The Second Stranger | Arc 4 | E5: a / structure of blood

Øka follows a thread of blood. Vee gets bullied. Manaia inquires after Dewey’s skills. And Dewey meets a fellow genius. Together, the party settles into the tense court politics of the Slumbering Palace -- culminating at a totally chill garden party.

"The Second Stranger" is sponsored by Dmitry (https://twitter.com/DmitryOpines) and ExplainTrade (https://www.explaintrade.com/), a negotiation skills training consultancy; because you can't ask to roll persuasion in real life.

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Content warnings for this episode: death, familial trauma, references to sexual entanglements, memory loss, blood, and bloodletting.

CREDITS:

Title - “Right to Release” by Kay Ulanday Barrett.
Music - C.I.S. Music (https://soundcloud.com/cis_music), Fesliyan Studios (https://www.fesliyanstudios.com/), and Soundstripe (https://www.soundstripe.com/).
Album art - Sea Thomas (https://twitter.com/pisharpart).
Podcast editing - Marisa Ewing of Hemlock Creek Productions (https://twitter.com/sassy_composer).

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