Welcome to town. Everyone's unique in their own way. Right, Maybe I
should be concerned about your articles. Don't worry. I still doubt that you're
actually human. Just another day and Water's Edge, Season four, Episode four,
off base. Okay, I think I'm done with this set. Oh
okay, cool? What were your answers? I got B, D,
A, B and C. Okay, the first three you were right and
the last one number four? Though I knew I did that one wrong.
Something about having to use pie and answers always messes me up. Can I
see? It looks like you just confused circumference in diameter for this one.
You were right on track, though, on the right track, isn't right?
You've still got time. Don't worry. Three more weeks, right it's
closer to two. Really? Yeah? Time sure flies when your best friend
is forced to hide from a High Council investigator. Hey, I made it
over to your place today, right, sure did? But maybe next time
we just meet at your place? Okay? Teach? What's next? More
of the quantitative section or should we switch to something else? Oh? Let's
see, we should probably practice more of the quantitatives stuff. But I don't
know where? Shoot? Did I ever print out those other sheets. It's
okay. What about the analytical writing portion I did earlier? Should we go
over that? I haven't finished reading it yet. Is it that bad?
No, not at all. I just I can't stay focused lately. I'm
sorry. I'm just all over the place. Do you need to talk about
it? I don't know. A lot of things are just starting to pile
up, and it feels like I can't do anything about them. The investigators
got me stuck inside Juliet and sibilat this crazy plan to find me a crypted
power. And I have to have a serious talk with Shaya about what did
something happen? Oh no, not that kind of serious, like what does
our future hold and where do we want that future to be? Kind of
serious. That's still a pretty big conversation. I actually had one of those
talks with Ben the other day, more about college. But you know,
if this is too much right now, you don't have to keep helping me
study. No, it's fine. Your stuff is important too. What's up
with Ben? Well, he's a junior. He's got time before applications and
stuff, but not that much. A year and a half really doesn't feel
like enough time. To get him ready to leave. I know what you
mean, but he's so smart and I'm sure he'll be able to get some
merit scholarships or sometimes they even have ones for kids without parents. Lone suck,
but they're an option too. Oh, we'll figure out all the financial
stuff. It won't be easy, but it'll be doable. I'm more focused
on the leaving part. He wants to go away and I've never lived alone
before. Oh, well, it's not so bad. You don't have to
worry about someone else being in the shower when you need to use the bathroom,
or leaving the cubs open, or not putting things back the way you
like them. Yeah, there's a few perks, I guess. I think
it just feels a little different for me than it would for you or our
other friends. When you of delone, you probably knew that eventually you wouldn't
write that one day you'd find someone to share your home with. I don't
think i'll have that, Liz. Don't put yourself down. You're wonderful.
You're going to find someone. I'm not putting myself down. I'm being honest.
I don't want to find someone, not the way that you have or
that Francy has in a romantic partner. I've never wanted that, not even
felt it. Do you understand what I'm saying? Yeah? I do.
I'm sorry I didn't know. Don't be sorry. I never told you.
Of course you wouldn't know. I've never told anyone, really, not a
lot of occasions where it's necessary, and being aarrowas isn't really an obvious identity
from the outside. Thanks for telling me. I'm glad you can trust me
with that, Avra. If I can't trust one of my best friends,
who the hell can I trust? You? Know, just because you don't
want a romantic partner doesn't mean you'll never have a partner. What do you
mean? I don't know. There's always the platonic kind of life partner,
someone who wants the same kind of relationship as you, or just someone you
vibe with and is down to buy a house together. I guess I never
really thought of that. Finding a platonic soulmate sounds hard, though. How
about me? You, Francie, Shaya, and Caleb all buy a huge
house together. Instead we get some TV show deal out of it, cryptic
full house. I can see it now, you said the test is in
two weeks, right, do you want me to drive you? Oh?
No, you don't have to. I haven't been going out much, so
Mari hasn't had to hypnotize me in a while. I'm sure they won't mind
doing it that day, and then I'll be fine to drive myself. You're
going to be nervous, though, let me take you. You'll just end
up sitting in the parking lot for a few hours. I'm sure I can
find some errands to keep me busy. Besides, I want to be the
first to hear when you totally crush this test. You know I won't be
getting the results for months, Lizzie, you can see the future. I'm
pretty sure once you take it, we'll have a solid idea of what the
scores are going to look like. Too bad, I can't see the test
questions early. Then I could tell you my scores right now. Oh come
on, you wouldn't cheat even if you could. Yeah, I guess you're
right. So today is the day. As soon as Juliette gets here,
her and Civil are going to do everything they can to pull a cryptid power
out of me. I'm not very excited. Symbols out in the living room
doing god knows what, preparing all these activities and scenarios that she and Juliet
have been talking about for the past week. But I just I don't know.
You think i'd at least be a little excited to spend the day with
them, even if it is doing these silly experiments. Everyone's been so busy
this week, it should be nice to have a few days in a row
with visitors. I've been trying to stay upbeat about it. I just don't
think I can really give it a fair shot, because well, like I
know myself, I know I'm not encrypted. I can't be. I'm the
least special person I know. I always have been just perfectly boringly ordinary,
even when I was a kid. I remember Mom telling me about how when
I was a baby, everything the book said was exactly how I acted,
down to the amount I cried each day and the time it took me to
learn how to walk. I'm a textbook human, and I know that's going
to be a disappointment to Sibyl and Juliet Oprah, Juliette Pier, Okay,
give me one sec. I also managed to grab one of these things from
my dad's office. It measures electrical fields. So maybe we can Avra ready
to do some science or some magic, Let's give it a shot. Where
should we start, Well, let's get the basics out of the way.
A basic power sounds like an oxymoron the simple ones to test. She means
like mind reading or something. Oh perfect, Okay, I'm thinking of a
number between one and a thousand, and that could be a lot of numbers.
Okay, one in a hundred, thinking, still thinking, picking up
on anything. I don't think, so just make a guess. Okay,
fifty seven, No, it was thirty four, So you're not a mind
reader. Maybe you have telepathy. I doubt it. If I had a
power that would let me summon my laptop charger, I would definitely be using
that. Sometimes you need to be pushed to find your power. Reese wasn't
as strong as he is now until he tried to untip a cow. So
you want me to try lifting a cow? Of course not. I'm just
saying we should try to do things that trigger more of an emotional response,
things where you really want the power to happen. If you think it'll work
for telepathy, you need to figure out if you can move things which also
means stopping things for moving. So what if you think fast? How?
What was that a textbook? It was just a hardcover from the library.
I thought you'd at least be able to catch it. Sorry, maybe try
something softer next time. I think your nose is bleeding? Yeah, I
feel it. Should we take a little break? We just started? Yes,
but if all we're stop feeling well, we probably won't be able to
stay feeling fine. Come on, let's keep trying things. You sure?
Yeah? What's next? Do I really have to do this? Do you
want to find out if you have the power to control temperature or not?
Sure? But why do I have to sit in an ice bath to do
that? It's already cold enough in here with a bathing suit on, and
I can't do anything about that. The shock to your system might be enough
to kick start a power of response. Just try it for a minute.
I'm not staying in there for a minute, thirty seconds, fifteen twenty,
but you have to be in up to your neck. No dipping a toe
in and jumping out. Fine, Holy god, that is so cold.
I think warm. Try to change the water around you, force it to
be warm. I'm trying. Has it been twenty seconds. Just give it
a few more. Come on, you can do it. Melt that ice?
Oh, thank god? Who the hell does that? Willingly? Well,
we can cross temperature manipulation off the list. I'm gonna go change.
Okay, we'll set up the next thing. Is there a next thing?
Well, I didn't have one, but there must be more powers we could
test. I don't know, Juliet, I think we might be out of
possibilities. No way, There's so many different types of cryptids with all kinds
of powers. We can't give up yet. We've tried everything that either of
us has ever heard of. She can't heal or shapeshift. She can't read
minds or understand new languages, or change the weather, or affect people's emotions
or connect to other planes. All of her senses are just average for a
human. She's not incredibly strong or fast, or stretchy or durable. She
doesn't have any non human features that would make her encrypted, and she doesn't
have any powers that we can find. I think we just have to accept
that OVAs just no, she has to be encrypted. Juliet. I know
you want to solve all of this. I do too. It would make
it so much easier if Ovre was just like us. But she isn't.
But then that doesn't mean it's the end of the world, though. Okay,
we'll figure out a way to keep her safe and keep everyone in town
safe too, I promise. Oh no, what is it? A summons?
Looks like it's my turn for an interview. That was the gist of
it. After that, I came back into the room and Sibyl told me
about her interview tonight Juliet, and I told her to try to stay as
relaxed as possible so Investigator Estra wouldn't be influenced by any other emotions. Maybe
that'll save me from being doomed. They didn't say you were doomed, Ovrah,
I sure felt like it. They wanted to help you when you were
frustrated that their ideas weren't working. It's understandable, I know, but I
knew this would be a bad idea from the start. I don't have any
powers. You definitely won't show any if you keep that attitude. Do you
really think the pessimism is gonna make a difference. Last time I checked,
you didn't have to be in a good mood to talk to Fish Love I
don't want to argue. I'm sorry, Juliette and your sister made you jump
through a bunch of hoops today just to feel like it was all hopeless.
I never want you to feel bad, but I can't say that I didn't
want them to try. That's fair. Imagine, for all the time we
wasted over the human issue, we found out I wasn't human after all,
Well, it'd make these interviews a lot easier, that's for sure. You
might even be willing to move out of town with me, which would be
pretty ironic at that point. Why well, I wouldn't have to leave Water's
Edge if I was just like all you. No. I know, but
you think I don't want to live with you yet because you're human? Kind
of yeah, why would you think that? That seems to be the only
thing holding you back. When we talked about it before Investigator Estra got Herery
you said you didn't care if it fell out a little fast, and you
didn't seem worried about finding a new job or being away from our friends.
The only other factors that I'm a human or that I'm acrypted that would be
surrounded by humans. I haven't lived in a human dominated place since college,
and there's a lot of bad memories that make it a scary thing to think
about. I love you, though, and if the question was just about
living together, I would say yes in a heartbeat. It matters to you
that I'm human. Though if it didn't, you wouldn't be so hopeful that
I might be encrypted. I was hopeful because it would make our current situation
a little easier. Get this investigator off her backs. I love that you're
human because it's part of you, and I love all of you. I
love you too. Wait, so does that mean your answer is still the
same answer to what the moving question? For now? I think so.
But you're stuck here for at least a few months while this investigation goes on.
Unless I get called for an interview tomorrow. Say you have work,
and when she calls the second time, do it again and again and again
and again. That won't look suspicious. I don't care. The farther way
we keep you from that interrogation room, the safer you'll be. And I'm
not ready to start long distance yet, especially if you're a vigilante on the
run. I don't either, but we may not get a choice. Shay
I love you, but if we want this to work, you're gonna have
to get more comfortable around humans. I don't want to force you to do
anything, but I also don't want to be years down the line living in
a human town where you're afraid to leave the house. That wouldn't happen.
Are you sure? Because it doesn't seem that far fetched to me, and
it doesn't sound very healthy. I didn't know your feelings for me were built
on the condition of getting used to humans. They're not. My love for
you isn't going to change whether you're willing to move out of town with me
or not. But if we have different visions for our futures and they're incompatible,
then well, I don't know. I guess that's fair. I didn't
realize how far off base we were from each other. We're not that far
off. It's mainly the human thing. It takes something normal, like and
I don't know, a wedding. If we got married, what would you
want? Well, I've always envisioned a small ceremony with friends and family,
somewhere near water. Maybe not the beach that feels a little overdone around here,
but something like like a lake surrounded by tall trees sometime in autumn,
so while the fall colors are bright and gorgeous. Yeah, but that's just
one day of a relationship. There's a lot more than that, of course.
There is like kids, if you want them. Oh yeah, kids,
I really don't think I do. Oh thank god you don't either.
No. I love mentoring Juliet, but I can't imagine being fully responsible for
another person. I mean the anxiety alone. I already have plenty of that,
and I can barely keep my three house play it's alive. Oh love,
I could help you with the plants, but no kids. The lad
were on the same page with that. Yeah, the only other sentient beings
I want to take care of our dogs or cats. We'll get one of
each, and maybe a couple of guinea pigs. Oh that sounds perfect.
See I told you we're in sync with each other. I guess we are.
Investigator Kendy Ezra Interview number zero two seven in The Water's Edge Human Investigation.
It is May eleventh, twenty fourteen, five or four pm. Subject
is Sibyl Jane Abernathy, twenty five year old female, gray skin, tall
and slender build, lavender hair and eyes. Please confirm for the record,
miss, that you are Sibyl Vanathi and this description is true. Yeah,
I'm Sybil. My hair isn't always like this though. It changes color with
my powers. My eyes due too. Really, that's incredibly interesting. Oh,
thank you, sorry for the record, Miss Abernathy's eye and hair color
is shifting from purple to a lovely plum color. How do you do that?
It just happens. It's connected to my emotions. Wow, amazing.
Anyway, let's get down to this interview. How long have you lived in
Water's Edge, Miss Abanathi? Only a few weeks. It hasn't been very
long. What brought you to town? Well, I was living in Bluff
with my mother and feeling a little stuck. I don't know if you've been
up there. It's one of my next stops once the investigation here concludes.
It's a really small town, smaller than here, even the kind of place
where the neighbors don't just know your name, but who you had a crush
on in the fourth grade and what time you go out for your morning run.
It's very close knit, which can be nice, but it was starting
to be suffocating. I can sympathize to a degree here in my days,
cut off from human society. But it's much larger than any of the modern
encryptid towns. Really, how many people live there? Oh, gosh it
last count I think it was twelve thousand, four hundred and thirty eight.
I might be a little off that many. And they're all cryptids. Yes,
that sounds amazing. What's it like, I don't know. It's nice.
There's so many different kinds of cryptids with all sorts of powers and talents.
You never have to worry about standing out because everyone so different. So
I'm just another fish in the sea there. It's safe and welcoming. It
feels like home. That sounds like everything I've ever wanted. I'd love to
visit one day. You can't. Why not? Hum a day is extremely
protective of their citizens, so no one's allowed in. If you leave,
you don't get to come back. That's why it's been around for so long.
Oh, but you're here, so they might. Going back to your
interview, you lived in Bluff, moved here for a change, living at
two o two West Stanford Avenue with a miss Avra Nunez Avra, Yeah,
friend of yours. Yeah, we met when she came to visit Bluff last
year. I see, So what have you been doing since arriving, like
in general or work, regular activities things like that. I'm still working remotely
for my mother for now. She's the mayor of Bluff lucien to Abernathy.
Ah, yes, her name has come up in my notes. Yep.
Besides that, it's just been hanging out and meeting some neighbors, the usual,
that's all. No hobbies, projects, group activities with other residents perhaps,
Nope, nothing very exciting. You're lying to me. I don't think
I am. That's a lie too. What's going on? Why is your
hair changing back to lavender? What does that mean? I'm just nervous?
Why what are you hiding? Nothing? I just Abernathy, I need you
to Can you stop calling me that it's just Sibyl? Sibyl, you're doing
something, something that means enough to you. It is taking up enough of
your mental energy to tip me off to your casual lie. Have you ever
heard of old magic? Wait? You're an old magic user? How I
haven't heard of anyone practicing old magic outside of Hugh and Moday for centuries?
Am I in trouble? No? No, of course not that's incredible.
I can't believe you were able to figure it out. Are you good?
Strong? I don't know. A couple of my friends have tried out some
of the simple stuff. They struggle with it, but they can do it.
But you're stronger. Yeah, this isn't at all related to what I
should be questioning you about. But could you show me? I mean,
I don't know if I This isn't some gotcha. It's nothing to do with
the case. I just my best friend growing up was an old magic user.
She was incredible, could do things you would never imagine were possible.
She and the other strong witches of her time were unlike anything I've ever seen.
And then it died out. Do you know how to do old magic?
I know the principles behind it. I remember some of the spells that
she used to use and how they did things. But most of what I
can remember from the books she left me, books like plural Yes, pages
and pages full of old magic. If I show you, can you teach
me? You want me to teach you. I want to get better and
I think your books could help. I'm not sure. I mean, I
can't even remember the last time. Okay, I'll do what I can great,
So what do you want to see first? Thanks for listening to Season
four of Cryptic Cape off Basse. The show is created and produced by me
Victoria Pereira. I also voice Avra. The voice of Lizzie is Christina rose
Hargis. The voice of Sybil is Caroline Byrne. The voice of Juliet is
Amy A. Sabato. The voice of Shaya is Angelique Fustipchen. The voice
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