Your listening to the second and final part of unexplained Season 6 Episode 30, The

Inextinguishable Fire.

Having successfully routed the English Army on May 4th, two days later on May 6th, 1429,

Joan led a small army to storm two more English forts, both of which were also successfully

captured. That evening, with the door fans army now having gained the upper hand in the battle

for all the aunt, Joan and her fellow soldiers enjoyed a riotous dinner together.

Spirits were high as father Jean Pascarrell, who by then had denoted himself as Joan's personal

chaplain, took a seat by the godly child. It was hard to deny the wave of optimism that had

swelled through the ranks since Joan's arrival, but as Pascarrell gazed around the room,

he was troubled by the look on Joan's face as she stared off into the middle distance.

What is it, he asked? Joan, who seemed to be in some other place entirely, finally snapped out of it.

Tomorrow, she said, Blood shall flow from my body above my breast. I will be wounded by a shaft,

but I shall not die of it, and I will remove it with my bare hands.

Pascarrell could only stare at her in disbelief. She'd been right before, there was no reason to doubt her now.

At the time, the city of Aulion sat on the north bank of the Laoir River. By May 6th,

the English army had been forced to consolidate most of its forces at two major points on the opposite

side of the river, a large, tormented gate house known as La Turelle, and a large, earthen rampart

known as Boulevard. The French army was planning an assault on both of them for the following day.

However, news of Joan's unnerving vision soon got back to her military superiors,

with victory and the soldier's morale so finally in the balance, it was decided that Joan

should stay behind at the camp, less the unthinkable should happen, but Joan ignored their orders,

by the afternoon, the assault had been progressing well, as all about, metal clashed on metal,

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