Episode Nineteen: La Peregrinación

Episode description: Mabel goes...somewhere.

In which the present eats the past. Featuring: several terrible discoveries.

Episode Overview
Mabel heads to the graveyard to attempt to contact the people who Anna works for.

Trigger Warnings

 * Unreality, manipulation, screaming.

Episode Summary
Mabel decides to make a deal with the House in order to go to the graveyard-- she promises to always come back to it, and in return it appears to let her leave. She goes wandering down to the graveyard, getting stopped by a strange man and scaring him away.

She ends up at Sally's grave, talks to Anna about how she feels about being back in the land above, and compares the journey to Anna's own trip in Pilgrimage. She sees Anna's heart (???) on the back of Sally's grave (???) and calls it beautiful.

Afterward, she asks the woman who works in the cemetery to use her phone; using the phone from the outside, rather than the phone in the House, allows her to call the King's County Home Help association to ask about Anna. They say that Anna has. come right back to work after a brief wave of absence, which leads Mabel to realize Anna's been replaced by a changeling.

When she hangs up on the company, she goes back to Sally's grave and realizes the world around her looks flat and empty. She then realizes, horrified, that she hadn't left the House at all-- she's still inside it. The entire graveyard is a facade the House made to keep her inside.

Continuity
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 * Mabel's journey, as mentioned, is a direct parallel to Anna's in Pilgrimage. "La Peregrinación" literally translates to "the pilgrimage".
 * The piece of code hidden in the transcript from this episode is "share."

Trivia
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 * Mabel's fake name, Nadezhda Stark, means "hope" and "firm/unyielding". It's Slavic.
 * Mabel says her "siblings" (the Court) gave her a flower bracelet that she wears to remember them. It can be assumed that she's referring to a flower that's physically growing out of her wrist.