Episode Thirty-Four: Reactionary Politics

In which what we consume consumes us. Featuring: a Biblical plague.

Episode description: The house flexes its muscles, more than once, and an unhappy heir demands her inheritance.

Episode Overview
Many girls meet their deaths.

Trigger Warnings

 * Screaming, distortion, unreality, pain, injury, arguments, loud noises, child abuse mentions, starvation, death, corpses, unwilling transformation.

Episode Summary
The episode opens with Mabel (referred to as Subject 7825) being experimented on, presumably during her time at El Segundo. Afterwards, we cut to Anna and Mabel talking about Brandon, assuming he was one of "Aurora Silver's people"; then they discuss the King, and that he happened to help them. Mabel and the House get into a fight, and Mabel screams at Anna before the House moves both of them to the attic. Mabel begins to have a mild panic attack, and tries to apologize to Anna; Anna tells her she's just here to help, and Mabel tells her she's been poisoned before the House begins to scream.

We cut back to Janet, who explains that after she fell in the leaves in the previous episode, she felt like she was drowning in the leaves before the House opened its doors for her; she finds herself in a large room (possibly the Green Parlor?) which is covered in graffiti, including a line that says JANET KIRK MEETS HER OWN DEATH.

Back with the Girls, Anna is confused on why there are locusts everywhere in the attic. The girls get into an argument. We briefly hear an experiment involving someone called Subject 6163 before hearing from Aconite, who talks about bugs and burrowing and her dad. She wishes to devour the kingdom under the ground. Back with the girls, Anna attempts to leave the attic, but the girls make up from their fight and Mabel explains some of the abuse she went through in the attic; they discuss the fact that the House may have eaten Brandon before the House drops his dead body in front of them, which turns into a snake. Mabel panics and repeats that "they're coming back to do it again."

Continuity
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 * This is the first time Mabel is referred to as Subject 7825, though she was revealed to be a former cultist in Aurora Silver is Willing to Wait.
 * Brandon's corpse being turned into a snake (this podcast is so goddamn weird /affectionate) could be a reference to the tagline of King in the Labyrinth-- "In which the snake begins to eat its own tail."

Trivia
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 * The song sung in this episode is "House of the Rising Sun" with the audio reversed, as performed by Maybell Marten.