[SPEAKER_05]: Content warnings for 5 gyms presents marriage and marriage include rumor, scandal, romance, courting, gaslighting, coercion, substance use, grief, social pressures surrounding marriage and traditional gender roles and strong use of profanity.
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[SPEAKER_05]: This is 5 GMs in our turn to code.
[SPEAKER_05]: Hello everybody and welcome back to 5 GMs presents, marriage and marriage.
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[SPEAKER_07]: kind of like a white suit of sorts with like a gold trim, still very inline with like the soldier like military dress attire.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's about it with his metals and doesn't really dress up too much.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's not really divide.
[SPEAKER_07]: You go into anyone?
[SPEAKER_05]: You're trying to belong.
[SPEAKER_07]: I think there's part of them that's like, oh, I should probably see if Annely's wants to
[SPEAKER_07]: That's probably like this is the last like the last ball.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, the last ball big ball.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's like it's kind of that sort of writing the co-tails of like the other summer festivals.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: End of summer summer.
[SPEAKER_07]: And after the after this, that's gonna happen.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: And so I should probably figure that out.
[SPEAKER_07]: Maybe it's like a, he rides to your place before to see what the vibe is.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I'm going through all my bow was trying to find one that fits and definitely gonna get a big white one Oh hell yeah, and then um just good like a nice green dress nice nice see foam and then Horse I'll be there to let in miles.
[SPEAKER_07]: Hello, um, I think I'm gonna be not completely dressed up yet You know, yeah, oh my you can't do this every time This can't be what you do every time all right
[SPEAKER_02]: Takes a while for a lady to get ready.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, I'm sure.
[SPEAKER_07]: Just like, distracted.
[SPEAKER_07]: Um, I was just wondering if you wanted to arrive together this time, or if it was not important again.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, that'd be great.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'd love to show up with you.
[UNKNOWN]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: I guess that's settled in.
[SPEAKER_02]: Why?
[SPEAKER_02]: I actually, um, I recently, there's a guy over who likes to clean horses and get them already, and, um, just one note, you wanted your horse to just be nice and pretty.
[SPEAKER_07]: Did you did you want to ride my horse there?
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I mean, that's up to you.
[SPEAKER_02]: I get it if you're like protective of your horse No, I should she's cool.
[SPEAKER_07]: She's she acts going on.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's going places.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right, and I'll have a servant me like go tell go tell the horse man to get the house the horse already
[SPEAKER_05]: You said it was sort of like the horse man comes and it's like, and you're like, she's like, she's like, she's like, and she likes when you brush her hair and And don't use the don't use the little metal thing to go in the eye.
[SPEAKER_07]: I wish I knew the name of it.
[SPEAKER_07]: The metal thing.
[SPEAKER_07]: She doesn't like that.
[SPEAKER_07]: You have to use the leather one anyways.
[SPEAKER_05]: So you give them all the instructions.
[SPEAKER_05]: Um, he goes and takes her like makes it look all pretty, but the big old gold bow water.
[SPEAKER_05]: And yeah, she's pretty if you wanted to take her.
[SPEAKER_05]: Are you all right, um, writing?
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yeah, I've been, I've been on horse pecs and so I was a little girl.
[SPEAKER_07]: This was a show with all the corsetage if you wanted to sit in a carriage.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, I've been through worse.
[SPEAKER_07]: Sorry.
[SPEAKER_07]: For it.
[SPEAKER_07]: That works.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, so you guys arrived on Athena and then what are you punctual late?
[SPEAKER_07]: I think to this, it's kind of like a middle ground.
[SPEAKER_05]: Middle ground?
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, got it.
[SPEAKER_05]: So you're like, right smack that in the middle.
[SPEAKER_05]: Um, okay, Esther, hey, hey, what are you doing you're ready?
[SPEAKER_05]: What are you wearing?
[SPEAKER_00]: I think Esther, um,
[SPEAKER_00]: She kind of asked Lord Ambrose ahead of time what the theme was, so she could intentionally kind of compliment it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think she wears an emerald gold gown with a lot of gold accents to it, and I think she kind of weaves into her hair a little pop of color with some carnations, some little flowers.
[SPEAKER_00]: And, yeah, I think, you know, she is at home and she lets her mom know that she's going, I think she tries to invite Mortimer.
[SPEAKER_01]: She's like, You really should just go, I'm sure Sarah will be there and she might be offended if you didn't show up, you did get an invite, your own invite.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh my god, you suppose you're right, but I have to go there's so many people Esther and I don't know about all of that Yes, you would have to go, that's the point of a ball, but the girl seems lovely and she doesn't even mind that the only thing you talk about is plants Oh you're right, she does listen to me the soft flowers, the properties She seems to like it I think she does
[SPEAKER_05]: I suppose you're right, okay fine.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'll see what I have.
[SPEAKER_05]: What are the colors again?
[SPEAKER_01]: I have been talking about this all week.
[SPEAKER_01]: They are green, gold, and white.
[SPEAKER_01]: Greens you have a plentiful amount of laying around in your closet.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can find something.
[SPEAKER_05]: I suppose you're right you're right.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'll go look um we shall be off very shortly.
[SPEAKER_05]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_05]: Esther, I imagine that you and Mortimer take a carriage there to the Evansons, and then we'll pop over to by Count Summerfield, hey Bestie, which you do and how you get ready, which you're wearing!
[SPEAKER_03]: My outfit this time is kind of like a growth on my previous outfit where I had like flowers like kind of embroidered in the back.
[SPEAKER_03]: But now it looks like the flowers have kind of grown throughout it and there were these different places in like a near sleeves.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, and I think that I've picked flowers like start green stems and that have like white, uh, like floral ass accents.
[SPEAKER_05]: Uh, how are you getting their carriage?
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: by yourself.
[SPEAKER_05]: Go on with anybody.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, I mean, go on with myself.
[SPEAKER_05]: And then, Ophelia, hey, Vestie.
[SPEAKER_05]: Hey, bro, hey.
[SPEAKER_05]: Um, what are you doing?
[SPEAKER_05]: Hey, you're getting ready.
[SPEAKER_05]: What are you wearing?
[SPEAKER_06]: Um, I imagine this one's going to be like an entire family affair.
[SPEAKER_06]: So I rolled it down for the girls.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, and for the girls, they're dad.
[SPEAKER_06]: There was a brother.
[SPEAKER_06]: So I think similar to the last event she got ready for her girls.
[SPEAKER_06]: You're going to help her get ready.
[SPEAKER_06]: They're all excited.
[SPEAKER_06]: They're going ready together.
[SPEAKER_06]: She probably also sticks with white with green details on like around the hem of the dress and like some soap gloves and then just like simple pieces of gold jewelry and then they probably are more punctual and they all just take the carriage together.
[SPEAKER_05]: A very noisy carriage right over just because the kids are so excited.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yep, yep, yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh shit.
[SPEAKER_06]: They're like, oh my god!
[SPEAKER_06]: So, giving them pointers like smile.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's time to be polite.
[SPEAKER_06]: Have a good man.
[SPEAKER_05]: But they've been, but the girls have been going out and around with their suitors and stuff like that.
[SPEAKER_05]: So like, they're doing way better.
[SPEAKER_05]: The growth is there for sure.
[SPEAKER_05]: Good, this is...
[SPEAKER_05]: So yeah, you all arrive to the Evancens again, same location, same place, it's still a very grand sort of ballroom situation with a very high ceiling.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's very lively and it's very, and the decorations are all like gold, greens, some white ribbons and stuff here and there.
[SPEAKER_05]: It just looks very extravagant and very pretty.
[SPEAKER_05]: What do you all do when you arrive?
[SPEAKER_05]: What do you do differently this time that you didn't do the first time you had a ball?
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm walking arm and arm with miles.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, yeah, I'm like, I think I'm staying close with Anneliese and very obviously like uninterested and my eyes are like just scanning the room for someone and that's kind of where he's at.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm just walking in and kind of, I'm people watching.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm like circling the outside.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, so you're kind of looking around.
[SPEAKER_05]: You see Annelys and Miles.
[SPEAKER_05]: Do you get there before them or after them?
[SPEAKER_05]: Probably before them.
[SPEAKER_05]: OK, yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: So you've just been kind of waiting.
[SPEAKER_05]: And then you see them under together.
[SPEAKER_05]: How about you, Esther?
[SPEAKER_00]: I think Esther immediately.
[SPEAKER_00]: Either waits for Lord Ambrose to come do her or finds Lord Ambrose as quickly as possible.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, um, you would see that he's like towards like the the entrance sort of like with the serving stuff just like welcoming people in which I know you know that didn't happen the first timer.
[SPEAKER_05]: Um, so he's just in the front like welcoming people in and then probably sees you in Mortimer, um, walk up.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, oh Esther, load him for this.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, great to see you again.
[SPEAKER_05]: wonderful to see you and the word notepad.
[SPEAKER_05]: I don't believe I've seen Lady Sarah yet, but I'm sure she'll be here soon.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, well, perhaps notepad just wanted to have some fun, but it would be nice if he had a partner to converse it with for the evening.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, do you want to hear a greeting guests the last time are you perhaps more comfortable with social life as it is here?
[SPEAKER_05]: I've gotten a tad bit more comfortable, um, it's not quite as daunting and I also didn't just come back from traveling so this time it's a little different.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, um, should you find yourself in need of breaking away for a bit?
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, I will just be flitting about, uh, saying hello to Alice and, uh, conversating.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, yeah, find me.
[SPEAKER_01]: Perfect.
[SPEAKER_05]: Um, if, uh, you don't mind, uh, if your dance card is, oh, of course.
[SPEAKER_05]: Full yet.
[SPEAKER_05]: I would love to, uh, have one with you, some point.
[SPEAKER_00]: She like, uh, she like holds that a wrist.
[SPEAKER_05]: This is named out.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'll come find you later then.
[SPEAKER_05]: Of course.
[SPEAKER_05]: See you soon.
[SPEAKER_05]: Mortimer is like just on your arm doing like, what do I do if I'm waiting for Sarah?
[SPEAKER_01]: Find someone else to chat with.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sure that she'll be here though.
[SPEAKER_01]: She's a young lady and it's the end of the season.
[SPEAKER_01]: She's going to want to lock it down as quickly as possible unless you scared her off of course.
[SPEAKER_01]: What?
[SPEAKER_05]: Lock it down?
[SPEAKER_05]: Yes?
[SPEAKER_05]: You will be fine.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, if you say so, I will just go and see if someone else wants to talk about flowers.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yes, have fun, flirt with her, if you know how.
[SPEAKER_05]: talk about what's got to do with the awkwardly goes off and since you're there, you see that your friend, your bestie and Elise, showed up here with miles and they're sticking a relatively close to each other, interesting to note.
[SPEAKER_05]: Anyways, Ophelia, you all show up the girls are very excited, but they're not going to run up, they're not going to run up, they're going to wait for everybody to go up, then you head in and you arrive.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think she arrives with her head a little higher than the last ball she went to, and she's noticing that she doesn't have a reason or a need to be near her girls anymore.
[SPEAKER_05]: kind of pursuing.
[SPEAKER_05]: They're making the first move.
[SPEAKER_05]: Love that for them.
[SPEAKER_05]: They're they're going off and they're doing their things.
[SPEAKER_05]: So you really don't like unlike the first one you don't have to like helicopter parent them.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah you're you're good to just kind of do whatever you want.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think she's like oh I actually have a moment to it's just kind of not that she doesn't always enjoy herself when she's here but like just enjoy yourself you know definitely looking around for
[SPEAKER_06]: may have some very old familiar faces, so maybe just making her way around, a refreshment table around the room.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Um, so yeah, you walk around.
[SPEAKER_05]: You see that Esther is here.
[SPEAKER_05]: She looks like she's just kind of people watching.
[SPEAKER_05]: As you see her kind of watching Mortimer be awkward.
[SPEAKER_05]: You see, if I count some of her field, who's just kind of around the perimeter of the room, you see miles and at least arm and arm.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's a whole thing.
[SPEAKER_05]: Um, when then I think after another like pass or so, you then see Bridget and her husband.
[SPEAKER_05]: Um, are here at one of the refreshment tables.
[SPEAKER_05]: There's a couple around.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, goodness gracious.
[SPEAKER_06]: Do we feel like we're tension anywhere?
[SPEAKER_05]: I think, so I think what the scope of the room and just the amount of people, I don't think that Bridget has noticed you yet.
[SPEAKER_05]: I don't know how, while Miles did say that he was scanning for someone, Miles would likely see you around.
[SPEAKER_05]: If you're looking, you'll see Miles, because Miles is with Annalise.
[SPEAKER_05]: And so, that's kind of what you get at the moment.
[SPEAKER_06]: I, I'm going to make my way to Esther.
[SPEAKER_05]: Period.
[SPEAKER_05]: Esther, you see Ophelia coming like walking towards you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Esther does like a quick little courtesy as a greeting and she says, Ah, Lady Ophelia, you're here.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yes, I am, um, sorry about the other night at summer fields home.
[SPEAKER_06]: Um, it just got a little, a little too crowded in that last.
[SPEAKER_06]: I had to make my way out, but I haven't enjoyed your company quite a lot this season.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, and I just wanted to, you know, that I'm very happy to be acquainted with you.
[SPEAKER_01]: You as well, it's been lovely to meet someone else who I suppose is in a similar boat, although I am glad to see that your pursuit and reservations towards love and affection seems to be something that you're very confident and willing to take your own pace in.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's not something many ladies can.
[SPEAKER_01]: have the luxury of so it's been lovely to see your perspective towards well all of this as well right the grand charade of it all
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh yes, the grand charade of it indeed, and yeah, it is something I'm very lucky to have the opportunity to have this opinion of, but I'm not totally adverse to love.
[SPEAKER_06]: I just think that it doesn't need to happen so forcefully or maybe unnaturally.
[SPEAKER_01]: I would agree.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think we are often put under such pressure to try and rush things along as quickly as possible to secure our futures.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I think sometimes taking our time is not only safer for us, but also more rewarding in the ways of the heart.
[SPEAKER_01]: Why couldn't I agree more?
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm so glad we're friends.
[SPEAKER_06]: Jed, you and Lee.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, you in Sir Miles, I know that she kind of leans in a little bit.
[SPEAKER_01]: Look, I love Annelise, but she certainly has her claws in the young Sir.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I can't help but notice that his eyes do wander in your direction.
[SPEAKER_06]: You know, I also noticed that attachment between miles and then at least and perhaps I was just a little blinded as to miss it before.
[SPEAKER_06]: But, you know, I would hate to sit on anybody's toes and I think that, and at least as such a dear friend, I would feel so awful to do something to disheartening her and
[SPEAKER_06]: Miles has his own career aspects, and I don't ever want anything or anyone to get in the way of that for him.
[SPEAKER_01]: Certainly, and at least is a woman who uses her ambitions and determination to its fullest for sure.
[SPEAKER_01]: But to understand that don't get me wrong, I love the woman as well and have known her for a long time.
[SPEAKER_01]: These playthings of hers, they come and go and perhaps miles as different in her heart who's to say that she is grieving a loss of her own at the moment, but don't let it stop you from telling him how you feel if you feel anything.
[SPEAKER_06]: What do you think I'm doing?
[SPEAKER_06]: Does it, is it obvious?
[SPEAKER_06]: Is it, I'm questioning it myself, truly.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, does it look obvious?
[SPEAKER_01]: To be frank, uh, the unlawed embros has defined himself as not being a gossip, and yet it was giddly whispering with me, it didn't about the whole thing, so... Dang.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh no.
[SPEAKER_06]: I hope Miles doesn't know.
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, perhaps if a moment arises, and I would just hate to put myself forward and be disregarded, but he is kind in his own way, and I don't think he would ever hurt anybody.
[SPEAKER_01]: He is.
[SPEAKER_01]: Unintentionally.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, now.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you'd like to join me, you may, but I am finding myself in need of a costing the Viacount summer field this evening for I found out about some schemes he got up to at the first ball here, that I think set you up for a bit of trouble as well as making myself quite anxious about my prospects for the season.
[SPEAKER_01]: So...
[SPEAKER_06]: Is that so?
[SPEAKER_01]: Indeed, your awkward, caught in the middle situation was orchestrated.
[SPEAKER_01]: Not a freak accident.
[SPEAKER_06]: I would love to join you on this pursuit.
[SPEAKER_06]: Excellent.
[SPEAKER_00]: Kim, here's a resolve token, so Ophelia and I can corner the fuck at a summer fair, right now.
[SPEAKER_03]: Dude, yeah, I'm, I'm gonna go and use one of the dodger because I want to, I want to do something before they catch me.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I do want to use your one for you, Emily.
[SPEAKER_06]: No, I will not.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, so before Ophelia and Esther find you some of her field.
[SPEAKER_05]: What are you up to?
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm going to the police and some miles.
[SPEAKER_05]: Uh, yeah, I guess you guys are kind of posted up and like one of like close by to the one of the refreshment tables is to see like the eyes you can get on you.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think I approach and I like from my hand on like your shoulder and then like your like your like mid arm like right here like right on right right above your elbow or I guess below if you hold your arm directly up below your elbow like right under your bicep
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, um, and at least I was hoping that perhaps we could get a dance in, but before that I wanted to borrow the youngster for just a moment.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, well, I mean, he's he's free to do what he wants.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, and it appears that way.
[SPEAKER_03]: Come on.
[SPEAKER_08]: I'm gonna walk at you, frankly.
[SPEAKER_03]: Young miles.
[SPEAKER_03]: young miles.
[SPEAKER_03]: I see you've come up.
[SPEAKER_03]: Armored arm with a sweet analyze.
[SPEAKER_03]: Are the prospects that high?
[SPEAKER_03]: Is it truly an necessity for you?
[SPEAKER_03]: I suppose I'm more asking, and maybe this is a foolish and full-hardy of me, and I'm a fight count, and it's not becoming of me.
[SPEAKER_03]: Are you not infatuated with somebody?
[SPEAKER_03]: Should you not take that leap, I'm not telling you what to do, I'm not saying whether you love this person or not, but
[SPEAKER_03]: Aren't things a little nice when they're around?
[SPEAKER_03]: And if it's Analyze, by all means, Analyze.
[SPEAKER_03]: And if you're worried about Analyze, I can solve that.
[SPEAKER_07]: I would never worry about that woman.
[SPEAKER_07]: She is truly...
[SPEAKER_03]: I might be worried what she might do to you, I would say.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, yes.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, I'm terrified of her.
[SPEAKER_07]: Right, yes, yes.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, right, Felicia.
[SPEAKER_07]: I...
[SPEAKER_07]: There's just much more to it than...
[SPEAKER_03]: I...
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't think there is.
[SPEAKER_07]: There is.
[SPEAKER_03]: Couldn't possibly be.
[SPEAKER_07]: And... You have the right to think so.
[SPEAKER_07]: But...
[SPEAKER_03]: Uh...
[SPEAKER_03]: It's...
[SPEAKER_03]: Your life to while I suppose.
[SPEAKER_03]: So that'd be your choice.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's fine.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, I did make you this.
[SPEAKER_03]: I put it in the middle.
[SPEAKER_07]: We'll package it.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, how dare you.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm going to take that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, I'll be seeing you.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I'm going to go back to analytics to get my dance.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm going to go get fresh air.
[UNKNOWN]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: So you gotta in at least to get your dance.
[SPEAKER_05]: You go outside for fresh air.
[SPEAKER_05]: I could drink too.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think Ophelia and Esther are looking for you some refuel.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like breathing like fuck.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like I sense it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Ah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Um.
[SPEAKER_05]: Miles, what do you do when you get a refreshment and you go outside?
[SPEAKER_07]: I think there's a moment where he parts ways with summer field looks around and sees him go to an alleys and then kind of looks around and realizes how fucking lonely he is.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: There's no one like pining after him anymore and you know he just gets a strength.
[SPEAKER_05]: walks out to whatever balcony yeah there's there's like a like a sew to house so it's like the the ballroom area and then there's like two large window like back doors that lead into like a garden practically if you might even walk a little bit into the garden yeah it's just like
[SPEAKER_07]: sit, drink, open up as a little satchel of sweets.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, there's like stone benches and things like that, like among these like plots of flowers, with the backdrop of hearing, marie mint and dancing a laughter behind you, and you're out here alone.
[SPEAKER_07]: And it's not like, he's a stranger to loneliness.
[SPEAKER_07]: I assume like on the battlefield, there's been moments where it was just him,
[SPEAKER_07]: And it's just kind of, um, weighing on him.
[SPEAKER_05]: And we'll go into, back into the ballroom.
[SPEAKER_05]: Some are fielded to your pro-genrelease for a dance, I suppose.
[SPEAKER_03]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, uh, I think the boy needed some fresh air.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, care for a dance?
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yeah, sure.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm going to be incredibly forward in this moment, Annelys.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: You had proposed that perhaps I could be a doctor on the battlefield.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm starkly against it, but you had also offered up potential teaching positions.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: What would you be getting out of this?
[SPEAKER_02]: Everything I do is for Prussia.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I feel like you would help Prussia.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's a fine answer.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, and then you guys dance.
[SPEAKER_05]: And it's again, you've danced with Annelys before.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's very trying not to make sure you step on each other's toes and it feels more strategic than it does at dance, but isn't how things go with Annelys.
[SPEAKER_05]: And then I think in that, oh, feeling an Esther, you see that if I count some of my field this dancing of Annelys, you find them.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh that dude.
[SPEAKER_05]: You're a lot to corner the fuck out of him.
[SPEAKER_05]: You gave me your token.
[SPEAKER_05]: If I count.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, ladies, pleasure.
[SPEAKER_03]: I was just finishing up my dance with the lovely Annelise here.
[SPEAKER_03]: How might I help you, too?
[SPEAKER_03]: You have this look upon your faces.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's making me wonder if I've scorned you in some way.
[SPEAKER_01]: Perhaps you have my Lord.
[SPEAKER_01]: So unlikely for the first time we were at this abode for a bull.
[SPEAKER_03]: Right, yes.
[SPEAKER_01]: How much of that night was orchestrated not by fate, but instead of by your grubby hand?
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, much up.
[SPEAKER_03]: Much up, yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: I would say if I could have put a percentile on it a good 70.
[SPEAKER_01]: Indeed, so when I came to your door asking for assistance then, you knew that my plight was in fact caused by you, yes?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, and I fixed it.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're welcome.
[SPEAKER_03]: This also needs to be.
[SPEAKER_01]: And for you to cause Lady Ophelia such stress and discomfort that evening that was you're doing as well.
[SPEAKER_03]: To what end is a dance with a lovely young gentleman stress and discomfort?
[SPEAKER_06]: The talk of the town.
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't need to be anyone's under of attention.
[SPEAKER_06]: I didn't want that.
[SPEAKER_03]: How was I supposed to know that?
[SPEAKER_06]: Um, you could have just not met all done after the loan.
[SPEAKER_06]: No.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, you could have.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, it happened everyone's fine.
[SPEAKER_03]: No one's hurt.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, Esther's mad.
[SPEAKER_00]: Esther's mad.
[SPEAKER_00]: What do I say to this woman?
[SPEAKER_03]: There's a lie that it gives you both the right to make those faces at me.
[SPEAKER_03]: She can't at least see her.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh yeah, she's just seven or drink watching.
[SPEAKER_00]: Esther, Esther, like in a little bit more of a hush tone, but still to read this little quadrant.
[SPEAKER_01]: We have going on, can hear, says, So you understanding that your meddling could have posed great challenges in my pursuits this season,
[SPEAKER_01]: For what?
[SPEAKER_01]: A gap?
[SPEAKER_01]: For fun, a joke?
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, perhaps your recognition of my offer as that convenience is more of your own doing than anything.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, was it not your well read?
[SPEAKER_03]: And I suppose I thought we were like minded, but that was my romantic sake.
[SPEAKER_01]: I quite thought so as well until I learned that, uh, well, my gossiping and meddling is
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know, simply that to gain a social advantage here and there.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yours is simply to torment people for your own enjoyment.
[SPEAKER_01]: Is that right?
[SPEAKER_03]: I hardly get any enjoyment out of it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Then why do it in the first place?
[SPEAKER_01]: And why would I share my company with somebody who revels in such torment for nothing at all?
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to grab a servant and be like, get some more drinks and sex.
[UNKNOWN]: I'm going to be like,
[SPEAKER_03]: I, again, hardly revel in it.
[SPEAKER_03]: It brings a liveliness to an event that I don't quite believe in, and I understand that many of us here are here by necessity and to rise, ranks and to marry those that we want to aspire to spend the money of
[SPEAKER_03]: That's hardly the sides of the point because then we see things like well I love you dear Analyze, but the claws in that voice back you have to ease up on him.
[SPEAKER_03]: He might bleed out I mean when you got a cute little little mouse you got like all the under a lot of wiggle out And I appreciate the level of unobashed honesty we have here with you more so though I
[SPEAKER_03]: These moments, these spaces don't allow for the freedom of action and young, sir, young, vye count Ambrose never would have danced with our friend here in regardless of if it was or was it to go to thing, I don't see the harm and either of them dancing together.
[SPEAKER_02]: So what you're looking for in the end is freedom.
[SPEAKER_03]: Surely.
[SPEAKER_03]: Isn't that what everybody's looking for?
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, yes.
[SPEAKER_01]: But then why go to the trouble in the first place why not stay locked up in your lab with yourself?
[SPEAKER_01]: I was worried for you, you know, a vikout.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I do appreciate your concern and I do appreciate the fact that you were worried about me and will...
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't think I've been dishonest about the fact that my house has seen it fit that I return out and do not stay cooped up.
[SPEAKER_03]: I've turned many of the convenient suitors away and have only broached the topic of marriage with two.
[SPEAKER_03]: Again, if you deem it as a scheme or as untruthful, that's fine, I, it doesn't, it's freedom, and at least, and at least, understands I suppose a bit, or maybe we're just them.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's what I strive for.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, freedom or otherwise, I also believe that there was perhaps a friendship between the two of us and enjoyed our conversations at times more than I enjoyed my conversations with Lord Ambrose, but knowing of these schemes, I cannot say that I am satisfied with the idea of being
[SPEAKER_01]: A second option in whatever your situation is that you're trying to figure out if I count I do wish you the best Hello, what would as you guys are having this conversation miles you're outside.
[SPEAKER_05]: Hey, you're sad in a long time I'm so sad not so low and I'm drinking and you're drinking And I think you very like quietly here to like the right of you Just someone be like
[SPEAKER_05]: It's the lovely night, isn't it, not?
[SPEAKER_07]: Who is that?
[SPEAKER_07]: I turn around.
[SPEAKER_07]: Not turned, I'd just like a little glance over.
[SPEAKER_07]: Ah, you recognize the voices, Lord Ambrose.
[SPEAKER_07]: Ah.
[SPEAKER_07]: Lord Ambrose.
[SPEAKER_07]: It is quite pleasant, I see.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: The mood is gorgeous, isn't it?
[SPEAKER_04]: Quite, though, I've seen many.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm going to show you how.
[SPEAKER_04]: What are you doing out here, all alone?
[SPEAKER_04]: I just kind of like raised my glass and like, clinked the ice in it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Surely, that's, but I cover.
[SPEAKER_07]: I suppose I am just thinking, I don't do it often.
[SPEAKER_07]: So I'm not very good at it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Ah, I see.
[SPEAKER_04]: Is it at least a good dilemma?
[SPEAKER_07]: It... is...
[SPEAKER_07]: I guess it's the only odd dilemma us... as people... would know, really.
[SPEAKER_05]: I saw you arrive with Analize.
[SPEAKER_05]: Ah.
[SPEAKER_07]: I suppose that was on purpose.
[SPEAKER_04]: I suppose it was.
[SPEAKER_04]: You are, you're like that little estigo.
[SPEAKER_04]: Lock up.
[SPEAKER_04]: She's very kind.
[SPEAKER_04]: Not it?
[SPEAKER_04]: I suppose I'm just curious as to why you're out here alone when it seems you showed up with someone.
[SPEAKER_04]: Now she's dancing with someone to find.
[SPEAKER_04]: And yes, you're out here.
[SPEAKER_04]: Fine.
[SPEAKER_04]: Is it?
[SPEAKER_04]: I hope so, sir.
[SPEAKER_04]: But are you sure about that?
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm not so sure about anything.
[SPEAKER_07]: These days.
[SPEAKER_07]: Are you positive about that?
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm not sure.
[SPEAKER_05]: And is there a reason for that?
[SPEAKER_07]: You know, in the military, you have a big person in front of you who yells at you and tells you what to do.
[SPEAKER_07]: Run the drill.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_07]: Kill that person.
[SPEAKER_07]: And it's easy.
[SPEAKER_07]: You just do it.
[SPEAKER_07]: Choices are a lot.
[SPEAKER_07]: Doing them yourself.
[SPEAKER_07]: And there's always a good choice, and there's always the right choice, there's the choice he's supposed to take, and then there's always one that wants you to have it.
[SPEAKER_05]: And there's like, takes a big drink.
[SPEAKER_05]: I suppose so miles, but if there is truly a right choice, then it should be easy.
[SPEAKER_04]: That is the way to think of it.
[SPEAKER_07]: Of course, there's new ones, right?
[SPEAKER_05]: I suppose, but when I was with the market with Esther, and saw you, and a failure, I don't know, it just, that seemed easy.
[SPEAKER_05]: And I don't know what you're thinking about or the choices you have to make.
[SPEAKER_05]: But, I just hope you aren't going to miss it.
[SPEAKER_07]: What do you think of marriage?
[SPEAKER_07]: What do you think of it?
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm just being a knight, my first year and a half of it, and being thrust into all this nonsense.
[SPEAKER_07]: like one big game of chess and I'm not good at chess.
[SPEAKER_05]: I used to not be very keen on marriage.
[SPEAKER_05]: I used to think it was silly and felt like you were being tied down and there's so much in this world and then I went traveling and returned for familial reasons and then you
[SPEAKER_05]: with such noise, and sometimes you meet someone in the midst of all that noise that makes the world a little bit more quiet and a little bit more tolerable, and maybe you enjoy the conversations you have with them, and maybe you think about the moments in which you can tear away from all of that noise and have moments to yourself, which are fleeting but very
[SPEAKER_05]: I used to think marriage was a ploy and then I realized that if you meet the right person, that it is anything but a weight and you've met the right person, I like to think I have, I'm out of for you.
[SPEAKER_04]: And I just, like, raise a glass.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: To marriage.
[SPEAKER_04]: I just hope you find that person.
[SPEAKER_04]: Me too.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, I suppose I'll leave you to your thoughts once again.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes, thank you.
[SPEAKER_07]: I do need to be alone to try and use my brain.
[SPEAKER_05]: Fair enough.
[SPEAKER_05]: I guess all of the noise in there can be a little much.
[SPEAKER_05]: But, uh, I hope to see you back in there soon.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, I'll be back shortly.
[SPEAKER_07]: Get over myself.
[SPEAKER_07]: Have to be a little melodramatic sometimes.
[SPEAKER_07]: All right, some miles.
[SPEAKER_05]: We'll see you back in there.
[SPEAKER_05]: Key walks back inside.
[SPEAKER_05]: Um, how much longer do you stay outside?
[SPEAKER_07]: Until I finish my glass.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: And then I kind of wander back in to get another one.
[SPEAKER_07]: and just kind of see where everyone's at.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, so here's what we'll do.
[SPEAKER_05]: You head back inside and they'll lay the scene out for you.
[SPEAKER_05]: People are dancing, people are drinking, people are mingling and whatnot.
[SPEAKER_05]: You see, I think, and Lisa's with Ophelia for right now.
[SPEAKER_05]: You don't see Summerfield.
[SPEAKER_05]: You see Esther is off kind of like looking out for someone you assume Ambrose.
[SPEAKER_05]: You see Ambrose is making his way towards Esther.
[SPEAKER_05]: And that's what you see when you get back in, making things a little awkward realizing that, and Lisa's with Ophelia.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, I'm like, well, I can't touch that.
[SPEAKER_07]: I cannot touch that with a ten foot.
[SPEAKER_07]: I cannot go over there.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, I think it's kind of those, that moment where it's like, oh, I'm so fucking lonely.
[SPEAKER_07]: And I'm just like watching these two women, yeah, like, I have interest in both of them for very different reasons and very different like needs, right?
[SPEAKER_07]: And I think I'm just like kind of standing awkwardly at the refreshments after filling up my drink.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, very well.
[SPEAKER_07]: Building up the courage to go over there if I even get it.
[SPEAKER_05]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_05]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, 100%.
[SPEAKER_05]: So you're very awkwardly standing there.
[SPEAKER_05]: And, well, actually summer field, where did you go?
[SPEAKER_05]: Um, oh, he's outside now.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's outside now.
[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe, maybe I'm outside.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, you do see that there's like a big old, there's big old doors, like a lot side, and that's a nice garden.
[SPEAKER_03]: Sure.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm walking the garden looking at the closet.
[SPEAKER_07]: I think miles finally builds up the
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, and it's more just like, uh, like, we're cool and we're so strong and brave and nothing weird is happening between me and any of these women.
[SPEAKER_05]: No, yeah, you're so right.
[SPEAKER_05]: Everything's so normal between you guys.
[SPEAKER_07]: Just like, um, that's just how is your dance with the, uh, the bike count.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, he was pleasant.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's, he's an interesting man.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, no kidding.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Turns out he's a lot more interesting than I thought.
[SPEAKER_07]: No.
[SPEAKER_07]: What did I miss?
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, he missed a lot.
[SPEAKER_07]: I don't feel right speaking for a stick.
[SPEAKER_07]: Like, good things, bad things.
[SPEAKER_07]: It depends on what you ask, I think.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I mean, it's pretty funny.
[SPEAKER_02]: Funny.
[SPEAKER_07]: All right, orchestrated some stuff on the first ball.
[SPEAKER_07]: Right, well, that is kind of his thing I think.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm pretty sure.
[SPEAKER_06]: I just thought, you know, one dance turns out it was a lot more than that.
[SPEAKER_06]: But again, that's a sister story to tell.
[SPEAKER_07]: trying to think you can see like the caulk's working in miles very and trying to figure out what he's actually talking about.
[SPEAKER_07]: Ah, that's rather interesting.
[SPEAKER_07]: Um, had a lovely chat with the um, the uh, Evans & Son and um, yeah, great, great things, great things about um, he minis plus tricks and it's cool.
[SPEAKER_07]: He's a lovely guy here.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, seems like a chill dude.
[SPEAKER_07]: You're right.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_07]: Quite.
[SPEAKER_07]: Are you all right?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm a staunched right now.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think the server finally shows up with snacks.
[SPEAKER_07]: So, um...
[SPEAKER_02]: So, where were you earlier?
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, I was just dying getting a bit of fresh air is rather stuffy in here.
[SPEAKER_07]: And I got a drink, I could get you both drinks.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, no, I had to serve a drink.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, right, right.
[SPEAKER_02]: Look, there's a lot going on.
[SPEAKER_02]: I need some more.
[SPEAKER_07]: Need a refreshment.
[SPEAKER_07]: I was gonna make my way over there shortly.
[SPEAKER_07]: Ah, perhaps I shall come for you real quick, quickly, quickly for that.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, very, very briefly, I will do that.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, excuse us.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's like four of you coming back.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm whisking you away.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, where we go?
[SPEAKER_07]: As quickly as like a immediately out of out of view of like the people I recognize.
[SPEAKER_07]: And then just like, oh dude, someone fills in the garden.
[SPEAKER_07]: I don't know that.
[SPEAKER_07]: We're going to the garden.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, just, yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: We're outside.
[SPEAKER_07]: Sorry.
[SPEAKER_07]: I just, okay, I'm just like kind of looking around.
[SPEAKER_07]: I
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, I'm not good at this, I'm not good at this.
[SPEAKER_07]: How was your night been?
[SPEAKER_06]: It's been a, okay, yes, just kind of walking around having lovely chats with people.
[SPEAKER_07]: How are the the girls that that you write with them and the boy, there was a boy there this time?
[SPEAKER_06]: Yes, they're older brother.
[SPEAKER_06]: They're doing amazing actually.
[SPEAKER_06]: They've grown so much this season and Have a coming fiercely independent, which makes me both proud and sad at the hands of a lovely governor's Oh, you're too kind Okay, so this
[SPEAKER_07]: I keep, and now so, and so people, and so embros, right, right, and then also some of fields.
[SPEAKER_07]: And then also, and everyone just keeps saying that we, so you and, and so, okay, everyone keeps mentioning that we're pairing on.
[SPEAKER_07]: What do you think of me?
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, we're friends.
[SPEAKER_07]: We're very good friends.
[SPEAKER_07]: Right.
[SPEAKER_07]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_07]: And are you?
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_07]: So he's okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: So he's the thing.
[SPEAKER_07]: I am going to go to pressure.
[SPEAKER_07]: There's this whole thing.
[SPEAKER_07]: And I'm just doing everything on the table.
[SPEAKER_07]: And there's no one out here to bother me and ruin this for me.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's never filled you here this.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh my god.
[SPEAKER_03]: No one out here to bother you.
[SPEAKER_02]: I like the idea you bent down, like pick up a flower.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then you just behind the bush.
[SPEAKER_03]: One hundred percent.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I like the one.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm out here to hear you and I'm like fuck it's why I sit on my bottom and I'm just waiting now It's like fuck yeah, I Have nothing to offer you.
[SPEAKER_07]: I come from nothing I just need to know if
[SPEAKER_07]: You are unlike any woman I have ever spoken to, lady, affiliate, and you keep calling your way back into all of my thoughts.
[SPEAKER_07]: And I do not, I do not mean this in any, uh, untoward sort of way, but I just have to say, you're ruining all of my plans.
[SPEAKER_07]: I don't mean to.
[SPEAKER_07]: And that's the worst part, isn't it?
[SPEAKER_06]: What are you asking?
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm not asking you anything.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm just telling you.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: Um, I, I want to
[SPEAKER_07]: I want, I don't, I'm supposed to do this thing, I'm supposed, and I we talked very briefly about what my plans were for the future, and I wonder if maybe I don't need them, because I could be with you, and you could tell me no, and that would be fine.
[SPEAKER_07]: Go on.
[SPEAKER_07]: I fear I have lied to you and everyone in this town.
[SPEAKER_07]: All except for an alleys.
[SPEAKER_07]: And that lie has led me down this path where I feel I have no options.
[SPEAKER_07]: But if you would have me, you would have all of me.
[SPEAKER_06]: Surmiles, um, I will also speak frankly.
[SPEAKER_06]: I have never felt like this about another person before about a man before, and honestly it's quite odd.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's, it's an odd experience to feel so infatuated with the person, but I suppose,
[SPEAKER_06]: If there's a connection there, it doesn't matter their status or or anything as long as one believes that the other is a good person and I do believe very good person and it's quite odd to me that I hope to see what every event and that I hope that we have a moment to ourselves and that we might just even enjoy each other's silence because even that is perfectly fine with me.
[SPEAKER_06]: In fact, it's more than fine.
[SPEAKER_06]: I prefer it sometimes to crowds of people who
[SPEAKER_06]: smile and say nice things, but it is really odd.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm not mad about it.
[SPEAKER_06]: I, in fact, I'm curious to dive more into this.
[SPEAKER_06]: However, I do not want to stand in the way of your military career.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, okay.
[SPEAKER_06]: Sorry.
[SPEAKER_07]: No, that's all right.
[SPEAKER_07]: I had nothing before.
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't... Somal's, I think I'm falling in love with you.
[SPEAKER_06]: Hey, God!
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay!
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't know how else I could dress it up in so many pretty words.
[SPEAKER_06]: This, this season, I had no...
[SPEAKER_06]: No horse in that race.
[SPEAKER_06]: I was here for my family, for my girls, and that first ball seen you so awkward.
[SPEAKER_06]: I just wanted to help you, and I wanted you to feel comfortable, and I wanted you to smile at such a nice night.
[SPEAKER_06]: And then after that, I was just wanting to see you.
[SPEAKER_07]: All right, okay, all right, so, right, I don't know what happens next.
[SPEAKER_07]: I don't fuck, I don't need that.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, I suppose I should let my, uh, the truth next time.
[SPEAKER_07]: What?
[SPEAKER_07]: So listen, I'm sorry with that, man.
[SPEAKER_07]: And I, I told you I lied.
[SPEAKER_07]: I, I didn't realize I'm so, I'm so sorry.
[SPEAKER_07]: No, I, I, I, I, I'm so sorry.
[SPEAKER_07]: It was business strictly, but it's still an engagement.
[SPEAKER_07]: You're still potentially hurting.
[SPEAKER_07]: I want a lady.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's an engagement in that like, there's no ring.
[SPEAKER_06]: But you're, but you're engaged married?
[SPEAKER_07]: The Duchess and I have... Analyze!
[SPEAKER_07]: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
[SPEAKER_07]: I wish or had wished to join the ranks and get higher in that military and she promised that we could live alive together in Prussia and I would be one of the higher ranking generals alongside marrying her.
[SPEAKER_07]: It was a mutual sort of thing.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm not sure what thing.
[SPEAKER_07]: You usually like a shud, so you get to move up in military range.
[SPEAKER_07]: And she gets a husband for whatever reason, but I see the problem with that, is that I'm not a man, so it's a... Huh?
[SPEAKER_07]: So, okay, so it's a little...
[SPEAKER_07]: It's just...
[SPEAKER_07]: It's not as secure as she loves to make it sound.
[SPEAKER_07]: And I've been toiling with it.
[SPEAKER_07]: And ever since meeting you, it's been worse.
[SPEAKER_07]: And I forget what the fuck am I on this earth for, I'm not to be happy.
[SPEAKER_07]: So...
[SPEAKER_07]: I agree.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: I don't know what to do after this, actually.
[SPEAKER_07]: I forget there's a whole bowl in there now.
[SPEAKER_07]: We are in the middle.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's barely started.
[SPEAKER_07]: It didn't have.
[SPEAKER_07]: It hasn't hit.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's been like pull up my pocket one.
[SPEAKER_07]: We've been here for 30 years.
[SPEAKER_07]: I wish I could pick a song.
[SPEAKER_06]: I do we go in together, do we know?
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: I don't think so.
[SPEAKER_07]: Maybe.
[SPEAKER_07]: Ooh, I wish I had a coach on how to do these things.
[SPEAKER_07]: I think you should go in first, maybe.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, a lady alone outside, that's true, yeah, yeah, yeah, but us two alone is also not That's not oh good.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, I did not think this is quite
[SPEAKER_00]: What have you doing here?
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, I went to, I, I, I, um, I bent down to smell a flower and pluck it right here and, uh, and you started confessing your love.
[SPEAKER_06]: I didn't think to stand up before, then why stand up now?
[SPEAKER_03]: I, I've, I've lost full composure.
[SPEAKER_03]: I got very nervous.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, you're telling me.
[SPEAKER_06]: I just found out some effort.
[SPEAKER_06]: Because my feelings.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't care, there's three of us out and we were all getting air, we can all walk in, no one, nothing will be thought of.
[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like Oophilia is like fully convinced that Summerfield is like so sealed.
[SPEAKER_07]: You're not being the allegations, man.
[SPEAKER_07]: Honestly, I'm eased a little because he's known the whole time, really.
[SPEAKER_07]: That conversation we've had.
[SPEAKER_03]: So it's like, we can all walk in, we were all just getting fresh air.
[SPEAKER_03]: We'll just go slay us a perfect out.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: Work out details.
[SPEAKER_07]: Just like hands like clasp.
[SPEAKER_07]: I need details to make out later.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm gonna go.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, have to.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, yeah, sorry, we all had so much fun out here as I grew up Just the red face Miles and clutch that is I just All right, as you guys In your back and as a whole thing was happening Esther Before we left you Lord Ambrose was walking up to you.
[SPEAKER_05]: Um, he makes his way to you and it's like
[SPEAKER_01]: Lady Lockhart, Lord Ambrose, I see, um, you finished greeting your guests?
[SPEAKER_05]: Yes, I finished doing that and then some, um, I was wondering if you wanted to, um, dance.
[SPEAKER_05]: That sounds lovely.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yes, um, and then he'll take you out on to the dance floor and then you two begin dancing and
[SPEAKER_05]: As you are, again, I think as I said to Ophelia the first episode, the way Ambrose dances is very well done and well put together.
[SPEAKER_05]: This man knows how to dance, he's been doing it his whole life.
[SPEAKER_05]: And as you too, as he's guiding you through this, he goes, and so how has your evening been so far?
[SPEAKER_01]: It has been!
[SPEAKER_01]: Interesting.
[SPEAKER_01]: Not in a bad way.
[SPEAKER_01]: I suppose.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just tying up the season.
[SPEAKER_01]: So to speak in many ways.
[SPEAKER_01]: I understand.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, I'm glad it's not bad.
[SPEAKER_05]: I don't know if that means it's good either.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, you're here now, which is quite pleasant.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I'm glad that that is the case.
[SPEAKER_01]: After this, do you have a moment to talk?
[SPEAKER_01]: I do, yes, um, I wasn't really looking around for any other gentleman to sign my dance college, so I am quite free this evening.
[SPEAKER_05]: Um, so Adam handed me a token.
[SPEAKER_03]: God damn it.
[SPEAKER_05]: Hey, Summerfield.
[SPEAKER_05]: What are you doing?
[SPEAKER_03]: Just whenever that moment comes, I would like to get there first.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, we see you in the future.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's fine, they'll be fine, it'll be fine.
[SPEAKER_03]: It'll be all right, it's going to be great.
[SPEAKER_05]: Um, um, wonderful, um, then sounds good.
[SPEAKER_05]: Um, we could either go to the spot we went to, um, during the first ball, or we could go outside, whatever your choice is.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think.
[SPEAKER_05]: some fresh essence, quite nice, actually.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right, that sounds wonderful, and you two finish your dance.
[SPEAKER_05]: So what exactly use your points on your field?
[SPEAKER_03]: I just want to talk to Esther, that's all.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I would like to use that token to run into Esther.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't think I'm looking for Esther.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, and do you want to tap in before they go outside?
[SPEAKER_03]: So they're arm and arm right now, right?
[SPEAKER_05]: Yes, they're arm and arm right now.
[SPEAKER_05]: They're finishing up a dance and then they're going to walk outside and then they're going to walk outside Yeah, I guess it has to be before the get-outs Yeah, okay, so After the dance finishes and bros is going to be like I'm going to go grab us a couple of freshman's and then we can Head outside that sounds all right with you
[SPEAKER_05]: Absolutely, I'll wait here.
[SPEAKER_05]: Perfect.
[SPEAKER_05]: And then he'll go off.
[SPEAKER_05]: We'll send give some or feel a chance to uh yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think you'll walk some to you to Esther.
[SPEAKER_03]: Again, I think it's more of like a we just end up in the same vicinity.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, 100%.
[SPEAKER_03]: Esther, how old are you received?
[SPEAKER_03]: Was I'm a little walking up to you?
[SPEAKER_00]: She's so she's still so mad.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I think like she looks very like at ease and calm and like a little bit nervous because like Oh, what is the name Rose when I talk about outside and then as soon as you like get into like her her focus Her eyebrows like scowl Yeah, and that's the effect that I have on a woman Here I go Lady Lockhart
[SPEAKER_03]: I resent the fact that you think that what I was implying was just for convenience or fun.
[SPEAKER_01]: My offer of...
[SPEAKER_03]: I thought that perhaps we were like-minded and serpented tongue-to-end, similar in a lot of ways.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I agreed to help you have your meetings with the Lord Ambrose.
[SPEAKER_03]: I regardless of what I had did at the first ball, I have done all of those things.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I have gotten you your time.
[SPEAKER_03]: And you're on your way this moment to talk with him, and that is fine.
[SPEAKER_03]: as a joke, I get along with you and I don't love you, I don't, I don't, I don't, I, I'm not falling in love, I get along with you Esther and I thought we were friends and you asked me to do a thing and I did that thing for you and you were mad at me for doing the thing for you, you, you have the meeting with Ambrose, you've had the dances with Ambrose, the boy, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the
[SPEAKER_03]: the way to the soldier, the boy soldier, and the mist, the seamstress, they're getting a lot of like thieves, and Anna Lisa's here.
[SPEAKER_03]: She's probably going to wait to war on us eventually, because she's a prussian in the, she's never, has so much pride to the, I just resent that you think that
[SPEAKER_03]: I was acting in any cruel way towards you.
[SPEAKER_01]: You must understand my position where I came to your door requesting help and was quite plain about the situation, not only my family is in, but that I am in as a young lady who is very much aging out of these affairs
[SPEAKER_01]: I just wish that in that moment when we
[SPEAKER_01]: I had devised our loosely constructed schema that you could have at least told me.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because now I feel as though you have used our friendship as nothing more than a joke to amuse yourself and your loneliness.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I do fear for your loneliness.
[SPEAKER_01]: I sought reflected in your eyes when we were at the fireworks.
[SPEAKER_01]: I see it now in this crowded ballroom now that everybody has coupled off with one another.
[SPEAKER_01]: I do not wish for you to be alone.
[SPEAKER_01]: I do not wish for your heart to remain empty.
[SPEAKER_01]: I too thought that we were like minded.
[SPEAKER_01]: However, I have laid myself my feelings and my pursuits bear to you and I simply wish that you could have done the same.
[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, is, is, is asking, um, me, the, the, the, the, the medler that you knew was a medler to, to aid in, and ensuring that.
[SPEAKER_03]: That Ophelia and Young Embrose have less and less interaction.
[SPEAKER_03]: Is, is that not using my, your
[SPEAKER_01]: In society, do we not all use our friendships in one way or another to push along our own agendas?
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, did you not invite Ms. Ophelia's old friend and her bow simply to stir the part and see their reactions?
[SPEAKER_01]: Did you not come up with the arrangement for the table at your dinner?
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, a lot of the arrangement was requested for by Anne Elise for being truthful there.
[SPEAKER_01]: But did you not allow yourself to permit her to move the seeding charts around as she wished?
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, my sermons are free-willed.
[SPEAKER_03]: I had no feelings for them there.
[SPEAKER_03]: One, I thought it might make her a bit jumpy, but two, it puts more obstacles in between Ophelia and Young Ambrose and I thought that that was
[SPEAKER_01]: I suppose it is true, perhaps, perhaps I have been too crude to you and I apologize.
[SPEAKER_01]: I suppose I simply felt pricked by a thorn that I didn't know that you were hiding.
[SPEAKER_03]: my offer stands.
[SPEAKER_03]: If I don't think it's necessary, you and Lord Ambrose have made out like thieves similar to the young consulger, my offer stands.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I do apologize for
[SPEAKER_03]: any and all of what I've done that is incurred your score.
[SPEAKER_03]: Surely I get a bit carried away.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think I'm going to begin.
[SPEAKER_00]: Before you leave, before you turn to leave, I think Esther very lightly, as to not look untoward, touches your arm, and she says, when you made your offer to me,
[SPEAKER_01]: I knew that it was not made from infatuation or the possibility of love.
[SPEAKER_01]: I know that there is no replacing what you have lost.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was not lying earlier when I said that many of our chats have been more entertaining than those I have had with my bow, but if I do still have the opportunity to pursue a love that could blossom, I would like to, before I settle for a great friendship.
[SPEAKER_01]: I hope you understand.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm happy to hear of the pursuit of love and I just wanted to be clear that I had no intention of hurting you and I do apologize for that.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think she takes a carnation from the top of her hair and she very gently kind of like pokes it into one of your front pockets and then turns to walk away.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I also, I think I turned to walk away and I'm gonna hold on to that little token right now You know I use it here tell me what you tell me what you think it I think you told me everything It's how much it's a good
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, I think, I think Esther is a little bit torn, um, for all of his faults and perhaps sociopathic tendencies, she does, she does care about the vicaraut, uh, summer field, and
[SPEAKER_00]: I think she can recognize a crushing loneliness in him, a crushing loneliness that she has seen, not only in her mother who recently lost her husband and Esther's father, but also as much I think is Annelys likes to play it off sees a bit of that tinge of loneliness in Annelys as well, not having somebody who's constantly there to listen anymore.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, and I think she knows that this is her last chance to potentially marry for love before all of it becomes truly political and for survival.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think that there is very much a part of her that isn't saturated with Ambrose, not just because he's kind of the catch of the season but also just because he is very kind.
[SPEAKER_00]: I do think that Esther is torn however because she is unsure as some of you'll put it.
[SPEAKER_00]: They are both serpent tongue and she isn't sure how Ambrose will react to
[SPEAKER_00]: all of her and her personality and quirks, whereas some her field already knows that there is like a little bit of that playful, the vindictiveness to Esther's personality.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I think for her, it's very much like, she's debating in her mind, which of these paths is not only the safest and most comfortable for her survival, but also which one will make her happy.
[SPEAKER_03]: Dude, yeah, no, he's gonna, he's a long way.
[SPEAKER_05]: Amber's comes back to you, Esther with two drinks, and he's like, all right, shall we head outside?
[SPEAKER_05]: We shall, after you.
[SPEAKER_05]: And then goes and leads you out into the garden, very similar to most of our party here tonight, has seen the NSA.
[SPEAKER_05]: gorgeous like rose garden, there's different plots with different kinds of roses, different colors, there's stone benches that are on each of the sort of plots and he'll like walk out onto the sort of like patio area which like has steps that lead down but then also have like stone pillars and stuff like that that like it's like a fence and he'll like head there and then it's that sort of you overlooking the garden a bit and then we'll be like mmm
[SPEAKER_05]: So I think this might be of interest to you, but this is not the first time that I've been out here tonight as I was out here with Sir Miles earlier.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, truly.
[SPEAKER_05]: He was out here alone.
[SPEAKER_05]: Um, I think he needed some fresh air which I, um, understand, but he seemed to have been lost in thought and choice.
[SPEAKER_05]: Um, I hope he's making the right one tonight.
[SPEAKER_01]: Only time will tell.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, my dear friend Annelis, she is a lovely woman to be sure, but she has had her talons dug into him for quite some time, and I mean, we can all tell the way that Sermile's looks at Deerophilia, and oh, yes, I think the young man will have to grapple and accept those feelings before they make progress.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hopefully, he already has.
[SPEAKER_05]: I sure hope he does, and we had a lovely conversation, but he did seem to be in turmoil, so I hope the choice he's making tonight is the right one.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think he will, for his aloofness, I think that he has a good head on shoulders.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, why have you brought me out here?
[SPEAKER_01]: Certainly not just to talk about Sir Miles' troubles.
[SPEAKER_05]: Certainly not.
[SPEAKER_05]: I just thought that'd be something you would find interesting, and I couldn't hold that to myself all right, to be honest, depending on how things go.
[SPEAKER_05]: I wanted to talk with you.
[SPEAKER_05]: We've had some...
[SPEAKER_05]: Lovely times together, these past few weeks, and one of the things that Sir Miles and I started talking about, he asked me my thoughts on marriage as I think that's something that's weighing heavy on his mind, and made me realize a few things.
[SPEAKER_05]: Um, but before that, uh, I just want to...
[SPEAKER_05]: I guess be honest, I know I've sort of danced around it, but I returned home on family obligation.
[SPEAKER_05]: My father is sick and my older brothers currently have no prospects as that's not something
[SPEAKER_05]: And so I was called home from my travels, and I wasn't one for marriage and nor have I ever really been.
[SPEAKER_05]: Perhaps it's because of my older brothers, but that's not something I ever considered.
[SPEAKER_05]: I've had affections here and there, but I've never had anything.
[SPEAKER_05]: serious.
[SPEAKER_05]: Um, and then I traveled away and came back and then there was all of this talk for my mother about marriage and securing the family and all of that.
[SPEAKER_05]: And as Mama said, I think that's why I was a bit yes, as I think was why the first ball was a bit much for me as it felt like.
[SPEAKER_05]: I have to make the right decision and the right choices and if I don't then the house is in turmoil and then it's all of my fault.
[SPEAKER_05]: and the pursuit of the women that first night was relentless, and then we accidentally met.
[SPEAKER_05]: And as I was telling Sir Miles, I think part of the reason why I wasn't interested in marriage is because
[SPEAKER_05]: For a long time, for a lot of people, it just felt like noise, and it's busy and it's overwhelming.
[SPEAKER_05]: And for that small moment that we met that first night, it wasn't.
[SPEAKER_05]: And then I soon realized that perhaps that is what true affection looks like, felt like.
[SPEAKER_05]: and I do our conversations and through our small interactions, I know that you are very kind and you are very smart and very sharp and I hope that if you'll have me we can continue those sort of
[SPEAKER_05]: interactions.
[SPEAKER_05]: And I know that you mentioned previously that you are trying to rain in a bit of your shop tongue and
[SPEAKER_05]: your cadence for gossip.
[SPEAKER_05]: But I have to say that I suppose since meeting you, I myself have been a little bit more nosy and it is quite fun, isn't it?
[SPEAKER_05]: It is quite fun and I didn't quite realize how fun it could possibly be, especially when you have someone to share it with.
[SPEAKER_05]: So, if that is all right to me, if you'll have me, I would like to have you as my wife.
[SPEAKER_01]: I, of course, am very interested in and enjoy your company as well, Lord Embrose, but
[SPEAKER_01]: I believe it is important and I feel it is important with some revelations from this evening that I be honest with you as well.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, I have been told that I am quite cunning and quite sharp and I suppose it implores me
[SPEAKER_01]: bear myself in full to you.
[SPEAKER_01]: So to speak.
[SPEAKER_01]: You see, I do not know if you've heard the rumors, but how Slarkart is in a dire situation, much as your own, when we lost my father, my two younger sisters have already been married off, and
[SPEAKER_01]: I helped them with that, growing up, I resigned myself that I would be happy, growing old as a spinster and spending time with my mother and father in house.
[SPEAKER_01]: But the abruptness of my father's death, of course, foisted me onto the societal marriage market.
[SPEAKER_01]: I do love him, but we should be honest, he's a bit bumbling, you know, and just a tad bit.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you see, spending so many years filling the shoes of my mama at the sort of events and within society, I got very good at assisting in
[SPEAKER_01]: orchestrating events to bring people together, nothing untoward mind, nothing truly damning, but that first night that we accidentally met, I saw how many young women were falling over you, the crowd around you.
[SPEAKER_01]: And instead of choosing to join them and begging for your attention, I suppose I took more of a direct approach.
[SPEAKER_01]: My ruining of your linens, perhaps, wasn't entirely an accident.
[SPEAKER_01]: I simply wanted to know you.
[SPEAKER_01]: I see.
[SPEAKER_05]: I suppose I can't be entirely upset that you did, because that enabled us to continue meeting.
[SPEAKER_05]: And as, and I don't feel as though the rest of our interactions we've had have been orchestrated.
[SPEAKER_05]: But I suppose the important thing that I'd like to know is,
[SPEAKER_05]: If you're glad you did that, and if you're affections for me are true, I am, and they are.
[SPEAKER_01]: I am certainly one to believe in fate.
[SPEAKER_01]: I am perhaps with all I have seen.
[SPEAKER_01]: Not always one to truly believe in love at first sight.
[SPEAKER_01]: I do believe that love is something that is to be grown, is to be fostered with care and effort.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I see you being a man willing to put in the effort.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I, a lady willing to do the same.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think he just sort of like, I think he's going to sort of like leaning on this sort of like balcony-esque thing and sort of like straightens up and it's like, well, Lady Esther, if that is the case, then I suppose I shall make sure that I get the blessing from your cousin or your mother, what would you
[SPEAKER_05]: Rather, I know you and Mortimer have their...
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, on a technicality and Mortimer would be the one that you would like to speak to, but unless you are very direct about your intentions, it will just go over his head.
[SPEAKER_01]: You could also contact my mother.
[SPEAKER_01]: She still deals with most of the paperwork anyway.
[SPEAKER_05]: On a technical deal, we'll try to ask Mortimer and see where that goes, but, um, well, he's trying his best with Lady Sarah, I suppose, um, so he might be preoccupied.
[SPEAKER_05]: Perhaps, um, offer him some flowers?
[SPEAKER_05]: You know, I will try my best to see if that all works.
[SPEAKER_01]: I do look very forward to our life together.
[SPEAKER_05]: I do as well.
[SPEAKER_05]: I suppose we shall head back inside now.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yes, we shall.
[SPEAKER_05]: And then he will kind of like hold out his arm to like take you in.
[SPEAKER_05]: So take it.
[SPEAKER_00]: When we go back inside, his summer field around.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm probably like every once in a while.
[SPEAKER_03]: Darryl will walk away and I'm like, okay, now he's got to be like, he's coaching more to her.
[SPEAKER_00]: I guess bigger question does summer field see Esther and Ambrose come back in?
[SPEAKER_00]: Harman arm.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll say.
[SPEAKER_00]: I want to, I'll say.
[SPEAKER_00]: I want you to use my model on token on summer field.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I think that something that looks at you, there's like you've said like a profound like loneliness, um, that I think like deepens for like a beat before like the kind of like smuggled like I did it, uh, kind of like I guess covers it up, he's
[SPEAKER_03]: Not unhappy, but not happy.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like that's, I think, just the most, some of the things, you know.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's experiencing this moment with this kind of, a lot, I'm in an assortment of, of like, oh, like, I'm good at this, like I got there, right?
[SPEAKER_03]: Like I got you guys to your dances and your meetings, but I think there's still that just a little bit of like,
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, the person that, like, I wouldn't mind marrying is going to be happy and that's nice at least.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, so that happens.
[SPEAKER_05]: I want to know what's going on with you, too.
[SPEAKER_05]: During that whole thing with Ambrose and Esther, did you go, what did you do after you three came back from the garden?
[SPEAKER_07]: Well,
[SPEAKER_07]: I mean like shit, man.
[SPEAKER_07]: I can't just like not.
[SPEAKER_07]: I can't just slip away, you know?
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll catch you.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, you know, I'll use one of these to find an Elise and slip off with her.
[SPEAKER_07]: Maybe even under the guise of like, I have like two drinks in here and I say yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: There's a nearest like quiet room.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, there's probably, again, this is like a house, and so you're probably very easily able to find a library.
[SPEAKER_07]: And I'm not really worried about, like, scandal because she's already been married and stuff.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, that doesn't really matter.
[SPEAKER_07]: That part of scandal.
[SPEAKER_07]: I mean, being found alone still sucks, but it's not as dire.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, so you're able to find a library you can slip off to.
[SPEAKER_07]: cat merry you and I'm just gonna be frank and why is that don't be daft I just want to hear it from you I have found myself distracted by affiliate by a lot of things but I'm I'm a ceiling affiliate yes yes
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, she can't give you the same protection I can.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're gonna be by yourself.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, I won't be by myself.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'll be with you, if you do.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, let's hope that she can back you up.
[SPEAKER_07]: I do care for you.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I care for you.
[SPEAKER_07]: And I respect you.
[SPEAKER_07]: And you are quite little strongest woman I've ever known.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm a toy around with you a lot, but I do respect you.
[SPEAKER_07]: best, isn't it?
[SPEAKER_02]: If you feel it's for the best, I don't think there's anything else to discuss.
[SPEAKER_07]: I just don't want.
[SPEAKER_07]: You just don't want what?
[SPEAKER_07]: Um, enjoy the rest of the festivities, and I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm just like, I
[SPEAKER_07]: It's more, it's more that I know I'm not going to be able to provide as much as anyone else could.
[SPEAKER_07]: And that's kind of what it is.
[SPEAKER_07]: I do do you know what?
[SPEAKER_07]: Let me use this fucking token on you.
[SPEAKER_07]: This fucking monologue token.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, and at least as I leave and like lean against the door.
[SPEAKER_02]: So what are you trying to figure out when?
[SPEAKER_07]: Um, where your head is at?
[SPEAKER_07]: Like do I feel like you're going to be vindictive about it?
[SPEAKER_07]: Do I feel like I've
[SPEAKER_07]: hurt you truly in any way or it was truly just business.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think a big part of it was business but I put she did actually really like you and so it is kind of like this is the best option she feels like you were the best option out of any other and yeah so she is like pretty heartbroken but she refuses to show it and I think that's the big thing is that she's just and but she's also like well I don't have time for these emotions I gotta get to the next thing kind of deal so she's more like
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, so she is truly sad, but she's trying to like keep it bottled up to keep her composure to keep moving forward.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, so you too have your conversation, you can be so quick.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, I think that's the worst part about it.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, one of those things is like, ah, I think there was a part of you that was maybe hoping that it would drag on and then only should be more upset and all of that thing.
[SPEAKER_05]: But it was just like ripping off a bandaid and it hurts and you go and look for Ophelia.
[SPEAKER_07]: I think so yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: I think it's that like walking through the hall and just like kind of feeling that suffocating like a dread, dread, dread and then it's like, oh, I feel like I'm back back kind of back to it.
[SPEAKER_06]: I probably went with um
[SPEAKER_06]: back with the family just to be like I managed to like compoke myself enough to worry about anyone like catching me right now.
[SPEAKER_06]: I just need like say space like you know like time out probably just there talking with the father and or brother just like yeah everything's great everything's super awesome like everything's super awesome.
[SPEAKER_06]: I didn't think it can get any better but then like um maybe it's not good.
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't really know and it's like girl what are you talking about girl
[SPEAKER_07]: Hey, hi.
[SPEAKER_07]: Hello.
[SPEAKER_06]: Hey, it is everything okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, um, good.
[SPEAKER_07]: Um, maybe things done and I love you.
[SPEAKER_07]: So, that's, that's about all I can ask for right now.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, I'm just in front of your family.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: The, the, the girls are like, like, a big wide eye, like,
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, right, ah, ah, ah, let's go dance.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, so you guys dance.
[SPEAKER_05]: Do you guys do anything else with your evening?
[SPEAKER_07]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_07]: I think I think for Miles it's just like I'm gonna enjoy this little pocket of Perfectness before I have to deal with the real thing in the real world tomorrow.
[SPEAKER_06]: That's a thing I feel like oh Philly wants to be open with you, but it's like how do you naturally say like oh I've only like girls like you know what I mean Like it's like ignorance is a blister right now It's too late tomorrow isn't happening
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, I have one thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: So yeah, I'm just going to wait in the library for a bit.
[SPEAKER_02]: Kind of go to a pillow, scream into it, compose myself and go out to the punch and dump all the vial into it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I stole from his house.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm out of points because I would normally try to catch that.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to spread the point so he catches it so he's so I catch it so you see it but I'm put what I'm pouring it in.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like episode one all over again.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes Esther.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have a resolve token.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to use my last one to catch and at least doing this.
[SPEAKER_03]: Is this the poison?
[SPEAKER_02]: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
[SPEAKER_01]: I would not advise drinking the punch for the rest of the evening.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think, and at least, I think Miles made his choice.
[SPEAKER_05]: Ooh, I see.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, it's like the first ball over again, all right.
[SPEAKER_01]: But perhaps this time, since we know that it's happening, we could simply be the audience to it all.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think that sounds like a wonderful idea.
[SPEAKER_02]: Afterward, I'm going to go to summer field and ask him for a ride home.
[SPEAKER_02]: Of course, thank you.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, so the night, and I will say that Jesse did ask for a specific thing.
[SPEAKER_05]: And so, you return home at the end of the night if I count summer field.
[SPEAKER_05]: God damn it.
[SPEAKER_05]: And you find that your lab has been trash.
[SPEAKER_05]: Whoa.
[SPEAKER_05]: And that you're like important like book that you have has been taken.
[SPEAKER_03]: I immediately blame you, I'm so immediately like, oh, yeah, and she actually got a ride home for me.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm sitting there like, I'm like, it's kind of like, why killed this person?
[SPEAKER_03]: No, certainly not.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think I've, I've like, I fairly often dismissed myself.
[SPEAKER_03]: So no one's home.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's my normal, it's a whole different thing.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's a whole different thing.
[SPEAKER_03]: Looking at my office, like, like, damn.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, you gave me, you gave me your right home.
[SPEAKER_02]: So you're gonna get a package, like, oh, I found this at the market.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, my God.
[SPEAKER_05]: I found this.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, my God.
[SPEAKER_05]: I found it at the market.
[SPEAKER_05]: I know who took it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, my God.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was like yours.
[SPEAKER_03]: We're waiting for the same spot.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: And so a few days following the fucking anonymous pamphlets are back at it again.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_05]: Another one is published.
[SPEAKER_05]: This one reads,
[SPEAKER_05]: It would appear the House of White Count Alistair Summerfield is potentially in-scaneled as documents declaring Sir Miles Miller, the illegitimate son of the Summerfield House, making him and the current White Count half-brothers.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, shit.
[SPEAKER_03]: I wasn't able to marry, and so I mean, like- So like we did all this money.
[SPEAKER_03]: It was all this money.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I can't.
[UNKNOWN]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: You son of a bitch.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh my god.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's great.
[SPEAKER_03]: And what can I say?
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm going to say, yeah, I'm so embarrassed.
[SPEAKER_03]: And obviously, I immediately bring my brother into the house.
[SPEAKER_03]: And to the home and set him up, yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: I didn't know this.
[SPEAKER_05]: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
[SPEAKER_02]: Look, we, pressure currently has other things going on, but Let's just say that Annelis is gonna try to climb up the ranks and uh, uh, things, it takes, they go bad.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hell, have no fury, right?
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, you know, as it goes, yeah, scared.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'll go next to some single, yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Again, I, I open the summer field home.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, obviously to my, to my, have rather.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I would send you like a letter like making the professor thing like, hey, if you want to.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I leave for that.
[SPEAKER_05]: I leave the summer field home with you guys, and I'm gonna go to teach her someone did go to pressure Yeah, so you get the proposition for an at least it to be a professor Yeah, I mean your lab is broken, so Resolve that No, I think one of those things we both were just like you both know that like it Yeah, I wasn't hiding it
[SPEAKER_03]: I think I get to like my office at the college and my book is just on my desk.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, that's even better.
[SPEAKER_05]: You're like, welcome.
[SPEAKER_05]: And Natalie's a handwriting.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh yeah, he got me.
[SPEAKER_03]: He got me.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, obviously it's months as a, you know, go buy.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: We move in.
[SPEAKER_03]: I do all the transitioning and everything.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: And then you head off to pressure to be a professor.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: About you too.
[SPEAKER_06]: Sorry, like hey like what we had was beautiful on the moment, but like it wasn't for it We were both so young.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, it was just something that would happen and then like so like you man Like how how does one go about that?
[SPEAKER_05]: That was so weird.
[SPEAKER_06]: She's like oh, what actually it was like like oh, okay Okay, okay, I should like so but Garless um men that bridge said that set them off when they go.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, and then I don't know if you want to take over how Yeah, I think I think it's like a
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, I kind of wanted those things so I'll just, like, still courting you, just promenotting.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's like, oh, all right, um, so I have a ring for you and also a woman.
[SPEAKER_07]: I, yes, I realize it's, I, well, I forgot to mention that.
[SPEAKER_07]: And I, I figure that's, like, the probably pretty important to, uh,
[SPEAKER_07]: So, you could see it opt out in that.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm gonna use a monologue to do this.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's the case.
[SPEAKER_06]: What's like, it's your own content is going through your head as you're telling me this right now.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's kind of like, ah, she loves me.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, it's kind of like, it's kind of like, I gather.
[SPEAKER_07]: And also, I've been trying to thread the dots of our conversations about Bridget and all that.
[SPEAKER_07]: And the only conclusion I can come to is that you were really close with your best friend.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's no close.
[SPEAKER_07]: And listen.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm a lesbian.
[SPEAKER_07]: I know I know about close friendships.
[SPEAKER_06]: So I think you're not going to believe this.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, that's okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: I know, girl.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm like, oh, totally cool.
[SPEAKER_06]: Perfect.
[SPEAKER_06]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_06]: I would you like to keep that underrated?
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, that's just for you.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, for me?
[SPEAKER_06]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_07]: Hey.
[SPEAKER_07]: Everything else I'm.
[SPEAKER_07]: Everything else, just.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm a brother in a night in a night in a night in a night in a night in a night in a night in a night in a night in a night in a night in a night in a night in a night in a night in a night in a night in a night in a night in a night in a night in a night in a night in a night in a night in a night in a night in a night in a night in a night in a night in a night in a night in a night in a night in a night in a night in a night in a night in a night in a night in a night in a night in a night in a night in a night in a night in a night in a night in a
[SPEAKER_07]: but I did say she would have all of me.
[SPEAKER_07]: So I'm not gonna, I'm not.
[SPEAKER_07]: Fuck, fuck am I gonna go on a bleed-out on a battlefield?
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, a daddy at home.
[SPEAKER_06]: The fuck?
[SPEAKER_06]: What do we do here?
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, say yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: You guys.
[SPEAKER_06]: I feel like I'm moving to the summer.
[SPEAKER_05]: Some of the house.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, by the way, my family comes from money.
[SPEAKER_02]: You just super ridge now.
[SPEAKER_06]: No, that is interesting.
[SPEAKER_06]: My family does not.
[SPEAKER_06]: I've got legumes for money and I like girls Well, well, I like you.
[SPEAKER_07]: Obviously.
[SPEAKER_06]: I love you.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, I do Yeah, I do think like the conversations are kind of like that like kind of trying to catch up to We're supposed to be either cats speak at all or we just like yeah, by the way Oh, also I forgot I've got to mention that
[SPEAKER_06]: We moving as some reveal tells are we are we re-decorating It's quite nice.
[SPEAKER_06]: I agree.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's quite nice.
[SPEAKER_06]: I like the flowers.
[SPEAKER_03]: We have great fucking taste.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, the taste is impeccable really the lab is a little strange.
[SPEAKER_07]: I did see the destroyed lab Yeah, well, I did find like I don't know in like a little jaw like a two headed like calf or something I don't know.
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't even notice you you want to keep that.
[SPEAKER_06]: I've said if you want I was holding that for a friend.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh
[SPEAKER_07]: We could just start cleaning it up.
[SPEAKER_07]: I think we should just put the oddities in the basement.
[SPEAKER_07]: And everything else is fine.
[SPEAKER_07]: And what I think we live a pretty quiet life.
[SPEAKER_07]: Really?
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: We grab a few good up to kids, question mark.
[SPEAKER_06]: I, if you're down.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm like, I'm cool for whatever.
[SPEAKER_06]: I like being a governess.
[SPEAKER_06]: And then I could, I still like, you know, interact with children, help raise children.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: We don't even want to be there.
[SPEAKER_07]: Maybe we'd run like a...
[SPEAKER_06]: A school, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_05]: Um, yeah, how about you Esther?
[SPEAKER_05]: How do you and Amber Osloov?
[SPEAKER_05]: I think it's good.
[SPEAKER_05]: I hope happily.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, she asks, um, he tries to ask Mortimer for his blessing.
[SPEAKER_05]: Mortimer is so stressed out about Lady Sarah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Mortimer, so stressed out.
[SPEAKER_05]: And then he goes, G-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-
[SPEAKER_05]: What do you have to reply?
[SPEAKER_05]: But we'll also ultimately ask your mother, her blessing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I think the wedding planning and everything goes very well.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think Esther lets her mom kind of take the reins with Amber Oze's mom, because, you know, she's the last daughter to get married, so she figures that Milliscent should have a saying.
[SPEAKER_00]: They have money again now to work with.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, she's gonna have fun.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think
[SPEAKER_00]: very swiftly after she and I can imagine now that she has like brought Ambrose into the world of gossip.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like they very quickly help Mortimer settle down with Sarah as well and like help.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, very much so.
[SPEAKER_00]: And his wedding.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um,
[SPEAKER_00]: I do think that she writes summer field often, if anything to just fill him in on things that are going on in the tone.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I don't know if you've heard, but some miles, and Lady of the Year have opened a school.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's lovely, it's wonderful.
[SPEAKER_01]: They built it in your backyard.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's just, it's just, it's like, what do I have to teach people?
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, good, good.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think at one point I do send you a letter that's like, I was there with a confessed end.
[SPEAKER_03]: How?
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't tell you the night of, I thought you'd get married.
[SPEAKER_01]: Were you included in the confession?
[SPEAKER_01]: Was this?
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, no, I was smelling a flower and they came out and immediately started confessing their love.
[SPEAKER_01]: So you eat that?
[SPEAKER_03]: No time.
[SPEAKER_03]: I get through letter.
[SPEAKER_00]: I can't get mad at letter.
[SPEAKER_00]: And yeah, I think she, I can imagine her and Ambrose live like a pretty quiet life.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think certainly they host a lot of balls and I think I think eventually
[SPEAKER_00]: down the line, they have daughters and then she shows Ambrose how to how to twist situations in their children's family after that.
[SPEAKER_05]: Then he, then he gets it for sure.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's like, oh, I see.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, okay.
[SPEAKER_05]: So that's, oh, you know, I kind of like this medley.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, yes, I think that Esther very much devotes herself to her philosophy that love and companionship is something that's fostered with time, and I think she and Ambrose do it very well.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yay!
[SPEAKER_05]: Wonderful!
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, that's it, guys.
[SPEAKER_05]: We've done it.
[SPEAKER_03]: We've fucking did it.
[SPEAKER_05]: We've fucking did it.
[SPEAKER_07]: We've found the marriage in the marriage.
[SPEAKER_05]: What is that?
[SPEAKER_05]: This has been our marriage in the marriage.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's our marriage marriage.
[SPEAKER_05]: Thank you so much for joining us.
[SPEAKER_00]: Anna, last sign off ever, we're going to the people find you.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to the moon, yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're putting me in a rocket ship and sending me to the moon.
[SPEAKER_00]: You'll never see me again.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hi, I'm Anna.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can find me everywhere at local level up lady or at hilariously our P.G.
[SPEAKER_00]: I am a Dungeon Master for an actual play series called Destiny Dungeon Ears, which is a dark fantasy wild west thing that five jams was in.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, I also, um, the editor, I don't like saying the word curator, but I threw together a little horror anthology called Beyond the Witching Hour this year that has a ton of really cool guest GMs.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like Adam and Kim, also from 5 GMs in Turkish Go.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, so go check those out if you'd like to or don't, it's up to you.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I'd like it if you did.
[SPEAKER_00]: And thank you so much five jams for having me.
[SPEAKER_00]: This was so fun and amazing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hey, thank you for having me.
[SPEAKER_05]: And I love flirting with my friends.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yay!
[SPEAKER_02]: Why do you want cock-block biggest?
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, it's okay.
[SPEAKER_05]: Anyways, you guys know where to find us.
[SPEAKER_05]: Thank you so much for joining us.
[SPEAKER_05]: Good bye!
[SPEAKER_03]: Did we fucking did it?