20:07.500
I don't think he did such a bad job.
1602
01:20:07.539 --> 01:20:09.739
No, he'll do great. That's good. He has to read
1603
01:20:09.770 --> 01:20:10.560
a third of this book.
1604
01:20:10.970 --> 01:20:11.409
Yeah.
1605
01:20:11.590 --> 01:20:12.689
To make it fair.
1606
01:20:12.710 --> 01:20:13.970
To make it fair.
1607
01:20:14.069 --> 01:20:14.510
Yeah.
1608
01:20:14.590 --> 01:20:15.449
Fair for us.
1609
01:20:15.789 --> 01:20:16.550
For all of us.
1610
01:20:16.569 --> 01:20:17.409
Okay.
1611
01:20:17.550 --> 01:20:18.210
Goodbye.
1612
01:20:18.229 --> 01:20:19.210
Bye.
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01:20:21.609 --> 01:20:23.069
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