Episode Twenty-Five: Chimera

In which the past pays our heroines a visit. Featuring: new observances, new struggles, new arguments, news reports, and a visitor.

Episode description: Two's company. Three's a crowd.

Episode Overview
As others react to the strange case of the Martin House, Mabel and Anna meet a new party member.

Trigger Warnings

 * Death, missing persons, conspiracy theories, blood, arguments, distortion, murder, screaming, crying.

Episode Summary
As various news reporters and podcasters throughout the county report on Anna's mysterious disappearance, Anna and Mabel hide in a hidden bower while several unknown voices turn on their recording microphones.

As Anna and Mabel argue in the bower, they receive a surprise visit from Anna's doppleganger, who has brought herself back to life using mud and twigs to fix her broken body. She tells Anna that Mabel killed her, and Mabel-- scared Anna no longer trusts her-- tries to plead with Anna. Anna cuts Mabel off and tells her that she knew about the murder already, and tells the doppleganger to thank Mabel for giving her the chance to forge herself before asking Mabel if she still needs Anna to tell her that she trusts her. Mabel and Anna share a brief nice moment before the doppleganger tells them that she's named herself Veratrine, after a poisonous flower.

Veratrine tells Anna and Mabel that the reason she came to speak to them was to gain their help in overthrowing the King, who she believes created her and cursed her into life without gaining her permission. The last thing we hear is the sound of the Court in revelry, which Veratrine and Mabel explain to Anna is the King's ball/party.

Continuity
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 * Veratrine gains her name-- and her self-- for the first time in this episode.
 * The King did not create Vera-- Luna Thorne did. Vera... changes her tune on hating her creator after figuring that out.

Trivia
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 * Season four is the first series with more than one main speaker-- seasons one and two had Anna, and season three had Mabel. Four brings together both the Girls with Subzero Chill and Veratrine as main voices.