Hey y'all, this is Heaving Buzums, the podcast where two best friends recap romance novels

while exploring all over Splash Mountain and giving lectures on orc culture.

You're going to love what we love, do what I love, do our love, and left you hear a mean cliphanger.

Rathgar had just gotten Jiva to be very vulnerable in front of all of his kin, and then he called her easy and cheap.

I still don't think I've recovered, honestly.

So when we jump in, she's obviously crying in a bathroom you know

like what else is one to do

love it out And so she leaves the latr

She goes to the latrine to like, you know, cry and wipe her netheres.

And then he shows up.

And he's trying to comfort her, right?

He's trying to apologize.

He's like, I didn't mean to hurt you.

And then he gets on his knees and goes to kiss her in her netheres. And she's like, no, I don't want this. Like,

I don't want you to buy my affection. I don't want you to pity me. And like, this isn't genuine.

Well, because we found out that day two, I'm sorry, just for context, we found out that one of the ways that he survived out in the world was trading sexual favors with women for shelter. So he said that like he would have sex with them and they would give him food and a place to sleep. And then he would stay there until

either they got sick of him or he couldn't stand their demands anymore. Yes, that's the

important context here because she's like, I don't want to be just another of those women. I don't

want to be those women at all.

Like that is not how I operate.

And then he tells her, this isn't like that.

This isn't that at all.

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