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But these things cannot last as an evil

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army led by a villainous man came and

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took what came his. what But these

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things these last as one day,

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a brave girl wearing wearing snuck

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into the into castle and took

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back and his. what wasn't her

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bravery, the the made her their leader, their and

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for her for her they gave her a name.

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a name. Tiffany

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you bring your head off? head

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up slam your head down

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onto cinder you feel You feel

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something gentle tuck underneath your

1:44

chin, preventing you from

1:46

bringing your head down upon

1:48

the point of Cinda. of

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She slowly pushes your

1:53

head back up back you

1:55

slowly regain control of your

1:57

body. of your body pop At

1:59

this, exact moment. A ghostly

2:01

figure appears. Each one of them

2:03

is either a appears you one of

2:06

them is either a corpse. You

2:08

have to pop. You the I'm about

2:10

to spot this. I'm the first to

2:12

spot this down write this down

2:14

because Tiffany hasn't seen it yet

2:16

it I'm gonna read the note

2:18

that Adam just handed me

2:20

don't read it Adam just handed me. Don't

2:22

read it. Just for myself.

2:26

I'm just going for

2:28

a outside the studio for a

2:30

minute. I'll be be

2:33

back, leaving. He left. He left.

2:35

He had the gold. Oh

2:38

my god, what's there? He's

2:40

standing, turning, through the

2:43

Through the little window into the

2:45

studio, he's standing and pointing

2:47

it he's screaming and pointing at you, fuck

2:49

you, screaming at good at He's

2:51

I see why fuck you, fuck

2:53

you, flipping at him off.

2:55

Really good at you

2:57

turn around why you

2:59

can see. Pop, would

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you like to here. Tiffany, you

3:04

a around and you can see, pop,

3:06

would you like to, to say?

3:08

Yeah, yeah, yeah, look, wait, there

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it is. This There

3:12

it is. I This

3:14

is the note

3:16

I got. is a

3:18

deepling. What? Your original ancestor

3:20

Your original ancestor

3:23

looks like gosh. So, look,

3:25

she's leaving. She is leaving this

3:27

She's leaving. Yeah,

3:29

is leaving the

3:31

studio. That's crazy. she's

3:33

fully just... Man. Man! Oh,

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that's incredible!

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Take a picture! Here

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we go, we're gonna get a photo.

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We're share this when the episode goes

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out. That's

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good stuff. We're

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creating magic here. Yeah, the back.

3:58

How, how, how was that? Is it good?

4:01

Was it nice? Where'd you

4:03

go? Is she blue? With

4:05

no color, the ghost to

4:07

just, oh they all, yes,

4:09

they are all a pale

4:11

ghostly blue color, but looking

4:13

at her immediately you recognize

4:15

your jaw, you recognize your

4:17

ears, you recognize your horns,

4:19

you recognize your cloven hooves.

4:21

Nothing bad happened, it's just

4:23

genetics. You can't see her

4:25

color. You can't see her

4:27

color. You can't see the

4:29

hue of her skin, but

4:31

you look so much like

4:33

her. That painting of her

4:35

as a human being is

4:37

fake. I wonder who could

4:39

have done that. I don't

4:41

know if that painting would

4:43

have been Sir Grace. I

4:45

believe that it would have

4:47

probably been a dark secret.

4:49

Sure, yeah. Going back quite

4:51

a few generations. Possibly people

4:53

like Alowishas Grace knew about

4:55

it. Probably Karateas with his

4:57

gold teeth that painted over

4:59

it. But yeah, for a

5:01

while. I don't think this

5:03

might... Clearly, this is not

5:05

something even Sir Grace knew

5:07

about. Oh my God. Yeah.

5:09

Okay. Good stuff. Good stuff.

5:11

And all the ghosts have

5:13

been hanging out, so my

5:15

mom knew in ghostland. Wow.

5:18

Yes, but, you know, she

5:20

didn't have much of an

5:22

opportunity to explain. Oh, no,

5:24

no, no. Grace didn't know.

5:26

Presumably, your mom didn't know

5:28

either. Did she know from

5:30

ghostland now? Or did she

5:32

find out now, too? Look,

5:34

there's no way for me

5:36

to know it. There's no

5:38

way for you to know

5:40

it. Hey, I just, this

5:42

is, this is just all

5:44

going through Tiffany's mind. Cinder,

5:46

with a graceful pirouette, slams

5:48

both briefly leaves the ground,

5:50

uses her tail to quickly

5:52

adjust her balance, and slams

5:54

both of her feet into

5:56

the corpse that was once

5:58

her. The corpse, Cinder. on

6:01

the holy avenger. I drag

6:03

it up. Hell yeah. U-D-O,

6:05

29 points of damage. The

6:07

corpse of cinder is neatly

6:09

destroyed. Crumbling, part to dust,

6:12

part to pieces. And Holy

6:14

Avenger loves zombies. I give

6:16

Holy Avenger a little kiss

6:18

for Dragon bait. pop you

6:20

have a very satisfied look

6:23

on your you're a very

6:25

satisfied feeling sorry yeah and

6:27

you can see behind or

6:29

across from you sorry the

6:31

ghost of cinder gives you

6:34

like a smile and a

6:36

grateful nod then looking over

6:38

your shoulder a look of

6:40

dismay comes on her voice

6:42

and thudu calls out from

6:45

behind What do you do?

6:47

I spin around with Holly

6:49

Avengers. Oh yeah. Lady Annelle

6:51

drives her dagger into your

6:53

heart. God damn it, I

6:56

forgot about this one. I

6:58

thought she was helping. You

7:00

take two points out. I

7:02

just like... All

7:05

right. Oh. That's the zombie's

7:07

turn. She wasn't, she wasn't

7:09

a fighter. Yeah. She wasn't.

7:11

It just sort of goes,

7:13

it digs in, but you

7:15

know, when like it hits

7:17

wood and it. Yeah, yeah,

7:19

it's the ghost's turn. They

7:21

descend upon the alone. Oh!

7:23

No! One by one, they

7:25

take turns attacking. Angus Grace

7:27

attacks first. What was his

7:29

ancestral weapon? It would have

7:31

been a mace. The Grace

7:33

mace. Of course. Angus Grace,

7:35

a mountain of a man,

7:37

swings the mace and strikes

7:39

the Alhoun. The mace passes

7:41

through the Alhoun as if,

7:44

well, as if it was

7:46

a ghostly weapon. It does

7:48

not actually touch the Alhoun,

7:50

but you see its head

7:52

turns to the side and

7:54

blood. splatters the side of

7:56

the stand that it's on.

7:58

Grace, what was her ancestral

8:00

weapon? Would have been a

8:02

spear. Miranda Grace, looking at

8:04

you Tiffany from the other

8:06

side of the Alhoun, gives

8:08

you a nod and drives

8:10

your spear, drives her spear,

8:12

sorry, into the Alhoun pinning

8:14

it in place. Then Alawicious

8:16

Grace. He was a lover

8:18

not a fighter so it

8:20

probably spells. Okay. Bardic spells.

8:22

Alowishas grace. He's as a

8:24

singer. Every bit the Lothario

8:27

strings on a ghostly, a

8:29

ghostly lute and sings a

8:31

ghostly tune. You see nothing

8:33

but out of his mouth

8:35

a literal giant like note

8:37

notation forms and then slams

8:39

into the Alhoun. Okay, Dr.

8:41

Strange. The Alhoun doubles forwards

8:43

and more blood platters down

8:45

its front. Karatechus Grace? He

8:47

would have had some mad

8:49

implement of violence. Somebody doesn't

8:51

even look like it. Probably

8:53

a hammer, but it looks

8:55

fucked up. You know, I

8:57

feel like he was an

8:59

inventor. He has a hammer

9:01

and there's just a sword

9:03

sideways on the bottom. That

9:05

man wields a contraption. It's

9:08

a doodad, dude. He wields

9:10

a chain sword. The

9:13

chainsaw it slams into the

9:16

base of the Alhorn and

9:18

if you could hear it

9:20

you imagine it would sound

9:23

exactly like a chainsaw. Not

9:25

that any of you know

9:28

what a chainsaw is, but

9:30

you see the teeth spinning

9:33

around and smoke coming out

9:35

the back and... Yeah, smoke

9:37

coming out the back! Like

9:40

with the mace, it passes

9:42

through and doesn't seem to

9:45

actually be touching, but where

9:47

it passes through, the Alhoun's

9:50

guts and innards disconnect, cut

9:52

neatly, as if it had

9:54

been there. Abner Grace. Legislature.

9:57

of it. And then with

9:59

the book that he always

10:02

carried and always carries, he

10:04

slams it on the Alan's

10:07

head. The Alan's head, flop!

10:10

Caves Inwards. There's a lot

10:12

of policy in that book.

10:14

Oh yeah. Phineas Grace, also

10:16

a wizard, probably throws another

10:19

spell. This one is probably

10:21

less obvious than Alowishas. Alowishas.

10:23

Yeah, it's probably, it looks

10:25

like a magic missile, essentially.

10:27

And then finally, Cinda Grace,

10:30

similar in a way to

10:32

Miranda, launches forwards with her

10:34

bastard sword, using it, some

10:36

might say, like a rapier.

10:38

very delicately and elegantly she

10:41

drives it in Tiffany you

10:43

recognize immediately though the same

10:45

the exact same movements that

10:47

Miranda used with her spear

10:49

it looks like the bastard

10:52

sword is being used almost

10:54

as a spear with the

10:56

bastard sword and the spear

10:58

the alhoun is pinned neatly

11:01

in place she cannot speak

11:03

but nonetheless she screams cinder

11:05

screams at you with an

11:07

urgency now no words just

11:09

mouthing it at you Your

11:12

mother helps you grip the

11:14

spear tightly and... I drive

11:16

it into its head at

11:18

long last. It got in

11:20

there with a book. You

11:23

drive the spear straight through

11:25

the owl hoon's head, the

11:27

cyanic scream, ends, and then

11:29

all is silent. The crypt

11:31

begins to settle and the

11:34

darkness recedes. With a thump,

11:36

the alhoun, what's left of

11:38

its innards, release the book

11:40

and it drops with an

11:42

almost lack of fanfare, it

11:45

drops to the ground. tortures

11:49

that you had previously not

11:51

seen, light along both sides

11:53

of the crypt, and suddenly

11:55

the confined space no longer

11:57

feels dark and uncomfortable. nonetheless

11:59

a place of quietness, but

12:01

a place of peaceful quietness.

12:03

The ghosts slowly one by

12:05

one begin to step back

12:07

and fade away. No. What

12:09

about your mom's corpse? Does

12:11

it just go? Oh yes,

12:13

I'm so sorry. As soon

12:15

as the Alhoun is destroyed,

12:17

your mother's corpse... I catch

12:19

it. Okay, yeah. Before it

12:21

hits the ground. You do

12:24

so. It stabbed me, but

12:26

you know. Yeah. It didn't

12:28

know what it was doing.

12:30

Yeah. Looking back at pop

12:32

catching Lady Anel, you see...

12:34

First, Abner Grace gives you

12:36

a nod, like, good. That

12:38

is the correct thing to do. You

12:41

should have done that. I don't like

12:43

you because you're a gross turtle man,

12:45

but you have done the right thing.

12:47

And one by one, the ghostly figure

12:49

is step back and begin to fade

12:51

away. Abner first Caraticus second

12:54

Phoenix with a nod of respect

12:56

to you Tiffany Alowishas turns around

12:58

like he's expecting something else to

13:00

happen, but then he fades I

13:02

feel like Alowishas would leave with

13:04

an extremely elaborate bow Maybe, you

13:06

know what, yeah, you're right. Alawish

13:08

gives it an extremely elaborate bow.

13:10

Angus looks, Angus is the one

13:12

who looks around as if he's

13:14

expecting something else to happen. And

13:16

then he fades to, Miranda is

13:18

among the last. She withdrawing the

13:20

spear, looks at the spear that

13:22

you hold Tiffany, gives you a

13:24

respectful nod like she's proud of

13:26

you. And then she steps back

13:28

and two fades away. The last

13:31

two to remain are Lady Anel,

13:33

your mother, and Cinder. I just

13:35

I can I stand and how

13:37

can I stare at him both?

13:39

I just want to stare at

13:41

him both. He's like a chameleon.

13:43

They try and I know I

13:45

can't touch him I reach out

13:47

for him. You if you reach

13:49

out for either one of them

13:51

your mother more so but cinder

13:53

also they reach back as if

13:55

they long to hold you but

13:57

your hands. pause through

13:59

each other. I don't want

14:01

to touch their heads. I can't do

14:03

it, but I try. I mother

14:06

is is sobbing uncontrollably

14:08

are are streaming silently down

14:10

her face anytime she she closes

14:12

her eyes her mouth opens

14:14

in a silent But then then

14:16

when she opens her eyes

14:18

again it feels like some feels like

14:20

some emotion within her breaks

14:23

and she half laughs looking

14:25

at you but then the cycle

14:27

just seems to happen again

14:29

and again she is devastated

14:31

and so happy at the

14:33

same time at the same time. a

14:35

bit more reserved, but you see that

14:37

her eyes tear a little bit, looking

14:39

at you. little bit looking

14:42

at you. if she's trying to

14:44

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She too is fading but you

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Yeah, I'm sorry. Thank you. She

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considers you for a long while

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just looking at you, absorbing you,

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drinking in every detail, and then

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she nods, satisfied, and she too

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fades. Thank you. I guess I'm

17:28

just standing there. I kind of

17:30

awkwardly shuffle over holding your dead

17:33

mom. Do you want to help

17:35

put her away? Yeah, let's put

17:37

her back. All right. Can I

17:40

hold over? Sure, sure. Just be

17:42

careful, obviously. I'm very strong. I'm

17:44

good at this. I hold my

17:46

mom. I hand the corpse to

17:49

Tiffany and I go drag. about

17:51

scophics to be heavy as hell,

17:53

hey? What's that? How heavy as

17:56

a sarcophagi? They're made of stone,

17:58

quite heavy. Yeah, okay, I don't

18:00

do that. We can give them

18:02

all proper barriers. We do your

18:05

mom first, I assume, because she's

18:07

the one who's the most intact.

18:09

Yeah. No, no, we can't bear

18:12

it. I think it'd be alloicious

18:14

because he got like exploded into

18:16

aloicious is freestanding molecules. Is there

18:18

any part of it I can

18:21

take that's like not super desecrate,

18:23

but you know, like, did... Oh,

18:25

yeah, there is. I pull the

18:27

dagger out of my chest and

18:30

hold it out to you. That

18:32

rolls, stop rolls. Yes, take the

18:34

dagger. I reckon she didn't want

18:37

you to have it. I don't

18:39

really say much. I just hold

18:41

it. It's not very sharp though.

18:43

Carved elegantly into the blade of

18:46

the weapon is the word anell.

18:48

I just sort of nod. I

18:50

nod. I nod. I do a

18:53

lot of nods. Are we burying

18:55

everyone? Are we putting them back?

18:57

Yeah, we should bury everybody and

18:59

put them back. I set me

19:02

down in the study area. I

19:04

can't help move bodies, but when

19:06

the time comes, I will say

19:09

the words. I put her up

19:11

on the little like podium, because

19:13

I take her off, I take

19:15

the book off, and I put

19:18

her on the podium where the

19:20

book was. Okay. Yeah, nice. Sit

19:22

her up on top of there.

19:25

Yeah. She quietly just reaches out

19:27

for any books that she can

19:29

find within reach. She's just flipping

19:31

through your father's notes and the

19:34

books here. And you can see,

19:36

she's studying all the rooms around

19:38

her. Come on, let's do this.

19:41

We'll start with you, Mom. I

19:43

am so quiet. Pop a me

19:45

like once you're over where the

19:47

sarcophagus is and you put you

19:50

we put your mom in there

19:52

pop a just fucks off straight

19:54

away not normally a good reader

19:57

of the room this room is

19:59

in bold a lot of care

20:01

in putting my family. As you

20:03

do so, you feel that coldness

20:06

that had spread through your arm

20:08

when the Alhoun nearly tore it

20:10

off. You feel the coldness recede

20:13

and that warmth spread again. There

20:15

is a warmth unexplainable radiating from

20:17

your center out throughout your body.

20:19

I take a lot of care

20:22

in putting my family back. I'm

20:25

gathering as like trying to,

20:27

man, I did some real

20:29

numbers on some of these

20:31

bodies, I'm trying to put,

20:33

like anguses in shavings. Although

20:36

I can kind of connect

20:38

them back together, because they're

20:40

quite neatly bisected. It's such

20:42

a unique, awkward position to

20:44

be in, to be like,

20:46

oh I'm sorry I desecrated,

20:48

your corpse. But angus was

20:50

like, I'll get it. For

20:52

sure. I would like to

20:54

start a small, take one

20:56

of the torches off. And

20:58

I'm going to burn the

21:00

Alhoun's head. Yeah, you do

21:02

what Jordan Grace should have

21:05

done like 35 years ago.

21:07

Just burn it to just,

21:09

you know, just make sure

21:11

it, um. Oh, yep, yeah.

21:13

You write horns? No. But

21:15

you will be. I mean,

21:17

I always have been. Yeah,

21:19

but I think now you'll

21:21

be different, right. I guess

21:23

it will. It might

21:25

be the wrong time to say

21:28

this part, but it's probably good

21:30

prep, yeah? Killer members of your

21:32

family, because... I mean, I hate

21:34

to overstate it, but whatever the

21:36

fuck was going on down here,

21:38

I do not know how much

21:40

your daddy's left. I don't think

21:42

there'd be a lot of him.

21:44

Right. Well, I'll say some words.

21:47

I know something of the rights

21:49

and rituals proper, and then we

21:51

can leave. I pick up the

21:53

big cursed book and I take

21:55

one of my belts off. In

21:57

a simple font? title of the

21:59

book is I Meledicta Horta. Meledicta

22:01

Horta. Do you open it? I

22:03

sniff it. It smells of leather,

22:06

which is what the book is

22:08

bound in. Would I have done

22:10

a better job? No, I don't

22:12

think anyone really could have come

22:14

away from I Meledicta, Meledicta Horta,

22:16

unscathed. No, as in the leather

22:18

binding. Oh, the leather binding. Yeah,

22:20

would I have done a better

22:23

job? Yes. Embarrassing. Embarrassing. Can I

22:25

hear anything coming from the book

22:27

or is it just a book?

22:29

Does it just feel like a

22:31

book? It just feels like a

22:33

book. There's nothing dangerous but knowledge.

22:35

Yeah. So like you have to

22:37

read the spells within. Yeah, which

22:39

is what I assume Oldmate was

22:42

doing when he opened it with

22:44

his esophagus. Yeah, uh, yes. From

22:46

a cursory glance, you can see

22:48

each of the, the book is,

22:50

you know, you know how when

22:52

a book, not, not books that

22:54

we might have, they're also like

22:56

neat and tightly packed, but old-fashioned

22:58

books had a messiness. to the

23:01

pages. This is even more so

23:03

than that. You can see the

23:05

pages appear to be made of

23:07

even different substances. Some of the

23:09

pages are paper, but some appear

23:11

to be leather, written on leather,

23:13

and many different types of leather

23:15

at that. Some are papyrus. You

23:17

can't even understand what some of

23:20

these materials are. One of the

23:22

pages looks like it's made of

23:24

metal. It looks like many different

23:26

from a cursory glance. Many different

23:28

authors contributed to one work. God,

23:30

it's tempting to read, isn't it?

23:32

I want a thumb, I want

23:34

a thumb through it. So afflict.

23:37

I wrap it up with a

23:39

belt. That's probably clever. Can loop

23:41

it in through another belt. That's

23:43

very smart. I try and politely

23:45

hurry the funeral along. I also

23:47

collect 32 gold pieces. The room

23:49

to the right, is indeed a

23:51

treasure room. Oh no, I picked

23:53

up teeth. Yeah, no what I

23:56

meant. Yeah. fine. You

23:58

pick up the

24:00

gold teeth. the gold

24:02

teeth, yeah? You should probably write my mother's dagger

24:04

and 32 teeth teeth down. Yeah. I like 31

24:06

gold one silver. one silver. Does

24:08

that seem Yeah, that's great. Yeah, right. Off

24:11

to the right, you find

24:13

indeed the room is, it's a

24:15

it's a treasure room, There

24:17

is a immeasurable amount of wealth

24:19

here, more than enough to

24:22

finance the beginning of what

24:24

you need. you need. and

24:26

then probably even, then some probably

24:28

much more. With the addition

24:30

of what Dick is able to

24:32

bring to bear, to it

24:34

will be a be force that

24:36

you can you can amass. Well,

24:39

as the sole living of

24:41

the grace fortune... Yeah, that's good

24:43

almost. Let's take our take our stuff.

24:45

know what, I know what I never that would be

24:48

would be colour, you know, The the

24:50

color of rebellion would be gold. gold.

24:52

Just out of curiosity, maybe even maybe

24:54

that other check you find it leads

24:56

to it opening, which you were you

24:58

were not aware of exactly where

25:00

it was, you would forget where

25:02

it was. In fact, actually you

25:04

step out with golden hand and you didn't

25:07

pass through a door, you just

25:09

passed through an opening. Looking back,

25:11

you're like, wait, where was it?

25:13

wait, where you have to do the

25:15

long have to do the long trek of up the

25:17

side of the hill to back to the

25:19

front door, door. You return to the

25:21

house and it's quite late at

25:23

this point, so you so you need

25:26

to stay will need to stay a night degrees manner. Yeah!

25:28

I hear that place is haunted dude. place is

25:30

haunted, dude. We can enjoy the

25:32

breakfast, not tomorrow. All breakfast.

25:34

The staff staff are very

25:36

grateful to see you and

25:38

promises are made to

25:40

help you collect all of

25:43

the gold tomorrow, all of the

25:45

gold tomorrow. insists, My lady,

25:47

you insists, my lady, wounded. exhausted, you're

25:49

wounded, please. You, you, look, fuck.

25:51

He even stabbed multiple times

25:53

to win belly. You, he

25:56

will warm to win No, he

25:58

won't. Adam, no, he he won't. Well, you're

26:00

just not worse than what he's used

26:02

to. Anyway, Tiphol insists that you stay

26:04

the night, they, you go upstairs and

26:07

you realize they've already made your, they

26:09

have completely converted your dad's bedroom into

26:11

your bedroom. Oh my God, this is

26:13

so nice. What a day of like,

26:15

just coming home from that, like, getting

26:18

to the stage of being like, I

26:20

want to bury my family and then

26:22

being like, well, they're not. They're not

26:24

even here. Like I want to give

26:26

them a good funeral, but they're not

26:28

here. I met them. They're gone. I'm

26:31

just putting their bodies in a thing.

26:33

They're not here. I don't have anyone.

26:35

You've learned so much in 24 hours.

26:37

Not even. Still nighttime. I've come back.

26:39

Well, imagine if we'd gone to sleep

26:41

and we'd rested and waited until day.

26:44

Might not have had all that dark

26:46

in the hall. I come back to

26:48

this house and find out that, hey,

26:50

I was, I mean, I knew I

26:52

was trying so hard to impress my

26:54

dad and I wanted him to love

26:57

me. Everyone else did. Everyone else did.

26:59

It wasn't enough because it wasn't dads,

27:01

but it is enough in some ways.

27:04

Yeah, fuck is bed off. It's

27:06

my bed. I'm, this is my

27:08

stuff. I know what I come

27:10

from now. This is all my

27:12

stuff. I, this is mine. Every,

27:14

every piece of anything in your

27:16

father's bedroom has been, while you

27:18

were away, removed systematically expunged from

27:20

the room and all of your

27:22

things have been moved in by

27:24

the staff. I wasn't allowed to

27:26

have anything. I wasn't allowed to

27:28

go into the rooms. This is

27:30

my house. There are many guest

27:32

bedrooms. The nicest one pop is

27:34

made for you. That's pretty good

27:36

night. You're giving a beautiful view

27:38

of the grounds and the statues

27:40

that gave you so much trouble

27:42

here today. They're lucky. It doesn't

27:44

feel like a sarcastic job. It

27:46

just feels like they were nice

27:48

rooms to look out on. At

27:51

some point in the night Tiffany,

27:53

you get up with a lantern

27:55

in hand and you wonder into

27:57

your father's study. This room has

27:59

not yet been. for

28:01

you yet. The South simply

28:03

haven't had time. But your

28:05

father's, your old, your father's

28:07

old oak desk sits where

28:09

it was always sat. And

28:11

you, just wondering around, you

28:13

can't really sleep right now.

28:15

You sit down in the

28:17

chair and contemplate all that

28:19

has happened to you over

28:22

the last, yeah, 24 hours.

28:24

and you look down at

28:26

the, there are two draws

28:28

on either side of the

28:30

desk, you are familiar with

28:32

three out of the four.

28:34

One of them, the fourth

28:36

one, has been locked since

28:38

you were a baby. You

28:40

don't think it's ever been

28:42

opened, or at least certainly

28:44

not while you were alive.

28:47

I used the butt of

28:49

my mother's dagger to break

28:51

that lock. You break it

28:53

open. Inside. I've slept with

28:55

it. It's never leaving your

28:57

side. That's a funny thing

28:59

to sleep with. If it's

29:01

small enough I can use

29:03

it to put my hair

29:05

on. Yeah, of course. Oh,

29:07

yeah, absolutely. It is little.

29:09

You know what? It absolutely

29:11

would be. Yeah. In fact,

29:14

I would say in the

29:16

painting. of that would, should

29:18

have included you from the

29:20

beginning in that painting with

29:22

your dad and mom. What

29:24

looks like just a regular

29:26

hair clasp, you immediately identify

29:28

as this dagger. Oh, God,

29:30

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29:32

Cracking open that draw, you

29:34

see there is one thing

29:36

inside. It is a copy,

29:38

a dog-eared, very well-beaten copy

29:41

of Emmanuel de Monster First

29:43

Edition. Nice. Oh, I'm Thumben.

29:45

There's something written on the

29:47

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29:49

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29:51

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