A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas, Elain Sees the Future and Tamlin Gets Muted, Pt 2

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The war is coming, and Feyre has a whole lot more to worry about than

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fighting. With the courts divided, alliances uncertain,

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and Hybern looming, she'll have to convince them all to stand together

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or face the war alone. Welcome to episode 2 of our

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coverage of A Court of Wings and Ruin.

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I wish that we could hear what his inner dialogue is in that moment because

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I'm curious, like, how does he actually feel about her? And I

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just don't know that Lucien is— is he actually attracted to

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Elain, or is he just like, oh, so you're my mate, I gotta make this

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work? I don't think Feyre was initially

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attracted to Rhys at all.

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Okay, what about you, G? I think there was a little bit,

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you know, he was kind of eye candy for her, but not

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like a strong pull because she was still trying to get back to

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Tamlin. Yeah, maybe you're right. I remember her

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seeing him for the first time saying, this is the most handsome man I've ever

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seen. Yes. And I think she was curious, maybe.

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Yeah, I've seen plenty of handsome, beautiful people in my life. Okay,

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now we're comparing reality with the book, whatever.

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Maybe not such a good idea, but just because

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I find somebody

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beautiful or handsome does not mean that I have

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feelings for them. I

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guess in my fantasy of fantasies, I am Feyre and I see Rhysand and

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I want you, you want me from the jump. Let's just— Oh, you're first

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person in your brain? Yeah.

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Are you not? When you read it, are you not Feyre?

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No, I'm watching it.

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Interesting. Maybe there's something wrong with me. There's— I don't

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think there is. I think everybody takes in

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stuff in the way they're meant to take it in, right? Mm-hmm.

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Yeah. No, I watch it in my brain while I'm reading it.

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It's like watching a movie. Yeah. Yeah. But I'm

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also yelling at the book too. I'm like, for the love of Jesus,

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really? Right. I thought it was really interesting that

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we— well, I was annoyed. I was 100% annoyed with

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us now seeing Nesta and Elain. since coming out of the Cauldron.

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Like, this is Feyre's first time seeing them. Like, Nesta is still a fucking

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bitch. Yeah. I'm gonna be honest, it took

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until almost— well, the next book for

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me to have any sort of appreciation for Nesta.

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She fucking was like nails on a chalkboard for me throughout the entire

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series until that book. And so I hated how

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annoying and bitchy she was, and like

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Just such a fucking prickly-ass pear. But super

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protective of Elaine. And so,

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like, this is how I see Nesta. Nesta is basically Elaine's

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angry emotional support Doberman because

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she will beat the fuck out of people to protect her sister

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because she sees how broken she is and how

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being put into the cauldron just really fucked her up.

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Yeah, I'm torn on it because I hate— I fucking hated

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Nesta. I loved though hearing that when she went into the

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cauldron, she took more than it was willing to give her. I loved

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that. That's the type of spite that I love. Um, so

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we get to see Nesta being a little bitch. Uh, we see Elayne, God

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bless her. She's traumatized. She's barely

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speaking. Oh my God, the whining about the man. I'm supposed to I don't

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want to be married.

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Yeah, yeah, she just begs to go home like the whole

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time. I'm like, come on, everybody's like all mad about Nesta, and I'm

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like, how are we not mad about Elayne? Elayne is just a

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big whiny baby. Yeah, fair,

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fair, fair. Again, I am curious of Lucien's like

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inner dialogue seeing that version of Elayne. Like,

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that's your mate and you come back and she's like basically catatonic, like not eating,

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and then about a

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wedding or a man that she's supposed to marry. Yeah,

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I guess he still is casting strays. He literally is.

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Literally. Poor bastard. But also the patience.

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He seems so patient with it, and like, I just felt so bad for him.

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I also just felt like it was so cringy because he's just there in like

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his dirty-ass clothes. He's just trying to see his mate for the first time, and

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he's like Covered in whatever the fuck, you know.

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He's captured along the travel, and she's just

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like, "I don't give a fuck you're here." She doesn't even register that he's her

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mate. There's not even like a oh an acknowledgment. Yeah.

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She's like la la la in her own. Where the fuck am

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I? Give me the fuck out of this world. Send me back.

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I can't wait to see what she's releasing in October to find out.

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Like, who's next, right? Like, whose story is

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coming next? Yeah, they're, they're discussing

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what's going to happen because, uh, the King of Hybern is going to attack. And

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so there's all this strategy going around. Um, it kind of becomes

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clear that they're also trying to figure out what powers, if

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any, do Nesta and Elain have that can help sort of prepare for

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this war. And neither of them seem to be able

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or willing to discuss if they feel anything differently, do they

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have any powers. Nesta's like, don't fucking talk to me.

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How dare you put me into this conversation? Like, she's just

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like fucking miserable and mad. And Elain

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is like, I can't even make sense of anything you're saying.

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But what I loved is how Amren, the blood drinker,

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and Nesta were like, you know,

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sitting in and training and, um, you know,

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trying to figure out like if Nesta's powers could help

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figure out where the weaknesses was in the, in the

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wall. And, you know, I, I just

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remember how pissed off Nesta was. She, she is

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not a happy person. Like, that girl needs to get laid.

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In the worst fucking way. To that point, I think that the

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dynamic between Amren and Nesta

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starts to build and become something.

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And I remember, well, now in hindsight, I

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think when Nesta sees Amren and asks her, why are your eyes glowing?

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Like, what are you? And like starts asking her these questions. Yeah, Nesta's just like,

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I don't give a fuck who or what you are. We're gonna have a conversation

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and it's gonna be on my dime, okay? Yeah, she's like, I need you to

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answer why I'm distracted by your eyes. Like, what is happening? What kind of creature

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are you? Right, you owe me an explanation.

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From a thousands-year-old being.

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Yeah, and everybody's like, oh my God, she's asking the questions we all

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want to know but are too afraid to ask. Um, how

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shitty is that? They've been friends for how many years?

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How many centuries they've been friends and everybody's all like, I'm

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too scared to ask? It's like,

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it's like when you have something in your tooth and nobody tells you.

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And then that one person goes, you got something in your teeth. And you're like,

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I've been here for like 30 minutes smiling and nobody said shit. Yeah. Nobody

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said anything about the freaking spinach or the kale

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in between my teeth, assholes.

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But Amren, I think, respects Nesta for it. She's like, yeah,

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you know, okay. I think Amren gives her purpose.

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Mm-hmm. And that's what she needs.

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Yeah, there's similarity there. And I think Amren calls it out, like, we're more alike

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than you know. I'm hoping we

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figure out what that like is, because I still, after even reading this book like

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a third time, still don't know what they have in

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common. But there's something. There's something

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there. Amren takes Nesta under her wing after that

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conversation and starts to I don't remember how

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they decided how they would train her because she wasn't very forthcoming with

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any sort of special power, but Amren's like, we're gonna, we're

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gonna train your mind. Well,

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I think it's because, well,

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you took a piece of the cauldron, so maybe you can

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feel the cauldron or whatever. Right. So Nesta starts training

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with Amren. Feyre starts training more with

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Cassian and, um, Azriel because—

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She wants to learn to fly. She wants to learn how to fly, and

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Azriel is the teacher because he learned how to fly when he was an

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adult, where Rhysand and Cassian learned how to fly as children.

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So Azriel's like, I think I got you, girl. I can, I can train you

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better than these two can. And I love, uh, I do

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love Azriel. Yeah, so much. So,

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so much. He's got a good heart, right? Like, he

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just wants to be a helper and, you know, and be a

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better person. That's what I like about him. I think he's just

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quiet and people put all their assumptions

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on who they think he is and what he does,

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and, and he just lets them believe whatever they

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believe, but I don't think he's probably a nice being.

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I think he's probably an asshole. You do? But he's

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an— but I think he's— well, yeah, but I think he's

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asshole for like with purpose

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and what he believes is good, which is his family. Yeah, I

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hope that one of these next 2 books is Azriel. I do.

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I just— I want to know his story. Like, I feel like he's the quiet

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guy that everybody tells their bullshit to. I think he's just, like, capturing information.

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Exactly. Exactly. Like, just being quiet and letting

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everybody else around you put their assumptions and

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their feelings of what they need from him,

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and so that he doesn't have to do so much work, they just

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assume all these things. In this book, Rhysand takes Feyre and

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introduces her to the library and all the priestesses that

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work in that library. And that's— When she learns that he's given

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them sanctuary, they're basically women who've survived being

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abused and now they have this safe space and they're free to

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live there and, and free of harm. And, um,

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I think that made me love Rhysand more. I feel bad because

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that library, as safe and sound as it is,

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sees some shit in this book. Skittles. Have you

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read Throne of Glass yet? No. I

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remember I started

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and I got to Crown of

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Midnight. So what is that, book 3?

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I know, I've heard. I have heard that there are like

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parallels. Why? What am I missing? No, you

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can't. You can't. I have to read it. I can't. We cannot even

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until you have read the books. I cannot even— and

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anybody who's read the books knows exactly where I'm kind of going with this whole

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thing. I

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can't. But needless to say,

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we can say things like there's something really scary at the

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bottom in the middle of the library. Yes. Something

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so scary that Cassian loses his

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shit being anywhere near there.

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We can say that in the library, when

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Nesta and Feyre go

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in together, it's like a nice—

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not nice, but not toxic interaction between the

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2 sisters, right? Mm-hmm. Like, I

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think this is where Nesta tells Feyre, I didn't—

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I didn't know you couldn't read and you couldn't write. Yeah. I didn't

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know where your education ended. I—

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and then I think she even apologizes to Feyre. Like, I didn't know. I'm

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sorry. Yeah. She's like, why didn't you tell us? I would've helped you, kind of

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a thing. Right. Right. So you

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see a side of Nesta that I

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believe was like, human.

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Yeah. Right? Like a kind, caring

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human in her own right. Yeah.

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And that was exciting for me. Oh. Yeah.

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Yeah. I think I'm all about sisters finding a way to,

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like, communicate more effectively.

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But then Hybern attacks again while they're in the

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library. Before though, Elaine, people, because she's so fucking

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like out of it, she's also starting to talk in riddles and say

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shit that like nobody really understands. And so

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leading up into what we're about to talk about in that library, Elaine says

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something that like a white raven and a black raven are gonna

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visit. She also talks about how she can hear some lady screaming or crying or

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something. So people just think Elaine's fucking crazy. Nobody

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really understands what she's saying or what she's talking about.

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Lucian tries to connect with her through the bond to see if he can figure

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out what the fuck she's talking about or what's wrong with her. I like that

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everybody just assumes there's something wrong with her. You know, she's talking like a crazy

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person. They hire like a healer. I think Nesta's like, yes, let's get a

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healer so that she can figure out because clearly something is wrong

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and Here we are. Now Nesta and Feyre are in

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the library, and lo and behold what happens.

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Feyre and Nesta, they feel basically the world shake.

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2 of Hybern's ravens attack Feyre and Nesta in the library.

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They also blow feybane

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to mute the magic. So Feyre can't reach out

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to Rhysand to say, oh my gosh, we're being attacked, here's where we are. She

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can't even communicate with him.

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Nesta's like, whatever you say, Feyre, uh, I'm gonna follow your

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lead. Because she's like, I got no fucking clue what I'm doing because I've been

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constantly refusing to train with you and Cassian

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since day one. But whatever, it's fine. Right, right.

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Feyre says, let's run, we gotta run. And Feyre makes a decision.

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Instead of like trying to escape out, they're gonna go deeper into

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The pits of this library, which is where that interesting

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creature lives. Farrah's like, fuck it, I ain't got shit to lose, let's just

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do this. And then it's the worm all over again.

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Yeah. Yeah, you're right. Going deeper into that

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place. That's where Farrah strikes a bargain with this thing. She's searching around in the

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dark, she can't see shit. She's feeling, feeling, feeling, trying to

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find the thing that's down there. And once she finds it, she

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makes a deal with it. If you help me kill these men,

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um, I'll give you what you want. And what does that thing ask for? Company.

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Yeah, I just want some company. I want to talk about, you know, the world.

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I want to have a friend. Yeah, a little tea time down here

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in the pits of hell. And so Farrah makes the deal,

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gets another tattoo because she's made a bargain with this thing.

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Yes. And it helps him. It attacks

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the 2 ravens from Hybern and fucking

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slaughters them. It leaves them alive, just alive

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enough for Rhys to go in when they finally get rescued or

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whatever, to go in and just like melt

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their tiny little bird brains. I totally forgot, before

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she makes that deal, she makes a way for Nesta to

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escape. Nesta runs into Cassian first and

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Feyre in the hole, whatever the fuck. So Cassian is like,

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shit, all right, let me go get my high lady. Even though he's afraid of

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what's down there, um, he communicates with Rhysand. That's how they all kind of come

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to be. Unfortunately, this library is like torn to shreds, right? Like

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these priestesses are no longer feeling safe and Rhysand is

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pissed. You have, you know, harmed my people.

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You have, uh, cross my wards into my land and you try to kill my

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mate. So he finds the guards, he basically tortures them and

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gets what he needs out of them, and then enjoys killing them because they

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fucked around and found out. Yeah, and like, uh, the soldiers

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are— were really coming after Nesta because she stole something

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from the cauldron. Oh yeah, whatever the fuck she stole,

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because that girl, you know what, you're gonna put me in this motherfucker, I'm

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taking more out with me than I came in with. She takes

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it with her teeth. She bites down,

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rips it out of the cauldron. Keep

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doing that and you're gonna be visiting the dentist, okay? They're

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wood anyways. Okay,

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George, side note, like Elaine has been like— people think she's fucking

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crazy. And as Feyre is getting out, Feyre starts to kind of put it all

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together, like, oh my God, Elaine saw this. Elaine tried to warn us about this.

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Elaine, Elaine, Elaine. And the feather catching fire or

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something too. Yes. When Feyre gets back, that's when it's

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said by, um, Azriel, you're a

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Seer. And he like kneels down before Elain and

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he gives a name to the thing she's feeling. And she's like,

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you know. Right. And finally makes eye contact with somebody.

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Yeah. It's like officially getting the diagnosis that you've been searching for.

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And you're like, oh, I knew it. And

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isn't the whole reason that they went to the library is

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because they're trying to find ways to, um,

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what's that word, seal the holes? See the hole— see the holes in the

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wall so that the Hiberian can't get into like,

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uh, the human world? Yeah, they're all researching.

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Yeah, Lucian, I think during that moment where Azrael gives

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Elaine a name to what she is, he tries to help. So I think

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he volunteers to go and find that queen that Elaine keeps hearing.

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Yeah, the fiery phoenix lady. He's like,

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fuck, I gotta help out, you know? He's committed now. He needs to help his

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mate, which I thought was nice. I'm like, look at Lucien

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doing something, stepping up. Oh, being a man.

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So I had this thought I was listening to one of the

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episodes, and so I'm gonna, I'm gonna squirrel

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real hard, real right here. Okay.

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And G kept saying about Tamlin,

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be a fucking man, dude. Just, just grow a pair of

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balls and be a man.

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And

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all I could think of Was

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he's being a man. He's being the stereotype.

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Tamlin is literally the stereotype, the toxic

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stereotype of what a man is meant to be.

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He doesn't listen, doesn't care,

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doesn't acknowledge, doesn't engage. You're just there.

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To serve me, to be me, and I don't know why that

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hit me so hard, but I just—I was like, yeah,

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he's—he's doing what you're saying. He is being a man,

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right? How about be a better man? Okay,

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don't be the stereotypical asshole male. Be a friend.

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Like, be a friend to your mate because you know

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when skills night like. interview guests on our other

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podcast, Shit That Goes On in Our Head. We have like a husband and wife

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team on there. The thing that we notice immediately

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is the friendship, right? That's, to me, that's more powerful

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than love. That's friendship. I don't know, I want him to be

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more of a friend and less of a fucking asshole.

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Yeah. Because he's not. He's a fucking jealous

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motherfucking dick. Yeah, yeah, he's a,

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he's a total stereotype. He's a total stereotype. And maybe that's

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the, the purpose of that character

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from the author. I don't know. But just like, that's

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what he's doing. He's being that terrible

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stereotype. And you're right, friendship is

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ridiculously important. And so I think that's why Lucien

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decided to step up. and be like, hey, how

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can I help with this fight? Right? Mm-hmm.

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Like, he, he's still kind of healing up from all the shit that they

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went through when they were trying to get back from Spring Court

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back to the Night Court. But he's like, I can do this.

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You know, I, I was trained as a foot soldier. I have a

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general idea of where I need to go. I know how to survive in the

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woods. Whereas, you know, Feyre, not so much.

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She's, she's the High Lady. But, but

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Lucien was like, I can do this. Like, I want to save my mate. I

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want to save my, my chosen family. Because now he's part

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of this chosen family because his own family's a fucking piece of shit. Do you

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think he's buying into it though? Do you think he's drinking the Kool-Aid? I don't

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know. I think he's like testing it out.

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Well, he— I remember he is like taken aback by like there's laughter.

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Yeah, yeah. He's like, there's people laughing here. And so

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I think he appreciates maybe Rhysand.

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Yeah, like, I think he, he learns to appreciate Rhysand and everything that he had

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been protecting and, and what the Night Court is. I think he develops

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like a respect and appreciation. But, um, I was just thinking as

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you guys were talking, in my mind there are similarities between Lucien and

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Azriel. I feel like

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Lucien has the ear of a lot of people in different lands. He kind of

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knows what's going on. He's quiet, he's listening, he's sort of

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gathering resources. And Azriel does the same,

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just on a different, darker level.

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Yeah. Yeah. And then the book really—

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now we're getting into the the depths of the book, right?

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Of like Highburian War and

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Spring Court and Tamlin and all this fuckery. Yeah,

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this is when shit starts to take a left because right after Lucien leaves,

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the Summer Court gets sabotaged.

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The King of Hybern, it's a trap, right? It's an illusion of

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him, the King of Hybern, but they get attacked and the

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king did it on purpose to see which other court would be the

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first to respond, and it's the Night Court. Rhysand goes

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to help the Summer Court. Because Amren's boyfriend sends

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a note to Amren, and Amren's like, no, y'all got to go.

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Y'all got to go. I'll stay here and babysit the whiny babies and

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protect Velaris, but y'all got to go.

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I think I have— I have minimal

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patience for the whiny babies. Namely,

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Nest is a bit of a whiny baby, and Elayne is a bit of a

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whiny baby. Yeah. I

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think Rhys kind of knows there's a bit of a setup because he starts

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to hunt down this, this source of like—

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there's something that's dampening everybody's power and he's trying to track it down, um,

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instead of like fighting. Like, he's like, there's something else going on, something is wrong.

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I love in that scene that he shares what he sees with Feyre, so she's

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there in real time. Yo, Feyre is a bit of like fuck around,

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find out in this book for sure. Because she's like, Rhys, just kill him. Stop

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fucking around. Let's stop asking questions. We're not here for a conversation. Kill the guy

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already. Like, get it over with. Right? And, and he's like, I

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don't have what I need yet. Give me a minute. He's like, I fucking

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said now. Yeah.

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That's when it comes out that it's all an illusion. He was

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never really there. Feyre's like, what the fuck?

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Same with Rhys. He's like, I got what I needed though. We'll move on.

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Then they have the meeting of all the High Lords, right?

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And that was a fucking shit show. Oh my God. Lucien's dad.

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Mic drop on this moment. When I realized what was happening, I was like, oh.

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Rhysand calls a meeting with all the High Lords and they

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need a neutral place to do it. So they all kind of meet there. But

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this is also like, besides the Lucien's dad shit, is

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one of my fucking favorite scenes, although I was super

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pissed, is when Tamlin shows up and his

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entrance like he does. He shows up late and he's really fucking loud and he's

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just like, like, I imagine him like kicking open a door. Yeah.

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Sits down. And you're going to love me. Yeah. And he's a

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bitter-ass bitch. He's like, here's fucking

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Rhysand. And now Feyre, who is married to Rhysand, he's like, you always

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wanted to be a High Lady. And like, he tries to make it out like

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she's a gold digger and she's just there for the title. Some of them are

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really drinking up some of the High Lords. I

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just remember reading what Camlin was saying about

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Feyre when all the High Lords were meeting. He was

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just a fucking asshole. He sure was.

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Like, goddamn, if anybody talked about me and I'm in the same

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fucking room, I'm the size of a

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garden gnome, I am still going to fucking take you out. Oh

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yeah, I like that, uh, uh, some of the people

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there were like just eating popcorn. I imagine them just like, oh shit,

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yeah, we got somebody be spilling the tea.

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Yeah, they're like, we can't wait to see the drama. Um,

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but yeah, to your point, he's just like, oh, uh, he's just, he's

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just poking at her, poking at her, poking at her. Um,

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Rhysand's like being pretty patient, I think. I wish

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In my opinion, that Rhysand would have reacted quicker. Um, he

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only reacts— I think it's like when Tamlin starts to talk about like, have you

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ever noticed that little sound she makes right before she comes? Or whatever. And

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instead of Rhysand like punching this guy, he mutes

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him. So, and Rhysand again, hands in the pocket, just

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like, eh, it's not a problem. You're done. Mutes the shit out of Tamlin. And

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Tamlin's like, what the fuck? I can't even talk.

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It's the best. Shut up, you little

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bitch. And I like how people are like, oh, fucking get over it,

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Tamlin. At some point they lose their patience with this guy because he's just being

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a little bitch. When I read that scene, think that at any minute now something

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is going to happen, and I swore Tamlin was going to be the cause of

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it. Like, I was like, Tamlin is here, they're all there. I mean, it made

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sense for there to be an attack when all of the High Lords are together,

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and I just for whatever reason thought like Tamlin was gonna sabotage this meeting.

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I just thought for sure, like, Tamlin was gonna, like, march in and

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just fuck it up for everybody. But, you know, Rhys,

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Mr. Hands in My Pocket, I'm gonna shut your motherfucking mouth up, okay? Because you

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know what? We're all tired of hearing your shit. So

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you can talk all you want to, but the only person that's gonna hear what's

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coming out of your mouth is you. Some other good things happen

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from this fucking dinner. There is somebody who, uh,

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creates, like, an antidote. so that when the war happens,

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those powers can't be dampened. You know, they're willing to share it with anybody who's

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going to fight the war against the King of Hybern. Nesta, God bless

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her heart, finally talks because this is going to be a war against the human

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realm too. Yeah, because they've been trying to get her

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to tell people about what she went

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through when they were in Hybern, her and Elayne. And she

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refuses, refuses, refuses, refuses, refuses over and

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over and over again. I'm not telling my story. It's mine. And you can't

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have it. This is not my war. This is not my

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problem. Yeah. And then she finally does.

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And then they're all just sort of like, oh, okay.

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Yeah. And shares what she knows the king was

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thinking and what his plans are too, because she has a piece of that. So

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she's sharing all of this shit. And I was happy. I'm like, finally, this

453
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fucking bitch talks. Like, you know, give me something.

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And then there is like some crazy shit that also goes down during this dinner.

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When Eris started talking about what

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he had done to Morpheus, and Azriel's like, I'mma fucking kill this bitch.

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And Feyre's the one who he listens to.

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And there's like— Rhys has got— okay,

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so this is a little bit

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similar to what she does in

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the Spring Court. She intentionally

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does it in the Spring Court, but they let her do it in the

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Night Court where she's just

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the one— maybe not controlling,

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or maybe manipulating a situation, but she's definitely the

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one Bossing bitches

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around, and

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I I can't get a read on Reese. I can't like is he

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chill with it and he wants to encourage it, which I think he does. But

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also there's got to be a part of him that's like

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why what what just happened there? Like he's

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following her now. You know what I mean? I

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don't know. There's just something there for me. Yeah. And I think I wondered in

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that scene, like, how much of it was planned by Rhys.

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Like, like, I definitely think Azriel lost his shit, but I think he had permission

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to. Yeah. Like, and I just remember wondering, is

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this staged by Rhys?