Jaran has a heart to heart with Gentle. Gentle confronts Bud's co-parent. Citlalli peers into the Adamverse. And Øka parts ways with an old, angry friend.

"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: romance, flirting, references to sexual entanglements, grief, funerals, death, depression, monsters and monstrosity, fantasy violence, blood and bloodletting, gore, complex and complicated relationships, descriptions of food, and eating.

CREDITS:Title - “summer, somewhere” by Danez Smith.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 - Sea Thomas (https://twitter.com/pisharpart).

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