Fourth Wing Chapter 14

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deep dive into the Empyrean series chapter by
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chapter, theorize and overanalyze. I'm Abby.
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I'm John. Augustus Mishakasi. And today we are
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covering Fourth Wing Chapter 14. Here is your
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requisite reminder that all published material
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is fair game, so please listen at your own risk
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because there will be spoilers. Guys, I did that
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off the dome. I did it off the dome. Taking a
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bow. Taking a breath. Oh my goodness. Okay. So
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without any dilly -dallying today, we're going
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to send it over to our resident scribe, John,
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to break down the epigraph of chapter 14. Here
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we have what is, again, I've called this text
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out before, but it just, I love this title because
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it's so on -the -nose bullshit. From Navarre,
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an unedited history by Colonel Louis Markham.
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Boo! In the six centuries of recorded history
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of dragon and rider, there have been hundreds
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of known cases where a dragon simply cannot emotionally
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recover from the loss of their bonded rider.
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This happens when the bond is particularly strong
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and in three documented cases has even caused
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the untimely death of the dragon. And so what
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I'm guessing here he's referring to is the unable
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to emotionally recover from the loss of their
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bonded dragon is they choose not to bond again.
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Yeah, that's my that would be my take. Yeah.
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But it's wild that there's only three documented
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and documented is very loaded, especially coming
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from Mark. We've burned the documents. We yeah.
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So we don't know if that is in, quote unquote,
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modern history. We don't know if that is in edited.
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history like even in the modern age it could
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have happened more often than this but yeah i
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find that very interesting especially since we
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know that tern is self -described as not going
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to survive past violet i do want to call out
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again that this is just like our very first epigraph
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the opposite of what happens in the pern series
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where the writers survive But it's basically
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guaranteed that they're going to go mad, and
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then some of them do also die. But then I wrote,
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but dragons are made of sterner stuff, so it's
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rarer in the Empyrean. Yes, yes. Dragons don't
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often care about the whims of man. No, they do
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not. I also was wondering about unedited versus
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unauthorized, because we've got one of the other
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epigraphs is from an unauthorized text. That's
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the... Guide to the Writer's Quadrant, unauthorized
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edition. Major of Frenda's, right? Yeah, where
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they've just gone rogue and published it secretly
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on the printing press, just like Davera did with
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pamphlets, versus unedited means it's probably
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going to go through the traditional system and
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get scribe oversight. It just hasn't yet, for
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what we're looking at. Oh, no, I think that's
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very much him trying to be like, this is the...
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Ops, ops. obfuscate? It's obfuscation. I can't
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say a word. So like saying, I'm giving you the
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real deal. Like you think that that's him editorializing
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with that word? Yeah, you can trust me. This
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isn't the draft. Yeah, this is unedited. This
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is every fact. This is every detail as I can
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find it, as I can report it, when we know for
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a fact that this is total bullshit. Bullshit.
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Yeah, I think, yeah, this is him being like,
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this is your one stop shop of everything you
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need to know. And you can absolutely trust me
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100%. I'm telling the truth all the time. Don't
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buy any other books. Yep. Yep. What do you think
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the literacy rate in this society is? Oh, good
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question. Who's reading these books? I mean,
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they are dropping pamphlets. And so it seems
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like reading is calm. good literacy but then
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again our literacy rate here in the good old
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us of a is a what third grade level but they
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also like they don't spend any time in dragon
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writing school teaching you how to read so like
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they must come in with that skill to a degree
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yeah they must and like it does seem to be a
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i hate to say this but a standardized standardized
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educational feature it doesn't seem like there
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are any people well but they have to pass a test
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so maybe like to get yeah that's true yeah like
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i'm seeing a situation where schooling is available
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at some level of government intervention but
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you are not like required to go through it you
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just have to be aware it's going to affect your
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outcome if you want to be a dragon writer you
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have to be able to read and write at a certain
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level We'll get into Baz Guyeth at all. Yep.
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Beyond being cannon fodder. I think that they
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would accept an illiterate person into the infantry.
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Yep. And then never promote them. Then we're
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going back to our conversation, though, of in
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the first chapter, she does call out that everybody
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who comes into Baz Guyeth has passed the test.
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But they're talking about cannon fodder for those
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who don't pass the test. And there's the whole
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conversation of like. What does that mean? Yeah.
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My interpretation is they get enlisted at whatever
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the lowest level in the army is. They barely
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ever get promotions unless they do manage to
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do something just right enough that, well, okay,
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I have no choice but to recognize you. Sure.
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And are not promoted very high, rarely retire,
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and when they do, they just kind of go back to
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their farm, and that's it. Makes sense to me.
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All right. Cassie. We're going to send it over
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to you. What Gaelic words do we have in this
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chapter? How will she torture me today? Well,
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you were excited about this one, John. In this
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chapter, we get Tarn's full name. Tarnanach!
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So that is our first word, Tarnanach. Yes! You
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can also do the pronunciation Tarnanach, like
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pronounce the E a little bit more, but Tarnanach
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is what I've heard the most. Drew was very excited
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when he read this and came to me and was like,
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am I saying this right? And I was like, yeah,
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pretty much. This one feels fairly straightforward.
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It's the one name that we all get right. Yeah.
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And this one means thunder. Which is hilarious
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because that implies that he follows lightning.
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So he follows Violet. That is cute. If you're
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curious, the word for lightning is Jelenaich.
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Jelenaich. Okay. How is that spelled? D -E -A.
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Oh, no. So that's like the N -E -A in Tarnanach,
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where I said you could pronounce it as nya a
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little bit. So that's how we're doing the D -E
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-A is dj. Sounds like a J. Yeah. D's often at
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the beginning of a syllable have kind of a j
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sound. Okay. So djelenaish. Because it does end
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with an A and a C -H, but it sneaks an I in there.
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And that softens up the C -H from a ch. More
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of a sh. Then we get. Murtkuchum. Murtkuchum.
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Okay. Okay, so this has two parts. Murt, which
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means murder. Yes. That one's pretty straightforward.
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And then kuchum. This is the D acting like a
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J again. Okay. I had to really think about this
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one for a second because it looks really similar
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to another word, kuchach, which means also. I'm
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so terrible at spelling that word. And when I
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had tried to type in kuchum into Google Translate,
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Google Translate conveniently refuses to provide
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pronunciation for words in Scottish Gaelic. Rude.
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So I had to figure out how to spell this other
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word and make sure that it had the vowels in
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the same order so that I could map that on. And
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then after I went through all that work, I for
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real conveniently found the Learn Gaelic website,
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which has a dictionary that includes pronunciations
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for everything. So I was able to use that to
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confirm that I had it right. So kucham means
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like emphasis or weight. Death weight. Like,
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yeah, like murder, murder, wait, murder, exclamation
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point. Emphasize murder. Got it. Yes. Oh, yes.
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I like that. Okay, this next one's going to be
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a little harder. Oh, no. Fjallklingfjall. So
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this is also two root words. We've got fjallkling,
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which is teeth, and fjall, which is blood. Fjallkling
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has... this kind of characteristic H sound, this
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invisible H that happens right before, between
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a vowel and a C that starts a new syllable. So
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some other examples are like muk, which is the
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word for pig. It's just spelled M -U -C, but
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you say an H right before the C. Or mak, mak,
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mak, which means sun. It's not pronounced mak
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in Scottish Gaelic. It's mak. And I just think
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those are really fun to say. So that one's essentially
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like bloody teeth. Okay. Makes sense. The last
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one is fun. So the way that the book writes it,
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I would probably say Duvmagin. This is the one
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that's D -U -B -H -M -A -D -I -N -N. Okay. I
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would read the way that Rebecca writes it as
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Duvmagin, but it would be a little bit different
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if you... actually put it in the correct Gaelic.
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So Duv just means black. He's black. That's great.
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The black line. Yes. The Majin part actually
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comes from the word for morning, which is Matin.
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It's spelled almost the same, but there's an
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A before the I. So M -A -D -A -I -N -N. And having
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that A in there completely changes the vowel
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of the second half. So instead of Majin, it would
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be Matin. And also because of where it is in
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the word, the emphasis is different. So mathen,
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the emphasis is on the first part, ma. This one
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is a pretty common word. Mathen va, that's how
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you say good morning, for example. If she had
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used the actual Gaelic grammatical rules, the
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noun would go before the adjective. So it would
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be mathen and then duv. Also, when you do stuff
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like that, you have to do that thing I was talking
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about before, where the beginning of the second
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word is lenited, which means you're adding an
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H and softening it. Shout out again to IsolatedColorYT
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for making this point. Our savior. It should
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be... I spent like five minutes trying to figure
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out how to say this correctly. It should be more
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like matenguv. The softened D turning into a
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D -H at the beginning of a syllable seems like
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it sometimes makes a G sound. So, matenguv is
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black morning. Do we think that the morning is
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related to morning star tales? That would be
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a very obvious reason. I don't necessarily have
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an alternative beyond, like, black mornings are
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foreboding and cool. Or like the early morning
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or something. Yeah. Or like a beginning, like
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the beginning of the blacks. So his full name
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is Thunder, murder exclamation point, bloody
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teeth of the black mornings. Well, son of murder
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exclamation point. Right, yeah. And bloody teeth.
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Yes. And that's all of them. Turn to knock. Son
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of the Dub -Madeen line. Yeah, so they don't
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do horribly with that one. It doesn't take too
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many liberties with it. Okay. I can accept so
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long as it's Dub -Madeen line. I can accept that.
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I mean, you don't... The B -H is a V. I can't
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tell what you're saying. Oh, I'm definitely saying
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a B. Dub -Madeen. Yeah, it's like the name Siobhan.
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The B -H is a V. Ah. Okay. That's a good reference
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there. That really is. Because I know that one.
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It's the only one most people know, so. Yep,
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yep. All right. Well, we'll have more in the
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next chapter or the one after that. But regardless,
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we got the big one. We got the big one there.
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So without further ado, Cassie, want to get us
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into this chapter? Yes, I'll take my scribe hat
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off. I put my reader hat back on. Okay. Chapter
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14. We left off with Violet seeing Zayden watching
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her little standoff with, what are we calling
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them again? The Little Bitch Boy Incel Club.
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Yep. So long. Little Incel Bitch Boy Club. Yes.
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I'm totally going to forget that and reference.
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L -I -B -B -C. L -I -B -B -C. So Violet is feeling
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hopeful at the sight of Zayden for the first
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time. She's grappling with the rules that he
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can't step in to stop anything, not even an attempted
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dragon murder, so it's all up to her. He can
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only observe, not interfere, but as I complained
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about last chapter, speaking up kind of is an
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action that has consequences, and therefore,
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depending on what technicality and how gray this
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actually is in the codex, could count as interference
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if anyone made it out of this encounter to complain.
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And as I wrote in my notes, like Zayden has ever
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given a single solitary fuck about the rules.
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Exactly. Violet also considers her own murder
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as a potential outcome here and how wonderful
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it is to have an audience for her final performance.
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So much for hope, she thinks. That very thing
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that she was complaining about to Zayden before,
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to which he told her to focus on the probabilities,
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which she remembers and quotes to herself in
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her head. She's like, oh yeah, let's do that.
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She breaks eye contact with Zayden because his
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voice in her head makes her self -conscious before
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it's even there for real. And of course, because
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there's another task yet at hand. Mother Flooping
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Jack Barlow also calls out to be needed to confirm
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the non -interference policy. Mother Flooping
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Jack Barlow? I think I was supposed to say Mother
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Flopping and I made a typo. Mother Flooping is
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great. Suddenly this turned into Spy Kids the
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first movie. I need more booze. and Zayden's
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all it's not me you should worry about because
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homeboys got faith in Violet yes I wrote that
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too it like and scale is mentioned like right
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after so it's like oh it's leading you to believe
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it's like scale is going to be the but no it's
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Violet yeah I wrote that scale is giving the
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evil eye and it's kind of just being a menacing
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presence in general Tynan casts off the chains
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of squadmatehood for the pleasure of the dark
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side. Good one. Violet says, well, if Andarna
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isn't going to fly away, she would really appreciate
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some backup in the form of claws. Andarna gives
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some adorable chuffs, and the camera pans to
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show us she has no claws. Yep. Uh -oh. So much
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for that plan. Mother -hopping Jack Barlow yells
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and charges along with Tynan and Auron. I need
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to know, how much time did you spend trying to
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figure out how many words you can put in there
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for fuck? I kind of just go with whatever jumps
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to me when I'm writing my notes. Just how you
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end up with mother -flooping. Which, again, I'm
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pretty sure was supposed to be flopping, which
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then gave us hopping this time, and so on and
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so forth. With her bad ankle, Violet is kind
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of a sitting duck, so she has to rely on throwing
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knives around and hoping they land. Her insta
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-reflexes fling a dagger that sinks into the
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shoulder of Barlow's sword arm. She turns to
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send a dagger into Tynan's thigh as well, but
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only slows him down. She immediately takes Jack
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out. Just like immediately. He doesn't even reach
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her. Yeah, he's just like down for the count.
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Yep. But yeah, Tynan's actually still running
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at her despite the injury. Orin reaches her and
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goes for her neck. She ducks, gets him on the
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ribs, as well as getting a sword to her own stomach.
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Thankfully, she keeps all of her guts because
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of Tanya's armor, scale thingies. Thank you,
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Mira. Orin hasn't seen this invincibility trick
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before, and as he tries to reckon with this cognitive
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dissonance of Violet being weak, but not hurt,
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Jack cries for sympathy for his own shoulder.
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As if Violet hasn't dealt with screwed up shoulders
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many times already and still fighting. Jack issues
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a final command to his crew to kill Violet. before
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bravely turning and running away. Sparing her
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death by his own hand as he threatened repeatedly.
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Yep, I wrote, motherfucking Jack Barlow, head
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little incel bitch boy runs away, goes to show
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that they're all fucking cowards when push comes
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to shove. Yep, and so much for their first concert.
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The lead singer has disappeared. He's throwing
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a tantrum somewhere. The others may not make
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it out alive. Tynan catches her somewhere with
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a sword. It seemed kind of, I couldn't figure
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out based on that sentence. I think it went like
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straight through her arm because it says like
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in the direction of the bone, but then also that
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it didn't go into her ribs because of the armor.
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No, that's the next one. Oh, sorry. The next
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one. Yeah. This one is just, it's 164. Oh, I
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don't think that he actually hits her for this
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one. I think when she spins away, it's the pain
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from her ankle. Oh, okay. Yeah, I was trying
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to figure out, like, why is she in pain? Yeah.
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But not telling us. Yeah. She does a backward
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stab to get him back, and then... Orin gets an
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elbow to the chin, which I wrote that that sounds
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really painful. I've hit my elbow in the same
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place twice this weekend and it hurts a lot.
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So I can't imagine intentionally hitting someone's
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chin with it. Tynan is so offended that she would
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fight back instead of just taking her assassination
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like a champ. Or a loser, I guess. And calls
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her a bitch, which is a lot coming from our,
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what is it again? Little incel bitch boys. Yes.
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Takes one to know one. Yep. Yep. And I just have
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another, cause I mean, sorry, I'm jumping ahead
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by one, one sentence that she. insult his insult
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and i just wrote again be a better bully do a
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better job yeah well and i think she also says
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like so original oh yeah such an original insult
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like that's the second time that she's criticized
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his originality well the first the first one
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was jack when he like did the right right so
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this crew in general so just imagine how derivative
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their songs are going to be oh my god so derivative
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Violet takes the moment of his distraction and
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Oren's potential concussion to cut up Oren some
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more. But Tynan catches on, and then this is
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where he slices his sword down her upper arm,
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somehow also angling it at her ribs. So I guess
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through her arm to her ribs. That's what I think.
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And the armor saving her again. But it will definitely
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bruise, she's pretty sure. Zayden quote unquote
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interferes again by yelling, behind you! Because
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Orin has collected himself enough to poise over
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her with his sword aimed at her neck. And Darna
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does a little snappy snappy, her teeth terrifying
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Orin so that Violet can thump him on the head
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with the butt of her knife instead. If he did
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it before, he definitely has a concussion now.
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And probably a raging headache tomorrow. Oof.
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Tynan recognizes Zayden's speech as interference,
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but Zayden insists he's only narrating. Extremely
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selectively. I mean, if we just listened to his
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narration, what do we get? I don't consider that
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a... No, I recommend you rethink your actions.
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It's not me you should worry about today. And
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behind you. So I would definitely go to that
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play. And Violet thinks, how could Zayden possibly
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be on her side? Doesn't he want someone else
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to take the responsibility of killing her off
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his hands? So he can stop wrestling with his
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moral philosophy of the self at night? Mama Sorengel
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certainly couldn't object to trouble befalling
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Violet during this rite of passage. So maybe
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he wants to protect Andarna after all. Even though
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Andarna isn't even really under threat while
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they're focused on Violet. And if he can step
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in to protect Andarna, he can do that whether
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Violet makes it or not. But Violet getting some
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good stabs in does reduce the efficacy of any
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proceeding dragon murder attempts. This is true.
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Scale is doing the dragon version of a cat thrashing
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its tail or a snake swaying its head. And both
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of those animals would be also hissing. So I'm
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just imagining that if she could do that, she'd
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be doing that too. I agree with this. Tynan,
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again with the unoriginality, informs Violet
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that her arm is injured, which of course she
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knows. Like no shit did. And also pain is no
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stranger to her, so it's not going to slow her
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down as much as it apparently did for Barlow.
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Yep. She raises a dagger in the hand of her injured
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arm to intimidate him. and elaborates on her
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exquisite knowledge of where bodies can be damaged
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and what is probably happening to his right now.
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She tries to hurt him again, but she fails on
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the follow -through because her hand is so slick
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with blood. Oops. Which happens, you know. Yeah.
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Whom's amongst us? Wanted to know if anyone's
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doing a dagger count. I was not. I have not been,
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but that's two. That's two. Because she threw
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one earlier, and has she just been doing stabbing
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at this point? I think she's just been doing
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stabbing at this point, yeah, besides the one
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that Jack got. I will also point out that, like,
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she has ten daggers, so it's not like she's running
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out of them. Yeah, I was just curious, because
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I know some people... track those details, and
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I don't at all. I just assume if the author hasn't
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told me she's run out yet, then she hasn't run
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out yet. Fair. I can accept that. Vi is all but
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commending her own soul to Malak at this point,
00:25:47.029 --> 00:25:49.490
as Tynan has the real opportunity to kill her.
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She catches some movement from the corner of
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her eye. Zayden is stepping forward to intervene
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for real. Yep. And I wrote, he has a heart after
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all. More than Dane, at any rate. Yep. Yep. And
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then the wind blows and out of it materializes
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a Huffy Tarn. Because, of course, the dragons
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aren't going to let some dumb boys kill a baby
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dragon. No, of course not. Violet experiences
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telepathy for the first time as Tarn requests
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a clear path to torch Tynan without hurting her.
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Calling her Silver One. Yes, she obeys, wondering
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if she's next. But why bother warning her to
00:26:34.700 --> 00:26:37.039
move if he was also just going to kill her? And
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after she defended Andarna, like, dragons have
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some logic. Yes. Even if they're not green. Yes.
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And then, yes, we get her nickname as the Silver
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One, which is a nice juxtaposition with Andarna
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being the Golden One for now. We'll just ignore
00:26:52.279 --> 00:26:55.019
that Luca made the same comparison earlier in
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a snotty tone. Tarn suggests that she finish
00:27:00.279 --> 00:27:02.920
the job and kill Oren, but Violet has morals
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and she can't hurt a defenseless guy, even one
00:27:05.839 --> 00:27:08.420
who doesn't share those morals. Yes, even one
00:27:08.420 --> 00:27:10.799
who is going to literally try to kill her when
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she is defenseless and would save probably everyone
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just a really big headache if she took care of
00:27:16.619 --> 00:27:20.200
him now. She has so many opportunities to save
00:27:20.200 --> 00:27:23.240
herself future headache, but no, she's got morals.
00:27:26.380 --> 00:27:29.940
Tarn accepts her decision. Although clearly questions
00:27:29.940 --> 00:27:32.680
her judgment. He just blinks at her and she's
00:27:32.680 --> 00:27:36.779
like, uh. I love that line, though. Well, that's
00:27:36.779 --> 00:27:39.940
a statement on his character, not mine. Yes.
00:27:40.359 --> 00:27:43.460
Yeah. About Orin. Yes. Yeah. Which I don't like
00:27:43.460 --> 00:27:46.220
disagree with her, but I don't live in a fantasy
00:27:46.220 --> 00:27:49.619
world book where dragons are killing people and
00:27:49.619 --> 00:27:52.019
other people are out to get me all the time,
00:27:52.019 --> 00:27:55.880
too. So. Yeah. There's lots of complexity here.
00:27:58.800 --> 00:28:01.839
Yes. Zayden and Scale skedaddle off to fulfill
00:28:01.839 --> 00:28:04.640
wingleader duties, leaving Violet to reckon with
00:28:04.640 --> 00:28:08.740
Tarn alone. Channeling his inner Zayden, Tarn
00:28:08.740 --> 00:28:13.000
tells Vi, you're bleeding. Stop it. Which I just
00:28:13.000 --> 00:28:18.319
love. It's such a funny thing. It's like, I love
00:28:18.319 --> 00:28:20.579
it, A, because it gives us like, yes, dragons
00:28:20.579 --> 00:28:22.480
have a completely different perspective than
00:28:22.480 --> 00:28:25.140
humans, but also it's like, Taryn, when you bleed,
00:28:25.259 --> 00:28:27.400
you cannot just stop it. You can't just turn
00:28:27.400 --> 00:28:33.079
it off. Just instant scab. Stop it. I mean, theoretically,
00:28:33.240 --> 00:28:37.019
he could turn around and cauterize his own wound.
00:28:37.299 --> 00:28:41.500
That is true. That is true. Yeah, I suppose you
00:28:41.500 --> 00:28:43.819
could. That sounds horrible. It really does.
00:28:44.960 --> 00:28:50.079
Stop the bleeding, though. Yeah, yeah. Oh, sorry.
00:28:50.180 --> 00:28:52.720
I'm just remembering when Drew cut himself. Oh,
00:28:52.720 --> 00:28:57.220
don't. And I had to watch him get whatever that
00:28:57.220 --> 00:29:00.900
chemical is that chemically cauterizes. Yeah.
00:29:01.299 --> 00:29:05.400
Oh, it looked so bad. It looked horrible after,
00:29:05.640 --> 00:29:09.160
let alone... No, I don't mean the way the wound
00:29:09.160 --> 00:29:11.359
looked. I mean the experience of him getting
00:29:11.359 --> 00:29:15.839
the cauterization looked horrible. Ouch. And
00:29:15.839 --> 00:29:20.339
so painful. Anyway, Violet wisely wraps up her
00:29:20.339 --> 00:29:24.509
arm. She, like, thinks about arguing and then
00:29:24.509 --> 00:29:27.990
thinks better of it. Yep. Tarn notices her wrapped
00:29:27.990 --> 00:29:30.950
hands as well, so she informs him that she really
00:29:30.950 --> 00:29:35.950
does try not to bleed on purpose. Which is, like,
00:29:35.950 --> 00:29:40.789
such a lie. Instead of judging her, Tarn says,
00:29:41.069 --> 00:29:45.230
hop on! Let's go, Violet Sorengale. Also, BG
00:29:45.230 --> 00:29:48.430
Dubs, I know your name. Yeah, I know your name.
00:29:48.509 --> 00:29:54.529
You don't know mine. And Violet's all, look how
00:29:54.529 --> 00:29:58.670
huge you are. Like he's the big bad wolf. Of
00:29:58.670 --> 00:30:02.029
course he is well aware, as Violet always says.
00:30:02.390 --> 00:30:07.349
Well the fuck aware. And then we're reminded
00:30:07.349 --> 00:30:10.170
that Andarna is still here in the scene under
00:30:10.170 --> 00:30:14.069
Tarn. She is dwarfed by him as well, looking
00:30:14.069 --> 00:30:16.869
like a lost puppy that Violet just can't leave
00:30:16.869 --> 00:30:21.910
behind. Tarn laughs at this as Andarna decides
00:30:21.910 --> 00:30:25.190
to just finally fly off. Yep, she's like... So
00:30:25.190 --> 00:30:27.869
Violet's like, really? Really? This whole time?
00:30:28.150 --> 00:30:31.309
I would say the same thing. Again, Andarna would
00:30:31.309 --> 00:30:35.420
never miss this show. She she's like, I got to
00:30:35.420 --> 00:30:39.299
see my girl in action. I'm not leaving. I also
00:30:39.299 --> 00:30:42.240
want to point out that like, and Darna has not
00:30:42.240 --> 00:30:45.259
spoken to Violet. She has not latched onto the
00:30:45.259 --> 00:30:49.579
bond yet. Yes. And yeah, as I kind of touched
00:30:49.579 --> 00:30:53.319
on last chapter, I think that it is kind of like
00:30:53.319 --> 00:30:56.359
almost she's waiting till the last moment to
00:30:56.359 --> 00:31:01.960
make it be like, oops, no takesie backsies. Too
00:31:01.960 --> 00:31:05.480
late. Yeah, and also we do have to get through
00:31:05.480 --> 00:31:08.299
Violet being able to fly back on Terrence's back
00:31:08.299 --> 00:31:12.980
first. That too. Even though Terrence is going
00:31:12.980 --> 00:31:15.460
to cheat. Right, he is going to cheat, but she
00:31:15.460 --> 00:31:18.839
maybe has to make sure that Violet makes it back
00:31:18.839 --> 00:31:22.099
to the flight field or something. The flight
00:31:22.099 --> 00:31:24.039
field, yeah. Because, I don't know, it would
00:31:24.039 --> 00:31:26.660
suck to bond Violet and then have Violet just
00:31:26.660 --> 00:31:32.490
fall off and get speared by a tree. Yeah, but
00:31:32.490 --> 00:31:34.170
again, Taryn isn't going to let that happen.
00:31:34.349 --> 00:31:38.049
So I don't know. Yeah, Indarna is totally here
00:31:38.049 --> 00:31:41.029
for the drama. Yes. And I also kind of pointed
00:31:41.029 --> 00:31:45.309
out last time that I don't think that Taryn either
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A, would or B, could bond a human that another
00:31:50.630 --> 00:31:52.569
dragon has already bonded. We know that Indarna
00:31:52.569 --> 00:31:56.549
is special because she is an Irid and can. do
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bonds outside of what is typical for dragon kind
00:31:59.230 --> 00:32:01.630
true so yeah so she wouldn't be the first one
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i think that she is waiting until the bond between
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taryn and violet is like confirmed because it's
00:32:10.730 --> 00:32:13.720
after she gives taryn's name that andarna is
00:32:13.720 --> 00:32:17.619
like and me yes hey also me so i think it's like
00:32:17.619 --> 00:32:21.259
this is official and now she's hopping on or
00:32:21.259 --> 00:32:24.259
is violet or is andarna right now like the bond
00:32:24.259 --> 00:32:26.799
is being formed between taryn and violet so obviously
00:32:26.799 --> 00:32:29.059
she needs to let that solidify before she can
00:32:29.059 --> 00:32:31.920
tag herself onto it but how much of this is also
00:32:31.920 --> 00:32:35.279
andarna is like she's doing this completely by
00:32:35.279 --> 00:32:37.740
instinct right now so she's probably got a little
00:32:37.740 --> 00:32:40.099
bit of trial and error to figure out how to get
00:32:40.099 --> 00:32:44.480
into the right bond I could see that as well,
00:32:44.519 --> 00:32:48.339
yeah. At this point, she's flown off, so she's
00:32:48.339 --> 00:32:51.180
not even nearby. I don't know. I kind of see
00:32:51.180 --> 00:32:54.039
that as her giving Violet and Tarn some alone
00:32:54.039 --> 00:32:58.859
time to figure things out. Well, and she really
00:32:58.859 --> 00:33:01.200
probably can't keep up with the maneuvers that
00:33:01.200 --> 00:33:03.940
Taryn's about to do. That too. There are a lot
00:33:03.940 --> 00:33:06.619
of reasons. I'm just seeing Violet's never...
00:33:07.200 --> 00:33:09.200
done any of this before. She's, like, shocked
00:33:09.200 --> 00:33:12.220
that Taran can even speak in her head. Also,
00:33:12.299 --> 00:33:15.960
though, we know that our girl, our girl Andorna,
00:33:16.079 --> 00:33:18.599
she has a flair for the dramatic. So I also think
00:33:18.599 --> 00:33:21.160
that she's just like, when is the best time to,
00:33:21.200 --> 00:33:25.720
like, stir up the most shit? So it's like, okay,
00:33:25.900 --> 00:33:27.660
okay, she just gave Taran's name. Okay, hold
00:33:27.660 --> 00:33:29.500
it. Hold it. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
00:33:30.240 --> 00:33:38.200
And me. I also accept. I'm picturing now those
00:33:38.200 --> 00:33:40.680
little, um, those little story, Andarna story
00:33:40.680 --> 00:33:45.539
time comics. I don't know these. They're on Instagram.
00:33:45.740 --> 00:33:47.900
John was sending them to me all the time when
00:33:47.900 --> 00:33:51.539
I was first reading the books. It's basically,
00:33:51.559 --> 00:33:56.420
like, Andarna telling the story of Fourth Wing
00:33:56.420 --> 00:34:00.079
to, like, other baby, like, to baby dragons after
00:34:00.079 --> 00:34:02.380
she's a little bigger. And she's, like, using
00:34:02.380 --> 00:34:05.240
stuffed animals and dolls for the riders of the
00:34:05.240 --> 00:34:08.429
dragons. Okay. A, please send this to me. Also
00:34:08.429 --> 00:34:11.190
B, send it to me for the show notes as well.
00:34:11.469 --> 00:34:15.409
Yes. She's so sassy, like interjecting her own
00:34:15.409 --> 00:34:18.409
commentary. And like, so really those like, well,
00:34:18.489 --> 00:34:20.389
this was happening. I thought this, but then
00:34:20.389 --> 00:34:22.289
the people were doing this and Taryn was all
00:34:22.289 --> 00:34:27.250
like, and Taryn, you can't eat people. Oh, I
00:34:27.250 --> 00:34:29.369
love her. I love her. Oh, I need to see this.
00:34:30.349 --> 00:34:32.489
But yeah, Violet definitely needs this little
00:34:32.489 --> 00:34:35.289
moment to just figure out what on earth is even
00:34:35.289 --> 00:34:40.630
happening. So after Indarna flies off, Violet
00:34:40.630 --> 00:34:44.130
begins to argue with Taryn that she is in fact
00:34:44.130 --> 00:34:48.190
an undeserving weakling. She's forgotten the
00:34:48.190 --> 00:34:50.570
lesson from class not to argue with dragons.
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He gives her one last chance. This is her ticket
00:34:55.320 --> 00:34:57.900
out of here and into safety. We're supposed to
00:34:57.900 --> 00:35:00.380
believe the violet is smart, so she has to take
00:35:00.380 --> 00:35:03.320
it. We remember that she had a tough time on
00:35:03.320 --> 00:35:05.480
the gauntlet obstacle that mimics mounting a
00:35:05.480 --> 00:35:08.219
dragon leg, and she wasn't even injured then.
00:35:08.460 --> 00:35:12.360
So as she attempts to climb Tarn's even larger
00:35:12.360 --> 00:35:16.539
than average leg, she has some trouble, understandably.
00:35:16.719 --> 00:35:21.019
I wonder why. Both two different limbs being
00:35:21.019 --> 00:35:24.809
damaged. Tarn is a little bit confused about
00:35:24.809 --> 00:35:27.170
Violet's abilities. Like, you're a writer, aren't
00:35:27.170 --> 00:35:31.809
you? But what the heck? She defended Andarna
00:35:31.809 --> 00:35:34.230
when she thought help was needed, so she's still
00:35:34.230 --> 00:35:37.010
worth investing in. I love her response, though.
00:35:37.090 --> 00:35:39.250
That seems up for debate at the moment. Because,
00:35:39.250 --> 00:35:42.369
yeah, technically she's not a writer yet, Tarn.
00:35:43.150 --> 00:35:48.909
So... In an unheard of move, he stretches out
00:35:48.909 --> 00:35:51.909
his leg at a nice crawlable angle to make it
00:35:51.909 --> 00:35:57.269
easier for her to get up. accessibility guys
00:35:57.269 --> 00:36:01.889
um he's like listen how about we implement some
00:36:01.889 --> 00:36:04.710
practices to make it more accessible for our
00:36:04.710 --> 00:36:07.949
less able -bodied friends physical strength isn't
00:36:07.949 --> 00:36:09.489
the only strength not to mention the fact that
00:36:09.489 --> 00:36:12.190
he doesn't want to get stabbed like i i really
00:36:12.190 --> 00:36:14.090
want to point out that he right because she could
00:36:14.090 --> 00:36:16.690
she could do use the old ice climber method of
00:36:16.690 --> 00:36:21.230
some pickaxes yes but but he's also being accessible
00:36:21.230 --> 00:36:24.849
to her by holding her in place with his magic
00:36:24.849 --> 00:36:28.869
he's also accessible to her by yes yes also going
00:36:28.869 --> 00:36:31.769
to be accessible to her by altering a portion
00:36:31.769 --> 00:36:36.269
of him to better suit her and allowing something
00:36:36.269 --> 00:36:39.090
else on his back like he is just yeah he's making
00:36:39.090 --> 00:36:42.400
a lot of concessions here that like no one ever
00:36:42.400 --> 00:36:45.360
wants to yes and i'm hoping that this is going
00:36:45.360 --> 00:36:47.739
to be a trend going forward i want more accessibility
00:36:47.739 --> 00:36:53.059
for uh differently abled riders absolutely yeah
00:36:53.059 --> 00:36:55.360
so because she's injured it still hurts but she
00:36:55.360 --> 00:36:58.500
is able to make it up his leg and onto his back
00:36:58.500 --> 00:37:01.239
crawling up his leg as i would crawl across the
00:37:01.239 --> 00:37:07.420
parapet so yes i am valid She finds the spot
00:37:07.420 --> 00:37:09.619
that she's supposed to sit on and is now faced
00:37:09.619 --> 00:37:12.179
with the reality that she can barely stay on
00:37:12.179 --> 00:37:15.000
the model dragons in class, let alone this guy
00:37:15.000 --> 00:37:17.099
who's bigger than those. So then I was like,
00:37:17.159 --> 00:37:19.260
wait, we never get to see these model dragons.
00:37:19.360 --> 00:37:22.840
I know. I know. I'm like, Violet, that would
00:37:22.840 --> 00:37:26.320
be so interesting. Do they move like... It's
00:37:26.320 --> 00:37:29.420
like the mechanical bull. Yeah. Do they have
00:37:29.420 --> 00:37:31.400
that kind of technology? Or do they like magic
00:37:31.400 --> 00:37:33.719
power them? Because if the gauntlet moves, they
00:37:33.719 --> 00:37:37.519
could totally make a rodeo dragon move. Yes.
00:37:37.619 --> 00:37:40.579
I need to see that class. How dare she? I need
00:37:40.579 --> 00:37:42.699
to see that lesson, Violet. This is such a throwaway
00:37:42.699 --> 00:37:47.980
line, too. Like, I'm mad now. It's probably Rebecca
00:37:47.980 --> 00:37:50.340
being like, writing at this point, being like,
00:37:50.480 --> 00:37:52.679
oh, yeah, they... Had to have tried to practice
00:37:52.679 --> 00:37:55.719
at least a little bit. Well, like, at the very
00:37:55.719 --> 00:37:57.260
least. She's like, I did skip across all those
00:37:57.260 --> 00:37:59.860
classes. Let's just presume that someone has
00:37:59.860 --> 00:38:02.739
carved a big wooden model that's like, when if
00:38:02.739 --> 00:38:06.380
you actually do make it onto a dragon, this is
00:38:06.380 --> 00:38:09.239
what it generally might look like. And here is
00:38:09.239 --> 00:38:13.059
where you put your hands. Where is that on campus,
00:38:13.119 --> 00:38:15.599
though? That's got to be huge. It's probably
00:38:15.599 --> 00:38:19.190
somewhere in the gym. There's no like statue
00:38:19.190 --> 00:38:22.630
listed on the map. If I were going to put it
00:38:22.630 --> 00:38:24.789
somewhere, I'd put it somewhere in the gym. It's
00:38:24.789 --> 00:38:27.809
on wheels. They can pull it out of the utility
00:38:27.809 --> 00:38:29.989
closet. So then there's also got to be, yeah,
00:38:30.050 --> 00:38:32.489
there's also got to be like a huge storage closet
00:38:32.489 --> 00:38:36.010
for when they need the gym for sparring. I don't
00:38:36.010 --> 00:38:38.909
disagree with that. Okay, you know what? Actually,
00:38:38.929 --> 00:38:40.550
they keep it in the flight field and they have
00:38:40.550 --> 00:38:43.630
a dragon come and fly it in and drop it off.
00:38:46.510 --> 00:38:51.349
And then Tarn finally introduces himself. My
00:38:51.349 --> 00:38:53.969
name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father.
00:38:54.329 --> 00:38:59.710
You are my rider. Prepare to fly. Okay, yeah.
00:38:59.809 --> 00:39:02.550
My name is Tarnadoc. You are my rider. Prepare
00:39:02.550 --> 00:39:08.460
to fly. I just watched, I think I actually talked
00:39:08.460 --> 00:39:10.840
about this. You said you watched it. Last chapter.
00:39:11.119 --> 00:39:13.260
Yeah, I watched it. That was the, Noah was like,
00:39:13.380 --> 00:39:15.199
mommy, it's your birthday. You can choose what
00:39:15.199 --> 00:39:17.539
movie you watch. And then he was like, what did,
00:39:17.579 --> 00:39:20.320
what did he choose? He goes, I think you choose
00:39:20.320 --> 00:39:22.619
this one. I'm like, absolutely. I do not. And
00:39:22.619 --> 00:39:24.679
I can't remember what movie it is now off the
00:39:24.679 --> 00:39:27.179
top of my head. Oh, the Paw Patrol movie. He's
00:39:27.179 --> 00:39:28.739
like, I think you choose the Paw Patrol movie.
00:39:28.840 --> 00:39:32.260
I'm like, I choose the Prince's Bride. Definitely
00:39:32.260 --> 00:39:36.860
not that one. Let's try. Yep. Yep. What Tarn
00:39:36.860 --> 00:39:39.900
actually says is, my name is Tarnanach, son of
00:39:39.900 --> 00:39:43.619
Morkuchim and Fyachklenful, descended from the
00:39:43.619 --> 00:39:46.639
cunning Dufmachin line. But I'm not going to
00:39:46.639 --> 00:39:48.260
assume that you'll be able to remember that,
00:39:48.420 --> 00:39:53.579
so Tarn will suffice. The sass. Until I inevitably
00:39:53.579 --> 00:39:57.280
have to remind you. Because you will. You will
00:39:57.280 --> 00:39:59.179
know my full name. You will know my lineage.
00:40:00.099 --> 00:40:03.780
He stands tall and they take off. There's a moment
00:40:03.780 --> 00:40:07.949
of majesty. And then Violet also falls off. Being
00:40:07.949 --> 00:40:12.769
a writer was nice while it lasted. The end. Book
00:40:12.769 --> 00:40:18.130
over. Wow, that was a lot shorter than I remembered.
00:40:18.409 --> 00:40:21.429
It really is. It is so short because so much
00:40:21.429 --> 00:40:23.650
happens, but it's very condensed. I don't know
00:40:23.650 --> 00:40:26.170
how she can write a chapter that's so condensed
00:40:26.170 --> 00:40:29.949
while still every sentence is like three or four
00:40:29.949 --> 00:40:33.679
clauses. It's quite a lot. And I love again that
00:40:33.679 --> 00:40:36.159
we are at the like 42 minute mark and we have
00:40:36.159 --> 00:40:39.300
nothing to add to this episode. Oh, but the last
00:40:39.300 --> 00:40:48.280
line. Now I'm free. Free falling. Free falling
00:40:48.280 --> 00:40:55.480
violets. Free falling. Sorry, I must subject
00:40:55.480 --> 00:40:58.360
everyone to my terrible singing voice because
00:40:58.360 --> 00:41:02.440
I just I love. I love interjecting. My life is
00:41:02.440 --> 00:41:07.260
a musical and every reference brings to mind
00:41:07.260 --> 00:41:10.840
a song, so. See, and that's you. You keep talking
00:41:10.840 --> 00:41:12.360
about it. It's like talking to my dad. But I'm
00:41:12.360 --> 00:41:15.059
like, every time you sing, I'm like, at least
00:41:15.059 --> 00:41:17.139
we aren't going to get flagged and demonetized
00:41:17.139 --> 00:41:22.780
because that's nothing like it. Fuck you. I'm
00:41:22.780 --> 00:41:25.900
no better. Well, for one, it's missing the backing
00:41:25.900 --> 00:41:32.159
track. Yes, that is a good point, John. I am
00:41:32.159 --> 00:41:34.659
literally no better. I make no claim to being
00:41:34.659 --> 00:41:37.300
any better at this. I'm just saying, like, we're
00:41:37.300 --> 00:41:39.800
not at any risk of getting demonetized because
00:41:39.800 --> 00:41:42.679
no one can hear us singing and go, oh, my God,
00:41:42.739 --> 00:41:45.960
it's the original. It's a reproduction. They've
00:41:45.960 --> 00:41:51.019
inserted a clip from the original song. Listen,
00:41:51.239 --> 00:41:53.980
and there exist covers out there. People are
00:41:53.980 --> 00:41:56.940
allowed to sing music because it's their own
00:41:56.940 --> 00:42:00.710
interpretation. And acapella. Okay. This is my
00:42:00.710 --> 00:42:05.190
interpretation of how it goes. My adaptation.
00:42:07.050 --> 00:42:11.849
Well, that was a rip roaring good time. Are there
00:42:11.849 --> 00:42:16.849
any final thoughts on chapter 14? No, we're just,
00:42:16.849 --> 00:42:20.170
we're just chugging along. Chapter 15 is a big
00:42:20.170 --> 00:42:23.250
one. Right. I mean, it's not long, but it's quite
00:42:23.250 --> 00:42:26.139
big. And like the big part that I want to call
00:42:26.139 --> 00:42:29.320
out here is that while we're kind of going through
00:42:29.320 --> 00:42:32.980
a huge plot moment, there isn't a lot of lore
00:42:32.980 --> 00:42:35.659
being dropped. And that also is part of the reason
00:42:35.659 --> 00:42:37.539
why our commentary may have slowed down a little
00:42:37.539 --> 00:42:40.440
bit. It's fairly straightforward. Right. There's
00:42:40.440 --> 00:42:42.659
so much plot happening that there isn't a lot
00:42:42.659 --> 00:42:46.480
of place to insert that lore behind it. She doesn't
00:42:46.480 --> 00:42:49.880
have any time to give us little self -distracting
00:42:49.880 --> 00:42:53.039
info dumps in this chapter. She's very focused.
00:42:53.460 --> 00:42:56.980
Yeah. I would like to, I guess we're going to
00:42:56.980 --> 00:42:58.840
do that really quick. There is a little call
00:42:58.840 --> 00:43:00.960
out here that Terraninok gives us his parents'
00:43:01.099 --> 00:43:03.820
names. And if you think about the age cycle of
00:43:03.820 --> 00:43:06.920
dragons, they are probably only two generations
00:43:06.920 --> 00:43:11.539
after the first six, if dragons live for several
00:43:11.539 --> 00:43:15.380
hundred years and then... retire in some way,
00:43:15.440 --> 00:43:18.420
shape, or form. Is Malgrin's dragon one of the
00:43:18.420 --> 00:43:21.420
oldest? Malgrin's is currently the oldest black
00:43:21.420 --> 00:43:24.699
on the continent. But they're only two black,
00:43:24.820 --> 00:43:27.619
so it's not like it's a huge competition. Yeah,
00:43:27.780 --> 00:43:30.920
I wonder if we ever find out how old he is. Because
00:43:30.920 --> 00:43:33.019
that could give us a sense of what a dragon lifespan
00:43:33.019 --> 00:43:37.039
is. Because Tarnanach is middle -aged. Yeah,
00:43:37.039 --> 00:43:40.539
he's like 100. Yeah, he's 100, and that's considered
00:43:40.539 --> 00:43:45.329
middle -aged, right? yes i think so yes coda
00:43:45.329 --> 00:43:50.030
full name unknown age elder that's all the empyrean
00:43:50.030 --> 00:43:55.650
wiki has yeah convenient all right well that'll
00:43:55.650 --> 00:43:58.409
do it for us we're all just kind of like spacing
00:43:58.409 --> 00:44:03.150
out here we're like huh yeah okay that'll do
00:44:03.150 --> 00:44:06.809
it for us this chapter and until next time goodbye
00:44:15.559 --> 00:44:17.719
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