Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
This is an unspoiled network podcast. This is unspoiled covering the Dresden Files, book 18, 12 months. Chapters 30 through, no, 29 through 31. My bad. I know things. In these chapters, we have got some more attacks happening.
Chapter 2: What events lead to Harry drawing a line in the sand?
We have got a moment with Lara Wraith. There's a lot of forward progress happening. Also a conversation with Fitz. Welcome to Unspoiled.
Welcome to the show, everyone.
I am Natasha. I'm Rashawn. How did you feel about The conversation with Fitz, because I was very like, I didn't realize how much I was rooting for Fitz to open up more. And then it happened and I was suddenly like, you know what? Yeah, I want more of this kid.
Yeah.
Let's do this.
I really like that it turns out that the first time Harry is able to say the words out loud about Murphy being gone, being dead, like saying the big, you know, saying the word dead. Mm-hmm. Is a moment that occurs where, one, he feels like, I owe this person the same level of vulnerability they've just shown me.
Yeah.
And also that it's... it's, it's Harry frames it almost like he's being forced. Like I have to, you know, meet him in kind, but really it's not, it's, it's just, it's, he has gotten to a place where he can say it. And the fact that Fitz is the one that's like safe person to do it with for the very first time feels really important. Yeah. To, it makes me think that,
this relationship is going to be more important than I maybe even realized. And it makes me also a little concerned because now, like if Fitz is going to be a real player, now I have to be worried about him. Is he going to be safe?
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Chapter 3: How does Lara Wraith's character influence the story?
Is he going to be corrupted and end up being a, you know, a bad guy or a, Not necessarily a bad guy, but like... Adversary of some kind. Yeah. I'm just like now... It's like now Fitz is on the board. Yeah. In a way that he wasn't before. And I like this. I think at one point, Harry even calls him little brother.
Mm-hmm.
And I just said, oh, I think I'm here for this.
Chapter 4: What is the significance of Harry's conversation with Fitz?
Right. Yeah. But it does make me concerned because the minute somebody becomes important, then they become... vulnerable and you it is a reader you start to worry like oh god butcher what are you gonna do how are you gonna hurt me with this is what i feel what i felt when i was reading honestly sure there's a reason that we are all like this and it's your fault um all right so starting 29 um
we are at this swanky event with Lara, who is dressed up and looking incredible. And they take off to a separate room in this hotel to try the experiment of controlling her hunger and separating it from her. And Harry is like, I hope you're okay with paying for the fact that I'm about to spray paint all over this floor.
And I was just like, sir, you maybe could have figured out another way to do this or, you know.
It's so funny he thinks that later on. He's like, maybe I can get a mat or something. Maybe I can just roll out. Come on, sir. Obviously. Just carry it around like a yoga mat and a sling on his back. Precisely. Have that, have a couple rifles, have a staff all rolled up into a nice little pack and just sling that shit right over his shoulder.
I'm picturing now that he keeps adding stuff until it's like one of those backpacking bags that's like, you know, a thing that goes like two feet over your head. Perry's already so tall. Him with that on his back, everybody would just be like, what the fuck is this?
I'm like that when I see those in real life. I'm just like, what all do you have in there? What is going on? Is there a tent in there? I really have no idea what's going on with those backpacks when they're that big. They have like the metal... Like, does it turn into a tent? Like, what is going on with that?
They do not. I have often thought that myself, that, like, this would be really efficient if you could find a way to make the backpack itself something, you know? But... And most of the ones with frames aren't worth it because they get too heavy. But I had one of those for a little while, and, man, those things are... It's crazy how carefully they have...
learn to engineer them so that as full as they are you put them on and you're like oh this isn't bad you know and then you like walk for two hours and you're suddenly like this is a whole person i'm carrying a person what am i doing um so yeah i hope i never have any need for one of those Yeah.
Like I hope God never puts that into my life.
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Chapter 5: How does Harry cope with the loss of Murphy?
Somebody going to help me up? Like, there was no bouncing myself back up from that position. It was just not going to happen. Yeah. And it was a real... It was a real moment.
I was doing these dance classes for a minute and then I got this really bad flare up of plantar fasciitis that made it so that I could barely walk at times. So I've had to pull back and it makes me so sad because I can feel some of my core strength going. And there are other exercises that I could do to get that, but it's very much exercises. It feels different than just dancing.
which is fun and i have had i've just been like telling myself like oh you gotta do i've been swimming but uh i remember the moment where i had to squat because they take a squad photo at the end of dance classes and when there was like a day finally where i squatted down for the photo and got back up and realized all of a sudden like oh i wasn't like
in the squat going, take the picture, take the picture, take the picture, take the picture, the way that I had been. It wasn't like this urgent thing. So the progress of that moment, I'm like, is that all gone now?
I hope not. I had a moment where I was getting into some pants and you know, the, you put your first leg in and it's fine. But that second leg is just very, you know, and I was, I got both legs in really easily. And I was like, Oh,
mm-hmm oh my god the mobility and the stretches are doing the balance work is doing a little something i got both legs yep all right like that was a brag for me a few weeks ago was like i can put my pants on standing on one foot again i haven't been able to do that in a long time yeah like it just went away i don't know why it goes away but it it left
Because it takes muscles. We don't think about it. But balance takes all kinds of small muscles that are constantly being strengthened by different things. And we just stop doing those things. And so then we go to do them and the muscles are simply like... You thought. Yeah. Even the plantar fasciitis when I was trying to balance on one foot, it was the outside of my foot hurt so badly.
And I had to put my other foot down because there was no balancing on the foot that hurt so badly. It was just the ligaments all just being like, we cannot do this, girl. So anyway, so anyway. she basically is like, okay, you can spray paint the floor as long as we're not burning the building down. And he's just like, ah, like that. He takes a half hour to spray paint this circle.
Yeah. They have a little chat too. She wants to know what all her dad had to say. Oh, right.
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Chapter 6: What challenges does Daniel Carpenter face in this episode?
Yes. Which is just fun.
The Flickumbicus, I just keep wanting to be like, you don't get to be mad at Pew Pew Pew if you keep doing this, sir. It's the same thing. But yeah. So he gets this set up and it like takes a moment as he is like empowering the circle. and feels her eyes, like he's looking up at her and her eyes are growing paler and he's like, uh-huh, it already knows something's happening.
And he uses the thoughts of his brother and how much he misses him and loves him, all of the things about him that are very distinctive and how this is motivating Harry to do something that is risky.
Yeah. And I love that he uses this because he says, you know, yeah, I've got plenty of anger and fear to work with, to power, like my magic. But this spell and that couldn't be it. It wasn't all he had, A. And B, there's more to him than just that. And so he purposefully draws on his love of Thomas to I don't want to say counteract, but to like sort of offset.
Yeah.
The anger. To steady him, I think. And the fear. Yeah. And it's really, it's quite, I don't know, it's quite lovely. Because we know that those negative emotions have a lot of power in them and we've seen Harry use them before to great effect, you know. But there's something about, this is so corny. Oh, co-signed.
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Chapter 7: How do the Brotherhood's actions impact the narrative?
Right.
but there's something about powering magic out of love, out of, you know, missing someone out of remembering their good qualities. Like the things he's talking about, Thomas, he's talking about, you know, his, his, his humor, his laughter, his courage. Um, he remembers how he looked when after he had been beaten practically to death. Um,
His whole relationship with Thomas is being drawn upon to power this spell. And it's all the things about Thomas that make him human that Harry is reflecting on. I don't know. I really liked it.
Agree. I like it any time that there's a... Reflecting on a person as a whole makes things feel... more doable is like inspiring is feels like such a, like corny word, but I guess that's it, you know? Um, it's affirming in a way. Yeah.
You know?
So he begins, uh, Bust those light bulbs immediately. Had forgotten to turn the lights out, so they just, like, gone. I really wonder what the fucking people who come to clean this room are going to think, because it's like, there's a fucking circle on the floor, and all the light bulbs are going to be burned and shattered, and it's just going to be like, oh, come on, man. What a mess.
And also, I really don't want more magic going on. Can we just not? We're just barely recovering, y'all. incidental charges on that credit card are going to be crazy right so he begins with hear me hunger I murmured the power I had gathered changed my voice it was deeper harder twisting oddly through the room hear me Lara drew in a sharp breath and her eyes became brighter silvery reflective oh
Oh, empty night. What's happening? You know who I am. You know what I am. Lara's eyes rolled back and she began to shudder, abdominal muscles clenching randomly, rapidly. I have been given power over your kind, I said. And finally, after she's like in what seems to be almost a seizure, he is able to pull it fully out of her. And this thing is super creepy looking. Mm-hmm.
It's super creepy looking. I don't like it at all.
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Chapter 8: What strategies does Harry consider to protect the people at the bazaar?
I've been thinking a lot about this whole star born situation that we just keep getting teased with. Um, And the power that Harry has over the outsiders that he mentions when he's doing the spell. Right. Okay. Weird. And I was thinking about trying to remember about the three walkers. Right. Right. And they are outsiders. Right. Right. And yet, I know Harry had a tussle.
I feel like they are a threat to him. And I'm remembering that they are a threat to Harry in a very specific way.
But if Harry has power over them, what is the... It's not that he has power over them in that it's like you pose no challenge to me. It's that the average... human wizard can't really do very much and he is able to do a lot more than average. So if, so it's, it's more like he has been given a big advantage, but it is not simply.
Okay. So he's not in invulnerable to them. Yeah. He just, he just has power that other wizards don't really have because of the whole starboard situation. Okie dokie.
Yeah.
All right.
Yeah, I do understand your question on this, though, because it is something that, like... I feel like it could be... It could be stated a little more clearly, because there are multiple people out there asking this. And, like, you can... if you go and reread and stuff, there's a bit more that makes it clear.
This isn't just like a free pass where he can suddenly just tell them how it's going to be. But I don't think that it was really framed clearly enough.
Yeah. And I don't know. This is just my guess, but I guess, um, Because Butcher has something in mind and he's just being kind of key about whatever the reveal, whenever the reveal is going to actually happen. So he can't give us too much information because then it'll, you know, blow the whole deal. Right. But the little tidbits I'm getting, it just makes, it's just confusing.
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