[SPEAKER_07]: 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_02]: Listen in, as five friends take turns weaving stories through the tabletop game of their choice.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is 5 GM's in a trench coat.
[SPEAKER_07]: hello everyone and welcome back to five jams presents marriage and marie mint i and your GM Kim and we're back so we're gonna pan into an elisa's bedroom um one or both of you paint me a scene what's what's it look like what's going on in this current moment i think an elisa's currently sitting at her like makeup chair like okay like putting on makeup getting ready for the day
[SPEAKER_05]: I think Miles is like lounged on either either the bed or like like a lounging sort of chair shirtless obviously.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, like boxer like briefs on and then like a binder chest just like kind of like looking like picking at nothing Just kind of trying not to like thinking yeah, are you just sitting there thinking and it's like is it it's Annelise making a small talk or is it just a weird silence between you to you right now?
[SPEAKER_07]: I like to think maybe Annelace was like talking about like the day, like the itinerary for the day and I'm just like partying You two are kind of sitting there and Annelace, this isn't like I don't think it's entirely infrequent between you two to have weird like You just chatting and miles being like, no, yeah, for sure, yeah, dude.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, absolutely But you do notice like miles seems particularly disengaged and it's a little awkward behind you
[SPEAKER_07]: And you may not entirely be sure why, but you also may know, you've been chatting a lot about certain things, and well you guys haven't really talked about any of it, so.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, I mean, I mean, and Lisa's gonna kind of be like, you should probably be getting up, getting ready.
[SPEAKER_03]: We got stuff to do today.
[SPEAKER_05]: Right.
[SPEAKER_05]: Um.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, it was just like kind of like slowly getting up, like we're all rolling for like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like like, like like, like like, like like, like like, like like, like like, like like, like like, like like, like like, like
[SPEAKER_03]: Would you like to get ready here or do you want to go there together or do you want to go there separately?
[SPEAKER_05]: Not sure it's uh Maybe it's not a good idea to go there though.
[SPEAKER_05]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, we haven't really arrived anywhere together.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah Is that something you'd want?
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, it's up to you.
[SPEAKER_03]: I understand that your position is a, uh, as a one-ed bachelor, not wanting to, you know, if you like the attention, you go separately.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's entrance fun, but it's not.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, how about you get dressed first, and then we could figure out what we're going to do?
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_05]: Just like, finally, just like, getting up, getting to it, throwing on something, whatever
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, you are arriving separately.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, you're getting so cold.
[SPEAKER_03]: I got courage, writing for you if you want to go home.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: And at least, what exactly are you expecting from our situation?
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm just, right now, just kind of for fun, you know, but in the long term, I just want to bring you back to pressure with me.
[SPEAKER_03]: You've, you've, for more than prove in yourself and I think you'd be a valuable asset.
[SPEAKER_05]: Jesse, do I know like your situation with like needing to find like have we talked about this speaking sort of a union for for business also?
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't think she would have talked about it, but I'm sure it would be definitely something you would probably figure out, you know?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, she wouldn't outwardly say it, but it would definitely be like, this is definitely an important thing.
[SPEAKER_08]: And you want that.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: You want that.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, I want that.
[SPEAKER_08]: I mean, I want to be here if you didn't want it.
[SPEAKER_08]: I mean, I wouldn't be here if I didn't want it.
[SPEAKER_08]: You know, I, I care for you.
[SPEAKER_03]: I care for you.
[SPEAKER_05]: And I respect you most of all.
[SPEAKER_05]: I just wonder if in that respect this is a good idea for you in what way.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, I'm not exactly if I get found out that's both of us if you're attached to me.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's the thing, you're going to be high up enough to where it won't really matter.
[SPEAKER_03]: And if someone does start causing problems, I'll make the problem disappear.
[SPEAKER_05]: But how can you guarantee that?
[SPEAKER_08]: I have people.
[SPEAKER_08]: I suppose I'm just worried about it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, I get it, but I think if you stay here, you're going to be around a lot more people, and you're a lot more exposed.
[SPEAKER_08]: Do you think we could be tapy?
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: Like, truly.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, we'd both be getting exactly what we wanted.
[SPEAKER_08]: I couldn't give you children.
[SPEAKER_08]: I couldn't.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, my last husband couldn't get me to give me children anyway.
[SPEAKER_03]: Let's just say he preferred the company of his fellow shipmates, then he did me.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, what's the point of a house in a name if we can't keep it going?
[SPEAKER_03]: Ah, we could always just adopt.
[SPEAKER_08]: Could we?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, we're planning if kids running around.
[SPEAKER_08]: maybe.
[SPEAKER_08]: People are always having kids on the accident, though.
[SPEAKER_08]: I want to be hard to get one.
[SPEAKER_08]: Well, you're older than me.
[SPEAKER_05]: You've seen more years and I suppose I should trust you for that.
[SPEAKER_05]: I guess I should leave.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'll see you later today.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: I give you a little slap on the butt as you leave.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, so miles you leave this weird awkward conversation, what's going through your mind as you're in this carriage alone going back home I assume to get ready.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think it's kind of that, because I think last episode I talked about that feeling of like, it's not going to work, like this isn't, this isn't going to work, and it's this sort of closing in like dread of, there's no other choice for me, but this or nothing, you know?
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: and then there's that like small little like pinpoint of light through the, you know, the top screen of darkness, that's like, oh, feeling was pretty nice.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: I think you sort of feel this like suffocating weight of a decision to make and the easy offer it's there for you on the table.
[SPEAKER_07]: And I like to think that if this were a movie and if this were visual, the screen would be like dark on you and then there'd be that like 2,000
[SPEAKER_07]: The way Ophelia looked during your guys' walk, that other week through the market, as you kind of trailed off to go to the shade, because it was hot.
[SPEAKER_07]: And like you said, there's that small little bright spot, but is it enough?
[SPEAKER_07]: I think it's kind of what you're thinking.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I think Miles has always been
[SPEAKER_05]: Anyways, a practical person and like everything that they've ever done was for their family and like the best possible way to do that, you know, going, going into the military, hiding their gender, making all the decisions, all the right decisions to get to where they are.
[SPEAKER_05]: And now it's like, well, there's the right decision.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: And then there's something else that's there that they can't quite figure out why it's weighing on them so heavily.
[SPEAKER_07]: And also that sort of thing of if you don't take Anneliese's decision was this all for nothing.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: And you arrive home and you get ready, I assume.
[SPEAKER_07]: um, you all get ready.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm sure your nicer clothes are being worn and perfumes are sprayed and things like that.
[SPEAKER_07]: You arrive either on foot or by carriage.
[SPEAKER_07]: I assume most of you arrive by carriage horseback except for miles who arrives on horse.
[SPEAKER_07]: So yeah, you bring her along.
[SPEAKER_07]: The by count houses nice.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm sure they have someone to take care of your horse for the time being.
[SPEAKER_07]: There's
[SPEAKER_07]: Rainer up.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, um, if I count some I feel, what are you doing as people are going to start arrive for this party soon?
[SPEAKER_01]: I think currently if I count some of the field is setting out, as much as when people are over, he makes it seem like he has a severance to everything.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's very heads on and he's helping a severance a lot and he's big about like the buck case and the flowers and where they go, and he's like, well, these are poisonous get these out of here.
[SPEAKER_01]: But so, he's currently a fixing little placards he got made with names on them.
[SPEAKER_01]: Of course he did.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he's trying to decide where everyone sits.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think I'm gonna like let the DM do that.
[SPEAKER_07]: All right.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'll do that as I let you all talk As I fucking draw out of table.
[SPEAKER_07]: I fucking know to do that.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're good.
[SPEAKER_01]: Shut up.
[SPEAKER_07]: Shut up.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay How is the house decorated?
[SPEAKER_03]: It's a theme.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, is there a theme or Lace and flowers.
[SPEAKER_07]: Lace and flowers.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: Slate
[SPEAKER_01]: So instead of having open windows, instead of having curtains, all of the curtains are like laced curtains, and they're laced floral.
[SPEAKER_01]: So that way when the shadow's cast, it makes like a floral shadow cast.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, which one of you guys would arrive first, do you think?
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm last for sure, I'm dragging my feet.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, so you two are tied for life as well as a ride together?
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, like practically the way that you two arrive is just you arriving together almost.
[SPEAKER_06]: I feel like because Esther is bringing like the whole Lockhart crew with her mom and cousin, they might get there pretty early.
[SPEAKER_06]: I feel like they're the punctual sort, especially when it comes to this.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, 100%.
[SPEAKER_07]: I think there's also the chance that your mom was like, all right, well, we have to get ready and then
[SPEAKER_07]: We have to be there right now.
[SPEAKER_07]: So we have to leave like right now and so I think that she's very much like are you ready and then Mortimer is like But I don't want to particularly go and then and then your mom's like well, we have to oh, we said that you were going to go and you're on the RSVP so you can Can I have invited a girl for Mortimer?
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, yeah 100% yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, so I imagine you just invite one of them to Girl that matches his freak.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, so anyways, yeah, so you and your family arrive pretty much right on time You get let in by one of the like or is the Vic out letting people out?
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, yeah, so the Vic out lets you and your family and
[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you all for making it, uh, making the time, um, I'm opening the door and kind of like grabbing hands.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, I think you said you brought your mother.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Dude, yeah, I kiss your mom's in.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm trying to debate if Esther would have told her mom about the fight counts offer, but I feel like she hasn't yet.
[SPEAKER_01]: I definitely think it's one of those things that you don't, because then your mom's just like, yeah, we'll marry the fight count.
[SPEAKER_01]: What are you doing?
[SPEAKER_06]: Then do that then.
[SPEAKER_06]: What the fuck?
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I don't think she's talking to you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: Holding out for love, are you dumb?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Between you and Bonnie, yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's more poor, how do you mean?
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, the wonderful Esther and Mortimer, my friend.
[SPEAKER_01]: In fact, I invited someone for you to speak with you.
[SPEAKER_01]: She had such a good time speaking with you.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, thank you.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, she does like a little courtesy.
[SPEAKER_06]: And she sees that you're like sitting Mortimer up with someone.
[SPEAKER_06]: She mows.
[SPEAKER_06]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, of course.
[SPEAKER_01]: Again, I got my mother.
[SPEAKER_01]: I give her a little I think I guess on the hand.
[SPEAKER_01]: I even like Prompt her to do a little spin.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, it is such a delight to me and I'm I'm I'm the swimming the mother.
[SPEAKER_07]: Dude got a love bomb
[SPEAKER_07]: So yeah, you let us turn your family in, they sit down, um, I'm gonna let the rest of you take the floor as I do the seating chart.
[SPEAKER_07]: Um, so I assume then in order Ophelia arrives next, then very later on miles, and then not long, like maybe a heart beat after that, it'll least show.
[SPEAKER_01]: This, this Amber is my good.
[SPEAKER_01]: Amber's doesn't mean- And do our two guests to additional guests my good.
[SPEAKER_07]: Uh, yeah, of course.
[SPEAKER_07]: I think, okay, so I think what happens is Ophelia shows up and bro shows up Miles shows up Bridget and her man shows up and then and at least shows up
[SPEAKER_03]: with my general that's gonna saw something else.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, I think when I fully got the invitation, her girls found it first and was like, oh my god, oh my god, we have to play dressed up.
[SPEAKER_04]: Like we're gonna set, we're gonna make her look so beautiful.
[SPEAKER_04]: So they probably helped her get ready.
[SPEAKER_04]: They're probably like, you have to wear mom's necklace.
[SPEAKER_04]: I, she would want you to do that.
[SPEAKER_04]: Like you have to show out.
[SPEAKER_04]: Like it's, it's, it's your, it's your time girl.
[SPEAKER_04]: So she, um, probably your range that the family would let her borrow the carriage to arrive.
[SPEAKER_04]: Cause again, got to show out.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's, you're a time.
[SPEAKER_04]: with the eldest son, who we will call Lubi, kind of escorting her, making sure she gets there.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: So, if the White Council more fields at the door, you probably see a carriage pull-up, which I'm not sure if you're familiar with what it looks like, a young man stepping out and then kind of like reaching in to bring, oh, feel you out.
[SPEAKER_04]: And she kind of like, okay, like, thank you so much, Lubi.
[SPEAKER_04]: Like,
[SPEAKER_04]: Don't worry about coming back like it's all good like I will walk home like thank you so much for bringing me because she's like This isn't right like I'm so like I don't know why I'm here.
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know what's going on She was a little crazy last episode, but um, she'll then approach the door and kind of Bought to you like thank you so much.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, no, of course.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, I'm gonna grab your hand and kind of walk you up the stairs And you know, um, I invited a couple of additional guests that I thought you you've been getting along with swell
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I must say, I can't help but have noticed shooting glances at two people.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm assuming you may or may not have known and you didn't get a chance to catch up with them at the end.
[SPEAKER_01]: I want you to know that the VidCon as he talks is boxing you in, like, he's closing your escape route from you trying to go down the stairs.
[SPEAKER_04]: Like, we're like turning.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'm walking you inside but turning my body to make sure you can't turn his gaze.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, I noticed and you never ended up with the chance to talk to them and they said they're from here, and so I figured they may have known you I invited them as well.
[SPEAKER_01]: They were quite like the husband was a bit Drab but that's the size of the point pardon me for saying so I shouldn't talk that away I just can't help myself sometimes
[SPEAKER_01]: I just, you're off, you're off and in.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh no.
[SPEAKER_04]: Um, she's just, she's gonna immediately find like a plant to hide behind and she's like, oh, fuck, oh, fuck, no, she's gonna chill out right there the entire time until somebody says something.
[SPEAKER_05]: Um, I think.
[SPEAKER_05]: miles, because he arrives after the, of the guests, just on, on the back of his big ass horse, just
[SPEAKER_05]: I don't think he dresses any like different or particularly like more fancy or anything like he's a very practical kind of guy maybe Got you know metal metal servicin maybe some like shoulder paddages.
[SPEAKER_01]: I see you arrive on your horse and I like
[SPEAKER_01]: So miles down the stairs to meet you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Ah, by count.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, I'm, um, I'm excited by something you made it like, didn't mean the invitation.
[SPEAKER_01]: Didn't think you'd take me up on it, and I'm quite everyone showed up.
[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, you're very, um, well-known, I believe.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, I believe, right.
[SPEAKER_01]: Of I count it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think counts for a lot.
[SPEAKER_05]: Two of the few is of I counts in rotation.
[SPEAKER_05]: That would surely cost scandal.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you, you're so off the beat in general.
[SPEAKER_01]: I, if anyone wants to do it, it can be here.
[SPEAKER_05]: I suppose I would be overlooked if I was.
[SPEAKER_01]: Also, I pull out sugar cubes and give sugar cubes to you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's the gulf in the stables.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, she is rather a lot.
[SPEAKER_05]: She'll be fine just like rain doth in the back yard.
[SPEAKER_01]: Boy, so.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you see it too, like, I think that you would recognize as like, like, pro, like, jockies.
[SPEAKER_01]: I come out.
[SPEAKER_01]: Take her.
[SPEAKER_01]: Take her, please.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh.
[SPEAKER_00]: Why?
[SPEAKER_01]: Why?
[SPEAKER_01]: I think they stay here on holiday sometimes and I thought it would be nice to have them around and do their little shows.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think getting the horse is ready to do shows.
[SPEAKER_05]: Miles is trying not to gawk like a poor person because, you know, that's how we grew up.
[SPEAKER_05]: And so it's just like, oh wait, no, but like, I'm of status now.
[SPEAKER_05]: I gotta keep it, but I'm just like,
[SPEAKER_01]: It is a bit showy, but I try to find where I can give the money away when I can to people who don't have it.
[SPEAKER_01]: The jockies, I would look at them go and see a horse like...
[SPEAKER_05]: Very unorable.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hardly.
[SPEAKER_01]: Anyways, okay, delighted you came also.
[SPEAKER_01]: I pull out some like chocolate covered morsels for you and like a little like I think it's like a mesh like like baggy That's like sealed at the top of like a little ribbon.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh You shouldn't have I'm sorry I took I tried my hand at them You made these I did and so I had been baking all the way You were saying that you will you inspired me to have tonight
[SPEAKER_01]: I, I, I, I beg all the time for myself and, and, and my, and my, my, my helpers and, and, and like, and I just, you, you mentioned it, and how to, you know what, it would, I could bake something for everybody, and so there's, it's set up all across the table.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's breads and, and, and, and cakes and, and, and biscuits and cookies and the, the like, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's,
[SPEAKER_01]: I can't wait to try everything and I would love that.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I'm gonna go in there, star, I'm not even paying attention to who's around.
[SPEAKER_05]: Not even like introducing myself to people who are saying hi, quickly straight to you.
[SPEAKER_01]: I have like one like operatic singer, like not like another British issue, she says she's like good.
[SPEAKER_01]: So my old, like, you're blocking it.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can do it, but I do think he jumps.
[SPEAKER_05]: That is startling.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, yeah, just a little bow.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and he should be, I think, after she does that, she threads a little like flour through, like, somewhere on your, on your person.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the flour is going to match the, like, a flour that's been kind of, um, resined onto the, to the name of the name, the name of the name, platter on your, and your seat.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, I show up and an old man in like a military uniform with like just covered in metals has got to step out and help me out and walk in.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I'm glad you made it and you brought nice sweets, sir.
[SPEAKER_07]: Uh, her general introduces since I'll see you.
[SPEAKER_07]: Um, a general famous in.
[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't realize you were breaking a general.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm delighted.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's one of our best, and I just wanted to show him around your guys' country this month.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, most military men don't make it, forgive me for saying so this far into age, so you must be quite good.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, he's one of the best.
[SPEAKER_03]: Clearly.
[SPEAKER_07]: He's sternly nods.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, the silent time perfect.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, silent time.
[SPEAKER_07]: He was there.
[SPEAKER_07]: He was given an objective by Annelise, and he's going to follow it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Jesus, Jesse.
[SPEAKER_07]: Anyways, so you all arrive.
[SPEAKER_07]: I imagine you have that awkward small talk.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's something I want to talk to if I can't about.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, go for it.
[SPEAKER_07]: This is the perfect time to do it as you are like kind of waiting to be sent.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like how summer field always.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm very interested in your in your sciences that you've been working on.
[SPEAKER_03]: If you have some kind of lab or something that you like to work with.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, well, I have a handful of rooms where I kind of separate the different portions of the sciences that I've been doing.
[SPEAKER_01]: But yes, lately the the big.
[SPEAKER_01]: Follow me if you don't mind.
[SPEAKER_01]: I keep keep them tended to please and I'm gonna walk you to It's like it's it's dimly lit, but you see that there's a lot of like like vials and like beaker Like this glass kind of things filled with like different liquids and then some of them have like a couple of different like
[SPEAKER_01]: like, granulated, like substances, as I've been working in here kind of tinkering with some form of a, I sort of a, of a mixer.
[SPEAKER_01]: I've, I've, I've found that there's in, I haven't figured out quite why yet, but in some states of, of, of being, there, there are,
[SPEAKER_01]: It's almost like a clenliness that I can't quite explain it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I haven't quite figured it out yet But here I'm working on so this this was I I use the the typical distillery But I did it longer and well this is undurinkable.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's functionally poison, but I found that it for clenliness purposes if
[SPEAKER_01]: I've, I may or may not have tested it on myself a handful of times, but I've gone to people who were sick, I had them like touch something and then I used this on it and a good portion of the time I don't wind up getting whatever fever they may have had.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, this is very interesting.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm going to walk up to just whatever book is out and just kind of flip through it, kind of just scanning it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, a lot of the books, so I think the one you start with is one that you see he's been writing like he's been like jotting down a lot of and it starts like flowers and like like soil and then is it like kind of pitch through like the forest functionally it goes to like tree bark and then it goes to like the like the mycelium and like the mushrooms that are on the tree bark and then the ones that are on the floor and it's looking at like fungus now and so it's it it's kind of gone from like the beauties into like the the carians of nature
[SPEAKER_03]: Hmm, it's all fascinating stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: I haven't got you the excited.
[SPEAKER_01]: Again, you're so well read.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: I like to dab on books here in there.
[SPEAKER_03]: I travel a lot, so sometimes it's all you can do.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, of course.
[SPEAKER_01]: I get it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, at any time you'd like to come, we'll visit in here or see what I'm working on.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're always more than welcome.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, I'm, I'd be glad, too.
[SPEAKER_01]: Any further questions?
[SPEAKER_01]: I do, I think that we may be the liveliness of this, well, get together.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so I think the two of us might want to make our way out there.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, let's, let's make our way back.
[SPEAKER_03]: I just was interested in what you had going on.
[SPEAKER_01]: No.
[SPEAKER_01]: Of course, here, I get a little vial of like the like 90th proof alcohol I have, and I like put it in like you're like maybe like you have like a little like an inner thing or maybe like a little like pouch of carrying and I like slip it in there like oh, it's for cleaning purposes.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, thank you.
[SPEAKER_03]: Of course.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I found no bulls all believe they're so clean, but once you actually start to get to know me find out they're not quite possibly the dirtiest people you've ever met.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: As you guys are having this conversation elsewhere, there's
[SPEAKER_07]: A bit of conversation happening down in this sort of front room as you all are waiting to be sat.
[SPEAKER_07]: I assume Miles is kind of off in the corner by the door to the dining room.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's got chocolate on his fingers and face bro.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, he's cutting.
[SPEAKER_07]: He's grubbing.
[SPEAKER_07]: You're having a great time.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, Felia.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm unsure where you're at in the room.
[SPEAKER_07]: Where have you placed yourself?
[SPEAKER_04]: I think she started in a corner like straight just like in a corner.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: And then she's kind of just like slowly inching her way into like the center.
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, I'm not the center of the room.
[SPEAKER_04]: But I close her inwards and try and just get a perspective of who's here where they are and where to avoid.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: And she just want to be so ostracized of people like what the hell is that growing over there?
[SPEAKER_04]: So she's like slowly, actually, making her way.
[SPEAKER_07]: Hasually making her way over there.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, Felia, I assume you're still kind of like bunched up with your family for right now.
[SPEAKER_07]: Um, when Sarah arrives eventually, uh, Mortimer will go and chat with her, but I assume that your mom is like... You gotta go say hi to her, like, what are you doing standing here?
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh no, I'm...
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm told Sarah that he's very interested in that.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, so in that case, Sarah definitely comes over and I was like, Oh, so, what's with her?
[SPEAKER_07]: Hello to you and your family, I assume.
[SPEAKER_07]: as she puts her hand out to like, shake for Esther's mom and the Nester.
[SPEAKER_06]: Thank you, Esther.
[SPEAKER_06]: Esther will greet her and she'll say, oh, it is lovely to properly make your acquaintance.
[SPEAKER_06]: You were out while we were all promenoting the other day, right?
[SPEAKER_06]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_07]: And we chatted a little bit at the end of all the festivities and
[SPEAKER_07]: The Vy couch invited me here, so I figured I would say hello.
[SPEAKER_06]: That is lovely, yes.
[SPEAKER_06]: But Mortimer is overjoyed to see you.
[SPEAKER_06]: He has talked about you non-stop, she's lying.
[SPEAKER_06]: And more to what?
[SPEAKER_06]: How about you take the young lady to go and get some refreshments?
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, um, yes, that sounds like a great um idea as he's like, you see a beat of sweat.
[SPEAKER_07]: Just like trickle on his face a little bit.
[SPEAKER_07]: Only the only in the side that you can see Esther is like, it's like, hmm, yes, um, and then he'll put his arm out to go take her to refreshments.
[SPEAKER_07]: At that same time, you see Ambrose coming towards you, Esther, and then recognizes that the woman with you is likely your mom, and it's like, like, Prim and proper almost, and it's like, oh, uh, Lady Esther, it's good to see little at Ambrose.
[SPEAKER_07]: And this is,
[SPEAKER_07]: My mother, wonderful to meet you, Lady Locott, as he does the thing of taking her hand and, you know, kissing it and doing all the proper things to say hello.
[SPEAKER_07]: And it's like, hmm, Esther, have you been here long?
[SPEAKER_06]: um not particularly uh we arrived rather early because uh if I can't some of you actually invite to the young lady to spend time with my cousin.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh wonderful news about yourself.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh I haven't arrived long just saying hello to folks is just to say hello um but then I saw you over here and your mother had to come say um hello as well um do you
[SPEAKER_06]: Um, I am not quite certain.
[SPEAKER_06]: They haven't called us for a meal time yet.
[SPEAKER_06]: Um, in the meantime, though, if you'd like the Vy Count's home is filled with quite a number of peculiarities, if you would like to walk with me?
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, of course I'd love to peruse the interesttingness of the Vy Count's home.
[SPEAKER_06]: Well then, mother, I am sure you will find company on your own.
[SPEAKER_07]: She's like, like, secretly getting in the corner of being like, oh, of course, dear.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes, you go.
[SPEAKER_07]: She's like, go.
[SPEAKER_07]: You got to go.
[SPEAKER_07]: Of course, I'll see you perhaps at dinner, but yes, go on.
[SPEAKER_07]: I don't send it all.
[SPEAKER_07]: As Amber puts out his hand.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I think Esther will take Ambrose's hand and she'll turn back to her mother and she'll say, If you do find yourself becoming bored, mother, do find Analise, or perhaps the White Count, they all rather entertaining?
[SPEAKER_07]: Understood, I've heard a lot about them from you, so I certainly will seek them out unless they find me first.
[SPEAKER_07]: And then I think she'll kind of turn her heel and she'll walk with Ambrose.
[SPEAKER_07]: affiliate you see you saw Bridget enter the home you very keen in observant.
[SPEAKER_07]: You see that she's just been kind of walking around looking at their freshman table and all that sort of thing.
[SPEAKER_07]: She hasn't spotted you yet.
[SPEAKER_07]: I think especially since you've kept yourself in a corner has not seen you yet.
[SPEAKER_07]: But you are making your way towards the middle of the room now.
[SPEAKER_07]: And as that happens, she turns around.
[SPEAKER_07]: And it's not like you guys bump into each other, but you see each other.
[SPEAKER_07]: That sort of weird look of recognition.
[SPEAKER_07]: And she's like,
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, um, oh, Philia, hello.
[SPEAKER_07]: Hello, Bridget.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, um, hmm.
[SPEAKER_04]: How, what are you doing here?
[SPEAKER_04]: I was about to ask you the same question I thought you left the city a while back.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, yes, but we're visiting for now.
[SPEAKER_07]: The Vy Count invited us both.
[SPEAKER_07]: We met him during the summer festival for the first time.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes, and he said that it would be lovely if he's holding a little swarrow at his place and that we should come since we're visiting.
[SPEAKER_07]: That makes sense Very kind of you to accept the invitation.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, I couldn't quite say no.
[SPEAKER_07]: He was so convincing about it I'm sure I'm sure the the Vy count.
[SPEAKER_07]: How are you?
[SPEAKER_07]: How are you doing?
[SPEAKER_04]: doing pretty good.
[SPEAKER_04]: I found a job.
[SPEAKER_04]: I work with a very loving family and they were very gracious.
[SPEAKER_04]: Let me come here today but I do hold them near and dear to me and I've made a few friends this season which is actually quite nice.
[SPEAKER_04]: Wonderful.
[SPEAKER_04]: How are you?
[SPEAKER_07]: How is
[SPEAKER_07]: Wonderful.
[SPEAKER_07]: We've seen a lot and figured we'd stop here at home since we're in the area before heading back out.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's been very nice so far.
[SPEAKER_07]: She's like standing there like slightly awkward keeping to herself.
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, um, I'm glad to hear you're happy and things worked out in your favor.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes, I hope that you're well in all of your endeavors very well.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's great news, Miles, you see this.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, do I see him clock us?
[SPEAKER_07]: Or might you locked in?
[SPEAKER_05]: I might be too locked in.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, you're you're you're you're lost in the saucepan.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, bro.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think he like wipes his face in like goes to wave.
[SPEAKER_07]: And it does not get a wave back.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh my god.
[SPEAKER_05]: Like he's supposed to go over there.
[SPEAKER_05]: Should I go over there and say hi?
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm like glancing around looking for an alleys where she is.
[SPEAKER_07]: You don't see an alleys right now.
[SPEAKER_05]: I walk over there.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm just kind of like wiping my hands up on me.
[SPEAKER_07]: As soon as your hands go to your overcoat or something, a white buff, a certain comes over with a wet wipe function.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, thank you.
[SPEAKER_05]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_05]: I see.
[SPEAKER_07]: And then they hold their hand out.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'll take that.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, I feel like fishing my f**k is just giving you a time.
[SPEAKER_05]: You don't have to... Oh, I just thought...
[SPEAKER_05]: I just thought...
[SPEAKER_05]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_05]: Great work.
[SPEAKER_05]: And like, go for a fist bump.
[SPEAKER_07]: Um, they don't know what to do, so they're with their hand, that you put the thing in the diamond.
[SPEAKER_07]: They like put it into a fist bump and awkwardly like... Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: fist bump you?
[SPEAKER_07]: All right.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm just going to look scary.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: You head over and, sort of, I guess awkwardly insert yourself into this conversation.
[SPEAKER_07]: You know, Ophelia, you don't know this couple that she's talking to.
[SPEAKER_07]: As they are chatting, and I think you catch the tail end of hope you're doing well in your endeavors.
[SPEAKER_07]: Does the cuffl look like affluent?
[SPEAKER_05]: I don't recognize them, huh?
[SPEAKER_07]: No, you don't recognize them but they do look affluent by their dress and like the way that they're holding it.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think you kind of like position yourself to be seen by you from like kind of behind them and then it's like Oh, oh, I'm oh, I think there's someone who wants to talk to you.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's like how much was to greet this person in front of affluent people?
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, as Bridget sort of like is like gesturing behind you
[SPEAKER_05]: never got her last name.
[SPEAKER_04]: 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, no
[SPEAKER_04]: immediately link you as soon as possible, like link with you.
[SPEAKER_04]: Ah, it's like, oh, um, Surmiles, this is an old friend of mine.
[SPEAKER_04]: Um, Bridget, her and her husband are visiting us once again, and Bridget, this is a very new friend of mine, that I'm very glad to have Surmiles.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, um, Surmiles, it's wonderful to meet you.
[SPEAKER_07]: Um, how do you two know each other?
[SPEAKER_05]: We met at a ball passing and then we did my friends wonderful.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's wonderful to hear Served miles are you a night?
[SPEAKER_05]: Yes, yes, and just kind of like yes, it's up straighter We're enishing my metal.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, that's wonderful Recently, um, that's great.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm very proud of myself for that
[SPEAKER_07]: Um, well, it was wonderful to see you offelia.
[SPEAKER_07]: Um, we'll see you at the dinner.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm getting quite patched and she, like, press her arm and I was like, well, go over to refreshments.
[SPEAKER_07]: But I hope to speak to you later.
[SPEAKER_05]: Do try the little chocolatey ones.
[SPEAKER_05]: They are fantastic.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm telling you, the wy count is such a talent at, um, what is it?
[SPEAKER_05]: The culinary arts.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, that's generic.
[SPEAKER_05]: Confections.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, yes.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, I will definitely anything else to you recommend.
[SPEAKER_05]: All of it.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, all of it.
[SPEAKER_05]: Start with the chocolate, work your way to the breadz and such.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, we'll do as they sort of like, go off that way.
[SPEAKER_07]: Lovely people.
[SPEAKER_04]: Friends, you said, yes, Bridget and I were childhood friends.
[SPEAKER_04]: And she recently went away when she got married.
[SPEAKER_04]: But she's quite a surprise to see her thank you so much for stopping.
[SPEAKER_05]: a little out of touch talking ah I know the feeling yes I handed some polled some money thinking that that was the thing to do and I guess not I mean very generous of you it's I mean I kind like I figured it's like like you tip the worker
[SPEAKER_05]: Right, yeah, I see I think now that is just you too.
[SPEAKER_04]: She's like, oh, it's my You said the chocolate's really, yes, I have someone man Kind of I think I'm I think I'm I'm feeling quite faint actually yeah, I mean we could head over to the version.
[SPEAKER_04]: No, no, no, no I don't want to go to that table
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, all right, is it, is it, is there a problem?
[SPEAKER_04]: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, just some, I like to peruse the room and not just be stuck in one spot for much longer.
[SPEAKER_05]: Then shall we turn about the room?
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, please.
[SPEAKER_05]: Wonderful.
[SPEAKER_07]: So you two are also prosing about the room as Esther and Ambrose are also prosing about the room.
[SPEAKER_07]: Are double day?
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm sure is that that could mean absolutely nothing at all.
[SPEAKER_07]: Nothing at all.
[SPEAKER_05]: No.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: So you guys are doing that as the VyCount and Annelise come back down.
[SPEAKER_07]: VyCount, are you calling for when dinner happens or your servants have a signal or... Yeah, they'll start setting up and I'll show people to it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like they know the timing.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, so you are all having this sort of awkward but also nice moment and your servant sort of do the little like dinner is ready to be served as the doors open and it's your very lavishly decorated dining room.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes, um, I see Talon is holding a result again at me.
[SPEAKER_05]: I would like it to be a moment where I'm already with Ophelia, so I just go to sit next to her and I'm sitting in Ambros's spot.
[SPEAKER_05]: Interesting.
[SPEAKER_05]: Just not just not paying attention to the things that are there.
[SPEAKER_07]: So as you're all, I think that there's a servant for each of you to sort of bring you to your placard.
[SPEAKER_07]: And I think hopefully it's even like, I hope we're sitting next to each other.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: And for our audience, it is a very long rectangular table and starting from the bottom left side.
[SPEAKER_07]: We have six chairs going up.
[SPEAKER_07]: It is going to be Bridget's husband.
[SPEAKER_07]: Bridget, the Prussian General General Jamison, Miles, and Elise, Esther at the very end, and then going from the bottom right up, we then have Sarah, Mortimer, Ophelia, Ambrose, the Vy-Count Summerfield, and Esther's mom militant.
[SPEAKER_07]: that is our seeding chart so again there's a servant that's sort of like guiding you to each spot and i guess this will be a question for the vi count as um miles is going in and a quote unquote fucking up the seeding chart and it's not purposeful like it's not like like oh Amber was a seeding ramanist no it's just like oh like i'm already whatever it's just it's just chairs like i'm just gonna sit
[SPEAKER_07]: And I guess the question for you, if your servants see this happen, are they going to step in, intervene, and bring miles to his correct seating spot?
[SPEAKER_07]: Or will they just let that happen?
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's swap the tags.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's almost this down, so like that later, it's just like that.
[SPEAKER_07]: So then that will mean that Ambrose is going to swap spots with Surmiles and we'll sit next to Annelise now.
[SPEAKER_07]: The general is going to be next to Ambrose now.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm like seeing something like, oh, which will catch the eye of Annelise.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, I'll see.
[SPEAKER_07]: Anyone else want to change their seating before we get into sitting down for dinner?
[SPEAKER_06]: I think seeing the kind of switcheru happen, I think Esther being Anneliese's friend would catch her and say, at least, do you, I see that your tag is next to Little Embers is, but do you mind if I just do a little switcheru?
[SPEAKER_06]: Of course, honey.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, thank you so much.
[SPEAKER_06]: And then, that's what.
[SPEAKER_07]: For our audience, because I'm sure that got a little bit jumbled and a little bit confusing, again, long rectangular tables, six seats on either side, starting from the bottom left.
[SPEAKER_07]: That hasn't changed.
[SPEAKER_07]: We go, Bridget's husband, Bridget, General Jamison, then we have Ambrose, we have Esther, and then we have Annelise now to cap it off.
[SPEAKER_07]: Then from the bottom right side, we have Sarah, Mortimer, Ophelia, Surmiles, the Vacant Summer Field, and Esther's mom militant.
[SPEAKER_07]: That is going to be our final seating arrangement as you all sit down in your spots.
[SPEAKER_07]: How do you all sit down in your spots?
[SPEAKER_07]: Do you just sit there?
[SPEAKER_07]: Does anyone open a chair for their other person?
[SPEAKER_07]: Does it down?
[SPEAKER_07]: Like, what's the vibe?
[SPEAKER_05]: I think Miles goes in just like, puffs down.
[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, I mean, like sit up and then pull up the chair for a few years.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, thank you.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, and then I think as this is all happening, Ambrose sees Miles sitting in his spot, sees a servant swap.
[SPEAKER_07]: his placard, then sees Esther and Elise talking, goes to sit where his new placard is, then sees that Esther is sitting where Anne Elise is supposed to sit, then we'll go and pull out the chair for Esther to sit down and go, lady, lady, lock heart, if you please.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, thank you, Lord Embers.
[SPEAKER_07]: I suppose the seeding chart's got a bit mixed up.
[SPEAKER_07]: It seems as though.
[SPEAKER_07]: Um, fate is a tricky thing, isn't it?
[SPEAKER_07]: Ah, it's not that I minded all that much.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm now next to someone more familiar.
[SPEAKER_07]: So, I guess that makes it a little easier.
[SPEAKER_07]: I suppose we simply cannot get away from each other.
[SPEAKER_07]: I suppose not, but I do not mind.
[SPEAKER_07]: You all sit down for dinner.
[SPEAKER_07]: And your courses get served.
[SPEAKER_07]: It'll be this nice summer greens with some tomatoes and maybe some bell peppers with like an elder flower of vinegar at sort of situation drizzled over.
[SPEAKER_07]: Maybe a few berries as well.
[SPEAKER_07]: It was this place down in front of each of you.
[SPEAKER_07]: There's also probably some bread as well in the middle of the table.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's just kind of there as the bike helped.
[SPEAKER_07]: Has been into very much bread making and such.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm reaching over.
[SPEAKER_05]: Just I mean like I think it's table manners suck.
[SPEAKER_05]: I mean as manners.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's everything sucks Oh, it's kind of like he kind of like looks around like no one's no one's really going for and just kind of like big I'm reaching towards like one of the roles in the basket
[SPEAKER_07]: You sort of started trend.
[SPEAKER_07]: You see, then Amberostas offers you a stir if you would like any.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, yes, thank you.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, and then you see Bridget goes and grabs her own.
[SPEAKER_07]: Then like grabs two offers one to her husband.
[SPEAKER_07]: Um, Mortimer.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, Mortimer, Mortimer, Mortimer watching, watching everyone else, goes and gets bread and offers it to Sarah as Mortimer is slowly but surely learning.
[SPEAKER_07]: awkwardly, I guess, having this for her not worth, yeah, I'll tell you what, wow, this is to relatable, wow, you hear this next to you, and I think there's a small part of you that has a bit of horror as you have taught your girls, table manners, over and over again, as you see miles just going down.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm gonna like, and like, grab the nap enough, the table
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm hoping he catches the hair.
[SPEAKER_04]: We're not going to eat.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm getting there, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm just pacing myself.
[SPEAKER_04]: You can eat.
[SPEAKER_04]: No, you can eat.
[SPEAKER_04]: I just, you know, pacing myself.
[SPEAKER_04]: I sure got my napkin on my lap.
[SPEAKER_04]: In case I have an e-crumbs or... Ah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Look how it looks.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Ah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Just, uh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Ah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's a good salad.
[SPEAKER_05]: Very good.
[SPEAKER_05]: Uh.
[SPEAKER_05]: Vycon.
[SPEAKER_05]: Wonderful.
[SPEAKER_05]: Wonderful work.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm quite pleased he thinks so.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I can't I can't figure out what a coin happened.
[SPEAKER_01]: I seem to have spilled all over myself And I began eating though.
[SPEAKER_01]: I Oh, it happens It's truly just genuinely I've like crumbled on myself.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh I'm gonna kind of like kid Ambrot.
[SPEAKER_03]: What's Ambrose's title?
[SPEAKER_07]: The by-count.
[SPEAKER_07]: Why can't Abanson?
[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, so I'm going to bank on everything.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, so, uh, please excuse my ignorance.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know much about this land.
[SPEAKER_03]: Tell me about your family.
[SPEAKER_03]: What do you family all about?
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, my family is well-versed in the trades in such like that, and I have two older brothers and a younger sister, and I was off traveling for work, and I returned, as I've said, family obligations.
[SPEAKER_07]: What is it exactly that you do again?
[SPEAKER_07]: I was away for quite some time and I'm still catching myself up on all the tons, you know, working.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, I'm just a dodges.
[SPEAKER_03]: My uncle is the Kaiser.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm just kind of doing, just making sure that everything's good and pressure.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's kind of my job.
[SPEAKER_07]: Wonderful.
[SPEAKER_07]: And I hope everything is voting well.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: All right, um, is that I assume, um, who you brought with you then as he like looks over and sees the general sitting by himself Who's supposed to be sitting?
[SPEAKER_07]: Is the miles of miles decided to go elsewhere as he's just kind of keeping quietly to his self I'm going it.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, I just want to just be going my god.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, yes.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is the this is my general one of my generals One of my he's a good friend of mine.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, no, and each other for a long time.
[SPEAKER_07]: He looks after me wonderful wonderful I see
[SPEAKER_03]: So I'm going to get up and walk over next to the general and I'm just going to make a little small talk talking about how I grew up with them, but I'm going to use one of my points.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I want my else to notice me because I'm going to bend over forward too, kind of just show a little bit of trust you know.
[SPEAKER_03]: As I'm like talking to the general and then I'm going to like just whisper something into emotion to miles.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I just want miles to clock that.
[SPEAKER_03]: So the general's going to look up and look, make eye contact with miles and he's kind of giving a nod and then go back to talking.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, like a very approving nod.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think it's ice to boobs first and then the hand like gesturing to me and then like looking at like, I think Ophelia feels miles just immediately like
[SPEAKER_05]: Are you all right?
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, quite.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'll do a monologue so I can put that.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: So what exactly were you fishing for?
[SPEAKER_04]: I want to know what happened.
[SPEAKER_04]: He was so easy.
[SPEAKER_04]: Beautiful cover girl.
[SPEAKER_04]: Is that going to go?
[SPEAKER_05]: Did you tell me, Jesse, that you were going to be bringing the general around this as well?
[SPEAKER_03]: No, I wouldn't.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: didn't realize that this person was going to be here and then I see it and it's like oh shit like that's my future ahead of me and if I can't fuck this up that's fucked up uh oh it's a lot of uh oh he's erected at that one person but I can tell that like your discomfort is because of and at least in the general's conversation yeah okay they're presence
[SPEAKER_05]: Specifically, the general's presence and Annelly's being a part of it.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, so you clocked that, I think, especially with the shift in body language and energy that Miles was carrying himself with, he was being kind of a bumbling idiot a second ago and then all of a sudden locked in.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, all of a sudden there's a soldier sitting next to you.
[SPEAKER_04]: I think she's going to reach with the red and be like, yeah, right, this was really good.
[SPEAKER_04]: I thought, like, lift your spirits.
[SPEAKER_04]: Again, like, oh my god, can you give me some more bread?
[SPEAKER_05]: Of course, of course.
[SPEAKER_05]: Is there butter on the table too?
[SPEAKER_05]: Like, should we get on it?
[SPEAKER_05]: and she's like, I don't know what we're just like, oh, could you up and like, where, let's see who I would.
[SPEAKER_05]: I guess, did be the general in that direction.
[SPEAKER_05]: She's like, oh, could you pass that?
[UNKNOWN]: Oh, my God.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, my God.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes, sir, my, and then we'll do that and then like, you know, hold the butter knife proper to you.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_07]: and then whispered to you and it's like strong, strong grip he has.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm going to walk back to my chair and as I do, if I count Ambrose.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_03]: So would you say are you a logistics man making sure things get to where they need to be?
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes, I would say that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh well, I mean we've got a lot of plans and pressure and we definitely need people who could get things where they need to be, you know, luckily my friend Hester here.
[SPEAKER_03]: She we've been friends for a while and always is true.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: And he looked, if Esther trusts them, then I trust them.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, that's wonderful news.
[SPEAKER_07]: That sounds great.
[SPEAKER_07]: How did you to meet any ways you and Esther?
[SPEAKER_03]: I'll have Esther say.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh my god, I almost imagined that the two of them fell into friendship because when Esther was trying to help her younger sisters get married and she was stirring the pot and coming up with all these rumours and drama to help her sisters, she and Anne Elise just kind of naturally found each other in the spectacle of it all.
[SPEAKER_06]: But when she was talking to Ambrose when they were
[SPEAKER_06]: So she's trying to be real careful.
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, I suppose, at least and I found each other because when my younger sisters were still at home before they were wed, I found myself quite need of a mentor and at least is truly wise.
[SPEAKER_06]: So, so wise and gorgeous and well-vest in so many ways I'm gonna lift up my blind glass and edit it like this Yeah, yeah, it's at least it's fucking chugging this thing.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, oh, that makes sense Well, that's wonderful that you found a mentor and Analyze and then a friend and it has blossomed into such a beautiful friendship
[SPEAKER_06]: Yes, um, I would like to use a resolve token to regard an Elise and I think Esther
[SPEAKER_06]: Maybe a little too loudly says so and at least your friend who has accompanied you, this stalwart soldier type.
[SPEAKER_06]: Why bring him along with your plus one?
[SPEAKER_06]: I do not believe he's been out and about much.
[SPEAKER_06]: The season is he simply visiting from Prussia or do you have plans in mind for him?
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh yeah, he's just visiting, you know, he's almost like a dad to me, he kind of, he's been around since I was young, always looking out for me and he was in the area and so I just wanted to show him a good time, show him what your country's all about.
[SPEAKER_06]: Now, you don't have to expunge the details if you don't wish, but you do keep going on about these great plans that you have for Prussia.
[SPEAKER_06]: Is that Pap's called for his visit?
[SPEAKER_06]: And she looks over at miles.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, I mean, everything I do is in the name of Prussia.
[SPEAKER_06]: Interesting.
[SPEAKER_01]: Miles looks so uncomfortable.
[SPEAKER_01]: And at least I do apologize.
[SPEAKER_01]: Can we please not talk business at the table?
[SPEAKER_01]: I, I understand I, I adore your pension for Prussia.
[SPEAKER_01]: I, I, I, I love nationalism.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's, it's impressive.
[SPEAKER_01]: Please, let's, let's enjoy.
[SPEAKER_01]: I baked this for you.
[SPEAKER_01]: I pull out like a like a wrong cake.
[SPEAKER_01]: I put it like I like I walk it like down to you.
[SPEAKER_01]: I put it in front of you and I like cut you a slice for all your plate.
[SPEAKER_01]: Please let's just enjoy the company.
[SPEAKER_03]: Of course, of course.
[SPEAKER_03]: I apologize.
[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't mean to.
[SPEAKER_01]: Of course.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I apologize for I was so focused on the crumbs on my shirt and I didn't mean to be so abrupt.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm going to use a point to make sure that Esther and Ambrose get a slice of the
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh boy, whoo and um you all finish your appetizer plates are taken there's a wall right now in terms of food Maybe that sort of awkward in between like limbo of like do we chat do we start Conversation but what if the food is broad and then we are still in conversation and then I have to eat so like that's kind of where you guys are at right now Well empty mouths means full air so let's have some conversation friends
[SPEAKER_01]: What does that mean?
[SPEAKER_01]: We're flinging the air with noise, empty mountains full air, we can talk when I'm in front of him.
[SPEAKER_03]: How okay.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think I lean into like a village, like I normally show those who like it.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh that is that is true, she is so much a probably keeping on it.
[SPEAKER_05]: She's so fun sometimes, but she will worry for you.
[SPEAKER_04]: She will.
[SPEAKER_05]: She has some more.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like throwing you another drone.
[SPEAKER_05]: No, thank you.
[SPEAKER_05]: You're constantly.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm walking over.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh I see.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm just leaning over the table.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm trying to encourage talking.
[SPEAKER_01]: What brings you delightful folk here, the two?
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, Bridget.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, I don't believe we were traveling, and we were in the area and Bridget's like, and I'm from here, so I was visiting home.
[SPEAKER_01]: Obviously you don't know me.
[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like I'd remember you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Do you have no anybody here?
[SPEAKER_01]: I felt like there was a form of familiarity that maybe I could have been this reading it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just really appreciated your conversational energy at the carnival and I just thought it, you know, you would be a fantastic addition to the table.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, um, I appreciate that.
[SPEAKER_07]: Um, yes, I, um, I used to know Ophelia.
[SPEAKER_01]: How are you?
[SPEAKER_07]: Are you using that on Bridget or are you using that on Ophelia?
[SPEAKER_01]: I use that on Ophelia.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: Hey Ophelia and what she says your name, what goes on your head.
[SPEAKER_01]: I want to know how she used to know you.
[SPEAKER_01]: In what way?
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, you used to know me?
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, that's crazy thing to say.
[SPEAKER_04]: I thought we were in love.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I go, I sit down.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, delightful.
[SPEAKER_01]: Ophelia, please talk with your friend.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, but she's all the way across.
[SPEAKER_01]: I can fix that.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm moving people.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh.
[SPEAKER_07]: OK, how are you moving people?
[SPEAKER_07]: Tell me how you're moving the seating chart around.
[SPEAKER_04]: I think if you use a human being, people, she's going to grab miles or I'm like, oh, please, I would love to stay next tomorrow.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, you're staying there.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're fine.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so I'm going to move Virginia, the general, with more demands, Sarah.
[SPEAKER_01]: General, I do apologize.
[SPEAKER_00]: What do you mind, just to, I mean, you're a man.
[SPEAKER_01]: You won't matter following instruction.
[SPEAKER_01]: March down over there instead of that chair and I make like a game of it.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, so I need to know, are you moving to general into your seat next to miles?
[SPEAKER_01]: No, no, no.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm swapping Mortimer and Sarah with Bridget and the general.
[SPEAKER_04]: So I should have crossed.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: And Bridget's husband is staying there.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's like, oh, it's actually, I'm going to pop.
[SPEAKER_01]: Mortimer and Sarah down, so that way I can move my seat next to my gun.
[SPEAKER_01]: Bridget's husband.
[SPEAKER_01]: The general's at the end of the opposite side of the table, so he's not next to anybody except for Bridget.
[SPEAKER_01]: Bridget is next to you.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're next miles on the other side of you.
[SPEAKER_07]: Dude, you're in a fucked up sandwich right now.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, you're telling me.
[SPEAKER_01]: How did you meet Bridget?
[SPEAKER_01]: You're not from here where you travel like what is please tell me?
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, and he just kind of tells you, you guys Bridget.
[SPEAKER_07]: He was visiting here a few years ago.
[SPEAKER_07]: Him and Bridget conveniently met and then
[SPEAKER_07]: Things kicked off apparently.
[SPEAKER_01]: Love it from side I hope.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, it was, yes it was, and he says it pretty loud.
[SPEAKER_07]: And then you, uh, Esther, Amber was sort of like, leans over to you and it's like, I feel like things got a little tense.
[SPEAKER_07]: Um, um, and jumbled, but it'll be interesting to see how this all
[SPEAKER_07]: goes.
[SPEAKER_06]: She kind of whispered, she like puts her hand up and she whispered back and she says, I didn't think you much went to indulge in dramatic spectacle, especially at the dinner table
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, when the dramatic spectacle unfolds in front of me, it's kind of hard not to notice.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's quite true.
[SPEAKER_06]: I feel as though we are reaching the boiling point of this dinner, don't you?
[SPEAKER_07]: I feel the next course needs to get here quickly,
[SPEAKER_07]: And as you guys are having this conversation, the next course gets brought out, if I can't out some or feel, what do you think that the main course would be?
[SPEAKER_01]: It's like root-based, a lot of like roasted, different like kind of like potatoes and veggies and things like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then a top it is probably some kind of like braised like, probably like a rib.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, so that gets brought out.
[SPEAKER_07]: There's a sort of air that kind of like decompresses as food is brought out and there are things to talk about as
[SPEAKER_07]: This is so good by count and this is a lovely selection, that sort of thing gets tossed your way miles is back grubbing I assume
[SPEAKER_05]: No, no.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's picking out his play a little.
[SPEAKER_07]: No, okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: And then you have Bridget, who's next to you, Ophelia, be like, so what have you been up to this season?
[SPEAKER_07]: Um, you're at the the White Count's house.
[SPEAKER_07]: I assume that you've been, um, popular.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I attended a ball and I had a very nice time with my girls that I look after and things kind of just trail down from there and it's been one great adventure after another with these fine people that I'm happy to be acquainted with.
[SPEAKER_04]: How about you?
[SPEAKER_04]: How is your husband?
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes, he's, uh, he's quite wonderful.
[SPEAKER_07]: Um, we've been, we've been good.
[SPEAKER_07]: We've just been traveling around finding a place to to settle.
[SPEAKER_07]: Hmm.
[SPEAKER_07]: I see you start a family.
[SPEAKER_07]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_07]: Interesting.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: Um, I think this happens loud enough that, uh, analysts you hear this kind of awkward conversation.
[SPEAKER_07]: And I will note that you did have one of your servants notice, uh,
[SPEAKER_07]: Just, you know, things to remember that there's information that you know, alongside of all this other stuff that's been going on.
[SPEAKER_04]: Not to add fuel to your fire, but we did establish early on that we were like pretty good friends.
[SPEAKER_04]: So I don't think you know the full extent, but I think like in a late night crying session.
[SPEAKER_04]: I was like, I fell in love one time like it didn't work out.
[SPEAKER_04]: Like I don't know if I'll ever find something like that again.
[SPEAKER_07]: Analyze fucking knows so much information.
[SPEAKER_07]: She just gets that stuff.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm gonna have the general switch places with me Yeah, I just switch on it.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, so the general switch is spots and so now Analyze is next to Bridget I'm gonna be like, oh Bridget.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, yes, um, and at least yes.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, I'll feel you as mentioned you before.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh has she I'm just saying that
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, yeah, she said unfortunately she didn't tell me much, but yeah, we've been friends a long time And it just odd that she has a friend that I don't really know much about oh But she's mentioned me is it just didn't this in passing yeah, I see yeah, we we used to know each other We were childhood friends She was my next door neighbor and now can I haven't heard anything of you if you guys were so close
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, I'm not sure, I suppose I did leave rather abruptly to go get married.
[SPEAKER_07]: I got swept up in the love of it all, but I wrote, lying, and I'm unsure why she hasn't mentioned me.
[SPEAKER_03]: How long have you two been friends?
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, that is interesting that she's only mentioned me in passing.
[SPEAKER_07]: We were quite good friends.
[SPEAKER_07]: We'll feel like you hear this as Bridget is like turned her like back to you as it is chatting with Analyze and Analyze is not subtle I think she's gonna move towards her.
[SPEAKER_07]: So like yeah, I'm a few drinks in I'm not being so Settle tease out the window now for Analyze.
[SPEAKER_04]: She's now a few drinks in I think she won't will serve herself like not not for them to hear But like maybe Miles catches it was like not much to tell you got married.
[SPEAKER_04]: You left you moved like what is there?
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, man.
[SPEAKER_04]: What's that?
[SPEAKER_07]: Is that, is that a monologue token for Miles?
[SPEAKER_05]: I think Miles been picking up on the awkwardness of it all, and like, he's stupid, right?
[SPEAKER_05]: Like, she's stupid, they're stupid, but also, like, you're awkward in itself, and so you know when weird things.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I think it's more of like, you know awkward.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: who am I going to fuck up?
[SPEAKER_05]: It's kind of that energy and just like really just like listening and to see what what he's got to look out for.
[SPEAKER_03]: And there's some messiness there, you know, that's all at least as you try to point out.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's some messiness there for miles to think about.
[SPEAKER_04]: So yeah, monologue token for me.
[SPEAKER_04]: I think you start to sense there's definitely like not hard anger, but like maybe resentment, maybe guilt, maybe jealousy towards bridge of like,
[SPEAKER_05]: like stop talking about it like stop it's not you got married you left like you know it's supposed to be here you you I thought you were never coming back and they're to see you again like stop talking about me to my friends can I say where my man goes yeah you wanted her man it was like a fight over over the man and then and that's where his stupid mind goes yeah I like I like glanced over to the husband across the way shit
[SPEAKER_05]: I ain't him up.
[SPEAKER_05]: What do I see?
[SPEAKER_05]: Just a man.
[SPEAKER_07]: He's, he's so genuinely just a guy who's having like small talk, conversation with the VidCount.
[SPEAKER_05]: Interesting, that's interesting.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's what I'm going to, so I'm going to go to Bridgetbe.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, oh, well, like how long are you going to be, yeah, be around?
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, um, we're in town for at least another week.
[SPEAKER_07]: Um, yeah, so we'll be off again again.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, if you're not busy, I'm sure we can have a girl's night.
[SPEAKER_07]: That would be wonderful.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, if you're such good friends with my friend Ophila, we've got to have a girl's night.
[SPEAKER_07]: That would be wonderful, then we could catch up because we haven't chatted a bit.
[SPEAKER_07]: And I'm going to use my second results.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yes, Esther.
[SPEAKER_06]: Esther is going to kind of perk up a little bit, because I imagine that Esther and Ambrose have just been watching this happen, and Esther is a gossip at all, but she's really had to like rain it in.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's all time.
[SPEAKER_06]: But I think she kind of like,
[SPEAKER_06]: shows her cards a little bit and she perks up and she says oh and at least are you proposing that we all get together I would love you know I only just got acquainted with a feeling of this season but I would love to meet more of her friends oh of course girls night you're always invited to girls night
[SPEAKER_06]: or even just some tea, some conversation.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, look, when we have girls that we have girls night, all right.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think perhaps I could do us one better.
[SPEAKER_01]: It looks like everyone's finishing up.
[SPEAKER_01]: Gentlemen, let's go have some cigars and a chicken.
[SPEAKER_01]: We can leave the ladies to tea and talk if that's something that we're interested in.
[SPEAKER_06]: That sounds wonderful, I can't thank you for the invitation, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes,
[SPEAKER_07]: If you're curious, not saying that I am, but if you are, I am a bit curious, um, specifically a little bit more about him as a person.
[SPEAKER_07]: So maybe perhaps, um, then I will, I will leave you to it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I think letting the girls chat and the men out there, I think I think that'd be good for us.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes, um, if you want to Do you want me to follow me to the study?
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm gonna hard eye the general be like fucking Yeah, I think I think as soon as the by count proposed that The guys go elsewhere the general is like kind of like waiting for the moment miles springs up to spring up after him Um, so you see that he's your guy.
[SPEAKER_07]: He knows he's doing.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm looking you sad like miles was dragging his feet
[SPEAKER_07]: I think I think my current answer doesn't hate branding.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's not good.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's not bad.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's like that's what I was standing up with.
[SPEAKER_07]: So so Miles are you are you joining us?
[SPEAKER_07]: Of course.
[SPEAKER_01]: I like loop your arm.
[SPEAKER_01]: As we get into the room, I was like, I hope you all don't mind.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not going to partake in the cigars personally.
[SPEAKER_01]: I do like close cigarettes, the cigars are too, too brisk for me.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm also not going to partake in the brandy.
[SPEAKER_01]: I will be having a wine that I cure myself.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, everyone's welcome to have some of that if they'd like.
[SPEAKER_05]: I too often find that the cigars say a cog my own, my lungs.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's already a club cigarette in your mouth.
[SPEAKER_05]: It makes it running the next day harder, I must say.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, thank you.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'd like everyone to go.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_07]: Miles, you have the general kind of lingering hard right by you.
[SPEAKER_05]: Uh, general, general.
[SPEAKER_05]: Uh, it's, uh, so.
[SPEAKER_05]: Lovely to finally be acquainted.
[SPEAKER_05]: The Dutch has told me much about, um,
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes, I haven't been able to catch a moment of your work.
[SPEAKER_05]: Right, right, very fine.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes, very busy full of conversation and things.
[SPEAKER_07]: I just wanted to have a chat and I guess get to know you a little closer.
[SPEAKER_07]: Again, Annelis has told me so much about you, but I thought it'd be better if I'm meeting a person.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yes, yes, yes.
[SPEAKER_05]: Much easier.
[SPEAKER_07]: You can hear so much from person that you need to see from his face.
[SPEAKER_05]: There's only so much you can write in words.
[SPEAKER_07]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_05]: and go for like a giant shake from firm handshake.
[SPEAKER_07]: You've got a firm ass hand shake.
[SPEAKER_07]: There's a reason why he's in his hands.
[SPEAKER_05]: I tried to try to do the same thing.
[SPEAKER_05]: I guess not the same.
[SPEAKER_07]: So please do tell me how did you and Elise get to know each other?
[SPEAKER_05]: Ah, I suppose it was just an accident.
[SPEAKER_05]: As you may know, I was appointed by the Colonel Edwin
[SPEAKER_05]: showing up to things.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yes, I'm sure I'm sure you understand as a man of great statue.
[SPEAKER_05]: I guess and at least does love festivities and she does.
[SPEAKER_05]: I suppose we just kind of pit it off there.
[SPEAKER_05]: Lovely woman.
[SPEAKER_05]: I mean very well.
[SPEAKER_00]: strong.
[SPEAKER_01]: She's so I mean after the passing of of of of her betrothed.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, yes.
[SPEAKER_01]: So to have the the power encouraged to move on, I mean I hadn't let my house in months after the passing of my wife and I can't.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, I'm sorry if I count.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I think.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I can't imagine being in an early
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes, uh, she is And I mean you again a general of your age.
[SPEAKER_01]: I have to assume you're quite strong and to do about your self Tell me more about yourself general.
[SPEAKER_01]: I Forgive me for saying so Amongst the men here I suppose and at least go wrong and on about how much she loves pressure She hasn't fought for pressure, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: She's not driven on the lines.
[SPEAKER_01]: What do you know sir?
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, um, I know that Anna Lisa's intentions and love is true, um, and that she very much cares about the
[SPEAKER_07]: station of her country um so whatever you know about analysis what you know about and at least there's no smoke or mirrors there.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just to the station of our country um clinks for everybody.
[SPEAKER_01]: We have I do a apologize.
[SPEAKER_00]: No.
[SPEAKER_01]: Right here um who I invited him in his wife.
[SPEAKER_01]: They were just quite a lot.
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought that I cup to find out that uh
[SPEAKER_01]: She's old friends with one of the one of my inviteies.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's it's the light really I tell us more about how you met you said it was love it for a sight you I I need more
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh yes.
[SPEAKER_07]: We met at one of the events that were put on.
[SPEAKER_07]: I believe it was one of the summer festivals.
[SPEAKER_07]: She was at the refreshment stand and so was I and like I said it was love at first sight.
[SPEAKER_07]: She looks stunning in a sort of pastel green dress and such and yeah, I just had to get to know her more after that.
[SPEAKER_00]: That is delightful.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes, you said that your late wife, yes, yes, you're great love, I suppose.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, I have all the status and all those money and nothing to do with it.
[SPEAKER_01]: No one just spoiled for it.
[SPEAKER_01]: My house has asked me to remarry.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yes, I am.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well we're all here, uh, I just haven't found any or many that, um, young, young Lord Embrose, young by-count Embrose, how, how is your on-goings goings?
[SPEAKER_01]: I see, you're hitting it off quite swell with, uh, well, old, uh, young Esther, right?
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes, it's been a very busy season as I'm sure Sir Miles knows, lots of potentials, but right, potentials.
[SPEAKER_07]: But it seems that Lady Esther, Lady Lockhart,
[SPEAKER_07]: It shares a lot of the same dispositions that I do and, well, it's very very to have a conversation with someone when a lot of them just like to throw themselves at you.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm drink to that.
[SPEAKER_01]: What's its true problem?
[SPEAKER_01]: I recall a conversation I had with them.
[SPEAKER_01]: Someone in this very room about ensuring that you can tolerate the one you're with.
[SPEAKER_01]: something that makes everything look brighter get away and I do I would I I'm an older man again I've lost my my best friend and I implore all the younger men in here to ensure that the people they are with as you are eligible that they are someone who makes the room brighter and makes the colors a bit nicer.
[SPEAKER_01]: Love it for a sight, right?
[SPEAKER_07]: Is that how you all drink it at and then takes a drink?
[SPEAKER_07]: The sort of words, love it for a sight, rings in your ears, miles.
[SPEAKER_07]: As we pop over to girls' night, hey, hey, I assume the servants have removed your plates and brought out tea and like little like cakes and things like that.
[SPEAKER_07]: Cookies, biscuits, all that fun stuff.
[SPEAKER_07]: As you all, I imagine our kind of like,
[SPEAKER_07]: Got love to who close her together Sarah's there Sarah's just hanging out.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh Sarah's just I'm Sarah and my mom Sarah and your mom.
[SPEAKER_07]: You know what Esther Millison and Sarah can do their own them.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah Millison and Sarah are off like bonding.
[SPEAKER_07]: I think I think also your mom wants to get to know her more because like she's like show
[SPEAKER_07]: interested in the cousin and all that sort of things.
[SPEAKER_07]: So she's she's vetting as as you all are kind of like gathered around and I think it's that sort of like thing like so um and birds like um so you all uh know each other yeah we're all buds yes I met Esther this season and she's quite a delight and um and at least
[SPEAKER_04]: Wonderful.
[SPEAKER_06]: You are quite a delightous well, Ophelia, I'm speaking of an at least being quite lovely.
[SPEAKER_06]: And at least, do you have anything we could slip into these glasses of tea?
[SPEAKER_06]: I know that you usually keep some pleasantries on you.
[SPEAKER_06]: I mean, I thought it might be fun.
[SPEAKER_03]: The Vykel gave me something, but I don't think it's like the last time, so...
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, we could go into his, I know where his lab is.
[SPEAKER_03]: We could go in and see if we could find something.
[SPEAKER_06]: Girl's night they go into the lab.
[SPEAKER_06]: I love girls night, but why is her name is fucking high?
[SPEAKER_03]: Looking for drugs.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm not allowed to wear something diabolal.
[SPEAKER_01]: I have drugs in there.
[SPEAKER_03]: Gadget.
[SPEAKER_03]: He had his books out.
[SPEAKER_01]: I have loads of flowers.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I'm like, how about we bring girls' nine to the lab?
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, I would rather.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, I'm sure it'll be fun.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, come on, Ophelia.
[SPEAKER_07]: We have this apple that will find.
[SPEAKER_07]: This girl's night is that a little bit.
[SPEAKER_07]: Good night.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's the middle of the day.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay, I guess.
[SPEAKER_06]: Are you the one?
[SPEAKER_06]: Our favorite is it for the men to enjoy their scotch and cigars.
[SPEAKER_06]: While we simply sit here, eat biscuits and talk pleasantries.
[SPEAKER_06]: Vy can't some of your love to spin the taunts of drama and situations as he wishes, we might as well get him back a little bit by spending time.
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, where he'd spend most of his, when he's not meddling with our own affairs.
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, when you put it that way.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I'm gonna leave them all, but I'm gonna be like, we have to be quiet, we're all gay.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm giggling because I'm drunk.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, why are you guling that you guys like go another way?
[SPEAKER_01]: My service.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, your service is like, what the, what the, what the, um, as you guys head up to Summerfield's lab.
[SPEAKER_07]: What are you looking for, exactly?
[SPEAKER_07]: Are you grabbing the first thing that you see or are you looking for something like?
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm looking if he has the same like Vile he gave me in the first ball, if I could see something that looks like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sure you... Yeah, I keep them in like different components.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, I'm sure you open a bunch of drawers and then you see like one that's like it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, but oh, I think this is what he gave me earlier What do you mean gave you earlier?
[SPEAKER_03]: It gave Miles a real pep in this step.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: I guess we shall try it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, so I'll get the tea kettle I'm like put a little few drops and do it Well cheers cheers cheers cheers.
[SPEAKER_07]: Um, yeah, so you guys drink that tea immediately
[SPEAKER_04]: Do we go back up for a drink or are we doing this in the lab?
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, I think we're doing this in the lab.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, we got the tea with them.
[SPEAKER_07]: We got like a little circle of the food.
[SPEAKER_07]: Perfect.
[SPEAKER_07]: The whole little circle on the floor drinking this tea.
[SPEAKER_07]: You immediately feel like kicking as you said, Analyze, a little pep in your step while you're also a little drunk.
[SPEAKER_07]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_07]: As you guys are kind of sitting in this little like formation that you've made.
[SPEAKER_03]: Whoo!
[SPEAKER_03]: Nice to go.
[SPEAKER_03]: Jittery!
[SPEAKER_07]: You weren't kidding about this stuff.
[SPEAKER_07]: I don't like the way I feel right now Okay, so since it's girls night.
[SPEAKER_07]: I Have to know So I haven't been around how and tell me truthfully how has this season been going for you all It's been a wild ride.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm gonna like wild good or wild Certainly a little bit of both
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, you do have to tell.
[SPEAKER_07]: I haven't been home at some time.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, I mean, as you can tell, Sir Miles is very popular.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes, I've heard things about sermiles and seeing the young gentleman I can see.
[SPEAKER_07]: Why?
[SPEAKER_07]: And you said peculiar, Esther?
[SPEAKER_06]: Piculia, yes indeed.
[SPEAKER_06]: As I recall it, my first becoming acquainted with deophilia was
[SPEAKER_06]: quite peculiar indeed, it was not as he would caught in between Lord Ambrose and Sermile.
[SPEAKER_09]: How is this true?
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, it's been quite popular.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, yeah, it was not going to regard either of you just going to talk straight to Sermile.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, yeah, that was really, really odd.
[SPEAKER_04]: But I'm so glad we're past that and that we're building a beautiful friendship and that everything's going to work.
[SPEAKER_04]: So what is your relationship with Lord Ambrose?
[SPEAKER_04]: Mine, I don't think I have one.
[SPEAKER_06]: We dance that one time, and then we hung out, he seems so keen to speak to you, so I'm very curious.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm sure.
[SPEAKER_06]: Chummy with you and also Chummy with Lou or Sir Miles, I wonder, is there a courtship budding there?
[SPEAKER_04]: Where?
[SPEAKER_03]: With Miles.
[SPEAKER_04]: She's probably gonna flush, like, drastically.
[SPEAKER_04]: And she's like, oh, I don't believe so.
[SPEAKER_04]: He is a great company, and he is very kind, and he has always looked out for me, and she's gonna keep going and and, and.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, but that's not a courtship.
[SPEAKER_07]: Bridget says, in the middle of this, no, it's not.
[SPEAKER_07]: Why pardon me for intruding, but why not?
[SPEAKER_07]: There's something about some miles that isn't quite the right fit.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I'd like to know how you feel about some miles.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Sounds like a crush to me.
[SPEAKER_06]: Sounds like quite the, I was going to say, and at least it sounds like quite the intimate connection with so mild.
[SPEAKER_07]: It sounds a bit like infatuation if you tell me.
[SPEAKER_07]: I don't think it's that.
[SPEAKER_06]: Infatuation or, oh, how is it that you wedded it?
[SPEAKER_06]: Love it for a side.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_06]: Mm.
[SPEAKER_06]: No.
[SPEAKER_07]: Then what are your reservations?
[SPEAKER_04]: Listen, I understand that Miles had a life before me and I don't think it's fair to me to derail him from his track.
[SPEAKER_04]: However If certain things came about I wouldn't be upset about it
[SPEAKER_04]: Hmm, I see.
[SPEAKER_03]: Even if you were holding back his climb up a ladder?
[SPEAKER_04]: I think that the youngster is free to choose his own path.
[SPEAKER_04]: And I will not stop him from whatever path he chooses.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes, but how would you feel if he chose the path that wasn't you?
[SPEAKER_04]: I lost.
[SPEAKER_04]: real love before.
[SPEAKER_04]: And I survived it.
[SPEAKER_04]: So I think I can survive losing what you call a crush.
[SPEAKER_03]: I remember you use my monologue to let it back.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, it's always so feeling.
[SPEAKER_07]: I love it.
[SPEAKER_07]: Are you using it on a feeling?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm trying to run in there for.
[SPEAKER_03]: I feel like there's more to what she's saying.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm trying to see that so I'm text.
[SPEAKER_04]: She doesn't like rigid and particular discussing affiliates love life with her.
[SPEAKER_04]: And she's not keen on this fight that she's throwing things at her.
[SPEAKER_04]: The subtext is, you don't really know me anymore.
[SPEAKER_04]: You don't know what I've been doing here all this time.
[SPEAKER_04]: You chose to leave.
[SPEAKER_04]: So as far as I survived losing you, the great love of my life, I think that if
[SPEAKER_04]: My first and foremost friend chose a different path.
[SPEAKER_04]: I would be sad, but I would figure it out as I have done before Kim is it?
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, is it possible for me to use a monologue token on bridge it?
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I'll let that happen
[SPEAKER_06]: I think Esther, like, she hears Esther's inebriated and also a potstaring little bitch.
[SPEAKER_06]: Um, and I think she's so fucking nosy.
[SPEAKER_06]: She is.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think she hears Ophelia talking about this great love that was lost and she knows that she and Bridget go way back.
[SPEAKER_07]: Hmm.
[SPEAKER_06]: And I think she kind of says, Oh, well, Lady Bridget.
[SPEAKER_06]: you and Ophelia have been friends for quite a long time.
[SPEAKER_06]: Did you perhaps witness her?
[SPEAKER_06]: Go through and cope with this loss of love.
[SPEAKER_06]: Did it change how you see love?
[SPEAKER_07]: So I think you asked this and you kind of see the sort of like these thoughts kind of flash in like Bridges eyes and again you're a kind of a people person, Esther and you know like things and such.
[SPEAKER_07]: So you're kind of getting a glimpse in her mind.
[SPEAKER_07]: And, um, I think what you get back from it is, um, she says like one thing, but really means it to be another.
[SPEAKER_07]: And so what she's thinking is that, well, yeah, I'm pretty sure I was the one.
[SPEAKER_07]: I was the subject of the last love, but she says, like, oh, um, I wasn't around for that, as I met my now husband at the time and was preoccupied with that.
[SPEAKER_07]: And then thought wise, you get that bridge.
[SPEAKER_07]: It was like, that wasn't necessarily the thing I wanted to do, but had to do.
[SPEAKER_07]: As again, these thoughts are contradicting the things that are coming out of her mouth.
[SPEAKER_07]: And, um, yeah, so I, I'm, I am sorry that you lost this love Ophelia, but I hope that you're able to, find another this season.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, I definitely moved past it, so we're on the right track.
[SPEAKER_01]: Crazy.
[SPEAKER_06]: I see.
[SPEAKER_06]: Speaking of loss-loves, does the White Counts son of field not seem as though his mind is constantly elsewhere?
[SPEAKER_04]: I try not to judge the inner workings of his mind, he seems to be quite the peculiar character.
[SPEAKER_07]: He is a little peculiar for sure, he likes asking, he was asking about me and my husband just questions.
[SPEAKER_06]: He's a session with the concept of love and affection.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yes, it's a relationship.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's very interesting.
[SPEAKER_03]: How are you?
[SPEAKER_06]: It's for quite interesting.
[SPEAKER_06]: You sat next to the Vy count at the fireworks the other evening.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, we had a lovely night.
[SPEAKER_06]: Was there anything that seemed odd about his disposition?
[SPEAKER_03]: We talked a bit and he was lucky enough to find love when it's been lost.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I think he's just acting out.
[SPEAKER_06]: Acting out.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, like a child.
[SPEAKER_06]: That's a man as a grown as he.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, you know, that's kind of part of his charm, I think.
[SPEAKER_07]: That is quite unfortunate, but the White Count does put on a lovely party.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's also a very intelligent man, and you know how intelligent man tend to be a little, I have a few sprues loose.
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, I mean, look around us.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's for sitting in his lap.
[SPEAKER_01]: I got you out of my lap.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm just going to start like flipping through pages and stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: What's that?
[SPEAKER_01]: Do you show them pictures of like flowers and just like, oh, there's one that lay a book.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just like, we'll catch bring back dead.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, I got it.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm going to quickly swap past that page.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're like, oh, that's going to be a little too dark for girls.
[SPEAKER_03]: That I feel like.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, I got to, I got to lighten up girls night for sure.
[SPEAKER_07]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_07]: This was quite the memorable girl's night.
[SPEAKER_07]: Thank you, Annelise.
[SPEAKER_03]: The girl's night with me is always always memorable.
[SPEAKER_07]: Ah, I sure hope we have at least another interaction before I have to the... Oh, of course I'll see what I can put together.
[SPEAKER_07]: As you all just kind of like, are hanging out?
[SPEAKER_07]: Well?
[SPEAKER_07]: Bye!
[SPEAKER_03]: And I'm just going to take, I'm also going to slip another vial.
[SPEAKER_03]: This dust just kind of put it in my little pouch.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: Can I use the results?
[SPEAKER_04]: I can actually scratch the by to try to like quietly sneak out of here.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, even I try not to be detected.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, hello.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm going to get so angry right now.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm my old.
[SPEAKER_07]: me as well.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think it's a lot of like the room is getting smokey with the boys.
[SPEAKER_05]: Everyone's kind of like a drinker too.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's getting kind of froudy.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, I think they're just like, yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: And I think I think even while I love the general like riling up the because I I'm a soldier.
[SPEAKER_05]: I know how we work.
[SPEAKER_05]: And then like thinking going.
[SPEAKER_05]: So I can slip out in the roudiness.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, one hundred cents.
[SPEAKER_07]: So you're able to use it.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: So you both kind of slip off and in perfect fashion bump into each other as none, neither of you were looking as where you were going.
[SPEAKER_04]: I think, oh, I feel like it's like muddering and girly to yourself.
[SPEAKER_04]: She's like, I can't believe she's here.
[SPEAKER_04]: You're like what the f- and she had the fucking audacity to say how to my f- like why did she doing and then don't That's all right, where are the ladies?
[SPEAKER_04]: I think it's best you don't know that Okay, um, they're okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: I know he's with them Okay, so surely no trouble.
[SPEAKER_04]: I hope and not for them.
[SPEAKER_04]: I hope Okay
[SPEAKER_05]: in the lab lab we drank so the doctors office and at least knew the way and they thought it'd be pretty fun if we smell the girls away yeah you can you turn it up she's a little thought of sorry what's that about oh oh
[SPEAKER_05]: You, I'm great.
[SPEAKER_05]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_05]: You sure?
[SPEAKER_05]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, water.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, I, you look hot.
[SPEAKER_05]: Really?
[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, not like, not like that.
[SPEAKER_05]: Like, you look flushed.
[SPEAKER_05]: And like, I'm like, fainting my hands.
[SPEAKER_05]: Um, let's get you some water though.
[SPEAKER_05]: Let's go back to the, um, I think that'd be nice.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: I was kind of like a China, where am I?
[SPEAKER_05]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_01]: You just feel like you're like a clean clean clean of like like ice and something.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh Good that way How was um the boys night how was that boys boys how they are always yeah?
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah a lot of smoke in that a good time Get some fresh air up You know a time surely surely a time when men are together in one room drinking and smoking
[SPEAKER_05]: sounds awful.
[SPEAKER_05]: You know, you know, you're lying to like it, you know?
[SPEAKER_05]: I say, uh, so the lab.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I don't go down there.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's interesting.
[SPEAKER_04]: I felt really bad being in there.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's not my space.
[SPEAKER_04]: But I, everyone thought it'd be cool.
[SPEAKER_04]: And I was like, yeah, do you really cool?
[SPEAKER_04]: And you're okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm so okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm like, she's like, a little to your eye.
[SPEAKER_05]: Definitely fully like leading in a little too close to like, look at your eyes.
[SPEAKER_04]: Like, why did I do that?
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I'm like, I am okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know if people's dilating it.
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know what was in that vial.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh!
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, um, but the girls are down there and they're talking and they were talking.
[SPEAKER_04]: She's drunk.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah So she's alive.
[SPEAKER_05]: I've caught on that.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think it's like no, I'm like I am just leading you to go sit down There were some water.
[SPEAKER_04]: They were talking about love and I have some break.
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't like talking about love pushes bread No, she's talking push the road away and they're talking about love And I don't really like that.
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't understand What's happening?
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't like the way I feel right now
[SPEAKER_04]: I have some bread.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: I have the bread.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm just like...
[SPEAKER_05]: This is what women do, I guess.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Something left.
[SPEAKER_05]: Why?
[SPEAKER_05]: Ah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, I did have to use the restroom.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, you can go.
[SPEAKER_05]: No.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm all right.
[SPEAKER_05]: Really.
[SPEAKER_05]: It was more I needed air.
[SPEAKER_05]: It was just... Yep.
[SPEAKER_05]: Men.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: Women's.
[SPEAKER_05]: Us men.
[SPEAKER_05]: And also women.
[SPEAKER_05]: And also.
[SPEAKER_05]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_05]: The general is, yeah, I and you crazy tonight.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I think it has something to do with Analyze.
[SPEAKER_05]: She's over the metal there, you know where I do.
[SPEAKER_04]: I love her.
[SPEAKER_04]: She's such a good friend.
[SPEAKER_04]: She would never do anything to hurt me ever.
[SPEAKER_04]: Ah!
[SPEAKER_05]: And I'm sure that's true.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I mean, she's never spoken ill will towards you.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, that's so nice.
[SPEAKER_04]: Never.
[SPEAKER_05]: Actually, really, not that I think, not towards me at least.
[SPEAKER_05]: Love, sorry, you had a vial of something in the lab.
[SPEAKER_05]: Technically, it was just a few drops, but I know he says the vial.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right, I'll keep that up here.
[SPEAKER_04]: You were with Bridget Tazbind?
[SPEAKER_04]: How's that guy?
[SPEAKER_04]: It's nice.
[SPEAKER_04]: See, that's interesting, you say that.
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, people ask, friends ask about different
[SPEAKER_05]: No, I, I, I, yeah, okay, so there's just weird vibe going on, and I, I don't, I don't want to assume anything, but I'm getting this idea that maybe, um, I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Like I don't know, I saw it for the first time that I did that the carnival.
[SPEAKER_05]: So funny, he thinks that because I was thinking this whole time that you and your old friend have this, like, falling, I don't know, I'm making episodes and I have this whole falling out because of this man.
[SPEAKER_05]: And I was like, he's just like a normal guy.
[SPEAKER_05]: He doesn't seem like he has it like that.
[SPEAKER_05]: So he's nice.
[SPEAKER_04]: He's, oh, he's a good, does, do you think he's a good man?
[SPEAKER_04]: You've been around a lot of men.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, uh, he was talking a lot about Lovex first sight and I think my eyes.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, was he?
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, all right.
[SPEAKER_05]: Um, yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: Interesting.
[SPEAKER_04]: Hmm.
[SPEAKER_04]: Seems to be the talk topic of tonight.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, love love.
[SPEAKER_05]: I Yeah, I don't know much about that.
[SPEAKER_05]: Really?
[SPEAKER_05]: No, nothing at all.
[SPEAKER_05]: I don't.
[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, I.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_05]: Uh, oh.
[SPEAKER_04]: the young ladies come out in society and we came out into society together, right, and close friendships.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yes, we attended a lot of the same parties and we lived close to each other and it was just natural that two young ladies would develop a friendship.
[SPEAKER_05]: And we were right, and a friendship so close that you would be upset that she
[SPEAKER_05]: You married a man quickly?
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm not upset.
[SPEAKER_05]: Why would you think I'm upset?
[SPEAKER_05]: There's just tension.
[SPEAKER_05]: I don't know.
[UNKNOWN]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_05]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, if they had whatever you had, probably not.
[SPEAKER_07]: They're having a, you guys are having a great time of there.
[SPEAKER_03]: We're looking at like an anatomy poster.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, you're like, woo.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, um, I'm not going to leave you here like this and just like kind of just like sit down and whatever we chat.
[SPEAKER_05]: Can I ask you a question?
[SPEAKER_05]: Of course.
[SPEAKER_04]: She's thinking.
[SPEAKER_04]: What is um,
[SPEAKER_04]: the plan for your life.
[SPEAKER_04]: Um... Not to sound forward.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm just curious, you know, the military track.
[SPEAKER_05]: Ah, right.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, my hope is just to keep...
[SPEAKER_04]: Moving up the ladder of everything and it's like this like far off look at just like I see that is very ambitious, but I think that if anybody can do it, it is certainly you Thank you.
[SPEAKER_05]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_05]: And at least it's done most of it.
[SPEAKER_05]: She's very um a very good friend to you.
[SPEAKER_05]: Very Good to me.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yes And you
[SPEAKER_04]: Um, well, um, I fell out of the marriage market quite some time ago and I'm quite content as I am now and truly I'm just trying to go day by day, um, seems like the next seven days are going to be quite difficult but that's okay because you're friend.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I don't really want to reunite, uh, in any way, shape or form.
[SPEAKER_04]: and I thought she was going to be gone from the town for as long as I am here, I thought I would never have to cross pass with her again.
[SPEAKER_04]: So imagine my surprise.
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, you were there, you saw my cry.
[SPEAKER_05]: I did, and I, you know, I missed to get, but no, I see.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, that's, yeah, that's rough.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: But I,
[SPEAKER_04]: will be polite and cordial while she and her husband are visiting.
[SPEAKER_05]: I don't have to be.
[SPEAKER_04]: You don't have to be.
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't.
[SPEAKER_04]: This is true.
[SPEAKER_04]: I cannot make you.
[SPEAKER_04]: I...
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't wish any ill will towards them.
[SPEAKER_04]: And as angry and upset as I am now, I'm not justified in this anger.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's not right of me.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's just conversating for the first time.
[SPEAKER_04]: She's a little rocky, but I am sure that when I am back of sound mind and we come across each other again, and it will be more normal.
[SPEAKER_05]: Hopefully less some.
[SPEAKER_05]: And talk secated.
[SPEAKER_05]: I would hope so.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yes, I don't want anything.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, from that.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, you are sweating I'm so sorry I'll just like hand you my whatever handkerchief I have and thank you.
[SPEAKER_05]: Just to that.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'll be held on to that forever You like I have so many of them.
[SPEAKER_05]: You have any of them.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, you have so many of them.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I actually get you guys about everybody.
[SPEAKER_05]: No.
[SPEAKER_04]: No.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, I get it.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: What?
[SPEAKER_04]: I think I'm just gonna
[SPEAKER_04]: Sit here for a moment and try to compose myself.
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know where the evening festivities will be going or for all To add off soon, but I'm gonna try hey, Ophelia.
[SPEAKER_07]: How are you eating home?
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm walking home I thought I told Louie to leave I suppose I'll just watch over you make sure you don't Fall yeah full yeah
[SPEAKER_05]: I think I need more bread.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'll just like shove off to try and find some bread and come back.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: I can't.
[SPEAKER_07]: You had a thing you wanted to do.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: I gave you my token so I can go over to the young by can't ever.
[SPEAKER_07]: He's like in conversation probably with Bridget's husband.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was doing this fairly quickly right after you left.
[SPEAKER_01]: So this is like kind of a scare back.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_07]: If I count.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if you noticed.
[SPEAKER_00]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_00]: this embarkment.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: I advise you to do the same and we'll go find young Esther, I think.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think we'll be who you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe not.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm, what do I know?
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm an old crazy-vi-count who makes a licks or is all night.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_07]: I, if the first videos are winding down.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can do whatever you'd like.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes, I can't stand it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Gentlemen, look at the incendiary properties of this flower-high-found.
[SPEAKER_07]: Esther, question for you, what are you up to right now?
[SPEAKER_07]: Did you stay around with Annelys and Bridget or did you wander off?
[SPEAKER_06]: I think eventually, after kind of like...
[SPEAKER_06]: I assume after a while they notice that Ophelia is gone, and I think at that point she can't really metal as much.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, so it's not like she gets bored, but she's like I can hang out with Annelise and be giddy and giggly like this all the time.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I don't know Bridget.
[SPEAKER_06]: She's married.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, she's like, you're gonna believe in a week anyway, so I think eventually, yeah, she'd probably wander out of the lab and probably find herself, um, not like investigating, but like, bruising the different trinkets and things that the bike out has, like, through the halls.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, absolutely.
[SPEAKER_07]: You're being nosey again, and the bike out has so much sugar.
[SPEAKER_06]: She's so nosey.
[SPEAKER_07]: She's so nosey.
[SPEAKER_07]: She just needs, she's trying to figure out what T she can find anywhere all the time.
[SPEAKER_07]: Um, so yeah, you're, you're perusing around and I think like you hear kind of like a sort of like, uh, just the shuffling of feet as like They're like going in your direction, um, and then you hear all of a sudden, oh Esther, what are you doing?
[SPEAKER_06]: I think she immediately assumes that they've been like had that they've been caught.
[SPEAKER_06]: And so she like, she like,
[SPEAKER_06]: Ducks behind a small display case for a second before she like recognizes that it's Ambrose's voice and then she like peeks her head out She goes, you don't have to hide and do that.
[SPEAKER_07]: Is it just you?
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes, uh, we're not supposed to be over here.
[SPEAKER_07]: So I just, yes, I I I know I was wondering where you had went and I knew you were interested in looking the stuff earlier You don't have to be back there.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, I
[SPEAKER_06]: I'll come out now.
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't want at least his back there.
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't want her to hear us.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, I see we could just move more this way and he'd like justures like further away from the the lab If you're so concerned she'll shuffle's out like a little mouse.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, um, how has girls night been?
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, initially we kind of started with tea and biscuits, pleasantries, what have you but eventually we decided to explore the Vy-Couns Laboratory.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh!
[SPEAKER_06]: I see!
[SPEAKER_06]: Yes, we found quite a few vials that I fear Annelise has stowed away, hopefully not to
[SPEAKER_07]: You know, I can never quite tell with an alleys, but we'll see, I suppose.
[SPEAKER_07]: Speaking of balls and such, actually, the reason why I came to find you, I believe my family is
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm thinking of hosting another one as sort of a tag along to the end of the summer festivities.
[SPEAKER_07]: And I wanted to see if you would like to attend.
[SPEAKER_07]: I would love to.
[SPEAKER_07]: I will be there.
[SPEAKER_07]: perfect great um you'll get an invitation to your um home formerly just to tell you all of the the details and whatnot um but yes I would appreciate having you there um how I apologize I've been so rude this conversation um how was your time with the men
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, um, lots of conversations, the, uh, the high count going on about love and such.
[SPEAKER_07]: I suppose it's, what's in the air.
[SPEAKER_07]: Um, and they, you know, the men paired off and had their conversations.
[SPEAKER_07]: I think Miles was chatting with the, the general at one point and, um, just men being men.
[SPEAKER_07]: men being men I suppose you know there's cigars and scotch involved I'm sure you hear them now you hear them off in the distance like cheering fire another
[SPEAKER_07]: yeah um they uh you get things going and well they just continue going I suppose not your taste then that's sort of incendiary fun.
[SPEAKER_07]: It was getting a little loud.
[SPEAKER_07]: And it was fun and then it started getting a little roudy.
[SPEAKER_07]: I think Miles had put it the general and then left Don't know what that was about but I figured that was my cue to take to get out of every four things progress further.
[SPEAKER_07]: I didn't Sometimes men just like to do fistacuffs.
[SPEAKER_07]: I don't know
[SPEAKER_06]: Are you a fan of Fisticuffs then, Lord Ambrose?
[SPEAKER_07]: Definitely not a big fan of all of that.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's quite a lot.
[SPEAKER_06]: Did you kind of anything from Lady Bridget husband?
[SPEAKER_06]: He's a...
[SPEAKER_07]: normal man.
[SPEAKER_07]: He's probably as normal as you could probably think or come across.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm unsure why he would be the linchpin in all of it.
[SPEAKER_07]: Did you find anything out?
[SPEAKER_06]: Well.
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, when we were sitting in the Vikings laboratory, we shared a substance and we also began speaking on the topic of love and it would seem as though the dear governess of failure has in the past.
[SPEAKER_06]: Suffered a great heartbreak and oh, I do not wish to oust the young lady, but it seems as though it is time to that couple that Some of you'll invite it here tonight.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh Interesting
[SPEAKER_06]: Things got quite awkward when I feel the espoke of her great heartbreak and the act of moving on, starting over again.
[SPEAKER_06]: And it seems as though Lady Bridget felt quite targeted by the conversation.
[SPEAKER_07]: It seems they must have had a falling out of sorts and I suppose it's tied to this very normal man.
[SPEAKER_06]: Infatuation and affection is a thing that is spontaneous.
[SPEAKER_06]: It can burn brightly or fizzle out just as quickly, I suppose.
[SPEAKER_06]: But that is all the details I garnered truly.
[SPEAKER_06]: I am trying to be better about involving myself in such matters.
[SPEAKER_07]: A lot of information was learned tonight.
[SPEAKER_07]: Interested to see where things go, I believe my family is inviting everyone here to the ball again.
[SPEAKER_07]: So I suppose we'll see how things play out.
[SPEAKER_07]: Hopefully it doesn't and too messy, but hopefully things get resolved, I suppose.
[SPEAKER_06]: Lord Ambrose, well, we are standing here.
[SPEAKER_06]: Do you mind if I ask you something that may be caused for discomfort?
[SPEAKER_06]: Um, yes, of course, um, what is it?
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, you see, and the first of all, um, I noticed that you were quite interested in the governance, and while you and I now have been spending quite a bit of time together, I know that
[SPEAKER_06]: I feel as though it was her attaching herself to miles in such a way that led us to becoming companions.
[SPEAKER_06]: I simply, I suppose, do not wish to overstep our companionship if it is the governance who you are perhaps interested in still.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, um, I believe that whole thing was just a misunderstanding, um, if I can't some of the other people had mentioned to me that people were chatting at the ball about my
[SPEAKER_07]: interest in the governance and I felt it would be rude for her if it seemed like I was ignoring her, you know how people like to chat.
[SPEAKER_07]: And so I gave her a dance in hopes that that would stop that conversation.
[SPEAKER_07]: And then she came, became attached to some miles which I didn't
[SPEAKER_07]: It seems to have gotten the ladies off of his back a little, I think, but I didn't want her to suddenly be the topic of conversation as the one who was ignored by myself, so the dance was simply just a courtesy and that is all.
[SPEAKER_06]: incredibly courteous indeed.
[SPEAKER_06]: You said it was so a fail to set you up to that.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes, it was a whole thing.
[SPEAKER_07]: He said that she was standing there waiting for me to dance with her or something like that and people were talking and I don't know I got a bit nervous and again the both thrown in my name and I didn't want anyone to look bad on my behalf.
[SPEAKER_07]: So, yes, he was the one who started it.
[SPEAKER_06]: Curious?
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, I suppose the longer we stay in this darkened hallway, the longer we run the risk of a seventh coming across us and perhaps untoward rumors spreading.
[SPEAKER_07]: I, I suppose you are correct, but I do hope to see you at the ball.
[SPEAKER_06]: Of course, I will, I will see there, um, what's kind of scheme are you all going for?
[SPEAKER_06]: Um, I believe we're going green, white and gold.
[SPEAKER_07]: perfect I will see to it that's my handmaid's find a wardrobe that will compliment whatever party you throw wonderful and yeah so what a fucking eventful night you guys Jesus Christ why did you do that yeah so you guys have interesting
[SPEAKER_07]: nights and interesting conversations.
[SPEAKER_07]: We'll chat about how you guys have went home, off like just so, in case anybody was watching.
[SPEAKER_07]: But I think that's where we'll end this episode.
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