The world is born today. Today, for the first time, two creatures of the low worlds, two images of Malalil that breathe and breed like the beasts.

Step up that step at which your parents fell and sit in the throne of what they were meant to be.

It was never seen before.

Because it did not happen in your world, a greater thing happened, but not this.

Because the greater thing happened in Thulchondra, this and not the greater thing happens here.

This is Pints with Jack, season eight, episode 19, Paralandra chapter 16.

I have seen Ares in Aphrodite.

Welcome friends to Pines with Jack, your favorite C.S. Lewis podcast run by three

Thucandrians, Andrew, David, and myself, and for a change, we are all here.

Yay.

And more excitingly for all of us, it is not the morning.

Woo-hoo.

Which means the beverages are most likely going to be quite different.

I can only speak for myself, but I am feeling optimistic, gentlemen.

How are you all doing?

I'm doing well.

I actually wasn't meant to be here today.

I was meant to be in Chicago on a business trip, but then my train got castled. And it takes unbelievably $750 to fly from lacrosse, Wisconsin to Chicago. So I've been doing it all remotely. So I was just going to let you guys take this on, but here I am anyway. Yay, wonderful. I was prepared to take on the mantle of

Batesian rigidity. I even texted ahead of time being prepared, but another time, another time.

Yes. Well, I was so sad to miss last time. I'm in the season of job interviews. My three-year residency program

ends in June at Church of the Messiah. And so I'm in active talks with my bishop and with my

canon to the ordinary, this kind of the CEO of the dioces to find my next job. So I had an interview

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