[SPEAKER_04]: Last time, on Roseville Beach, and we see Hurricane Hally grew in stronger and stronger.
[SPEAKER_04]: Gabriella on the motorcycle driving it and jumps in front of the lightning bolts and ocean jumps right out, absorbing the lightning, and he catches the sword.
[SPEAKER_04]: You take it, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're,
[SPEAKER_01]: like they're piping.
[SPEAKER_01]: She grabs two one in each hand.
[SPEAKER_04]: This has never been done before.
[SPEAKER_04]: This is permanently altering.
[SPEAKER_04]: Two rows will be true.
[SPEAKER_04]: Now that's how you do it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Go get them on September, Brown.
[SPEAKER_01]: As long as Rose will be just here, Louis here.
[SPEAKER_05]: On one side of the coin, there will be an etching of her own face.
[SPEAKER_05]: On the other side of the coin will be an etching of a stealth.
[SPEAKER_05]: They're separated and they can never touch.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's a constant endless compulsion to be together.
[SPEAKER_02]: And with every lap of the waves, the water and the sand flowing over their feet, the fur getting wet, we see that divinity climb back up.
[SPEAKER_02]: Everything does have to change.
[SPEAKER_02]: Sometimes it's about being somewhere new and sometimes vacation ends, and you do have to go home.
[SPEAKER_00]: This dearie us, let's shine along the ocean bay Part two is its thrills upon the summer haze Together on the beach, we'll turn the night to day Adventurers on the beach, so come along and play
[SPEAKER_00]: Roseville Beach, the ghosts like to play Monsters hide, but they won't stay Roseville Beach, with the game that they found We'll turn this town right, back around Blue nose, there's no broken thing that she can't feel At your service
[SPEAKER_00]: magic that comes from moss powers the way she lay I may wish Ari, on this quest for loving, good some fishy tricks Oh, I'm a real Together these three will surely have you transphixed
[SPEAKER_00]: Roseville Beach.
[SPEAKER_00]: The ghosts like to play.
[SPEAKER_00]: Monsters hide, but they won't stay.
[SPEAKER_00]: Roseville Beach with the gang that they found will turn this town right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Back or I.
[SPEAKER_04]: We are going to begin about a month after the events of the hurricane.
[SPEAKER_04]: Rosalbeach has recovered, and some time has passed.
[SPEAKER_04]: Life, thanks to you, has returned to normal.
[SPEAKER_04]: Rosalbeach still has its ordinary problems, but they are mundane, they are trivial, not of the supernatural variety.
[SPEAKER_04]: Thanks to the efforts of Lou and Alex and Aryan, compulsion has been once again trapped underneath the bottom of the ocean, and at least for now, does not threaten Rosalbeach.
[SPEAKER_04]: We are going to begin at a little coffee shop.
[SPEAKER_04]: The three of you are enjoying a drink chatting and you are interrupted by a single falling leaf that lands on the table, equidistant from each of you.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's turned orange, slowly curling at its edges, and you realize
[SPEAKER_04]: that summer has coming to an end, whether or not you stay here, or you go back home, or return to the ocean.
[SPEAKER_04]: You have to wrap up your time here.
[SPEAKER_01]: has a brother, Scotty, that she's been relatively taking care of fully, financially, for years.
[SPEAKER_01]: And they don't have a perfect relationship.
[SPEAKER_01]: She sends him more letters than he ever sends back to her, but she's been on a journey
[SPEAKER_01]: Figuring out what is important to her, and what is right to continue to do, and there are some things in some conversations that she needs to have with her brother in order to go forward with her life.
[SPEAKER_01]: She doesn't want to separate from him, but to go forward and live her own life.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so this letter has been super hard for her to get on paper, she has,
[SPEAKER_01]: spent many in night pacing her room, even though the events of our climactic battle really solidifies of other things for her, and she knows what she wants to invade to him, but that's always easier thought than said.
[SPEAKER_01]: So finally, one night, probably a little later, the house is a bit quiet,
[SPEAKER_01]: she finally sits down.
[SPEAKER_01]: She pends a letter and she just writes her thoughts when she is done with it.
[SPEAKER_01]: She closes it up and I'd like to almost think if I can take the camera for a second.
[SPEAKER_01]: is that we're following her walking down the street by their house towards the post office of Louisville Beach.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a grand sunny day.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's early morning.
[SPEAKER_01]: Birds are chirping the waves are splashing.
[SPEAKER_01]: People are riding past on bikes or walking and calling and saying hi as she goes.
[SPEAKER_01]: and there's just like kind of a monologue of what this letter said going through her head.
[SPEAKER_01]: What she had written was, no introduction to who this is for, because it'll be addressed to him, but she begins by saying, I've written and rewritten this one so many times.
[SPEAKER_01]: I know you don't really care what any of it says, but I care.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if you've been read these or you just take the rent money, but I hope you read this one specifically.
[SPEAKER_01]: College isn't working out, bud.
[SPEAKER_01]: I am running myself ragged trying to get these payments in every semester, and no nice way to say this, the return on my investment is not happening.
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought it'd be great.
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought it's what you needed to get out from under that house and mom
[SPEAKER_01]: So if you're amenable to it, how about we stop that, charade entirely?
[SPEAKER_01]: I have another proposition for you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Come to Roosevelt.
[SPEAKER_01]: It saved me once.
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe it'll do the same for you.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can't call it that queer place when you get here though, okay?
[SPEAKER_01]: You have to be nice.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you have to be clean.
[SPEAKER_01]: and I'll get you a job and you won't ruin my reputation and you'll live down the hall and I'll be entirely normal.
[SPEAKER_01]: It'll be terribly normal, but it'll be good.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you can be any.
[SPEAKER_01]: She's gonna hate you, but she'll put up with you because she loves me.
[SPEAKER_01]: You need to slow down, Scott.
[SPEAKER_01]: You need to take a minute and you need to breathe and maybe 10 years on Rosalbeachville, let you figure out who you are and what you want.
[SPEAKER_01]: It did for me.
[SPEAKER_01]: And if you say no, I'll stop paying your rent.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I don't want to do that because I don't want you to disappear on me.
[SPEAKER_01]: So please, love as much as you can.
[SPEAKER_00]: Lou.
[SPEAKER_01]: Her hand is kind of hovering there, ready to slide it in.
[SPEAKER_01]: And there's a lot of hope because when she felt wayward,
[SPEAKER_01]: She just needed somebody to show her a path.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that is what her boss at the hotel did.
[SPEAKER_01]: Gave her her first job, and that set her on a path.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so what she was hoping to do is to offer that same option to Scotty.
[SPEAKER_01]: And she's hopeful because he's not entirely lost.
[SPEAKER_01]: Even though he's dealing with some rough stuff, they both did, and she got out of it a lot sooner than he did.
[SPEAKER_01]: She hasn't ever given up hope on him.
[SPEAKER_01]: So in this moment, all she's thinking of is, I'm gonna get the best letter I've ever gotten in a week.
[SPEAKER_01]: And she puts it in.
[SPEAKER_01]: Lou has always been about fixing things and sometimes that overextended her abilities.
[SPEAKER_01]: And when it came to,
[SPEAKER_01]: paying for her own life, and then paying Scotty's rent, paying his tuition every semester, paying for his groceries.
[SPEAKER_01]: She just simply doesn't have the energy anymore to keep that up.
[SPEAKER_01]: And she's realized that if she tries to keep that up, she will lose people who have been in her
[SPEAKER_01]: because she was so focused on somebody who wasn't.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so she's hoping Scotty will take her up on the offer.
[SPEAKER_01]: But if he doesn't, he's an adult, and that's his choice.
[SPEAKER_01]: And she has people waiting for her to make hers.
[SPEAKER_04]: And there's a gust of ocean breeze that blows past you, but not harsh, not forceful, almost infigrating.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think in the lead up to the summer sources, he had been panicked about the dwindling of life.
[SPEAKER_03]: One of the major scares we left him with in the last episode was mortality.
[SPEAKER_03]: that hasn't changed, he's still this slightly ill-drich monstrosity, and upon his return to Roseville Beach, and after his conversation with his mother, Kulipso, who had endeared him to this idea that if you're not done, then you're not done.
[SPEAKER_03]: If you want something for yourself, then maybe you'll have to carve that out for yourself.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it's been, I want to say, maybe a week and a half, until you like see a rean again.
[SPEAKER_03]: And when he arrives and returns back to Rosalope Beach.
[SPEAKER_03]: Throughout that journey, he was waiting to turn into seafood news, waiting for the bargain to end, but it didn't.
[SPEAKER_03]: The horizon rose for beach.
[SPEAKER_03]: He goes to our lovely captain, it rose for beach, our beach house.
[SPEAKER_03]: crawls his way up the beach towards the back of the patio and then you all just hear like wet flopping in the wooden slats of the house until he like ducks himself into the bathroom.
[SPEAKER_03]: Aria and like soaks himself in the tub and turns on the tap and settles in the water to keep his
[SPEAKER_03]: and he thinks to himself okay this this is it I'm going to turn to see foam at any point any doesn't and he looks around and he thinks I should be turning to see foam I don't have the ants I don't have the answer I don't know if all of her likes me I let alone love me as the tenants of the
[SPEAKER_03]: of summer.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think Lou has like heard this and has stuck her head out of her door and is like looking to see if Alex has heard this arrival.
[SPEAKER_05]: we will open on Alex in her room in front of her mirror.
[SPEAKER_05]: Her dress is like a little bit different than normal.
[SPEAKER_05]: She's wearing like the same kind of like overly baggy pants, but they're more like Capri's, they like come to her calf, and there's still a billion pockets on them because of course there are.
[SPEAKER_05]: But instead of like the normal tank that she's wearing, she's wearing a bikini top and she's looking at a scar on her chest.
[SPEAKER_05]: There are like three sort of claw marks below her clavicle, and she just keeps looking at them.
[SPEAKER_05]: in the mirror right now because at less than like six inches from each other are memories of the first time that she met a spell and one of the last time she saw her.
[SPEAKER_05]: The choker is gone and there is that
[SPEAKER_05]: jagged line across her throat and she's been standing here for some time you can tell and she just hears the sound of wet flopping and she breaks away from the mirror finally and she grabs one of her flammals and kind of throws it over her shoulders but doesn't really button it and just sort of walks out visually acknowledges blue and then leaves the house.
[SPEAKER_03]: Blue, can you step into the room, into the bathroom, our beloved shared bathroom?
[SPEAKER_03]: You see, a reenber reen looks different.
[SPEAKER_03]: You've seen a reen siren form, I believe you were the first one, maybe, among the house-based of scenes, a reen siren form.
[SPEAKER_01]: In the same bathroom, in the same tub.
[SPEAKER_03]: in the same tub in the same bathroom, but he looks so different.
[SPEAKER_03]: The spines and flowy tail are rigid, almost bone-like in their appearance.
[SPEAKER_03]: You see that his gills flare out larger than they used to be.
[SPEAKER_03]: His face, it's a re-inspace and their aspects of it that are still a handsome.
[SPEAKER_03]: If you were to think about it, but it's different now.
[SPEAKER_03]: He has fangs and his eyes are a
[SPEAKER_03]: instead of a bright, emberish gold, it's now a more sinister yellow.
[SPEAKER_03]: You enter into the gap in the door and he's hovering in the water and turns to you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hi.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, you're back!
[SPEAKER_01]: You didn't say goodbye and I thought maybe I'd never see you again and now you came back and that's great.
[SPEAKER_03]: I wouldn't do that to you.
[SPEAKER_03]: I would have at least say goodbye, but I just needed to check something.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, if I had an imminent death coming.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, we've undergone a transformation here that I was unaware of.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Your voice is a little funny.
[SPEAKER_03]: I know.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm not used to it myself.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, I hope it's not too...
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know, just different.
[SPEAKER_03]: He like pears out the tub and you see like his wet hair and his hair.
[SPEAKER_03]: growing eyes as they slowly blink at you like a cat watching you from a distance and he kind of like lifts himself up and I'm purchased his head against his hands and he says I had to go check on my mother, but they're not she might have answers But what I am for what I could be I thought that I would be see from by now.
[SPEAKER_03]: I made so many bargains and deals.
[SPEAKER_03]: I thought they would all get chup on me
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think maybe going forward, you should take a step back from doing that.
[SPEAKER_03]: We can't be putting those positions.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's not really... What would Atticus made me try to, like, ask me to solve the source of all the problems in Roswell Beach?
[SPEAKER_01]: That was a deal I agree with.
[SPEAKER_01]: That was an appropriate one.
[SPEAKER_03]: If I didn't make that deal with Halie, I didn't know if I would have bought enough time for us.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, no, no.
[SPEAKER_01]: All valid points.
[SPEAKER_01]: Do you have to stay in the bathtub from now on?
[SPEAKER_03]: Alex has my necklace.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh.
[SPEAKER_01]: I see.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, she did just leave, so I don't think she's really interested in returning it at this exact moment.
[SPEAKER_01]: I...
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what's going on.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what's going on between you guys.
[SPEAKER_01]: I heard some stuff outside of a window, but then a ghost attacked me.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I don't have the full story and I don't need it.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't need the full story.
[SPEAKER_03]: We're good if that's your question.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now you're good now.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, obviously there's like, oh, what how do you model
[SPEAKER_01]: Do you not have that word?
[SPEAKER_01]: Are there no complications in the ocean?
[SPEAKER_01]: Cause your entire life feels like a complication.
[SPEAKER_03]: But that's the drama of it all, right?
[SPEAKER_03]: You either do something about it or you don't.
[SPEAKER_03]: And most people do something about it.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it ultimately gets resolved, usually tragically.
[SPEAKER_03]: So that's usually hard.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, I'm really glad you're back.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm glad to be back.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know how long I'm back though, but I really love being here and I love being in this house and hanging out with my favorite lesbians and I want to, I still don't know about all the different things you have at amusement parks and I don't know how cars work because you don't have a car.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I,
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know what things are like beyond Roseville Beach and I want to know.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, Roseville Beach is kind of like a utopia in a sense.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, most people who visit Roseville Beach are only here for a few months.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I didn't even, I haven't been here in my whole life, but I've been here for a long time now.
[SPEAKER_01]: And...
[SPEAKER_01]: I think sometimes places outside of here are pretty scary because they're not here and they're different and they're bigger and there's some things that happen in those places that don't necessarily happen here and while I felt like we dealt with a lot of problems this summer they were all of a
[SPEAKER_01]: super natural effect that I have never dealt with literally anywhere else.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so I think that I think you should.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think you should stay here, make sure that you're not going to turn into sea foam, as you say.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then I think you should go.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think you should see the world because it's big.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's maybe not as big as the ocean, but it's big.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think Arian hears everything that Lou is saying and odds and there's even in this small moment there's that glimmer again of that extremely dramatic flamboyant siren that is blooming from within this sort of eldritchy form who like lifts himself up as the war splashes around him
[SPEAKER_03]: The first thing I want to do with you, and Elex, is have a pick pick.
[UNKNOWN]: Ha ha.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think we could easily have a pick pick.
[SPEAKER_01]: I've got a blanket already.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes!
[SPEAKER_03]: And he like leans back, splashes into the tub again, and water goes everywhere, because this is a human-sized man with a massive tail swishing around a human-sized bathtub.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think she kind of meanders a little bit.
[SPEAKER_05]: And that's kind of been the way she's been for the last month.
[SPEAKER_05]: Like I think everyone's probably been used to her sort of being Bruce in her stoicism, but now it's just sort of more like it feels like no one's home in a way.
[SPEAKER_05]: like she's there and she responds and she'll smile at things like and have a cigarette and have conversation but it's like there's some kind of bite that you're used to with her that just isn't there.
[SPEAKER_05]: She wanders as she makes her way past some of the the wreckage of the bank or I guess it's repairs and she goes down that street all the way to the corner to to the little bodega.
[SPEAKER_05]: she doesn't say anything she's kind of like waves a high at auntie and then grabs a pack of cigarettes and I think she really does just feel like a whisky girl and she's going to get like something cheap like a fairly large size bottle and she just puts on the counter goes to pay and doesn't really say anything she'll look at auntie for a second just trying to see like wire her vibe is
[SPEAKER_04]: It's strange to you, you know, you've not answered for a long time, but Auntie's life has changed so quickly in the past month, month and a half, two months.
[SPEAKER_04]: You see kind of tucked behind the counter boxes and she is beginning to pack.
[SPEAKER_04]: She is beginning to pack up her life and move on to the next thing.
[SPEAKER_04]: Gone somewhere she stops for just a moment.
[SPEAKER_05]: She thinks she looks like I bet you You always were a smartest one here, you know that I looks there's boxes right there You don't have to be an ass about it.
[SPEAKER_04]: No, no, it's very secretive.
[SPEAKER_04]: It would be very difficult to tell you're the smartest one on the beach
[SPEAKER_04]: If you say so, and there's almost like a hesitancy in her breath, and she lets it out on a very vocal side, as she kind of just like laughs to herself, what are you, where are you going next, Alex?
[SPEAKER_05]: I don't know, and I'm giving him much thought.
[SPEAKER_05]: Do you like Russell Beach?
[SPEAKER_05]: Of course I do.
[SPEAKER_04]: You like the town.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: She looks back down, she looks back up at you.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm gonna be a way for a while.
[SPEAKER_04]: And I was wondering maybe if you'd want to look after the shop, you know, keep it up, keep the lights on.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'll give you a discount, 20%.
[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, you know, gotta do that, you know, I'm good for it.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right, I'll write 10%.
[SPEAKER_05]: I wouldn't want to, I wouldn't want to change you.
[SPEAKER_05]: That seems fair.
[SPEAKER_05]: You know, with this place B, without this one.
[SPEAKER_05]: Uh, yeah, yeah, I can do that for you.
[SPEAKER_04]: She just takes the keys out.
[SPEAKER_04]: She plays them on the counter.
[SPEAKER_04]: And she gives you a knowing nod as she steps out from behind it and leaves the little gate open.
[SPEAKER_05]: Were you, did you mean now because I had a plan to go out to the beach and drink quite a bit, actually?
[SPEAKER_04]: And the gate slams quite loudly, as she laughs, she says, you're not getting all of the store.
[SPEAKER_04]: That, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that
[SPEAKER_04]: have to continue to grow and live.
[SPEAKER_04]: When we stay in one place for too long, when we stay unchanged, when it's always the same, you stop living your life.
[SPEAKER_05]: I wonder what that's like.
[SPEAKER_04]: and she eshes you out of she locks the door and gives you a spare set of keys and she walks into the forest after her little fucked dog camp.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm not I do
[SPEAKER_05]: you got someone taking care of the you know what i'm not that's not at the tomorrow problem and she's gonna go and she's gonna walk away she's gonna just gonna make her way back again sort of taking a meandering route through the side streets she walks by the book store where everything started will you tell us three signs of
[SPEAKER_04]: the absence of witches that you see from the bookstore.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's just quiet.
[SPEAKER_05]: No lights on.
[SPEAKER_05]: Past hours, so like nobody's there.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think she was used to sort of like a murmur at this time from there.
[SPEAKER_05]: But now it's not populated.
[SPEAKER_05]: Now there's no reason for them to be there.
[SPEAKER_05]: And from there she goes past the tattoo parlour.
[SPEAKER_05]: She's been open for business, but right now is closed and it feels different too.
[SPEAKER_05]: She stares at that shop front for a little bit.
[SPEAKER_05]: There are still birds, right?
[SPEAKER_05]: There's still the sounds of animal life.
[SPEAKER_05]: She sounds a little quieter.
[SPEAKER_05]: An alex doesn't know whether that's her own ears, or if something is really different here.
[SPEAKER_05]: And finally, she makes her way down to the past the beach house.
[SPEAKER_05]: She doesn't go in, just goes down to the waterfront.
[SPEAKER_05]: goes all the way down and plants in the sand.
[SPEAKER_05]: She piles up a little sand in like a little cup next to her.
[SPEAKER_05]: Squishes into the sand so it stays upright.
[SPEAKER_05]: She uncorks the low whiskey.
[SPEAKER_05]: Takes a cigarette out and likes it and she just kind of holds in her hand.
[SPEAKER_05]: She's not like smoking.
[SPEAKER_05]: She's holding in her hand and staring out at the waves for a little bit.
[SPEAKER_05]: I don't know when a random would come down to the beach from the tub, but Alex basically is there as it is still like dusk into twilight.
[SPEAKER_05]: There's that small little cup and there's several asked like cigarette butts in that cup of sand.
[SPEAKER_05]: But you can see that she's like takes another one out and she lights it and she just doesn't.
[SPEAKER_05]: She doesn't put it to her mouth.
[SPEAKER_05]: She's there in her fingers.
[SPEAKER_05]: And she's holding an open bottle of basically full whiskey just staring out at the tide.
[SPEAKER_03]: you hear the tell-tale sounds of dragging through sand as you hear a familiar yet unfamiliar voice call out to you from the shadows they're not forming on the beach.
[SPEAKER_03]: I was looking everywhere for you.
[SPEAKER_05]: You ever just like sit out here and look at the the sunset?
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I do.
[SPEAKER_03]: and Aryan like drags himself like I think of a little lower to the beach that the tide can like lock against him so you can feel that that tethered to the ocean he doesn't dry all on land.
[SPEAKER_03]: He would be if he were in his human form, have his knees close to his chest looking out to the beach but instead it's just the curl of his thin
[SPEAKER_03]: and tail leading up to where his lower abdomen and chest would be as he sits and then looks out to the sunset with you.
[SPEAKER_03]: I do come here on occasion.
[SPEAKER_05]: She doesn't say anything for a bit.
[SPEAKER_05]: After that she just kind of like breathes a little.
[SPEAKER_05]: After like a moment she like holds out the
[SPEAKER_05]: You need a drink.
[SPEAKER_05]: It would be impolite not to offer first.
[SPEAKER_05]: Human matters.
[SPEAKER_05]: I don't know if that's a siren thing as well.
[SPEAKER_05]: Do you all drink?
[SPEAKER_05]: I don't really.
[SPEAKER_05]: I've never asked you that.
[SPEAKER_05]: I've never drank in siren form.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's dry.
[SPEAKER_03]: Good whiskey.
[SPEAKER_03]: You see Orion's gills like flare and the weird bony spines all over him kind of like tense and then relax after he takes a swing of the whiskey and he's like that's a new sensation I've picked up little containers of wine from the ocean but never drank it
[SPEAKER_03]: she'll like hold out her hand for the bottle back and she's like yeah this one's uh not one of our finest works i'll be honest and she like just takes a slug from the bottle i don't think people need the finest ones but whatever i've watched the mortals make merry it's always just the people there that really make a party do not tell KO i said that
[SPEAKER_05]: Never.
[SPEAKER_05]: No, I mean, uh, sometimes for celebrations, people will get, uh, really nice ones.
[SPEAKER_05]: Like things they've spent time and money and have aged for a really long time.
[SPEAKER_05]: And, uh, didn't feel like it was a celebrating time, honestly.
[SPEAKER_05]: Orian's eyebrows furrow a bit more as he like turns morph his body toward you as you do that Like the little so the cigarette that's been burning in our fingers that she hasn't pulled from yet She's been like like just sort of reflexively ashing it the lit part is getting close to her fingers and as it like hits against her skin There's this flash of like blue Spark around it
[SPEAKER_05]: and you see her kind of like squeeze her fingers like a little bit around them and the and the cigarette kind of like crumples around it like there's a lot of pressure on her fingers when it happens.
[SPEAKER_03]: What happened on the beach, eh?
[SPEAKER_05]: I told you
[SPEAKER_05]: that magic and dealmaking comes with a price.
[SPEAKER_05]: Mine wasn't something I had to give away in the normal sense.
[SPEAKER_05]: It was something I had to take.
[SPEAKER_05]: After about eight years, it still asked me, begged demanded, that I take her life.
[SPEAKER_05]: But I was the only one who could.
[SPEAKER_05]: Why?
[SPEAKER_05]: What purpose?
[SPEAKER_05]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_05]: I never asked.
[SPEAKER_05]: Because the second she asked of me, I refused out of hand.
[SPEAKER_05]: I thought she was joking.
[SPEAKER_05]: She said, has to be, you can only be done by someone who loves me.
[SPEAKER_05]: I thought why I just didn't want to know, she got desperate, she screamed at me, she showed me the knife that needed to be done.
[SPEAKER_05]: And she now reaches over with her hand with the cigarette and it touches the tattoo on her forearm.
[SPEAKER_05]: And again, not really paying attention to, she doesn't look at it, it's like a reflexive motion.
[SPEAKER_05]: But as the cigarette touches against her skin,
[SPEAKER_05]: There's that same kind of blue sparking, and her skin is not harmed.
[SPEAKER_05]: She, we've, we've got angry, we yelled, and screamed, and she freaked, and she didn't mean to.
[SPEAKER_05]: She was afraid.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's a flash of protectiveness, and, like, as soon as you said that, like, all the spines that had, like, rays, like, the hackles of a cat, like, lower.
[SPEAKER_05]: By the time she'd realized that she'd done it, she didn't know what to say and she ran, I took that as my cue.
[SPEAKER_05]: That was two years ago, and I ran until she found me at the beach, at the beach.
[SPEAKER_06]: and ever since that I can't stop thinking, not about having done it, but that before doing it, I didn't kiss her again.
[SPEAKER_06]: I said goodbye and
[SPEAKER_06]: I didn't spent two years apart, I ran from her, as far as I could, and I didn't.
[SPEAKER_05]: And now, and she takes the cigarette this time, and she holds up her palm, and she presses it into her palm.
[SPEAKER_05]: And there's an explosion of blue sparks this time, like not even just like it's an accident.
[SPEAKER_06]: You see, see, it feels like her, but it's not, it's not her.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, he looks.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's not your fault.
[SPEAKER_06]: It doesn't... it doesn't... think.
[SPEAKER_06]: It doesn't... it doesn't have her voice.
[SPEAKER_06]: It doesn't have her warmth.
[SPEAKER_06]: It just... it doesn't.
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, I'm supposed to know that she's...
[SPEAKER_06]: Here, but she's not here.
[SPEAKER_03]: A rean's body slowly slithers up to you.
[SPEAKER_03]: and his webbed hands go around each of your shoulders and leans against yours.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like a cat curling up in one's lap, he holds himself against you.
[SPEAKER_05]: She doesn't recoil, but she is still like stiff and locked.
[SPEAKER_03]: Sorry I had to make that choice.
[SPEAKER_06]: I knew that choice this time, and it looks to you.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's not because she begged me to do it.
[SPEAKER_06]: It was trying to take her away.
[SPEAKER_06]: That thing was trying to take her away, and I didn't know that I could stop it.
[SPEAKER_06]: Because I would have abandoned all of you if it would have kept her safe.
[SPEAKER_03]: He knows and he would see you.
[SPEAKER_03]: Why do you apologize?
[SPEAKER_06]: I would have...
[SPEAKER_03]: I would have let you die.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I might be angry if you didn't.
[SPEAKER_03]: If that was the choice you had to make.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is a lie and this gets blamed for abandoning her pride to save her cup.
[SPEAKER_06]: How the fuck do you know what lions are?
[SPEAKER_03]: if they had a plenty of them in Greece.
[SPEAKER_05]: And she starts sobbing.
[SPEAKER_05]: She just is like sob laughing.
[SPEAKER_05]: She is crying through laughter.
[SPEAKER_05]: Like she thinks it's funny.
[SPEAKER_05]: But she's also like, this is the straw that broke.
[SPEAKER_05]: And she just like burries her face into your shoulder and is openly sobbing.
[SPEAKER_03]: And Orian squeezes you into it.
[SPEAKER_03]: And like through like stifled shuckles.
[SPEAKER_03]: that betray a sense of reciprocal and empathetic grief, a new emotion for the siren.
[SPEAKER_03]: As he holds your close and says, would you believe me if I said that the Greeks had very strange past times?
[SPEAKER_06]: at home.
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't know who I am without her.
[SPEAKER_06]: Even when I was running, I knew who I was and what I was running from.
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't.
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't know what I am now.
[SPEAKER_03]: You are everything.
[SPEAKER_03]: You look.
[SPEAKER_03]: You are you.
[SPEAKER_03]: You are this aspect of yourself combined with her, and like you see that as his little web hands hover above your skin that like blue sparks begin to emerge.
[SPEAKER_03]: You are the culmination of everything you have experienced and everything you will experience.
[SPEAKER_03]: I know she is gone in the sense of death.
[SPEAKER_03]: Banato's comes for all of us eventually.
[SPEAKER_03]: But you speak of her as if her influence her touch.
[SPEAKER_03]: her legacy upon your life is no longer that's that, you are not without her, Alex.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's one of the, one of the things that we from beyond envy about, you humans.
[SPEAKER_03]: You hairy, these stories, memories.
[SPEAKER_03]: Leave, within your bones, for as long as memory takes you, she will always be with you.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't think you can ever run away from that, Alex.
[SPEAKER_03]: As to what else you are beyond this, only you can chart that.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm really sorry that I called you a child, but you are right.
[SPEAKER_03]: I am a child in the ways of this place.
[SPEAKER_03]: If you were ever to come see my home, maybe you would be the child in my eyes.
[SPEAKER_03]: You haven't met my mother.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh God.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, sure, sure, I'd be, you know, bell of the ball and siren chord, right?
[SPEAKER_03]: You see, Aryan nods.
[SPEAKER_03]: We have many A-Lis-B-N-C-W-H. Who would enjoy your company?
[SPEAKER_05]: She puts the now, like, completely,
[SPEAKER_05]: burnt out cigarette into the sand pile.
[SPEAKER_05]: She like offers you the whiskey puddle again.
[SPEAKER_03]: She like sets up.
[SPEAKER_03]: He takes another swing and you see all the scales rattle around him.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it's just like, the sensation doesn't change.
[SPEAKER_03]: And hands it back to you.
[SPEAKER_03]: Never does.
[SPEAKER_03]: After conversing with the two roommates and retrieving the necklace from Alex, we find a reen on the beach.
[SPEAKER_03]: As he sits on a boulder with the waves lap against the shore, we hear that rhythmic crashing and pulling from the water.
[SPEAKER_03]: and Arian is writing something in a bit of parchment.
[SPEAKER_03]: The script is a little clumsy but earnest and sincere.
[SPEAKER_03]: He writes to whichever kin finds this.
[SPEAKER_03]: Hello, I'm called Arian.
[SPEAKER_03]: the son of Clipso.
[SPEAKER_03]: I am a siren, likely like you.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, I was a siren.
[SPEAKER_03]: I still am a siren.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm a complicated mess of things, which is another funny way of saying that I am kind of like the models up here.
[SPEAKER_03]: I have spent a summer looking for a man,
[SPEAKER_03]: who had saved my life to give him a boon that he honestly deserved.
[SPEAKER_03]: But something else spooked from that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Love, I think, is what they call it up here.
[SPEAKER_04]: And I believe that is true.
[SPEAKER_03]: But, Ken, I need you to know that that wasn't the first time that feeling bloomed in.
[SPEAKER_03]: There were a small sparks of it when I first saw his face, those red ringlets and right eyes, a dark eyes watching me from beyond the net which he had captured me in.
[SPEAKER_03]: Now I believe the first time I felt this was when I watched, when I watched my two favorite
[SPEAKER_03]: something or other.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's something about the things that mortals eat up here.
[SPEAKER_03]: Who'd up here is complicated?
[SPEAKER_03]: You might learn that soon.
[SPEAKER_03]: I didn't know it then.
[SPEAKER_03]: But love found me before I found it.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's not something you find own or keep or tape.
[SPEAKER_03]: It is something that looms like the flowers here.
[SPEAKER_03]: It is as natural as the push and pull of the current and it is undeniable and demands to be felt.
[SPEAKER_03]: That is what I've learned in my excursions up here in Roseville, Beach, after aions of staring at humanity from beyond the coil, from within the waves, and now I get to be a part of it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Now, did not mistake me here, friend.
[SPEAKER_03]: I am as much as it can be said, kind of human.
[SPEAKER_03]: But I'm still a siren.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm still the stranger on these lands that will never change.
[SPEAKER_03]: And the next time the water is lap against my feet, I can take two currents again.
[SPEAKER_03]: But for now, I want to be here.
[SPEAKER_03]: with my friends, with a man who I want to know more about, who I wish to know more about.
[SPEAKER_03]: I want to know the depths of these feelings, the ones that can make someone cry in laughter.
[SPEAKER_03]: The ones that make someone wait for 10 long years before fighting their answer.
[SPEAKER_03]: I want to know what that's like, so this is a lesson to you, my friend.
[SPEAKER_03]: If this is something you wish to do, if you want to know the truth beyond the ways that you call home, ask for me, and maybe we can talk.
[SPEAKER_04]: Please open up your character sheet, find something on there that you are passing on to the next siren, and remove it from your character sheet.
[SPEAKER_03]: the thing that Orion parts to the future siren, whomever they may be, is a boon.
[SPEAKER_03]: Boon that might find them the thing that they're searching for, a blessing, a bit of courage to see a world far beyond one that they know, or even just a little bit of love.
[SPEAKER_03]: like the one that we all residents of Roscoe Beach can't feel or understand.
[SPEAKER_04]: Just a small little blessing so they can make that choice for themselves.
[SPEAKER_03]: Arian feels more complicated.
[SPEAKER_03]: having the power to grant boons is one of the many things that makes Arian mythical.
[SPEAKER_03]: That makes Arian feel otherworldly and by imparting that to the sea, he is a little bit more human and a little bit more complicated, a mess of monstrosity, beauty, serene, like mythical grace and human.
[SPEAKER_03]: all wrapped into one beautiful complicated package.
[SPEAKER_03]: Every in sits on this boulder, he plays with his mother's necklace around his neck and begins to roll the scroll up.
[SPEAKER_03]: and picks up a whiskey bottle, an empty whiskey bottle, stuffs it to the mouth, and I think he hears voices calling or laughing, and turns over and sees three of his favorite people.
[SPEAKER_03]: His roommates, and also all of her who's probably watching from a distance, puts the cap onto this whiskey bottle.
[SPEAKER_03]: Just for the few differences, there are these little raised edges on his skin that makes him look a little wrong.
[SPEAKER_03]: Bit of teeth are a little sharper than they ought to be.
[SPEAKER_03]: He holds this whiskey bottle up to his lips, presses a kiss, and then tosses it from the neck onwards so that it falls directly on its face and sinks to the bottom of the ocean.
[SPEAKER_05]: We're back in Alex's room, and she has pulled out like a suit case, and she's opened it after like, she like stares at it, and she just sort of like takes a deep breath and...
[SPEAKER_05]: and finally just throws it open.
[SPEAKER_05]: There's a bunch of random things inside that aren't important.
[SPEAKER_05]: What is important is a fairly large old leather book and she pulls it out and wipes some not dust it's been inside of a suit case for the last couple of years but pulls it
[SPEAKER_05]: of creatures and spells, herbs, spirits, curses, haxes.
[SPEAKER_05]: Layline charts, things like that.
[SPEAKER_05]: It is the grimoire that non-magical grimoire, just a collection, it's a tone, it's knowledge.
[SPEAKER_05]: And she was given it by a stealth to study almost a decade ago.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's all handwritten, but there's so many different hand writings.
[SPEAKER_05]: Towards the middle section of the book is where she starts seeing handwriting, she recognizes it's a stealth.
[SPEAKER_05]: to meet in a little loopy, but somehow even are along the bottom line.
[SPEAKER_05]: And she keeps slipping and finally she comes to what she was looking for, which is the set or the start of blank pages.
[SPEAKER_05]: And she takes a pen and she floats it in the air and begins dictating.
[SPEAKER_05]: I am A-Lix Chow, the last witch of Rosville Beach, and if you're reading this, this is
[SPEAKER_05]: your chance.
[SPEAKER_05]: I hope that if you have this I'm still here to guide you.
[SPEAKER_05]: If not, know that all of us here kept alive in these pages will be with you forever.
[SPEAKER_05]: and she will go on in quickly detail.
[SPEAKER_05]: The things that she is encountered here, the Salamander, the Phoenix, she will make a note on the government g-men and put question marks by it because she has no idea what the fuck they were doing.
[SPEAKER_05]: Never did get a resolution to that, and also just a general be aware, one or two of them might be dead, so that could be a problem you might have to face, hopefully while Alex is still here in a live.
[SPEAKER_05]: It makes note of the former bank operator, no longer
[SPEAKER_05]: It notes the lay line, the way it was sealed, there is an entry on September brown, and a longer entry on a stealth queen.
[SPEAKER_05]: That one's harder to write, because there's still so many question marks that she never wanted to know the answer to or never asked because she thought she'd have time for a stealth teller when she was ready.
[SPEAKER_05]: She gets towards the end of the entry.
[SPEAKER_05]: or rather, she finishes what she needs to write, but in the beginning of the entry, she has to go back, and she writes, this was a stealth queen, and I loved her.
[SPEAKER_05]: And at that, she stops.
[SPEAKER_05]: She takes the pen into her own hand again.
[SPEAKER_05]: And I think seeing everything she's written in, I think she was zoned there for so long.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think she was doing this for like a couple hours.
[SPEAKER_05]: We have to rise and sets the pen on the table
[SPEAKER_04]: with the grimoire now out living with you rather than hidden away rather than somewhere you must keep it outside because it is something that you are buried.
[SPEAKER_04]: How does it change your life?
[SPEAKER_05]: There were aspects of the magical world that she just, like she perceived them around Roseville Beach, like it was impossible not to when she came here, beyond just the obvious witches.
[SPEAKER_05]: There's none mundane wildlife everywhere, there's spirits haunting her own home, and many of the other places around here.
[SPEAKER_05]: And before it was kind of like Alex would spend time being like not my circus, not my monkeys and just kind of walk away from it.
[SPEAKER_05]: And I think now, it's like she makes a point to choose against that.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think she leaves orange as out for ghosts.
[SPEAKER_05]: She directs Granny towards any temporarily suspicious wildlife.
[SPEAKER_05]: And I think in the times since her conversation with Orian and this.
[SPEAKER_05]: there's a noticeable shift in her.
[SPEAKER_05]: She still smokes, she still drinks, she still makes way to dry quips and stares when you do something absolutely stupid, but I think she's a little quicker to smile and she doesn't wear the choker anymore.
[SPEAKER_05]: Her scars are on display for all to see.
[SPEAKER_01]: louis a little bit late uh that is that is just lou sometimes but she has an official meeting to go to and so she is it's probably after sunset at this point and i think what's cool about lou now is that when the moon is out specifically
[SPEAKER_01]: and it's not all the time, it's just like when the light hits her a specific way.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's a strange sort of...
[SPEAKER_01]: glow underneath her skin and it's been there ever since she touched the laylines.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're surrounded a little bit, I think, because that's for Aryan to deal with.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's for Aleuk's deal with, and now she has been physically altered by her own choices.
[SPEAKER_01]: So she's still getting used to this strange glow that she
[SPEAKER_01]: and she is walking along the beach close to the shore out to the billboard that her and Annie usually act.
[SPEAKER_01]: And even from this distance she looks up and she can see that there's a figure already sitting there and she knows that there needs to be an apology about her
[SPEAKER_01]: I'd like to think that on this billboard, there's obviously a railing where you can sit.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think in this moment.
[SPEAKER_01]: that Annie is sitting there, hair down in a normal summer outfit for her, which is usually a bright, son dress of sorts.
[SPEAKER_01]: At this point, she is most likely taken her sandals off and set them next to her up on top and is just dangling her legs over the edge.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think arms up on that railing a bit as she sits there and not looking for Lou at all.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm just kind of looking out at the ocean watching how the waves move with the moon light.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think Lou kind of stops and stares and is so, so happy with the decision that she's made.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's just hoping that Annie will be too.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so she continues on.
[SPEAKER_01]: As she gets closer and he notices her, and Lou gives like an awkward little wave, and and he doesn't say anything, then Lou goes, hey, so I know we can talk about, we can talk about time later, but I know we usually meet up there, okay, I'm gonna really need you to come down on the ground for this.
[SPEAKER_04]: She says something, but it's too quiet for you to hear, and after a bit of back and forth, she finally takes her head, rested on the railing off, and she picks up her sandals, and I don't think she's put them back on.
[SPEAKER_04]: sort of just tuck some underneath her arm as she climbs down the ladder and there's always there's always a bit of an awkward face because the ladder doesn't go all the way to the ground and you have to kind of jump up to it by any gracefully land as she looks at that you hey hey okay so I have something to say and I am just gonna word vomit at you if that's okay
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, go ahead.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, you can obviously feel free to jump in, but if I don't just keep going, I may never go to begin with.
[UNKNOWN]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_04]: Go then.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, okay, okay, so first off, I know we have briefly talked about this, but I just want to say it again.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_01]: that that night felt a little weird and I do mean a side from the literal almost destruction of Roseville Beach part of it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not I'm not talking about that part.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm talking about the severe part of that.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just need to make it once more clear to you.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not into her like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: She's a friend and she needs friends, but frankly I cannot be a rebound for a woman who is grieving someone who literally sacrificed themselves to save her and Honestly to save Roseville and is the only reason we're all even here at this moment.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, but that's honestly.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's kind of besides the point.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just need to get that out.
[SPEAKER_01]: The point is
[SPEAKER_01]: that I've been doing a lot of thinking as you can probably tell by the energy that I'm bringing to this.
[SPEAKER_01]: And this summer has been helpful, I guess.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think she reaches out and grabs Annie's hands.
[SPEAKER_04]: You grab her hands and she kind of is pulled toward you in a way that was unexpected and she's caught off her footing a little bit.
[SPEAKER_04]: And she sort of leans onto you to support her way.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not going to cry, because number one, I just like physically can't do that right now, but also because I'm not crying.
[SPEAKER_01]: You are possibly the most patient person I've ever met.
[SPEAKER_01]: Anyone else would have left, and they did really, but you need me to show up.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm here.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I know this and she kind of gestures at just her normal get up.
[SPEAKER_01]: Isn't the best example?
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not fancy, but you know what I mean.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna say something that's terrifying to me.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's not because I don't want it.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's because I've never let my future solidify before.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, that I didn't have the most steady of youths, but I've never had to run from Roseville.
[SPEAKER_01]: And more importantly, I've never needed to run from you.
[SPEAKER_01]: She kind of squeezes Annie's hands.
[SPEAKER_01]: I want, I want to do this forever.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I know you said that to me like nine years ago when I didn't listen, so I'm the full ha-ha very funny always am I guess.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm just sorry that it took me ten years.
[SPEAKER_04]: What's different about now?
[SPEAKER_01]: What I want matters.
[SPEAKER_01]: What I want is you.
[SPEAKER_04]: She takes the slightest breath of a step towards you.
[SPEAKER_04]: Not fully just one foot as the inched closer.
[SPEAKER_04]: And she says, where do we go from here?
[SPEAKER_01]: Forward, together.
[SPEAKER_04]: Lou, she gets a little bit closer to yoga.
[SPEAKER_04]: She is illuminated in a way that you have never seen before.
[SPEAKER_04]: Her features are brought out by the glow from you.
[SPEAKER_04]: And as she is basked in this,
[SPEAKER_04]: this light, you feel a bit of that magic, but not in incantation, not a ritual or a ruin, it's something more primal, it's something very honest and true, and exists right here in this moment between the two of you.
[SPEAKER_04]: You have felt this once before.
[SPEAKER_04]: that was when September gave herself for Samira.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean it.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think that this is how it was always gonna be.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I don't know if you can feel that, but I think someone else knows that too.
[SPEAKER_01]: Someone knows a little bit more about Roseville Beach now than any of us.
[SPEAKER_04]: I've never left.
[SPEAKER_04]: I was just waiting for you to realize you were ready.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I'm so far beyond that now.
[SPEAKER_01]: Blue closes the distance between them, takes any space in her hands, and kisses her.
[SPEAKER_04]: even though it was so telegraphed blue, so telegraphed.
[SPEAKER_04]: It was as if the billboard behind you had the spell to the words, I'm in love with you and I'm about to kiss you and it had giant flashing lights on it, and he's still surprised.
[SPEAKER_04]: She welcomes it in a way that you would welcome a new chapter of your life.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think that's very interesting, because... Toulou...
[SPEAKER_01]: this kiss feels so familiar.
[SPEAKER_01]: It feels like coming home.
[SPEAKER_01]: It feels like they never stopped doing this.
[SPEAKER_01]: Even though it's been so many years, she knows exactly how they fit together.
[SPEAKER_01]: She knows exactly how any likes to be kissed and so there's none of that.
[SPEAKER_01]: While she was a little bit afraid of
[SPEAKER_01]: The fear is quickly dissipated because it simply does not exist, because despite the fact that they may not have been intimate in this way with each other, they have known each other and have been with each other even without a name for a decade.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think in the overwhelming joy of it,
[SPEAKER_01]: at any sort of magic that those words of power of love and protect almost animate by themselves in this moment, just radiating off of Lou and
[SPEAKER_01]: I think she glows brighter for a moment until actually the glow fades and dims and just Louis becomes Louis again because there's a piece of miss that she hasn't had any long time.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think she puts her hands around Annie and Pulsar even closer.
[SPEAKER_01]: deepening the moment in the kiss, and just has a singular moment of how dumb have I been?
[SPEAKER_01]: Before that is completely erased from her mind and the only thought that she has is I'm going to make up for the years that she put her life on hold for me.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I will never stop doing that.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think Orian had invited Oliver to a remote section of the beach and was a beach.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is not where any of the tourists are.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is if anything close to where the industrial sort of fly aspect of Rosalbeach is, this is where sailors are fishermen, all these folks who work there.
[SPEAKER_03]: And this is site where all those months ago a rean was captured in a net and subsequently saved.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I think he like brings and invites all over here and there's like a bit of confusion.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like in terms of the vibes, there's a bit of a confusion because this is beyond a romantic getaway that this isn't a confession scene that is laden with like bright lights that glitter like sparkles and hallows.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is a raw, very real.
[SPEAKER_03]: confession that is not beautiful.
[SPEAKER_03]: It is not romanticized.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is a confession as if a sinner were at the foot of a god confessing their sins.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I think Orian like skips ahead of all of our little bit and like looks at the beach and looks at everything and goes
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, this has changed, and yet look the same.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's been a while.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then like sits over to like an empty sparse place on the beach, and as he sits down, he hats the area sand next to him to get Oliver to sit by him.
[SPEAKER_04]: And Oliver gladly sits next to you as he takes your hand and rests it between the two of you.
[SPEAKER_03]: hitching of breath before very in exhales and like just stairs at that connection and says there is many things I need to tell you and many things I need to how did that move say it again?
[SPEAKER_03]: many things I have to be real about with you
[SPEAKER_03]: and it's not all going to be pretty, it's not all going to make sense, but I think it's important.
[SPEAKER_03]: And Orion will gesture to the part of the ocean with a ship used to be, with a net fell down and caught him.
[SPEAKER_03]: Several months ago, you and your fishing vessel, you caught something, but I'll several something.
[SPEAKER_03]: You had fish, you had other aquatic creatures.
[SPEAKER_03]: But you also caught me.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know if you knew at that point that I was struggling within an iron net, unable to leave, feeling that that would have been my end.
[SPEAKER_03]: death by the hands of humans, like many kin that come before me.
[SPEAKER_03]: But you did something that they all over.
[SPEAKER_03]: You let me go.
[SPEAKER_03]: Again, I don't know if you knew or saw, but you saved my life that day.
[SPEAKER_04]: I can't say that I knew you were in the area, but I felt like I had to do something.
[SPEAKER_04]: I saw, I feel like yes, I saw you struggling and then so much pain and I just thought such a, such a majestic creature shouldn't be trapped this way.
[SPEAKER_03]: I felt so guilty for, I don't even know what I felt guilty for, I just did.
[SPEAKER_04]: And I think the word called strikes you, Ariana.
[SPEAKER_04]: Will you tell us how you feel about that action possibly having been connected to your siren?
[SPEAKER_04]: Call.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's complicated, I think.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, as soon as Oliver says that, a reen himself runs that scene back in his own head,
[SPEAKER_03]: and he makes the realization that he was screaming.
[SPEAKER_03]: He was screaming for his life, but that scream was song.
[SPEAKER_03]: It was a desperate, well song, hoping that something anything might pull him from this.
[SPEAKER_03]: It was a him begging the powers that be to release him from this prison.
[SPEAKER_03]: And that frightens a re-enforum moment.
[SPEAKER_03]: thinking that what Aleuk said is true, perhaps, that this is an infatuation that is not real in the true essence.
[SPEAKER_03]: As the fears take over in Arian's mind, there's a moment where he kind of like his left hand that's not touching like Oliver's hand plays with the sand and there's a moment where his finger
[SPEAKER_03]: clips against something, and he glances off the side, and it is a shell.
[SPEAKER_03]: and it makes him think of Halle and Halle's prison and how despite all of his desperate attempts to use the sign abilities in the bar, the screaming, the utilizing of his magic's nothing worked.
[SPEAKER_03]: But regardless, all of her hurt him out, regardless, all of her trusted him.
[SPEAKER_03]: and there's this exhale of relief that just probably doesn't make much sense to all over this moment but it just seeps out of Arian's bones at this moment and see exhales.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, thanks, Hyden.
[SPEAKER_03]: Sorry, I had something to say to you, an orient turns back to all over, look, you felt cold and that makes me think of, of Atticus and how he felt cold, and maybe that's just the, that's just maybe the boon that humans get.
[SPEAKER_03]: They get the call to be a hero one day and you become one.
[SPEAKER_03]: by your choices that you make.
[SPEAKER_03]: But after that day I couldn't stop thinking about you, which is odd because why would a siren think about mortals?
[SPEAKER_03]: It's been a long time since we had severed that connection between siren and humanity.
[SPEAKER_03]: But I couldn't.
[SPEAKER_04]: He pulls you in, actually.
[SPEAKER_04]: Not in a romantic way, but with your hand he drags it across the sand,
[SPEAKER_04]: so that you are drawn closer to him and eats braces you with his other hand.
[SPEAKER_04]: Aryan, I've known you for a very short time.
[SPEAKER_04]: And in that time, you... Well, truthfully, you talk a lot about how you're so different than he would be.
[SPEAKER_04]: How sirens and mortals, as you put us.
[SPEAKER_04]: are different, but I have to tell you, this feeling you're experiencing, you're telling me that it's unnatural, it's strange, it's unheard of and that you severed that tie and that you shouldn't think this way.
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know how you haven't heard this entire summer
[SPEAKER_03]: Aurean, Chuckles and smiles, and you're right, you're right, that's true, there's no other place I can imagine now, this time that we're in, that this could happen.
[SPEAKER_03]: And this was a culmination of Be begging by See which of them other Not knowing your name For most of this summer I have must confess I chose the name that my mother was particularly affectionate of I called you this year What do you want this time?
[SPEAKER_04]: There is a sharp Expression on his face Odysseus
[SPEAKER_04]: really?
[SPEAKER_03]: My mother always said his name so softly and sweetly, and you are a sailor.
[SPEAKER_04]: Sure.
[SPEAKER_03]: How does how does the saying go if the slipper fits?
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, if the slipper fits.
[SPEAKER_03]: Regardless of my misgivings aside of who you are,
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, we set all this things.
[SPEAKER_03]: If this could happen anywhere, it would be Rosalbeach.
[SPEAKER_03]: But it's important that I say this.
[SPEAKER_03]: I am drawn to you.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oliver, I feel bound to you, not in a way that means that I have a mythical, grander boon to grant you.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's left me now, but it's something I want.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's something I choose.
[SPEAKER_03]: And should you have me, I would wish to walk these beaches with you for as long as you would have me?
[SPEAKER_03]: But I would, and he like raises finger, because yeah, I think he expects the response from all of her almost immediately, and he like presses his finger against all of her slips.
[SPEAKER_03]: But before you make that choice, as I have, you must see me again for what I am,
[SPEAKER_03]: this beautiful human face that sits before you.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm also a siren.
[SPEAKER_03]: Those are all truths of me that I cannot bargain or barter away.
[SPEAKER_03]: And Aryan stands up as the tide lapse.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's laughing against us.
[SPEAKER_03]: The final dregs of the high tide of the daytime before the low tide takes in, and he steps into the tide and we see that eldritch form again in the shadows of the water.
[SPEAKER_03]: Spines, the darker scales, the rigid tail, the far more monstrous face, something eldritch and indescribable.
[SPEAKER_03]: A horror story probably in some eyes, but this is who Arena is, at present.
[SPEAKER_03]: And he looks from above the chalose at Oliver, and says,
[SPEAKER_03]: I think there is a level of realization reckoning that does have to happen because before while Oliver took it and stride in the moment of danger and panic like the hero, he is.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is real, this is we see Oliver's eyes taking the entirety of it.
[SPEAKER_03]: And this is a person who is frightening to mortal senses that is that is true to say otherwise is to lie but
[SPEAKER_03]: Oliver reckons with that, I think.
[SPEAKER_03]: Looks at a rean, for maybe longer than a rean might hope.
[SPEAKER_03]: There is a fear that lingers in a rean's eyes, the longer the heartbeat's go on, and Oliver stands up, walks towards the shells of the water, letting his feet and trousers into the watersy weeds in right by a rean's side.
[SPEAKER_03]: is just communicated through a gaze of I care about you, maybe even of you, not because of not in spite of, but alongside the strangeness that you are.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I think that's where it is, this
[SPEAKER_03]: And this isn't a romantic story where every truth is will out here.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is a start of a journey for the two of them to know each other, to care about each other, to love each other.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it's likely to be a good story that is reciprocated and ends with honey on everyone's tongues, but it's about the journey that they get to embark together to learn that.
[SPEAKER_04]: all of her puts out his hand to you, but we never get to see what happens next.
[SPEAKER_04]: We just know that he has accepted you for you are as the doc's creak above you, and we hear the sound of waves, and we just see the water against the sand.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think everyone in their house gets this understanding, this specific day, that Lou is super
[SPEAKER_01]: prepping the house like she's not like a mom who's cleaning before company comes she just simply will not sit still is checking the clock every minute until finally there's just a slamming of the screen door onto the back porch a slamming of boots downstairs and she's gone and she arrives in the dock probably about 15 minutes
[SPEAKER_01]: Both ten minutes into that really shows up by her side.
[SPEAKER_01]: She's just arms crossed, staring out at the boat that's slowly coming towards them.
[SPEAKER_04]: And Louise's arms crossed right next to you, staring at the boat coming towards the deal.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay Yikes, um... Wow.
[SPEAKER_01]: What if he's not on the boat, Louise?
[SPEAKER_01]: He said he was going to be.
[SPEAKER_01]: I read the letter.
[SPEAKER_04]: We were on the phone with him.
[SPEAKER_04]: He said he was coming.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's a thing about the wells.
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't necessarily, I'm the enigma.
[SPEAKER_01]: Everyone else, you can't necessarily take them out their word.
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, puts a hand on your shoulder.
[SPEAKER_04]: Not looking at you.
[SPEAKER_04]: He's looking out at the boat.
[SPEAKER_04]: Is it, it's coming out of the docks?
[SPEAKER_04]: You've done good by him, and if he chooses not to come, then I'd say it's good he's finally making his own choices.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you're right.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think I, I think I want him to come, and I think that I will be upset if he doesn't.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think I don't like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: As was mentioned at the very beginning of this episode, Lou has always been about fixing things.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the one thing that she has never successfully fixed was her family.
[SPEAKER_01]: And while it is definitely misguided in that sense of looking at her family like this,
[SPEAKER_01]: what she thinks he should choose.
[SPEAKER_01]: Even though she does think it will actually be what's best for him is her last at fixing what she grew up with.
[SPEAKER_01]: And if he doesn't show up on that boat, Lou will renegade on what she wrote in that letter and she will continue to send him red money.
[SPEAKER_01]: And she will continue to work her ass off.
[SPEAKER_01]: kind of go backwards and grow a bit.
[SPEAKER_04]: As this is going across in your mind, as you're experiencing these emotions, what does Louise put this?
[SPEAKER_01]: A shame because she knows that about herself.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so she kind of digs her hands very deep into the pockets of her cargo shorts.
[SPEAKER_01]: and haunches her shoulders and is almost trying to not be noticeable even though that's just impossible because everybody knows here knows Lou and a very deep concern on her face not only for her brother but for what that would mean for her and that she is afraid of him not coming because she's afraid of going backwards
[SPEAKER_04]: the boat docks.
[SPEAKER_04]: People start to exit.
[SPEAKER_04]: At first the large crowd and then it gets thinner and you're waiting and waiting until it looks like everybody's off the boat.
[SPEAKER_04]: There is still one person left.
[SPEAKER_04]: Is it your brother?
[SPEAKER_01]: stepping off the boat is a very skinny and a very unhealthy fashion.
[SPEAKER_01]: Twenty-ish, twenty-one-ish, year-old man who still looks like a boy to Lou.
[SPEAKER_01]: Lou's hair is cutting to a bullet, but it's curly.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he just has, like, a very short-shaped curls on his head.
[SPEAKER_01]: samplerized brown rich, and that's kind of where the similarities end.
[SPEAKER_01]: He is dressed like a mid-western farm boy in jeans, work boots, and a almost completely buttoned up at the top flannel, except it's open one button.
[SPEAKER_01]: You see like a white undershirt underneath.
[SPEAKER_01]: and he has like a duffel sum over his shoulder and I think he walks down and he looks on steady.
[SPEAKER_01]: He is very clearly either just recently sober or in the works of becoming sober and is a bit in withdrawal.
[SPEAKER_01]: kind of like really gaunt cheeks, stubble that is just very unattractive.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he walks down on the beach.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think for a moment that it's been so long that he almost looks through Lou and doesn't recognize her at first.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think she has reached out and she has grabbed Louisa's arms so tight and it's just squeezing it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, he's here.
[SPEAKER_01]: I guess it starts now.
[SPEAKER_01]: We'll walk's over and take these duffel bag from him, and they don't touch.
[SPEAKER_01]: They don't hug.
[SPEAKER_01]: They don't do anything like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: She slings the duffel bag over her bag and she goes, alright, well,
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, you're gonna be sleeping with a ghost, but I think it's at least a place to lay your head.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's go.
[SPEAKER_01]: And just turns around and starts walking towards the beach house.
[SPEAKER_04]: It stays on your brother as you walk past to the camera and he just says a coast.
[SPEAKER_04]: He walks past the camera as well.
[SPEAKER_04]: in our sunken living room with a bittersweet hesitation in the air, as tomorrow is the last day of summer.
[SPEAKER_04]: Lou, I'm going to let you open this up because you've seen this before.
[SPEAKER_04]: You've done this before, and it's always the same.
[SPEAKER_01]: The Beach House on a Roseville Beach, in which Lou has resided,
[SPEAKER_01]: This specific beach house, because she wasn't always here, but she has been here for a few years now, as always looked the same.
[SPEAKER_01]: Since she moved in, there has been no renovations.
[SPEAKER_01]: It has just been what it was.
[SPEAKER_01]: The only change with the people that passed through it
[SPEAKER_01]: many individuals who come to Rosalbeach do only stay through the summer.
[SPEAKER_01]: She's one of the odd ones who didn't grow up here, who didn't grow up near here, but who stayed.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so there was a little bit of selfishness there bringing her brother in, because now even if the normal renters leave, Scotty will be right upstairs.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's not a big issue.
[SPEAKER_01]: I've got someone here.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so, on this last day of summer, on this day when the house will be empty again, she treated it as any other day.
[SPEAKER_01]: She's tired of trying to get people to stay.
[SPEAKER_01]: If they want to, they will.
[SPEAKER_01]: If they don't, they won't, and they weren't meant to.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that is their path in their life.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so, she's downstairs at about 7 a.m.
[SPEAKER_01]: with a ball of batter, mixing up pancakes, and this time not using the grill, but using the actual stove, just waiting for Ariana and Alex to show their faces.
[SPEAKER_04]: The first thing I'm downstairs is your brother, who grabs a pancake and runs up the door.
[SPEAKER_03]: Arian has usual, every morning, appears like a tempestuous storm,
[SPEAKER_03]: rushes down the steps and he'll tell it in a far-to-cherpy voice that anyone is really prepared for.
[SPEAKER_03]: He says, good morning, like slides near towards the kitchen.
[SPEAKER_03]: You see that he has something in, like a large something in his hands.
[SPEAKER_03]: I see like sits on one of the kitchen tables chairs and like you see this massive costume that he seems to be working on.
[SPEAKER_03]: and he sits down and you see him kind of like messing up out with it with a needle seems to be fixing something and he looks at you making pancakes and goes, thanks!
[SPEAKER_03]: I love those!
[SPEAKER_03]: I have to, sorry, I would, I will definitely help in just a second.
[SPEAKER_03]: I just need to fix this before my performance tomorrow, but it turns out Miss Sherry's heel.
[SPEAKER_03]: dug into my flared trouser and now there is a hole that I need a mend and I'm not very good at mending but I am making it work out.
[SPEAKER_03]: He says he likes himself on the needle and then like continues mending it.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're coming right?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah yes I yes I'm coming.
[SPEAKER_01]: Can we eat breakfast first?
[SPEAKER_03]: Right, he just touched the item we put it onto the sofa, the sunkin living room and then rush us back and it sits down and smiles at you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Actually, this is great.
[SPEAKER_01]: I have a big question for you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Do you not need tea breakfast?
[SPEAKER_03]: I like breakfast.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, well, you just, you were just ignoring it and not having it and I'm making it, so I just wanted to make sure.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, I like breakfast.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think I need to eat it now because, you know,
[SPEAKER_03]: Just just the entirety of his of his percentage of like handsome man just a little but a little strange Looking and it's like I'm very excited for breakfast.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm looking forward to more breakfast I thought I was gonna finally have a conversation with your brother Scotty and I every time I'm down here He's already gone Honestly a good thing He's still gaining his bearings and it's rough
[SPEAKER_03]: This is yours sibling.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you for letting him just like coming in stay.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just wasn't sure what the situation was going to be going forward, so I thought it was going to be fine for him to come this day.
[SPEAKER_01]: Should we go talk to Mr. Man Ray, what's his name?
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, Man Ray, well, Man Ray is back in the ocean now.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, who's our landlord?
[SPEAKER_03]: Don't know what that is.
[SPEAKER_01]: Do I have to talk to Tim?
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, you mean Manny's little familiar?
[SPEAKER_01]: Do I own this place now that he went back to the ocean?
[SPEAKER_03]: That will be a very nice gift.
[SPEAKER_01]: I would love that.
[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like I've lived here for the amount of years it would take to have like squatters, right?
[SPEAKER_03]: I also don't know what that is.
[SPEAKER_04]: If you want to,
[SPEAKER_04]: The answer is yes, if you don't want to, the answer is no.
[SPEAKER_04]: And there are a stack of bills on the desk underneath, which is I letter from a Mr. War.
[SPEAKER_01]: All the bills on this table are going to be paid soon.
[SPEAKER_01]: And while our Anna's talking Lou kind of goes over and looks through all of them and like she's seen them all before.
[SPEAKER_01]: So she's just kind of thrown through them.
[SPEAKER_01]: You saw when it arrived and she thought it was a joke, but now like fully taking in that Mr. War went back into the ocean.
[SPEAKER_01]: She realizes that maybe it's not a joke.
[SPEAKER_01]: She realizes that this is maybe the most security she's ever had and so she looks at it and she goes Well, Ariana, you gotta let me know if you're staying because I'm your landlord now
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, where else would I go?
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh.
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought you might want to go back to the ocean.
[SPEAKER_03]: I can go back whenever I want, but I want to be here right now.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I want to hang out with you and Alex and I still need to get to know all of her because I don't know what being closer now and I want to be here.
[SPEAKER_03]: Do you don't want me here?
[SPEAKER_01]: Lewis trying not to smile the biggest smile that she has ever smiled before, but it's very difficult.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'll take one of the cooking socks.
[SPEAKER_01]: You have, you can, you don't have to do anything.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay?
[SPEAKER_01]: Are you?
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't have to do anything at all.
[SPEAKER_01]: You just have to come,
[SPEAKER_01]: Home at night and sleep in that bed.
[SPEAKER_03]: Done.
[SPEAKER_01]: I do that every night.
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe we'll figure out a way to help pay for the bills, but that's a different story.
[SPEAKER_01]: I am, you're staying, you're here, you're here now, you're here.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, yes, I'm not turning into seafood, yes.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, that was my biggest concern.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was the seafo.
[SPEAKER_05]: You all see like the most aggressively sleepy alex, like staggering down the stairs in sweatpants and a tank top.
[SPEAKER_05]: Her eyes are like barely open.
[SPEAKER_05]: You see her just like conjure a pancake into her hand from the from the plate.
[SPEAKER_05]: One in.
[SPEAKER_05]: It starts munching on and it's like, do you know what time it is?
[SPEAKER_05]: It's so early.
[SPEAKER_01]: I still can't read the clock.
[SPEAKER_05]: That is awfully specific of an answer.
[SPEAKER_05]: The answer was fucking early.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, well, a short, early is relative.
[SPEAKER_05]: What, what, what are you, what are you, what are you, I own this house now.
[SPEAKER_03]: What?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, we need to celebrate.
[SPEAKER_03]: Who's now a landlord?
[SPEAKER_03]: I assume that's really important.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're a Lord now.
[SPEAKER_01]: So here's the, here's so, ooh, ooh, I'd like to just take a set back for a second.
[SPEAKER_01]: I do own the house, so technically, ooh, and the landlord.
[SPEAKER_01]: But that's not the vibe I'm going for if you understand me.
[SPEAKER_03]: You don't want to be a Lord?
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't want to be a landlord, that's for sure.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, good morning.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, Licks.
[SPEAKER_05]: I will just have it remembered that I have covered your rent like 11 times in the last two years.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, I'm just gonna have I not made it clear that that issue is solved.
[SPEAKER_01]: You don't have to cover my rent anymore.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm totally cool with that.
[SPEAKER_05]: I just want you to remember that as the new landlord and when things go...
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what it entails.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, I'm not gonna ask you guys for rent.
[SPEAKER_01]: We just have to split the cost that I get every, am I just gonna, I'm just gonna get like one bill every month, right?
[SPEAKER_05]: We're gonna solve that after coffee.
[SPEAKER_05]: Good.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_05]: We're gonna, we're gonna get to that after coffee.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm, I'm very happy for you, Lou.
[SPEAKER_01]: I've never owned a house.
[SPEAKER_05]: I know, Alex is going to like, must her hair a little bit and just sort of like shuffle up to you.
[SPEAKER_05]: One pancake in hand, and she like throws her armor around your shoulders, listen, you're going to be fine.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: I have a question for you.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Are you leaving?
[SPEAKER_05]: What?
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, because Aryan came in a hot this morning to tell me that he was staying.
[SPEAKER_01]: and living in the house.
[SPEAKER_01]: Again, where else will I go?
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, I'm not gonna go sleep at the bodega.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah, well, there is that back room, and I didn't know, you know, I could make it a bedroom if you wanted.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's so sweet, I'm not going anywhere I do.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is the greatest day of my life.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let me tell you something.
[SPEAKER_01]: There has not been a single tenant of this house aside from me who is not left when fall has come to Roseville Beach.
[SPEAKER_01]: And let me tell you something.
[SPEAKER_01]: Ball and Roseville Beach is great.
[SPEAKER_01]: You are all going to have an incredible time.
[SPEAKER_01]: You don't even know it yet.
[SPEAKER_05]: She's just going to look at she sideways.
[SPEAKER_05]: She's just going to kiss you on the cheek and be like, I love you.
[SPEAKER_05]: You big idiot.
[SPEAKER_04]: the last day of summer.
[SPEAKER_04]: So let's say, almost the first day of the best season of Russell Beach, autumn.
[SPEAKER_04]: I think there is a spot, very few people know about because it is not featured on any brochure.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's not as thought you would want to go to if the beach was available.
[SPEAKER_04]: But because fall is almost here, the beach has become less enticing
[SPEAKER_04]: West of here, in the forest, there is a little clearing.
[SPEAKER_04]: There's a grove of trees and almost a perfect circle, a meadow carved out in the middle of this forest, where the sun shines down, and you can fuel the warmth sort of radiant from here.
[SPEAKER_04]: As a small little spot,
[SPEAKER_04]: for a picnic.
[SPEAKER_04]: There's a table, but it's like one of those wooden tables that has the benches connected to them.
[SPEAKER_04]: So it's always a little bit too close.
[SPEAKER_04]: Your knees are always a little bit they're smashing against each other.
[SPEAKER_04]: You never really know how to sit in this thing comfortably, but it has an enduring coziness to it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Like a charcoal grill next to it and there are probably like a basket with a few games and activities that the few people who go here sort of leave.
[SPEAKER_03]: A reincarn has, for most of his life, eaten aquatic animals, and as such, when arrived on Rosalbeach, has a particular fondness for canned fish.
[SPEAKER_03]: He is currently making a tuna sandwich, but this isn't just like your typical canned tuna.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is the Asian style, like canned fish, which are often flavored.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is his earliest loves here in Roswell Beach of having a spiced tuna in a can on toasted bread, which I think he learned from either alex of blue of making like,
[SPEAKER_03]: an actual sandwich.
[SPEAKER_03]: So that is what Arian is currently preparing.
[SPEAKER_03]: We see this beautiful bright colored can he begins to like spread the contents and add some level of foliage onto it so that it's a robust meal and he sets it on a plate and he's excitable.
[SPEAKER_03]: The second we arrived on the picnic ground he has been bouncing
[SPEAKER_03]: and he got the ingredients from however beloved bodega and she sources all the important wonderful and delicious ancient goods.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think she's like picking at what Orion is prepared.
[SPEAKER_05]: I don't think she rejects that outright.
[SPEAKER_05]: Like I think she's like okay this is weird but fuck it.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think she thinks a little bit about like the person she was before she was a witch.
[SPEAKER_05]: Just for a second, because that person seems so long ago and doesn't even sound or feel like her.
[SPEAKER_05]: And she's looking at this moment with her friends and just thinks, like, she never would have thought this was a place she'd be.
[SPEAKER_05]: She's gonna say what that one, she's just kind of gently, like just cigarette and
[SPEAKER_04]: There's a headline that sort of catches your ear.
[SPEAKER_01]: The radio announcement is one for like a new big hardware store popping up in places.
[SPEAKER_01]: Lewis and transpire what is going on just at this picnic in general, but is briefly brought
[SPEAKER_01]: to this moment of this ad.
[SPEAKER_01]: And listen to the whole thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then I think Kirk thought is, as she looks back at the picnic, where Ariana, Alex, Oliver, Annie, like, all these people that they love have shown up whether or not they were invited are here and she goes, oh, my son's great, but I can find all I need in Roseville Beach.
[SPEAKER_04]: As you are surrounded by loved ones, you laugh and we enjoy the fleeting breath that is summer.
[SPEAKER_04]: The camera frames the three of you sitting together and someone has just told a joke.
[SPEAKER_04]: I want to know what about this summer you will never forget.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is a summer she never expected.
[SPEAKER_01]: She did not expect these people to come into her lives.
[SPEAKER_01]: She did not expect to be thrown into a battle for the longevity of Rosalbeach.
[SPEAKER_01]: She came into this summer and was like, great, two new roommates.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to go to work and pay the rent and that's what it was until it wasn't.
[SPEAKER_01]: here and what she will take away and I think it's already been stated but should be stated again is that this summer specifically learned her own worth.
[SPEAKER_01]: She realized what was important to her and she'll never go back to not taking what she deserves.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is a summer that Orion will never forget because this is the summer that he got to experience the breadth of humanity.
[SPEAKER_03]: He had got a speedrun through every new emotion, every new relationship, the bright moments and honestly the difficulties that come with humanity.
[SPEAKER_03]: with sharing a space with another person, the fights and disagreements and the thing that many things area will not forget about being here in Roseville Beach and about this particular summer.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think the thing that will really stay with him is that the wonderful, beautiful, tragic,
[SPEAKER_03]: complexity of what it is like to be with other people.
[SPEAKER_03]: The disagreements, the fears, the undo or do amounts of projection.
[SPEAKER_03]: overall the love.
[SPEAKER_03]: That comes from that.
[SPEAKER_03]: We see him laughing as he immediately like makes a off rule move in a board game that they're playing and is immediately reprimanded by the others that are there and he's like explains himself and that's what really will stay with him is all these people.
[SPEAKER_05]: Alex has spent such a long time running, and it's not the case that she was stuck.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's not like she didn't know what to do or where to go or who she was, but she had to run from it.
[SPEAKER_05]: And she can't run anymore because it's already happened.
[SPEAKER_05]: Running is over.
[SPEAKER_05]: And that distance,
[SPEAKER_05]: that she ran.
[SPEAKER_05]: She didn't think about it while she was running it, but now here she is so far away from the person she was when she arrived here.
[SPEAKER_05]: And she thinks about September, and she thinks about that thought that September had when she stepped into the rift.
[SPEAKER_05]: She thinks that that's something that she might have been willing to do or she might not have
[SPEAKER_05]: because of her own selfishness.
[SPEAKER_05]: And either way, as she's like seeing the people around her now, it's like, she ran all that distance to be among them.
[SPEAKER_05]: And now, it's not a place that she wants to leave.
[SPEAKER_05]: That is something that I think she knows.
[SPEAKER_05]: She could make that choice for them.
[SPEAKER_05]: and then she reaches over and stops a re-in from eating one of the board game pieces.
[SPEAKER_05]: But you said that this means it's consumed.
[SPEAKER_05]: No, no, not not literally.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is fiction, not reality, Aryan.
[SPEAKER_03]: I did wonder how he could replenish the pieces and he puts it back.
[SPEAKER_04]: The camera zooms out as the three of you bigger about
[SPEAKER_04]: Whether or not the semantics of board games should be the way they are as we zoom out further and further we can see the forest now the village and now just the crest of the west end of the island quickly followed by the beast and
[SPEAKER_04]: A surge of magic sparks from the labor as it crests over the vessel beach down to a point and back up from Luz Redirection, forming a little heart around the island.
[SPEAKER_04]: And we fade to play.
[SPEAKER_01]: This series stars Alexander Christopher, as the gay master, valiant Dorian, as Arion, Dan Pixel, as Alex Cho, and Kenzie Tartaglioni as Lou Wells.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And with that, we come to the end of Season 4 of queer PG.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you all so much for listening to this story.
[SPEAKER_01]: This one meant a lot to me and I know it did for the rest of our cast as well.
[SPEAKER_01]: Shout out to all of our incredible guests this season, Ash Westover, Logan, Candace the Magnificent, Abby and Kai Kay couldn't have done it without them.
[SPEAKER_01]: While we will be going on a little hiatus, don't go too far because we've got more stories to tell.