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Welcome to the Mercy of Pods, a podcast about The Captive's War by James S.A. Corey, hosted by Brigid & Clint. This is the fifth part of our coverage of The Faith of Beasts, the second novel in the series! This episode is spoilers for the entirety of The Captive's War Universe.

In this episode:

• We get our first POV from Hater-Librarian Ekur-Tklal, learn more about the Carryx management structure, and also that it considers Dafyd to be a cute and disgusting little doll.
• Dafyd and Jellitswarm go on a field trip on the world palace and have a little heart-to-heart...to-heart-to-heart-to-heart.
• The JSAC boys get to write about the wonder of weird alien worlds while exploring the mysteries of human consciousness and frailty, so you KNOW the prose is lit.
• Jessyn and <3 Garral <3 continue their talk with the Other Humans and hatch a crazy plan to put on the best danged talent show this World has ever seen.
• Clint bangs on about how truly insane the Carryx information apparatus is and speculates what it means that the livesuits don't have translation software.
• Brigid analyzes the title of this part, and discusses how pressure is driving convergence in all of the little parts of this episode.
• The Swarm can see everything.

Join us next time when we check in on Team Carryx, as Campar, Rickar & Friends continue to experience battle and Surur takes a bath. Follow the Mercy of Pods on social media at themercyofpods, or email us at themercyofpods@gmail.com. Logo by Matt Howse. Music is Push The Button by Sid Luscious and the Pants. Read Brigid's stuff here.

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