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<v Speaker 3>Right now, we're starting the season off with something super

<v Speaker 3>super cool. And if you're here then you already know.

<v Speaker 3>We actually tomorrow are doing an interview with JT. Geisinger.

<v Speaker 2>Oh my god, insane.

<v Speaker 6>I know, our first author interview and our first arc.

<v Speaker 3>I know, an arc of the book we're going to

<v Speaker 3>cover today. We're not releasing it until January, but tomorrow

<v Speaker 3>we're recording with her to discuss the book. And that's

<v Speaker 3>very cool. So thank you, JT. Geisinger.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah.

<v Speaker 3>So this week we're telling Riley all about Blackthorn by Gt.

<v Speaker 3>Guysinger and how many stars did you guys give it

<v Speaker 3>on Good Reade five. I gave it a four and

<v Speaker 3>a half. I really liked it.

<v Speaker 2>Ooh, Charlotte boo.

<v Speaker 4>That's like a super good rating.

<v Speaker 3>Then, so we meet our female main character, Maven, and

<v Speaker 3>she is returning to her spooky hometown of Solstice, Vermont

<v Speaker 3>for the first time in twelve years since her mom died,

<v Speaker 3>and that's because her granny just passed away and she's

<v Speaker 3>going to the funeral.

<v Speaker 2>Oh, I be Granny.

<v Speaker 3>She's with her daughter Beatrix, who's freaking out because this

<v Speaker 3>town is creepy as fuck and super old tiny, and

<v Speaker 3>she's used to living in Manhattan. She's never lived anywhere

<v Speaker 3>like this before, so she's like, what the fuck is

<v Speaker 3>this place? I just imagine the town from like like

<v Speaker 3>hocus Pocus or Halloween Town or something.

<v Speaker 2>Yeah. Yeah, and like coming from a city, I feel

<v Speaker 2>like it's a shock. It's a shock.

<v Speaker 3>But what I wouldn't give to live in a town

<v Speaker 3>like that?

<v Speaker 5>Yeah, I mean you say that, but once you get there,

<v Speaker 5>I'd be fine.

<v Speaker 2>Give me the suburbs, I'll thrive.

<v Speaker 3>They're picked up from the train station by the Blackthorns

<v Speaker 3>caretaker Quentin, and Beatrix is immediately like, this dude looks

<v Speaker 3>like a zombie. He's very much described as looking like

<v Speaker 3>Frankenstein's monster. He's just huge.

<v Speaker 4>He's like a brick.

<v Speaker 2>So there's monsters.

<v Speaker 6>He's not a monster though, he's a human.

<v Speaker 3>Yeah yeah, oh, he just don't look right. There's someone

<v Speaker 3>about him. Maven assures her he's very much not a zombie,

<v Speaker 3>but thinks to herself she can totally get why Beatrix

<v Speaker 3>would think. So he is very zombie like, and he

<v Speaker 3>also does not speak at all.

<v Speaker 2>He's mute.

<v Speaker 6>Yeah, he's never spoken.

<v Speaker 3>What Mavin has known him since childhood and she can

<v Speaker 3>read him really well, so it's almost like he doesn't

<v Speaker 3>need to talk because they can kind of communicate. So

<v Speaker 3>he's been the caretaker for like forever for the Blackthorns.

<v Speaker 3>When they get to the Blackthorn, Manor Beatrix is stunned

<v Speaker 3>at the haunted looking gothic mansion. They're greeted by Mavin's

<v Speaker 3>aunt Esme and Divina, and they very much gave me

<v Speaker 3>Hilda and Zelda vibes.

<v Speaker 5>Oh.

<v Speaker 3>We get some weird conversation between Mavon and her aunts

<v Speaker 3>that suggests they don't ever marry, and they kind of

<v Speaker 3>stick together as Blackthorns, so like they're like, men are trash.

<v Speaker 3>They're good for one thing, relationships boo women good.

<v Speaker 6>Yeah, yeah, yeah, I agree.

<v Speaker 3>They basically only need men for one thing, which is sex.

<v Speaker 3>After dinner, Mavin is chilling with her aunts drinking some

<v Speaker 3>wine when she sees a dark figure standing outside the

<v Speaker 3>front gate, and she can tell immediately that it is

<v Speaker 3>Ronan Croft. She thinks to herself that you never forget

<v Speaker 3>your first love or your worst nightmare.

<v Speaker 2>What could that mean?

<v Speaker 3>I don't know, and then the darkness swallows him and

<v Speaker 3>he's gone, like he.

<v Speaker 2>Just walks away, or it's like.

<v Speaker 6>It's like the Melmer Simpson like me where he's going.

<v Speaker 2>In the bush.

<v Speaker 3>The next day, the Blackthorn Girls are headed to the

<v Speaker 3>funeral home to see Granny one last time. As Mavin

<v Speaker 3>looks down at her dead grandma, she thinks, if there's

<v Speaker 3>an afterlife, Lurinda is definitely kicking ass there because she

<v Speaker 3>looks just as fierce as she did when she was alive.

<v Speaker 3>She finds a long black feather tucked between her arm

<v Speaker 3>and the casket and pulls it out, inspecting it. Then

<v Speaker 3>Divina instructs Beatrix to put a pearl handled pocket knife

<v Speaker 3>into the casket for Granny to take with her wherever

<v Speaker 3>she is. She also gives her a pouch of coins

<v Speaker 3>to pay the ferrymen at the river sticks. So they're

<v Speaker 3>very woo woo, very witchy, feel.

<v Speaker 2>Like you have to be if you're there.

<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

<v Speaker 2>Yeah.

<v Speaker 3>Then the actual viewing begins and the room is filled

<v Speaker 3>with the townspeople who were too afraid of Lucinda to

<v Speaker 3>get close to her while she was alive. Then Becca

<v Speaker 3>Maven's old schoolyard nemesis walks in and she doesn't exactly

<v Speaker 3>walk in. She more like limps in with an acne

<v Speaker 3>scarred face and a frumpy figure. Uh Goughly, she spots

<v Speaker 3>Mavin and immediately points to her and she's just like you.

<v Speaker 2>Yeah.

<v Speaker 3>As Becca rushes toward Mavin to presumably attack her, she

<v Speaker 3>falls and smashes her face to shit on the ground

<v Speaker 3>as aunt Esme smiles, good ugly girl, make your face

<v Speaker 3>more ugly. Becca stands up and Divina whispers something in

<v Speaker 3>her ear, too quiet for Maven to hear, but it

<v Speaker 3>causes Becca to run out of the room, screaming, yeah,

<v Speaker 3>it would be like, what'd you say? Her ants are

<v Speaker 3>scariest fuck?

<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I love them.

<v Speaker 3>Then Maven sees Elijah Croft, Ronan's father. He and Esmey

<v Speaker 3>look at each other with pure hatred in their eyes,

<v Speaker 3>and I guess they have some family beef because generations ago,

<v Speaker 3>Magara Blackthorn was hung for witchcraft on the order of

<v Speaker 3>Magistrate Levi Croft, and this was like generations and generations

<v Speaker 3>and generations ago, so.

<v Speaker 2>Like they're just always gonna hate each other.

<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

<v Speaker 3>Esme tells Elijah to kick Rocks, but he just demands

<v Speaker 3>that she call off her damn birds because they keep

<v Speaker 3>attacking him like crows ravens ah like everywhere he goes.

<v Speaker 1>He's like, ah, they're like pecking out his eyes, and shit, that's.

<v Speaker 2>Actually terrifying that he's scary. Birds are scary.

<v Speaker 3>Her aunt is like, I don't even know what you're

<v Speaker 3>talking about. And then suddenly a tree outside the window

<v Speaker 3>is filled with ravens staring intently at Maven and she

<v Speaker 3>catches a whiff of sulfur. Elijah wheels his wheelchair out

<v Speaker 3>of the funeral home and the rest of the viewing

<v Speaker 3>goes off with no more craziness. So he's also in

<v Speaker 3>a wheelchair.

<v Speaker 2>Oh so darn it.

<v Speaker 3>On the drive home, they see a bunch of fire

<v Speaker 3>trucks and then a burnt down house and Mabon is like, Auntie,

<v Speaker 3>is that Becca's house? And Davina just smiles and it's like,

<v Speaker 3>I do believe.

<v Speaker 4>It was, Oh my god, evil bitch.

<v Speaker 3>That night, while everyone is fast asleep, Mabon hears a

<v Speaker 3>thump from somewhere in the house, and when she goes

<v Speaker 3>to see what's going on, she sees a quick flash

<v Speaker 3>of light from the crack under the door to Granny's room.

<v Speaker 3>She walks in, but nothing seems out of the ordinary,

<v Speaker 3>aside from a book on the ground that looks like

<v Speaker 3>it fell down from the shelf, and it's Granny's journal.

<v Speaker 3>As she flips through it, I swear she can hear

<v Speaker 3>cold laughters throughout the house, but it's gone just as

<v Speaker 3>quickly as it arrived. She puts the book away and

<v Speaker 3>turns to leave, but sees the door is shut, and

<v Speaker 3>she's pretty sure she left it open. Scary, Yeah, it'd

<v Speaker 3>be shitt And she goes to open the door and

<v Speaker 3>it won't open.

<v Speaker 2>Yeah, boot right there.

<v Speaker 3>She kicks it and it finally swings open. She steps

<v Speaker 3>into the hall and out the window on the landing,

<v Speaker 3>she can see a dark figure standing at the gates,

<v Speaker 3>so she books it outside. It's Ronan Croft and he's

<v Speaker 3>looking as hot as ever with his black hair and

<v Speaker 3>his piercing blue eyes, which what a combination, I know.

<v Speaker 3>She asks why he's here, but he just smiles, and

<v Speaker 3>she tells him to get out of here before she

<v Speaker 3>shoots him. And also she hates him, and their banter

<v Speaker 3>is very funny. She fucking hates his guts and he's like, pooky,

<v Speaker 3>come on your girl.

<v Speaker 5>Oh I love that dynamic. Were like the woman hates

<v Speaker 5>the man love.

<v Speaker 3>She fucking hates him. Yeah, he doesn't seem phased and

<v Speaker 3>is pretty amused by the six change. He tells her

<v Speaker 3>she doesn't hate him, and he doesn't hate her either.

<v Speaker 3>She tells him that his father showed up to granny's

<v Speaker 3>viewing today and if he knows what's good for him,

<v Speaker 3>he won't be at the actual funeral, and Ronan is like,

<v Speaker 3>why are you gonna wheel him into traffic? And Mavin's like,

<v Speaker 3>maybe I will, like keep your fucking father away from

<v Speaker 3>my granny's funeral. She tells him that they're done here

<v Speaker 3>and turns to walk away, but he just says are

<v Speaker 3>we as he gazes at her mouth, and then he

<v Speaker 3>walks out into the darkness.

<v Speaker 5>Also if he says all we Like, if you said that,

<v Speaker 5>how could you just walk away?

<v Speaker 3>After that?

<v Speaker 2>You're like, all right, else, fuck and I'll come back here.

<v Speaker 3>They haven't seen each other in twelve years, and Ronan

<v Speaker 3>can't believe what a beautiful woman she turned into. He's

<v Speaker 3>smoking a cigarette and staring into his fireplace thinking about

<v Speaker 3>how they ended all those years ago.

<v Speaker 5>There's a part of me, twisted selfish, that wants to

<v Speaker 5>punish her, force myself into her house, her bed, her body,

<v Speaker 5>make her submit and beg of her forgiveness for leaving

<v Speaker 5>the way she did, that dark part of me under

<v Speaker 5>control and unbuckle my belt instead.

<v Speaker 2>What's he gonna do?

<v Speaker 3>Dork it well? He jerks off thinking about her and

<v Speaker 3>comes into the fire. As he breathes her name comes

<v Speaker 3>to the fire. He's standing in front of his fireplace

<v Speaker 3>like she just yeah, it says it like sizzles when

<v Speaker 3>it lands in the fires.

<v Speaker 2>It's flammable.

<v Speaker 3>He tells himself that he and Maven aren't even close

<v Speaker 3>to done. Mavin wakes up in the morning with a

<v Speaker 3>bloody nose. She goes downstairs to see her aunts cooking

<v Speaker 3>breakfast with Beatrix, and her daughter tells her all about

<v Speaker 3>the cat she just made friends with, and Mavin is like, Luna,

<v Speaker 3>she's alive, And Divina is like, yeah, she's only twenty.

<v Speaker 6>Five, she's fine.

<v Speaker 2>A young cat.

<v Speaker 3>Yeah, And Luna waltzes in and she does not look

<v Speaker 3>old at all. She's soft and silky and as spry

<v Speaker 3>as ever.

<v Speaker 2>I was gonna say, have you ever touched an old

<v Speaker 2>ass cat?

<v Speaker 1>Yeah?

<v Speaker 3>Cats that are like over eighteen or just like bags

<v Speaker 3>of bones.

<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's disgusting.

<v Speaker 5>I'm sorry, my apologies of this offends anyone's fucking grove.

<v Speaker 3>Asme tells the gang about this reoccurring nightmare she's been

<v Speaker 3>having about snakes in the house and she hasn't been

<v Speaker 3>sleeping well. So Divina makes her a nice hot cup

<v Speaker 3>of tea. Then Quentin walks in and presents Mavin with

<v Speaker 3>a butterfly he found, and she's shocked because it's an

<v Speaker 3>exotic species that isn't found around here. But she reaches

<v Speaker 3>out and it crawls onto her hand. And she's also

<v Speaker 3>like an insect scientist an entomologist. Oh, sorry, she's an entomologist.

<v Speaker 6>She studies bugs. I listened to a podcast on entomology.

<v Speaker 2>What podcasts are you listening to? Ologists?

<v Speaker 1>Do you smart?

<v Speaker 2>Little nerdy bitch? Yeah?

<v Speaker 3>And then you host this one. Yeah. After Maven tells

<v Speaker 3>her aunts all about the species, it flaps its wings

<v Speaker 3>and flies out of the door. Then the phone rings

<v Speaker 3>and they get a call from the funeral home and

<v Speaker 3>they have news they lost Granny's body.

<v Speaker 2>Are you kidding me?

<v Speaker 3>She's gone?

<v Speaker 2>How does that even happen?

<v Speaker 3>I don't know. As Maven gets ready to storm over

<v Speaker 3>to the funeral home for answers. The phone rings again.

<v Speaker 3>It's Ronan and he tells her he's the only one

<v Speaker 3>in this town that can help her find Lrinda. He

<v Speaker 3>assures her that although he had nothing to do with it,

<v Speaker 3>he thinks the opportunity to help her is delicious. She

<v Speaker 3>hangs up on him and goes to the funeral home

<v Speaker 3>to find out what the fuck is going on, but

<v Speaker 3>when she gets there, Ronan is already standing outside. He

<v Speaker 3>asks her if she remembers how many times they've been together,

<v Speaker 3>and she says, no, fuck off, and he's like, We've

<v Speaker 3>been together eight times.

<v Speaker 5>This time in the greenhouse on top of the bags

<v Speaker 5>of soil, twice in my bedroom, once in your bedroom,

<v Speaker 5>three times in the backseat of my car, and of

<v Speaker 5>course the first time where we did it standing up

<v Speaker 5>in the alley behind the movie theater after you threw

<v Speaker 5>your soda in my face and called me a soulless,

<v Speaker 5>spoiled rat with the intellect of a garden slug. That

<v Speaker 5>first time in the alley, with his hard cock stretching

<v Speaker 5>and his fingers digging into my bottom, his head bent

<v Speaker 5>to my neck and his bare teeth pressed into my

<v Speaker 5>skin as he fucked me against the wall. I went supernova,

<v Speaker 5>helplessly convulsing around him. I gave myself over to the

<v Speaker 5>kind of pleasure I now know is exceedingly rare. Fuck

<v Speaker 5>him again, girl, I'll do it.

<v Speaker 3>She refuses to admit anything, so she's like, Nope, I

<v Speaker 3>don't remember any of that. Maven storms into the funeral

<v Speaker 3>home but finds it completely empty of any employees. Ronan

<v Speaker 3>is still following her, and she's like, what the fuck

<v Speaker 3>do you want and he says he simply wants to

<v Speaker 3>know if their daughter knows who her real father is.

<v Speaker 2>A bumbu.

<v Speaker 3>She tells him that he didn't respond in a very

<v Speaker 3>fatherly way when she told him she was pregnant all

<v Speaker 3>those years ago, and he was like, I was seventeen,

<v Speaker 3>and she tells him she will not be discussing her

<v Speaker 3>daughter with him, and he's like, our daughter. And now

<v Speaker 3>she's pissed. But then mister Anderson, the funeral director, comes

<v Speaker 3>running in crazy. He confesses, while they haven't found the body,

<v Speaker 3>find her clothing on the ground outside of the window

<v Speaker 3>of the room they did the viewing in. They go

<v Speaker 3>to investigate and see the clothes, but no footprints or anything,

<v Speaker 3>and the clothes are folded neatly on the ground, like

<v Speaker 3>just in a nice little pile.

<v Speaker 2>I'd be like, my Grandma's still alive.

<v Speaker 4>And she's naked.

<v Speaker 1>Where is she?

<v Speaker 3>Also, he tells her that the cameras malfunctioned at the

<v Speaker 3>time of the incident, so there's no footage.

<v Speaker 2>Oh of course.

<v Speaker 3>They investigate the empty casket and Ronan once again asks

<v Speaker 3>about meeting their daughter, and Maven is like, I had

<v Speaker 3>a miscarriage. My daughter is nine. Do the math. You

<v Speaker 3>are not her dad, but he does not believe her. Eventually,

<v Speaker 3>Maven leaves with the threat of a lawsuit if they

<v Speaker 3>don't figure out what the fuck is happening, and she

<v Speaker 3>heads home, but her head is all over the place,

<v Speaker 3>so she decides to go for a walk. She winds

<v Speaker 3>up at a Mexican restaurant and orders a margarita and

<v Speaker 3>some food when lo and behold, Ronan comes in and

<v Speaker 3>sits down with her. He's very persistent.

<v Speaker 2>Would cave so quick?

<v Speaker 3>She tells him to beat it, but he does it

<v Speaker 3>and asks how many she would be if he asked

<v Speaker 3>her for a hate fuck for old time's sake, But

<v Speaker 3>she's like, nope, sorry, I have a fiance.

<v Speaker 1>Back home, she.

<v Speaker 3>Doesn't actually, but she did. She didn't like him that

<v Speaker 3>much and broke things off, but Ronan does not have

<v Speaker 3>to know that. And the man's name was Ezra. Okay,

<v Speaker 3>and he's always like calling her and he's like, hey,

<v Speaker 3>hope we can still be friends, and she's like, stop

<v Speaker 3>calling me Ezra.

<v Speaker 1>Uck.

<v Speaker 3>He's like, okay, so where's your ring then, but she deflects,

<v Speaker 3>and finally the food comes. She slams her margarita, but

<v Speaker 3>decides against a second one because she doesn't trust herself

<v Speaker 3>to be tipsy around Ronan. He reminisces about their past,

<v Speaker 3>which she groans at, and then he tells her he

<v Speaker 3>has a theory. Even though Granny was ninety three, she

<v Speaker 3>was fit as a fiddle and her aunts declined an autopsy,

<v Speaker 3>maybe she was never really dead. Maven thinks this is

<v Speaker 3>ridiculous and tells him the Blackthorn women never get autopsies.

<v Speaker 3>It is against their beliefs. And then he's like, was

<v Speaker 3>she embalmed? And she says no, that also goes against

<v Speaker 3>what we believe, and he's like, okay, so she was

<v Speaker 3>dead for six days at the viewing, and she didn't

<v Speaker 3>look decomposed at all. And now Mavin's like, oh shit.

<v Speaker 3>She pays and rushes out of the restaurant to head

<v Speaker 3>back to her aunts, but as she walks out the

<v Speaker 3>door run and grabs her arm, pulling her back, just

<v Speaker 3>as a chunk of concrete falls from outside the building

<v Speaker 3>above them and lands right where she was standing. So

<v Speaker 3>she almost just got squished to death by concrete.

<v Speaker 2>That'd be my last job.

<v Speaker 3>He tries to make it an intimate moment, but she

<v Speaker 3>reminds him what a shitbag he was to her when

<v Speaker 3>they were kids and shuts him down, and then she

<v Speaker 3>runs home. As soon as she gets inside, she calls

<v Speaker 3>the funeral home and asks how Granny was so fresh

<v Speaker 3>if she wasn't embalmed, and he's like, well, we kept

<v Speaker 3>her in the fridge, And now Mavin is like, okay,

<v Speaker 3>well that makes sense. Sure they kept her cold.

<v Speaker 2>Ask more questions, though.

<v Speaker 3>Mavin fights Beatrix, who tells her about a fox that's

<v Speaker 3>been sitting outside the window, and when Maven sees what

<v Speaker 3>she's talking about, it's almost like the fox smiles at

<v Speaker 3>her and she realizes it's sitting in the same spot

<v Speaker 3>Granny always did. Then it turns and runs into the forest.

<v Speaker 3>Beatrix tells her mom. She's sleepy and wants to take

<v Speaker 3>a nap, and Mavin's like, she're sweetie and pulls out

<v Speaker 3>her contact solution and she removes Beatrix's green contacts, revealing

<v Speaker 3>her piercing eyes, blue eyes.

<v Speaker 5>And what does she tell her daughter, like why she

<v Speaker 5>needs to wear these green contacts?

<v Speaker 2>What does she say to her?

<v Speaker 3>So, I guess her eyes are so blue that she

<v Speaker 3>was getting made fun of because they're almost white. And

<v Speaker 3>so Beatrix was the one that was like, can I

<v Speaker 3>please wear green contact so people stop making fun of me?

<v Speaker 2>Oh, she's like a little white walker.

<v Speaker 5>Yeah.

<v Speaker 3>Yeah. The next morning, Maven wakes up from a nightmare

<v Speaker 3>about being burned at the stake and wakes up with

<v Speaker 3>another nosebleed. She heads downstairs, where her aunts tell her

<v Speaker 3>that the funeral home was shut down. She knows Ronan

<v Speaker 3>went to the board of funeral directors and reported them.

<v Speaker 3>So also, the Crofts are super powerful and rich in

<v Speaker 3>this town. They like basically own the town. Beatrix comes

<v Speaker 3>in and starts asking about the women in the family

<v Speaker 3>and how they all died, And we learned that Granny

<v Speaker 3>snapped her neck falling down the stairs, and both of

<v Speaker 3>her sisters died in freak accidents, so did Mabon's mother,

<v Speaker 3>and when her mother's body was found, there were wheelchair

<v Speaker 3>prints in the dirt, and so everyone in town is

<v Speaker 3>suspicious that Elijah Croft had something to do with it,

<v Speaker 3>because remember he's in a wheelchair. That' Scott Mayven thinking

<v Speaker 3>about the concrete incident and maybe there's something going on

<v Speaker 3>with the women and how they die. She decides she

<v Speaker 3>needs to talk to Ronan, so she heads over to

<v Speaker 3>his house. It's a modern monstrosity and it's very much

<v Speaker 3>described as like Kim and Kanye's house. Oh God, And

<v Speaker 3>as soon as he opens the door, he's like, come in,

<v Speaker 3>come in my house. And at this point it almost

<v Speaker 3>seems like Maven may be warming up to him a

<v Speaker 3>little bit.

<v Speaker 5>Westare at each other as I will my blood pressure

<v Speaker 5>to stay within safe limits and my vagina to behave.

<v Speaker 5>If she gets any more excited, I'll have to change

<v Speaker 5>my underwear.

<v Speaker 2>Oh she's gushing. Yeah, she's hello soaked.

<v Speaker 3>He tells her he just wants to be friends, but

<v Speaker 3>she keeps saying fuck no, and she threatens to kill

<v Speaker 3>him in his sleep, but he just laughs and is like, wow,

<v Speaker 3>that sounds serious and She's like, yeah, it is, and

<v Speaker 3>then he says, you know what else is serious? And

<v Speaker 3>then he grabs her face and kiss her.

<v Speaker 4>Oh yeah.

<v Speaker 6>Maven melts into the kiss and Ronan deepens it until

<v Speaker 6>she's trembling, and then he pulls away. She immediately walks

<v Speaker 6>out the door and finds herself in town at the courthouse.

<v Speaker 6>She pulls herself together and asks the clerk for the

<v Speaker 6>death records, where he points her where to go. She

<v Speaker 6>gets onto the computer and begins her search of her family.

<v Speaker 6>She goes all the way back through her family tree,

<v Speaker 6>and every single Blackthorn woman has died a tragic accident

<v Speaker 6>except the original Blackthorn. She was executed and hung as

<v Speaker 6>being a witch. But there's one other thing she notices.

<v Speaker 6>There's only a family lineage of women. No man sick.

<v Speaker 4>What a family. Yeah.

<v Speaker 6>As she's getting ready to leave, her phone rings it's

<v Speaker 6>Ronan and he tells her to come back to his

<v Speaker 6>house and finish what they started. They get into their

<v Speaker 6>usual bickering, and again he tells her to come back now.

<v Speaker 5>Baby, you haven't been fucked right in the years, and

<v Speaker 5>we both know it. Now, stopping stubborn and get your

<v Speaker 5>ass back over here. We've got a lot of unfinished

<v Speaker 5>business to soar through. Yes, sir, I'll do it. I'll

<v Speaker 5>do it right away.

<v Speaker 6>He hangs up after that, and on her way home,

<v Speaker 6>she stops at the graveyard to see her mom's gravestone

<v Speaker 6>when she notices a fox, which she's pretty sure is

<v Speaker 6>the same one from previously with its knowing eyes, right

<v Speaker 6>by her grandma's open plot. Because remember, Granny's body is missing,

<v Speaker 6>so it's just a hole in the ground.

<v Speaker 2>I'd say, Grandma, are you that fox?

<v Speaker 6>As she watches the fox, she has a feeling that

<v Speaker 6>she's not alone, but when she looks around, no one's there,

<v Speaker 6>and then the fox is gone. The next couple nights,

<v Speaker 6>Runnin is standing outside of the gates of the house

<v Speaker 6>and he just stands there and smokes. He doesn't do

<v Speaker 6>anything else.

<v Speaker 3>I damn, he says, I don't want any cigarette butts

<v Speaker 3>by my fancy house, so I like to squish them

<v Speaker 3>all out here.

<v Speaker 6>On the third night, she goes out to meet him

<v Speaker 6>and tries to tell him yet again to fuck off

<v Speaker 6>and go die somewhere, but he says that he wants

<v Speaker 6>what's his and then pulls her through the bars and

<v Speaker 6>kisses her through the bars, which they got to be

<v Speaker 6>pretty wide bars. If someone's smooching through him, he just.

<v Speaker 2>Like slams her face against it.

<v Speaker 1>She's like ah.

<v Speaker 6>She breaks the kiss, and he begs her not to

<v Speaker 6>run away, but she goes back inside. Once she's in bed,

<v Speaker 6>she notices the house is very silent, and then the

<v Speaker 6>whispering begins. Her fear quickly turns to irritation, and she

<v Speaker 6>soon opens her bedroom door, but it stops, and then

<v Speaker 6>she feels her nose start gushing blood. She gets a

<v Speaker 6>handle on that and then decides that she needs to

<v Speaker 6>get out of the house. She gets dressed and starts walking,

<v Speaker 6>and somehow she's at Ronan's.

<v Speaker 3>Oh how did I get here?

<v Speaker 2>Dang it?

<v Speaker 6>He answers the door in nothing but a towel, and

<v Speaker 6>she asks him if he met his apology earlier about

<v Speaker 6>the way that he used to treat her as kids,

<v Speaker 6>and he says yes.

<v Speaker 2>Also, i'd like to say they were kids.

<v Speaker 5>I did some fucked up shit when I was younger

<v Speaker 5>that I would never do now.

<v Speaker 2>You know.

<v Speaker 3>Yeah, but what he did was pretty fucked up.

<v Speaker 5>Can you just tell me no, it won't ruin anything. Yeah,

<v Speaker 5>My sigh is heavy all right. Then he stares at

<v Speaker 5>me in all his half naked glory, a muscle working

<v Speaker 5>in his jaw.

<v Speaker 2>What does that mean? You agree to be friends?

<v Speaker 5>I'd rather be hit by a bus, but I'm up

<v Speaker 5>for a hate fuck if you are.

<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah.

<v Speaker 6>He asks about her fiance and she says that she

<v Speaker 6>broke it off before she got there, so she lied

<v Speaker 6>previously about that. He pulls her inside, kissing her, but

<v Speaker 6>she stops him, letting him know this is a one

<v Speaker 6>time hate fuck, and then he carries her to bed.

<v Speaker 6>Once on the bed, she takes a moment to appreciate

<v Speaker 6>how hot he is. He has tattoos, broad chests.

<v Speaker 5>With dark hair, and then she sees his dick, thick

<v Speaker 5>and veined. It juts out from between his legs as

<v Speaker 5>if it's proud of itself, which it should be. If

<v Speaker 5>there were a best in show for penises, his would win.

<v Speaker 6>He climbs over her. They kiss, and then he starts

<v Speaker 6>to bite her nipples, her shirt hard. He remembers her

<v Speaker 6>loving it, and she still does. He removes her pants

<v Speaker 6>and then he starts eating her out. He stops to

<v Speaker 6>admit that he's dreamt of this for years, though, because

<v Speaker 6>he's never done it, and all the times they hooked

<v Speaker 6>up as teenagers.

<v Speaker 3>Teenage boys don't give a fuck about the female satisfaction.

<v Speaker 2>No, no, they do not.

<v Speaker 6>She has her first orgasm and has a lot of

<v Speaker 6>feelings towards them that she's kept buried, and they're starting

<v Speaker 6>to resurface. So now she's kind of in her head

<v Speaker 6>a little bit about that. But he finishes undressing her

<v Speaker 6>and turns her over, settling his way over her before

<v Speaker 6>thrusting inside. He quickly switches positions to her on top.

<v Speaker 6>He tells her to take her braid out. She has

<v Speaker 6>crazy red hair, but dyes it box thy black and

<v Speaker 6>then only braids it. She doesn't do anything else with it,

<v Speaker 6>and he's like, take that ugly ass braid out.

<v Speaker 2>Let your long hair flow.

<v Speaker 1>Girl.

<v Speaker 5>Also box dyeing your beautiful red hair black, it's a crime.

<v Speaker 3>It's because all of the Blackthorn women have like very

<v Speaker 3>stinct red hair.

<v Speaker 2>She didn't want it when she moved away. That's fair,

<v Speaker 2>that's fair. Yeah.

<v Speaker 6>He tells her how beautiful she is as she grinds

<v Speaker 6>against him, and then she comes again. He flips her

<v Speaker 6>to her stomach now and then pounds into her until

<v Speaker 6>he finishes As they lay there, she reminds him it's

<v Speaker 6>a one time thing. It's not gonna happen again, and

<v Speaker 6>he says, yeah, yeah, yeah, but can you just stay

<v Speaker 6>the night like we have this night?

<v Speaker 2>Just don't ruin it.

<v Speaker 6>It's Friday and there's still no word on finding Granny's

<v Speaker 6>missing body. She makes work and school arrangements for her

<v Speaker 6>and Beatrix to let them be in town one more week.

<v Speaker 6>She takes Beatrix to town to get her hair dye

<v Speaker 6>and produce for the anties. They're vegetarian too. Yeah. As

<v Speaker 6>they shop, she spots Ronan and tries to hurry and pay,

<v Speaker 6>but it's too late. He sees them, and the first

<v Speaker 6>thing Beatrix says to him is do I know you?

<v Speaker 2>Are you my dad?

<v Speaker 3>He's like, I had to get some milk and cigarettes,

<v Speaker 3>but I'm back.

<v Speaker 6>Maven wants to die, but he says no, but he

<v Speaker 6>knows her mom. He stares at Beatrix and tells Mavin

<v Speaker 6>she's to unblock his phone number or the whole store

<v Speaker 6>is gonna know who this kid belongs to. She does

<v Speaker 6>as he says, but she's obviously pissed. She gets Beatrix

<v Speaker 6>back to Quentin tells him to take her home and

<v Speaker 6>then her phone rings. Ronan wants her back in the

<v Speaker 6>store to discuss this now. She does as he says,

<v Speaker 6>and he pulls her to the employee lounge, laying into

<v Speaker 6>her about leaving the other night. Then he drops the bomb.

<v Speaker 6>He called Beatrix's supposed father because she told Ronan she's nine.

<v Speaker 6>The math doesn't add up, and her dad is a

<v Speaker 6>doctor in California, doctor Latmin whatever. He tells Mavin that

<v Speaker 6>he called doctor Latman and doctor Latman has no idea

<v Speaker 6>who the fuck Beatrix is and he doesn't have a kid.

<v Speaker 2>Oh girl.

<v Speaker 6>She is full on panicking now, and he tells her

<v Speaker 6>that he knows Beatrix is his and he wants her

<v Speaker 6>in his life. She tells him that she was seventeen

<v Speaker 6>she was in love with him, and he abandoned her

<v Speaker 6>when she got pregnant, and he says, what did you

<v Speaker 6>just say you were in love with me? Because she

<v Speaker 6>never said that.

<v Speaker 2>Once ah ooe.

<v Speaker 6>Then he kisses her. It's getting frisky fast. There's fingering

<v Speaker 6>and grinding and then he's shoving into her. The sex

<v Speaker 6>is fast and frantic, and when they're finished, he tells

<v Speaker 6>her to let him into Beatrix's life or she's going

<v Speaker 6>to court, and then he leaves.

<v Speaker 2>All right, I mean it's his kid.

<v Speaker 3>Yeah, but like he hasn't done anything.

<v Speaker 2>He didn't know.

<v Speaker 3>He did know kind of, so he didn't know. She

<v Speaker 3>told him that there was a miscarriage or something, but

<v Speaker 3>there wasn't.

<v Speaker 2>Okay, so he didn't know.

<v Speaker 3>But he didn't respond well either. Yeah, he responded in

<v Speaker 3>a way that I would have been like, Oh, I

<v Speaker 3>feel like I need to fake a miscarriage.

<v Speaker 2>Oh god, Okay.

<v Speaker 6>She rushes home and decides she's going to use outside

<v Speaker 6>help figure out the missing Granny business. She'd have so

<v Speaker 6>much shit going on. She has this man possibly taking

<v Speaker 6>her to court. Grandma's dead body is missing, There's weird

<v Speaker 6>shit going on in the house.

<v Speaker 2>Yeah, she's got a lot. I'd be spiraling.

<v Speaker 6>He pulls up a number for a private investigator, mister Walker.

<v Speaker 6>She gives him the rundown a to z, what's going

<v Speaker 6>on with granny?

<v Speaker 3>Blah blah blah blah.

<v Speaker 6>Can you help me? Can I hire you? She says

<v Speaker 6>where she's located, and he pauses because that is where

<v Speaker 6>Croft Pharmaceuticals is, which is again a huge ass corporation

<v Speaker 6>that obviously Ronan's family is in, but she bates mister

<v Speaker 6>Walker and says, if you're too scared to take the job,

<v Speaker 6>I mean I can find someone else, and he says

<v Speaker 6>I'll be there shortly.

<v Speaker 2>I'll call you typical man.

<v Speaker 4>But before he.

<v Speaker 6>Hangs up, he advises digging up two to three relatives

<v Speaker 6>to do post mortem checks on them to see if

<v Speaker 6>they truly died of an accident.

<v Speaker 3>Imagine how yucky those bodies would be.

<v Speaker 6>I feel like the majority of them wouldn't.

<v Speaker 1>Be too bad.

<v Speaker 2>They're embalmed taw No, they don't believe it.

<v Speaker 1>That.

<v Speaker 6>The only way he can inbolb someone is if you

<v Speaker 6>do an autopsy.

<v Speaker 5>So they're just going down fresh, they go down refrigerated.

<v Speaker 5>They're going down in a refrigerator. If yeah, they're preserved forever.

<v Speaker 3>They all just get buried in a refrigerator generated power.

<v Speaker 6>She dyes her hair, and after her shower, she sees

<v Speaker 6>that the black dye did not take and her hair

<v Speaker 6>is still red, roots and all. She brings the post

<v Speaker 6>mortem accidental death situation to the anties, but they're unimpressed

<v Speaker 6>and unconcerned. She gets the private investigator contacts in her email,

<v Speaker 6>reads them, signs them, and then calls Ronin. She wants

<v Speaker 6>to talk to him about a question if he can

<v Speaker 6>actually be honest with her for once. He says it depends,

<v Speaker 6>but he needs to be honest with her too. He's sick,

<v Speaker 6>and now she's fawn panicking because he admits that it's

<v Speaker 6>a genetic disorder and if Beatrix is his kid, then

<v Speaker 6>she might have something. But he says, admit that she's

<v Speaker 6>actually mine.

<v Speaker 2>Maybe I'll tell you what my genetic.

<v Speaker 6>Disorder is, which is so fucked up.

<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that's manipulative as hell.

<v Speaker 6>Mavin's pissed, hangs up on him, and now she spends

<v Speaker 6>her whole weekend obsessing over every word run and has

<v Speaker 6>ever spoken to her. On Monday, her war sphear happens.

<v Speaker 6>Beatrix acknowledges that the man at the store and the

<v Speaker 6>man in the wheelchair at Granny's funeral have the same

<v Speaker 6>color eyes as she does her real eyes. She asks

<v Speaker 6>Maven if her dad had pale eyes like that, and

<v Speaker 6>Maveon says yes, and then Beatrix asks to stop wearing

<v Speaker 6>her contact. Mister Walker calls and he has news Anderson's

<v Speaker 6>is known for not properly operating, so Granny isn't the

<v Speaker 6>first missing body out of that funeral home.

<v Speaker 2>What would you want with the dead Bonnie.

<v Speaker 6>Organ's fucking skin too?

<v Speaker 2>Of course you'd say these, Okay.

<v Speaker 6>They also have a list of citations for the funeral home,

<v Speaker 6>not only losing bodies previously, but the refrigerators haven't.

<v Speaker 2>Wear in years.

<v Speaker 3>Oh oh, but remember he was like, well, granny was

<v Speaker 3>fresh because she was refrigerated.

<v Speaker 2>What's going on?

<v Speaker 6>Mavin calls ronin immediately, and she mentions to him his

<v Speaker 6>previous offer for money. He assumes that she's talking about

<v Speaker 6>be a trix, but she says that she needs a

<v Speaker 6>small loan. She explains that she wants to exhume a

<v Speaker 6>couple of Blackthorn women to check her theory. She then

<v Speaker 6>goes into her theory based off of what she's researched.

<v Speaker 6>She also says she's pretty sure his family's behind all

<v Speaker 6>of the accidental deaths, So she's like, give me money,

<v Speaker 6>but also I know you fucking did it.

<v Speaker 2>Yeah, tell him.

<v Speaker 6>He pretty much says, you called to ask for money,

<v Speaker 6>but you're gonna blame me for something that I have

<v Speaker 6>no idea what you're fucking talking about, Okay, and he

<v Speaker 6>hangs up on her. She paces a room and when

<v Speaker 6>she goes to the window. She sees the fox again

<v Speaker 6>in the same spot where Granny used to sit. Then

<v Speaker 6>she sees Beatrix walk up to it pet it as

<v Speaker 6>it falls asleep. Ronan calls his father and asks if

<v Speaker 6>he had something to do with Elsbeth's death, which IS's mom.

<v Speaker 6>His father says that he would have never killed her.

<v Speaker 6>She was different than the other Blackthorn women.

<v Speaker 5>Confused, I frown. His voice sounds tender. Then it hits me,

<v Speaker 5>did he have a thing for Maeven's mother? A nasty

<v Speaker 5>little seed of horse sets down roots inside of my

<v Speaker 5>brain and sprouts. If they had a thing for each

<v Speaker 5>other and they consummated that thing, al Smith could have

<v Speaker 5>become pregnant, which means Maven.

<v Speaker 2>Ooh uh, oh, oh shit.

<v Speaker 6>He tries to ask his father if they slept together,

<v Speaker 6>and when he doesn't answer, he accuses him. He says

<v Speaker 6>that Mavon is his daughter, and his dad says if

<v Speaker 6>he brings us up ever again, he's dead and hangs up.

<v Speaker 2>Wait as I am so, Ronan and Mavon they were

<v Speaker 2>fucking right. Yeah, and they're siblings.

<v Speaker 3>They had a kick together. Ooo, that's why she has

<v Speaker 3>flippers in.

<v Speaker 2>Fast, That's why she's a little white walker.

<v Speaker 6>At midnight, Maven arrives at Ronan's house. He's disheveled. His

<v Speaker 6>house is a wreck. They's broken things everywhere, and she's like, what,

<v Speaker 6>what's going on? He tells her that his friend was

<v Speaker 6>over and found something out about the woman that he's seeing.

<v Speaker 6>She takes some guesses cheating, no, stole money, no, and

<v Speaker 6>then he says that his friend found out him and

<v Speaker 6>his lady are half siblings. Mavin is shocked and says

<v Speaker 6>that if they have kids, they need to get some

<v Speaker 6>genetic testing done, and maybe he shouldn't tell the woman,

<v Speaker 6>but they for sure cannot be together anymore. After the

<v Speaker 6>finish discussing this, he gives her twenty thousand dollars and

<v Speaker 6>kicks her out.

<v Speaker 3>What would you do if you found out your husband

<v Speaker 3>was your half brother?

<v Speaker 5>Okay, listen, I've thought about it before, and we were

<v Speaker 5>together for like eleven years.

<v Speaker 2>I can't leave him.

<v Speaker 4>The damage is done.

<v Speaker 5>Yeah, we've already like fucked a million times. What more

<v Speaker 5>could a few more years do? And it's not like

<v Speaker 5>we're having kids, so like, fine, there's no like incestual

<v Speaker 5>children being made.

<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

<v Speaker 6>She calls the cemetery asking to exhume her mom's body.

<v Speaker 6>A cemetery worker tells her that it's impossible. After the

<v Speaker 6>Anderson scandal, they can't do anything to any plot until

<v Speaker 6>further notice. He lets her know that the authorities have

<v Speaker 6>already begun to dig stuff up to prove all the

<v Speaker 6>mishandling of clients that Anderson's did over the years. The

<v Speaker 6>next day, it's Halloween, Maven agrees to take Beatrix retreating.

<v Speaker 6>As they're waiting in line for one of the haunted houses,

<v Speaker 6>Ronan approaches them. He has a date and it's a

<v Speaker 6>slutty barbie with fake moves.

<v Speaker 3>How do we know she's slutty? She could be a

<v Speaker 3>very nice woman.

<v Speaker 6>That's just what Maven describes her as she steers Beatrix

<v Speaker 6>away hurt, and then they entered the haunted house. They

<v Speaker 6>walk through it, making it to a hall of meares,

<v Speaker 6>and then Mabon sees that she's alone. She calls for

<v Speaker 6>her daughter over and over again and tries to leave

<v Speaker 6>the Hall of mears multiple times, but runs into distorted

<v Speaker 6>images of herself. When she finally finds a way out,

<v Speaker 6>she runs into Ronan, saying that she lost Beatrix in there.

<v Speaker 6>He enters and comes out a couple minutes later with Beatrix.

<v Speaker 6>Mavin thanks him and he leaves. The girls get ice

<v Speaker 6>cream and go home. But later that night, Beatrix wakes

<v Speaker 6>up because the little black eyed boys are staring at

<v Speaker 6>her through the window in the woods.

<v Speaker 2>Nope, no, hell no, I would yell at my child

<v Speaker 2>if they said that.

<v Speaker 4>I don't say that.

<v Speaker 5>I literally would be like, shut the fuck up.

<v Speaker 6>But in the morning, when she mentions that to Beatrix,

<v Speaker 6>everyone is confused. Beatrix says that she never had bad

<v Speaker 6>dreams last night, and Esmy tells all the girls that

<v Speaker 6>it's weird because none of them have had bad dreams

<v Speaker 6>in it forever, but just last week as Mey told

<v Speaker 6>all of them that she dreamt about snakes coming into

<v Speaker 6>the house. So now Mavin's like, did I make that?

<v Speaker 2>Shut up? Like, what the fuck is happening.

<v Speaker 6>Later in the day, Maven wanders to the old church

<v Speaker 6>where her mom's body was found. Ronan is there and

<v Speaker 6>demands that she leaves now it's in her best interest.

<v Speaker 6>As she's walking away, she hears an agonized scream in

<v Speaker 6>the distance, and then it stops. When she's back home,

<v Speaker 6>the phone rings again. It's a cemetery. They didn't find

<v Speaker 6>any one of her family members in their graves.

<v Speaker 2>All of their bones, everything is missing.

<v Speaker 3>They're just empty boxes or refrigerators. We don't know.

<v Speaker 2>Yeah.

<v Speaker 6>They hang up, and she's reminded of a voicemail that

<v Speaker 6>she has from Ezra. She listens and then looks up

<v Speaker 6>the article that he mentioned in the voicemail, and he

<v Speaker 6>tells her that she'll probably.

<v Speaker 2>Be interested in it.

<v Speaker 6>Once she reads the article. She gets to the bottom

<v Speaker 6>and the pharmaceutical company involved is Croft Pharmaceuticals AH, which

<v Speaker 6>is like some random article, like it really doesn't have

<v Speaker 6>anything to do with much, but the fact that Ezra

<v Speaker 6>just randomly started being like, hey, you should look this up.

<v Speaker 6>She didn't say where she's from to him, she didn't

<v Speaker 6>say anything about her town, like nothing, and he just

<v Speaker 6>randomly knew.

<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's weird.

<v Speaker 6>She calls Ezra and he pieces together some information for

<v Speaker 6>her that she never pieced together. Croft wanted access to

<v Speaker 6>a certain species of bug in the entomology program a

<v Speaker 6>couple of years ago. Their access got denied, and now

<v Speaker 6>she's wondering if that was Ronan trying to find her

<v Speaker 6>a couple of years ago. But then there's all the

<v Speaker 6>weird animal stuff going on in town, like the fox,

<v Speaker 6>the ravens, the butterfly that isn't native to that area.

<v Speaker 6>She's wondering if they're testing animal subjects. But then she

<v Speaker 6>takes it a step further. What if all the missing

<v Speaker 6>persons in town are the test subjects.

<v Speaker 2>That would make sense.

<v Speaker 6>She's got some thoughts in her brain. The Blackthorn females

<v Speaker 6>send all male offspring to the cross in exchange for money.

<v Speaker 3>That's crazy.

<v Speaker 2>That is crazy.

<v Speaker 6>She ran sacks her mom's room looking for any clues

<v Speaker 6>that could help. She finds nothing useful, but calls mister

<v Speaker 6>Walker back and tells them her theory. The testing is

<v Speaker 6>in the old church basement and starts, maybe everything that's

<v Speaker 6>happened since she talked to him yesterday. She tells them

<v Speaker 6>Ronan's family history with the mystery illness, and maybe all

<v Speaker 6>the testing is to help find a cure. He tells

<v Speaker 6>her to keep her phone on her he'll call her back.

<v Speaker 6>It's twenty minutes later and he tells her that fifteen

<v Speaker 6>years ago, the Croft family filed the lean and had

<v Speaker 6>the church basement redone, specifically by a company called Safari

<v Speaker 6>Large Exotic Animal Closures. So it's a basement full of cages.

<v Speaker 2>Oh yuh.

<v Speaker 6>She tells mister Walker, they have to do something about

<v Speaker 6>this now. He tells her not without proper procedure, so

<v Speaker 6>she continues to fire him and tells him to call

<v Speaker 6>her back up if he doesn't hear from her by

<v Speaker 6>noon tomorrow, and then she hangs up, holsters her pistol,

<v Speaker 6>and leaves.

<v Speaker 1>As she gets to the church, she hears a low,

<v Speaker 1>agonizing scream and she makes her way in, finding the

<v Speaker 1>door to the basement. She goes down and it's pitch black.

<v Speaker 1>She can't see anything, but all she smells is like

<v Speaker 1>an animal stench, and hears deep alarming ground and she

<v Speaker 1>knows down in her bones that it's just not human.

<v Speaker 1>Her instincts tell her to get the hell out of there,

<v Speaker 1>so she turns to leave, and she literally slips and

<v Speaker 1>falls and hits her head and knock herself out.

<v Speaker 2>Don't know, girl, I literally first to die.

<v Speaker 1>She wakes up in Rodan's bed, confused and disoriented. Edward

<v Speaker 1>he's like the cross version of Q so he's like,

<v Speaker 1>they're everything. Man. I guess he found her passed out

<v Speaker 1>in the basement and called him right away. She stirred

<v Speaker 1>up asked him, what's in the basement. He tells her

<v Speaker 1>it's wolfhounds, but somehow may even knew the answer was

<v Speaker 1>not the truth. It didn't explain the monstrous growling and

<v Speaker 1>the anguish cry she heard, and why he's been acting

<v Speaker 1>so strange. Rodan asked her for a favor. It's not

<v Speaker 1>just for him, it's for both of them. He asked

<v Speaker 1>her to promise to stay away from him because he's

<v Speaker 1>not strong enough to stay away from her. At first,

<v Speaker 1>she's taken back by his vulnerability, and then she's like, oh,

<v Speaker 1>it's because that bit she brought to Halloween. You have

<v Speaker 1>a girlfriend, don't you.

<v Speaker 2>Fair?

<v Speaker 1>Fair He's like, no, I'm your brother, and she airs

<v Speaker 1>out the whole thing. How like she knows the key

<v Speaker 1>requested access to her butterfly collection, but claimed that he

<v Speaker 1>didn't know at all where she was. So that was like,

<v Speaker 1>she just feels like betrayed. Thinking of how to answer her,

<v Speaker 1>he asked her, if he were to tell her that

<v Speaker 1>he's been in love with her for as long as

<v Speaker 1>he can remember, would she believe him. She immediately says no,

<v Speaker 1>So he's like everything else that I say is meaningless then,

<v Speaker 1>and then he just asked her to please take be

<v Speaker 1>a trick and leave stupid.

<v Speaker 2>Just say what you need to say, get it out.

<v Speaker 1>She's completely gagged, and she's like, wait, like you told

<v Speaker 1>me that you would hold me hostage if I ever

<v Speaker 1>tried to leave, Like, why are you.

<v Speaker 4>Kicking me out? This isn't how it's supposed to work.

<v Speaker 1>Since she's about to leave town and probably never talked

<v Speaker 1>to him again, she asked him if he's been kidnapping

<v Speaker 1>people and using them as test subjects in the church basement.

<v Speaker 1>He's like, what the actual fuck? Like, you literally think

<v Speaker 1>the absolute worst of me? Do you really think that's

<v Speaker 1>going down in my basement? Okay, I'll show you the basement.

<v Speaker 1>Let's go.

<v Speaker 2>When do I find out what the fuck he did

<v Speaker 2>to her?

<v Speaker 3>Well, I mean you did?

<v Speaker 1>What did he do?

<v Speaker 3>She was pregnant and he was like I don't want

<v Speaker 3>to be it done.

<v Speaker 4>Ah, that's like really bad.

<v Speaker 1>So they get back to the basement while she's like

<v Speaker 1>alive and conscious and she doesn't notice. The first thing

<v Speaker 1>is is she doesn't notice the smell at all. The

<v Speaker 1>first time that she went down and smelled like animal

<v Speaker 1>musk and like weird, and she doesn't smell anything she

<v Speaker 1>just smells mold and mildew. And there are six empty

<v Speaker 1>Florida ceiling medieval looking cages on each side. And as

<v Speaker 1>she's looking around playing a little detective run, it's like,

<v Speaker 1>do you want to do like a cute little truth

<v Speaker 1>for truth scheme? So we find out that she hasn't

<v Speaker 1>warned her hair down since they made love because he

<v Speaker 1>likes it down. She finds out that his sickness doesn't

<v Speaker 1>have a name, and that there's no cases outside of

<v Speaker 1>his family, so it's most likely a genetic mutation. She

<v Speaker 1>doesn't hate him, not even a little bit, not even

<v Speaker 1>at all.

<v Speaker 3>Oh my god, stop it. I can't think about Heath

<v Speaker 3>Ledger right now.

<v Speaker 1>He tells her that when he requested her work, he

<v Speaker 1>genuinely had no idea it was her work. Obviously, he's

<v Speaker 1>like a head honcho at Croft Pharmaceutical and he has

<v Speaker 1>a team of employees that literally work under him, and

<v Speaker 1>his employees were the one that requested her work because

<v Speaker 1>it had to do with what they were looking into.

<v Speaker 1>He said that if he would have known that she

<v Speaker 1>was the person that published it, he would have been

<v Speaker 1>there in person to pick it up. It's Ronan's turn

<v Speaker 1>to ask the question, and Maven knows what he's gonna ask.

<v Speaker 1>He asked if be a Trix is his. She ultimately

<v Speaker 1>answers by saying she will do anything to protect be

<v Speaker 1>a Trix. She would kill to keep her safe, and

<v Speaker 1>she's saying this because she doesn't want any type of miscommunication.

<v Speaker 1>So if he tries to take her and not even

<v Speaker 1>God can keep him safe from her, he nods, and

<v Speaker 1>he tells her that they have three days to leave.

<v Speaker 1>He and be a Trix have to be out of

<v Speaker 1>Stolcis before the sun sets. On the third day, he

<v Speaker 1>will let them both go and he won't follow. It

<v Speaker 1>will be the end.

<v Speaker 5>But if you're still here, I'll consider it your tactic

<v Speaker 5>acceptance that you're mine, and I'll never let you go,

<v Speaker 5>not even if you beg me to, and you will mabon.

<v Speaker 5>Once you know everything, you'll beg me to set you free,

<v Speaker 5>but it will be too late. Once I claim you

<v Speaker 5>your mind forever. His eyes are dark and endless as

<v Speaker 5>he repeats my words, not even God can keep you

<v Speaker 5>safe from me.

<v Speaker 2>I mean, yeah, but like tell her you're her brother.

<v Speaker 5>What if Beatrix does a twenty three and me down

<v Speaker 5>the road boom finds out mom and dad are brother

<v Speaker 5>and syss her it's.

<v Speaker 3>Just a family circle. Yeah.

<v Speaker 1>He gives her a punishing smooch and then walks off,

<v Speaker 1>leaving her there. As she was about to turn to leave,

<v Speaker 1>her eyes ketch on a glimpse of something in between

<v Speaker 1>the seam of the brick on the wall of the cage.

<v Speaker 1>She wiggles it out and it's a smooth, perfect claw,

<v Speaker 1>which she puts on her purse for safekeeping. On her

<v Speaker 1>way out, she also noticed four tracks of a wheelchair

<v Speaker 1>tire impressions going to and from the basement.

<v Speaker 2>What's that little wheelchair?

<v Speaker 3>Fuck new endoment, fucking weelly, motherfucker.

<v Speaker 2>Two wheel bit.

<v Speaker 1>She showers, and as she's getting dressed and to eat,

<v Speaker 1>tells her that her friend Ezra is downstairs waiting for her,

<v Speaker 1>and she's like what the fuckber.

<v Speaker 3>Ezra is like, I hope we can still be friends.

<v Speaker 5>Call me.

<v Speaker 2>Yeah, what is he doing here?

<v Speaker 1>As we're stating there and he's like, hey girl, sorry

<v Speaker 1>for showing up unannounced. I know we're broken up and stuff,

<v Speaker 1>but I thought you'd need support and all since you're

<v Speaker 1>fired and everything. She's like what and he's like, oh yeah,

<v Speaker 1>Like there was like a team meeting, and they're just like,

<v Speaker 1>they said that you were fired defective immediately. So I thought,

<v Speaker 1>like I could be here so you can cry on

<v Speaker 1>my shoulder for what? What if she fired for?

<v Speaker 3>I mean she hasn't gone for like two weeks.

<v Speaker 1>I know.

<v Speaker 2>Oh wow.

<v Speaker 1>She tells him thanks, but no thanks, I do not

<v Speaker 1>need your support. You can literally actually leave now, and

<v Speaker 1>he's like, this is really awkward. But your aunties invited

<v Speaker 1>me to stay this weekend and I said yes, Sorry.

<v Speaker 2>I'd freak out. I would freak out.

<v Speaker 1>Annoyed, she tells him he can stay, but not in

<v Speaker 1>their manner. If he wants to be in this town,

<v Speaker 1>he's got to get a hotel or something. Maven tries

<v Speaker 1>calling her boss and she had no answer. She called

<v Speaker 1>her boss's boss, no answer, so she goes directed to

<v Speaker 1>calling Ronan. She kind of puts her finger at him,

<v Speaker 1>saying that he was the one who got her fired,

<v Speaker 1>but he denies it, and of course it pisses her

<v Speaker 1>off because she won't see him in any other light

<v Speaker 1>other than a monster. She gets vulnerable for a moment

<v Speaker 1>and she tells him she's tired of them fighting. She

<v Speaker 1>just wants peace. But she can't do it alone, and

<v Speaker 1>she wants his side of everything because with her speculating everything,

<v Speaker 1>it's just making it hell for her. He agrees, but

<v Speaker 1>only if it's in person, and they decide they will

<v Speaker 1>meet tomorrow. It tikes o'clock at Ronan's, Mabon and Ezbra

<v Speaker 1>go to dinner to catch up, and it's awkward as

<v Speaker 1>fuck because Mabon wants absolutely nothing to do with him.

<v Speaker 1>He gets a white girl wasted off of red wine,

<v Speaker 1>and by the end of dinner. As for Swaying, he

<v Speaker 1>tells her he got fucked up because he's hella nervous

<v Speaker 1>since he has something to ask her. He pulls her

<v Speaker 1>into a dark alley and she's like, great, Like I

<v Speaker 1>have the worst luck ever. I'm literally probably about to

<v Speaker 1>get kidnapped or something. But no, it's worse. He's like,

<v Speaker 1>marry me. No, He like brings out a whole thing

<v Speaker 1>of statistics, like basically saying that like they're both smart,

<v Speaker 1>they're a great match, you know, match made in heaven

<v Speaker 1>a lot, even though he admitted that he doesn't even

<v Speaker 1>really love her, and then he had to word it

<v Speaker 1>hurts and he's like, be so for real, right now,

<v Speaker 1>do you really think that you can find someone better

<v Speaker 1>than me.

<v Speaker 2>That's mean.

<v Speaker 1>Seeing the pain on her face makes him creepy smile,

<v Speaker 1>and then his eyes go away from her face to

<v Speaker 1>something behind her shoulder, and he turns ghostly white and

<v Speaker 1>chokes back a scream and then runs away, not looking back.

<v Speaker 1>When maeven turns to slick over her shoulder, there's nothing there.

<v Speaker 1>She gets home and tucks herself into bed and her

<v Speaker 1>phone goes off. It's a text from Ronan saying that

<v Speaker 1>if he ever disrespects her like that again, he'll cut

<v Speaker 1>out his tongue, and she's like, what the fuck? Like,

<v Speaker 1>how does he know Ezra's here?

<v Speaker 5>Careful, Mabon, if you keep it up, that smart ass

<v Speaker 5>tone will backfire on you, meaning what you'll come over

<v Speaker 5>here and give me a spanking. His voice deadly soft,

<v Speaker 5>he says, Oh, I'll give you something much more than that,

<v Speaker 5>then disconnects, Oh, come.

<v Speaker 1>Over now that Mabon is hot and bothered. She went

<v Speaker 1>downstairs to get a glass of whiskey, and she's a

<v Speaker 1>shadowy figure slipping between the door of her greenhouse. She

<v Speaker 1>grabs his steak knife and is ready to confront whoever's trespassing,

<v Speaker 1>but have no fear, It's just sexy baby daddy.

<v Speaker 5>Ronan, what are you doing here? Maybe I came to

<v Speaker 5>give you that spanking you asked for.

<v Speaker 2>Yeah. Yeah.

<v Speaker 1>The door slam shut, and Ronan, who was once across

<v Speaker 1>the room from her, is now standing directly in front

<v Speaker 1>of her. He presses her about Ezra being here, and

<v Speaker 1>she presses him about the woman from Halloween, and both

<v Speaker 1>sides are just like pouring jealousy right now. Mavion said,

<v Speaker 1>if he's jealous and if he does care what she

<v Speaker 1>does and who she's with, to please share with the

<v Speaker 1>class on why he suddenly wants her to leave so bad.

<v Speaker 1>He looks at her with heat in his eyes and

<v Speaker 1>then just says fuck it.

<v Speaker 5>He grabs me and crushes his mouth into mine, his

<v Speaker 5>arms pinning me against his body. He drinks deeply from

<v Speaker 5>my mouth, moaning into it. When I match his passion,

<v Speaker 5>I kiss him back with a mixture of relief and

<v Speaker 5>elation that leaves me dizzy. He's so big and masculine,

<v Speaker 5>hard everywhere I'm soft. But we fit together as if

<v Speaker 5>we were made for each other on some deeper level

<v Speaker 5>than rational dot.

<v Speaker 2>I believe we were through.

<v Speaker 1>Everything they've gone through Mavon knows that, even though he

<v Speaker 1>doesn't feel the same way, she loves him with her

<v Speaker 1>whole heart. But guess what kooky Ronan delivered. He looked

<v Speaker 1>her dead in the eyes and told her he would

<v Speaker 1>burn every single thing down for her, the town, his life,

<v Speaker 1>the world if she asked him to.

<v Speaker 3>He says, I don't care that I'm your brother. I

<v Speaker 3>don't care that we have the same dad.

<v Speaker 1>Our bond runs.

<v Speaker 4>Deep, deeper than most.

<v Speaker 1>Maven is gagged. She's shocked beyond beliefs that he genuinely

<v Speaker 1>means it. She needs to hear him say it out

<v Speaker 1>loud so she knows it's real. So he does. He

<v Speaker 1>tells her she's it, It's always been her, and he

<v Speaker 1>apologizes for his hand in treating her poorly, and she

<v Speaker 1>apologizes to him for being such a raging bitch, and

<v Speaker 1>then they smooched. He throws her on the greenhouse table.

<v Speaker 2>My heart pounding, I break away and whisper they'll hear us.

<v Speaker 2>Let them, my gosh, did they want to hear you?

<v Speaker 1>Just as she was naked beneath him and had his

<v Speaker 1>dick in her hands, he stopped. He tells her, I

<v Speaker 1>am not who you think I am, but she won't

<v Speaker 1>hear one more second of it. She tells him what

<v Speaker 1>he is is hers. They belong to each other, and

<v Speaker 1>nothing else matters your blood. So he looks her dead

<v Speaker 1>in the eyes and he says nothing else matters.

<v Speaker 3>He says, I've done all I can do.

<v Speaker 2>I tried, Yeah, just won't try anymore.

<v Speaker 5>Staring into his eyes, I whisper nothing else matters.

<v Speaker 2>Now, fuck me, take what's yours?

<v Speaker 4>Step throwing stuck half bro.

<v Speaker 2>Not even step.

<v Speaker 5>It'd be better if it was step, like an animal

<v Speaker 5>running with its mate. He bites me on the neck

<v Speaker 5>and growls against my skin as he pumps his hips,

<v Speaker 5>fucking me with ruthless strokes and pulling my hair.

<v Speaker 1>He's giving her the sibling Special five thousand, and.

<v Speaker 2>The sibling Special five thousand is what she just said.

<v Speaker 2>He's putting it at work, Hannah.

<v Speaker 3>His dad walks in, and he's like, oh my god,

<v Speaker 3>I just love seeing my kids getting along so well.

<v Speaker 1>Yay, Now, why don't.

<v Speaker 6>You push my wheelchair?

<v Speaker 5>His cock swells and growing harder and longer than before,

<v Speaker 5>until it seems I won't be able to take more

<v Speaker 5>of the massive organ, but I do, groaning in pleasure.

<v Speaker 2>As he fucks my wet hole. Wet hole, that's not

<v Speaker 2>my favorite.

<v Speaker 1>As her orgasm is building, Maven has an intense foreboding feeling,

<v Speaker 1>like down to her bones. But then she feels Ronan

<v Speaker 1>come and it draws out the most powerful orgasm of

<v Speaker 1>her entire existence. Things get intense fast. He's coming, but

<v Speaker 1>he's still fucking the life out of her. There's fire

<v Speaker 1>embers flickering around them. He comes again, and this time

<v Speaker 1>her scream shatters the air. Ronan screams into the sky

<v Speaker 1>and he's choking her while they're both literally still coming

<v Speaker 1>and Stemen's just pouring out of her. She looks up

<v Speaker 1>at Ronan and he has horns like and he has

<v Speaker 1>horns and batty wings and that like emids smoke and sparks,

<v Speaker 1>and at the end of each wing is a long talent.

<v Speaker 2>What the fuck?

<v Speaker 1>The best?

<v Speaker 2>I thought this was a human book?

<v Speaker 4>What what is he a bird? He just got.

<v Speaker 2>What the fuck?

<v Speaker 1>She tries screaming, but he's still choking the fuck out

<v Speaker 1>of her, so she can't get anything out, and then

<v Speaker 1>he flips her over.

<v Speaker 2>She get your talons away from me.

<v Speaker 5>He pushes my thighs apart, flondling my bottom and spreading

<v Speaker 5>his cumb all around his fingers roughly probing the tender

<v Speaker 5>butt of my ass. When he slides two fingers inside

<v Speaker 5>of me and starts to work them around in a circle,

<v Speaker 5>I know he's preparing me to take his cock.

<v Speaker 1>He's going to a pound town and she orgasms again.

<v Speaker 1>He keeps repeating the word maez over and over and

<v Speaker 1>over again, and a sigils on his wrist.

<v Speaker 5>Glow red, heavy testicles slap against my bare pussy with

<v Speaker 5>each snap of his hips, sending waves of pleasure throughout

<v Speaker 5>my body, dulling the pain of my stretched anus.

<v Speaker 2>Oh anus, what is that doing?

<v Speaker 5>He reaches between my legs and tugs on my engorged clip,

<v Speaker 5>tweaking and stroking it until I'm surging nearer to another orgasm,

<v Speaker 5>my ass stuffed with his car and my mouth with

<v Speaker 5>his fingers tugs on my engorged clip.

<v Speaker 1>And now he's licking his come up from literally starting

<v Speaker 1>at her ankles all the way up to her pussy.

<v Speaker 5>He slides two thick fingers inside my pussy, fits his

<v Speaker 5>mouth over my aching asshole, and sucks his sperm out

<v Speaker 5>of me, making the vicious noises of pleasure as he

<v Speaker 5>swallows over and over again, slurping his own comb, shoving

<v Speaker 5>his tongue deep inside my orifice to get every drop.

<v Speaker 1>She orgasms once more, just by that alone, and he

<v Speaker 1>says mayes again her knowing a thing or two about Latin,

<v Speaker 1>she knows he's been chancing your mind over and over,

<v Speaker 1>and then she loses consciousness.

<v Speaker 3>She's not good at staying awake.

<v Speaker 6>Or he chugged the soul out of her ass.

<v Speaker 1>It's true. Maven woke up in her bed with Auntie

<v Speaker 1>over her, being like, girl, wake up. You were having

<v Speaker 1>a nightmare and screaming bloody murder. You have a high fever.

<v Speaker 1>Don't get up. She asks for Beatrix's and Auntie tells

<v Speaker 1>her she said the Greenhouse with Q. The winds were

<v Speaker 1>crazy last night and blew the door open, knocking the

<v Speaker 1>pots around. They leave her to rest, and immediately she

<v Speaker 1>checks her phone and she's like, there's no way that

<v Speaker 1>I just imagined that entire thing. But there was no

<v Speaker 1>text or call in her phone from Ronan.

<v Speaker 3>Well, is your ass on fire right now?

<v Speaker 2>Because like literally.

<v Speaker 1>She also notices that her text from Ezra's missing, along

<v Speaker 1>with her calls from work, and at this point she's

<v Speaker 1>questioning her sanity. She asked her aunties if Ezra came

<v Speaker 1>by this morning, and they're like, who, We don't know

<v Speaker 1>who you're talking about. They tell her to drink the

<v Speaker 1>tea that they made for her and it'll make her

<v Speaker 1>feel better soon. So she does in one sitting and

<v Speaker 1>it makes her Auntie smile, how and when she gets up,

<v Speaker 1>she looks at herself in the mirror and she basically

<v Speaker 1>looks like a borderline corpse. That's definitely ill. She's questioning everything.

<v Speaker 1>She goes to her purse where she put the talent

<v Speaker 1>that she had that she found in the basement, and

<v Speaker 1>it's no longer there. Her aunties do a house call

<v Speaker 1>to one of the guy Auntie d is fucking, and

<v Speaker 1>it's a doctor, obviously, and she tells the guy about

<v Speaker 1>her dreams and the paranoia, the dizzy and his headaches

<v Speaker 1>and fever, and since her fever has apparently broke, he

<v Speaker 1>deems it a virus of some sort. When he's gone,

<v Speaker 1>she hears a buzzing noise and an intense form of

<v Speaker 1>bees and it makes her skin crawl and she instantly

<v Speaker 1>feels uneasy. She catches herself in the mirror and there's

<v Speaker 1>black flies covering her entire body, and her eyes are

<v Speaker 1>white and glossed over, and she looks like something that's

<v Speaker 1>died a long time ago.

<v Speaker 2>What the fuck imagine that being one of your hallucinations.

<v Speaker 5>I would smash her face into the glass. I feel

<v Speaker 5>like it, just like a reflax.

<v Speaker 1>She's like full blown hallucinating at this point that she's

<v Speaker 1>a living corpse, and she goes to run out of

<v Speaker 1>the room, and she runs straight into Auntie E. Suddenly

<v Speaker 1>the buzzing stops, and when she looks down at her hands,

<v Speaker 1>there's not a fly in sight.

<v Speaker 4>As Auntie's are.

<v Speaker 1>Ready to go to church, something inside her nags that

<v Speaker 1>she must go to. At the end of service, they

<v Speaker 1>take be a home, but maybe even sticks behind. Father

<v Speaker 1>O'Brien comes up to her and tells her that she

<v Speaker 1>can still be saved. It's not too late for her

<v Speaker 1>if she were to repent for her since she can

<v Speaker 1>still save, He tells her that there's a war on

<v Speaker 1>her soul right now and soon she will have to

<v Speaker 1>choose a side. She turns to leave, but he's next

<v Speaker 1>to her in an instant, pressing something into her hand

<v Speaker 1>and holding onto her wrist hard. He tells her the

<v Speaker 1>old Serpent is stirring and spreading plague throughout her blood

<v Speaker 1>like poison. Soon he will fulfill the prophecy and claim

<v Speaker 1>who has promised to him and the queen who will

<v Speaker 1>roll by his side in hell. But she can be

<v Speaker 1>saved if she repents.

<v Speaker 2>Oh good, away from me.

<v Speaker 1>In her hands. She found a wooden rosary, and some

<v Speaker 1>weird shit goes on at the church after this, like

<v Speaker 1>the cross from the wall comes flying down, and the

<v Speaker 1>Virgin Mary statue like turns its head and looks straight

<v Speaker 1>at Maven. She hears the building starts whispering, and then

<v Speaker 1>it turns into his scream in Latin. No. She gets

<v Speaker 1>home and immediately starts packing her bags and she's like,

<v Speaker 1>fuck this, I'm out of this crazy ass town. She

<v Speaker 1>calls Bia and tells her that they're moving back to Manhattan,

<v Speaker 1>and Beatrix is like, what, you pulled me out of

<v Speaker 1>school last week when I said I didn't want to

<v Speaker 1>go back. You said it was okay and that we

<v Speaker 1>can move here, and you even sent a letter to

<v Speaker 1>my principal. But Maven has absolutely no memory of this.

<v Speaker 1>Once she's done packing their things, she goes to get

<v Speaker 1>Beatrix to leave, but the whole entire house is empty.

<v Speaker 1>She's a strong feeling of impending doom and she's outside

<v Speaker 1>frantically searching for Beatrix. She sees the red fox and

<v Speaker 1>it's almost like it's pleading with her to follow it.

<v Speaker 1>She's lured deep into the woods, like so deep where

<v Speaker 1>she doesn't know which directions which anymore, and distinct smell.

<v Speaker 3>Stops her in her tracks.

<v Speaker 1>It's the same a smell that she smelled when she

<v Speaker 1>was in the greenhouse, coal animal musk and charred wood.

<v Speaker 1>A shadow creature falls over her and it blocks her

<v Speaker 1>entire view and it smells strongly of brimstone. Before she

<v Speaker 1>could do anything, she sees wings and then smoke, and

<v Speaker 1>then the form solidifies, and the next thing that she knows,

<v Speaker 1>she's in the creature's arms and it's launched into the sky.

<v Speaker 2>Oh my god.

<v Speaker 1>The creature flies her through the mountains to its cave

<v Speaker 1>and gently puts her down. And when she looks up

<v Speaker 1>at the creature, she's stunned to see familiar pale blue eyes.

<v Speaker 2>Is it her brother or her dad?

<v Speaker 1>When she looks lower, she gets a jump scare because

<v Speaker 1>she finds a huge raging boner.

<v Speaker 5>Its thick penis is ridged all the way up the shaft,

<v Speaker 5>topped with a swollen red crown that glistens with clear fluid.

<v Speaker 5>At the slit, a wisp of smoke rises from the fluid.

<v Speaker 1>Oh, I just thought it was funny that it's dick

<v Speaker 1>was smoking.

<v Speaker 2>Yeah. She tries to fight it off.

<v Speaker 1>And the creature almost seems amused, like it's basically purring.

<v Speaker 1>It takes its talon and slices her clothes right off.

<v Speaker 1>And she thought it was just gonna fuck her right

<v Speaker 1>away and take its pleasure from her. But no, no,

<v Speaker 1>it's the other way around. The creature spreads her legs

<v Speaker 1>open and then it just starts eating it and it's

<v Speaker 1>fucking her with its monster tongue.

<v Speaker 2>Huh.

<v Speaker 1>At first she's like, ah, scary, but then she's like, ah,

<v Speaker 1>so scary. Oh my god.

<v Speaker 2>Ah.

<v Speaker 1>She holds the creature's horns like handlebars as it's eating

<v Speaker 1>her out, and she's grinding down on its face. She

<v Speaker 1>can't help it. She wants this monster dick, and next

<v Speaker 1>thing she knows, she's saying Ronin please. Finally she gets

<v Speaker 1>the monster dick, and she's getting her shit rocked. Oh

<v Speaker 1>I bet got that he says you're mine, and she

<v Speaker 1>feels fangs against her neck and then him drinking her.

<v Speaker 1>She's a crazy orgasm. But then she wakes alone in

<v Speaker 1>her bed with her hands down her pants.

<v Speaker 2>Oh okay, what the fuck?

<v Speaker 1>When she grabs her phone, she has six miss calls

<v Speaker 1>from Ronan and the date should be Sunday, only it's Tuesday,

<v Speaker 1>meaning that she lost two days. Her whole room is

<v Speaker 1>no longer packed, it's exactly how it was previously. She

<v Speaker 1>even calls her old job and they're like, we don't

<v Speaker 1>know who you are. We don't know who Ezra is like,

<v Speaker 1>grow your fucking crazy?

<v Speaker 2>What Yeah?

<v Speaker 1>Her phone drops to the ground and a second later

<v Speaker 1>it starts ringing. She picks it up and it's Ronan

<v Speaker 1>on the other end, pleading to know she's okay. She's like, wait,

<v Speaker 1>do you remember me? And Pooky's Hella worried about her,

<v Speaker 1>but she's reluctant to say what's going on because she's like,

<v Speaker 1>you are gonna think that I'm bashit crazy. As they're talking,

<v Speaker 1>she starts having just a menty bee. She's spewing out

<v Speaker 1>maybe she's the dead one, like were there even dead bodies?

<v Speaker 1>Like just a breakdown at this point because she like,

<v Speaker 1>she has a whole break in reality. She doesn't know

<v Speaker 1>what's real, what's up, what's down, because like, yeah, how

<v Speaker 1>would you. She knows that while she has him on

<v Speaker 1>the phone, she needs to tell him how she feels,

<v Speaker 1>and she declares her undying love for him. He tells

<v Speaker 1>her that he loves her too, and that he's coming

<v Speaker 1>right now to get her and Beatrix needing to get Beatrix,

<v Speaker 1>she hangs up on Ronan and she sees something inky

<v Speaker 1>slither across her walls, stretching to fill her whole entire ceiling,

<v Speaker 1>and that's the sneaky snake.

<v Speaker 2>Oh.

<v Speaker 1>She closes her eyes and when she opens them again,

<v Speaker 1>it's gone. She sees a reflection in the mirror and

<v Speaker 1>it's completely back to normal, except she has a rosary

<v Speaker 1>around her neck and two small puncture wounds on her

<v Speaker 1>throat midst viral. She hears Beatrix cry and that springs

<v Speaker 1>her into action. So in mythology, pomegranates are tied to

<v Speaker 1>the underworld because of Hades and Persephone. And when she

<v Speaker 1>goes downstairs to her kitchen, her entire kitchen table is

<v Speaker 1>filled with pomegranates, and I think that's like a kind

<v Speaker 1>of like a symbol, saying that her house is hell.

<v Speaker 2>Oh okay.

<v Speaker 1>She gets into the cellar where she heard the cries

<v Speaker 1>and it smells like herbs that would be used in sacrifices.

<v Speaker 1>When suddenly she's kicked down and slams her head into

<v Speaker 1>the ground. She feels her limbs being locked into something

<v Speaker 1>and sees a tallhooded figure standing over her. She looks

<v Speaker 1>around and she's basically in a huge underground catacomb in

<v Speaker 1>her basement. There's a person chained to an altar across

<v Speaker 1>from her with runes edged in their stomach, and it's.

<v Speaker 2>Ezra Oh, Ezra dang got astray.

<v Speaker 1>There's snake skin everywhere, and the person hovering over her

<v Speaker 1>lifted their cloak. It's Antie d and she says, welcome

<v Speaker 1>to the party. We're just getting started.

<v Speaker 4>She's like, what the fuck.

<v Speaker 1>Is happening, that's what she's saying. She thinks that there

<v Speaker 1>must be a slip in reality, because there's no way

<v Speaker 1>that her sweet aunt is about to sacrifice her. And

<v Speaker 1>Auntie tells her that before she left town, the first time,

<v Speaker 1>she left before she could be initiated, So they're fixing

<v Speaker 1>that today. Auntie also drops a bomb that they know

<v Speaker 1>that Ronan is Beatrix's dad, and although he's a Croft,

<v Speaker 1>they're not that upset because mating a witch with the

<v Speaker 1>demon makes the child incredibly powerful. When Beatrix is of age,

<v Speaker 1>she'll be the most powerful witch in generations. So they

<v Speaker 1>admitted that they're a family of witches and that Ronan

<v Speaker 1>the Cross are demons.

<v Speaker 4>Oh.

<v Speaker 1>We find out that her aunties knew her mom was

<v Speaker 1>trying to right or wrong the day that she died,

<v Speaker 1>and she was trying to undo the original spell. But

<v Speaker 1>a caster's final spell before death can never be reversed.

<v Speaker 1>The ravens that always come after Elijah Croft was because

<v Speaker 1>her grandmother casted it before she died to always have

<v Speaker 1>him be attacked by ravens. Maven starts crying and she's like, girl,

<v Speaker 1>don't cry just yet. You didn't even hear the best part.

<v Speaker 1>Your mom didn't die from trying to undo the curse.

<v Speaker 1>She died because she did a foolish thing, and I

<v Speaker 1>made sure that she would never be able to make

<v Speaker 1>another one. So Auntie d killed her.

<v Speaker 2>Oh damn.

<v Speaker 1>Auntie starts getting Ezra off while she's telling Mavin that

<v Speaker 1>their master's almost ready and when he rises, he will

<v Speaker 1>claim his queen to roll beside him and guess who

<v Speaker 1>it is. Be it Trix, a child bride. No, there's

<v Speaker 1>a whole entire sacrifice scene at this part, Like it's

<v Speaker 1>just crazy, but basically, Ezra's killed in the middle of

<v Speaker 1>his orgasm and Q is finger fucking both of his

<v Speaker 1>aunties and then.

<v Speaker 5>Just like starts fucking on both, so he's like, oh

<v Speaker 5>my god, that's cue okay.

<v Speaker 1>She quickly knows that she's next for the initiation, and

<v Speaker 1>she's like, I don't want to get fingered by Q,

<v Speaker 1>that's fair. She's panicking and through all the terror, she

<v Speaker 1>hears her name being called something with The sacrifice goes

<v Speaker 1>wrong because both Auntie starts screaming and a huge, smoky

<v Speaker 1>demon is in front of her. He uses his talents

<v Speaker 1>to get her free from the altar, but it's not

<v Speaker 1>just any demon, it's her demon, Ronan Gay. He roars

<v Speaker 1>and lifts them into the sky, getting her out just

<v Speaker 1>in time. Ronan is in the hospital with both Beatrix

<v Speaker 1>and Maven, both of them one room away. While he's

<v Speaker 1>sitting watching Beatrix sleep and holds onto her hand, one

<v Speaker 1>of the nurses says someone is here to visit Maven

<v Speaker 1>and he's like huh. He goes out and it's this

<v Speaker 1>old groundskeeper, Silas Hawthorne. He asks him what he's doing here,

<v Speaker 1>and it turns out Silas is Maeven's dad, So they're.

<v Speaker 2>Not brother in sisiety.

<v Speaker 1>Oh shit, tricked?

<v Speaker 3>Yeah, wow, he thought they were when they did.

<v Speaker 2>Yeah.

<v Speaker 3>Yeah.

<v Speaker 5>He was just gonna ignore that, and he was like, well,

<v Speaker 5>my dad never admitted to it.

<v Speaker 1>He just kind of let me believe it, so that

<v Speaker 1>was really shitty of him. But he was like, eh,

<v Speaker 1>Dad's what are you gonna do. Mavin wakes up and

<v Speaker 1>Rodan goes to see her. We find out they're in

<v Speaker 1>a hospital from smoking elation and their house got burnt

<v Speaker 1>down and their anties did not make it out. Rodan

<v Speaker 1>vows to keep her safe and protected, and he loves

<v Speaker 1>her with all of his heart. Even though Blackthorns don't marry,

<v Speaker 1>he can't wait to put a ring on her finger

<v Speaker 1>and have him, her and Beatrix be one happy family.

<v Speaker 1>We're in the epilogue and it's in her private investigator

<v Speaker 1>Cole Walker's point of view, and he saw the Blackthorn

<v Speaker 1>Manner fire on the news. He immediately packed his bags

<v Speaker 1>and headed to Solstice. He made his way to the

<v Speaker 1>burnt down house where all the press and cops were

<v Speaker 1>and was able to get the tea. It turns out

<v Speaker 1>the reporter says that the fire started from extremely high

<v Speaker 1>levels of carbon monoxide in the air. The two that

<v Speaker 1>went to the hospital, Mavon and Beatrix, had high levels

<v Speaker 1>of carbon monoxide poisoning. The doctor who saw Mavin recently

<v Speaker 1>misdiagnosed it as a virus, but it was actually CO

<v Speaker 1>two poisoning. So she was having hallucinations, disneess and nausea

<v Speaker 1>and everything. So like, damn, we don't even know at

<v Speaker 1>what point in the book was her hallucinations and what

<v Speaker 1>was real?

<v Speaker 3>Yeah, because there was a lot of weird shit going on. Yeah,

<v Speaker 3>Like her aunts were straight up cursing people.

<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and her aunts had the ability because they're witches,

<v Speaker 1>they had the ability to remove memories. So that's why

<v Speaker 1>she like no one could remember that. She worked and

<v Speaker 1>like literally spent her entire life getting a degree. And

<v Speaker 1>then they were like, wholer, Damn, that's crazy.

<v Speaker 3>You don't know what the truth is, but like you're

<v Speaker 3>pretty sure it was a supernatural situation.

<v Speaker 1>Yes, Yeah, so no one even knows if Ronan is

<v Speaker 1>a talented, hot, sexy demon or if she was hallucinating

<v Speaker 1>the entire thing.

<v Speaker 2>The fox could be Granny we don't know, could be.

<v Speaker 1>The black eyed children that Beatrix saw, could have been

<v Speaker 1>her hallucinating because she was having carbon monoxide poisoning so rightly.

<v Speaker 3>How many red pepper emojis do you give this one?

<v Speaker 2>I liked it a lot. I think I give it four.

<v Speaker 3>Okay, I liked it.

<v Speaker 5>I like.

<v Speaker 3>And do you think Ronan Croft is sexy?

<v Speaker 5>I do?

<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I do. He's got away with the words.

<v Speaker 3>It does also black hair piercing blue eyes. Would you

<v Speaker 3>trade places with Maven.

<v Speaker 2>Because that one's a tough one.

<v Speaker 5>Yeah, I mean like maybe, but like I would go

<v Speaker 5>insane so quickly if I was her? Yeah, absolutely bad

<v Speaker 5>shit insane. I would make it everyone's problem.

<v Speaker 3>I would never be okay again.

<v Speaker 2>No, I would not survive that well.

<v Speaker 3>Next week, by popular demand, we are going to be

<v Speaker 3>telling Riley all about God of Fury by Rina Kent,

<v Speaker 3>and we're gonna have her look at the cover and

<v Speaker 3>give us her best guess on what it might be about.

<v Speaker 3>I cannot even count the amount of times that this

<v Speaker 3>book has been requested.

<v Speaker 5>I can't even remember what the fuck God of Malice

<v Speaker 5>was about.

<v Speaker 2>He's in like a mob, right, Yeah.

<v Speaker 3>They were like at school where it was like half

<v Speaker 3>British half American. Yeah, and he like killed people and

<v Speaker 3>then she was like trying to take her life at

<v Speaker 3>the cliff.

<v Speaker 1>He's like, I'll save your life. You suck my dick.

<v Speaker 5>Oh I remember that, And Jenna was like, ah, so

<v Speaker 5>this one got a fury. It says I'm taken by

<v Speaker 5>a beautiful nightmare. And I already know because the girly

<v Speaker 5>spoiled a little bit of this, but I already know.

<v Speaker 2>It's a boy.

<v Speaker 4>Book, bully boy biz, I think.

<v Speaker 2>And it does say it's a college romance.

<v Speaker 5>So I think they're gonna be in college, and I

<v Speaker 5>think one of them is going to be like in

<v Speaker 5>the mafia mob type thing, you know, one of them.

<v Speaker 2>One of them's like a real bad boy.

<v Speaker 5>Then the other guy he's not, but he like gets

<v Speaker 5>wrapped up into it and into their like mess, and

<v Speaker 5>so he like tags along with this other.

<v Speaker 2>Guy and they have eyes for each other.

<v Speaker 5>They're having eyes and then they just you know, develop

<v Speaker 5>a relationship. But it's kind of weird at first because

<v Speaker 5>they're like, whoa unexpected and then something crazy big is

<v Speaker 5>gonna happen. There will be no third act breakup, there

<v Speaker 5>will be a happy ending.

<v Speaker 1>How do you do something big happens?

<v Speaker 5>I had to be vague, had to be vague on

<v Speaker 5>this one. It's harder for me to do these. I

<v Speaker 5>feel like when we do a sequel book, they're like

<v Speaker 5>always harder for me.

<v Speaker 2>I don't know why that's fair.

<v Speaker 4>That's fair.

<v Speaker 3>Well, we'll find out next week. And thank you JT.

<v Speaker 3>Geisinger for letting us read this book early and for

<v Speaker 3>hanging out with us.

<v Speaker 1>There was a lot of detail in the book too,

<v Speaker 1>so we definitely recommend checking it out and reading it

<v Speaker 1>because we had to leave a lot of stuff out

<v Speaker 1>because this episode would have been a thousand minutes long,

<v Speaker 1>yes hours.

<v Speaker 3>We'll see you guys next week.

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