Episode Four Point Five: The Message

Episode description: In which nothing further is revealed. Featuring: the writings of a lost man.

Trigger Warnings

 * Body part replacement.

Anna has a dream and finds a note.

Episode Summary
Anna finds a note with a segment from the Ballad of Tam Lin, with the name "Thomas" replacing "Tam Lin."

''“Had I known, Thomas,” said she, “a maid would ransom thee, I’d have taken out thy two grey eyes and put in two eyes of tree. Had I but known, Thomas,” she said, "Thomas, if I had known, I’d have taken out your beating heart and put in a heart of stone.”''

She then tells Mabel about a dream she had where she was stuck in a tunnel; the tunnel's floor was covered in small bones and had LISTEN written on the wall. She found a three-way fork in the road, labelled FAITHLESSNESS, FEAR, and "THE CAGE IN THE HILL IS A CAGE OF BONE." She cuts off before she tells Mabel what she chose.

Continuity
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 * Anna later accuses Mabel of faithlessness while stuck in the underhill.

Trivia
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 * The exert from Tam Lin references Thomas, of course, but Tam Lin's heroine is usually named Janet. Her name mirrors a certain adventurer within the podcast.
 * Tam Lin was also originally referred to as Tom a Lin, according to some sources, so that might be relevant in terms of his name, too.