Bonus Episode 2 - What of the Sea?

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🗓️ 15 November 2014

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

A letter arrives with a strange inscription.

This episode was co-written with Marta Rainer.

Weather: "Ruins" by Morteth (youtube.com/user/Morteth666)

Music: Disparition, disparition.info

Logo: Rob Wilson, robwilsonwork.com.

Produced by Night Vale Presents. Written by Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor. Narrated by Cecil Baldwin. More Info: welcometonightvale.com, and follow @NightValeRadio on Twitter or Facebook.

Transcript

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0:00.0	What of the Sea by Marda Rainer?
0:05.5	This happened, then this happened, then this happened.
0:11.4	She got a potential invitation.
0:14.5	It was stuck in between the mesh and tin brace of her screen door,
0:19.7	with her name boxally handwritten on the front of the envelope.
0:24.4	Across the seam of the back of the envelope was written the acronym
0:28.8	S-W-A-C.
0:33.5	And no reference was made to its sender.
0:36.5	Sticky, wet letters.
0:40.5	She stood at the entrance of her bungalow,
0:43.1	plastic bags of recently purchased groceries at her feet,
0:47.0	and pondered, turning the envelope in her hands
0:50.7	and occasionally meeting her nose to it,
0:53.9	to sniff her clues as to its origins.
0:57.5	The air was too chilled to glean much information from it that way.
1:02.2	It deadened the senses.
1:04.7	It was meant to.
1:06.9	Sealed with a kiss, she knew.
1:10.2	Signing something S-W-A-K, but S-W-A-C?
1:17.5	What did this sea portend?
1:21.0	Once a thing is opened, it cannot be closed again, not really.
1:26.8	Hasn't that been proven time and time again in this town?
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