A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas, Lucien Gets a Sunshine Daddy and Tamlin Gets Negative Redemption Points, Pt 3

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The masks are off, the alliances are being tested, and the road to the

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war is getting bloodier by the minute. In episode 3

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of A Court of Wings and Ruin, loyalties will be challenged, secrets will

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unravel, and Feyre and the inner circle will discover just how

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much they're willing to sacrifice to save Prythian.

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There's a lot of things that I think are staged by him, and

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that, that's why I don't get so— like,

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I'm happy that they're in love and lust and all this, but...

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There's so many times throughout these books

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where you just can feel that,

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the, like, string pulling by

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Rhys. And what else do Rhys and Feyre have going

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on that we don't know about yet?

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That's a good question. I totally forgot that he finds

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out in this book that what Feyre sees when she's at the Bone

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Carver is their child. Yeah. Yes. And so there's a

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bit of hope for him because he wants to have a child with Feyre. So

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when he hears that it is their child, he asks,

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what does he look like? Tell me what our child looks like. And

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what a powerful child that would be, right? Like

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all the power that— I'm getting ahead of myself,

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but— No, you're not. Say it. Because of all the power that

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they both will have, both have as parents, and then to conceive a

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child. But I thought the other interesting thing About this whole

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section is how we figure out who Lucien's true father is.

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I— you'll have to break it down for me because I read it, I

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listened to it and I read it and I don't get it. Like, I was

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like, who's this guy? What's happening? There's— there was a lot of characters in this

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book. Okay, so the,

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the High Lord of Day Court— Day

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Court. He's the Puzzle Master, right? Or whatever they call him.

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He figures out all the riddles and whatever.

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He's also the one that, anecdote,

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sleeps with Mor. Yes. And wants a

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threesome. He wants a threesome, yeah,

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with— is it Cassian or Azriel? Azriel. Or maybe it

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doesn't matter. He would take them both. And Rhys and Feyre. He's— Yeah, no, he's

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like— The more the merrier. Yes. My kind of dude. Let's have an

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orgy and call it a day. Yeah. Who tells the story?

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It's, it's him, that king, talking.

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And in that, Feyre is

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internally putting all the pieces together. And Rhysand says to

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her, whatever you just figured out, just keep it quiet.

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So Rhysand had to have known. I think so. Or

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he suspected, right? Yeah. So at some point,

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Lucien's mom has an affair

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with the High Lord of Day Court, and

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the resulting affair produces Lucien. The

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husband of the mom can't acknowledge it because then

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he appears weak. Mm-hmm.

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So she just kind of keeps it under wraps, doesn't tell

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Lucien. But the High

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Lord of The Day Court

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doesn't know, but I don't know. Do you think Tamlin

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knows? I don't even think that Tamlin knows. And,

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and Lucien is like, you know, off to find,

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uh— Yeah, he's not even there. He's not even there. So like, in that moment,

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it's like, you know, Lucien spent his entire life thinking that

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Beron, this fucking asshole, was his dad,

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when apparently his actual dad was a horny

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bisexual sunshine lord. Yeah. And he got

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robbed, right? He got robbed because, like,

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Sunshine Daddy would have been so much better. I

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like that. It would have been so, so much better for him than Baron was

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because Baron was also abusing his wife.

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Maybe we'll get that in the next upcoming books, a little, a

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little sneak peek because I ask if, if you

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think Tamlin knew because wasn't Tamlin the one that helped Lucien get that eye, the

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mechanical eye? And then I, I remember the Day Court, that,

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uh, helper or whatever has the mechanical arm. The lady who made the,

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the anecdote also made the

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eyeball that Lucien uses, right?

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Just curious, like, why go there? So I'm a little

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curious just because we're like in this section.

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Does Tamlin helping the war effort and spying on Hyberian

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actually earn him redemption points, or does it just prove shitty

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people can still occasionally do the right thing?

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Ooh, I don't— Nah, he's a fucking slimebag. I

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will— okay, you know my feelings on Tamlin.

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Mm-hmm. I don't think he's—

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I don't think this earns him points. And here's why. Here's why.

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He earns points for me later on in the book, but I don't think— Like

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1 point? Probably a little bit

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more, but I don't think this moment does because he was

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selfishly doing it for himself, right? He's not doing it to help the whole

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world or the human realm. I think he's doing it because it looks

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good to do it, and he doesn't want to be the one in history

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who didn't do it. So I think he's doing that for himself to have a

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one-up. on the rest of the team. I

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think he's just a slimebag. I think so too.

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In this whole situation, right up until the end of the book, he's just

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a slimebag. Just not— again, not—

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at least before, he had a purpose. But now he's

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just being a big whiny baby. Right? Yeah. Now he's just

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picking and packing, and now he needs revenge, and now he's going to go tell

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Hybern all these things, and now he's gonna this and that and everything else.

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Fuck all the way off, dude. Fuck all the way off. Pick a

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side, or don't pick a side, but

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take your drama somewhere else. Yeah. And then my other

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question for the two of you guys is, who was the biggest asshole in this

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meeting? Was it Tamlin, Beron, or literally everybody

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at the meeting?

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I think every well asshole. I think

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everybody well maybe not everybody. There's half of them. Half of them are

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assholes because they don't get along naturally, but somehow find

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that they need to work together. Common ground. Yeah, they're like we're here because we

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have to be, not because we chose to be. What are you

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thinking, Nacho? You're lost in thought. Nah, Tamlin's an asshole.

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Tamlin no, Tamlin's an asshole. Tamlin is like right

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now uh. Makes me think of that song,

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um, sitting in

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the corner losing my religion.

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Ariana, is that? No, it's Ariana. Is it Ariana? Yeah,

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yeah. But it just—

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I'm right, exactly.

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Yeah, I'm just sitting there like losing. So

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there's a lot that goes on with that song for me, but It's

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just like, I'm losing all control. I know

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that's not what it— like the song, whatever, but that's like the

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clip that like sits in my brain when we talk about

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this. And it's like

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he's losing control, and so now he's just grabbing

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at any way to

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access any amount of

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Revenge that he can grasp on

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Feyre and the Night Court because

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he's in ruins.

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Yeah, he for sure is bitter. For sure. For me, that

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shit is bitter. Uh, I almost feel like

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he's trying to rebuild all she broke. So like,

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not only did she get your your guards to turn against you. And like,

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he has like, I don't know, 5 followers now, but he is

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still a High Lord. And so he's trying to rebuild this image, but there ain't

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fucking nothing there helping him, you know? Like, he— what is he gonna do? He

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can't do anything. He brought it all on himself. Except for be an

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asshole. And like, the whole meeting to me, you know,

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here's this group of like super powerful people, right?

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And like half the meeting feels like it's Thanksgiving dinner after somebody

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brings up politics. Everybody's at their fucking— you know, you're—

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everybody's at each other's throats. Yeah. We've accomplished

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nothing, okay? There's no right side, there's no wrong side, there's

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no fucking middle ground. Uh, I have a question for both of you.

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Who would you sit next to at this dinner?

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You're at the table. Who's to your left?

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I would sit next to, um,

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Callas. Um, he just— he

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has like, I don't know, as I'm reading the book, I just kind of

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felt like the pheromones and like, oh, like the possibilities.

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So we could go have a threesome, um, with some really scary people.

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But I— and then to my, to my left would

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be Um,

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uh, the lady of the,

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um,

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not, not Autumn Court. The one who's married?

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Yeah, the one that's like— That's like Mor's friend or whatever? Yeah, Mor's friend. I

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would sit next to her. Yeah, I'm sitting next to Mor, bro.

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I feel like she's a good time. That's what

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I'm saying is I want to sit between— I want to, I want to be

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in the middle of a Cass— I want to be in the middle of a

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Cassian and Mor/Sami I want to so bad, but

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I think I would have better luck if I was sitting next to, uh, the

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king of acorn. So is Cassie

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in the, uh, center of your Oreo? Is he

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like the creamy center? No, I'm in the middle taking both, both sides.

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She's like, I'm the creamy center. Yes,

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yes, dog. Oh my God, I love

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it. I am here for that so bad. That's

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wonderful. Who says that? Me. Yeah, no,

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I would be— I would be— I— who cares? I'm

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sitting at the table with these great people that are trying

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to do a good thing, and, uh,

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nobody can get their shit together. Nobody can get their shit together.

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Nobody.

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Okay, so this dinner happens. I think during that there is

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word that there are attacks happening elsewhere. Now everybody's like, fuck, we got to get—

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we got to get our shit together.

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Rhys and team return back to the Night Court,

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and at some point the decision is made that they need to make it

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over to the human realm. And I felt—

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I don't know, I was super fucking conflicted because I feel like this whole

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time Elain has been trying to go back. To her

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human realm, and so she throws up her fiancé's

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because that's still her fiancé. They're still going to get married according to

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Elaine. Yeah. So no worries. I my

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father-in-law has this beautiful place. Tall walls will be protected. We need to

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go there. And people are trying to talk her out of it. And this is

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where I felt like oh man because I feel like they're trying to like get

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her to understand that like this isn't going to go well. Like you

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gotta let it go. And she's like no no no. No, he loves me. We

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love each other. We're, we're engaged to be married. I just need to go back.

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And, um, like, it's like she forgets that she's fae

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and that him and his father are completely anti-fae,

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and she doesn't realize that, that he is possibly

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not gonna love her because of that. Yeah, this is when she finds out

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that Grayson's an asshole. Yeah.

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Yeah. Like, just a fucking flaming asshole.

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Yeah. And I'm pretty sure— doesn't Nesta, like,

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punch him or something? Slaps him.

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Once the asshole that is— his name's

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Grayson. Once Grayson reveals, like, fuck you, you're fae,

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uh, and is mean to Elain, Nesta's like, no, the fuck you didn't, and,

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like, slaps the shit out of him. Because that's her sister. And, and you

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said it earlier, she is like viciously protective over Elayne.

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Yeah, she's like her protective Doberman. Don't fuck with me, sister.

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We will rip your nuts off. He basically rejects her and he's

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like, we're not engaged anymore. Give me my fucking ring. She's like—

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Which is tame for Nesta. Um, that's foreshadowing.

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Um, okay, what else do we want to talk about

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before we get into the war? Oh,

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something that we haven't mentioned is, um, how at some point they realize

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they, they need more of an army, right? Like, they need more help in this

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battle. Yeah, and then they have to go,

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um, they go to Moor's dad, right? Because

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Moor's dad Has an army. I don't know,

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mountain of death or whatever the fuck you want to call it. Anyways,

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he's being kind of a dick, and so then she goes back

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down to the bone carver, and the

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bone carver says, in order for you to get my help,

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you need to get this magic mirror from

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Mor's dad. But like, it, it becomes like this whole

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fucking thing because it's not something that can easily, easily be

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done. And Mor's dad is like, yeah, go right

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ahead. You can have the— you can go in and use the mirror. You can

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try to take it if you want, but in order to take it, you have

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to look into it. And everybody that's ever looked into it has either

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gone crazy or whatever, died or whatever. Yeah.

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So she's like, not worth it. She's like, I don't want to do that.

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Farrah's like, I— like, that's, that's

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fucking dumb. I don't want to do that. So she tries

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to get support from, uh,

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the Bone Carver, but the Bone Carver smells his sister,

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the Weaver, on her. And

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so— but the Bone Carver, like, downloads all this

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information about his history to her, and, like,

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it's a lot. Yeah. There's just a lot that happens right there.

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But, um, then she goes down into

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the library and she asks the thing in the library. The thing

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in the library. It's a scary thing. Mmm.

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And that thing's like, uh, yeah, I'll help you,

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but I— what is it like— I need a window

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and then I'll help you. And Feyre was like, oh,

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okay. So now she has another bargain.

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Um, because it's her bright idea to get these creatures to help them in this

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war. Yeah. Yes. Yeah, because she doesn't want to look in the fucking mirror.

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He's like, let's gather up, gather around, guys. Let's just

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avoid the fact that this is the one thing that's gonna happen. And why can't

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I just be the heroine of my own story? But whatever.

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I think honestly the best stuff that happens after is the

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war. Like, that is like where it all goes down. I am curious though, and

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something I didn't quite understand is

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Amren lies. Amren lies

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about, um, once the cauldron is put together, what will

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happen. Oh yeah. Because Amren's goal

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is to escape. Like, she, she doesn't want to be

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bound in that body anymore. So for Amren, this is like her

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last hurrah. Once that cauldron's put together, she can She

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can fuck off to wherever she goes. The war is upon us.

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Rhysand and Feyre have gathered the armies that they have. There are

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other courts that show up to help in the battle in this fight, right?

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And if you haven't heard the audiobook, The War, it's

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like really good, like the graphic audio, because you can hear like the swords and

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the battles and the cries and all this shit. And then you hear like Feyre

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and Rhysand and Mor and everybody talking about like

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Okay, what are we going to do next? They need to get the cauldron. There's

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these 3 pieces. Feyre needs to put the 3

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together. There's 3, 3 things that happened during this war that really fucked me up.

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We should talk about, for the first time,

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the Archeron sisters' dad shows up

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and the whole dialogue between Daddy

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Archeron and Nesta.

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Fucked me up. Why? Fucked me up.

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Because he's basically on death's doorstep. You know he's

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gonna die. The King of Hybern is there. He's gonna kill this

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dad. And he tells Nesta, like— I'm so

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proud of you. You're so strong. Yes! That shit

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fucked me up. Because the dad knows what's about

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to happen? I was like, oh, this is my dad. My

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dad. Well, it's like, because she absolutely

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hates her dad, right? Yeah. And

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he just wants her to hear it from him before he dies, that

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I know that you hate me, and I— and it's okay. And when you,

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like, are ready to deal with it, just know that I love you. I've always

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loved you. I'm proud of you. And you're like, yeah, you know,

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just remember that I'm saying this. So he's, like,

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caring for her right up until He actually

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dies. Yeah.

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All of that. And I think she

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sees— like, they finally see each other, and that the love that is

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there for her dad exists. And then the dad dies. He's fucking

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killed by the King of Hybern. Hybern snaps his neck.

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Important foreshadowing! I know, but there's

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a whole scene before that of where Elaine

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gets lured out of the camp by the cauldron

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and then gets captured by the Hiberian soldiers.

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Mm-hmm. And

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like, literally, what the fuck? Okay, Tamlin being Tamlin,

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an asshole. Redemption for like

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1,000th of a second, and then back

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to asshole land. Yeah, because he helps— because

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Feyre and Azriel go in to get—

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go into the Hybern camp to get, uh,

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Elain. Yeah. And then they're trying to escape

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because Feyre sees this person who's hung up like

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in the first book, some girl,

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some children, a child of the corn or whatever,

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and, and

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And this fucking asshole. They're always going to be the children of the corn.

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Yeah. Always. Never going to be any different for us.

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So the child of the corn is strung up being tortured or whatever, and Feyre's

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like, I can't leave her like that. And Azriel's like,

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dude, you have a choice. You can go get your sister or we can do

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this. We can't get both. And she's like, ugh.

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And then Azriel's like, okay, I'll go get her. You go get your sister

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and meet me over here when you're done. Mm-hmm. So

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fuckery abound, and there's a whole bunch of, like,

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really important— nah, like, stress— like, this is like a stressful,

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like, is it gonna hap— what's gonna happen? Like, this is a really

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cool part of the book for me because I get really excited when something like

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that happens. Like, they're almost there!

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What's gonna happen next? Okay, right? And so

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Azriel is carrying the 2 girls,

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and Feyre's— he's like ready to take off because you

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can't winnow into the camp, so you have to like fly

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in or whatever. Uh, they're like running away,

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and Azriel's like, use your core

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muscles, whatever, trying to fly. She's trying to like make herself

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fly. And then, and then he

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jumps and soars and she's like, oh fuck.

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And then she jumps and then there's this like air that

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poofs her up a little bit, just enough so that she can get away. And

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that, that was Tamlin. Yep. Pouncing

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and fighting off the Hybran hounds because Feyre had

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gotten shot by it, by a, uh, by an arrow. So

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she was like having a hard time, like, getting the wing thing going.

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Yep. I love, I love this. I love hearing it from both of you guys,

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'cause I just imagine like, this is happening over here and then this is

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happening over here and this is happening over here. Like, that's how the war was.

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And my brain was just like, there's fucking chaos everywhere and everybody's doing

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some type of shit to just like make it through. Yeah. Like, you

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know, bad people can do heroic

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things, but that doesn't automatically make them a good

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person again. Okay? You're still an asshole. But

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he does take— he does take this one for the team though. He

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did take one. The team of Tamlin. Team

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of one. Tamlin. Team Tamlin.

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Not -35 now, -34, right?

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So yeah, so he turns into his like

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animal form and beats up these hounds that are chasing the fucking

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Feyre and Azriel and the 2 girls,

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and then they fly off back to,

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to camp. Then there's— how does, how does— okay, how does—

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because I know that Cassian

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is like, he takes

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part of the Illyrian, like the Illyrian force out first.

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in beating up whoever's on the ground. But

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the Illyrians are down on the ground and in the air. In the sky, yeah.

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And Cassian chooses to fight on the ground

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this other general or whatever from Hybern's thing.

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And so Cassian's just

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getting his shit pushed in, right?

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And just doing the thing, trying to make it work, trying to win this

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little battle with this General guy,

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and and

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the Nesta. Nesta goes, "Oh shit!"

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Nesta goes, "Oh shit! Something's not right."

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And then she starts like freaking out, like something

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bad is about to happen. And

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I know that the cauldron

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shoots off and blasts through

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the war that's happening all around the camp that

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Nesta and the girls are in. And Mor's with the girls

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and Feyre.

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But then there's like everybody's

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Everybody's really fucked up because the cauldron just like, blah,

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across this whole section of the thing. Yeah, it breaks into 3.

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And then everybody's like, oh my God, I can't believe this just happened. And

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then Nesta feels it again. And so

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Nesta, who up until this point has been

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like, fuck you, Cassian, you're a fucking asshole. I hate you.

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You're a miserable piece of shit. Just like nasty. She's like, don't look at me,

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do your shit. Right. Nasty, but she knows that

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they're mates. So she

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like screams for Cassian.

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Cassian starts whooping ass back, like

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stops fighting, gets out of the fighting, and then goes back

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to the camp. Says, what's going on? What

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happened? And then the cauldron shoots again,

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but it shoots where Cassian was

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and takes out half of the, the army that they had

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going right there. But it doesn't only just take out

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the good guys, it takes out half of the bad guys too. The cauldron just

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does not give any fucks. It just goes, brant. Um,

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and so Cassian's like, what the fuck just happened, dude?

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And then he gets up and he goes back in, right?

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Right, does he? Or is that when he goes and takes him to the,

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to the little copse of trees? And that's where— that's when he goes—

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that's where Hybern— he just keeps flicking back.

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Yeah. And then even before that, Feyre— I don't see

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it— Feyre goes into, um, goes to look for the

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surreal, right? And yeah,

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this is where Iain V gets what she's

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fucking deserved since the very first time we heard her name. Yeah,

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this does make me happy. Trapped in with the Weaver.

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Yeah. So, you know, Feyre goes,

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talks to Syrio, tries to find out exactly like

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what this critical information. And then here comes

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fucking Ianthe, right? That fucking bitch don't die for shit.

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And like— She's like Michael Myers in Halloween. For

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sure. Morris the cat, she's got more than

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9 lives. Anyways, like, she hurts the,

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the surreal even though, um, Feyre has gotten like

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most of the information she needs. And so Feyre being Feyre,

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because I love her, she leads, um,

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Anthony into the, uh, to the

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weaver's house, right? Mm-hmm. The cottage. And

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then Ianthi became supper

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barbecue. Yeah, yeah, she was amazing. Little Ianthi

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shish kebabs taste like chicken.

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Yeah, I totally forgot about Feyre and the cereal's

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conversation because the cereal is dying, and I feel like they've like encountered each other

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a couple of times, and there's like this, this like

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friendship, you know, between Feyre and the cereal, and he's dying

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because it's like Yeah. Yes. Oh,

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this hurts my soul. Yeah, it made me really sad. I wrote it down. When

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did I start caring, caring about the

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fucking cereal? Like, when did I do that?

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There's, um, somebody does an AI cereal podcast

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interview and it's this, it's like cereal tea and he's like

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sipping tea and he's interviewing like Cassian. What?

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What? Tell me, what is this? I've seen it on Instagram. It's like an

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AI clip of the cereal and he's sitting across a

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table interviewing somebody. So he's interviewed Rhysand, Cassian, Feyre.

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The Suriel interviewing— I'm looking this up. And it's just really

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tongue-in-cheek funny type shit. It's really funny. Yeah, the Suriel

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tells her to stay with Rhys and to leave the world better than she found

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it. And he dies. And he dies. And it made me really

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sad because I remembered how the, how the Suriel had

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helped her when she was at the Spring Court. And, you

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know, And a couple of times, and it— but it

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also made me happy that Ianthe got her what she fucking deserved.

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And I think there were soldiers in that cottage too. It was like Ianthe and

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soldiers. Like, she, she took out more than just Ianthe in that. And then we

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get back to the part where, where Papa shows up.

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Papa shows up. There's love between Nesta and Papa. Papa gets

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killed. Nesta is fucking pissed. When does Cassian get

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injured? Is he injured before the dad shows up and gets his ass whooped? Or

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gets killed? Yeah. Hybern's fucking with Nesta

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and starts ripping apart Cassian, beating him up.

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And I think that was an interesting scene because that's the first time—

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so the dad is dead, Nesta's pissed, Cassian is

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basically dying at her feet, and for the first time you see her

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with a power where she like explodes

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whatever the fuck is behind the— like, she misses, her aim is not great, But

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she shoots fire and it burns, it burns

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something like it's meant for the king, but, and she can't summon it

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back up. And then Truth

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Teller.