Welcome to town, Avra. I'm going to bother you for the greater good
of cryptid Ki. 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 plans.
Season five, episode seven, regrouping. Making us go to school today
should be a crime. Yeah, this sucks. We were so close to
fixing everything. It's not fair. We weren't close. We never had a
chance. The High Council just didn't bother to tell us until after we did
all the work pretty much. Well, well, what what's the backup plan?
Don't look at me. It's over or stuck, forced to live in
one of these tiny shutof towns for the rest of our lives. That's it.
Well, no reason to bother going to school then, right, you're
saying you want to ditch Why not? I mean you don't have to convince
me, but I think jewels here will in what wait, seriously, no
point in going to school if all we get to do with our lives is
live inside of bubble. Let's get out of here. You sure we're okay
to be here? It's a nice day, and anyone could come by and
tell our parents who were skipping let them? Who cares? Are you all
right? Jewels? Do you need to talk? Talking doesn't fix anything,
might make you feel better, That isn't helpful. Hey, what if we
have a brainstorm session on our next plan the breakout of this thing. I
don't cheer you up. I don't need cheering up. I need you guys
to realize what's going on. You're treating this like a fun little puzzle.
Ooh, how should we try to trick the High Council this time? Let's
put all the clues together and find the solution. But there is no answer.
This is some cute little game that has a satisfying conclusion where the good
guys win. This is our real lives, and we had a chance to
fix it, but we couldn't. Don't you get it? Of course we
get it. Whim miserable too. You don't have to remind us. You're
acting like our lives are over. Sure, the shroud isn't great, and
none of us want to be cut off from the human world, but we
can still live our lives. You know. I was looking into the College
of Monorino's online program for computer engineering. I think it could work out really
well for me, Do you guys remember nothing from our history classes. When
civilizations are small, practically everyone has to devout all their time and energy to
just getting basic necessities to survive. My parents are both high level scientists on
the mainland a few weeks ago, and now my dad's organ ration shipments and
my mom is farming with Miss Lopez. If we're all bously worrying about how
to get clean water and keep our roads from falling apart and producing the electricity
without help from the human world, they aren't gonna let us build websites or
design cloths or be an investigative journalist. We'll just have to do whatever the
High Council tells us forever. So this is what you want to do,
Throw a pity party because I'm not interested and I don't think that the Juliet
I know would be either. Well then maybe you don't know me that well,
guys, we shouldn't fight. We're a team, oh are we?
Like how we were a team when Juliet was hiding the fact that she was
possessed for weeks? And whose fault was it that I got possessed in the
first place? You are the one who wanted to talk to Sallo. Guys,
it doesn't matter who did what. We're friends. Oh shut up.
You were never supposed to be part of this in the first place. You're
only here because Juliet is hopelessly in love with you. Mar Oh, come
on, you really think he hasn't caught on yet with the way you're constantly
fawning over him. Give me a mar stop it whatever, I'm out of
here. No, wait, we need to meet too. Wait jewels,
Hold on, Hey, Liz, what kind of tea do you want?
Whatever? Well, do you want caffeinated urbal something else? I don't care.
Hey, I know you're in a shit mood, but I'm trying to
get you out of it, and you've got to help me out a little.
You have like one hundred different kinds of tea. Just point me in
the right direction. What do you want to forget that last night ever happened?
Oh God, I've been there before. Let me see. You're more
of a fruit or a floral kind of person. Fruity, aren't we all?
I know this vote thing feels like the end of the world, but
it's not. No, we hit the end of the world a few weeks
ago. This is prerogatory. Now. I had a chance to get us
all out and I couldn't, and that is absolutely not your fault. The
High Council set us up to fail. That's why I'm sad. I went
to all this trouble to try and change things for the better and put in
all this time and effort, only for it to be completely useless. It's
like my job search all over again. You're looking for a new job.
I found one after finally passing the ged and applying forever and jumping through all
the hoops, I finally got an offer at a place on the mainland.
All that time and effort wasted. That sucks, man, I'm sorry,
but even though it feels like wasted effort, you still got a hell of
a lot accomplished while the shroud is still up. So well. Yeah,
but the High Council knows how much people hate it now, and them there's
a number for how much of town is against them, and that might make
them think twice about doing the same thing to other towns. Maybe I shouldn't
be complaining about this, especially not to you. Why not do I seem
like the tough en up sport type. You're not even supposed to be here.
Ouch. Oh no, I didn't mean that. Relax. I'm just
messing with you. But you're right. I should still be on the outside
with my mom and my other siblings, with my human friends. I don't
really like to think about it. Sorry, but that's what I mean.
I don't really have anyone on the outside to get back to. Then why
are you doing all of this? It would help the community and my friends,
and it's the right thing to do, and I can do it,
So I can't just not You're too good of a person. I don't know
if that exists. Oh, it definitely does. Your friend group seems to
have a few of them. Just don't become so good of a person that
you sacrifice your own needs for someone else's. It never goes well. Speaking
from experience, Maybe so you are too good of a person then too Oh
god, no, people were too good to me. You deserve good things,
though I don't know about that. I've done some bad stuff, like
what littered, stole a pack of gum ou did my brother has a crypt
manipulated people to get to the top in college. I've been doing a gross
amount of backstabbing in the years since Francy to live here, and I did
such a great job making sure he'd hate me for the rest of our lives.
I guess I found my calling. He doesn't hate you, Oh,
yes he does, and I don't blame him. I was half the reason
he left. Well, I'm pretty sure the other half was Caleb, and
Francy certainly doesn't hate him. Maybe you two should just talk. According to
the High Council, we're going to be stuck in here for a long time,
so might as well make the most of it. Where do we even
start? Well, you could start with talking and trying to keep it at
a non yelling volume. Seriously, though, sibling relationships are hard. Oh
hi, speak of the devil. What are you doing home? It's barely
eleven? I thought you'd be at average or something. Well i'm not.
Why aren't you at school? I didn't feel good, bullshit mar Juliet,
and I ditched class ben ooh rebels. Come on, Liz, today is
awful. I'm not gonna listen to some trig lecture when the world's falling apart.
I know today sucks, but that doesn't mean you can just skip school.
Oh come on, Liz, you really gonna tell me you never played
a little bit of hooky back in your high school years. I dropped out.
Oh well, then you owe him a few days at least. All
right, just this once, but you better have called in fake sick.
Oh yeah, Mar's great impersonations. Good to know. That's the tea you
want some, Ben, looks like you might need it. Sure, Oh
everything sucks, tell me about it, but we're gonna figure it out.
We always have, right, Yeah, is something else bothering you? Mar
and Juliet had a fight. Oh, I'm sure they'll work it out.
Everyone's a little high strung right now, but they're good friends. But Juliet,
she doesn't seem like herself anymore. She hasn't for a while, but
it got worse today. Not like herself, like possessed by a demon again.
No, no, she just seems off. I don't know. I'm
used to this, like bubbly happy Juliet. But before the vote she was
all stressed and angry, and now she just seems so sad. Being possessed
by a demon sounds like a pretty traumatic experience. Ben. Maybe she just
needs some time to process everything. It hasn't even been two months, but
what if she never shakes it and Mar's been weird too, showing up super
late to stuff if they show up at all, answering the phone days after
I text them. Mar and Juliet are my only friends here at I don't
want them to hate each other. Even if they did, that doesn't mean
you have to stop being friends with either one of them. Yeah, look
at your sister with me and Francie still BFFs with both of us. Since
when did I get promoted to best friend status? Hey? You let me
crash on your couch for like a week. Now we're best friends for life.
I'd die for you, bitch. There is another thing that makes stuff
complicated. I think Juliet likes me. Ooh druma. Did she tell you
that? Mar said it when they were yelling at each other? And how
do you feel about that? I mean, it's Juliet. I've known her
since we were kids. You're still kids kids, and now she's one of
my best friends. Well do you like her? I don't know. Maybe
I never thought about it, but it shouldn't even matter, because if we
dated, we'd eventually break up and then hate each other and not be friends
anymore. Well, you don't know. That's what would happen. It is
what happened to my brother and Caleb. See, but they got back together
and then the shroud tore them apart forever. I don't know what to do.
This sucks. Cheers to that. Holy shit, what the fuck is
going on? She's having a prophecy. Do all her prophecies? Burn down
your apartment. It's not real fire. You're fine. Just at what seems
the darkest night, magic breaks and nights the light with two halves joined and
power great. The wall shall fall and alter faith. Well that changes things,
Avra, Avra, are you ignoring me? Are you actually not home?
If you don't answer, I'm gonna come in. But it's only because
I'm concerned for your safety, because I respect your feelings in privacy. Okay,
I'm coming in, Avra. Oh, I guess she really didn't come
home last night. Damn it. I really need to talk to her.
I have to talk to someone about what happened between Kenny and I last night.
I can't talk to Kenny because well, I'm not ready for that yet.
I mean, she told me she loves me, and we decided to
fight the High Council. So we could be together and I kissed her?
But what if I did the wrong thing. I know I love her,
but what if my emotions have been affecting hers and she's actually just mirroring me.
What if I unintentionally manipulated her into thinking she loves me, and then
I kissed her and messed with her head even more. And if I didn't
manipulate her feelings and she genuinely loves me, that might be even worse.
She's gonna be taken away in a week to be the High Council's forever prisoner,
and we're on plan like Jay at this point, to try and stop
them. Why does Auvar talk to herself all the time? It only makes
you feel worse. I could just call off. She probably spent the night
at Shaia's house or something. Ugh, she's your sister. Why can't you
just call her? There's nothing weird between you, patched everything up and it's
fine. God, I can hear Kenny's voice, Sybil, you're lying.
I know that there's tension between us, and I don't know how to get
rid of it. Well, maybe I do know what it's from, But
then getting rid of it means cutting off whatever I have with Kenny, which
may happen anyway. I just can't accept that though. I have to do
something, find a way to break through the shroud or stop the High Council
from taking Kenny away something, after all they've put her through. I've got
to try. But how coming? Oh Hi, Kendy? Hello? Simple?
Can I come in? Hello? Welcome to Oh Hi? Hey?
What are you doing here? I'm on shift this morning, I know,
but I was hoping we could chat. I've got stuff to do. We'll
should be back soon with today's perishables. Well he's not back yet, right,
come on, it only take a few minutes. It's Wednesday morning.
You're not getting any customers in for a couple hours anyway. Fine, what
are you doing with the menus? Oh? I was trying to figure out
a nicer way to black out the stuff that we don't have. The expo
marker keeps rubbing off onto people's fingers. So you're using pattern tape. It's
called washy tape. And yes I am, although I'm sure you have a
better idea. No, I like it. And the colors go with the
border design. Yep, what's this? Nothing? Relax? What did you
write down? All your darkest secrets. It's just an idealist. I was
bored last night and I tried to think up some new menu options and take
advantage of what rations we've actually got access to. These actually look kind of
good, not good enough for your menu. It's not my menu. Well
it's not Dad's anymore, and it's sure as hell isn't mine. It's art.
Oh yeah, like this restaurant is ours. I'm just another one of
your employees, except you get to yell at me all you want. I'm
not yelling. Look, I'm trying really really hard not to get pissed off
at you again, because that's not what I'm here to do. Then why
are you here to fix this? What happened to us? We used to
be best friends. You know what happened? I guess I do, and
I know that outing it was a terrible mistake and I'll regret it forever.
But I was a kid. It's been six years, Franz. You managed
to forgive Caleb. When are you gonna forgive me? Maybe when you apologize.
I have apologized. No you haven't. You've made excuses and said it
was a mistake and you wish you could take it back and all that other
bullshit. But you've never said you're sorry. You never say you're sorry because
you aren't. Yes, I am, No, you're not. You can't
even say it right now. I'm sorry. I'm sorry I fucked up and
gave away your secret when we were in high school, and I'm sorry I
didn't tell you that then and just assumed you would forgive me if I gave
you time. I'm sorry that when you moved away to live with Dad,
that I didn't fight harder for you to stay and make you feel like you're
still at a home at Mom's house. And I'm sorry for not staying in
better contact after you left. I'm sorry for going over your head with the
whole restaurant thing instead of taking Dad's worries and your dreams into consideration. I'm
sorry for being a shit older sister, Fancy, I truly am. You're
not a shit older sister. I kind of am. Well, then I
guess I'm a shit little brother. I'm serious, though, I know how
much you've wanted to take over Dad's restaurants since the day he opened it.
Trying to cut you out of it just because you're human was very not cool.
Of me, and I'm sorry. I think we've both been stepping on
each other's dreams for this place. Nah, I think I've just been ruining
it for the both of us. I never wanted this place rocks, you
don't. I always thought it would go to you, and that was totally
fine with me. I never wanted the responsibility of running a large staff.
I like to creative side of food service, like making new fruit syrups or
trying out wild espresso drinks, not keeping spreadsheets about food supplies and making sure
everyone gets paid on time. You went to business and culinary school for a
reason, and I did not. So you're saying you don't want to run
the restaurant. Absolutely not. I only agreed to it when Dad and I
thought it was the only way to keep it in the family when it got
dangerous for humans to be here. But now you're here and you don't even
have the option to leave. And I was just holding onto it because I'm
afraid of what Dad will think. France. You know, Dad's proud of
us no matter what we do. Yeah, and that's the problem. I
mean, it's great to have supportive parents, but he's always been the one
to react super proud to even the smallest things. How do I know that
any of it is even real at this point? Yeah, he does tend
to do that. He reacted basically the same way to when I started a
part time tutoring job in college as to when I actually graduated with honors.
See what I mean. I just feel like if I go back to only
being a barista, he'll think less of me, even if he never says
it. Did you ever consider that maybe the reason he's always so proud of
us is because we're doing things that make us happy. I never really thought
of that. He said it yourself, France. We're stuck here, probably
forever, although who knows, maybe we can franchise in the other Cape towns
once they're under the bubble. We should do what makes us happy, though
we've already lost most of the people we love, so you might as well
find a way to fill that void. I guess so. I miss Mom,
me too, an the others. I wish I could talk to you,
guys Moore. I think it's been over a year since I've spoken to
Penny, really, so you mustn't have heard about her new job, new
job. Oh my god, Yeah, it's wild. You want the short
version or the long one? Yeah, well it's a Wednesday morning. I'll
take the long version. Thanks for listening to Season five of Cryptidkke Regrouping.
The show is created and produced by me Victoria Pereira, I also voice Opera.
The voice of Ben is Kaim Morphine. The voice of Juliette is Amy
Ossabato. The voice of Mari is Odd and Fistul. The voice of Roxy
is Amanda Manheim. The voice of Lizzie is Christina Rose Hargas. The voice
of Sibyl is Caroline Byrne. The voice of Kenny is Leanni Watson. The
voice of Francy is Aubrey King. Our story editor is Jennifer Wong. Our
cover artist is Kit Dupre. Our folly artist is Isaac Rodriguez. Our transcriptionist
is Rebecca Writer. Our website designer is Kyle Boyer. Our theme song is
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