Welcome to town, Avra. I'm gonna bother you for the greater good of
cryptic kind. I guess you didn't tell them everything. Then it's not a
bad idea, Okay. I think we're gonna need a change of plants.
Season five, Episode one, Watershed. Everything is wrong in Water's Edge everything.
Over the course of barely two weeks, every aspect of this town and
my life in it, has been turned on its head. Every crypted inexistence
knows who I really am, a human bringing doom, and a large percentage
of them probably wish the Kendy went through with their plans, and I live
in a town full of them for now, at least that may change once
the High Council gets a hold of me. As soon as they found out,
the High Council ordered the WPD to lock down the entrances to the island,
meaning that everyone commuting out to mainland jobs or school has to go through
daily checks to get in and out. They also called for a meeting with
representatives from all the crypted Cape towns, of which they'll be presiding over in
our very owned city hall two days from now. Can't wait. Town officials
around the world were promptly filled in on all the shit that's happened, the
discovery of the prophecy, Kendy's investigation and turned to our side, my humanness.
And now they're all here in some capacity waiting to have a meeting about
something. The High Council hasn't been very clear on what this all town gathering
entails. They refused to tell Kendy anything, though she doubts that they'll bother
trying to erase my mind again at this point, Well, that doesn't really
give me the comfort I wish it did, and I'm still here. Somehow,
I think I've convinced myself that this prophecy has to be true, and
High Council must believe it too, because there's no way i'd still be here
sitting in my office at the weekly just waiting for them to show up if
it weren't for the hands of fate. That's it. Case closed. We're
all doomed, and yet I still have deadlines. I'm staring the end of
days in the face of my life falling apart around me, future completely uncertain,
and I have to pretend like everything's fine so I can keep getting paid.
I have to cover the High council meeting, as if I'm not the
reason it's happening in the first place. I mean, it's not like anyone's
going to read it. No one's going to buy a paper written by the
human that's ruining their lives. Why am I here? Why haven't I ran
yet? I mean, Jenkins wouldn't stop me. Shiah would come with me.
Most of this town hates me, or at the very least doesn't trust
me. There are a million other places I could go where my life would
be just as normal as before I moved here. I would blend right in
and have a boring job and a regular paper with humans that are just as
not special as I am. I wouldn't be on the verge of a panic
attack every time I go out in public, from all the side eyes and
whisperers and pointed looks. I would get away from the near constant danger I've
been in for almost a year now. So why am I still here?
Hello? Avrah, you said you'd be home by now. I need help
making stuff nice for my mom and Reese. I don't know where you keep
the pin sal I don't own pine and saw Sim. I don't even know
what that stuff does. Shya said you two had it under control. I
thought we did, and then civil started panicking. It finally said in that
my mom's going to be here, the first place I've ever lived on my
own. She complains enough about my room back home, and she'll be in
a mood from flying. The last thing I need is for her to question
me living on my own and trying to convince me to move back in.
Breathe, It'll be fine. It's offs house anyway. If she doesn't like
anything, just blame her. Wow. Thanks, you keep the house super
clean and nice off. I love living here, really, but Lucinda notices
everything. Not that there's really even anything to notice, since everything's so great,
but she'd find something even if it wasn't really there. And it's okay,
I was joking. The house could stand to be a bit cleaner.
I know. I think it's great how it is. Then why are we
still cleaning? Well? Because it's fine, sib, I know what you
mean. Living clean and parents visiting clean are two very different things. What
else is there to do? Gotta mop the floors, clear out some room
for Reese's blow up mattress, take the garbage out, clean the oh my
god, the roast. I never put the roast in. It's in the
oven. Should be ready at seven thirty sharp. Really, Oh you are
life saver? Shya? Hello? Hello? The party squad is a rive,
boy, not the party squad, Not tonight? Why not? Reese's
coming to town. The whole gang's back together? Are plus my mother?
Loosen the can party? I mean, speaking of the whole gang? Where's
off here on the phone? Still at work? Well, you better get
your butt over here soon, or we'll be hosting a party at your house
without you. It's not a party. I'm finishing a little more work and
then I'll head home, I promise. Oh. I know for a fact
you're not doing anything productive with the High Council in town. But that's not
true. Really, what have you gotten done since they arrived yesterday? I
changed the layout on page three and then I changed it back. Sounds about
right, Come on, off, we brought Charkouerie. Well I can't say
no to little cheeses. I'll head out in a minute. Yay. Oh
thank god? Seeven? If you love drive safe, we'll do see you
soon. I guess there are some good reasons why I'm still here. Oh
my god Reese. So what did you end up doing? Well? I
gave her a form. I mean it wasn't the right form, but I
mean she got something. And then I got to figure out why someone was
submitting information but a law bird on a small business tax document. I might
not have been the best choice for your replacement. So hey, half the
time I didn't know what I was doing either. Isn't that like all jobs,
new ones, at least fake it till you make it right, unless
you're a nurse like Shaya, and then you probably shouldn't do that. That's
what residencies for. Well, I'm glad to see everyone's in good spirits despite
the circumstances. Me to bring down the mood. Mom, someone needs to
address the elephant in the room. I think we're doing a fine job ignoring
it. Hey, maybe I should make a little elephant trunk to wear to
the High Council meeting. Embrace it. It's nothing against you, Avra.
I'm glad that you folks all seem to be faring all right on the surface.
But is everything still you know safe? Mom, We're fine. I'm
just concerned for you, all of you. This whole High Council business and
the demon possession with that poor girl, it's a lot. How was she
doing, by the way, Jacqueline was it? Her name is Juliette,
juliet right right? I don't really know. Actually, after her possession,
I made sure she was physically all right. But you know, that was
almost two weeks ago. Offers usually in touch with her most usually. I
haven't seen her since everything went down. Actually Ben had her and mar over
a couple of nights ago. I didn't talk to her much, but she
seemed fine all things considered. Oh that's good, Thank goodness. I can't
believe we're dealing with demons and sea monsters and towns being exposed, and this
whole prophecy with we have a cake? Should Should I go get the cake?
You make cake? No? We bought a cake, chocolate, strawberry.
Oh I'd like some cake, me too? Do you want help with
it? Sure? Everybody want a piece? Reese? I probably shouldn't allergic
to strawberry. Oh my god, I completely forgot. It's okay, I
don't need cake. How about I go grab something else? Oh? No,
Auvrey, you don't have to No, no, I insist, I'm
not gonna make you sit here and watch the rest of us heat. But
really you don't need to big pie right peach, blueberry apple or something like
that. Mm I do love a blueberry pie. But really it's no buts.
It'll take ten minutes, not even you want us to come with you.
I've got it. I'll be right back. Excuse me, sir,
Can you tell me what i'le the salad dressing is in? Yes? Oh,
hey, guys, what are you doing here? Just thought we'd surprise
you during your shift and we had this, a new weird flavor of orios
watch stocking frutios of fun. Did you expect my restocking job to be exciting?
I guess not. How's it been so far? Nothing crazy, which
is honestly a nice break from everything else. I've only had a few shifts
though. Discover any dark secrets about the world of grocery stores, Not yet,
but I don't know if there are many, you'd be surprised. I
read an article once about all the ways grocery stores secretly manipulate you to make
you buy more. Does it explain why they cycle through the same fifteen songs
every hour? Actually it does. It has all to do with the oh
what's wrong? Hold on, why are you hiding behind the restock cars?
I saw someone I don't want to see right now? Who was this?
One of the High Council members. No, keep your voices down. It
was Ovra. Why are you hiding from Ovra? I'm not hiding. I
just I haven't seen her since everything happened, since I gave up her secret.
Oh right, it wasn't you, Jules. That's what thus had.
You possessed. Avra knows that, but getting possessed was still my fault.
Not really well, I still feel guilty for it, and I just don't
want to see her right now. If you talk to her, I'm sure
everything would be fine. Yeah it's Avrah, I know, but Juliet see
later. Ben, come on, Maury, where are we going? We're
leaving. We haven't gotten the fun oreos yet. We can get them later.
I didn't walk all the way here to not try the very smoothie oreos.
Juliets, come on, they're like two aisles over. Fine, m
I don't see them anywhere. They must not have them. Oh well,
let's leave, not so fast. They might be on an end's cap.
You go look down there. I'll check the ones in front, Marie,
I want to leave, not without my orios. But I, oh my
gosh, I'm so sorry. I wasn't looking for going in Ovra. Hey,
how are you? I haven't seen you since in like two weeks we
postponed mentoring. Yeah, have your parents changed their minds yet about what you
said? They weren't happy with the mentoring because of all the Oh right,
yeah, not yet. Sorry, Okay, you know, if your parents
don't want you associated with me, you can tell me. I understand.
Why did you say it like that? Like what? Like weird? I
don't know, because I don't know what's going on with you. You never
listen to your parents rules. If you've really wanted to keep meeting up,
you would have figured out ten different ways to do it already. Well,
I don't know why you'd want me around anyway, since I ruined your life.
That's what this is about. Well, duh. I don't know how
many sories are required for making a deal with a demon that exposed your deepest,
darkest secret and threatened your life and ruin everything. But I don't think
there's enough time in the average pixie life to save them all. I just
assumed you'd want me gone, Juliet, I don't blame you for any of
this. Well you should. I fucked up really bad, so did I.
It doesn't matter. I forgive you you do of course. Also,
as your mentor, it is my responsibility to scold you for cursing, especially
in a grocery store. That is fucking unacceptable. Sorry, I was avoiding
you. No more sorries, No need to dwell on what already happened,
when there is plenty we can worry about in the present, like finding a
pie and getting back to the party. I'm avoiding Who's party? Who send
in Reese's or mine? Kind of? I don't know they're here, arrived
earlier today. Yeah, I thought Lucinda and Reese were nice, at least
from what Sybil said about them. Oh, yeah, they're great. It's
just it's a little hard to be the current event of the century, I
guess. Oh yeah. Every conversation comes back to the meeting or the prophecy
or Kenny's investigation. I needed a break and a pie. Looks good.
You were going to talk about the meeting, weren't you. I don't have
to, It's fine, you're going. I think I have to you.
Yeah, I managed to convince my parents to let me skip school. Impressive,
and to do that. They think it'll be a good lesson on how
political systems work in times of crisis. They also like it when I support
my friends, so they aren't upset about me being a human. I go
to school with a bunch of humans, Abraa. If my parents had a
problem with it, they probably wouldn't have let it happen. I don't think
your classmates are prophesized to be your doom though. They don't believe in any
of that stuff. They're pixies, but they also both work in stem They
aren't the kind of people to believe in fate, or at least not the
kind of can't change jewels. We found them and was hiding them from us.
I was not. I barely know where anything is here. I'll let
you get back to your friends. Okay, good luck with the party,
Thanks, abrah Yeah. Would you have time for a mentoring thing next week?
Yeah? Yeah, I'm sure we can figure something out. All right,
My mom is gone. Time to break out the alcohol. Cheers to
that. I'm at had been concerned about the way you handle stress, my
love, especially considering it seems hereditary. Hey, but we could talk healthy
copy mechanisms after this week's over. Let's see if Julius is still willing to
have me as a client or else. I'm going to have to find someone
else to trauma dump on. That's why we're here. You guys are my
friends, not my therapist. We can be both for now, as long
as that goes both ways. Because I need to vent corred ahead. I'd
love to hear about problems that aren't my fault for once. Excellent, because
I am so completely done with my dad's stupid restaurant and with Roxy. I
thought she wasn't involved anymore. She wasn't. That ship sailed in my dad's
mind when the human hunt started, and now that he's seen how bad Ovres
had it over the past couple of weeks, he definitely doesn't want anyone from
our family involved in stuff going on in Water's Edge, especially not Roxy,
who's Roxy Francie's sister, one of several that made my life a living hell
for sixteen years. Oh, come on, you love Roxy? Not right
now? She was talking to my dad about the restaurant and my plans on
how to run things when I actually take it over at the end of the
summer and she had some issues. Well, she did go to culinary school
and minored in business, so yeah, she's perfect in every way and clearly
the better option. Yeah, we get it. But she calls my dad
and tells him about all the ways I'm fucking things up and why everything I'm
planning is going to fail, and why she's the way better choice to take
over the restaurant, And then they both call me to explain how business works
is if I don't basically run hopping Water already. Wait, so do you
want to run the restaurant or No? No, absolutely not, But ROXY
can't either, and no one else or my family can. Dad isn't going
to retire until he can leave it to one of us, and I'm the
only one. My dad's getting older, and I don't want to be the
reason he has to keep working. But Rock he knows all of this,
And no, she can't run the place herself because she's human. So instead
she's just telling my dad all the ways I'm going to destroy his business from
the inside out because I'm not his perfect daughter who went to culinary school.
Oh that's rough, and not getting to see Caleb during like the three days
we weren't on citywide lockdown is just the cherry on top of this garbage Sunday.
I know it's nothing compared to the bigger stuff we're dealing with, but
it's not nothing. It's a lot and it sucks. Hey. Maybe whatever
the council decides to do will make your dad consider bringing your sister back in.
Maybe, But that sounds like a long shot. Hey, sometimes long
shots hit, like my job interviews. Wait, what did you get a
job? Well, not yet, but I did get asked to interview for
three places. I know we're supposed to be venting, but I just I'm
so excited. Lizzie, that's great. Congratulations. Yeay, it is so
nice to hear some good news. Where have you been applying to? Oh,
lots of different places. Some entry level stuff in local government on the
mainland, a few activism groups that are pretty big in the area, the
census. I've got some interviews lined up for two of the local government ones,
and then one for administration work at a group that helps worker unions when
they're just starting up. That sounds really cool. Yeah, fingers crossed on
that one. Oh, I hope so I'm also hoping that working on the
mainland won't continue to be such a hassle Ben said that just getting to school
is taking almost half an hour longer each way because of the island checkpoints that
were set up. Of course, now that I finally got my o Brews
under control and don't have to deal with surprise visions, there is another thing
making it harder for me to find a place to work. So they can't
keep that stuff up for long. Yeah, once the High Council is gone,
it'll go back to normal. It's not like they can cut us off
forever. What about you, Reese, What have you been up to besides
terrorizing everyone who needs anything done at the Mayor's office. Of course I got
the hang of it eventually, kind of, although I cannot wait for you
to get back. Your mom likes things done in very particular ways, and
I never know what those ways are. Usually she likes things done the right
way. Okay, I try, it's just not for me though. It's
not for me either, but I don't know how to break that to her
yet. But seriously, how have things been back home? Well, they've
been all right. Rebuilding efforts are still going strong. And the town's looking
way better for it. We got some residence in from calmar Lock, like
you guys did, and some of them have decided to stay permanently, so
that's brought some fun new people to the area. We have a good fish
and chips place now, it's just it's so good, and they serve a
full Scottish break fist on the weekends, Big fan. Everything was actually settling
down well until recently. People in Comralock knew already though, didn't they.
Some of them knew that Ovrea was human, mainly missus Webber, but I
don't think people really believed her, and the people who did weren't really concerned.
After you left, none of us knew about the prophecy stuff. Though.
We don't have to talk about this if you don't want to, Ava,
No, it's it's fine. Wait. So at dinner, Lucinda mentioned
that you guys got fed the whole spiel from the High Council. Did all
of Bluff get that too? At first? Just Lucinda and I did,
and I barely got in on that meeting the council. Let Lucinda spread the
word after, but we were the only two to directly talk to them.
You talked to the council. Yeah, what are they like? Hard to
describe. There are a group of fives, but they're all of some ancient
type and claim they've been alive long enough to see the rise and fall of
the last age of cryptids. They said, the same warning signs are all
there, what with intercrypted problems like Nessie and Lygia, exposures like comra lock,
and they're really convinced that Ovre's causing it all. How they know she's
human? What are they claiming she can do? Even if ov was encrypted.
It's not like any of us would be able to raise a sleeping monster
or convince Lagia to kill people. And Avra obviously didn't go to Scotland to
expose comra lock. They think your presence is causing some sort of imbalance.
Av They want a clear separation between crypted and human communities, like zero interaction.
I mean they're from hun Maday, I guess that's obvious, but they've
been against it from the start and have been monitoring all the towns since their
foundings. But it seems impossible unless we want to figure out how to do
literally everything on our own. He and Midday has been able to do it
only because they have a population thirty times the size of ours. They must
have some plan they aren't sharing. They definitely do. Lucinda tried to get
them to talk when we were on the phone with them, But the High
Council is kg with their plans. Not sure why, but they aren't saying
a thing until that meeting tomorrow. Did they say anything about what they're planning
on doing with me? What we all know if they came all this way
here, they're not going to just leave me be. I'd rather know now
if they're planning on offering me Alfrah. I'm just being realistic. They're not
going to kill you. Lucinda asked about what their intentions were with you,
and they said they had a plan. That sounds bad. Not necessarily,
the High Council knows you're an important piece in this whole doomsday puzzle. They
won't just get rid of you. They probably want to use you, or
at the very least see why you're affecting things the way you are. Yeah,
the main question is how or where do you think they'll bring me back
to human day. I don't know. All of this is just assumptions off
of the cryptic things that they were willing to tell me. Sybil probably knows
more about it than I do. Why me, you're close with that investigator
now right? She hasn't said anything to you about it. We're not close.
I mean, Kendy was just helping me learn magic, that's all.
I haven't even talked since that day at the hospital. You haven't, No,
Why is that surprising? Do you talk to Roger every day? Well?
No, but I thought, never mind. Wait have any of you
talked to Kendy since then? I talked to her briefly, like week and
a half ago. I haven't heard anything since. Why do we even know
if she's okay? Like I know, we don't love her, but she
did go against her hometown and her scary superiors to save your life off.
No one's seen her around town. Nothing that doesn't sound good. Maybe one
of us should. I'll get it. Were we waiting for someone else?
Not that I was aware of? Hello? Um, can I help you?
Is this the nun Year's residence? Can I ask who you are?
First? My name is High Council Member Aloovo. I'm here on behalf of
the rest of my Council to talk to avrahnun Yez. Is this her residence?
It is, but she's busy at the moment. Can I pass on
a message? And who are you? Her roommate? Fine? Tell Ava
News that she is required to be at the All Town meeting tomorrow for its
duration. She's also required to sit in a pre marked spot in the front
row next to a traitorous former investigator. If she does not arrive on her
own accord, we will ensure she attends regardless. Okay, I'll pass that
along. Thanks for listening to Season five of Cryptic Cape Watershed. The show
is created and produced by me Victoria Pereira. I also voice Avara. The
voice of Sybil is Caroline Byrne. The voice of Shaya is Angelique Fortgen.
The voice of Lizzie is Christina rose Hargus. The voice of Francie is Breaking.
The voice of Breeze is Kyle Gaze. The voice of Lucinda is Lynn
Pereira. The voice of Marie is Odd and Fistual. The voice of Ben
is Kymr. Feed. The voice of Juliette is Amy A. Sabato.
The voice of the High Council is mckennamana. Our story editor is Jennifer Wong.
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