Listen in as we discuss chapters 1 through 6 of 'The Knight and the Moth' by Rachel Gillig!

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Chapter 1:

• Gargoyle and a fly, statue with a coin, inkwell, and oar(?), a chime, a loomstone

• 5 maidens, gossamer cloth over their eyes including her name by number, all on the wall to watch the new king

• One of them chucked her apple lol, main MFC drew the short straw to be the one to dream.

• Knights and boy king called them diviners, only eyes she's seen were gargoyles.

• Sexy angry knight, dark brown eyes, she calls him out on speaking disrespectfully to a daughter of Ashling

• Gargoyle calls everyone Bartholomew lol

• Thin robes 😳, oily water with rotting flowers

• The boy king paid for a last minute divination

Chapter 2:

• She drank his blood 🤢

• Girl is definitely in a cult, main boss lady retells a story, sprites 💀 everyone, a child drank from spring and began to dream (I think the girl drowned?)

• 6 Shadowy figures with stone objects that tell stories, the figures/gods are called omens, 6th is a pale moth with no stone item, presents near birth and death

• Dreams of each Omen and relays what she sees the stones doing, for the boy king, he was not favored by the omens

Chapter 3:

• Memory of being a little girl, there were 100 girls, did they drown 100 to find those that could dream? Only 5 other girls, renamed

• Gargoyle woke her, she's sick, walked to a stone cottage

• Boy king staying at the spring, she goes to the dining hall and walks in on a half naked knight and the king

• King took the spring water, she ran, knight chased her

• He thinks she is sheltered, going to be especially noticeable after she his her tenure

Chapter 4:

• One of the girls slept with a married man, they are expected to hide their hearts like their eyes and names.

• She slept with a man who was terrible in bed so now she is more reserved than the other girls

• 6 wants to sneak out, she goes to the knight, Rory?, to take her to truam.

• She sternly tells the knight to be a good little soldier and escort. My. Diviners

• Royalty left, many people at the cathedral and they only chose those with the most money

• I think they are headed into town?

Chapter 5:

• Girls smoked all of the idle weed lol

• Their so stoned one girl says they look like the statues in the court yard

• A group of knights show up to be paired up with a diviner so no one gets lost. Rory noticed who she was and she let out the rest of the smoke she was holding in 😂

• Reminder they are doing this because she caught them with spring water

• Paid up with a different sexy knight, female?

• Sprites like creepy pixies, they knocked one out

• Ugh out of no where she sleeps with one of knights in the grass lol, he made a comment about banging a diviner..ick

Chapter 6:

• They are in a town with many tents, kings castle?, lots of coins

• Someone grabs her, tries looking at her eyes, rory knocked down the man 😏, makes her believe he was going to 💀 the man as a joke to her

• Rory ask where the other knight is, he, shows up with everyone, they tease how quick he was 🤣, Rory whispers he hopes he was deferential, punches the other dude

• Dancing, lol the girls started dancing nude??, the king dances with her

• Knights game, Benji challenges rory, if benji loses gets chased nude hahaha, rory loses he must get a divining

• One jumped in for a punch, king calls for the pretty one and rory looks at six (sickeningly adorable!!!!!), Four goes for a kiss, Six literally picked him up and fell with her on top of him, I think he was actually pissed