Episode Fourteen: Legacy

In which all bonds are strained against. Featuring: that secret you've been nurturing like a black seed, the fear that hovers at the edge of your sleep, the promise on the tip of your tongue.

Episode description: Anna and the house. The house and Anna. Anna, is there anyone home? Anna? Anna?

Episode Overview
Anna makes one last desperate play.

Trigger Warnings

 * Suicide, death, animal death, loud noise.

Episode Summary
Anna learns Sally has left her her house and an inheritance; it is paid to Anna like her wages were, essentially indenturing Anna to the house. Anna then finds a strange book that has a recipe for opening doors, as Thomas mentioned in the previous episode. Despite it being literal poison, Anna drinks it after a frankly spectacular monologue. The episode ends with her body falling to the floor.

Continuity
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 * Anna's fine. She's fine! She's just dead now. But that doesn't really matter in this story.
 * This is one of several episodes which reference Shakespeare.
 * Mabel later mocks Anna for wanting to be normal due to the moment Anna speaks of in this episode.

Trivia
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 * "The dying and the rising" concerns the rebirth of gods, I think.
 * Anna's incantation translates roughly to "darkness, darkness, darkness."
 * Anna's poison includes wolfsbane (Aconite) and moonflower seeds (datura).