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[Assistant] This poll store right here where we defined this initial data as well. So we subscribe to that. And now every time there is a change in data, it fires this callback function and it passes us all of the data. So anything inside of this, and it also passes us this data and fires this callback function when we first subscribe as well.


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[Assistant] So then we update polls to equal that data and therefore we should see those on the screen because we cycle through them and output them. So let me save this and come over here and we should see that poll. Now we don't. So let's see what's good on.


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[Assistant] And it could be because, yep, I've spelled writable incorrectly. It doesn't have an E. So writable like that. Let me save it. And now we see awesome. So this works. However, if we try to vote now, nothing works because currently.


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[Assistant] If we try to edit the data, we're doing that from the poll details over here. We take a look at this. We're emitting a custom event right here, dispatching that called vote. It goes up through the poll list.


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[Assistant] Where we forward it onto the app and then inside app we try to handle that and update the polls right here inside this component. Now we don't want to do that. We'll address this later on where we'll edit directly the store data from poll details. And also if we try to add a new poll as well, this isn't going to work because again, we're passing this up into the


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[Assistant] .svelte component and we're trying to edit the data there and it's no longer there, it's in the store now.


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[Assistant] Later on, but there's one more thing I want to talk about now and that is to do with unsubscribing from a store. So once we've subscribed to a store, unsubscribing from a store later on when we don't need the subscription anymore. And to do that, we'll have to talk about lifecycle hooks and that is coming in the next video.


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[Assistant] If you don't mind, Mr. Van Ryn, I'll have to ask you to come along with us.


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[Assistant] Well, I, I was trying to look older, Father. I've been out looking for work. I thought maybe I could quit school and take a job. I was up really early answering ads. I'm perfectly able to take care of myself.


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[Assistant] I was doing my own business, one time he tripped me. Although I was very ma- mad.


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[Assistant] Nobody else knows it. To tell you the truth, I don't know it.


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[Assistant] I don't think anybody was proud of me. And even Father O'Malley. Don't you think he thought Tommy was the best man?


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[Assistant] I was thinking, sister, since I've taken such a beating and I've been through so much, maybe I wouldn't have to go to school today. Maybe.


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[Assistant] Oh, but if you think I should go, sister, I'll go no matter how bad I feel.


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[Assistant] Father, don't you think I ought to quit school and maybe take a job?


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[Assistant] Well, to see, to hear, to taste, to smell.


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[Assistant] Well, if you can't appreciate your five senses, then your life isn't worth five cents.


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[Assistant] To see, to hear, to taste, to smell, to feel, to be. And the most important is the last.


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[Assistant] The sixth sense is to be able to enjoy the five senses properly. To be. That's what really matters.


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[Assistant] It's like a world inside us and it's up to us what we make of it.


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[Assistant] We see others, we hear others, we know others with our five senses.


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[Assistant] But how do we ever know ourselves? Through common sense.


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[Assistant] Common sense is an internal sense, whose function it is to differentiate between the various reports of the senses, or to reduce these reports to the unity of a common perception.


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[Assistant] Two great words. To be. Other words grow out of them.


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[Assistant] I am, you are, he is, we are, they are. That sort of takes in everybody.


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[Assistant] As Shakespeare said, to thine own self be true, and it shall follow as the night the day. Thou canst not then be false to any man. And he was so right, sister.


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[Assistant] He was just talking about the sixth sense. To put it in my own words, to be or not to be, that is the question.


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[Assistant] Please? Do we have any money? No, but Mary's awfully tired. Could you think it over? Okay.


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[Assistant] What'd he say, Joseph? He said he'd think it over. When will he know? I don't know. Hey, Joseph. I thought over. You can stay in the stable. Well, glory be! Did you hear that?


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[Assistant] I thought maybe I could stay here another year. Everything's so nice here, sister. You don't know. But everything's so clean and so good and, well, even if I am in the same grade, I don't care. I'd be with you.


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[Assistant] This is kind of a two part question, um, going back to the like third challenge or like project you talked about, um, where there was that note about AI as proxy, like people kind of using that as


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[Assistant] So uhm, later it says people wanted the message to kind of sound like them, but in the case of the AI as proxy, did they want that to sound like them or were they wanting it to sound more artificial?


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[Assistant] And then second part of the question is do you think there are more situations than just this where


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[Assistant] Twins share the same DNA, so we get to see if it's about your greens, not your genes.


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[Assistant] Life and Death Twilight Reimagined by Stephanie Meyer. I own no rights. This is just to entertain you as we get to chapter 20. Impatience. When I woke up, I was confused. It took me longer than it should have to remember where I was. The room was too bland to belong anywhere but a hotel.


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[Assistant] I tried to remember how I'd gotten to this room, but nothing came at first. I remembered the black car, the glass in the windows darker than that on a limousine.


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[Assistant] The engine was almost silent, though we'd raced across the black freeways at more than twice the legal limit.


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[Assistant] And I remembered Archie on the seat next to me, rather than up front with Jessamine.


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[Assistant] I remembered realizing suddenly that he was there as my bodyguard, that the front seat was apparently not close enough. It should have made the danger seem more real, but it all felt a million miles away.


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[Assistant] The danger I was in personally wasn't the danger I was worried about.


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[Assistant] I made Archie keep up a strange stream of consciousness, the future watch, all night long. There weren't any details so small they didn't interest me.


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[Assistant] He had told me turn by turn how Edith, Corinne, and Eleanor would be moving through the forest, and though I didn't know any of the landmarks he referenced, I had been riveted by every word.


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[Assistant] And then he would go back and describe the same sequence differently as some decision remapped to the future. This happened over and over again. And it was impossible to follow, but I didn't care.


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[Assistant] As long as the future never put Edith and Joss in the same place, I'd been able to keep breathing.


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[Assistant] Sometimes he would switch to Ernest for me. Ernest and Royal were in my truck heading east, which meant the red-haired man was still on their trail. Archied had a more difficult time seeing Charlie. Humans are harder than vampires, he told me, and I'd remembered that Edith had said something to me about that once. It had seemed like years ago when it had only been days.


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[Assistant] I remembered being disoriented by the way I couldn't make sense of the time.


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[Assistant] I remember the sun coming up over a low peak somewhere in California.


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[Assistant] The light had stung my eyes, but I had tried not to close them.


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[Assistant] When I did, the images that flashed behind my lids like still slides were too much.


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[Assistant] I'd rather my eyes burn than see them again. Charlie's broken expression. Edith's bared teeth.


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[Assistant] Royal's furious glare, the red eyes of the tracker staring at me, the dead look in Edith's eyes when she had turned away from me.


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[Assistant] I kept my eyes open, and the sun moved across the sky.


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[Assistant] I remembered my head feeling heavy and light at the same time as we raced through a shallow mountain pass, and the sun behind us now reflected off the tiled rooftops of my hometown.


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[Assistant] I stared blankly at the city laid out in front of us, realizing slowly that it was supposed to mean something to me. The scrubby creosote. The palm trees. The green golf course amoebas. The turquoise splashes of swimming pools. These were supposed to be familiar. I was supposed to feel like I was home.


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[Assistant] The shadows of the streetlights had slanted across the freeway with lines that were sharper than I remembered. So little darkness. There was no place to hide in these shadows. Which way to the airport? Jessamine had asked. The first time she had spoken since we had gotten in the car. Stay on the I-10. I'd answered automatically. We'll pass right by it.


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[Assistant] It had taken me a few seconds more to process the implications of her question. My brain was foggy with exhaustion. Are we flying somewhere? I had asked Archie. I couldn't think of the plan. This didn't sound right, though. No, but it's better to be close, just in case.


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[Assistant] I remembered starting the loop around Sky Harbor International but not ending it. That must have been when my brain had finally crashed. Though, now that I had chased the memories down, I did have a vague impression of leaving the car.


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[Assistant] His arm dragging me along as I stumbled through the warm, dry shadows. I had no memory of this room. I looked at the digital clock on the nightstand. The red numbers claimed it was three o'clock, but there was no way to tell if that meant AM or PM.


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[Assistant] No light showed around the edges of the thick curtains, but the room was bright with the light from the lamps.


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[Assistant] I rose stiffly and staggered to the window pulling back the drapes. It was dark outside, three in the morning then. The room looked out on a deserted section of the freeway and the new long-term parking garage for the airport.


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[Assistant] It made me feel better, by a very small amount, to be able to pinpoint time and place.


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[Assistant] I looked down. I was still wearing Ernest's shirt and two short pants.


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[Assistant] I looked across the room and was glad when I saw my duffel bag on top of the low dresser. A light tap on the door made me jump. Can I come in? Archie asked. I took a deep breath. Sure. He walked in and looked me over. You look like you could sleep longer. I shook my head. He darted silently to the window and pulled the curtains shut. We'll need to stay inside, he told me. Okay. My voice was hoarse. It cracked.


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[Assistant] He asked. I shrugged. I'm okay. How about you? He smiled. Nothing unmanageable. I ordered some food for you. It's in the front room.


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[Assistant] Edith reminded me that you have to eat a lot more frequently than we do. I was instantly more alert. She called? No. He watched my face fall. It was before we left. She gave me lots of instructions. Come eat something. He was out of the room before I could protest that I wasn't hungry. I followed slowly behind him. There was a living room attached to the bedroom. A low buzz of voices was coming from the TV.


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[Assistant] Archie went to stand by her. He ran his hand over her honey-colored hair.


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[Assistant] Ernest and Royal are back in Forks. The Redhead gave up chasing them. I opened my mouth, but Archie was faster. They're watching your father. The Redhead won't get past them. What's he doing? Working his way through town, looking for you as far as I can tell, he spent some time at the school. My eyes bulged. Did he hurt anyone? Archie shook his head. They seem pretty committed to the hunt they already started. Edith? Frustrated, it looks like.


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[Assistant] They turned on the tracker, but she was already running. She's kept going north. They're chasing her. I stood there not knowing what to do. Edith was chasing Joss. Sure, she had Corinne and Eleanor with her, but Edith was the fastest.


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[Assistant] Eat something, Bo. Edith gets really difficult when she thinks her instructions aren't being followed to the letter.


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[Assistant] There was a tray on the coffee table with a couple of stainless steel covers over the plates on it. I couldn't think of anything to do besides follow Archie's order. I sat on the floor next to the table and pulled off the first plate cover. I didn't look at the food. I just grabbed something and started eating. I was probably hungry. We hadn't stopped for food during our drive. They were quiet and motionless while I ate. I stared at the TV, but I couldn't make sense of what was happening. Was it a new show? Was it an infomercial? I wasn't sure.


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[Assistant] All I could see was Edith in the forest faster than a cheetah, faster than a bullet. It was obvious she would catch up with the tracker first. Lauren's words echoed in my head.


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[Assistant] Can't bring her down. She is absolutely lethal. Suddenly, Jessamine was standing over me, closer than usual. Beau, she said in a soothing voice, you have nothing to worry about. You are completely safe here.


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[Assistant] I know. Then why are you frightened? She sounded confused.


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[Assistant] She might feel my emotions, but she couldn't see the reasons behind them. You heard what Lauren said. Joss is lethal. What if something goes wrong, and they get separated? If anything happens, if Corinne, or Eleanor, or Edith... My voice broke.


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[Assistant] If that crazy redhead hurts Ernest, how do I live with myself when it's my fault? None of you should be risking your lives for- Stop. Oh, stop. She interrupted.


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[Assistant] Her words pouring out so quickly they were hard to understand. You're worrying about all the wrong things, Bo. Trust me on this. None of us are in jeopardy. You are under enough strain as it is. Don't add to it with imaginary worries. Listen to me. She ordered. I had looked away. Our family is strong. Our only fear is losing you. But why should you


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[Assistant] Do you think any of us want to look into her eyes for the next hundred years if she loses you?" My guilt started to ease, but even though the calm that spread over me felt totally natural, like it came from inside, I knew better. You know I'd do this anyway, Archie added, even if Edith hadn't asked me to. Why? He grinned.


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[Assistant] It's hard to explain without sounding slightly schizophrenic. Time doesn't mean the same thing to me that it does to you. Or Jas, or anyone else. Jessamine grinned and tweaked his ear. So this won't make sense to you. But for me, it's like we've already been friends for a long time, Bo. The first second you became a part of Edith's life, for me it was like we'd already spent hundreds of hours together. We've laughed at Edith's overreactions together. We've annoyed Royal right out of the house together.


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[Assistant] We've stayed up all night talking with Corinne together. I stared and he shrugged. It's how I experience the world.


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[Assistant] We're friends? I asked, my voice full of wonder. Best friends, he told me. Someday. It was nice of my favorite sister, don't you think, to fall in love with my best friend? I guess I owe her one. Huh, was all I could think to say. Archie left. Jessamine rolled her eyes. Thanks so much, Archie. It just got him calm. No, I'm good, I promised.


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[Assistant] Archie could be lying to make me feel better, but either way, it worked. It wasn't so bad if Archie wanted to help me too, if he wasn't just doing it for Edith. So what do we do now? I asked. We wait for something to change. It was a very long day. We stayed in the room.


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[Assistant] Archie called down to the front desk and asked them to suspend our housekeeping service.


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[Assistant] He sat in the chair next to the sofa where I sprawled, and answered all the questions I had been too nervous to ask before. Sometimes, he'd answer them before I'd asked them.


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[Assistant] It was a little weird, but I figured that was how everyone else felt around Edith all the time. Yes, he said, when I thought about asking him that. It's exactly the same. She tries hard not to be obnoxious about it. He told me about waking up. I only remembered one thing, but I'm not even sure it was a memory. I thought I remembered someone saying my name. Calling me Archie. But maybe I was remembering something that hadn't happened yet.


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[Assistant] Seeing that someday someone would call me Archie, he smiled at my expression. I know, it's a circular dilemma, isn't it? The hair? He ran a hand over his scalp, unselfconscious.


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[Assistant] The stubble was just long enough to see that his hair would have been dark brown nearly black like his eyebrows. It was a rather extreme look for 1920.


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[Assistant] A little too early for me to have been a skinhead, thank heavens. My best guess is disease or bad behavior. Bad behavior? I asked. He shrugged. I might have been in prison. You couldn't have been much older than me, I protested. He steepled his fingers thoughtfully.


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[Assistant] Jessamine, back at the desk and mostly silent, laughed with me.


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[Assistant] It wasn't confusing the way it probably should have been, Archie said when I asked him what his first visions were like. It seemed normal. I knew I was seeing things that hadn't happened. I think maybe I had seen things before I was changed. Or maybe I just adapt quickly. He smiled, already knowing the question I had waiting. It was Jess. She was the first thing I saw. And then, no, I didn't actually meet her in person until much later. Something about his tone made me wonder.


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[Assistant] But couldn't you? he nodded. I could have found her earlier. I knew where she was. But she wasn't ready for me yet. If I'd come too early, she would have killed me. I gasped and stared at her. She raised an eyebrow at me, and I looked back at Archie. He left. But Edith said you were the only one who could hold your own against her. Jessamine hissed. Not like she was mad, like she was annoyed. I glanced at her again and she was rolling her eyes. We'll never know, Archie said.


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[Assistant] If Jess was really trying to kill Edith rather than just playing, well, Jess has a lot of experience. Seeing the future isn't the only reason why I can keep up with Edith. It's also because it was Jess who taught me how to fight. Lauren's coven all had their eyes on Eleanor. She's pretty spectacular, I grant you. But if it had come to a fight, Eleanor wouldn't have been their problem. If they had taken a closer look at my darling, he blew her a kiss. They would have forgotten all about the strong girl.


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[Assistant] I remembered the first time I had seen Jessamine in the cafeteria with her family. Beautiful, like the others, but with that edge.


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[Assistant] Even before I'd put it into words inside my own head, I'd sensed that there was something about her that matched up with what Archie was telling me now. I looked at Archie. You can ask her, he said, but it's not gonna happen. He wants to know my story, Jessamine guessed.


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[Assistant] She laughed once. It was a dark sound. You're not ready for that, though. Believe me.


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[Assistant] And though I was still curious, I did believe her. You said humans were harder, but you seemed to see me pretty well, I noted. I'm paying attention, and you're right here, Archie said.


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[Assistant] Also, the two second head starts are simpler than the weather. It's the long term that won't hold still. Even an hour complicates things. Archie kept me updated on what was happening with the others, which was mostly nothing. Joss was good at running away. There were tricks, Archie told me. Scents couldn't be tracked through water, for example. Joss seemed to know the tricks. A half dozen times the trail took them back toward Forks, only to race off in the other direction again.


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[Assistant] Once, it was something about the direction in which Joss had jumped off a cliff. The other time, it was where they would find her scent on the other side of a river. From the way he described it, he wasn't seeing the hunter, he was seeing Edith and Corinne. I guessed he would see his family the most clearly.


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[Assistant] But I could only feel relieved as the distance between her and Jos got larger, despite Archie's help.


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[Assistant] There was one question that I wanted to ask more than the others, but I hesitated. I think if Jessamine hadn't been there, I might have done it sooner. I didn't feel the same ease in her presence that I did now with Archie.


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[Assistant] And unlike my dozens of other questions, he was choosing not to answer on this one.


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[Assistant] My eyes narrowed. Was this on Edith's list of instructions? I asked sourly.


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[Assistant] I thought I heard a very faint sigh come from Jessamine's corner. It was probably annoying listening to half a conversation. But she should be used to that.


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[Assistant] I bet Edith and Archie never had to speak out loud at all when they talked to each other. It was implied, Archie answered. I thought about their fight in the Jeep. Was this what it was about?


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[Assistant] I don't suppose our future friendship is enough to shift your loyalties. He frowned. Edith is my sister. Even if you disagree with her on this? We stared at each other for a minute.


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[Assistant] That's what you saw, I realized. I felt my eyes get bigger. And then she got so upset. You already saw it, didn't you?


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[Assistant] It was one future among many, only one. I also saw you die, he reminded me. But you saw it. It's a possibility. He shrugged. Don't you think I deserve to know then? Even if there's only the slightest chance. He stared at me, deliberating. You do, he finally said. You have the right to know. I waited.


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[Assistant] You don't know fury like Edith when she's thwarted, he warned me.


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[Assistant] It's none of her business. This is between you and me. As your friend, I'm begging you." He paused, then made his choice. I can tell you the mechanics of it, but I don't remember it myself, and I've never seen it done, or done it. So keep in mind that I can only tell you the theory. How does someone become a vampire? Oh, is that all? Jessamine muttered behind me. I had forgotten she was listening. I waited.


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[Assistant] As predators, Archie began, we have a glut of weapons in our physical arsenal.


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[Assistant] Much, much more than we need for hunting easy prey like humans. Strength, speed, acute senses.


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[Assistant] Not to mention those of us like Edith, Jessamine, and me who have extra senses. So well.


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[Assistant] And then, like a carnivorous flower, we are physically attractive to our play. Right.


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[Assistant] I was seeing it all in my head again, how Edith had illustrated the same concept for me in the meadow. He smiled wide, his teeth glistened.


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[Assistant] We have one more fairly superfluous weapon. We're also venomous. The venom doesn't kill, it's merely incapacitating.


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[Assistant] It works slowly, spreading through the bloodstream so that, once bitten, our prey isn't too much physical pain to escape us. Mostly superfluous, as I said. If we're that close, our prey doesn't escape. Of course, unless we want it to. Kareen, I said quietly. The holes in the story Edith had told me were filling themselves in. So, if the venom is left to spread,


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[Assistant] It takes a few days for the transformation to be complete, depending on how much venom is in the bloodstream, how close the venom enters to the heart. Corinne's creator bit her on the hand on purpose to make it worse. As long as the heart keeps beating, the poison spreads, healing, changing the body as it moves through it. Eventually the heart stops, and the conversion is finished. But all that time, every minute of it, a victim would be wishing for death, screaming for it. I shuddered. It's not pleasant, no.


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[Assistant] Edith said it was very hard to do, but that sounds simple enough. We're also like sharks in a way. Once we taste blood, or even smell it for that matter, it becomes very hard to keep from feeding. Impossible even. So you see, to actually bite someone to taste the blood, it would begin the frenzy. It's difficult on both sides, the bloodlust on the one hand, and the awful pain on the other. It sounds like something you would remember, I said.


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[Assistant] Though there was something intrinsically good about his face. Royal was the showy one. The one the girls at school stared at. But there was something better than perfection about Archie's face. It was totally pure. There are positives to being different, Archie said suddenly. I don't remember anyone I left behind. I got to skip that pain too. He looked at me and his eyes narrowed a little bit. Kareen, Edith, and Ernest.


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[Assistant] I wondered if he was trying to make me feel bad for Royal, to cut the guy some slack even if he hated me. Well, it was working. He shook his head like he knew I wasn't getting it. That's part of the process, Bo. I haven't experienced it. I can't tell you what it feels like, but it's part of the process. And then I understood what he was telling me. He was perfectly still again. I put my arm behind my head and stared up at the ceiling.


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[Assistant] I looked at him, startled by the sudden movement, then alarmed again when I saw his face.


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[Assistant] It was totally blank, empty, his mouth half open. Then Jessamine was there, gently pushing him back into the chair. What do you see? she asked in a low, soothing voice. Something's changed, Archie said, even more quietly. I leaned closer. What is it? Oh, a room. It's long. There are mirrors everywhere. The floor is wood. The tracker is in the room. And she's waiting.


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[Assistant] There's a gold stripe across the mirrors. Where's the room? I don't know, something is missing. Another decision hasn't been made yet. How much time? It's soon. She'll be in the mirror room today, or maybe tomorrow. It all depends, she's waiting for something. His face went blank again. And she's in the dark now. Jessamine's voice was calm, methodical. What is she doing?


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[Assistant] She's watching TV. No, she's running a VCR in the dark, in another place. Can you see where she is? No, the space is too dark. And the mirror room, what else is there? Just the mirrors and the gold. It's a band around the room, and there's a black table with a big stereo and a TV. She's touching the VCR there, but she doesn't watch the way she does in the dark room.


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[Assistant] This is the room where she waits. His eyes drifted, then focused on Jessamine's face. There's nothing else. He shook his head. They looked at each other motionless. What does it mean? I asked. Neither of them answered for a moment. Then Jessamine looked at me. It means the tracker's plans have changed. She's made a decision that will lead her to the mirror room and the dock room. But we don't know where those rooms are. No.


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[Assistant] But we do know that she won't be in the mountains north of Washington being hunted. She'll elude them. Archie's voice was bleak. He picked up the phone just as it vibrated. Kareem, he said. And then he looked at me.


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[Assistant] Yes. He listened for another long moment, then said, I just saw her. He described the vision like he had for Jessamine. Whatever made her take that plane, it was leading her to those rooms. He paused. Yes. He held the phone out to me. Beau? I yanked it out of his hand. Hello? Beau. Edith breathed. Beau, Edith, I said, where are you? Outside of Vancouver. I'm sorry, Beau, we lost her.


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[Assistant] I know. Archie saw that she got away. You don't have to worry, though. You've left no trace for her to follow. You just have to stay with Archie and wait till we find her again. Archie will get a beat on her soon enough. I'll be fine. Is Ernest with Charlie? Yes. The mail's been in town. He went to the house. But while Charlie was at work. He hasn't gone near your father. Don't worry. Charlie is safe with Ernest and Royal watching. Somehow, Royal's presence didn't comfort me much.


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[Assistant] What do you think Victor is doing? Trying to pick up the trail. He's been all through the area during the night. Royal traced him up to the airport in Port Angeles. All the roads around town, the school. He's digging, Beau. But there's nothing to find. And you're sure Charlie's safe? Yes. Ernest won't let him out of his sight. I'll be there soon. If the tracker gets anywhere near Forks, I'll have her. I swallowed. Be careful. Stay with Corrine and Eleanor. I know what I'm doing.


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[Assistant] I miss you, I said. I know. Believe me, I know. It's like you've taken half of myself away with you. Come and get it then. As soon as I possibly can. I will make this right first. Her voice got hard. I love you.


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[Assistant] Could you believe that despite everything I've put you through, I love you too? Yes, I can. I'll come for you soon. I'll wait for you. The phone went dead and a sudden wave of depression crashed over me. Jessamine looked up sharply and the feeling dissipated. Jessamine went back to watching Archie. He was on the couch, leaning over the table with the free hotel pen in his hand. I walked over to see what he was doing. He was sketching on a piece of hotel stationery.


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[Assistant] He drew lines to show how the wooden planks that made up the floor stretched lengthwise across the room. Down the walls were more lines denoting the breaks in the mirrors. I hadn't been picturing them like that, covering the whole wall that way. And then wrapping around the walls waist-high a long band, the band Archie said was gold. It's a ballet studio, I said, suddenly recognizing the familiar shapes. They both looked up at me surprised. Do you know this room?


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[Assistant] R.T. leaned closer to the paper, his hand flying across the page now.


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[Assistant] An emergency exit took shape against the back wall, just where I knew it would be. The stereo and TV filled in the right corner foreground. It looks like a place where my mom used to teach dance lessons. She didn't stick with it for very long. It was shaped just the same. I touched the page where the square section jutted out, narrowing the back part of the room. That's where the bathrooms were. The doors were through the other dance floor. But the stereo was here, I pointed to the left corner.


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[Assistant] Are you sure it's the same room? Jessamine asked with the same unnatural calm.


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[Assistant] No, not at all. I mean, most dance studios would look the same. The mirrors, the bar. I leaned over the couch and traced my finger along the ballet bar set against the mirrors. It's just the shape that looked familiar. Would you have any reason to go there now? Archie asked. No, I haven't been back since my mom quit. Probably been ten years.


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[Assistant] So there's no way it could be connected with you? Archie asked intently. I shook my head. I don't even think the same person owns it. I'm sure it's just another dance studio somewhere else. Where was the studio your mother went to? Jessamine asked, her voice much more casual than Archie's. Just around the corner from our house.


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[Assistant] It's why she took the job, so I could meet her there when I walked home from school. My voice trailed off as I watched the look they exchanged. Here in Phoenix, then? She asked, still casual. Yes, I whispered. 58th and Cactus. We all stared in silence at the drawing. Archie, is that phone safe? I asked. The number just traces back to Washington, he told me. Then I can use it to call my mom.


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[Assistant] She's in Florida, right? She should be safe there. She is.


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[Assistant] But she's coming home soon, and she can't come back to that house while... a tremor ran through my voice. I was thinking about Victor searching Charlie's house, the school in Forks where my records were. What's her number? Archie asked. He had the phone in his hand. They don't have a permanent number except at the house. She's supposed to check her messages regularly. Jess? Archie asked. She thought about it. I don't think it could hurt. Don't say where you are, obviously.


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[Assistant] I dialed the familiar number and waited through four rings until my mother's breezy voice came on telling me to leave a message. Mom? I said after the beep. It's me. Listen, I need you to do something. It's important. As soon as you get this message, call me at this number. Archie pointed the number already written on the bottom of his picture. I read it carefully twice. Please don't go anywhere until you talk to me. Don't worry.


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[Assistant] I'm okay, but I have to talk to you right away, no matter how late you get this call, alright? I love you, mom. Bye.


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[Assistant] I watched the news concentrating now, watching for stories about Florida, or about spring training, strikes or hurricanes or terrorist attacks, anything that might send them home early.


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[Assistant] It seemed like immortality granted endless patience, too. Neither Jessamine nor Archie seemed to feel the need to do anything at all. For a while, Archie sketched the vague outline of the dark room from his vision as much as he could see in the light from the TV. But when he was done, he simply sat, looking at the blank walls. Jessamine, too, seemed to have no urge to pace, or to peek through the curtains, or to punch holes in the wall the way I did. I fell asleep on the couch, waiting for the phone to ring.


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[Assistant] I wanna see how you covered up that she was killed by a vampire.


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[Assistant] My mom doesn't care. My sister's dead and all of my friends are liars. This is too much. All of this is just too much.


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[Assistant] But giant birds and wild boar also live here.


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[Assistant] Saying he'd stolen his discovery. Bringing back all the misery of 20 years. Reopening the wounds. We got him in the bed.


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[Assistant] The paper spoke of him as the man who claimed to have discovered the use of ether. They dug up the whole nasty business. That Dr. Jackson had told him how to do it. That he, Jackson, had known about it for years. Can you imagine anyone keeping a secret like that?


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[Assistant] And Dr. Crawford Longs claimed that he had done it four years before.


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[Assistant] But it seems so cruel to have let people go on suffering so long after they knew how to stop it. All I know is...


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[Assistant] That three months after my husband discovered anesthesia, the whole world was using it. Supper's ready, Mama. All right, dear. Come along in.


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[Assistant] Of course I did, dear. Here's the bill.


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[Assistant] Everybody kept asking where you were. And Mrs. Burrows leaned over and said, I know exactly how it feels, dear. And of course, everybody knows that her husband is the biggest soak in Boston. I never had such an evening.


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[Assistant] And of course I couldn't understand a word that Freer Lake Poncell said, and the mayor's wife kept looking at the silver as if she thought it was stolen, and then the sherbet came in ahead of a fish!


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[Assistant] But suppose it doesn't work, William, and people hear about it. Won't it hurt your business?


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[Assistant] You have made a wonderful success. You have helped so many people already. Why endanger that?


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[Assistant] Bringing their old granny to this scrubby place.


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[Assistant] I'm right in, sir. You guarantee twice the money back if I feel anything?


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[Assistant] I'll take ten dollars in that bet. You'll never regret it.


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[Assistant] Peaches. Ready to get that smell of peaches. It'll evaporate in no time. Peaches. Peaches. I don't notice any peaches. Smells more like, uh, like, uh,


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[Assistant] Oh him. This ain't one of his good days. Must have got out of bed on the wrong side.


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[Assistant] Maybe four or six hand grenades fell in the middle of the courtyard. And at that moment the first Jewish women came out of the bunker. They pulled them by the hair and beat them. And then they set the other side of the house on fire.


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[Assistant] Our sister was lost to us forever. I don't mean as a Pole, but as a sister. The best one of us is in Germany.


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[Assistant] I believe it is right that small children of especially good race from Polish families be collected and brought up by us in special, not too large, children's nurseries and orphanages.


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[Assistant] I would advise starting with two or three such institutions so as to gather experience.


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[Assistant] First, all children in formerly Polish orphanages are to be taken and placed in accommodations. After that operation is concluded, children living with Polish foster parents will be examined.


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[Assistant] When you come to see us, please, please don't talk about politics or about the war.


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[Assistant] We're pretty intensely passionate dog owners.


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[Assistant] I'm pretty crazy about my dog, but you want to clear something up about your dog.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but you are- Crazy! Why nuts? Is this a normal-


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[Assistant] So do people know right away that you're crazy about your dog? Are there signs?


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[Assistant] Recognize that feeling? It is the feeling of being together.


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[Assistant] To self, stories of perseverance, of family, of love. If a story brings us together, it's what matters most.


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[Assistant] 23, 23 fucking years, wasted years.


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[Assistant] That little, uh, church basement. Yep. Did Terra play that show? I think they did, yeaah.


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[Assistant] I used to look at lamb goat. Lamb goat, yep. Lamb goat was like more metal hinged. Lamb goat now.


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[Assistant] And how many, how often would this turn bad? And how often would it just go great?


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[Assistant] She was on buddy police business. Thank you for inviting us to the rap party, Guru.


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[Assistant] I'm brutal of the martial arts. Keisetsu of the sword arts.


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[Assistant] That's really him, the legendary Boon Buku?


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[Assistant] I supported, uh, Donald Trump. You know, I, I sat back and, uh, when he asked me to, uh, introduce him at a rally.


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[Assistant] Because Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are the two least popular major party nominees in American history.


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[Assistant] Luckily you have options, because according to the Federal Election Commission, 1,928 people have declared their candidacy for president this year. And before you ask, no, none of them were Michelle Obama.


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[Assistant] I know, the number of declared candidates has more than quadrupled since the last election cycle. Because the FEC has started accepting filings on the internet, so now there's some really goofy candidates who have no real shot, like Cobra Commander.


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[Assistant] So good luck to all those candidates, uh, especially good luck to Candid, you know, to God, because of all those scandals in his past. Did you know that he turned Lot's wife into a pillar of salt? That's gonna hurt him with soccer mumps.


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[Assistant] I don't wanna question your ways, oh lord. But if you don't win, would you endorse one of the other candidates?


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[Assistant] I wish you luck with your campaign, God. What do you think your chances are?


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[Assistant] Hello, my name is Ram Daftari. I enjoy playing basketball and swimming. My sports icon has to be Jesse Obens because of his perseverance and tenacity, which I wish to emulate today in the competition.


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[Assistant] I am overcome with emotion. You better take a drink, Jim. You don't wanna be overcome with emotion. You want your reading public to do the emoting. You're right. I got the shakes. Of course, it don't seem natural for a fact.


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[Assistant] I guess even those two disagree sometimes, huh? I guess.


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[Assistant] Sorry about your ghost adventure, yo. Woah, you're here too?


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[Assistant] We know the spinal cord is part of the central nervous system, with the brain.


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[Assistant] Now the spinal cord is uniformly organized and is divided into five regions. Some people say, uh, four. Either way,


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[Assistant] Uhm, each of these regions have a number of paired of spinal nerves coming out of them.


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[Assistant] So what I mean by this is, for example, the first region of the spinal cord is known as the cervical.


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[Assistant] Uh, region. And this has eight pairs of spinal nerves coming out. So these red things, there are spinal nerves coming out. Eight pairs.


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[Assistant] The thoracic region has 12 pairs of spinal nerves. The lumbar region has 5 pairs of spinal nerves. The sacral region also has 5 pairs of spinal nerves. And there's another region.


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[Assistant] Where we have one pair of spinal nerves. These nerves are known as the coccidial nerves because they're sort of close to the cox, uh, spine of the spine.


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[Assistant] So if we do our awesome mathematics, we can see that we have 31 pairs of spinal nerves, which equates to 62 spinal nerves.


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[Assistant] So each of these regions of the spinal cord, each of these five regions of the spinal cord are actually different in shape. So if we were to take a cross section of the cervical region here, it would look something like this. But before we continue on,


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[Assistant] The person I draw on the right, we are looking at him from a posterior view. We're looking at his spinal cord from a posterior view, from the back.


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[Assistant] But the cross-sections of the spinal cord I am drawing, we're looking at it from an anterior view.


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[Assistant] So please know that the cross sections I'm drawing in the spinal cord now, uh, we're looking at it from an anterior view.


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[Assistant] And here we have a pair of spinal nerves, uhm, attached, attaching to this spinal cord.


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[Assistant] The spinal nerve consists of a ventral root, the front root,


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[Assistant] And a dorsal root, the back root, which connects to the spinal cord.


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[Assistant] The spinal cord itself consists of a gray matter in the middle and white matter surrounding it. The hole in the center


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[Assistant] is known as the central canal which contains cerebrospinal fluid which helps in nourishing the nervous tissue.


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[Assistant] And we shouldn't know what the grey and white matter is because that was taught in the previous neurology videos.


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[Assistant] Now, if we were to compare the cervical region of the spinal cord to the thoracic region of the spinal cord, the thoracic region would look much rounder in shape. And remember, we're looking at it from an anterior view.


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[Assistant] And the lumbar region on the other hand looks a bit like a, more of a pyramid shape.


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[Assistant] Not only that, but the lumbar region of the spinal cord has a much thicker gray matter compared to the other regions.


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[Assistant] So as you can see, the regions of the spinal cord are all different in shape and all have different thickness of the gray matter, for example. But all of these regions contain spinal nerves.


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[Assistant] So let's just learn a bit more about the spinal nerves and about its anatomy.


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[Assistant] Which connect to the spinal cord is part of the peripheral nervous system, you can say.


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[Assistant] Because it carries information between the central nervous system and the periphery.


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[Assistant] Because it brings information to the central nervous system, to the spinal cord, and also takes information from the central nervous system, from the spinal cord.


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[Assistant] So let's just zoom into the spinal nerve here to learn a bit more about the anatomy. So here we have the spinal nerve.


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[Assistant] The nerve is surrounded by a membrane known as an epineuronium. We also find blood supply here, and also...


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[Assistant] The fascicle, if we pull one out, also consists of a membrane called the perineuronium.


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[Assistant] Now as mentioned, these fascicles, they contain many neurons. Let's just pull one out.


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[Assistant] Here we have a neuron, which is surrounded by an endoneuronium, another membrane.


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[Assistant] This neuron, this neuron is also wrapped by Schwann cells containing myelin. And so this is a myelinated axon of the neuron. I hope that makes sense.


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[Assistant] And as we know, myelinated axons, they generate faster impulses.


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[Assistant] So now that we know a bit more about the spinal nerve, let's just go back to the spinal cord and look at what sort of membranes it have and let's learn a bit more about its anatomy.


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[Assistant] By doing this, let's just take a cross section of the spinal cord of the thoracic region.


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[Assistant] Now this spinal cord I'm drawing, which is part of the thoracic region, it can represent any, any section of the spinal cord, but I'm just drawing this for simplicity.


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[Assistant] Because the spinal cord is so important and it's part of the central nervous system, it of course has to have some form of protection, some form of barrier. And it does. It has three layers of protection. From the most inner membrane, it has the pia mater,


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[Assistant] Then it has the arachnoid membrane, then it has the dura matter.


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[Assistant] And these three make up what's known as the meninges, which serve as a protective barrier of the central nervous system against harmful things.


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[Assistant] The central canal, which also contains the cerebrospinal fluid, also is a form of protection for the spinal cord.


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[Assistant] As the cerebrospinal fluid also acts like a shock absorber in the central nervous system.


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[Assistant] Now back to the spinal cord section. Coming out of


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[Assistant] To make this easier, we can draw a line here and say that the spinal cord is part of the central nervous system and the spinal nerves are part of the peripheral nervous system.


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[Assistant] The spinal nerve that is part of the peripheral nervous system


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[Assistant] Uh, connect to the spinal cord and both also join up with each other to form a big spinal nerve.


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[Assistant] The dorsal root contains also a dorsal ganglion.


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[Assistant] Ganglion is basically a location where synapses can occur and also where cell bodies are located. It's basically bundles of neurons.


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[Assistant] But anyway, the dorsal root of the spinal nerve is always


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[Assistant] It's always for sensory neurons and these are where sensory neurons are. So sensory neurons bring in sensory information to the spinal cord via the dorsal root here.


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[Assistant] And then it will synapse with another neuron in the central nervous system, in the spinal cord.


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[Assistant] Which will then, which this new neuron will then bring this sensory information to the brain or the brain stem or somewhere in the central nervous system for processing, for interpretation.


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[Assistant] So what I mean is that all sensory neurons from the periphery, such as this sensory neuron I am drawing with myelin wrapping around it,


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[Assistant] This will receive some form of sensory stimulation, be it touch, pain, pressure, or whatnot.


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[Assistant] This will bring this sensory information to the central nervous system through the dorsal root of the spinal nerve.


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[Assistant] The sensory neuron's body is located in the dorsal ganglion here.


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[Assistant] Then the sensory neuron will pass on the information to the second neuron.


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[Assistant] The second neuron will then bring this sensory information to the brain or brain stem for processing, for realizing that there is some sensory information coming to, to the body. Now,


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[Assistant] If the dorsal root is for sensory neurons bringing in sensory information to the central nervous system, that means the ventral root is for the efferent neurons, for the motor neurons.


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[Assistant] So for example, signals or commands from the brain or brain stem will come down to a particular location in the spinal cord.


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[Assistant] And then these neurons will then synapse with efferent neurons here, also known as motor neurons, which will bring this command, this information, uhm, somewhere to a target tissue.


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[Assistant] Now this efferent neuron, this motor neuron is actually a somatic neuron. Which means that it is bringing information or commands to initiate movement. So it's going to bring information commands to skeletal muscle for contraction for example.


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[Assistant] And this neuron therefore is voluntary, because we can control movement. It is a somatic neuron.


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[Assistant] However, there is another type of neuron, uhm, another type of efferent neuron that can bring information out of the central nervous system. This neuron will, in red, will actually stop over in this ganglion and synapse with another efferent neuron.


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[Assistant] This efferent neuron is, or motor neuron, is known as an autonomic neuron.


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[Assistant] To, uh, tissues, target cells and tissues such as cardiac muscle cells, smooth muscle cells and certain glands.


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[Assistant] We have the central nervous system, where we have the spinal cord.


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[Assistant] And within the spinal cord we have neurons that carry sensory information and also carry commands within the spinal cord.


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[Assistant] Then we have the peripheral nervous system, which consists of two types of neurons. We have the sensory neurons and we have the efferent neurons, also known as the motor neurons.


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[Assistant] The sensory neurons bring information to the central nervous system.


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[Assistant] Whereas the efferent neurons take information from the central nervous system to a target cell, to a target tissue, to the periphery.


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[Assistant] So here we're looking at the efferent neurons. So commands or information from the central nervous system will travel via efferent neurons.


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[Assistant] Efferent neurons can be either somatic, meaning that they are voluntary, or autonomic, meaning that they are involuntary. And this all depends on what, uh, type of targets tissue or cell, uhm, uhm, is going to.


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[Assistant] So hope you enjoyed this video. It's only an introduction to the spinal cord. I'll have another video that will go into a bit, sort of a bit more detail and it might be even easier than this one. So look forward to that. And I'll probably provide a link. Thank you for watching.


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[Assistant] I scrambled awkwardly to my feet. He rolled expertly and came up alongside me.


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[Assistant] I glanced wildly around looking for a way out, but we were flush up against the foot of one of those towering granite cliffs that jut so abruptly from the soil of the Scottish Highlands.


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[Assistant] He had caught me at a point where the rock face broke inward, forming a shallow stony box.


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[Assistant] An expression of mingled anger and curiosity on his handsome dark face. Who were you with? he demanded. Frank, whoever he is. I've no man by that name among my company. Or is it some man who lives nearby? He smiled derisively.


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[Assistant] You haven't the smell of dung on your skin, so you haven't been with a cotter.


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[Assistant] For that matter you look a bit more expensive than the local farmers could afford. I clenched my fists and set my chin. Whatever this joker had in mind I was having none of it.


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[Assistant] I haven't the faintest idea what you're talking about, and I'll thank you to let me pass at once, I said, adopting my very best ward sister's tone.


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[Assistant] This generally had a good effect on recalcitrant orderlies and young interns, but it appeared merely to amuse Captain Randall.


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[Assistant] I was resolutely repressing the feelings of fear and disorientation that were flapping under my ribs like a panicked flock of hens. He shook his head slowly, examining me once more in detail. Not just at present, Chucky. I'm asking myself, he said conversationally.


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[Assistant] Just why a whore abroad in her shift would be wearing her shoes, and quite fine ones at that, he added, glancing at my plain brown loafers. Oh, what? I exclaimed. He ignored me completely.


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[Assistant] His gaze had returned to my face, and he suddenly stepped forward and gripped my chin in his hand. I grabbed his wrist and yanked. Let go of me! He had fingers like steel. Disregarding my efforts to free myself, he turned my face from one side to the other, so the fading afternoon light shone on it. The skin of a lady, I'll swear, he murmured to himself. He leaned forward and sniffed.


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[Assistant] He let go then, and I rubbed my jaw indignantly, as though to erase the touch I still felt on my skin. The rest might be managed with money from your patron, he mused. But you've the speech of a lady too. Thanks so much, I snapped. Get out of my way. My husband is expecting me. If I'm not back in ten minutes, he'll come looking for me. Oh, your husband.


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[Assistant] The derisively admiring expression retreated somewhat but didn't disappear completely. And what is your husband's name, pray? Where is he?


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[Assistant] And why does he allow his wife to wander alone through deserted woods in a state of undress?


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[Assistant] I had been throttling that part of my brain that was beating itself to pieces trying to make sense of the whole afternoon.


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[Assistant] It now managed to break through long enough to tell me that however absurd I thought its conjectures, giving this man Frank's name, the same as his own, was only likely to lead to further trouble.


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[Assistant] Distaining therefore to answer him, I made to push past him. He blocked my passage with a muscular arm, and reached for me with his other hand.


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[Assistant] And, uh, it was a real problem. We had a real problem.


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[Assistant] Wait a minute. Where's Dorothy? In there. She's had an accident. She's what? She fell and twisted her ankle. It may be a break. What are you talking about?


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[Assistant] Still the rayon pads stuck to the flesh, coming away with a soft crackling of dried blood. Droplets of fresh blood oozed around the edges of the wound, and I apologize for hurting him, though he hadn't moved or made a sound. He smiled slightly, with a hint, perhaps, of flirtation. No worry, lass, I've been hurt much worse, and by people much less pretty.


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[Assistant] He bent forward for me to wash the wound with the boiled garlic decoction, and the quilt slipped from his shoulder.


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[Assistant] I saw at once that whether meant as a compliment or not, his remark was a statement of plain fact. He had been hurt much worse.


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[Assistant] His upper back was covered with a crisscross of faded white lines.


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[Assistant] He had been savagely flogged, and more than once.


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[Assistant] There were small lines of silvery scar tissue in some spots, where the welts had crossed, and irregular patches where several blows had struck the same spot, flaying off skin and gouging the muscle beneath.


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[Assistant] I had of course seen a great variety of wounds and injuries doing combat nursing.


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[Assistant] They'd have done it twice the same day, I expect. Were they not afraid of killing me? No joy in flogging a dead man. I tried to keep my voice steady while I sponged. I shouldn't think anyone would do such a thing for joy. No. You should have seen him. Who? The red coat captain that skinned my back for me.


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[Assistant] If he was not precisely joyous, he was at least very pleased with himself. Mourner I was, he added wryly. Randall was the name. Randall? I couldn't keep the shock from my voice. Cold blue eyes fixed on mine. You're familiar with the man? The voice was suddenly suspicious. No, no.


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[Assistant] I used to know a family of that name a long time ago. In my nervousness, I dropped the sponge cloth. Drat! Now that will have to be boiled again.


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[Assistant] I scooped it off the floor and bustled to the fireplace trying to hide my confusion in busyness.


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[Assistant] The soldier with a sterling record, gallant on the field of battle, recipient of commendations from dukes, and if so...


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[Assistant] Could someone related to my sweet, gentle Frank possibly be capable of inflicting the horrifying marks on this lad's back?


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[Assistant] David Cameron announced he would be stepping down in the wake of the vote, which should make me happy, but in this situation, it doesn't. It's like catching an ice cream cone out of the air because a child was hit by a car. I mean, I'll eat it. I'll eat it. But it's tainted somehow.


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[Assistant] They started speaking a lot more carefully about the promises that had been made.


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[Assistant] On top of which, they'll have to settle outstanding bills with the EU, uh, hammer out new trade deals with dozens of countries, sift through thousands of EU regulations and decide which ones to keep, and figure out how migration will work, and all the while, lives hang in the balance.


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[Assistant] What? Well, we got him. Bet that new lieutenant's got him bad. Don't load your pack on the other guy's shoulders.


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[Assistant] Nobody's giving it to you.


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[Assistant] What do you think? It's up to you, Eddie. You know what you're doing. I've got to know. Do it then. I've got something up- Listen!


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[Assistant] Who's gonna stay here, Eddie? Stay here for what? Alverson. I don't know. I'll stay. Okay, Bill, you stay here.


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[Assistant] Hard task. It'll keep. Got it on ice. Take it easy.


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[Assistant] Part you and cousins go up ahead. If you see anything, just shoot. Okay.


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[Assistant] No one else to say except, it's a stinking situation, right? Right. Good luck.


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[Assistant] A butt. What happened to the one I just gave you? I sent it home. They're cutting down on the butts at home. A butt.


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[Assistant] Once at the top of the 80 meter cliffs, they rest, until it's time to return to the sea in search of food.


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[Assistant] He'd lost a captaincy once again, been busted down to tending potted plants in the ship's greenhouse. Sigh. Fam's job was to water them and make them bloom.


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[Assistant] But then he noticed the pots had wheels, and moved behind his back, waiting, softly rattling. What had been beautiful was now sinister.


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[Assistant] Fam had been willing to water and weed the creatures. He had always admired them. Now he was the only one who knew they were the enemy of life.


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[Assistant] More than once in his life Pham Nguyen had wakened inside medical automation. He was almost used to coffin-closed tanks, plain green walls, wires, and tubes.


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[Assistant] This was different and it took him a while to realize just where he was.


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[Assistant] Willowy trees bent close around him swaying just a little in the warm breeze.


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[Assistant] Except that the leaves were furry and not quite the green of anything he had ever seen This was someone else's notion of home


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[Assistant] He reached up toward the nearest branch and his hand hit something unyielding just 50 centimeters above his face. A curved wall.


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[Assistant] For all the trick pictures, this was about the same size as the surgeons he remembered. Something clicked behind his head.


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[Assistant] The idol slid past him, taking its warm breeze with it. Somebody, Ravna, floated just beyond the cylinder. Hi, fam. She reached past the surgeon's hall to squeeze his hand. Her kiss was tremulous and she looked haunted, as if she'd been crying a lot. Hi, yourself, he said.


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[Assistant] Memory came back in jagged pieces. He tried to push off the bed and found another similarity between this surgeon and ones of the Chang Ho. He was securely plugged in. Ravna laughed a little weakly. Surgeon, disconnect. After a moment, fam drifted free. It's still holding my arm.


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[Assistant] No, that's the sling. Your left arm is gonna take a while to regrow. It almost got burned off, fam. Oh.


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[Assistant] He looked down at the white cocoon that mashed his arm against his side. He remembered the gunfight now.


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[Assistant] About thirty hours. We're more than sixty light years out from harmonious repose. We're doing okay, except that now everyone in creation seems to be chasing us. The dream. His free hand clamped hard on Ravna's arm. The Scrooge Riders, where are they?


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[Assistant] Not on board, pray the fleet. What's left of green stock is in the other surgeon. Blue shell is... Why have they let me live?


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[Assistant] Pham's eyes roved the room. They were in a utility cabin. Any weapons were at least 20 meters away.


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[Assistant] Poor Greenstock's not in a position to say anything, fam. Blue Shell says pretty much what you did.


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[Assistant] Green stock was grabbed by the rogue riders forced to lure you two into a trap.


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[Assistant] So maybe there was a chance. Maybe Blue Show was not yet perverted.


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[Assistant] He continued his one-handed progress up the ship's access corridor. A minute later he was on the bridge, Ravna tagging behind.


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[Assistant] Fem, what's the matter? There's a lot we have to decide, but oh right you are.


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[Assistant] Yes sir. All about. Command privileges, he said. Capabilities granted while the riders were ashore. Would they still be in place? Granted.


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[Assistant] The scrolled riders had had 30 hours to plan their defense. This was all too easy. Too easy. Suspend command privileges for the scrolled riders. Isolate them. Yes sir. Came the ship's reply. Liar. But what more could he do?


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[Assistant] The sweep toward panic crested and suddenly he felt very cool. He was Chang Ho, and he was also Godshatter.


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[Assistant] Both riders were in the same cabin, green stock and the other copy of the ship's surgeon. Fam opened a window on the room. Blue shells sat on a wall beside the surgeon.


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[Assistant] He looked wilted, as when they heard about Saundra Kay. He angled his fronds at the video pick-up. Sir Fab!


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[Assistant] He remembered firing on green stock. Had he pulled his aim? He looked inside the surgeon.


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[Assistant] His eyes traveled downwards toward the base of the stalk where a rider is normally attached to its scrowed.


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[Assistant] The stump ended in a cloud of surgical tubing, and Fam remembered the last instant of the firefight, blasting the scrote out from under Greenstalk. What is a rider like without anything to ride? He pulled his eyes away from the wreckage. I've deleted your command privileges, because I don't trust you. My former friend, tool of my enemy. Blue Shell didn't answer. After a moment, Ravna spoke. Fam?


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[Assistant] Without Blue Shell I'd never have gotten you out of that habitat. Even then, we were stuck in the middle of the R.I.P. system.


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[Assistant] The Shepard satellite was screaming for our blood. They had figured out we were human. The Aprahanti were trying to break harbor and come down on us. Without Blue Shell, we'd never have convinced local security to let us go ultra. We'd probably have been blown away the second we cleared the ring plane. We'd all be dead now, fam. Don't you know what happened down there?


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[Assistant] On the window behind Ravna he could see Blue Shell standing with his fronds motionless, not rushing to agree. Triumphant? That doesn't explain Greenstalk sucking us into the trap. He raised a hand. Yeah, I know, she was bludgeoned into doing it. Only problem, Ravna, she had no hesitation. She was enthusiastic, bubbly. He stared over the woman's shoulder.


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[Assistant] She was under no compulsion. Didn't you tell me that, Blue Shell? A long pause. Finally. Yes, Sir Fab.


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[Assistant] Ravna turned, drifting back so she could see both of them.


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[Assistant] Up until she asked the question, Fem had not known. He knew the facts, but had no coherent theory to hang them on. Now it all came together.


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[Assistant] The ambush, his dreams of the surgeon, even the paradoxes. Maybe she wasn't a traitor before.


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[Assistant] We really did escape from Relay without pursuit, without anyone knowing of us, much less our exact destination.


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[Assistant] Certainly no one expected humans to show up at harmonious repose. He paused, trying to get it all together. The ambush. The ambush. It wasn't stupid.


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[Assistant] Why, I'll bet if you look at the wreckage of Greenstock's Scrode, you'll find her beam gun was some sort of cutter tool. And the only sensor on the Claymore mine was a motion detector.


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[Assistant] From what you said, they didn't break moorish till after the gunfight, when the Rider Moon started screaming about us. Whoever's behind this is independent of the butterflies and must be spread in very small numbers across many star systems, a vast set of tripwires, listening for things of interest. They noticed us.


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[Assistant] If I read that right we've got more than five hundred ships on our tail. Ravna's eyes flicked to the display and back. Her voice was abstracted. Yes, that's part of the main Aprahati fleet and there will be lots more. Only they won't all be butterflies. What are you saying then?


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[Assistant] Why would Scrooge Riders wish us ill? A conspiracy is senseless. They've never had a nation state, much less an interstellar empire. Fam Notted.


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[Assistant] Just peaceful settlements, like that shepherd moon in poly-specific civilizations all across the beyond. His voice softens.


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[Assistant] No, Rav, the Scrooge Riders are not the real enemy here. It's the thing behind them. The Strably Perversion.


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[Assistant] Incredulous silence, but he noticed how tightly Blue Shell held his fronds now. That one knew. It's the only explanation, Ravna. Greenstalk really was our friend and loyal.


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[Assistant] My guess is that only a small minority of the riders are under the perversions control. When Greenstock fell in with them, she was converted too.


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[Assistant] That's impossible. This is the middle of the beyond, fam. Greenstalk had courage, stubbornness. No brainwashing could have changed her so quickly.


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[Assistant] A frightened desperation had come into her eyes, one explanation or another. Some terrible thing must be true. And I'm still here alive and talking. A datum for Godshatter. Maybe there was yet a chance. He spoke almost as the understanding hid him. Greenstock was loyal.


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[Assistant] Yet she was totally converted in seconds. It wasn't just a perversion of her scrote or some drug.


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[Assistant] It was as if both Rider and Scrooge had been designed from the beginning to respond.


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[Assistant] He looked across a blue shell trying to gauge his reaction to what he would say next. The writers have awaited their creator a long time. Their race is very old, far older than anyone except the senescent. They're everywhere.


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[Assistant] But a small number is always practical and peaceful.


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[Assistant] What's marvelous about this one is how stable it turned out to be.


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[Assistant] The greater scrodes are tradition, Blue Shell says.


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[Assistant] But that's a word I apply to cultures and to much shorter time scales.


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[Assistant] The greater scrodes of today are identical to ones a billion years ago. They are devices that can be made anywhere in the beyond.


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[Assistant] That had been one of his earliest humiliations about the Beyond. He had looked at the design diagram. Dissections, really, of scrodes.


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[Assistant] On the outside the thing was a mechanical device with moving parts even.


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[Assistant] And the text claimed that the whole thing would be made with the simplest of factories scarcely more than what existed in some places in the slow zone. And yet the electronics was a seemingly random mass of components without any trace of hierarchical design or modularity.


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[Assistant] It worked, and far more efficiently than something designed by human equivalent minds. But repair and debugging of the cyber component was out of the question.


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[Assistant] No one in the beyond understands all the potentials of Scroads, much less the adaptations forced on their writers. Isn't that so, Blue Shell?


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[Assistant] The rider clapped his front's heart against his central stock.


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[Assistant] Again a furious rattling. It was something Pham had never seen before. Rage? Terror?


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[Assistant] Luchel's voter voice was distorted with nonlinearities. You ask? You ask? It's monstrous to ask me to help you in this. The voice skeetered into high frequencies, and he stood mute, his body shivering.


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[Assistant] Fam of the Chang Ho felt a stab of shame. The other knew and understood, and deserved better than this. The writers must be destroyed, but they should not have to listen to his judging. His hand swept toward the communications cutoff. Stopped. No. This is your last chance to observe the perversion's work.


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[Assistant] Ravna's glance snapped back and forth between human and scrote rider, and he could tell that she understood.


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[Assistant] Her face had the same stricken look as when she learned about Seondra K. You're saying-


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[Assistant] The perversion made the original scrotes, and modified the writers too.


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[Assistant] It was long ago, and certainly not the same instance of the perversion that the Straumer has created, but...


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[Assistant] The Blight, that was the other common name for the perversion, and closer to Old One's view.


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[Assistant] For all of perversion's transcendence, its lifestyle was more similar to a disease than anything else. Maybe that had helped a fool old one. But now, fam could see.


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[Assistant] The Blight lived in pieces, across extraordinary reaches of time.


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[Assistant] It hid in archives waiting for ideal conditions, and it had created helpers for its blooming.


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[Assistant] He looked at Ravana and suddenly realized a little more. You've had 30 hours to think about this, Rav. You saw the record from my suit. Surely you must have guessed some of this. Her gaze dropped from his. A little, she finally said. At least she was no longer denying. You know what we have to do, he said softly.


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[Assistant] Now that he understood what must be done, the God Shatter eased its grip. Its will would be done.


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[Assistant] Once they look, most folk will be able to see the truth here and take the proper action.


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[Assistant] Barely audible. The net must be told, Ravna.


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[Assistant] We've discovered something that could save a thousand worlds. This is the Blight's hidden edge. At least in the middle and low beyond. She just shook her hand again. But screaming this truth would itself kill billions. In honest defense.


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[Assistant] He bounced slowly toward the ceiling, pushed himself back to the deck. There were tears in her eyes now.


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[Assistant] We know something that others, leaders wiser than either of us, should be free to decide upon. You would keep them from making that choice?


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[Assistant] She hesitated and for an instant Fam thought the civilized rule follower in her would bring her around. But then her chin came up.


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[Assistant] Yes fam, I would deny them the choice.


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[Assistant] We have no idea how much of that survived the destruction of her scrote, or how long it will be before Blue Shell goes bad. We can't take them along, or release them either.


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[Assistant] Ravda drifted sideways, her eyes fixed on his hands.


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[Assistant] Be careful who you kill, fam. She said softly.


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[Assistant] As you say, I've had 30 hours to think about my decisions. 30 hours to think about yours. So.


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[Assistant] Pham raised his hands from the controls. Rage. Godshatter. Chased briefly through his mind. Ravna, ravna, ravna. A voice saying goodbye inside his head. Then all became very cold.


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[Assistant] He had been so afraid that the riders had perverted the ship.


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[Assistant] Instead, this stupid fool had acted for them, voluntarily.


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[Assistant] He drifted slowly toward her, almost unthinking. He held his arm and hand at combat ready.


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[Assistant] How do you intend to prevent me from doing what has to be done? Body already guessed.


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[Assistant] She didn't back away, even when his hand was centimeters from her throat.


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[Assistant] Her face held courage and tears. Wh-what do you think, fam? Well, you were in the surgeon.


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[Assistant] I rearranged things. Hurt me and you will be hurt worse.


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[Assistant] He probably could kill her before she could defend, but then there were a thousand ways the ship could have been programmed to kill him. And all that would be left would be the riders, flying down to the bottom to their prize. So what do we do then? He finally said.


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[Assistant] As before, we go to rescue Jeffrey. We go to recover the countermeasure. I'm willing to put some restrictions on the riders.


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[Assistant] A truce with monsters, mediated by a fool.


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[Assistant] He pushed off, sailing around her, back down the access corridor. Behind him, he heard a sob.


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[Assistant] The changes dated from hours after his confrontation with Ravna. She'd had nothing when she stood against him. Thank the powers I didn't know. The thought was forgotten, almost before he formed it. So the charade would proceed right to the end, a continuing game of lie and subterfuge. Grimly he set himself to winning that game. Fleets behind them, traitors surrounding him. By the Cheng Ho and his own godshatter,


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[Assistant] The perversion would lose, the scrooge riders would lose, and for all her courage and goodness, Ravna Bergensdott would lose.


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[Assistant] Right, so here we are at Abingdon. This is the Clio's debut track day session. Um, Neil hasn't seen the car yet, so I'm here a bit early and we're awaiting Neil's arrival. Then he's going to come and take a look at the car and tell us what he thinks. Fingers crossed he likes it and that I've made a good choice with this little, uh, little Clio Sport. So here he is.


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[Assistant] Ah, sorry, I'm used to it. This is it. There she is.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, I don't think they're going to be the best. For £850 though.


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[Assistant] So you're glad that you've trusted me with this, uh, this big decision in buying the car.


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[Assistant] Well, yea it is. I mean, do we need to clean it?


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[Assistant] Doesn't appear to be any major oil leaks or anything like that. I have noticed, I don't know what this is, whether it's like a thermostat or something like that, but it seems to have been coolant at some stage that's dripped down. But, yeah, it seems okay now. But, uh, yeah, all fluids are good. It's got a panel filter in there, KTEC racing panel filter. Okay.


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[Assistant] Yes, to the aftermarket. Obviously we're going to replace this at some point, I'd like to think.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it has a few, um, a few little dinks on the side of the car, just from supermarkets and that kind of thing. But overall, it's in really good condition.


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[Assistant] I don't know what this is. Alcantara. Alcantara, is it? Yea, on the door cards. And on the steering wheel? That's, that was re-trimmed by the previous owner. So previously they're leather, but they melt, like the leather melts on these. So I think it's got a nice feel to it. It's quite meaty. It feels, feels absolutely fine, doesn't it? Quite grippy.


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[Assistant] Yep, same in the rear with the, um, sort of Alcantara sort of half leather trim seats.


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[Assistant] But yea, you've got the auto climate control. That is a bit iffy.


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[Assistant] I've managed to get it on, it's on 20 degrees and it stays on 20 and it does actually pump out 20 degrees. If you mess around with it, you have full heat or nothing.


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[Assistant] So it's full heat or off. So we've gotta have it 20 degrees all year round.


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[Assistant] It's on the bill of sale, original bill of sale, but...


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[Assistant] Could have changed. Also the gear stick is a bit wobbly and that's another normal thing as well.


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[Assistant] They're budget tyres, so there's going to be quite a bit of movement in them I'd imagine. God, I can really smell those brakes.


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[Assistant] I think there's enough poke, I think there is enough speed there, but once we get the cornering speed better, we'll be laughing.


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[Assistant] It does like to understeer a little bit. The front just feels like it's kind of bogging down a bit rather than just kind of hooking up.


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[Assistant] As I say when we're out there, it's a little bit, I see what you mean, it's a bit wallowy, a little bit, it does need stiffening up, definitely. And the brakes, I mean, yeah, the brakes don't need changing, quickly.


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[Assistant] The last thing, they're not smoking or anything, are they? They're just not very effective, are they? They're just, there's not much.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and that's it, isn't it? There's no more to it. But I think, uhm, yeaah, it's, it's nippy enough, uhm, for a...


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[Assistant] And we're keeping pace with some of the cars out there, some that have had modifications and stuff, so, I think, yeaah, with modifications on this, I think it's gonna be...


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[Assistant] So, that's, uh, the track's now closed. Day over.


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[Assistant] No, I completely agree. I mean, our first two initial sessions, we weren't really, you know, we weren't kind of going for it 100%. And the car didn't feel as good then, did it? No, no.


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[Assistant] But having been out a few times now and gotten used to the car is really good fun.


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[Assistant] Yep, it's by all means perfect, but for a base stock car, it's a hell of a platform.


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[Assistant] No points this video, would there? But no, uhm, so obviously modifications going forward, what do you think, what do you think we need to put on next as a priority?


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[Assistant] They're not horrific, but there's just not enough to them.


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[Assistant] You have to break a bit early and then probably what you would if you obviously had a good set of breaks.


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[Assistant] So yeaah, I agree with the brakes, ehm, tyres...


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[Assistant] Yeah, so as a priority we agree, brakes, tyres, exhaust. Yeah, yeah. Suspension wasn't too much of an issue today, was it? No.


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[Assistant] Now anyway, it's been a really good day. I hope you've had a great time. Uhm, I suppose we wrap it up. Until next time.


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[Assistant] My people, my fans, uh, I wanna say hello and thank you for welcoming me in to your culture, to your homes. I am proud to be here.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's exciting. Uhm, you know, uh, I look, I'm still new. So to me, I still have so many matchups that are going to be fresh and I haven't had the experience yet, but.


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[Assistant] The idea of now seeing new faces that I might be able to interact with and


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[Assistant] You know, you got guys like Kevin Owens and Seth Rollins coming to Raw. Edge, Edge is coming to Raw. Are you kidding me? Rey Mysterio? I mean, like the possibilities now are just insane. So I'm, I'm very


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[Assistant] I mean, easy answer is Edge. I mean, that's, that's my guy. You know, I, I was, I mean, I'm still am a fan of Edge. So for me to just share the ring with him, it'd be an honor, you know, but, and then, but Rey Mysterio is also there as well, you know, being another Hispanic, uh, and,


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[Assistant] I mean, and, and they're two guys that, they're legends, but they still like, it's like,


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[Assistant] They just started. I mean, like they wrestle no different. They still do the same stuff and they still just as good. They have not lost a step. So it's, it's still a test. Uhm, and I look forward to that. I hope it happens sooner rather than later.


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[Assistant] And then next night on Raw, I have a match against a former world champion in the Miz. Then I have a WrestleMania match that was exciting and insane, teaming with Bad Bunny. And then other moments on Raw. And then...


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[Assistant] Like you, like you said, it wasn't easy, you know, it was, it's a tough spot mainly because


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[Assistant] I've never even wrestled at a WrestleMania, you know, so it's a tough spot for anybody, let alone somebody debuting, you know, so I have my own nerves, my own pressure and you add having to do that, like support Bad Bunny and help train him and get help, get him ready.


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[Assistant] You know, there was, there was a team of us that got them ready, but


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[Assistant] You know, it was still, I'm the one on TV. I'm the one in the ring with him. Uh, and it was a lot of pressure. Luckily,


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[Assistant] He's a very driven person, like he had to succeed. He was not going to embarrass himself, his fans, his culture, uh, or our business. He wanted to do this with respect, uh, and he wanted people to, uh, he wanted to earn people's respect. So,


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[Assistant] Luckily for me, I had the perfect celebrity to be partnered with. With somebody who was gonna do everything possible, work really hard to be ready. And he was. He was very ready. And uh, I was proud of him. He did, he did so good.


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[Assistant] So when I lived in Puerto Rico, uh, I remember watching when I was a kid and


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[Assistant] I'm also big into like superheroes and, and to me it was, that's what, you know, what I was watching to be like, these are like real life superheroes, you know? Like watching edge.


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[Assistant] Yeah, all these guys, Undertaker and these guys, just like real life superheroes. And then I just remembered how I felt and how they made me feel. The emotion, the excitement, uh, just being just enamored with them.


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[Assistant] And I was like, I want to make somebody else feel that way. I have to do this with my life. And that's how it started. I just fell in love with the emotion, the feeling.


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[Assistant] And I wanted to, I wanted to do that. I wanted to make people feel something for me. And then...


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[Assistant] Yeah, so that's how the love started. And then eventually when I was old enough and I could go train and go to a wrestling school, I did. And well, the rest was history.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and it's, it's prestigious. You know, it's the United States Championship. It's been around for a very, very long time. And again, it's one of those things that


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[Assistant] Dreams are meant to be dreams. That's not real life. But every once in a while, some of us get lucky.


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[Assistant] And this I'm, I'm extremely lucky. This is one of those dreams that I never thought was really going to happen. I hoped, but you know, you don't really think it's going to happen. And then I wake up one day.


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[Assistant] Everything. It was everything, you know. I always say like, imagine a kid going to a new school, like,


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[Assistant] You don't want to mess up. You don't want to fail. So it's a lot of pressure. I mean, this NXT was a big deal to me.


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[Assistant] But Monday Night Raw, this is what I grew up watching. This is what, this is what I've always wanted.


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[Assistant] As nerve wrecking as it was and, and as, all the pressure that it was, it's worth every bit of it. I, I wouldn't change anything. It's so cool.


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[Assistant] All the time. Those are, uh, two of my best friends, uh, where-


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[Assistant] We're clowns, we like to joke around, we like to laugh, we like to have a good time, we're just...


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[Assistant] I think I'm drawn to them because they're positive.


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[Assistant] Nice people, like just really good human beings, you know, where they just want to be happy all the time and they want everybody around them to be happy. And how could you not love that? You know, so to me, I love that they, I feel better when I'm around them. And, and that's why, yes, we were always together.


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[Assistant] You know, so they're very, they're two of my closest friends.


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[Assistant] Proud performance and the vibe where people are just excited.


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[Assistant] You know, you see so many people smiling and screaming and having a good time, like just a bunch of strangers just being happy together.