Some of our landings were desperate adventures.

We are now prepared to meet the inevitable counter-attacks with power and with confidence. Oh, hello. Thank you for lending your hand. Without your help, I could not have defeated that quartet.

I feel as if I've been in your debt from beginning to end.

Thank you.

With your help, I was able to live as my own person, if only in passing.

But this is where things end.

I pause to even tell you.

But I took out the needle myself.

Tell whoever put you up to this,

that if I am to flower into something other than myself, I would rather rot into nothingness as I am.

Please, let me pass alone.

The scarlet rot rides now.

Worse than ever.

Soon, I won't be more than a mound of flesh.

Curse-laden.

Untouchable.

I wouldn't want such a thing to bring you home.

This is Gary Butterfield.

This is Cole Ross.

And you're listening to Bonfire Side chat.

It is one rod-ass favorite.

And this week we are going to be concluding our discussion of the Hallig Tree and Elfail, the brace of the Hallig Tree.

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