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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 sixth 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:

• Campar is trying to make Ghati forget that they are slaves on an alien warship through the power of positive thinking.
• Rickar is chopping it up with Vaudai and chopping down Campar's optimism.
• Surur-Tlassen has a fun day meeting the Sovran while she's taking a bath, talking with some private creche dudes, and killing a random animal that wandered the wrong way
• Clint has some weird mic stuff (sorry!) and gets jealous of the Sovran's vocal dexterity.
• Brigid says hi to her mom and expounds on the Carryx hierarchical language structure.
• We discuss whether it's better to be an optimist or a pessimist in times of extreme danger and stress, and come down firmly on one side of the debate over whether the Carryx are a hive mind (SPOILER: they aren't).
• Surur has a friend called Urur, and you thought GRRM was bad with names.

Join us next time when Tonner Fries has a no good very bad day. 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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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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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 fourth 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 very first Carryx POV and it is from a trans man. Christopher Nolan has gone too far.
• We check in on Campar and Rickar as they experience the lesbian film Blue is the Hurtiest Color.
• We get a whole POV from <3 Garral <3 and he is just an incredibly sexy and flirtatious hot scientist and ancient history hobbyist doing his best to give a f*ck me vibe to literally every human in existence.
• Dafyd reluctantly gives Ver Cannadan and Jellit a job. Much to the Swarm's dismay, it's not THAT kind of job.
• Brigid likens the Carryx biology to honeybees and other invertebrates, and makes righteous fun of our new friend Omco.
• Clint breaks down how the Carryx's truly insane communications apparatus is likely the answer to every question we have about them.
• We relay an incredible series of emails from The Linguist. Trap World Anjiin is TRUE you guys.

Join us next time when we FINALLY get a POV from our good friend and ally Ekur-Tklal. 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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