Episode Thirty-One: The King Speaks

In which the dark, at last, is given voice. Featuring: a voice from below the world.

Episode description: 'What would the dark do, without fevers to eat?'

Episode Overview
The Lord of the Underhill speaks his mind.

Trigger Warnings

 * Distortion, corruption, loud noises, screaming, colonization, captivity.

Episode Summary
The King possess Anna's body in order to speak his mind while Mabel freaks out. The King speaks to Aurora Silver, who is trying to find him, and tells her the story of how he and Luna became the Lord and Lady of hell. He says that, when he pictures someone who wants him, he does not see Luna-- he sees a different person, someone "made of angles, an aperture of lightlessness, a smiling mouth..."

The episode finishes.

Continuity
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 * The King's love, and the song Anna sings in this, are references to the ballad The Daemon Lover. This poem is again referenced in Temporal Snake.

Trivia
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 * This is the beginning of Anna and Mabel more fully understanding who/what the King is. It also canonizes that Luna and the King were not romantically involved.