November 18, 2022 • 30 mins
Everyone’s running short on time and decisions are being made.
Created and Produced by Victoria Pereira
Featuring:
Victoria Pereira as Avra
Arden Fitzroy as Mar/I
Amy Acevedo as Juliet
Kai Morfin as Ben
Grant Bowman as Julius
Myani Watson as Kendi
Liz Morey as Margot
Caroline Byrne as Sybil
Story Editor: Jennifer Wong
Cover Artist: Christy Duprey
Foley Artist: Isaac Rodriguez
Transcriptionist: Rebecca Reiter
Website Designer: Kyle Boyer
Theme Song: "Pink Night in Ohio" by Ryan Andersen
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Created and Produced by Victoria Pereira
Featuring:
Victoria Pereira as Avra
Arden Fitzroy as Mar/I
Amy Acevedo as Juliet
Kai Morfin as Ben
Grant Bowman as Julius
Myani Watson as Kendi
Liz Morey as Margot
Caroline Byrne as Sybil
Story Editor: Jennifer Wong
Cover Artist: Christy Duprey
Foley Artist: Isaac Rodriguez
Transcriptionist: Rebecca Reiter
Website Designer: Kyle Boyer
Theme Song: "Pink Night in Ohio" by Ryan Andersen
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Welcome to town. Everyone's unique intheir own way. Right. Maybe I
should be concerned about your articles.Don't worry. I still doubt that you're
actually human. Just another day andWater's Edge, Season four, episode nine,
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eleventh hour. It's too early tobe getting you and exorcism. It's
not my fault. Doctor Julius isbusy. Just be happy he agreed not
to tell our parents. Thank Godfor patient doctor confidentiality. Although I'm with
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mar on this one would have lovedto sleep in a little on one of
our days off. After this,we can all go back to sleep knowing
that Ezrath houses ah children, Welcome, Welcome, Thank you for coming by
so early. Of course, DoctorJulius, thank you for seeing me well
us absolutely. I will say.It's been a very very long time since
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I've had to administer the type ofprocedure you've requested, but it is vital
we do this quickly. Please comein, we can get settled in my
office. What any of you likesome tea it's Earl Gray or I have
some water bottles in that small fridgethere. Tea might be nice. Yeah,
same, all right, while Ipour, would you mind telling me
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what happened? With all this demonbusiness. Right, Well, why do
you want us to start? Mexcellent question? How about with a short
explanation of your abilities? Mare.From what I understand, this began with
some routine plane walking. Correct.Yeah, we were trying to talk to
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an author. He's been dead along time, so it was a little
difficult for me to try to connectwith him. Once I did, though,
it was business as usual. Isee. Now, Please do correct
me if I'm wrong. But planewalkers connect to a specific plane. Yes,
not all of them, that's right. My plane is the ethereal one
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where all the ghosts go. Orwell, maybe not all of them.
Yes, I suppose I am anexception in that case. So you contacted
this author, chat for some time, and then what That's when it gets
fuzzy for me. I'm not reallypart of the conversation in the real world
when I walk. I've heard someadults can do that, but it takes
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a lot of practice to be ableto split your mind like that. Of
course, Julia and I were boththere, though. At the end of
talking to the author, his spiritgot taken over by a demon named Ezrathaus,
which meant that Mark got taken overtwo, and we were trapped.
That sounds like quite a terrifying situation. It was, and it didn't help
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that Ezrathaus knocked me out after afew minutes to make a point. Then
Jules was on her own. Ohgoodness. And that's when I made the
idiotic mistake of making a deal withdemons, thinking I was saving all my
friends. I should have known hewas lying about having to keep up his
side of the deal. Now,don't go agonizing over your past mistakes,
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Juliet. In my time dealing withthose despicable creatures, I've seen many people
with far more life experience and supposedmental fortitude fall to a demon's enticing offer,
some for much less than the valianteffort of saving the lives of dear
friends. Honestly, if I'd beenthe only one left standing, I probably
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would have made a deal too.Same here, it's hard, she resist
a demon, near impossible. Yes, I don't want to bring up uncomfortable
memories for you, Juliet, butI must ask what did you trade?
Depending on what it was, itmay be harder or easier to handle expelling
this presence. I understand the dealwas that if he talked to the fates
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and made everything better by fixing anothersituation. I will let him possess me
once for five minutes. I seeZerthouse must be quite desperate. That's not
a very beneficial deal on his part. Demons always want to cause as much
pain as possible. That's what theyfeed off of, what allows them to
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cross planes and in turn reak morehavoc to continue this never ending cycle.
I can see how such a dealwould cause you pain, Juliet, and
by proxy, those who care foryou, like Ben and mar here,
But I fail to see what Zerthous'sbigger plan is. Maybe he's just desperate
to have a way back to ourplane if he hasn't been hitting his pain
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and suffering quotas. It's a wayto guarantee he can come back. That's
definitely a possibility. His motive nationis not integral to our mission of ridding
Juliet from his influence. However,with what seems to be a weak connection
to you and this plane, Ibelieve I can exercise this demon with a
simple procedure. It will take sometime to prepare, but while I do,
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you folks can relax here, feelfree to have more tea or help
yourself to the snack drawer. Ijust got some new granola bars that my
patients have been raving about, Sowe're going to do this now. Of
course, I have my materials upstairs. It shouldn't take long. The sooner
we send this creature of darkness backto where he came from, the better.
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It may have been a little unorthodox, but that's another conviction in the
books. The High Council is goingto be thrilled, especially getting an all
their question answered with one perpetrator.They'll say I got everything they needed,
that I did an excellent job atprotecting cryptos everywhere, so why doesn't it
feel like I did. Nunia's gotin my head all her talk of how
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much she loves her friends and herlife here taking the fall for everything to
keep her student from catching any blame. Thank god, I'm deleaning that part
of that tapes from the record.I know the High Council doesn't ask too
many questions when it comes to gettinga job done, but lying to a
subject about the consequences of a misdemeanoris probably best to keep on the downlow.
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Nunia's must have been too nervous torealize I was lying through my teeth.
The council didn't do anything to punishthat griffin that exposed Camralocke. She
knows that the worst that young girlcould have gotten is a slap on the
wrist, maybe some community service anda lecture on why we have to keep
the secret. But she fell forit, so that's good. Why does
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it feel so bad. I didmy job. I did it well,
and I saved my people. They'llcall me a hero back in one day.
Maybe they'll even let me back in. I shouldn't get my hopes up.
Even if councilwoman Men said she mightbe able to open a case for
me, it would take years.I left knowing that I probably wouldn't be
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going back, and I was okaywith it because I knew it was for
the greater good. But now nowI don't know if that's true. Avre
is the human the counsel wanted meto find. I have no doubts in
that. The evidence all adds up. Everything makes sense. Sure, she
may not have written those letters,but she's my culprit. I knew it
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from the first interview with her.That should be the only thing that matters.
She knows way too much for ahuman and if the situation were different,
maybe that wouldn't be that big ofa deal. But her presence here
means doom for everyone else. Itjust makes sense to sacrifice one person in
order to protect thousands of others.The Council's done it before. I've done
it before, so why can't Ipick up the goddamn phone and do it
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again? Come in, miss Ezra, you have a visitor, I do,
Sibyl Abernathy. She says you weresupposed to work with her today.
She didn't find you at your hotel, so she came here. Should I
send her away? Uh? No, I didn't realize she was still coming
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today. I thought you can sendher in, of course, miss Abernathy.
Investigator Espra is waiting for you.Hi, Cibil. I'm assuming you
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weren't expecting a regular training session today, not exactly. Can we talk?
Hmm hmmm? What you're reading there? Doc? Some of my old notes
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from back when I would conduct thesesort of rituals more often. Always good
to review notes, especially when it'sbeen such a long time. How long
has it been exactly? I wouldguess, say couple hundred years, give
or take a decade. If youneed time to review some more. We
don't have to do it right now. That won't be necessary. I'm all
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refreshed and ready to begin. Whenyou are you sure? That seems like
a pretty big notebook. An extorcismmight need more than a quick skim.
Yeah, this is Juliette's soul we'retalking about. I understand your concerns for
your friend, but I promise youkids, nothing bad will happen. It
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doesn't look it now, but Ifought off a good number of demons in
my day, so many, infact, that it made me the specter
I am today. An exorcism wentso wrong it change you into a ghost?
No, no, quite the opposite. I was so skilled at expelling
demons, I was blessed with aspectral form to continue fighting them for as
long as I wish. But you'rea therapist now. Demons come in many
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forms. But still, don't youthink, guys, doctor Julius knows what
he's doing. It'll be fine,right, right, Okay, let's do
this excellent now. There are manydifferent types of exorcisms, just as there
are many different types of possessions.Your possession is a dormant class, meaning
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your day to day functions haven't beenimpeded by Zerthaus's presence, at least not
directly. I don't mean to discountthe toll his deal takes on your mental
and emotional health, just to sayhe hasn't physically taken control of you yet.
For a dormant class, we'll gowith a cleansing exorcism. What does
that mean? Essentially, I'm goingto perform a ritual that will purify Juliet's
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soul, ridding her of any connectionto Zerthous. We won't need to summon
him up or battle for her bodyin this situation, just for her heart.
Cool. Is that going to hurt? It's may depending on how deeply
Zerthous has been able to root himselfin your being, Juliet, but I'm
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confident you will be able to handleit. Okay, Now, to start,
I'll have you sit here and holdout your hands palms up like this.
This salve will help facilitate the process. Most of a cleansing is done
with words and power of will,but a medicinal salve like this assists in
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the process and helps keep you grounded. I'll apply some to your hands and
a bit to the back. Ofyour neck and forehead as well. It
smells like lavender and something else.There's some eucalyptus in there as well,
calming but potent. Now you canrest your hands on mine, palms still
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up and close your eyes. I'dlike you to picture the night of the
incident. Try to conjure an imageof it as vivid as possible in your
mind. Have you got it?I think so. Tell me what it
sounds like like Mars etherel music andZerthaus is a laugh, and what it
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smells like like the candles they werenow assented it was all Ben had at
home. And what it feels likecold and terrifying and shit, shit,
I'm sorry, I'm sorry. That'sall right. Then I will ask you
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to silence that we need to stayfocused, of course. Yeah, let's
recenter, Juliet. You mentioned itwas cold. What else can you feel?
Well, it is cold, butI'm holding Ben's hands and Mars got
his hands on our shoulders and they'reboth warm. Good. Yes, hold
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onto those anchors. Now, let'sturn your attention to the elephant in the
room. How does Zerthous first appearto you? Well, he was inhabiting
Mar's body, so I can onlysee him as Mar, but I could
tell it wasn't them. When Zerthoussmiled, it didn't look like Mar.
It looked evil. And when hesorry, sorry, I didn't think the
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vibrate would be so loud. Okay, vibrate off. Continue, Juliet,
are you still in this scene?Yeah? I still see Zerthous controlling Mar.
Good? Good? Tell me?How do you feel emotionally about seeing
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this Stephen in your friend's body,seeing him hurt ben bad? Can you
give me more than that? Scared? Powerless? Like I'm trying to keep
it together to get us all outof there, but that isn't working,
and I'm out of options. Andchildren. I know you like your phones,
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and normally I have no problem withthem, but can we please?
I'm sorry that one's mine I thoughtI had. Why is Officer Jenkins calling
me? You have his number saved? No? But I know the WEPD
number. Why because my mother isparanoid and made me memorize it in kindergarten.
If a stranger says they know mommycalled two three, seven, eight
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nine fifty, you had to bribe. Wait, that's the number that called
me, Mar. Where's your phone? Yeah, but why would he called
me too? This is concerning?Is it okay? If I call back
really quick? Yes, that's fine. High Officer Jenkins, it's Juliet Young.
I notice you called Ben mar andI and what oh god? We're
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with doctor Julius. But we canbe over there right away. Okay,
sounds good. We'll see you there. Bye. I'm sorry, Doctor Julius.
The exorcism will have to wait.What's going on? Alvred has been
arrested? What? Oh? No? Alred? Yeah, Officer Jenkins is
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afraid Investigator Estra's going and try towipe her memory without a fair trial.
He needs our help to stop her. You look tired, dude. Do
you want some coffee? I'm fine. I think Jenkins also keeps tea in
the break room if you'd prefer that, Kendy, tea is not what I'm
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here for. I know. I'msorry. I'm nervous. You're nervous.
You're reflecting onto me. That's neveraffected you before normally when we chat.
I'm not arresting your friend for applaudingour collective demise. Kendy, why are
you doing this? She's not guilty, and if you think civil I've already
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gotten the confession out of her.She's human. She's the one in the
book. You had to know ordid she keep it from you too?
Of course I knew. She's mysister. Hold On, you're what that's
impossible. We've already been through allthis. It's totally possible. She was
born human. I was born encrypted. Lucinda took me away when they thought
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I came out stillborn so she couldraise me instead and the secret wouldn't get
out. It was a whole thing. How is she not encrypted then?
I don't know. But whatever shewas before, she shouldn't be anymore.
Francie brought her to the lake wherehe was changed from human decrypted, and
she attempted the same thing. Ifshe's encrypted, she can't be the one
in the book. That's what youwere all doing last night, kind of,
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But that doesn't matter. What matters. You can't give her over to
the High Council. She's innocent.She hasn't shown any ENCRYPTID signs yet,
and even if she does, thatdoesn't change the fact that she's prophesized to
bring the end times. You knowwhat could happen, what has happened in
the past, we can't let ourpeople die again, Sybil, I can't
let my sister die. Have youever considered that she might not be your
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sister? What basis do you havefor this belief that you're twins? While
for starters, we came out ofthe same womb. And how do you
know that because Lucinda was there?You think my mother lied to me?
Of course not. I trust you, and from what I've heard about your
mother, she seems a trustworthy personas well. It's Avrah who I'm questioning
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if that is even her real name. Of course it's her real name,
and I'm the one who found Avrah, not the other way around. I
knew that she was alive. Ifound the article she wrote, and I
put the pieces together. I gother to come to bluff so I could
tell her she had no clue Iwas even alive. How could she be
faking? What about Ava told youit was your Avrea? Besides the name,
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well, her birthday is the sameas mine, and she was born
in the same place. Also,her parents are the ones Lucinda remembers giving
birth to the both of us.And have you seen any official document stating
any of that? A birth certificate, passport driver's license, not like those
can't be forged, of course,but it would help your argument. I've
seen OVA's license a bunch of times. I think. Have you been put
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in contact with your birth parents toverify their identities? No, but I'm
still not ready to meet them,Avrea's kind of offered before, kind of
Well, they live on the otherside of the country, so it's not
like it'd be easy to get tothem. And yet your group seems to
be doing a lot of flying backand forth these days from bluff to here.
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This is ridiculous. I was stillthe one to find her. How
could she orchestra all of this andjust expect me to find her? Maybe
she knew you were looking, Sybil, You're a lovely person. I've learned
that in the weeks i've spent workingwith you on your magic. But you
also tend to trust people quickly.Is it possible the information of a twin
could have been leaked in the pastand gotten back to someone who needed an
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end to our community? No,so I was right? Then who did
you tell? I don't know.I used to talk about it sometimes when
I was younger. You know,little kids brag about knowing family secrets until
they realized they shouldn't be talking aboutcertain stuff. But that was only with
people in Bluff. Information can spreadquickly, Kendy, this is absurd,
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even if she isn't my sister,Even if she somehow concocted all these lies
and all of this crazy elaborate rusejust to get into town. Something she
could have done without all of this. Mind you, she's been living in
Water's Edge since September. If shereally wanted to bring doomsday, wouldn't she
have done something by now? Who'sto say she hasn't. Who's to say
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she hasn't been sewing seeds since shegot here. She could have easily orchestrated
the whole debacle with that murderous sirenand someone who can conjure up a ruse's
elaborate as convincing you she's your sister, would definitely be capable of the simple
mistake that explodes Camralock. How doyou explain the sea creature situation in Bluff?
She can't control when Nessie wakes up, and she helped stop all the
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destruction. Good timing on her part. What else was she supposed to do?
Exposure Plan to you all by allowingthe sea creature to destroy all of
bluff. Listen to yourself. Thethings you're suggesting are insane. You have
to know that it might seem convoluted, but that could be part of her
whole master plan, or she's justAvrah and the prophecy is wrong. It
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can't be wrong. If it's wrong, it means I'll never find a culprit,
and then the High Council will neverbe satisfied and will never ever consider
letting me back into Hyune one day, and that can't happen. Kendy.
I know you want to go home. I can't imagine what you're going through
facing the possibility of never going back. But I don't think throwing Ovre at
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the High Council is going to fixit. You set it yourself. They're
never going to let anyone back in. But what if I could be the
first I'm steps away from saving ourwhole world. They should give me anything
I ask for if I can pullit off. But her racing offer's mind
won't save anything. You don't knowthat you're working with her, aren't you?
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What? I bet your whole storywas a lie. All this talk
of sisters finding each other after allthis time, you just used me to
strengthen your powers so you would havea chance to stop me once I figured
it out right, Kendy, Iwould never do it. You know how
to freeze my feet to the floor, how to mimic forms flawlessly, how
to incapacitate me a dozen different ways? Why don't you just do it?
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I don't want to. I wantyou to see reason, Kendy, not
for you to get hurt. Thiscan't be true, Kendy, Please must
be lying. You're lying? AmI look at me? Use your power?
Tell me I'm lying? Can youwait? Hi? Future Ova,
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I hope you're still alive enough tounderstand this. This is past. You
currently sitting in an interrogation room atthe Water's Edge Police Department, talking into
an old recorder. Officer Jenkins lyou since yours is in an evidence box
somewhere. You probably don't even knowwho Officer Jenkins is or Water's Edge,
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but that's why I'm here. Jenkinstold me I could leave messages to everyone
with this just in case. That'sa tall order, though, so let
me tell you about them first,in the hopes that you'll be able to
remember. God, where do Ibegin. Water's Edge is a town unlike
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any other, with residence unlike anyoneyou've ever met. From day one,
you had a friend and an excellentboss in Roger. His height and position
made you think he would be intimidatingand demanding as a supervisor, and he
was a little in the beginning,but he turned out to be a gentle
soul who loved his plants more thansome people love their kids. From the
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very beginning, he knew your secret, but that never bothered him much so
did Lizzie. Maybe one of hervisions told her I was okay because she
never hesitated to trust me with hersecrets or her friendship. I almost screwed
that all up, like a lotof other things since moving here, honestly,
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But since then I've realized that she'sone of those incredibly rare people who
you can know for a short time, but I feel like you've known since
birth. Francis like that too,although it definitely took you and him a
bit longer to trust each other.Francie's the youngest in our little group,
and yet he always seems to bethe one to tell us when we're being
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dumb and need to grow up.You need someone in your life like that,
especially if you're like me, someonehonest who's always ready to go to
bat for you when you need itthe most. He's done it for me,
Lizzie Caleb, Juliet God, thatgirl is so reckless and so determined.
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Man. When Juliet sets her mindto something, she's going to do
it, and you better not underestimateher getting her way. And for some
reason, she looks up to me. I have younger cousins, but it's
never felt like they've looked to mefor guidance or inspiration or anything. But
Juliette does. If I end updying from this, her and Sybil are
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going to find a way to resurrectme and kill me again for having the
audacity. Oh, sib it hurtsso fucking much knowing that my last conversation
with Sybil might be a screaming match. But that's what sisters do, right.
They love and care about each other, and even though they fight and
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make choices, the other can understand. It's all because of that love and
the desire to protect each other.I deserved so much more time to get
to be sisters. I wish Ihad more time for everything, to bask
in this life and this little townthat I made for myself, to get
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to know people more, make treasuredfriends, and people like Jenkins, Julius,
Evie Ben and Marie Hudson and Atto, more time to spend with Shaia.
I can't believe I wasted so muchtime before finding Shaya. When I
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first saw them, I thought theywere some deity come to life, handsome
and talented and beautiful and intelligent,like this perfect untouchable person. But I
got to know them and they me, and we came to realize how similar
we both are, and we fellin love, the kind of love that
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made me realize I never quite knewthe meaning that word could carry until loving
Shaia. Romantic meaning, of course, because he loved all of them.
Love all of them. Because ifyou're listening to this, either the memories
have flooded back or they're gone forgood, but you've got to feel it
somewhere in your chest that you stilllove these people. Shy, a simple
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Lizzie, Francie Juliette, Roger Jenkins, Ben, Mari Julius, Evie Hudson,
Otto. These names have to meansomething to you. If you can
still breathe, you must still beable to feel the impact they made on
you, the ache in your chest, knowing that you'll never be able to
see them again. They changed yourlife in a time where you desperately needed
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help. They're too important to forget, so please please remember. Get up
what I said, Get up?What are you doing? I'm not delaying
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this any further. The High Councilgave me principal authority, so that's what
I'll exercise. Your mind is beingnow. Wait, but I need to
Kendy. Please don't do this.You know this isn't right. Get out
of my way. Thanks for listeningto Season four of Crypted Kake Eleventh Hour.
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The show is created and produced byme Victoria Pereira. I also voice
Avra. The voice of Marie isOdd and Fitzroy. The voice of Juliet
is Amyo Sabato. The voice ofBen is Kim Morphine. The voice of
Julius is Grand Bowman. The voiceof Kendy is Miannie Watson. The voice
of Margot is Liz Maur. Thevoice of Sibyl is Caroline Byrne. Our
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story editor is Jennifer Wong. Ourcover artist is Christy Duprey. Our folly
artist is Isaac Rodriguez. Our transcriptionistis Rebecca Writer. Our website designer is
Kyle Boyer. Our theme song isPink Night in Ohio by Ryan Anderson.
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Welcome to town. Everyone's unique intheir own way. Right. Maybe I
should be concerned about your articles.Don't worry. I still doubt that you're
actually human. Just another day andWater's Edge, Season four, episode nine,
(00:23):
eleventh hour. It's too early tobe getting you and exorcism. It's
not my fault. Doctor Julius isbusy. Just be happy he agreed not
to tell our parents. Thank Godfor patient doctor confidentiality. Although I'm with
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mar on this one would have lovedto sleep in a little on one of
our days off. After this,we can all go back to sleep knowing
that Ezrath houses ah children, Welcome, Welcome, Thank you for coming by
so early. Of course, DoctorJulius, thank you for seeing me well
us absolutely. I will say.It's been a very very long time since
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I've had to administer the type ofprocedure you've requested, but it is vital
we do this quickly. Please comein, we can get settled in my
office. What any of you likesome tea it's Earl Gray or I have
some water bottles in that small fridgethere. Tea might be nice. Yeah,
same, all right, while Ipour, would you mind telling me
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what happened? With all this demonbusiness. Right, Well, why do
you want us to start? Mexcellent question? How about with a short
explanation of your abilities? Mare.From what I understand, this began with
some routine plane walking. Correct.Yeah, we were trying to talk to
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an author. He's been dead along time, so it was a little
difficult for me to try to connectwith him. Once I did, though,
it was business as usual. Isee. Now, Please do correct
me if I'm wrong. But planewalkers connect to a specific plane. Yes,
not all of them, that's right. My plane is the ethereal one
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where all the ghosts go. Orwell, maybe not all of them.
Yes, I suppose I am anexception in that case. So you contacted
this author, chat for some time, and then what That's when it gets
fuzzy for me. I'm not reallypart of the conversation in the real world
when I walk. I've heard someadults can do that, but it takes
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a lot of practice to be ableto split your mind like that. Of
course, Julia and I were boththere, though. At the end of
talking to the author, his spiritgot taken over by a demon named Ezrathaus,
which meant that Mark got taken overtwo, and we were trapped.
That sounds like quite a terrifying situation. It was, and it didn't help
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that Ezrathaus knocked me out after afew minutes to make a point. Then
Jules was on her own. Ohgoodness. And that's when I made the
idiotic mistake of making a deal withdemons, thinking I was saving all my
friends. I should have known hewas lying about having to keep up his
side of the deal. Now,don't go agonizing over your past mistakes,
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Juliet. In my time dealing withthose despicable creatures, I've seen many people
with far more life experience and supposedmental fortitude fall to a demon's enticing offer,
some for much less than the valianteffort of saving the lives of dear
friends. Honestly, if I'd beenthe only one left standing, I probably
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would have made a deal too.Same here, it's hard, she resist
a demon, near impossible. Yes, I don't want to bring up uncomfortable
memories for you, Juliet, butI must ask what did you trade?
Depending on what it was, itmay be harder or easier to handle expelling
this presence. I understand the dealwas that if he talked to the fates
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and made everything better by fixing anothersituation. I will let him possess me
once for five minutes. I seeZerthouse must be quite desperate. That's not
a very beneficial deal on his part. Demons always want to cause as much
pain as possible. That's what theyfeed off of, what allows them to
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cross planes and in turn reak morehavoc to continue this never ending cycle.
I can see how such a dealwould cause you pain, Juliet, and
by proxy, those who care foryou, like Ben and mar here,
But I fail to see what Zerthous'sbigger plan is. Maybe he's just desperate
to have a way back to ourplane if he hasn't been hitting his pain
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and suffering quotas. It's a wayto guarantee he can come back. That's
definitely a possibility. His motive nationis not integral to our mission of ridding
Juliet from his influence. However,with what seems to be a weak connection
to you and this plane, Ibelieve I can exercise this demon with a
simple procedure. It will take sometime to prepare, but while I do,
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you folks can relax here, feelfree to have more tea or help
yourself to the snack drawer. Ijust got some new granola bars that my
patients have been raving about, Sowe're going to do this now. Of
course, I have my materials upstairs. It shouldn't take long. The sooner
we send this creature of darkness backto where he came from, the better.
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It may have been a little unorthodox, but that's another conviction in the
books. The High Council is goingto be thrilled, especially getting an all
their question answered with one perpetrator.They'll say I got everything they needed,
that I did an excellent job atprotecting cryptos everywhere, so why doesn't it
feel like I did. Nunia's gotin my head all her talk of how
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much she loves her friends and herlife here taking the fall for everything to
keep her student from catching any blame. Thank god, I'm deleaning that part
of that tapes from the record.I know the High Council doesn't ask too
many questions when it comes to gettinga job done, but lying to a
subject about the consequences of a misdemeanoris probably best to keep on the downlow.
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Nunia's must have been too nervous torealize I was lying through my teeth.
The council didn't do anything to punishthat griffin that exposed Camralocke. She
knows that the worst that young girlcould have gotten is a slap on the
wrist, maybe some community service anda lecture on why we have to keep
the secret. But she fell forit, so that's good. Why does
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it feel so bad. I didmy job. I did it well,
and I saved my people. They'llcall me a hero back in one day.
Maybe they'll even let me back in. I shouldn't get my hopes up.
Even if councilwoman Men said she mightbe able to open a case for
me, it would take years.I left knowing that I probably wouldn't be
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going back, and I was okaywith it because I knew it was for
the greater good. But now nowI don't know if that's true. Avre
is the human the counsel wanted meto find. I have no doubts in
that. The evidence all adds up. Everything makes sense. Sure, she
may not have written those letters,but she's my culprit. I knew it
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from the first interview with her.That should be the only thing that matters.
She knows way too much for ahuman and if the situation were different,
maybe that wouldn't be that big ofa deal. But her presence here
means doom for everyone else. Itjust makes sense to sacrifice one person in
order to protect thousands of others.The Council's done it before. I've done
it before, so why can't Ipick up the goddamn phone and do it
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again? Come in, miss Ezra, you have a visitor, I do,
Sibyl Abernathy. She says you weresupposed to work with her today.
She didn't find you at your hotel, so she came here. Should I
send her away? Uh? No, I didn't realize she was still coming
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today. I thought you can sendher in, of course, miss Abernathy.
Investigator Espra is waiting for you.Hi, Cibil. I'm assuming you
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weren't expecting a regular training session today, not exactly. Can we talk?
Hmm hmmm? What you're reading there? Doc? Some of my old notes
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from back when I would conduct thesesort of rituals more often. Always good
to review notes, especially when it'sbeen such a long time. How long
has it been exactly? I wouldguess, say couple hundred years, give
or take a decade. If youneed time to review some more. We
don't have to do it right now. That won't be necessary. I'm all
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refreshed and ready to begin. Whenyou are you sure? That seems like
a pretty big notebook. An extorcismmight need more than a quick skim.
Yeah, this is Juliette's soul we'retalking about. I understand your concerns for
your friend, but I promise youkids, nothing bad will happen. It
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doesn't look it now, but Ifought off a good number of demons in
my day, so many, infact, that it made me the specter
I am today. An exorcism wentso wrong it change you into a ghost?
No, no, quite the opposite. I was so skilled at expelling
demons, I was blessed with aspectral form to continue fighting them for as
long as I wish. But you'rea therapist now. Demons come in many
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forms. But still, don't youthink, guys, doctor Julius knows what
he's doing. It'll be fine,right, right, Okay, let's do
this excellent now. There are manydifferent types of exorcisms, just as there
are many different types of possessions.Your possession is a dormant class, meaning
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your day to day functions haven't beenimpeded by Zerthaus's presence, at least not
directly. I don't mean to discountthe toll his deal takes on your mental
and emotional health, just to sayhe hasn't physically taken control of you yet.
For a dormant class, we'll gowith a cleansing exorcism. What does
that mean? Essentially, I'm goingto perform a ritual that will purify Juliet's
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soul, ridding her of any connectionto Zerthous. We won't need to summon
him up or battle for her bodyin this situation, just for her heart.
Cool. Is that going to hurt? It's may depending on how deeply
Zerthous has been able to root himselfin your being, Juliet, but I'm
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confident you will be able to handleit. Okay, Now, to start,
I'll have you sit here and holdout your hands palms up like this.
This salve will help facilitate the process. Most of a cleansing is done
with words and power of will,but a medicinal salve like this assists in
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the process and helps keep you grounded. I'll apply some to your hands and
a bit to the back. Ofyour neck and forehead as well. It
smells like lavender and something else.There's some eucalyptus in there as well,
calming but potent. Now you canrest your hands on mine, palms still
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up and close your eyes. I'dlike you to picture the night of the
incident. Try to conjure an imageof it as vivid as possible in your
mind. Have you got it?I think so. Tell me what it
sounds like like Mars etherel music andZerthaus is a laugh, and what it
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smells like like the candles they werenow assented it was all Ben had at
home. And what it feels likecold and terrifying and shit, shit,
I'm sorry, I'm sorry. That'sall right. Then I will ask you
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to silence that we need to stayfocused, of course. Yeah, let's
recenter, Juliet. You mentioned itwas cold. What else can you feel?
Well, it is cold, butI'm holding Ben's hands and Mars got
his hands on our shoulders and they'reboth warm. Good. Yes, hold
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onto those anchors. Now, let'sturn your attention to the elephant in the
room. How does Zerthous first appearto you? Well, he was inhabiting
Mar's body, so I can onlysee him as Mar, but I could
tell it wasn't them. When Zerthoussmiled, it didn't look like Mar.
It looked evil. And when hesorry, sorry, I didn't think the
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vibrate would be so loud. Okay, vibrate off. Continue, Juliet,
are you still in this scene?Yeah? I still see Zerthous controlling Mar.
Good? Good? Tell me?How do you feel emotionally about seeing
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this Stephen in your friend's body,seeing him hurt ben bad? Can you
give me more than that? Scared? Powerless? Like I'm trying to keep
it together to get us all outof there, but that isn't working,
and I'm out of options. Andchildren. I know you like your phones,
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and normally I have no problem withthem, but can we please?
I'm sorry that one's mine I thoughtI had. Why is Officer Jenkins calling
me? You have his number saved? No? But I know the WEPD
number. Why because my mother isparanoid and made me memorize it in kindergarten.
If a stranger says they know mommycalled two three, seven, eight
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nine fifty, you had to bribe. Wait, that's the number that called
me, Mar. Where's your phone? Yeah, but why would he called
me too? This is concerning?Is it okay? If I call back
really quick? Yes, that's fine. High Officer Jenkins, it's Juliet Young.
I notice you called Ben mar andI and what oh god? We're
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with doctor Julius. But we canbe over there right away. Okay,
sounds good. We'll see you there. Bye. I'm sorry, Doctor Julius.
The exorcism will have to wait.What's going on? Alvred has been
arrested? What? Oh? No? Alred? Yeah, Officer Jenkins is
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afraid Investigator Estra's going and try towipe her memory without a fair trial.
He needs our help to stop her. You look tired, dude. Do
you want some coffee? I'm fine. I think Jenkins also keeps tea in
the break room if you'd prefer that, Kendy, tea is not what I'm
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here for. I know. I'msorry. I'm nervous. You're nervous.
You're reflecting onto me. That's neveraffected you before normally when we chat.
I'm not arresting your friend for applaudingour collective demise. Kendy, why are
you doing this? She's not guilty, and if you think civil I've already
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gotten the confession out of her.She's human. She's the one in the
book. You had to know ordid she keep it from you too?
Of course I knew. She's mysister. Hold On, you're what that's
impossible. We've already been through allthis. It's totally possible. She was
born human. I was born encrypted. Lucinda took me away when they thought
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I came out stillborn so she couldraise me instead and the secret wouldn't get
out. It was a whole thing. How is she not encrypted then?
I don't know. But whatever shewas before, she shouldn't be anymore.
Francie brought her to the lake wherehe was changed from human decrypted, and
she attempted the same thing. Ifshe's encrypted, she can't be the one
in the book. That's what youwere all doing last night, kind of,
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But that doesn't matter. What matters. You can't give her over to
the High Council. She's innocent.She hasn't shown any ENCRYPTID signs yet,
and even if she does, thatdoesn't change the fact that she's prophesized to
bring the end times. You knowwhat could happen, what has happened in
the past, we can't let ourpeople die again, Sybil, I can't
let my sister die. Have youever considered that she might not be your
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sister? What basis do you havefor this belief that you're twins? While
for starters, we came out ofthe same womb. And how do you
know that because Lucinda was there?You think my mother lied to me?
Of course not. I trust you, and from what I've heard about your
mother, she seems a trustworthy personas well. It's Avrah who I'm questioning
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if that is even her real name. Of course it's her real name,
and I'm the one who found Avrah, not the other way around. I
knew that she was alive. Ifound the article she wrote, and I
put the pieces together. I gother to come to bluff so I could
tell her she had no clue Iwas even alive. How could she be
faking? What about Ava told youit was your Avrea? Besides the name,
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well, her birthday is the sameas mine, and she was born
in the same place. Also,her parents are the ones Lucinda remembers giving
birth to the both of us.And have you seen any official document stating
any of that? A birth certificate, passport driver's license, not like those
can't be forged, of course,but it would help your argument. I've
seen OVA's license a bunch of times. I think. Have you been put
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in contact with your birth parents toverify their identities? No, but I'm
still not ready to meet them,Avrea's kind of offered before, kind of
Well, they live on the otherside of the country, so it's not
like it'd be easy to get tothem. And yet your group seems to
be doing a lot of flying backand forth these days from bluff to here.
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This is ridiculous. I was stillthe one to find her. How
could she orchestra all of this andjust expect me to find her? Maybe
she knew you were looking, Sybil, You're a lovely person. I've learned
that in the weeks i've spent workingwith you on your magic. But you
also tend to trust people quickly.Is it possible the information of a twin
could have been leaked in the pastand gotten back to someone who needed an
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end to our community? No,so I was right? Then who did
you tell? I don't know.I used to talk about it sometimes when
I was younger. You know,little kids brag about knowing family secrets until
they realized they shouldn't be talking aboutcertain stuff. But that was only with
people in Bluff. Information can spreadquickly, Kendy, this is absurd,
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even if she isn't my sister,Even if she somehow concocted all these lies
and all of this crazy elaborate rusejust to get into town. Something she
could have done without all of this. Mind you, she's been living in
Water's Edge since September. If shereally wanted to bring doomsday, wouldn't she
have done something by now? Who'sto say she hasn't. Who's to say
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she hasn't been sewing seeds since shegot here. She could have easily orchestrated
the whole debacle with that murderous sirenand someone who can conjure up a ruse's
elaborate as convincing you she's your sister, would definitely be capable of the simple
mistake that explodes Camralock. How doyou explain the sea creature situation in Bluff?
She can't control when Nessie wakes up, and she helped stop all the
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destruction. Good timing on her part. What else was she supposed to do?
Exposure Plan to you all by allowingthe sea creature to destroy all of
bluff. Listen to yourself. Thethings you're suggesting are insane. You have
to know that it might seem convoluted, but that could be part of her
whole master plan, or she's justAvrah and the prophecy is wrong. It
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can't be wrong. If it's wrong, it means I'll never find a culprit,
and then the High Council will neverbe satisfied and will never ever consider
letting me back into Hyune one day, and that can't happen. Kendy.
I know you want to go home. I can't imagine what you're going through
facing the possibility of never going back. But I don't think throwing Ovre at
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the High Council is going to fixit. You set it yourself. They're
never going to let anyone back in. But what if I could be the
first I'm steps away from saving ourwhole world. They should give me anything
I ask for if I can pullit off. But her racing offer's mind
won't save anything. You don't knowthat you're working with her, aren't you?
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What? I bet your whole storywas a lie. All this talk
of sisters finding each other after allthis time, you just used me to
strengthen your powers so you would havea chance to stop me once I figured
it out right, Kendy, Iwould never do it. You know how
to freeze my feet to the floor, how to mimic forms flawlessly, how
to incapacitate me a dozen different ways? Why don't you just do it?
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I don't want to. I wantyou to see reason, Kendy, not
for you to get hurt. Thiscan't be true, Kendy, Please must
be lying. You're lying? AmI look at me? Use your power?
Tell me I'm lying? Can youwait? Hi? Future Ova,
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I hope you're still alive enough tounderstand this. This is past. You
currently sitting in an interrogation room atthe Water's Edge Police Department, talking into
an old recorder. Officer Jenkins lyou since yours is in an evidence box
somewhere. You probably don't even knowwho Officer Jenkins is or Water's Edge,
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but that's why I'm here. Jenkinstold me I could leave messages to everyone
with this just in case. That'sa tall order, though, so let
me tell you about them first,in the hopes that you'll be able to
remember. God, where do Ibegin. Water's Edge is a town unlike
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any other, with residence unlike anyoneyou've ever met. From day one,
you had a friend and an excellentboss in Roger. His height and position
made you think he would be intimidatingand demanding as a supervisor, and he
was a little in the beginning,but he turned out to be a gentle
soul who loved his plants more thansome people love their kids. From the
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very beginning, he knew your secret, but that never bothered him much so
did Lizzie. Maybe one of hervisions told her I was okay because she
never hesitated to trust me with hersecrets or her friendship. I almost screwed
that all up, like a lotof other things since moving here, honestly,
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But since then I've realized that she'sone of those incredibly rare people who
you can know for a short time, but I feel like you've known since
birth. Francis like that too,although it definitely took you and him a
bit longer to trust each other.Francie's the youngest in our little group,
and yet he always seems to bethe one to tell us when we're being
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dumb and need to grow up.You need someone in your life like that,
especially if you're like me, someonehonest who's always ready to go to
bat for you when you need itthe most. He's done it for me,
Lizzie Caleb, Juliet God, thatgirl is so reckless and so determined.
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Man. When Juliet sets her mindto something, she's going to do
it, and you better not underestimateher getting her way. And for some
reason, she looks up to me. I have younger cousins, but it's
never felt like they've looked to mefor guidance or inspiration or anything. But
Juliette does. If I end updying from this, her and Sybil are
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going to find a way to resurrectme and kill me again for having the
audacity. Oh, sib it hurtsso fucking much knowing that my last conversation
with Sybil might be a screaming match. But that's what sisters do, right.
They love and care about each other, and even though they fight and
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make choices, the other can understand. It's all because of that love and
the desire to protect each other.I deserved so much more time to get
to be sisters. I wish Ihad more time for everything, to bask
in this life and this little townthat I made for myself, to get
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to know people more, make treasuredfriends, and people like Jenkins, Julius,
Evie Ben and Marie Hudson and Atto, more time to spend with Shaia.
I can't believe I wasted so muchtime before finding Shaya. When I
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first saw them, I thought theywere some deity come to life, handsome
and talented and beautiful and intelligent,like this perfect untouchable person. But I
got to know them and they me, and we came to realize how similar
we both are, and we fellin love, the kind of love that
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made me realize I never quite knewthe meaning that word could carry until loving
Shaia. Romantic meaning, of course, because he loved all of them.
Love all of them. Because ifyou're listening to this, either the memories
have flooded back or they're gone forgood, but you've got to feel it
somewhere in your chest that you stilllove these people. Shy, a simple
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Lizzie, Francie Juliette, Roger Jenkins, Ben, Mari Julius, Evie Hudson,
Otto. These names have to meansomething to you. If you can
still breathe, you must still beable to feel the impact they made on
you, the ache in your chest, knowing that you'll never be able to
see them again. They changed yourlife in a time where you desperately needed
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help. They're too important to forget, so please please remember. Get up
what I said, Get up?What are you doing? I'm not delaying
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this any further. The High Councilgave me principal authority, so that's what
I'll exercise. Your mind is beingnow. Wait, but I need to
Kendy. Please don't do this.You know this isn't right. Get out
of my way. Thanks for listeningto Season four of Crypted Kake Eleventh Hour.
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The show is created and produced byme Victoria Pereira. I also voice
Avra. The voice of Marie isOdd and Fitzroy. The voice of Juliet
is Amyo Sabato. The voice ofBen is Kim Morphine. The voice of
Julius is Grand Bowman. The voiceof Kendy is Miannie Watson. The voice
of Margot is Liz Maur. Thevoice of Sibyl is Caroline Byrne. Our
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story editor is Jennifer Wong. Ourcover artist is Christy Duprey. Our folly
artist is Isaac Rodriguez. Our transcriptionistis Rebecca Writer. Our website designer is
Kyle Boyer. Our theme song isPink Night in Ohio by Ryan Anderson.
The other songs featured in this episodewere Whole Tone Limbo by god Mode Because
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