Fourth Wing Chapter 15

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I'm Abby. I'm John. And today we are covering
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Fourth Wing Chapter 15. Here is your friendly
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reminder that we will be spoiling a whole bunch
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of stuff. So you have been warned. We're going
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to go into a very quick battle brief where we
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I just hope that the show continues to find folks
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we have like 11 people. It can confirm have actively
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been listening to episodes as they've been coming
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out each week. So shout out to those 11 people.
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I bet we could name all of you. We also have
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19. followers on apple podcast so uh subscribers
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on apple which is very very cool um i want to
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i totally forgot to mention this when we were
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discussing what we would be talking about for
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battle brief um but shout out to my therapist
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lisa who is listening uh she i think At this
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point, last I talked to her, she's only listened
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to the first episode, but she said that we have
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a very nice dynamic and that she thinks I'm very
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cute. I think you're cute too, Abby. Thank you.
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I do too. Shout out to the listener who is in
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Portland, because yes, we do kind of get a little
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bit of a geographical breakdown, as we've discussed
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before, to the listener who is in Portland. I
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am actually very close. So if we ever wanted
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to do a pod meetup, Portland might be a place
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to do it. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. All right, so
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we are going to send it over to John, our resident
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scribe, to break down the epigraph of chapter
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15. As has been the theory, or the theory, as
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has been the theme for the last, I don't know,
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five epigraphs, this one is clearly trying to
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warn us about what we're going to go into for
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this chapter. And so we get from the book of
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Brennan, page 50, which is hilarious because
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he understands that they're going to be two months
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in when they read this advice. But he's already
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written 49 pages of advice before this. What
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else is there to... I mean, we discussed it.
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It's like classwork. It's gotta be, because he
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did not adequately prepare Violet for the gauntlet.
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No. So this was meant for Mira to get her through
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history. Maybe it's like, hey, you don't like
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this particular ingredient, and I want you to
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know it's in all of these things in the cafeteria.
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Like, there's gotta be an entire page dedicated
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to the best food in the cafeteria. I know you're
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gluten -free, Mira, so please stay away. Don't
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eat any of the pastries. The pancakes are not
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safe. And if your sister's around, watch her.
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So from the Book of Brennan, just because you
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survived threshing doesn't mean you'll survive
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the ride to the flight field. Being chosen isn't
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the only test, and if you can't hold your seat,
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then you'll fly straight into the ground. Mm
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-hmm, which is very relevant, as that seems to
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be what our heroine is doing. I was going to
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say, aren't we currently falling out of the sky?
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Yeah, I mean, the book ended last chapter. I
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don't know why we're still here. Yep, yep. Why
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isn't the book over? She fell. It's done. There's
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this really, really big excerpt at the back of
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the book. That describes the splat -shaped mark
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that she left in the ground. describes um her
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being commended to malik and her parents or her
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parents her mom ouch burning her things oh god
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okay cassie i know we have a lot coming in chapter
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16 but do we have any new pronunciations in this
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chapter yes we do Last chapter, we got Tarn's
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name. And this chapter, we finally get Andarna.
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Duh, I knew that. Okay, so. Andarna, or Andarnurram,
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as her full name is. Oh, that's beautiful. Yeah,
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I was gonna say, that isn't the worst. It's pretty
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close to how you would probably guess. The A
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kind of... Gets squished into the U. And we'll
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talk about the R's in a second. But it is made
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up of three words. An is the word for the. Or
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it's one of the words for the. Darna means like
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second. The da in there is the word for two with
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the little accent. And then Uram means honor.
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So Andarnuram is the second honor. She is the
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second to have the honor of bonding Violet. Yes.
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Or it is Violet's second honor of a second dragon.
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And I really like good old isolated color YT
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has a comment. As soon as Tarn introduced himself,
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I was like, oh, so Violet's probably going to
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wield lightning? Sweet. And then it made me laugh
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that poor Andarna is basically just being called
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the second one all the time. Aww. Yeah, it's
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my headcanon that the second honor is referring
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to Violet, as in, like... Like she's got multiple
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honors. I was going to say, I lean towards it's
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actually more to do with Andarna's role in history.
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The second coming of the Ereds. Right, she is
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supposed to be the second honoring of the Ereds.
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She's Jesus. And you thought there was no Jesus
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in this book. Just you wait, there might be two.
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Yeah, no, she might be the second honor to the
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Imperium, like to the Riot. Yes, I like that.
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I like that. What's the word? Interpretation.
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So I just had a couple comments about counting
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and R's. Go for it. Okay, let's see if I can
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get to 10. So one of the things about counting
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is there's the regular words for counting, like
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if you're talking about how many of something
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there is. So we've got... So that's one through
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ten. Very nice. But if you're counting, you add
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the word the at the beginning and you kind of,
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you do that, that lenition thing to the letter.
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So it'd be. a hoon, a ga, a tree, a hay, et cetera,
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et cetera. Okay. The first time I heard this
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from, it's the Coffee Break Gallic podcast episode
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about numbers. And the first time I was like,
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those are not the numbers I learned. And then
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she explained it. I was like, oh, okay. And we
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will link that episode in the show notes. And
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that is one of those examples where when you
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let night. The D in the word for two, da, it
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turns into ga with that kind of soft G sound.
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And then in other words, like in Gaelic, there's
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a DH in the middle that doesn't make a sound
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at all. Well, there you go. Very convenient.
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What's interesting about all of this to me is
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that the word for seven sounds incredibly similar
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to one of the Japanese words for seven. I was
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actually thinking that too. I can't remember
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those. It's very weird because Asian languages
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and European languages usually have very little
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crossover. Their origins are completely different.
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Seven is shichi, right? Yeah. And so it's very
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interesting to me that seven is so similar sounding
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in these very completely different languages.
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Yeah, the spelling is entirely different. Can
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you say seven again? It's like shock. S -E -A
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-C -H -D. What was the word after shock? O -C
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-H -D? One of them I thought sounded a little
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more she -y than sha -y. Shia? Six? I might have
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several wrong. It was off. And I mean, she is
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four in Japanese, right? Ichi, ni, san, shi,
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go, roku, shichi, hachi, kuju. That sounds right.
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I didn't remember all of those, but. They sound
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familiar. That's the literal, besides Spanish,
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that is the only number, the only numbers I know
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in a different language. I just remember that
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go is my favorite because I really like how the
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five looks in, I don't even remember which writing
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system it is, but. And see, this is my language
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understanding is so disparate across so many
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different places. I understand, I remember how
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certain words sound like she or she, she, but
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I can identify the. numerical numbers zero through
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nine in chinese because i play a lot of mahjong
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oh yeah but i can't say any of them yeah that
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makes sense um the other thing that i thought
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was interesting to note in andarna's name is
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the uh single versus double r it seems like based
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on my research today That it's very similar to
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how R's are pronounced in Spanish, where a single
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R is usually like a tapped R. Depending on your
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accent, I think it also can sound like an R -R.
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And a double R is more of that trilled sound.
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So the double R in Uram is more of that rolling
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R that English speakers often have a hard time
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with. I can do it, but it's hard for me. I used
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to be able to roll my R's when I was a kid, and
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then I got an expander, and after I got it out,
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I completely lost the ability to roll my R's.
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I've never been able to do it since then. I'm
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pretty sure. I try, and I'm like... I'm pretty
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sure there's a genetic component to the ability
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to do it. I don't know what speakers of these
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languages do when they can't make that sound.
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Or if they just figure out a different way, because
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babies and children are very creative and flexible
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about pronunciation. Yes, I know. My son, we
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just took him to Seattle Children's a couple
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of weeks ago to get his speech evaluated. And
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the specialized speech language pathologist there
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that specializes in velopharyngeal insufficiency,
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which is the soft palate, says that Noah has
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a complex case. She has like six total kids that.
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are as complex as him. So yes, he learned a very
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interesting way of speaking. I will also add
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to all of this, like as someone who has a decent
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understanding of conversational Spanish, I can
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only roll my R if I'm speaking in like a true
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Latin America version of Spanish, not like the
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Spain version of Spanish. So if I had to roll
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my R and I said Barcelona, Barcelona is easy
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to do. But Barcelona, I can't do. I can't do
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the TH from the R. Barcelona is... That's not
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a trilled R, that's a tapped R, so you wouldn't
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have to do it there anyway. Oh, whatever. Sagrada.
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Well, see, that's not a double R either. I will
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tell you that it's rolled in almost every pronunciation.
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Sagrada. There are a lot of times an R at the
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beginning of a word, maybe at the beginning of
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a syllable like you're saying, can be rolled.
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That's another thing that's true in both Spanish
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and Gaelic. In researching this, I ended up on
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a Reddit thread about Gaelic in the Gaelic subreddit,
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but in Spanish. So I was reading my second language
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about a third language on linguistic terms that
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I don't even entirely understand in my first
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language. It felt very meta. That has a lot of
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layers to it. I love how the most part our native
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language is the one that we understand the least
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about because it's just we don't have to learn
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the rules, really. We just like innately pick
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them up as little kids. And so, you know, for
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example, we know that it's like the big red ball
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and not the red big ball because of the way that
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we order our adjectives because that's just.
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right but no one can ever list the actual order
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like that one post that's like it's the size
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color ball not the color size ball yeah and so
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like yeah that post is hilarious to me because
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you're right none of us would ever be able to
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list that order if we were asked to but if we
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were given a set of descriptions we'd put it
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right in order without a problem yep i know exactly
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what post you're talking about i will do my best
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to try to find it to link it there are um just
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Brief aside on this note, there are other things
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like reduplication, which is... I think, if I'm
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remembering correctly, if you say something like
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fuzzy wuzzy, where you're like, or no, that's
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a different thing. Reduplication is when you
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repeat something, and I can't remember an example.
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Anyhow, my point is, there's a podcast called
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Lingthusiasm, which is two linguists who talk
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to each other about things. That sounds right
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up my alley. They bring up these kinds of things
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that you're like, oh yeah, that is how it works.
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I never realized there was a term for this. And
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one of the hosts, Gretchen McCullough, is the
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author of Because Internet, which is all about
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internet linguistics, and I love it, and I highly
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recommend it. Please write a note to include
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that in the notes as well, please. And also just
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for my personal consumption. Oh, yes. Not linguine
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-thusiasm. Also linguine -thusiasm. Okay. Back
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to R's. There's another word that I've mentioned
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on the podcast before. We were talking about
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the orange dragons that has two R's in it. That's
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kurran, and that's the word for carrot. I just
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thought I'd share it because it has the double
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R's again. And that's why the cat had to be named
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Broccoli, is because there was already a dragon
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named Carrot. Well, there's not, as it turns
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out, but the opportunity was there. I also found
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a couple TikToks by native speakers that go through
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pronunciations of the dragons, such as, you know,
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Tarn and Andarna, as we just went through. One
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of them is called... I hate that word. So there's
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this phrase in Scottish Gaelic, which means I'm
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like... okay, all right. It literally means right
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enough. So this, this, this TikToker's username,
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Kerstgulior, Lior is the word for book. And so
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it's a pun on Kerstgulior, but also like book.
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So it's basically like a, literally it's like
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just write book. And it's a pun on the word for
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okay. I love that. I love hearing how puns work
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in other languages because I'm obsessed with
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them. And she notes that the accents on words
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like da for to or bas for baskayeth are really
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important because if you don't put the accent
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and you don't draw out that word, it could be
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a different word entirely. So like bas without
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the drawing out of the A. It means palm of your
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hand. And palm of your hand, Wayne College, is
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not as scary. That's fair. There's another TikToker
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that goes through more of the dragon names, pretty
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much all for the whole book. His name is Kenny
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Boyle. We've definitely thrown this one between
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us in our personal chats before. So we can link
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those as well. You'll note that they have some
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variation between how they each say things. And
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that's because of accents. And that is. All of
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my notes. That's as much as I could draw out
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in Darna's notes. Well, it's going to be a busy
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chapter next go around, so. Yes, yes. There are
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several. Okay. All right. John, I think we are
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ready for chapter 15. If you'd like to take us
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away. Okay. Whisk us back into this world. Chapter
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15 will be quick, she says. We'll get through
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both chapters no problem, she says. Well, I didn't
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know that Cassie had so much to say about Indarna.
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My bad. As we were just remarking, we left off
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with our girl Violet dropping at a rapid velocity
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through air she had not intended to fly through.
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Our girl... is panicked as she realizes she's
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going to die. She got on a dragon for one time,
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and that was all she could manage. Just as Taryn
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catches her in his claws and jerks her body up
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into an upright position. I touched on this in
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our last chapter, but he makes so many accommodations
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for Violet, and I have several notes about it
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through this chapter, but I'm wondering... Especially
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because all the other dragons seem to make a
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big fuss about it when they land. I'm like, it
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doesn't seem like any of the other dragons are
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accommodating at all. So I'm wondering why Tern
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and why Violet. And I can't remember if I actually
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wrote this down in my notes later or if I just
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assumed I would remember it now. I am remembering
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it now, but it might come back up again later.
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That we know about magic having a balance. I
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think it does get brought up in the book that
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maybe someone so powerful has to be so weak in
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other ways. And I'm wondering if... I'm just
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wondering how much about Violet is predetermined
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or predestined, especially because Andarna specifically
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hatched for her. I'm wondering if they have any
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sort of prophecy or something. It's just like...
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i'm just wondering if there isn't like a reason
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like that why he's being accommodating towards
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her then why is he being accommodating towards
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her well and like i love this because i saw this
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this is one of those instagram posts i kept for
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myself um saw this post on instagram and we'll
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get to the point where this actually becomes
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relevant later but it ends up being that violet
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is one of the few beings on the continent capable
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of standing up to the second largest dragon,
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basically the second largest creature on the
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continent, and telling him to shut the fuck up
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and stop doing what he's doing. Like, the power
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that Violet is given here because of the respect
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that Taryn shows her is immense. And so it's
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very, very, it's a huge thing here. What about
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this very small, very petite, very non -threatening
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in many regards girl? It's so capable of bringing
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the most powerful creature on the continent to
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heel. Our girl's got power. Speaking of power,
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I love the smart -ass remarks that we get from
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Taryn this entire chapter. Yes. Like, you're
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making us look bad. Stop it. Just like as if
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she has a choice over the matter at this particular
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moment. You're leaking. Stop it. And I love simple
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flight is hardly acrobatics. Yeah. As if anything
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about his flight is actually simple. Yeah. And
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of course, Violet has the realization that she
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is currently being carried through the air by
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one of the deadliest dragons in Navarre. the
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one that swore he would never bond again. Again,
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Violet, what about Violet, brings the second
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largest dragon out of hiding and into bonding,
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even though he knows it's probably going to kill
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him. Like, yo. Taryn decides to help Violet find
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her seat again in a way that I think was actually
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quite accommodating. Why not just throw her up
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in the air and then slam her ass into the seat?
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And I do, this is my second note about accommodations.
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Honestly, his accommodations lead to new and
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innovative flying and fighting techniques, showing
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that making room for everyone is good, not just
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for them as an individual, but for society as
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a whole. Right. Think about how fast Taryn and
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Violet have gotten at getting off the ground.
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The one thing that we know they need to be able
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to do on a moment's notice. They've gotten so
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good at doing it because of that. And also, Violet
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gets a lot more comfortable with the concept
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of being thrown into the air to have her ass
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land in the seat. She's the flyer on the cheer
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squad. Oh my god, it is totally it. How did I
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not make that connection? Oh my lord. She's truly
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the flyer. Oh, I love it. He's just doing a basket
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toss. Right. Taryn makes a comment that she needs
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to get in her seat and hang on or no one will
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believe that he has chosen her because of, of
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course, the expectations that dragons have for
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their riders prior to this moment. And he comments,
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what, didn't you practice? Your leg muscles be
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weak as shit. She's like, yes, of course I did.
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But yeah, like what kind of, I would like to,
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I'm back to the whole saddle practice thing of
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like, How exactly are they practicing to see
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if your leg muscles are strong enough? Do they
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like grab onto the thing and then they just turn
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it upside down and shake it to see if you fall
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off? Again, it's the bull riding thing. We're
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talking about it being a mechanical bull. Yeah.
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I love this. Was everyone's dragon a curmudgeon
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or just mine? Literally from the first minutes,
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Violet calls him a curmudgeon. Like that is a
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theme that will never go away. He is such a curmudgeon
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and I love him for it. She pushes back that she's
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not as strong as others and that she's just the
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weak, that she is what she is, to which Taryn
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snaps back here. I know exactly who and what
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you are. Violet Sorengale. Uh -huh. Oh, I love
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that line. I will share that, especially in the
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graphic audio version. That line gets hyped up.
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A ton. And I think it's because they knew everyone
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just adored that line. I really like how she's
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talking out loud and he's like, there's no need
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to shout. I can hear you. Just fine. I can imagine
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if this were to be a movie instead of a TV show.
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That line being said in the theater and like
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everybody just erupting into applause. Absolutely.
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Or I'm just imagining the. last twilight movie
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when they got into the big fight sequence and
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like the looks on everyone's faces midnight release
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i was there i was like what the fuck is going
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on and um the laughter of relief when you flash
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back to alice spoilers Yeah. Spoilers for Breaking
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Dawn Part 2, that it was all Alice's vision and
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none of that actually happened. Everyone was
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panicking. No, everyone was. And then, like,
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we get to Alice. You got laughter. I swear to
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God, my entire movie theater gasped. They went,
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oh, and, like, you heard the oh roll through
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the room. No, we were like, oh, thank God. I
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was just listening to a podcast where I can't
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even remember which one it was. They were talking
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about. How one of them really liked Twilight
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and they were like making their partner watch
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Breaking Dawn with them or something. And how
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they cry every time. And their partner was like,
00:26:02.119 --> 00:26:05.279
I thought you said this was fake. And she's like,
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yeah, but it's still sad. Carlisle's death. Every
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time. And this is also so funny because one of
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my favorite podcasts to Scary Didn't Watch, which
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is a horror movie. horror movie recap podcast
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they have covered all of the twilight movies
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as kind of like we know this isn't horror but
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we want to do it and um i literally last night
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just finished listening to Breaking Dawn Part
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1 and Breaking Dawn Part 2. So this is so funny
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that this is coming up in conversation. I promise
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everybody we will get back to the actual media
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that we're here to talk about. One last comment
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on Breaking Dawn. Synchronicity is fun. I also
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love the joke that happened around the time that
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that movie came out because obviously in the
00:26:48.539 --> 00:26:50.299
week after, everyone started talking about the
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one scene that no one expected. And the joke
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became they had to put a fight in there so that
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the boyfriends weren't disappointed. And if you
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think about it, they really did. do a marvel
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cinematic universe big fight scene at the end
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yeah yeah i mostly think that they just put it
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in there because Otherwise, it would be kind
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of boring and anticlimactic, which in the book
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it is a little bit. Did you not know, I just
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about said Rebecca Yaros, what's her name? Stephanie
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Meyer. Stephanie Meyer. Stephanie Meyer insisted
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that it had to be part of the movie because when
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she went out on the book tour for the last book,
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everyone kept asking her about the Arrow Alice
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back and forth and what was seen and what was
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done and how can it cause such a pivotal change
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and what could Alice have shown him? And she
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tried to prompt them and prompt them to like...
00:27:35.130 --> 00:27:38.250
guessed that it was a big fight scene and basically
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no I'm not complaining at all because yes it's
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insinuated in the books but it just it reads
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very anticlimactic because you don't get to see
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it as the reader so I do really enjoy that they
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put it in there for the climax or else it would
00:27:51.369 --> 00:27:54.529
have probably still been yeah anticlimactic yeah
00:27:54.529 --> 00:27:57.230
and so a large part of it anyway Stephanie Meyer
00:27:57.230 --> 00:27:59.329
has gone public to say that she wanted the fight
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to be in there because she wanted to be able
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to give everybody this little glimpse of what
00:28:02.809 --> 00:28:05.940
Alice had shown him And so that was her finally
00:28:05.940 --> 00:28:09.440
answering a question from the fans. Much like
00:28:09.440 --> 00:28:13.220
many of the questions we've raised. Okay. Back
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to the book at hand. Violet's legs shake as she
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tries to hold on to Taryn up until magic steps
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in and we find out that dragons can actually
00:28:22.099 --> 00:28:26.839
magically bond their riders to their back. Like,
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yo. Game changer. It is a huge game changer.
00:28:33.279 --> 00:28:35.779
And notably, it won't be something that he'll
00:28:35.779 --> 00:28:37.799
have to continue doing in the future, which they
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comment on, like, it's distracting to dragons.
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And I could totally buy the whole, Terran is
00:28:43.000 --> 00:28:46.779
so powerful, even a minor distraction to him
00:28:46.779 --> 00:28:50.500
is negligible. But part of me wonders if that
00:28:50.500 --> 00:28:53.500
really was the case, or if it was such a drain
00:28:53.500 --> 00:28:55.819
on him that he knew they had to find a different
00:28:55.819 --> 00:28:58.140
solution. So that's why he supported Zayden in
00:28:58.140 --> 00:29:02.630
doing the saddle, right? Yeah. We can talk about
00:29:02.630 --> 00:29:06.009
that another day. Yeah. Yeah. Let's examine that
00:29:06.009 --> 00:29:07.789
once it becomes relevant again. Right, let's
00:29:07.789 --> 00:29:09.289
wait until the saddle actually makes the page.
00:29:10.049 --> 00:29:13.710
Yep, yep. She feels guilty about this. Right,
00:29:13.769 --> 00:29:16.049
she feels guilty that he has to hang on, which
00:29:16.049 --> 00:29:17.930
is horrible, because feeling guilty that people
00:29:17.930 --> 00:29:19.670
are accommodating for you is not something you
00:29:19.670 --> 00:29:22.049
should do, but the world makes you. Yes, even
00:29:22.049 --> 00:29:25.309
though I live that every day of my life. Right.
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But, ugh, yeah. And Violet remarks that she never
00:29:29.440 --> 00:29:31.799
thought she'd make it this far. And I love Taryn.
00:29:31.880 --> 00:29:35.500
I didn't think I would either. So, hey. Friends!
00:29:36.920 --> 00:29:39.059
And do we think that he didn't think he would
00:29:39.059 --> 00:29:42.000
make it that far because losing Naolin almost
00:29:42.000 --> 00:29:46.380
killed him? Yes. Yes. Or he just thought he'd
00:29:46.380 --> 00:29:49.380
never, like, trust to bond humans again. Like...
00:29:49.380 --> 00:29:51.980
Oh, that too. There are so many ways that maybe
00:29:51.980 --> 00:29:55.559
he didn't think he'd get as far. To where he
00:29:55.559 --> 00:29:58.859
is. Yeah. I could see that. I do have, like,
00:29:58.920 --> 00:30:01.200
in my head, because he's just about 100 years
00:30:01.200 --> 00:30:03.259
old, and we know that that's middle age for dragons,
00:30:03.400 --> 00:30:06.880
which implies that 200 is not unreasonable. And
00:30:06.880 --> 00:30:12.319
no human lives for 100 years, let alone a driver.
00:30:12.519 --> 00:30:15.859
And speaking statistically, the life expectancy
00:30:15.859 --> 00:30:20.779
of a bonded rider is probably 30. Yeah. Maybe
00:30:20.779 --> 00:30:24.849
40. I'd say that's fair. So, like... At best,
00:30:24.910 --> 00:30:27.410
Taron is giving himself another 20 years to live.
00:30:27.569 --> 00:30:32.829
Well, they're 20 when they bond. So, yeah. Life
00:30:32.829 --> 00:30:37.170
expectancy can't be 20. It's probably like 25.
00:30:37.609 --> 00:30:41.210
Well, John said 30, 40. 30, 40, which is 20 years
00:30:41.210 --> 00:30:44.730
more. I heard him. Okay, okay. It's like, wow.
00:30:45.109 --> 00:30:48.930
You're like 20. Well, I mean, a lot of them do
00:30:48.930 --> 00:30:52.109
die. But do we think enough do to drive the average
00:30:52.109 --> 00:30:56.980
down? Okay, are riders dying as soon as they're
00:30:56.980 --> 00:31:00.339
bonded, or how babies and children born before
00:31:00.339 --> 00:31:03.180
five drag down the life expectancy in the middle
00:31:03.180 --> 00:31:07.700
ages? People used to die at 30. No, no, no, no.
00:31:07.960 --> 00:31:10.200
People lived well into old age. Cassie, really
00:31:10.200 --> 00:31:13.740
quick, you said babies and children born before
00:31:13.740 --> 00:31:18.500
age five. Who die before five. And I was like,
00:31:18.579 --> 00:31:20.359
wait a second, I'm trying to do the calculus
00:31:20.359 --> 00:31:24.430
thing. All babies are born before age one. Yes,
00:31:24.430 --> 00:31:26.910
Cass, you're right that back in the ye olden
00:31:26.910 --> 00:31:29.130
days when child life expectancy was horrible,
00:31:29.470 --> 00:31:32.089
dying children made it look like the average
00:31:32.089 --> 00:31:34.410
human lived for 30 years when in reality... Yes,
00:31:34.410 --> 00:31:35.970
because people don't understand what average
00:31:35.970 --> 00:31:41.309
life expectancy means. Yes. So that's why I specifically
00:31:41.309 --> 00:31:43.670
said bonded riders is because we guarantee that
00:31:43.670 --> 00:31:45.349
they make it at least through the first 20 years.
00:31:46.059 --> 00:31:47.680
Well, right, right, right. I was just saying
00:31:47.680 --> 00:31:49.980
that if we're counting the ones who die immediately,
00:31:50.079 --> 00:31:54.019
that's going to drag that average down a bit.
00:31:54.220 --> 00:31:57.240
I was mostly going off of the idea that very
00:31:57.240 --> 00:32:01.680
few writers retire. Yeah. And so back to what
00:32:01.680 --> 00:32:06.279
I was doing here. Violet takes a moment to pull
00:32:06.279 --> 00:32:09.460
herself into the seat and acknowledge all of
00:32:09.460 --> 00:32:12.039
the dragons that are beneath her flying on the
00:32:12.039 --> 00:32:15.829
valley. threshing and bonding and realizing that
00:32:15.829 --> 00:32:18.650
she could be like the rest of them as she watches
00:32:18.650 --> 00:32:21.769
a rider fall from a red sword tail. And that
00:32:21.769 --> 00:32:26.069
rider does go splat. Yep. Poor guy. There's no
00:32:26.069 --> 00:32:27.829
other way to describe it. As soon as a rider
00:32:27.829 --> 00:32:29.990
falls off their dragon, I am going to describe
00:32:29.990 --> 00:32:35.130
them as splat marks and that's it. Inkblots were
00:32:35.130 --> 00:32:38.910
scribes here. Inkblots. I do like inkblots. Rorschach
00:32:38.910 --> 00:32:43.940
tests. I wonder what kind of Rorschach test I
00:32:43.940 --> 00:32:47.500
would make if I fell from a dragon. Do you see
00:32:47.500 --> 00:32:51.440
a desecrated body or do you see... Butterflies.
00:32:52.940 --> 00:32:55.980
Butterfly, yeah. Dragon spreading its wings.
00:32:56.299 --> 00:32:59.720
Right. And then Taryn informs Violet they're
00:32:59.720 --> 00:33:02.559
going to have to put on a show. Like, clearly,
00:33:02.579 --> 00:33:05.420
he has to convince all of the other dragons that
00:33:05.420 --> 00:33:08.559
he really did this, he's really here, and he's
00:33:08.559 --> 00:33:11.039
not going anywhere. This was legit. And she's
00:33:11.039 --> 00:33:14.279
worth the trouble. Right? And I love that it
00:33:14.279 --> 00:33:18.960
basically turns into a literal air show, like,
00:33:19.019 --> 00:33:23.779
trick pilot jet plane, like, shooting themselves
00:33:23.779 --> 00:33:25.619
up into weird positions and then doing weird
00:33:25.619 --> 00:33:28.579
flips and... I wrote dragon rollercoaster. So
00:33:28.579 --> 00:33:32.150
did I. Sign me up. Yeah, she's... We get to the
00:33:32.150 --> 00:33:34.410
point where they're talking about like the most
00:33:34.410 --> 00:33:36.809
horrifying yet exhilarating moment of her life.
00:33:36.890 --> 00:33:39.390
And then he twists and then her body is like,
00:33:39.390 --> 00:33:42.890
but she's grinning the whole time. And I was
00:33:42.890 --> 00:33:45.430
like, I also love roller coasters. Bye. Me too.
00:33:45.670 --> 00:33:48.269
If I love roller coasters, if anybody listening
00:33:48.269 --> 00:33:50.910
has been to Bush Gardens in Williamsburg, my
00:33:50.910 --> 00:33:54.210
all time favorite amusement park and the Griffin
00:33:54.210 --> 00:33:57.890
is my all time favorite roller coaster. And,
00:33:57.890 --> 00:34:02.859
uh. uh the mythical griffin and just that oh
00:34:02.859 --> 00:34:05.599
yes and so i was just imagining being back on
00:34:05.599 --> 00:34:08.159
that roller coaster i miss it dearly see and
00:34:08.159 --> 00:34:10.639
i am sitting here thinking i would have a better
00:34:10.639 --> 00:34:13.199
time riding a dragon than a roller coaster because
00:34:13.199 --> 00:34:14.900
the thing i hate the most about roller coasters
00:34:14.900 --> 00:34:18.760
is how like clangy and jangly and jerky they
00:34:18.760 --> 00:34:22.119
are on the tracks yeah versus you're on a dragon
00:34:22.119 --> 00:34:24.559
there's no tracks these all be fluid movements
00:34:24.559 --> 00:34:28.000
and shifting throughs and there's a A lot of
00:34:28.000 --> 00:34:30.099
weight and counterweight. That has to be the
00:34:30.099 --> 00:34:33.880
most relaxing roller coaster of your life. So
00:34:33.880 --> 00:34:35.820
long as you can hang on. With the fear of falling
00:34:35.820 --> 00:34:39.719
to the ground below and dying. Yeah. Obviously,
00:34:39.780 --> 00:34:41.960
there is nothing like this, as our girl Violet
00:34:41.960 --> 00:34:46.079
points out. Eventually, Terran decides that they've
00:34:46.079 --> 00:34:48.360
made their point. And I have to just imagine
00:34:48.360 --> 00:34:51.780
how much airspace he was taking up that the dragon,
00:34:51.880 --> 00:34:54.440
like, I imagine that other dragons were fearful
00:34:54.440 --> 00:34:57.219
of launching out of the valley because he was
00:34:57.219 --> 00:34:59.559
doing everything that he was doing. He's taking
00:34:59.559 --> 00:35:04.320
up that much airspace. Make some room. Back it
00:35:04.320 --> 00:35:08.599
up. Violet remarks that the sun is setting, and
00:35:08.599 --> 00:35:11.239
even if she hadn't been selected by Taryn, she
00:35:11.239 --> 00:35:13.260
might have still had the chance to go for next
00:35:13.260 --> 00:35:15.300
year, given everything that happened. I'm like,
00:35:15.340 --> 00:35:16.900
girl, if Taryn hadn't shown up, he'd be dead.
00:35:17.519 --> 00:35:20.380
Like, we know it. Although, maybe not. Do you
00:35:20.380 --> 00:35:22.960
think Andarna would have killed the other writers?
00:35:23.420 --> 00:35:24.739
Just, like, bitten their head off? I don't think
00:35:24.739 --> 00:35:27.699
she can... I don't know, maybe. But I think she's
00:35:27.699 --> 00:35:30.969
talking about Andarna not bonding, and... Living
00:35:30.969 --> 00:35:34.610
to decide next year. Oh, golden dragon up ahead.
00:35:34.769 --> 00:35:36.289
See, this is what I get for skimming instead
00:35:36.289 --> 00:35:41.909
of reading. You're right. She thinks, okay, poor
00:35:41.909 --> 00:35:44.090
little golden dragon. At least it has next year.
00:35:44.110 --> 00:35:48.530
Maybe it'll be bigger by then. And we get to
00:35:48.530 --> 00:35:50.349
what will be one of the biggest conversations
00:35:50.349 --> 00:35:55.289
of this chapter. Why did Taryn choose her? Yep.
00:35:55.409 --> 00:35:58.070
And we get our first deflection, which is because
00:35:58.070 --> 00:36:01.969
you saved her, you defended Andarna. To which
00:36:01.969 --> 00:36:04.949
I'm like, was Andarna really ever in danger?
00:36:05.730 --> 00:36:08.610
It's not about whether the danger was real. It's
00:36:08.610 --> 00:36:11.530
about whether Violet's response to danger was
00:36:11.530 --> 00:36:15.909
real. Okay. In my opinion. Yeah, it's about Violet's
00:36:15.909 --> 00:36:21.510
character, not whether there was actually a problem.
00:36:22.300 --> 00:36:24.780
yeah and even if andarna couldn't have defended
00:36:24.780 --> 00:36:26.880
herself or would have flown off mama scale was
00:36:26.880 --> 00:36:29.440
right there she had her back nothing was going
00:36:29.440 --> 00:36:32.219
to happen to that baby well and then like you
00:36:32.219 --> 00:36:34.300
add to the point that like even if andarna wasn't
00:36:34.300 --> 00:36:37.460
in danger violet definitely was so there is the
00:36:37.460 --> 00:36:39.699
fact of even if andarna's danger wasn't real
00:36:39.699 --> 00:36:43.599
violet still put herself even if it was a needless
00:36:43.599 --> 00:36:47.880
risk yeah she put herself in danger she risked
00:36:47.880 --> 00:36:51.610
her own danger to save a dragon And that shows
00:36:51.610 --> 00:36:55.570
something. Moral fiber. Yes. I do enjoy moral
00:36:55.570 --> 00:36:59.190
fiber, as Dumbledore would put it. It helps keep
00:36:59.190 --> 00:37:08.760
you regular. Violet snaps back with, I'm not
00:37:08.760 --> 00:37:12.079
strong. I'm not cunning. I'm not ferocious. That's
00:37:12.079 --> 00:37:14.880
what dragons value. And I love this whole, I
00:37:14.880 --> 00:37:17.820
love the sarcasm from Taryn. Please tell me what
00:37:17.820 --> 00:37:21.159
I'm allowed to think. I love that. Do tell me
00:37:21.159 --> 00:37:27.159
more about what I value. Already talking back
00:37:27.159 --> 00:37:29.739
to a dragon, Violet. I know. That takes some
00:37:29.739 --> 00:37:33.860
ferocity. Right? Let's go. Also, like, stop...
00:37:33.860 --> 00:37:36.739
I mean, it's fine to want to know why he chose
00:37:36.739 --> 00:37:39.019
you, but, like, stop questioning his judgment.
00:37:39.139 --> 00:37:43.119
Stop arguing with him. Right? Stop second -guessing
00:37:43.119 --> 00:37:45.260
his choice, or else he'll start second -guessing
00:37:45.260 --> 00:37:48.800
his choice. And then you will become an inkblot.
00:37:51.360 --> 00:37:54.119
Okay. I love every now and then you guys get
00:37:54.119 --> 00:38:01.860
that high -pitched burst out of me. As they come
00:38:01.860 --> 00:38:05.199
into the valley, Violet is awed by the spectacle
00:38:05.199 --> 00:38:08.340
of all of the dragons, not only throughout the
00:38:08.340 --> 00:38:10.880
valley, but also spattering the mountainside,
00:38:10.900 --> 00:38:14.719
watching and enjoying the act that is threshing
00:38:14.719 --> 00:38:19.599
and bonding. We get a comment that they are divided
00:38:19.599 --> 00:38:21.519
by those that are still in the quadrant, but
00:38:21.519 --> 00:38:23.739
chosen years past and those that were chosen
00:38:23.739 --> 00:38:29.590
today inside the valley. And that 70 other bonds
00:38:29.590 --> 00:38:31.929
had entered the field at the time that Taryn
00:38:31.929 --> 00:38:35.369
and Violet did. Yes, which is approximately a
00:38:35.369 --> 00:38:40.230
75 % dragon success rate. About a 75 % dragon
00:38:40.230 --> 00:38:44.510
success rate. 70, 75%. As they come into their
00:38:44.510 --> 00:38:47.409
landing, Taryn finally comes up. up with the
00:38:47.409 --> 00:38:49.230
conclusion that he can give Violet, knowing that
00:38:49.230 --> 00:38:52.570
she will not stop asking why she was chosen,
00:38:52.650 --> 00:38:54.389
and it's going to be a relevant conversation,
00:38:54.670 --> 00:38:56.789
not only to herself, but to the others around
00:38:56.789 --> 00:39:00.570
her. Because she keeps thinking self -deprecating
00:39:00.570 --> 00:39:03.989
thoughts at him. Yeah, and he wants that shit
00:39:03.989 --> 00:39:07.929
to stop. And so he says that she is the smartest
00:39:07.929 --> 00:39:10.530
of her here, the most cunning, and defended the
00:39:10.530 --> 00:39:13.750
smallest with ferocity, with a strength of courage
00:39:13.750 --> 00:39:15.630
more powerful than a strength of physical...
00:39:16.000 --> 00:39:18.780
attributes since she apparently needs to know
00:39:18.780 --> 00:39:21.440
before they land i'm like oh he throws all of
00:39:21.440 --> 00:39:24.960
her words back at her strength courage ferocity
00:39:24.960 --> 00:39:29.940
all of it like yep yep and just to analyze this
00:39:29.940 --> 00:39:34.960
a little bit he points out her intelligence that
00:39:34.960 --> 00:39:37.780
she is the smartest um echoing what kaori told
00:39:37.780 --> 00:39:40.699
her that she is the i wrote cunningest but i
00:39:40.699 --> 00:39:43.460
know it is most cunning she's the cunningest
00:39:43.460 --> 00:39:46.389
which which is what The blacks are. They are
00:39:46.389 --> 00:39:49.110
the most cunning. So that lines up with Tern.
00:39:49.550 --> 00:39:51.949
And then, yes, throwing back her words in her
00:39:51.949 --> 00:39:54.769
face that dragons value strength, cunning, and
00:39:54.769 --> 00:39:57.110
ferocity. He says, you defended the smallest
00:39:57.110 --> 00:39:59.690
with ferocity, and your strength is in your courage,
00:39:59.829 --> 00:40:03.989
not in your physical strength. So just beautiful
00:40:03.989 --> 00:40:07.889
parallels there. Not to mention that within about
00:40:07.889 --> 00:40:09.889
a year or so, she'll be capable of launching
00:40:09.889 --> 00:40:14.269
electricity with her fingers. Yes. Yes. And if
00:40:14.269 --> 00:40:17.130
we're thinking about like the reasons that Tarn
00:40:17.130 --> 00:40:19.250
would want to bond someone and like what his
00:40:19.250 --> 00:40:22.969
goals and motivations are, all of these things
00:40:22.969 --> 00:40:25.070
show that Violet is promising as a defendant
00:40:25.070 --> 00:40:29.090
of the weak and like civilians and et cetera
00:40:29.090 --> 00:40:31.630
in the fight against the Venon, which we know
00:40:31.630 --> 00:40:33.590
that she is not going to leave civilians on the
00:40:33.590 --> 00:40:36.110
other side of the border. Right. She's yeah.
00:40:36.190 --> 00:40:38.969
She fights for what's right and uses her intelligence
00:40:38.969 --> 00:40:41.170
to do that. She doesn't just do what she's told.
00:40:43.240 --> 00:40:46.679
Or what's wise, even. She won't save her own
00:40:46.679 --> 00:40:50.860
skin. Yeah, she sees the odds and she says, I'm
00:40:50.860 --> 00:40:55.519
going to go up against those. Yep. Violet's stubborn,
00:40:55.659 --> 00:41:00.019
sorry, girl. Our girl. And then what I love about
00:41:00.019 --> 00:41:02.960
this is Violet has the first realization that
00:41:02.960 --> 00:41:05.500
Taryn is responding not to things that she's
00:41:05.500 --> 00:41:09.139
saying, but to things that she's thinking. He
00:41:09.139 --> 00:41:13.449
is literally in her brain. And he gives her what
00:41:13.449 --> 00:41:16.510
has to be the most threatening promise I have
00:41:16.510 --> 00:41:18.730
ever heard in my life. You will never be alone
00:41:18.730 --> 00:41:26.769
again. She's like, yikes. I wonder how long it
00:41:26.769 --> 00:41:29.789
takes other writers to figure out the mind thing.
00:41:30.070 --> 00:41:33.070
And if he's like... You figured it out before
00:41:33.070 --> 00:41:34.250
everyone else. I think he's being a smartass.
00:41:34.590 --> 00:41:36.469
No, I think he's being a smartass. I think that
00:41:36.469 --> 00:41:38.030
she's a little slow on the uptake for this one.
00:41:38.030 --> 00:41:40.150
It does feel slow because she's spending all
00:41:40.150 --> 00:41:42.489
this time hearing it in her mind, but then talking
00:41:42.489 --> 00:41:46.469
out loud. I'm like, Violet, Violet. Yeah. But
00:41:46.469 --> 00:41:48.070
I do want to know how long it takes other people
00:41:48.070 --> 00:41:53.230
to catch on. And was it last time that we talked
00:41:53.230 --> 00:41:56.769
about, or did we not do it on air, about whether
00:41:56.769 --> 00:42:00.159
or not we would want? to have a dragon's voice
00:42:00.159 --> 00:42:02.239
in our head forever. I think we talked about
00:42:02.239 --> 00:42:04.320
it on air. Because I talked about Mama Sorengale
00:42:04.320 --> 00:42:06.219
giving birth with a dragon in her head and I
00:42:06.219 --> 00:42:08.960
talked about would you want a cheerleader in
00:42:08.960 --> 00:42:12.699
your head or would you want that snark? Because
00:42:12.699 --> 00:42:15.480
think about Zayden and Sagale and the bonus chapters
00:42:15.480 --> 00:42:17.880
we've gotten with Zayden and Sagale. She is the
00:42:17.880 --> 00:42:20.599
snarkiest little bitch you have ever heard to
00:42:20.599 --> 00:42:23.340
him. Oh, you got to. They're on Rebecca's website.
00:42:23.659 --> 00:42:27.719
She's such a snark. It's so amazing. Well, Violet
00:42:27.719 --> 00:42:30.219
agrees with you and me, John, that never being
00:42:30.219 --> 00:42:32.320
alone ever again sounds more like a threat than
00:42:32.320 --> 00:42:35.420
a comfort. Than a promise. And I'm like, fuck
00:42:35.420 --> 00:42:37.900
yeah, let's do this. Bestie. Built -in bestie
00:42:37.900 --> 00:42:45.739
for life. Where am I at? Okay. As they land,
00:42:45.960 --> 00:42:49.079
the golden dragon reaches up to them. Of course,
00:42:49.079 --> 00:42:50.760
I'm going to keep going with Goldie for the moment
00:42:50.760 --> 00:42:55.760
here. And Violet remarks as they hit the ground,
00:42:55.900 --> 00:42:58.679
she can hang on just fine when they're not moving.
00:43:00.179 --> 00:43:04.659
Giving that snark right on back to him. Taryn
00:43:04.659 --> 00:43:07.260
snaps back with dismount before I choose a differently.
00:43:11.239 --> 00:43:14.679
And Violet has to face the reality. She is now
00:43:14.679 --> 00:43:18.679
landing into the box canyon with a busted ankle,
00:43:18.940 --> 00:43:23.900
bleeding arm. On the largest dragon with no real
00:43:23.900 --> 00:43:27.480
good way to get down. Hoping that there is some
00:43:27.480 --> 00:43:30.840
level of medical care ready for her once she
00:43:30.840 --> 00:43:34.000
does. And I'm like, does she not think that Nolan
00:43:34.000 --> 00:43:35.820
is there, though? She's like, I'm just hoping
00:43:35.820 --> 00:43:37.940
that they have, like, something. And I'm like,
00:43:38.019 --> 00:43:41.000
yeah, healers aren't allowed, but Nolan is a
00:43:41.000 --> 00:43:43.820
writer. I'm sure he is there helping the most
00:43:43.820 --> 00:43:46.809
dramatic of the injuries. Right. And so that
00:43:46.809 --> 00:43:48.909
clearly comes up later, but we'll get to that
00:43:48.909 --> 00:43:53.449
in a moment. And then, of course, as they begin
00:43:53.449 --> 00:43:56.670
the dismount process, Taryn extends his arm,
00:43:56.730 --> 00:44:00.250
or his leg, I guess I should say, and provides
00:44:00.250 --> 00:44:02.690
Violet with an easier way down. That's right.
00:44:02.690 --> 00:44:05.309
All I can think, yes, all I can think of is,
00:44:05.409 --> 00:44:10.989
it's a drag to slide. And I guarantee you. When
00:44:10.989 --> 00:44:13.909
she takes the invitation, and he's like. I guess
00:44:13.909 --> 00:44:17.690
so. Right? And I guarantee you, Riddick saw this
00:44:17.690 --> 00:44:19.869
and immediately turned to his dragon and went,
00:44:19.929 --> 00:44:25.969
please. Please, I'm begging you. And so this
00:44:25.969 --> 00:44:28.329
is where I'm like, I understand that dragons
00:44:28.329 --> 00:44:31.269
are very picky, but if I had a kid, I'd ask the
00:44:31.269 --> 00:44:33.550
dragon to let my kid slide down its leg once
00:44:33.550 --> 00:44:35.730
or twice just for the experience. Like, come
00:44:35.730 --> 00:44:42.989
on, give the kid some joy. Just saying. And we
00:44:42.989 --> 00:44:45.510
get this wonderful perspective from the dragons
00:44:45.510 --> 00:44:48.869
as all of them begin to make noises across the
00:44:48.869 --> 00:44:52.969
valley. And Violet's like, shit, are they muttering?
00:44:53.050 --> 00:44:55.570
I love that she's constantly hearing dragon noises
00:44:55.570 --> 00:44:58.550
and immediately calls it like, shit, that's muttering.
00:44:58.590 --> 00:45:00.889
Or later something else happens and she's like,
00:45:00.969 --> 00:45:03.309
did they just do this? And Taryn's like, yeah,
00:45:03.329 --> 00:45:06.869
yeah, they did. Yep, ignore it. Yep, just ignore
00:45:06.869 --> 00:45:08.809
it. Because of course it's Taryn and he can do
00:45:08.809 --> 00:45:14.079
whatever the fuck he wants. Just like his wifey.
00:45:15.119 --> 00:45:17.500
And then I love that once Violet, yeah, as you
00:45:17.500 --> 00:45:19.940
said, but once Violet completes her slide down,
00:45:20.099 --> 00:45:22.539
he just remarks, that's one way to do it. To
00:45:22.539 --> 00:45:24.920
which all I can comment on, that's the only way
00:45:24.920 --> 00:45:26.639
to do it, my friend. Like, what did you expect,
00:45:26.780 --> 00:45:30.320
Ty? She's gonna turn around and crawl backwards.
00:45:35.579 --> 00:45:37.659
Violet has the wonderful realization that she's
00:45:37.659 --> 00:45:40.059
a rider before pivoting to the golden feather
00:45:40.059 --> 00:45:43.010
tail. And saying, I'm glad that you made it.
00:45:43.170 --> 00:45:45.230
Thrilled probably being the right word herself
00:45:45.230 --> 00:45:48.369
remarks. But says, you really should fly off
00:45:48.369 --> 00:45:51.289
next time someone warns you to fly off. Like,
00:45:51.289 --> 00:45:53.329
if you'd listened to me, we might not have had
00:45:53.329 --> 00:45:58.750
such an issue. And we get to meet Indarna. She
00:45:58.750 --> 00:46:02.829
blinks and then says, maybe I was saving you.
00:46:03.449 --> 00:46:06.789
Which I love is such a, like, dragons are these
00:46:06.789 --> 00:46:09.929
kings and queens of snark. Even from a young
00:46:09.929 --> 00:46:14.380
age. Yeah, I think I think that she might be
00:46:14.380 --> 00:46:16.559
being a bit of a smart. Like, I'm confused. Like,
00:46:16.639 --> 00:46:19.039
what could she literally mean here by maybe I
00:46:19.039 --> 00:46:20.940
was saving you? Giving her an opportunity to
00:46:20.940 --> 00:46:25.179
show off so that a dragon could see her. Well,
00:46:25.320 --> 00:46:29.000
she gave Violet an opportunity where she had
00:46:29.000 --> 00:46:33.820
to use all of her skills to their max or die.
00:46:34.300 --> 00:46:37.789
And that helped. Violet be able to see that she
00:46:37.789 --> 00:46:40.469
does have a lot of capabilities which she can
00:46:40.469 --> 00:46:45.250
now draw on going forward yeah I'm just thinking
00:46:45.250 --> 00:46:48.409
because we learn later that Andarna hatched literally
00:46:48.409 --> 00:46:51.949
for Violet and I so I'm fully bought on that
00:46:51.949 --> 00:46:54.750
Andarna's like she has a whole plan like she
00:46:54.750 --> 00:46:56.650
has a plan she's moving all the strings in the
00:46:56.650 --> 00:46:59.210
background like I hatched for Violet I'm bonding
00:46:59.210 --> 00:47:01.210
Violet and nothing is going to get in the way
00:47:01.210 --> 00:47:05.150
of that and she needs taryn's help because she's
00:47:05.150 --> 00:47:08.409
just a little a little wee babe and so she i
00:47:08.409 --> 00:47:10.090
feel like she's manipulating things behind the
00:47:10.090 --> 00:47:13.829
scenes but still i'm like how i don't know how
00:47:13.829 --> 00:47:16.070
much of it was like purposely maybe i'm thinking
00:47:16.070 --> 00:47:19.050
too literally about saving yep yeah i'm just
00:47:19.050 --> 00:47:20.329
wondering if maybe i'm thinking too literally
00:47:20.329 --> 00:47:24.289
about saving like her life maybe it's like no
00:47:24.289 --> 00:47:26.809
i'm i'm getting you on your right path maybe
00:47:26.809 --> 00:47:31.320
um But obviously, if she hadn't been there, Violet
00:47:31.320 --> 00:47:32.840
never would have been in the situation where
00:47:32.840 --> 00:47:35.460
her life was in danger in the first place. I
00:47:35.460 --> 00:47:39.539
do enjoy the idea of a bratty Andarna talking
00:47:39.539 --> 00:47:42.679
to Taryn and Sagail, putting her toe in the water
00:47:42.679 --> 00:47:44.840
when they're like, don't get in the water. And
00:47:44.840 --> 00:47:46.719
she's like, well, it's just my toe. It's just
00:47:46.719 --> 00:47:50.639
my toe. Well, you say that nothing would have
00:47:50.639 --> 00:47:52.460
happened to Violet if Andarna wasn't there. But
00:47:52.460 --> 00:47:54.739
if Andarna wasn't there, then the trio might
00:47:54.739 --> 00:47:57.639
have... set their sights on killing Violet when
00:47:57.639 --> 00:47:59.639
there were no consequences instead of trying
00:47:59.639 --> 00:48:02.019
to kill the dragon. That is also a fair point.
00:48:02.760 --> 00:48:05.539
I'm still curious why Jack Barlow was so convinced
00:48:05.539 --> 00:48:09.340
he needed to kill a baby dragon. Again, I think
00:48:09.340 --> 00:48:12.639
that he... I don't know how much he knows, but
00:48:12.639 --> 00:48:15.940
he knows enough. I think that he was trying to
00:48:15.940 --> 00:48:19.860
take it out before it could be a problem. Yeah,
00:48:19.900 --> 00:48:22.400
I could see that. He knows it's a baby. I agree
00:48:22.400 --> 00:48:24.980
with that. And or we talked about this last time,
00:48:25.000 --> 00:48:28.340
or he might suspect that it's an irid. Possibly.
00:48:29.300 --> 00:48:31.820
Knowing that feather tails don't bond in a poor
00:48:31.820 --> 00:48:35.619
violence. That's more about the irids than babies.
00:48:35.739 --> 00:48:38.940
So, yeah. So he knows something. And he is trying
00:48:38.940 --> 00:48:42.599
to eliminate this threat before it fully manifests.
00:48:43.039 --> 00:48:46.639
I agree. Violet, of course, is a little shocked
00:48:46.639 --> 00:48:48.659
at the fact that Andarna is talking to her and
00:48:48.659 --> 00:48:50.639
calls her out like, girl, don't get in trouble.
00:48:50.860 --> 00:48:53.989
You're not allowed to talk to me. And Andarna
00:48:53.989 --> 00:48:57.170
just stays silent. I love that. The smart ass
00:48:57.170 --> 00:48:58.829
of like, I've already snuck my way into this
00:48:58.829 --> 00:49:01.309
bond. There's no, nothing. It's just that content
00:49:01.309 --> 00:49:03.670
swishing tail. Nothing can be done to change
00:49:03.670 --> 00:49:06.869
it. Fix it if you, or object all you want. Also
00:49:06.869 --> 00:49:08.750
like, I'm not going to tell you that you are
00:49:08.750 --> 00:49:12.969
my writer until you have to. The drama. Yeah.
00:49:13.210 --> 00:49:16.590
She's like, I'm holding my cards. I will play
00:49:16.590 --> 00:49:21.559
them when the time is right. And we get our first
00:49:21.559 --> 00:49:23.920
reaction of what everyone is going to think about
00:49:23.920 --> 00:49:26.699
the whole situation here from some random cadet
00:49:26.699 --> 00:49:28.820
from Claw Section Fourth Wing next door who's
00:49:28.820 --> 00:49:31.840
just like, shit, is that the dragon that none
00:49:31.840 --> 00:49:37.860
of us swore we'd ever see? Yeah, yeah, it is.
00:49:37.920 --> 00:49:41.900
We can call him Helen. Yeah, it's Helen. It's
00:49:41.900 --> 00:49:46.519
Helen. All characters that are unknown and we
00:49:46.519 --> 00:49:49.699
never see again. Hi, Helen. And Helen returns,
00:49:49.920 --> 00:49:55.139
but she's a boy now, and she's from... She's
00:49:55.139 --> 00:49:58.500
no longer in the Healer Squadron. She's a male
00:49:58.500 --> 00:50:02.019
writer who has been here this whole time. Didn't
00:50:02.019 --> 00:50:04.630
you know? As Violet makes her way over to the
00:50:04.630 --> 00:50:06.969
dais where people record the names of their dragons
00:50:06.969 --> 00:50:10.570
to prove that they have officially bonded, she
00:50:10.570 --> 00:50:13.610
begins to remark on the reactions playing out
00:50:13.610 --> 00:50:17.110
across the dais. Of course, there's her mother
00:50:17.110 --> 00:50:20.730
beady -eyeing the fucking black dragon, but what
00:50:20.730 --> 00:50:23.369
really draws Violet's attention away from her
00:50:23.369 --> 00:50:26.409
mother is the only general who outranks her mother.
00:50:27.070 --> 00:50:31.090
melgren who is like death glaring at taryn at
00:50:31.090 --> 00:50:36.449
this particular moment this man is very confounded
00:50:36.449 --> 00:50:41.710
okay i'm going to jump in with my melgren interpretation
00:50:41.710 --> 00:50:44.329
here and then i will continue with my interpretations
00:50:44.329 --> 00:50:47.849
as we get to them yeah so melgren he is looking
00:50:47.849 --> 00:50:52.130
with cold calculation at taryn and glancing at
00:50:52.130 --> 00:50:57.260
violet so to me I'm wondering if he has not seen
00:50:57.260 --> 00:51:02.400
Tern in battles. Oh. Because he is like, let
00:51:02.400 --> 00:51:05.179
me try to put pieces together. We know that she
00:51:05.179 --> 00:51:09.280
only fights with marked ones. Yep. So he's like,
00:51:09.360 --> 00:51:12.059
okay. You know, so he's, I feel like at this
00:51:12.059 --> 00:51:14.039
point is scrambling because he never saw Tern
00:51:14.039 --> 00:51:18.260
coming. He has not seen Tern in a battle. I agree
00:51:18.260 --> 00:51:21.300
with that. Yeah. So he's trying to decipher right
00:51:21.300 --> 00:51:25.880
now if maybe she doesn't make it. she dies before
00:51:25.880 --> 00:51:28.360
that ever becomes relevant or if she's going
00:51:28.360 --> 00:51:31.980
to cozy up to the marked ones. I don't think
00:51:31.980 --> 00:51:34.420
he quite sees the marks one connection yet because
00:51:34.420 --> 00:51:37.280
it's Violet Sorengale. Like, I think he's banking
00:51:37.280 --> 00:51:40.179
so much on her last name that keeping her from
00:51:40.179 --> 00:51:42.460
the marked ones at this moment. And so that's
00:51:42.460 --> 00:51:44.420
why he's so confused because he can't come up
00:51:44.420 --> 00:51:46.780
with a reasonable explanation, right? It might
00:51:46.780 --> 00:51:49.000
not even have to be her cozying up to, but if
00:51:49.000 --> 00:51:52.030
she's fighting them, they're still at. the battle
00:51:52.030 --> 00:51:56.570
and therefore he couldn't see it right like there's
00:51:56.570 --> 00:51:58.489
there's a way that she could be involved and
00:51:58.489 --> 00:52:01.750
he might not like the absence of being able to
00:52:01.750 --> 00:52:04.730
see them could tell him that she's involved somehow
00:52:04.730 --> 00:52:06.750
with the other people he can't see but that doesn't
00:52:06.750 --> 00:52:11.550
necessarily mean allyship sure um But I also
00:52:11.550 --> 00:52:13.369
think that in his head, though, it is a very
00:52:13.369 --> 00:52:15.130
real possibility that she's going to die before
00:52:15.130 --> 00:52:17.710
any of it's ever relevant. I mean, he downplays
00:52:17.710 --> 00:52:21.250
the hell out of her later on. Yeah, I could see
00:52:21.250 --> 00:52:23.530
that not wanting to completely say it in front
00:52:23.530 --> 00:52:26.969
of the mother of that person. Not to be the bearer
00:52:26.969 --> 00:52:29.750
of bad news, but I never see you in my visions.
00:52:31.989 --> 00:52:34.690
Which is like when it comes from a prophet, that
00:52:34.690 --> 00:52:37.730
actually is kind of a death sentence, as we discussed
00:52:37.730 --> 00:52:44.980
in other series, Abby. Yes. No comment. I just
00:52:44.980 --> 00:52:47.900
wanted, from this whole process about the role
00:52:47.900 --> 00:52:50.780
-keeping thing, I know we've been confused about
00:52:50.780 --> 00:52:52.559
this before when we were talking about, like,
00:52:52.639 --> 00:52:54.360
oh, what if the dragons, like, change their names
00:52:54.360 --> 00:52:57.039
and stuff? But it does seem, like, the scribes
00:52:57.039 --> 00:53:00.119
do have the official list of names. They and
00:53:00.119 --> 00:53:04.449
the rider are the only ones who have it. So we'll
00:53:04.449 --> 00:53:06.869
get to it next chapter, but I have a lot of thoughts.
00:53:06.969 --> 00:53:08.409
I was going to say, how do the names get onto
00:53:08.409 --> 00:53:11.349
the list? Like, how do the people in the writer's
00:53:11.349 --> 00:53:13.170
quadrant even know what the names are supposed
00:53:13.170 --> 00:53:14.750
to be before they get down? Because the dragons
00:53:14.750 --> 00:53:17.949
tell them. And so I could totally be like, this
00:53:17.949 --> 00:53:20.949
is the humans trying to impose some sort of control
00:53:20.949 --> 00:53:23.630
over knowledge that they have on the dragons.
00:53:23.710 --> 00:53:25.750
And the dragons are laughing their asses off
00:53:25.750 --> 00:53:27.889
in the background because they've been biasing
00:53:27.889 --> 00:53:31.179
the information from the start. I have notes
00:53:31.179 --> 00:53:35.599
about it next chapter. Okay. Because the only
00:53:35.599 --> 00:53:37.719
thing that I'll say right now is, is Rebecca
00:53:37.719 --> 00:53:40.719
Yarrow's has in an interview said, who says they're
00:53:40.719 --> 00:53:44.360
telling the truth at this specifically at role.
00:53:44.500 --> 00:53:47.420
Okay. Yeah. So that is, we'll get there. Yeah.
00:53:48.239 --> 00:53:50.860
We'll get there. I'm going to go ahead and skip
00:53:50.860 --> 00:53:53.099
past Mama Sorengill. Like obviously she's rising.
00:53:53.139 --> 00:53:54.679
She's staring. I'm going to skip past her for
00:53:54.679 --> 00:53:56.679
a second here. She comes last for me too. So
00:53:56.679 --> 00:53:59.199
that works out perfectly. I have comments about
00:53:59.199 --> 00:54:02.199
her. We'll get to it. We'll get to it. Hold it
00:54:02.199 --> 00:54:06.900
for one paragraph, Cassie. One paragraph. I'm
00:54:06.900 --> 00:54:09.159
going to request you hold it for two. So we get
00:54:09.159 --> 00:54:11.539
Kaori. Oh, yeah, we have Pancheck. I forgot Pancheck.
00:54:12.199 --> 00:54:14.940
We have Kaori, who literally is, like, throwing
00:54:14.940 --> 00:54:18.119
himself off the platform to get closer and is,
00:54:18.219 --> 00:54:22.280
like, I can't remember what the right word is.
00:54:22.380 --> 00:54:26.420
But what is it when a guy, like, does the whole
00:54:26.420 --> 00:54:28.400
up and down stair thing? What's the word for
00:54:28.400 --> 00:54:33.500
it when they? the what there's like a sweeps
00:54:33.500 --> 00:54:36.079
yeah but there's like a word that women use to
00:54:36.079 --> 00:54:39.539
put that context into a i don't want to say derogatory
00:54:39.539 --> 00:54:41.960
but like there's a phrasing that kind of takes
00:54:41.960 --> 00:54:44.579
eyes you up and down yeah something like that
00:54:44.579 --> 00:54:47.139
what the hell yeah i know what you're talking
00:54:47.139 --> 00:54:51.599
about but he like for lack of better phrase once
00:54:51.599 --> 00:54:54.440
over No, but it's like molesting you with your
00:54:54.440 --> 00:54:57.960
eyes or something like that. Oh, like undressing
00:54:57.960 --> 00:54:59.199
you with your eyes? Undressing you with your
00:54:59.199 --> 00:55:02.239
eyes, yeah. It's basically like Taryn is being
00:55:02.239 --> 00:55:05.280
undressed by Kaori here, which is just hilarious
00:55:05.280 --> 00:55:09.579
to me. Yep, and my note here is just memorizing
00:55:09.579 --> 00:55:11.820
him for his updated projection and for scholarly
00:55:11.820 --> 00:55:16.119
interest. Just for scholarly interest. And then
00:55:16.119 --> 00:55:19.239
we get Comma .Panchak, who's just like, there's
00:55:19.239 --> 00:55:24.320
no fucking way. Yep. Yep. And my note for him,
00:55:24.340 --> 00:55:27.960
so he's obviously in disbelief. So we know from
00:55:27.960 --> 00:55:30.119
the end of Onyx Storm that Pancheck is either
00:55:30.119 --> 00:55:33.119
a Venon or a Venon informant. It's not quite
00:55:33.119 --> 00:55:35.719
clear, but I'm leaning towards informant because
00:55:35.719 --> 00:55:38.019
he doesn't seem like he has the extra power that
00:55:38.019 --> 00:55:40.239
the Venons have. And we know that he is leaking
00:55:40.239 --> 00:55:44.420
info the entire time. Like a sieve. The Venon
00:55:44.420 --> 00:55:46.579
are immediately going to know about Taryn and
00:55:46.579 --> 00:55:50.119
Andarna. Right. So information is now public
00:55:50.119 --> 00:55:52.780
to everyone on the continent, not just. Yes.
00:55:52.920 --> 00:55:57.940
Exactly. So the I mean, the main question comes
00:55:57.940 --> 00:56:00.679
down to what is in it for Pancheck to be this
00:56:00.679 --> 00:56:03.780
informant. And I think it's just simple. Simply
00:56:03.780 --> 00:56:06.059
that he wants the power. We know that he's after
00:56:06.059 --> 00:56:08.440
Mama Sorengel's job and then after that Melgren's
00:56:08.440 --> 00:56:11.280
job. So I'm assuming that he came to an agreement
00:56:11.280 --> 00:56:13.699
with the Venon that they will somehow get those
00:56:13.699 --> 00:56:16.099
two out of the way so that he can rise to power.
00:56:16.239 --> 00:56:17.659
That's the only thing that really makes sense
00:56:17.659 --> 00:56:20.480
to me for why he would do this. They're paying
00:56:20.480 --> 00:56:23.599
him under the table. And that mystery money we
00:56:23.599 --> 00:56:28.400
never - He's hiring assassins. Yeah. And just
00:56:28.400 --> 00:56:32.820
an interesting note here. Commandant, I always
00:56:32.820 --> 00:56:34.579
say Commandant in my head. Commandant Pancheck
00:56:34.579 --> 00:56:38.059
has an unknown signet. According to the Empyrean
00:56:38.059 --> 00:56:40.820
Wiki, we do not know what his signet is, which
00:56:40.820 --> 00:56:42.480
I just found fascinating and wanted to point
00:56:42.480 --> 00:56:46.179
that out. Holy shit. Mm -hmm. I was shocked too.
00:56:46.219 --> 00:56:48.239
I was like, surely we must know. And I'm just
00:56:48.239 --> 00:56:52.420
not remembering. Wow. That's going to be a...
00:56:52.420 --> 00:56:55.619
Now, oh my God, that's one of those fucking secrets
00:56:55.619 --> 00:56:59.019
that she's been hiding. Okay. So, and the funny
00:56:59.019 --> 00:57:01.639
thing is, it could be... I don't think it is,
00:57:01.659 --> 00:57:03.500
but it could be something like so simple, like,
00:57:03.579 --> 00:57:06.039
oh, he just has fire that it's just so it's so
00:57:06.039 --> 00:57:08.480
normal that it's not even like worth it to remark
00:57:08.480 --> 00:57:11.940
on. I doubt it, but it could be. Or on the other
00:57:11.940 --> 00:57:14.000
hand, it could be a top secret signet, which
00:57:14.000 --> 00:57:17.920
is even more concerning. Could be how he's giving
00:57:17.920 --> 00:57:21.199
the information to the Veden, for example. Oh,
00:57:21.500 --> 00:57:25.909
that's a thought. And then we finally make it
00:57:25.909 --> 00:57:27.769
to the one reaction all of us are here to comment
00:57:27.769 --> 00:57:30.789
on. Mama Soaring Gale, who cuts everyone off
00:57:30.789 --> 00:57:33.050
and says, don't fucking say the name until she
00:57:33.050 --> 00:57:36.989
does. Which, okay. Everybody have their reaction,
00:57:37.070 --> 00:57:38.469
and then I'm going to throw mine out here, and
00:57:38.469 --> 00:57:42.289
we'll see how this goes. I'll go last, because
00:57:42.289 --> 00:57:45.090
I've been jumping in a lot. So John Cassie, then
00:57:45.090 --> 00:57:49.710
me. Okay, so this particular one here, I am absolutely
00:57:49.710 --> 00:57:53.710
convinced that Mama Soaring Gale is doing everything
00:57:53.710 --> 00:57:57.269
in her power to make it so that no one can accuse
00:57:57.269 --> 00:58:00.570
her daughter of any sort of malfeasance to try
00:58:00.570 --> 00:58:03.250
to get her out of the bond. Like, if someone
00:58:03.250 --> 00:58:06.789
accidentally shared the name, then General Melgrin
00:58:06.789 --> 00:58:08.010
could be like, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
00:58:08.389 --> 00:58:10.590
She didn't actually know the name. You said it.
00:58:10.610 --> 00:58:14.610
You gave it to her. And so I think a lot of this
00:58:14.610 --> 00:58:16.769
here is like, it looks like Mama Sorengale is
00:58:16.769 --> 00:58:19.599
being the most distant bitch ever. I think Mama
00:58:19.599 --> 00:58:22.280
Sorengale is doing everything in her power to
00:58:22.280 --> 00:58:26.139
stop nepotism from ever being mentioned. I like
00:58:26.139 --> 00:58:27.619
that. That's that interpretation. Yeah, that's
00:58:27.619 --> 00:58:29.420
exactly what I thought, too. Like Violet's all
00:58:29.420 --> 00:58:31.420
like, she doesn't believe in me. And it's like,
00:58:31.460 --> 00:58:34.119
no, she she believes in you, but she knows everyone
00:58:34.119 --> 00:58:36.559
else doesn't. So she's making sure that everything
00:58:36.559 --> 00:58:39.820
goes by the book right now so that no one can
00:58:39.820 --> 00:58:42.980
accuse you of like lucking your way into this
00:58:42.980 --> 00:58:45.019
or it being a mistake or any of those things.
00:58:45.440 --> 00:58:48.579
This I wrote that this ritual is the proof to
00:58:48.579 --> 00:58:52.820
discount the naysayers. Yes. OK. And I have a
00:58:52.820 --> 00:58:54.929
slightly different take. So I love that. I have
00:58:54.929 --> 00:58:56.409
a slightly different take that I think could
00:58:56.409 --> 00:59:00.230
work in accordance with mine. So Cassie, as you
00:59:00.230 --> 00:59:03.030
touched on, Violet takes this reaction from Mama
00:59:03.030 --> 00:59:06.530
Sorengale as not being sure that Taryn is even
00:59:06.530 --> 00:59:09.869
hers, that she is doubting Violet, doesn't think
00:59:09.869 --> 00:59:11.789
Violet is good enough, and not even checking
00:59:11.789 --> 00:59:15.349
to see if Violet is okay. So first of all...
00:59:16.909 --> 00:59:19.090
I don't think that she's looking at Violet to
00:59:19.090 --> 00:59:21.789
see if she's okay, because obviously she's standing.
00:59:21.849 --> 00:59:24.550
She's here. She has survived any other injury.
00:59:24.610 --> 00:59:27.829
That's like just secondary to the fact that she
00:59:27.829 --> 00:59:30.130
is alive. Like we'll get, we'll get her fixed
00:59:30.130 --> 00:59:32.190
up. And made it to a dragon. And made it to a
00:59:32.190 --> 00:59:34.510
dragon. Yeah. I think that she clocked Violet
00:59:34.510 --> 00:59:38.010
right away was like, she's standing. Cool. Like,
00:59:38.070 --> 00:59:40.030
I don't need to worry about her right now. So
00:59:40.030 --> 00:59:42.710
I think that her being like, she doesn't even
00:59:42.710 --> 00:59:45.559
care if I'm okay. It's like. She knows that you're
00:59:45.559 --> 00:59:47.440
fucking fine, Violet. Like, don't worry. She's
00:59:47.440 --> 00:59:49.079
seen you through injury before. Like the fact
00:59:49.079 --> 00:59:51.400
that you're alive is all she needs to know. It's
00:59:51.400 --> 00:59:54.719
just a limb. She's seen worse. Yes, she's seen
00:59:54.719 --> 00:59:58.519
worse. And or. OK, so sorry. This is my note
00:59:58.519 --> 01:00:00.800
that I believe that she probably clocked Violet
01:00:00.800 --> 01:00:03.739
the second that Violet landed. And or she's having,
01:00:03.840 --> 01:00:06.800
I'm sure, giving her updates at least to be like.
01:00:07.130 --> 01:00:08.710
Yes, Violet's alive. Yes, Violet's alive. Yes,
01:00:08.730 --> 01:00:12.829
Violet's alive. So I think that she is not concerned
01:00:12.829 --> 01:00:15.230
about Violet right now because she doesn't need
01:00:15.230 --> 01:00:17.289
to be. The mental emergency radio. Because she
01:00:17.289 --> 01:00:20.190
convinced her dragon to go be a nosy spy for
01:00:20.190 --> 01:00:23.210
her. So do you think that Mama Sorengale knows
01:00:23.210 --> 01:00:27.269
about the whole Zayden thing? Which... Do you
01:00:27.269 --> 01:00:29.969
think Amster would have reported that? About
01:00:29.969 --> 01:00:36.980
his quote -unquote intervention? I don't... think
01:00:36.980 --> 01:00:40.519
so i think this is probably like i'm sure tell
01:00:40.519 --> 01:00:42.699
me when violet gets here kind of thing you know
01:00:42.699 --> 01:00:45.559
what i mean so it's like i don't know if if he
01:00:45.559 --> 01:00:47.860
had eyes on her the whole time or if it was just
01:00:47.860 --> 01:00:52.219
monitoring as they landed and like yeah yeah
01:00:52.219 --> 01:00:55.019
i could buy that because she doesn't she doesn't
01:00:55.019 --> 01:00:57.900
want other people to think that she is giving
01:00:57.900 --> 01:01:01.099
special attention to violet that's another Kind
01:01:01.099 --> 01:01:03.699
of going along with that nepotism comment. And
01:01:03.699 --> 01:01:06.360
theoretically, Ameser would be in her mind and
01:01:06.360 --> 01:01:08.380
would agree with, if he didn't agree, he would
01:01:08.380 --> 01:01:11.380
have corrected her at some point. Yes. Yeah.
01:01:11.980 --> 01:01:15.679
So in addition to being like, Viola, it's fucking
01:01:15.679 --> 01:01:18.780
fine. We don't need to worry about it. I took
01:01:18.780 --> 01:01:22.019
her comment of don't say it, not until she does.
01:01:22.719 --> 01:01:24.699
And again, I really like your guys' interpretation.
01:01:24.880 --> 01:01:27.159
I think that it could be either or, or these
01:01:27.159 --> 01:01:31.039
could blend together. I think that she is fucking
01:01:31.039 --> 01:01:35.920
terrified. I think that she is in disbelief because
01:01:35.920 --> 01:01:40.260
she may or may not know about the mated bond
01:01:40.260 --> 01:01:44.360
with scale. But regardless, she does know that
01:01:44.360 --> 01:01:46.840
Taryn is such a powerful dragon that Violet will
01:01:46.840 --> 01:01:49.880
be on the front lines. She is going to learn
01:01:49.880 --> 01:01:51.940
about everything. She is going to be in direct
01:01:51.940 --> 01:01:54.340
danger. She knows her daughter is not going to
01:01:54.340 --> 01:01:56.460
look the other way. And she is going to do the
01:01:56.460 --> 01:01:58.000
right thing, which is the whole issue with the
01:01:58.000 --> 01:02:03.489
scratch quadrant. So I think that she is just
01:02:03.489 --> 01:02:05.849
panicking of like, oh, fuck, what does this mean
01:02:05.849 --> 01:02:09.449
for Violet's life? She also may be thinking that
01:02:09.449 --> 01:02:11.730
Taryn was one of the last beings to see Brennan
01:02:11.730 --> 01:02:15.710
alive. Oh. And so she just might be having an
01:02:15.710 --> 01:02:19.750
emotional war. And has she seen Taryn since that
01:02:19.750 --> 01:02:24.949
happened? And she just might be, I think she's
01:02:24.949 --> 01:02:30.659
in emotional turmoil. And so she's like. Fuck!
01:02:30.659 --> 01:02:36.019
So, that's my thought there. Those are... I enjoy
01:02:36.019 --> 01:02:39.739
that. I would go so much further as to maybe
01:02:39.739 --> 01:02:42.219
add this, because remember, Dane tried to talk
01:02:42.219 --> 01:02:45.139
Violet into a brown and aims her as a brown.
01:02:45.739 --> 01:02:49.260
So, what if that was actually Mama Sorengale?
01:02:50.039 --> 01:02:53.280
What if she... I could see that. What if she
01:02:53.280 --> 01:02:55.260
somehow got a hold of Dane and she was like,
01:02:55.320 --> 01:02:56.920
you know, Violet would look good on a brown.
01:02:58.320 --> 01:03:00.860
just planting seeds yeah i don't really see her
01:03:00.860 --> 01:03:04.099
being that indirect about it i don't know or
01:03:04.099 --> 01:03:07.159
micromanaging i i do because again she's not
01:03:07.159 --> 01:03:09.619
giving any indication like she purposely told
01:03:09.619 --> 01:03:12.159
her daughter i will not talk to you again for
01:03:12.159 --> 01:03:17.400
the next three years yeah i yeah as as we talked
01:03:17.400 --> 01:03:20.280
about when we were talking about how dane was
01:03:20.280 --> 01:03:22.159
like you should bond to brown yeah the only thing
01:03:22.159 --> 01:03:24.460
that makes sense to me is that he feels like
01:03:24.460 --> 01:03:27.800
for whatever reason whether from his own brain
01:03:27.800 --> 01:03:30.599
or from a seed planted by Mama Sorengale, that
01:03:30.599 --> 01:03:33.199
a brown would be the safest bet because it would
01:03:33.199 --> 01:03:36.559
be a closer relation to her mom's dragon. Well,
01:03:36.659 --> 01:03:39.219
and they are known for their like their intelligence
01:03:39.219 --> 01:03:42.360
and their. Well, no. Remember, we talked about
01:03:42.360 --> 01:03:44.579
it. We literally don't know like anything about
01:03:44.579 --> 01:03:46.820
browns. You're right. You're absolutely right.
01:03:46.980 --> 01:03:50.920
Pull it up again. Yeah, I don't have my notes
01:03:50.920 --> 01:03:52.880
from that chapter with me, but it's like we literally
01:03:52.880 --> 01:03:55.280
only get that you shouldn't show trepidation
01:03:55.280 --> 01:03:59.739
to a brown. This is true. And so I, if that's
01:03:59.739 --> 01:04:02.179
the case, I kind of like the headcanon that somehow
01:04:02.179 --> 01:04:06.780
Dane got like, the thought was planted in his
01:04:06.780 --> 01:04:09.599
brain and he rolled with it without knowing that
01:04:09.599 --> 01:04:11.699
that was what was supposed to happen to begin
01:04:11.699 --> 01:04:14.219
with. I also like the idea that she's staring
01:04:14.219 --> 01:04:17.300
at Taryn and going, fuck, my daughter is writing
01:04:17.300 --> 01:04:23.909
that. Yep. Yep. Okay. I want to call out, now
01:04:23.909 --> 01:04:25.269
that we've gotten through all of the different
01:04:25.269 --> 01:04:27.590
reactions, including Violet's reaction to all
01:04:27.590 --> 01:04:32.550
the other people, is like I'd be able to hijack
01:04:32.550 --> 01:04:35.889
Tear. I wonder if that's going to become relevant
01:04:35.889 --> 01:04:41.389
in another book. Hijacking dragons? Maybe it's
01:04:41.389 --> 01:04:43.150
even going to become relevant in the next chapter,
01:04:43.230 --> 01:04:49.230
according to my notes. Oh, damn. Damn. I had
01:04:49.230 --> 01:04:54.679
a... sort of a side tangent question which is
01:04:54.679 --> 01:04:58.880
about this relationship between violet and lilith
01:04:58.880 --> 01:05:02.139
and like the what we think might be going on
01:05:02.139 --> 01:05:04.159
in lilith's head versus what violet's perceiving
01:05:04.159 --> 01:05:10.320
and i was just wondering like if violet is pregnant
01:05:10.320 --> 01:05:13.380
or if she becomes so later on how do we think
01:05:13.380 --> 01:05:17.239
her dynamic with her child is going to be like
01:05:17.239 --> 01:05:20.280
do we think she's also going to be like kind
01:05:20.280 --> 01:05:22.400
of do we think she's going to be more upfront
01:05:22.400 --> 01:05:24.360
about everything and very affectionate or is
01:05:24.360 --> 01:05:26.159
she also going to have to hold everything in
01:05:26.159 --> 01:05:28.780
and like this sort of emotional self -defense
01:05:28.780 --> 01:05:31.599
that's an excellent question and i think that
01:05:31.599 --> 01:05:33.780
we should save it yeah that's that's going to
01:05:33.780 --> 01:05:35.760
be a big old because i would like to think on
01:05:35.760 --> 01:05:40.059
it b because um That is so far off from where
01:05:40.059 --> 01:05:42.639
we are right now, Cassie. Well, and it gets colored
01:05:42.639 --> 01:05:45.599
by Zayden's relationship with his parents and
01:05:45.599 --> 01:05:48.639
so many other things. And her future interactions
01:05:48.639 --> 01:05:51.019
with her mother, too. Well, and with Zayden's
01:05:51.019 --> 01:05:54.199
mother. Something to think about, then. Yes,
01:05:54.219 --> 01:05:56.400
something to keep in our brains. And then once
01:05:56.400 --> 01:05:59.039
we get to, is she pregnant? We can have that
01:05:59.039 --> 01:06:03.380
conversation. Good question, though. Oh, I'm
01:06:03.380 --> 01:06:05.079
excited. I'm excited to think about that. Yo,
01:06:05.179 --> 01:06:08.480
we're so close, and we're so close, so let's
01:06:08.480 --> 01:06:10.980
get through it here. Let's go, let's go! What
01:06:10.980 --> 01:06:13.320
I love about this is, seeing her mother's reaction,
01:06:13.559 --> 01:06:16.860
processing through all of it, her final conclusion
01:06:16.860 --> 01:06:20.960
becomes, fuck her. Like, how much of Violet getting
01:06:20.960 --> 01:06:25.869
through this quadrant is spite? spite but also
01:06:25.869 --> 01:06:28.030
yeah i was just thinking like the reason for
01:06:28.030 --> 01:06:31.030
my question is just like the the huge disparity
01:06:31.030 --> 01:06:34.690
between these like angsty teenager feelings that
01:06:34.690 --> 01:06:37.750
violet's having versus all of these very real
01:06:37.750 --> 01:06:41.309
concerns that her mother has to like juggle and
01:06:41.309 --> 01:06:44.269
how that's like such a normal mother -daughter
01:06:44.269 --> 01:06:50.210
thing in real life too It so is. Even the first
01:06:50.210 --> 01:06:52.309
few times reading this, I wasn't even really
01:06:52.309 --> 01:06:54.769
giving Lilith's motives a second thought. But
01:06:54.769 --> 01:06:58.130
now that I've thought more about how really the
01:06:58.130 --> 01:06:59.610
only thing she cares about is protecting her
01:06:59.610 --> 01:07:02.760
children and all of this stuff. Just like, Violet,
01:07:02.760 --> 01:07:03.679
you don't get it. It reads in a totally different
01:07:03.679 --> 01:07:07.539
way. You'll get it one day when you're a mother.
01:07:08.059 --> 01:07:10.079
And it's really funny when you think about the
01:07:10.079 --> 01:07:12.900
fact that her son is basically about Violet's
01:07:12.900 --> 01:07:14.539
age right now. As far as I've figured out, her
01:07:14.539 --> 01:07:17.900
son is somewhere in the high school to college
01:07:17.900 --> 01:07:21.139
range, in there somewhere. Rebecca's son. Okay,
01:07:21.139 --> 01:07:22.800
I was confused for a second. No, yeah, Rebecca
01:07:22.800 --> 01:07:25.519
Yarrow's son. I was like, Brennan's older. And
01:07:25.519 --> 01:07:27.860
so it's hilarious that she's writing all of this
01:07:27.860 --> 01:07:30.280
angst in because you know she's been staring
01:07:30.280 --> 01:07:34.010
at her kid. kid for years just like what is it
01:07:34.010 --> 01:07:39.769
gonna take and yep yep so shout out to rebecca
01:07:39.769 --> 01:07:41.809
yaros thank you for writing your parenting process
01:07:41.809 --> 01:07:47.429
into the book it's powered by the spice she now
01:07:47.429 --> 01:07:50.190
feels violet makes it to the roll call table
01:07:50.190 --> 01:07:53.730
hands over her name Hands over Taryn's name,
01:07:53.869 --> 01:07:56.130
to which we get a Cassie remark. Pronunciation
01:07:56.130 --> 01:07:59.409
could use some work. Yep. I just wrote, that's
01:07:59.409 --> 01:08:03.769
why we have Cassie. And Violet, at least, is
01:08:03.769 --> 01:08:06.630
picking up on what kind of relationship she's
01:08:06.630 --> 01:08:08.409
going to have with her dragons. Obviously, it's
01:08:08.409 --> 01:08:10.750
going to be smartass. And so she comes back with,
01:08:10.789 --> 01:08:12.829
at least I remember, bitch. You said you'd have
01:08:12.829 --> 01:08:17.770
to remind me. That's the John comment. Yep. And
01:08:17.770 --> 01:08:20.050
we get... to that, at least I didn't let you
01:08:20.050 --> 01:08:21.829
fall to your death, which is going to be, like,
01:08:21.890 --> 01:08:25.130
the number of times Taryn uses that against Violet
01:08:25.130 --> 01:08:29.810
is hilarious to me. And then everything hits
01:08:29.810 --> 01:08:32.569
the fan. Because as she's about to walk away,
01:08:32.670 --> 01:08:35.729
Violet gets hit with a new message from her little
01:08:35.729 --> 01:08:39.850
golden dragon. Indarna's full name is Indarna
01:08:39.850 --> 01:08:42.010
Yoram. Indarna Yoram. I know I didn't say it
01:08:42.010 --> 01:08:46.449
right. I know I didn't say it right. Indarna,
01:08:46.590 --> 01:08:50.300
for short. Violet is exasperated because what
01:08:50.300 --> 01:08:53.979
the fuck did you just say? She's like, uh, no,
01:08:54.159 --> 01:08:57.720
no, what? Sorry, she's just standing there. Yeah,
01:08:57.800 --> 01:08:59.319
like, can you imagine just turning around and
01:08:59.319 --> 01:09:02.140
staring in disbelief at your dragons? And everyone
01:09:02.140 --> 01:09:05.180
else was like, what? We saw the big black dragon.
01:09:05.279 --> 01:09:06.800
Are you just now realizing that's who you came
01:09:06.800 --> 01:09:10.819
in with? Like, are you okay? Like, do you need
01:09:10.819 --> 01:09:14.819
a mentor? Do you need Nolan? But after she's
01:09:14.819 --> 01:09:16.899
given the name, so, like, they know she knows.
01:09:17.479 --> 01:09:19.060
Okay, so I have two things really quickly before
01:09:19.060 --> 01:09:21.460
we turn the page. So first, she's saying, do
01:09:21.460 --> 01:09:24.220
you need a mender? Not Nolan, implying that there
01:09:24.220 --> 01:09:28.579
is multiple menders on site. Two, so we keep
01:09:28.579 --> 01:09:30.640
talking about how the only people who know the
01:09:30.640 --> 01:09:33.279
dragon's names are... writer who gives it and
01:09:33.279 --> 01:09:35.579
the scribes but the person who is taking role
01:09:35.579 --> 01:09:37.460
is not a scribe and i just went back that's why
01:09:37.460 --> 01:09:39.899
i got quiet for a minute to confirm this so this
01:09:39.899 --> 01:09:42.300
redhead she mentions is the same person who is
01:09:42.300 --> 01:09:44.920
taking role at parapet so if we go back when
01:09:44.920 --> 01:09:47.600
she had the knife at jack's balls yep yeah so
01:09:47.600 --> 01:09:52.279
that was a writer who is a redhead so we have
01:09:52.279 --> 01:09:55.100
a writer who is taking the role so there is plenty
01:09:55.100 --> 01:09:59.500
of room for for tricky tricks between where this
01:09:59.500 --> 01:10:02.100
role is taken and when the scribes get it. Yeah.
01:10:02.800 --> 01:10:05.220
Just pointing that out there. There's that aspect.
01:10:05.340 --> 01:10:07.720
And I think if we said scribes, it was by accent
01:10:07.720 --> 01:10:09.579
or by interpretation. Because we constantly talk
01:10:09.579 --> 01:10:11.680
about the rolekeeper, and it would make sense
01:10:11.680 --> 01:10:13.380
that scribes were rolekeepers, except for they're
01:10:13.380 --> 01:10:15.859
not allowed. Yeah, I assumed that it was a scribe.
01:10:15.859 --> 01:10:18.020
Yeah, I think I just assumed scribe. But yeah,
01:10:18.060 --> 01:10:20.380
it says only a writer and the rolekeeper know
01:10:20.380 --> 01:10:24.140
a dragon's full name. Yeah. So maybe the dragon
01:10:24.140 --> 01:10:26.920
writer... quadrant refused to let the scribes
01:10:26.920 --> 01:10:29.539
have this capacity. Maybe they insisted that
01:10:29.539 --> 01:10:32.060
it had to remain within the writer's quadrant.
01:10:32.199 --> 01:10:35.220
Keep that info top secret even from the information
01:10:35.220 --> 01:10:40.500
sector. Yeah. Because the dragons insist. I love
01:10:40.500 --> 01:10:43.060
that argument. Because the dragons insist. Both
01:10:43.060 --> 01:10:47.699
dragons are like, fucking tell her the name.
01:10:48.119 --> 01:10:50.619
So, of course, Violet turns around and says,
01:10:50.859 --> 01:10:54.880
very quietly, And in Darnaurum. And everyone
01:10:54.880 --> 01:11:02.439
freaks. Because landing with the biggest black
01:11:02.439 --> 01:11:04.539
dragon on the continent, or the second largest
01:11:04.539 --> 01:11:07.239
dragon on the continent, wasn't enough. But then
01:11:07.239 --> 01:11:10.920
she gets a second dragon? Like, yeah. That's
01:11:10.920 --> 01:11:16.420
not fair! It's not fair! I think some people
01:11:16.420 --> 01:11:18.300
are feeling inadequate about their bond right
01:11:18.300 --> 01:11:25.149
now. Yeah. Yeah. think so well that took longer
01:11:25.149 --> 01:11:26.789
than i thought you guys it always ends up that
01:11:26.789 --> 01:11:30.130
way sorry yeah but that is the end of chapter
01:11:30.130 --> 01:11:33.250
15 and unless we have any thoughts we can go
01:11:33.250 --> 01:11:37.689
ahead and end it now send her on all right so
01:11:37.689 --> 01:11:41.369
that'll do it for us this week and until next
01:11:41.369 --> 01:11:52.600
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