Episode Twenty-Eight: Matryoshka

Featuring: something lost, something found, one secret among many.

Episode description: A girl inside a girl inside a house inside a hill. Or is it the other way around?

Episode Overview
The House eats its beloved girl.

Trigger Warnings

 * Beeping, distortion, loud noises, gore, screaming, arguments, unreality.















Episode Summary
Mabel begins to monologue while stuck inside the House's inner workings, talking about following the thread. In the normal House, Anna and Veratrine discuss something Veratrine insists Anna is hiding. Back in the cult area, the Unknown Voices freak out over losing the recording of the King's voice.

Mabel continues monologuing, saying that she's sure she can find her way back out, and then the audio cuts to Luna, discussing motherhood, clearly speaking about Veratrine. It swaps to Veratrine, talking about Luna. This continues, and then cuts to Anna and Veratrine, who speak for a few seconds before we cut back to the Voices, who have now definitely lost the recording. Mabel, still stuck, calls the House "Sally" and fights with it. Mabel hears a repeating echo-- "she said I'm going into the ground for you", Anna's first line of the entire show.

Anna realizes if she rips open her own skin, the House will open to pull Mabel out, and does so. Vera and Anna yank Mabel out; Anna and Mabel both worry over each other for a few minutes. Anna promises she'll give the House anything it asks for so long as it helps them; the last piece of audio is Anna monologuing about the multiplicity of her relationship with Mabel before ending on a Shakespeare quote: "Do you know what the next line is, Mabel? After ‘paste and cover for our bones’? It goes like this: for God’s sake let us sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the death of kings. [LAUGHS] This story will be a lot of things, but never that."



Continuity
''' Please note that this section contains spoilers for later episodes of Mabel. Continue at your own risk. '''


 * Matryoshka is a turning point in the series-- it's the first time Vera and Luna realize they're in love with each other.
 * The Shakespeare referenced is the second half of a line Anna originally reads in Datura.
 * The multiplicity angle is presumably a small reference to Infinity Mirror's upcoming storyline.















Trivia
'''Please note that this section contains spoilers for later episodes of Mabel. Continue at your own risk.'''


 * There's morse code hidden throughout points of this episode: it translates to "DID YOU EAT ME LIKE A SEED? / I MUST HAVE DREAMED YOU, GOD-OF-ME. / YOU OBSESS MY THOUGHTS. / SWOOPING LIKE A GREAT BLACKBIRD / MATRYOSHKA GIRL, DOUBLE DEVOUR." (as translated by Jam of the underhill server! <3)