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immune later. There's fear in this horse's eyes that I've never seen before.

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Porridge, get to learn how to make that. That's right. I didn't realize

3:30

you were in here. It'll be fine. It'll be fine. It'll be fine.

3:32

Thoughtlessness instead of malice? I really go for an apple right now. So,

3:34

just been kind of by myself. I don't know if it's a good

3:36

sign or a good sign or a bad sign. I thought you were

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bad sign. I thought you were bad sign. I thought you were bad

3:40

sign. I thought you were. I thought you were up. You made you

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promise that you were up. You made the promise that you were up.

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You made the promise that you were up. You made the promise that

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you were up. You made the promise that you were Does

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this mean we

3:56

have to get

3:58

married now? Welcome

4:00

back to Dyshame. This is

4:03

season 2 episode 125. Make

4:05

You Sweat. MVP this week

4:08

is Jack, I mean Rob.

4:10

Rob Diobald. You have been

4:12

part of Dyshame from the

4:15

beginning and we have loved

4:17

playing with you these past

4:20

five and a half years.

4:22

My friend, you are this

4:24

week's MVP. Well done Jack,

4:27

well done Rob the Horse.

4:29

All right, should we play

4:31

some D&D? Yeah, let's

4:33

do it. How long do

4:35

you think it would take

4:38

you if you just kept

4:40

aging like slowly

4:42

and you're remotely

4:44

healthy? To realize that you

4:46

were a mortal at what point like what

4:48

age would you be like I think I'm

4:50

gonna live forever? Oh, that's an interesting

4:53

question. Do you continue you said

4:55

you age slowly are you saying

4:57

slower than the average person? You're

4:59

just like a thousand years old and

5:01

dusty? Are my faculties on par with a

5:04

90 year old? I would say that you

5:06

keep it you know what I mean? Yeah you

5:08

keep you keep you keep you keep let's Let's

5:10

say like it's a it's like slightly like

5:12

it's a little sort of like you say

5:14

you're a little more spry or not like

5:16

I have Alzheimer's or something at like 90

5:18

you're like no my brain's still pretty good

5:20

but like physically you're still kind of your your

5:22

aging pretty hard wait That's not

5:25

immortal. But then once you hit

5:27

like 110, you just stop aging. But

5:29

what at what age would you, would

5:31

you just, would you realize like,

5:33

I think I'm just gonna live

5:35

forever? I think I'm immortal. Mommy,

5:37

where does that kick in? You're

5:39

like, when will I die? I

5:41

feel like immortality has to be

5:43

baked into an age limit. Like,

5:46

like, I feel like the depiction

5:48

of immortality that I need and

5:50

love is like you're locked in to

5:53

like your 20 to 50 age range

5:55

you know you don't really go above

5:57

50 right all right I think that's

5:59

I think that's really the key to

6:01

this question is you know there's that

6:03

added to put like you're as old

6:06

as your feet you feel and you're

6:08

as old as your abilities and I

6:10

think if you still had your health

6:12

and had your ability to move around

6:14

and you know I think there'd be

6:17

a point where you suddenly realized I

6:19

don't have any peers anymore because they're

6:21

all dead or they're all in a

6:23

home or they've slowed down and I'm

6:25

still going if you're if you're a

6:27

stand above the curve for sure Oh,

6:30

something is different about me. Everyone I

6:32

ever knew is dead. Well, here's my

6:34

second question. Question then. You said, when

6:36

would you realize you're immortal? Does this

6:38

immortality also extend to like wounds and

6:41

stuff? Because I'll tell you, I'd probably

6:43

realize I'm immortal in the middle I

6:45

like fell off a building and lived.

6:47

I love the idea, though, of someone

6:49

like just having that moment. They're like...

6:52

Let's test this out. Like, maybe that

6:54

is the thing. I think that like,

6:56

if I like with our immortality comes

6:58

the ability just to like survive that

7:00

kind of stuff. Now, whether or not

7:03

you're like magically healing like, you know,

7:05

like, you know, like, yeah, Wolverine, various

7:07

vampires, whatever. Maybe you fall off the

7:09

building and you end up like, you

7:11

know, breaking every bone, but you're still

7:14

alive. But see, here's the funny thing,

7:16

when you think about it, staking a

7:18

vampire through the heart is, is, pretty

7:20

renowned now but the first vampire had

7:22

to figure that out in a pretty

7:24

painful way so imagine most people through

7:27

the heart does the job yeah that

7:29

kills everyone well my point is but

7:31

but not if you're immortal Rob because

7:33

if you're immortal you'd be like nothing

7:35

kills me take that take that wooden

7:38

spike and stab it through my hand

7:40

and they're like yeah try right here

7:42

in my chest and then you die

7:44

like what immortality breaker does your specific

7:46

version of immortality have because I would

7:49

be like a fall off a building

7:51

but what if I land in glass

7:53

Does glass break my immortality? Yes. What's

7:55

your Achilles heel? I wanna know that

7:57

now, like what would your immortality breaker?

8:00

even. Like, Carlin, okay, imagine you're the

8:02

kind of immortal where, like, yeah, you

8:04

hit sort of a certain age and

8:06

then you just stay that age. What

8:08

do I want my breaking immortality to

8:10

be? A coin from 1756 needs to

8:13

be inserted into my left eye by a

8:15

none. That's what breaks my immortality.

8:17

There you are. You heard it

8:19

here first, folks. Something super specific

8:21

and difficult to achieve. I was going

8:23

the other way. For me was going to

8:25

be like... If I stay at past midnight,

8:27

I'm fucked. Why would I? I'm

8:29

so proud. Because it's funny. Meet

8:31

my beauty sleep. Literally. I'm a

8:33

Cinderella immortal. I want my immortality

8:36

breaker to be Rumple-stilt-skin level of

8:38

complicated. I want it to be

8:40

like, you'll never figure out the

8:42

penny in my left eye? But

8:44

then you find up you're buying

8:46

up all those coins so you

8:48

can destroy them so you can

8:50

never be killed. But that means

8:53

you've got a horror of them

8:55

and then. the trumpet hero comes

8:57

along, fucks you right on. Yeah,

8:59

she's a nun. She's all chance. I

9:01

like that you're a villain as well.

9:03

Let's be real. Let's be real. Hold

9:06

on, let's be real. If we're

9:08

immortal, you're gonna have a

9:10

villain, Mark. I'm not saying

9:12

it becomes the majority, but

9:14

you're telling me 700 years old,

9:16

you're not going to be like, yeah,

9:19

maybe I'll kill a few people just

9:21

as well. You got to, you got

9:23

to go through the things. Piedo

9:25

Files and the Murders and

9:27

you know the really bad

9:30

people. The CEOs. Vigilante's famously

9:32

get away with it apparently.

9:34

Immortal vigilantes do Rob. Immortal

9:36

ones. Man they're going to

9:39

keep you in prison. They're

9:41

like you've got 80 life

9:43

sentences. Oh no. I got time. Yeah but

9:45

you can just like. Cut off pieces

9:47

of your body and push them

9:49

through the bars. You can get

9:51

a big enough piece on the

9:53

outside. You just need the majority

9:55

outside. Resurrection spell. Just get yourself

9:57

down the drain and you'll figure

9:59

it. Oh no, he's

10:01

like one of those

10:03

flat worms where he

10:06

just turns into two

10:08

Alexes. Oh boy, that's

10:10

trouble. This is Stephen King film.

10:12

I would say 150. Yes, way

10:15

to answer the original question. I

10:17

mean really. Okay, if you were

10:19

a mortal. But you could choose

10:21

for your body to stay at

10:23

a specific age. What age would

10:25

you have? Oh, I think we've

10:27

been this. Done this way before.

10:29

Can I say 30, but can

10:31

I have a year run up

10:33

to like get fit? Like I

10:36

don't want to freeze this body,

10:38

but can I? I don't want

10:40

to zap. I don't want to

10:42

zap to 30. I don't want

10:44

to zap. I don't want to

10:46

zap. the genie, whatever, picks the

10:48

day and it's like that day

10:50

you felt really good. Yeah, you're

10:52

like, oh, I'm like hungover. Yeah,

10:54

I can't go. What a curse.

10:57

Probably like 22. You'd want me

10:59

22? I think I'd go with

11:01

like 20, 25. Really, I'm surprised.

11:03

It's too young to mid-30s. Yeah,

11:05

I'm already 30s. Because to me,

11:07

like early 20s, like early 20s?

11:09

for your life people aren't going

11:11

to take you seriously at a

11:13

certain point. You know what I

11:15

mean? But 30 is like right

11:18

in the middle where you could

11:20

be old enough to be a

11:22

parent and not be like judged,

11:24

you know, assuming I'd still want

11:26

kids and stuff like that. But

11:28

you're still young enough that you

11:30

still aren't going to be a

11:32

sore thumb when you want to

11:34

go do fun stuff. You know

11:36

what I mean? Yeah. Probably not.

11:39

I'd be so mad. Do you

11:41

get stuck with a bad hair?

11:43

Yeah, you wouldn't be able to

11:45

cut your, I mean, if you

11:47

cut it short, your only choice

11:49

is still shorter, unfortunately. Oh wow,

11:51

a finite amount of hair. Imagine

11:53

like, you get like one bad

11:55

bang trim and you're like, I'm

11:57

so fucked, I'm so far. That

12:00

butterfly clips forever now. None of

12:02

this, it'll just grow back. It's

12:04

not so bad. Ball doesn't look

12:06

here. It's true. See? There's the

12:08

plus side to aging. Maybe it

12:10

just grows really slow. Because you

12:12

see vampires and they have like

12:14

long, you know, fingernails and some

12:16

of them have long hair when

12:18

they're like really really old. Some

12:20

of them are bald admittedly, but

12:23

some of them have like long

12:25

hair. So maybe it's just like

12:27

really slowed down. I feel like

12:29

immortality is stasis, you know? Like

12:32

your cells aren't. But are, are, are

12:34

elves immortal? Hmm, the

12:36

horse? You want to ask

12:38

him a question? He's just,

12:41

he's, he's, he knows. He's

12:43

belligerent I think. He knows

12:46

stuff and I'm a

12:48

little worried. You're

12:51

right we should

12:53

ask Jack. Should

12:55

we play some

12:58

Dungeons and Dragons?

13:01

Yeah. Sure. Good

13:03

idea. watery and insubstantial,

13:05

it's light barely strong

13:08

enough to pierce the

13:10

dusty windows of the stable

13:12

house. On the ground floor,

13:15

the horses are gently wickering

13:17

good mornings to each other

13:20

and browsing the hay in

13:22

their feed troughs, but up

13:25

in the tidy loft, in a

13:27

bed covered in soft

13:29

flannel blankets, Mari

13:31

and Doran wake up

13:33

together. Oh, good morning.

13:35

Good morning. So, uh, does this

13:37

mean we have to get married

13:39

now? You made the promise

13:41

that you would not make

13:43

this weird. You're right, you're

13:46

right, I'm sorry. It was, uh,

13:48

it was fun. It was. It was

13:50

a good time. Doran sort of

13:52

sits up on the edge of

13:54

the bed and swings in his

13:57

legs over and sort of

13:59

stretches. And Mari, kind of,

14:01

she's sitting in bed, she's pretty,

14:03

she's just relaxed, she's just kind

14:06

of hanging out for once, and

14:08

she's just watching Doran at this

14:11

point, almost amused, sort of like

14:13

this curiosity. Then he turns over

14:15

and glances at your arm. Oh,

14:18

I see your, uh, the, the,

14:20

the coloration is spreading a little

14:22

bit more. The calm smile on

14:25

her face kind of twists a

14:27

little bit as she realizes that

14:30

she's... very exposed at this moment

14:32

and that the gray that's moving

14:34

across her chest and arm has

14:37

spread quite a bit more and

14:39

it's still easy enough to hide

14:41

from the others because the weather

14:44

is cold and there's really no

14:46

reason to have anything on display

14:49

but she lays back in the

14:51

bed I don't think that it's

14:53

bad yeah like don't get me

14:56

wrong you still look great trust

14:58

me thank you know I wonder

15:00

if it has anything to do

15:03

with your magic it feels Like,

15:05

I've been holding back, and I

15:07

hold back from you and from

15:10

the others, and I've been trying

15:12

to keep myself under control. And

15:15

I guess I'm not totally ready

15:17

to be honest about everything yet.

15:19

You know, I don't know how

15:22

I'm going to explain this, and

15:24

she gestures to her leg arm

15:26

to Jack and Red, and I

15:29

don't think I'm ready to talk

15:31

about this, and she gestures to

15:34

both of them. But... I don't

15:36

think this is something bad and

15:38

it's felt good. You seem like

15:41

someone who knows what it means

15:43

to heal and to change and

15:45

to be changed by it. Yeah,

15:48

he kind of looks down at

15:50

his scarred body. You hear a

15:53

whistling gradually grow louder and then...

15:55

The stable door below you bangs

15:57

open as someone enters. the stable

16:00

house and begins to sort of

16:02

like mess around with the horses.

16:04

You can't really tell what they're doing

16:07

from up in the loft that you

16:09

can't see them from where you are,

16:11

but someone's entered. Uh, uh, listen, yeah,

16:13

Mar, maybe we'll continue this

16:16

conversation later and Doran sort

16:18

of like trippingly starts getting

16:20

on his clothes and like

16:23

fumbling. over himself. She's just kind

16:25

of slowly languidly kind of doing

16:27

that and she looks at

16:29

Doran and gives him a big smile

16:32

and goes, if you tell the others

16:34

right now, I will moonbeam you later.

16:36

Uh, we're, uh, what are we going to tell people?

16:38

I guess, uh, I was just up here

16:40

fixing the bed. Yeah, for the whole

16:42

night? Well. It'll explain all

16:45

the creaking. It's not going

16:47

to explain why your beard

16:49

is so clean. Well, it's

16:52

not going to explain why

16:54

you have that magical glow

16:56

to you either. Okay. We,

16:58

Europe here, I went for

17:00

a walk, I don't know,

17:02

went for a walk, and

17:04

I passed out downstairs, and

17:07

then I came upstairs. Because

17:09

I heard that the bed was

17:11

creaking. That's right. All

17:13

right, that's right. You better fucking

17:15

hope that no one else can

17:17

cast speak with animals because these

17:20

horses know exactly what happened last

17:22

night. What do you mean the druid convention

17:24

is here? God, we're so fun! Smash

17:27

got to red the next day taking

17:29

Rob the horse out and being

17:31

like, you're so scared Rob, what's

17:33

going on? There's fear in this

17:35

horse's eyes that I've never seen

17:37

before. Something's broken! You just kicks

17:39

just kicks one of them in

17:42

the head. You got drunk, they'll

17:44

believe that. I don't know, I've been

17:46

off just being moody and wandering

17:48

the woods or something nearby.

17:50

They'll believe that too. That's

17:53

right. We could also just say that

17:55

we slept in the same bed. I

17:57

mean, that's not so weird, is it?

17:59

I know. sleep in the same

18:01

bed sometimes. That's true. No one's

18:03

gonna, no one's gonna find that

18:06

weird. Are we overthinking this? I

18:08

think we're over thinking it'll be

18:10

fine, but it'll be, it'll be

18:12

fine. It will be fine. You

18:15

look down in both of your

18:17

holding hands. Oh, listen, Doran's pulling

18:19

out Eric Splitter from the head

18:21

of the bed and he says,

18:24

oh, well, should we kiss or

18:26

maybe we will kiss? Yeah, you

18:28

go first. No, I'll go first.

18:31

No, you go first. Don't. I'll

18:33

go first. Dorin? Uh, I'll go

18:35

first. And Mari just reaches out

18:37

and just shakes Dorin's hand and

18:40

then just walks out. Good to

18:42

see. Good to see you. I

18:44

really go for an apple right

18:46

now. I'm not sure that he

18:49

has slept much. He's sort of

18:51

been in and out and wandering

18:53

the house and trying to avoid

18:55

other people for most of the

18:58

night. He looks a little haggard.

19:00

Kieran looks a little frazzled trying

19:02

to get him to at least

19:05

eat something. And you know, as

19:07

soon as he hears other people,

19:09

he might wander down to try

19:11

and find folks. And less destinies

19:14

there in which he will immediately

19:16

leave the room for a minute.

19:18

Yeah, you make your way into

19:20

the house where Thales is busy

19:23

stirring a gigantic cauldron of porridge

19:25

next to whim who is standing

19:27

there looking very studious. Porridge, good

19:29

to learn how to make that.

19:32

She points into the cauldron and

19:34

makes like a yes, like a

19:36

okay sign with her hand. She's

19:39

all about this and then she

19:41

points all along the countertop in

19:43

the kitchen. There are... toppings for

19:45

I guess all the kids like

19:48

their porridge kind of a different

19:50

way built your own porridge bar

19:52

and she's like eating one piece

19:54

from each bowl and like her

19:57

facial expression changes based on like

19:59

if it's a nut or a

20:01

piece of chopped apple drop. Especially

20:04

when she accidentally picks up

20:06

a rat dropping. Right. Yeah, that one

20:08

wasn't great. But she like kind of

20:10

makes is so so. But she's adventurous.

20:12

She tried it. A delicacy to the

20:15

goblin orphan. And then she points at

20:17

you Jack and offers you a bowl.

20:19

Fallis is like, oh, morning Jack, you

20:21

can help yourself if you like. Sure,

20:23

thank you. Yeah. Well, you must have got

20:25

a pretty good to get all this

20:27

together. Yeah, this is more than

20:30

a full-time job, that's for sure.

20:32

Yeah, I can't imagine how busy you

20:34

guys have been and definitely

20:36

in need every hand you

20:38

can get. It's great though. I mean,

20:41

I really love, I love this life.

20:43

I'm glad about that. I, yeah, I

20:45

think it's important to

20:47

have something like that and

20:49

protect it. Things have been,

20:51

I don't know what normal is,

20:53

I guess things have been... feeling

20:56

okay around here? I mean, I

20:58

spent for as long as I can

21:00

remember taking care of

21:03

aristocracy, people who can

21:05

give two shits about me. I

21:07

mean, the kids don't really care

21:10

about me either, but it's a

21:12

different kind of not caring.

21:14

That makes sense.

21:17

Thoughtlessness instead of malice?

21:19

Yes, that's exactly it. I mean,

21:21

I love them. So... No, it's

21:24

been really good and I'm learning all

21:26

the time from Oran. Yeah. He knows

21:28

surprisingly a lot about things. That guy

21:30

has his head on straight for sure.

21:32

Yeah, sort of. And then he kind

21:34

of looks at whim to see what

21:37

she's doing. She's like eating porridge in

21:39

a corner. She's sitting up on the

21:41

countertop over in the corner just like

21:43

really busy with the porridge and he

21:45

kind of looks around to make sure

21:47

there's no one else around. He's like,

21:50

have you talk to Oran? No, I was

21:52

I might do you know where he's at this time

21:54

of day I was thinking it'd be good to sit

21:56

down and have a chat with no I can never

21:58

really place where he's at the house but

22:00

is he does he tend to talk

22:03

to himself a lot? I mean he

22:05

was always one to be singing a

22:07

tune to himself but but not like

22:09

full-on conversations that I recall from our

22:12

brief time on the road. Is that

22:14

a thing he's doing now? Yeah I

22:16

mean you just started it in the

22:19

past little while I'm sure he's just

22:21

you know mulling stuff over especially with

22:23

beef here. Yeah complicated time for everybody.

22:25

Maybe I'll go finish my porridge and

22:28

see if I can find him. Would

22:30

be good to touch base, yeah. Oh

22:32

nice seeing you. Wonderful, yeah. Enjoy your

22:34

porridge. Thank you so much. And Jack

22:37

takes a little of all the toppings

22:39

and away he goes to try and

22:41

hunt down Orin. Extra rat-dropping. With a

22:44

loud thump you hear the body of

22:46

red hit the floor above you Jack

22:48

as you exit the kitchen. Red passed

22:50

out last night on the stairs in

22:53

his little library nook where he sleeps

22:55

and he sort of opens the door

22:57

like Kevin Callister Christmas morning looking back

22:59

you know to to see if anybody

23:02

is in the room with them and

23:04

left and right to see if anyone

23:06

is out in the hallway. He's got

23:09

like... a fuzzy wump on the side

23:11

of his head and his hair is

23:13

all stuck up and his eyes are

23:15

a little bleary and he's sort of

23:18

just... and he's Jack walking up the

23:20

stairs holding porridge. Rough night for you?

23:22

It wasn't too bad. Thanks Jack and

23:24

Red walks up and takes the bowl

23:27

of porridge from him. You're welcome. Just

23:29

right and starts eating it. Oh wait

23:31

a minute. Too it difficult. Just... You

23:34

know, it's like you're sleeping on the

23:36

road and like as he's talking hands

23:38

it back to Jack is if they're

23:40

sharing it You know, you're on the

23:43

road. You always sleep with one eye

23:45

open You don't have to get into

23:47

that deep Ariam, but you know when

23:49

you when you're someplace safe. I just

23:52

I find I sleep so deeply You

23:54

know just so deeply Yeah, Jack takes

23:56

a spoonful of the porridge and hands

23:59

the bowl back, because we're doing this

24:01

now. Yeah. Hopefully, no weird dreams or

24:03

anything, just like out like a light.

24:05

No, haven't had one of those dreams

24:08

for a little while now. I don't

24:10

know if it's a good sign or

24:12

a bad sign. But you know, we

24:14

are close to Yarda. It might be

24:17

time to lay in a visit before

24:19

we tackled a, you know. fire giants yeah

24:21

i think it's sort of on the

24:23

on the road anyways where anyway

24:25

how was your night i i guess

24:28

we didn't i didn't see you since

24:30

after dinner well i hadn't i

24:32

didn't really land on a place

24:34

to sleep the room i was in

24:37

is occupied or i don't know

24:39

i haven't gotten there yet and

24:41

yeah i just sort of dozed

24:43

a little bit in a chair and

24:45

and wander outside a bit it

24:47

was a rustic yeah Yeah, that

24:49

was pretty awkward last

24:51

night at dinner, I guess. Yeah.

24:53

Is that what's on your

24:55

mind? Definitely a part

24:58

of it. Yeah, I really, trying

25:00

to figure out what the heck

25:02

to say to Destiny. Yeah, well, you

25:04

know, if you need someone to bash

25:06

ideas off of. I mean, yeah, I

25:09

think I got that. part straight but

25:11

I just feel so paranoid whenever I'm

25:13

in this house I just everything about

25:16

it puts me on edge and I

25:18

don't know how much of of that

25:20

is informing how I feel or

25:22

not and then well hey and red

25:25

slaps you on the shoulder really hard

25:27

I got an idea okay you know

25:29

last night I had a conversation with

25:31

B and you know she's feeling pretty

25:33

out of sorts about how well and

25:35

red like kind of duck shoe in

25:38

her side room looking around about how

25:40

this whole whim thing came out, you

25:42

know, obviously I'm not a very good

25:44

dad, let alone a good

25:46

adventuring companion to some, but

25:48

anyway, I was thinking about

25:51

doing something, just a little gesture

25:53

to make you feel like I

25:55

want her to, you know, be in my

25:57

life and then I do care about her.

26:00

thinking. Now today I could like, zip out

26:02

to Belliard or something and I wanted to

26:04

get like a little magical trinket but I

26:06

realized Belliard's half a day away and I

26:08

would never get there in time. But if

26:10

you and I wanted to take a little

26:12

shopping trip, you could put on one of

26:15

those magic circles, zip us down to Waterdeep

26:17

for a few hours and you can help

26:19

me buy something nice for her. That's true.

26:21

We could, we could be, yeah, we could

26:23

do that. What do you say? And then

26:25

you can get out of here, clear your

26:27

mind, walk a little stalls of water deep,

26:30

you know, we can shoot this destiny problem

26:32

back and forth, and I can share some

26:34

of my issues with me and being apparent.

26:36

Yeah. You can help me pick out something

26:38

that would match my eyes. Of course. Yeah,

26:40

yeah, I think that's a great plan. We

26:43

should tell Orrin we're going to do that.

26:45

I just, I, Thales mentioned something about Orrin

26:47

talking to himself a lot recently, and that.

26:49

Again, one of those other things that just

26:51

makes me nervous, because there could be a

26:53

hundred different explanations to that, and at least

26:55

some of them are imps, and those things

26:58

freaking creep me out. Yeah, no, hey, listen,

27:00

you go and Red Lake takes the last

27:02

scoop of porridge. Look, you go find Orin,

27:04

I'll find Orin, and I'll find Orin, and

27:06

I'll find Orin, and I'll refill our porridge

27:08

bowl, and then after we talk to him,

27:10

you keep that bull, and I will go

27:13

find Orin, and I will go find Orin,

27:15

and I will go find Orin, and I

27:17

will go find Orin, and I will go

27:19

find Orin, and I'll go find Orin, and

27:21

then, and then we'll meet, and then, and

27:23

then, we'll meet, we'll meet, and then, we'll

27:26

meet, we'll meet, we'll meet, and then, we'll

27:28

meet, we'll meet, we'll meet, we'll meet, we'll

27:30

meet, we'll He pulls out his paper for

27:32

the day, which reads, Red does his best.

27:34

I thought maybe you'd have something to do

27:36

with finding Orin. No help. At least it

27:38

wasn't Ravager. So I felt relief immediately. But

27:41

you know what? With your help, and Red

27:43

puts his hand on your shoulder, maybe you

27:45

can help me do my best today. At

27:47

least with B. Maybe that's what it means.

27:49

I like that it's affirmative. It's not that

27:51

you try your best. You do your best.

27:53

I'm going to go get some more of

27:56

these rat droppings on the porridge. That's great.

27:58

I'll meet you out front in a little

28:00

bit and red walks downstairs. Red, you and...

28:02

Enter the kitchen carrying this empty bowl of

28:04

porridge to find thallus and Doran as well

28:06

as whim. Morning, all, how you doing,

28:09

whimmy? How you? Whim waves at

28:11

you. And then she points at

28:13

the porridge, really excited. So good,

28:15

Jack and I are sharing this bowl.

28:17

I'm gonna top it back up. Hey,

28:20

Doran? Red walks over and nudges Doran.

28:22

Doran's like just stepped into the kitchen

28:24

from the outside door. You look happy?

28:26

Where'd you get up to last night?

28:28

Happy? I don't feel happy. How did

28:30

I sleep? I slept alone. That's how I slept. I'm fine.

28:32

I'm good. Thanks. How are you? I don't think I asked how you

28:34

slept. I said, what'd you get up to? But you slept well and

28:37

alone? Oh, get up to. Oh, I got, I slept. What did I

28:39

do last night? Hmm, let me think. Oh, well, well, we had dinner.

28:41

We had dinner. We had dinner. And then, we had dinner. And then,

28:43

we had dinner. And then, we had dinner. And then, we had dinner.

28:45

And then, we had dinner. And then, we had dinner. And

28:47

then, we had dinner. And then, we had dinner. And then,

28:49

when we had dinner. And then, when I went for, when

28:51

I went for, when I went for, when I went for,

28:53

when I went for, when I went for, when I went

28:55

for, Well, just you and Mari went for a walk. Just,

28:58

that's cool. Jack, as you're heading through

29:00

the gallery to the stairs that

29:02

lead up to the second floor,

29:04

Mari walks in through the main entry

29:07

door. Oh, hey, Mari. Oh, hi. And

29:09

she's like, trying to comb this one

29:11

knot out of the back of her

29:13

hair that is just like, not, it's

29:16

all like a mess. One dreadlock right

29:18

in the back. How's it going? Hi,

29:20

Jack. You know, it's, it's, it's, it's,

29:22

fine. You must have been up early going

29:24

out for a walk or something. Yeah, I,

29:26

I, uh, yeah, well, I didn't sleep very

29:29

well. I woke up early and then just

29:31

decided to kind of look around the area,

29:33

goes go for a little walk, you know,

29:35

observed nature, druid things. Sorry to kind

29:38

of abandon. you to the new

29:40

place and all the new people

29:42

last night? Lots of... Oh, it's

29:44

fine. It's fine. I, uh... Would you

29:46

get up to after I left? Oh,

29:48

um, I, uh, I read a, I

29:50

read a book, I went for a

29:52

little walk. Oh, which book? Um,

29:54

oh, just this book on herbalism

29:56

that my aunt gave me, and,

29:59

uh, and... Yeah, I just, I don't

30:01

know, I didn't really see anybody afterwards.

30:03

So, just been kind of by myself. Ah,

30:05

so you and Marian for a walk,

30:07

what did you guys talk about? Anything interesting?

30:09

Anything fun? No. No. Nothing interesting at all

30:12

and nothing fun either. No. It was

30:14

all about, um, Doran's like looking around and

30:16

the kitchen. He's like, um, chicken feet.

30:18

It was all about chicken feet. Chicken feet.

30:20

Yeah. Wow. You know, that's funny. That's

30:22

a subject I know quite a bit about.

30:25

What did you guys talk about? Oh. The

30:27

talons, though, the way the jelly skin

30:29

is after it gets brazen. Well. Yeah. Put

30:31

it this way. It's a very tasty

30:33

conversation. I could bet. So you guys talked

30:35

for a little while after your walk

30:37

and then what? Did you have a drink?

30:40

Together? What? I guess. No. No. Uh, no.

30:42

I, I, I, no. I did most

30:44

things last night by myself. Other than the

30:46

walk. Right, so wedge ended up laying

30:48

your head down. Yeah, I, uh, I slept

30:51

in... the...woods. So I had a hell

30:53

of a time finding an empty room to

30:55

even sit down in this place with all

30:57

the kids and all the people Where'd

30:59

you end up sleeping? Yeah, it was very

31:02

crowded. So I just I walked around

31:04

I did see Doran he was you know

31:06

He was on drinking drinking around doing

31:08

Doran stuff sounds sounds normal. Yeah, I just

31:10

I yeah totally just the same old and

31:12

yeah, I went there's the there's the

31:14

barn bit there's like a little empty spot

31:17

upstairs, just up there. Oh, I think

31:19

that was the one that read assigned Doran

31:21

last time when he was picking people's

31:23

rooms in the house. I heard someone thumping

31:25

around down there, but I'm sure might have

31:28

been him. I don't know, probably. In

31:30

the woods, Doran. You slept right there on

31:32

the woods? That's crazy. Well, does you

31:34

know how dangerous it is around here? Yeah.

31:36

Well, surely you

31:38

must have woken up

31:40

in the middle the

31:43

night and gotten somewhere

31:45

safe. Please. Yeah. Yeah,

31:47

I did yeah

31:49

Yeah, yeah, yeah. No,

31:51

you're right. Yeah, no,

31:53

I slept in my

31:56

normal bedroom I

31:58

was all alone though

32:00

on the bar alone

32:02

my normal bedroom because

32:04

nobody else was in

32:06

there and I

32:08

didn't see anybody anyways

32:11

Huh, um, you know,

32:13

that's funny and red

32:15

gets an odd look

32:17

on his face And

32:20

then he locks eyes adorn That's

32:24

very funny. What's uh,

32:26

what's so funny red? It's

32:29

uh, it's not that funny. Oh, just

32:31

the idea of you Sleeping

32:33

in the barn last night reminds

32:35

me runs you

32:37

Reminds you of something I

32:40

saw this morning. What did

32:42

you see? A

32:45

funny picture book of a horse. Let me

32:47

go get it Oh red with his full ball of

32:49

porridge runs out of the room and up to the

32:51

library Oh, yeah, he passes Jack and Mari in the

32:53

hall pushing them aside I gotta get a funny picture

32:55

of a horse for dawn out of my way Oh

33:00

Okay, at least things are normal. work.

33:02

We're good. Yeah, you know what that I'm

33:05

surprised He is the first screaming child up this

33:07

morning. That's the part that really got me

33:09

that makes sense. Wait, where were you last

33:11

night? Honestly, I fucked

33:13

red The

33:18

logical outcome of this night,

33:20

yeah We I

33:22

spent most of it in the

33:24

parlor in a chair and Wondered

33:26

outside. I just didn't want to run into

33:28

destiny again till I kind of had my

33:30

thoughts together Destiny comes from all of us

33:32

red says he runs past with a

33:34

picture Don't

33:38

know what that's about, but I'm

33:40

sure it's very normal and has nothing

33:42

to do with anything that's happened

33:44

in the last 24 hours Yeah, but

33:46

yeah, yeah, what a what a

33:48

place the hamper at house Yeah,

33:50

this is a weird little space and

33:53

it definitely I don't know it kind

33:55

of It kind of gets to you. Yeah,

33:57

you haven't seen Oren around this morning. Have

33:59

you? No, but if you

34:01

want some company when trying to

34:03

find him. Yeah, let's, I wouldn't

34:05

mind it actually. All right. Two

34:08

pairs of eyes, somebody a little

34:10

wiser than me to look around.

34:12

I don't remember what he looks

34:14

like, so perfect. The little, the

34:16

little halfling, well, the halfling among

34:19

children is this. Marry's got face

34:21

blindness. You make your way upstairs.

34:23

And follow the sound of a

34:25

mandolin to the master bedroom. The

34:27

door is closed, but you can

34:29

hear the faint sound of strumming

34:32

through it and accompanying the strumming.

34:34

The low voice of Orin Yovgovi.

34:36

Hmm. It's a nice little singer.

34:38

Yeah, he's very talented. Jack knocks

34:40

on the door tentatively. Just a

34:43

minute. You hear rustling from inside

34:45

and then he opens the door.

34:47

He's in his like PJ's. These

34:49

are little footy PJ's? He's not

34:51

a child. He's bored them from

34:54

the kids. Oh, Master Jack. Oh,

34:56

so I didn't mean to, I

34:58

thought you were up, I heard

35:00

the singing, I was just hoping

35:02

to chat for a bit, but

35:05

uh... I'm up, yes. What can

35:07

I do for you? Um, can

35:09

we come in or do we...

35:11

Sure. Come find a... I didn't

35:13

even know where to sit in

35:15

this place, honestly. I just feel

35:18

like a... And I feel like

35:20

I can... It's hard to get

35:22

comfortable. There are our kids, yes,

35:24

everywhere, but... Yes, come in, make

35:26

yourselves at home. And he allows

35:29

you to enter. It's a little

35:31

bit messy in here. There's some

35:33

clothes on top of like a

35:35

folding changing screen and some pillows

35:37

on the floor and stuff. The

35:40

bed spreads all rumbled and he

35:42

kind of like straightens it and

35:44

then sort of points that you

35:46

can sit there or there's a

35:48

chair in the corner. Yeah. Mari

35:51

like surreptitiously like starts mending like

35:53

tiny holes and stuff that's formed.

35:55

She's like sitting

35:57

on a chair,

35:59

like fixing little

36:02

things. I guess

36:04

I just wanted to apologize

36:06

for ruining dinner last night or for

36:08

my part in that. Anyways, there's

36:10

a lot going on around here and

36:12

I didn't want to make your

36:14

life harder. I know you've taken on

36:16

a lot with these kids and... I

36:18

don't want to make

36:20

you feel awkward, Jack, but

36:22

I did invite Destiny to

36:24

be here with me. She

36:28

responded to an advertisement that

36:30

I placed looking for someone

36:32

who'd be willing to come

36:35

and serve as caretaker for

36:37

the kids. It's a lot

36:39

of work here for just

36:41

me and Thalys and she

36:43

brought her son, Grinn, and she's

36:45

been a really big help

36:47

ever since. No, I totally

36:49

appreciate that. And

36:51

you're very comfortable

36:53

with big, loud declaration at dinner

36:56

of how devoted she is to

36:58

the Lord of Lies and all

37:00

that kind of stuff. That's above

37:02

board. He sort of drops

37:04

his eyes away from you. With

37:08

respect, Jack, I

37:11

appreciate your apology, I do. But

37:15

it's not me who

37:17

needs it. No, I understand.

37:19

I've got a chat

37:21

with her. I just wanted

37:23

to take your temperature on it.

37:26

I'm the happiest I've been in weeks. And

37:30

just out of, this might

37:33

come out of nowhere. This is

37:35

definitely my own paranoia. You

37:37

know what was going on in

37:39

this house as much as

37:41

anyone with the devils and the

37:43

diabolists who were here before and

37:45

the imps that can turn

37:47

invisible and turn into talking animals

37:49

and stuff. Like you haven't

37:51

seen anything like that. Nothing weird,

37:54

no ghosts haunting you, nothing

37:56

to talk to in the middle

37:58

of the night that you

38:00

don't. Don't expect anything, no encounters

38:02

like that? Nothing of the

38:04

sort. Jacksoto looks at Mari

38:06

to see if she clocks

38:08

a lie. Can I, can

38:10

I roll on that? Get

38:13

her, Mari. Get her, Mari.

38:15

Depends, did you bring dice

38:17

to this Dungeons and Dragons

38:19

game? I have so many

38:21

dice. Oh! Yeah. That is

38:23

a 21. Hey. Seems like

38:25

maybe there's something that he's

38:28

trying to keep private. And

38:30

Mari locks eyes with with

38:32

Jack and gives him just

38:34

the slightest eyebrow raise just

38:36

one just kind of shoots

38:38

up in her Towards her

38:40

towards her hair line and

38:43

you slept with Doran That

38:45

explains all the beard hair

38:47

all in your hair. It

38:49

all makes sense now my

38:51

insight not so good, but

38:53

my investigation is right up

38:55

there. I've seen the clues

38:58

not they fucked. Yeah, where

39:00

is destiny this time of

39:02

date normally just did it

39:04

if I was usually she's

39:06

a bed until just after

39:08

sunrise so she's probably still

39:10

in her bedroom. Oh well

39:13

I okay thanks I mean

39:15

your bedroom I'm sorry no

39:17

it's it's all good. Jack

39:19

he takes your hand if

39:21

you'd like me to ask

39:23

her to ask her to

39:25

move. No no no no

39:28

she's Like she's working here

39:30

full-time, we visit once every

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reason to do it. It

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would be kind of an

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from her home twice because

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of you. Feels like a

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real party foul. Yeah, I

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would, I wouldn't imagine ever

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asking that. Where did you

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two sleep last night? Did

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you make yourselves comfortable somewhere?

39:55

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39:58

the parlor and read a

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40:02

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really see why that's important.

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40:09

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40:11

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40:13

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40:15

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40:19

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40:23

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40:25

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