Episode Seven: King in the Labyrinth

Episode description: In which the snake begins to eat its own tail. Featuring: a ghost of a girl.

Episode Overview
Trigger Warnings:


 * Distortion, unreality, injury, manipulation, death.

Mabel calls Anna back.

Episode Summary
Anna's voicemail plays for the first time, and Mabel greets her, saying that she'd received her message. She tells her the parts of the House she should avoid, and then the phone cuts off. It comes back to Mabel having a conversation with someone unknown about generalizing herself. She delivers maybe the most kickass line in the whole first season ("I am not moon and mirror, I am flesh and bone, see? Do you see where I--", though the author of this wiki is also partial to "Strange, maybe, but not strangers."). It cuts off to Mabel singing The Stolen Child by W.B. Yeats. It cuts off to Mabel asking the unknown voice if Anna can hear her, citing The Rules.

It cuts off again and Mabel begins talking to herself about the girl in the mirror she knew as a kid. She then tells Anna a story about the time a fox bit her as a child, ending it with saying that sometimes, when you think someone is in pain and you want to help, they just want to hurt you. She says that she has not been her real self for a long time, and that Anna needs the protection of the house (which isn't haunted, but definitely is a haunting). It cuts off for the last time and she tells Anna to make a yoke out of what the house loves in order to make it fear her so that it will listen to her.

Continuity
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 * Mabel telling Anna to make a yoke out of what the House loves is ironic, because the House loves Mabel more than anything.
 * She's presumably talking to the King the whole time.
 * The Stolen Child is about a changeling, which calls back to when Lily saw Mabel outside of herself one day as a child; though the creators have confirmed Mabel isn't quite a changeling, but something more complex.

Trivia
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 * i love mabel martin so goddamn much
 * seriously that's my girl her voice makes me so happy
 * i'm talking about not-real-mabel realized i should probably clear that up
 * be respectful to the creators fanbase i see what you do with jonny sims
 * if anyone is ever rude to any of the actors they're gonna die by my hand
 * i should go back to bed