Øka spies on Consort Liu. Dewey and Manaia scour the library. Vee gambles her way to the top. And an assassin closes in.
"The Second Stranger" is sponsored by Dmitry (https://twitter.com/DmitryOpines) and ExplainTrade (https://www.explaintrade.com/), a negotiation skills training consultancy; because you can't ask to roll persuasion in real life.
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Content warnings for this episode: memory erasure, flirting, romance, references to sexual entanglements, blood and bloodletting, familial trauma, heights, falling, fantasy violence, and gore.

CREDITS:
Title - “I want a large life” by M. Robin Cook
Music - C.I.S. Music (https://soundcloud.com/cis_music), Fesliyan Studios (https://www.fesliyanstudios.com/), and Soundstripe (https://www.soundstripe.com/).
Album art - Sea Thomas (https://twitter.com/pisharpart).
Podcast editing - Marisa Ewing of Hemlock Creek Productions (https://twitter.com/sassy_composer).
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