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Feyre by Merwild on Deviantart

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Lucien during Second Trial by rimonsauce on Instagram

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**All our episodes may contain SPOILERS for all three Maasverse series so please only listen if you've read ALL the books!**

In this episode, we discuss the second trial! There’s lots of fun interactions on a very mental and interpersonal level which are super fun to analyze. There are a lot of interesting implications for Rhys and Feyre’s relationship, how fate plays into things (the symbolism of this chapter is also really interesting, especially considering how it could be setting up later books!). We also have some fun tangents about valg, Lucien, Jurian’s ability to communicate (because SURELY he found a way?!?). It’s an interesting discussion on a surprisingly complex little chapter so let us know what you think in the comments!

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Intro/Closing Music Credit: Indie-Pop by Ivan Luzan

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Episode Overview:

00:00–Cold open, intro song, episode intro and summary

2:03–How did Amarantha know Feyre couldn’t read?

7:32–Is Jurian trying to communicate in the eye?? Is Rhys speaking to Jurian as an eye? Do you have to have a body to be daematied?

11:27–Feyre’s determined!

12:52–Feyre’s nonromantic romantic staredown

14:34–Why does Amarantha think Lucien is the key to Feyre?? And where are his parents during this? (plus Tamlin redemption arc possibilities discussion)

24:03–Is Amarantha calling her Feyre darling to egg on Rhys? And why give her such an easy task for Rhys to help with??

28:14–Feyre blames FATE(Is going with Rhys going against fate??) Is “three sisters” the true answer?? + valg tangent

41:39–No one else saw that tattoo move??

42:20–She sees Rhys on the other side of death!!

44:46–Get up!!

45:38–What’s the real reason she is so upset?

47:16–She’s crying for “that trivial part of me” (her “all hope is lost” moment)

54:11–Rhys’s eyes are “full of color and light” where her heart is missing it!!

55:18–Now she wants Rhys!

56:09–He’s kneelin!

57:43–The licking is…not the best

1:02:28–Is it really the bond that’s doing it??

1:04:10–She’s into that old man groaning

1:05:58–Allie hates the last line lolll (unless it’s about…him edging her?)

1:08:43–Next week, closing & outro song