09x06 - Confessions Within Cumulonimbus Clouds

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Calm down into depths of no.

In.

Baby.

Nah.

Mm.

Yeah.

Yeah.

No, wait.

Please stop.

Yeah.

I thought maybe I'd never see you again.

But I knew if I waited long enough that you would fall.

Just like I did.

It's. It's really you, right?

When I saw you in the market, I.

John.

How did you find us? How are you.

The Rusted Knight? And when did you get so? I'm not sure. Uh.

What happened in Atlas after the rest of us fell?

Oh, I guess we've all got a lot of catching up to do.

She's got two relics now. And with

cinder the ability to get another.

She doesn't know where the beacon relic is.

Well, there's that to be thankful for, at least.

We lost Atlas and the relic.

But we got everyone out safely. John said so we risked..

Their home to save the relic, and we failed.

Getting everyone out has to count for something.

What good is saving anybody if Salem just destroys the world anyway?

That's how Ironwood thought. You don't mean that.

Are you done? We need to move before the weather turns,

or it's going to take us a lot longer to get to safety.

There will be plenty of time to

lick your wounds later. Come on.

So where are we going again? My village.

I still can't believe you made it all

the way from the Crimson. Keep on your own.

Not on our own. We had help. Oh, I hope the cat is okay.

What? Cat?

That cat.

Ha ha ha! I found you. Why is it you

always find the thing you're looking for

in the very last place you look? John.

Oh, my. It has been an indeterminate amount of time,

hasn't it? So how have you been?

Wait, you two know each other? Well,

they'd have to from the story.

Oh, John, I think there's a misunderstanding.

The cat can get us all out of here.

We don't have time for this. We've got to get to my village.

Don't worry, we don't need a guide.

But your friends wanted to go to the tree.

That's where you're letting them take you.

Well, yeah. That's. That's how Alex got out.

Right? She didn't tell them anything? No, that's simply not true.

I told them plenty of things. A

few anythings and lots of somethings.

Can somebody please make sense? That tree is death.

It absorbs you, takes your memories, and turns you into something else.

If you go there, it's going to erase you.

They call it ascension here, but that's really what it is.

Wait. The tree is what causes ascension.

That's what got the herbalist. The roots of the tree.

Pretty curious that you neglected to mention that. Oh.

Excellent penmanship, but you are not from here.

It won't do that to you guys. Oh, yeah.

Then what happened to Louis? Who? Alex's brother.

That. That can't be right. She had

a brother. Why didn't you mention him?

You never asked, silly. It was always Alex, this and Alex that.

We've been following this story the whole

time, and it's not even true.

Let's go. I've got a plan. A lot

of good that's done. You have to. What?

How many years can.. Everyone please stop?

A lot to take in, huh? Looks

like we're stuck at a crossroads, then.

Oh! Damn it! Welcome to a thunderstorm.

A weather pattern that creates a physical

manifestation of a mental or emotional problem.

So we appear to be at a metaphorical and literal crossroads.

How perfectly stupidly ever after in this place really is the pits.

The only way out is to resolve

the problem or wait until the storm passes. Let's just get moving.

Oh, okay. I asked for that. Where's Yang?

And Blake must have had something bigger to work out.

We need to get to that platform.

But how do we take.. The next step?

You know this would go quicker if you make up your minds.

I just don't get how the story is both real and not.

It all happened.

Just not the way Alex said when she wrote it.

So what? She just lied. You have no idea.

I waited for you to fall for years,

but somebody else showed up first.

It was Alex and her brother Louis, two siblings from remnant.

I told them I was from there too.

I was waiting for my friends. Once I started helping them,

it didn't take long for me to figure out I was in her story.

I was the Rusted Knight, but things

weren't always the same as the book.

Like Alex. She wasn't just a little petulant or. Inconsiderate.

She was selfish.

This whole world was

simply make believe and the rules didn't apply to her.

Louis was the kind one, the clever one.

We went places she didn't mention in the story. Like the herbalist.

Something changed there. Whatever he said to her.

She wasn't the same after that. She lost

all trust in us, started accusing us of things.

The more I tried to get the story

back on track, the more she distrusted me.

Was it my fault? Did I change the story?

I couldn't even be the make believe hero.

I didn't have time to make it right.

The Rusted Knight drank the poison in her stead.

She said she wouldn't let anyone get

in the way of her leaving, that she'd do whatever it takes.

And then she was gone.

So. Not exactly my favorite story anymore.

I'm so sorry. Wait. Why don't you trust the cat then?

The cat's role in the Ever After.

I figured it out later when the cat

came back for me once Alex left.

either to keep performing their role or to go

to the tree and get a new one.

The cat calls it healing, but it's manipulation.

The cat was never helping Alex or you.

Their purpose here is to feed the

tree to keep the cycle going.

How can you be sure? Because the

cat took Alex and Lewis there.

Only one of them made it back to our world.

When we're together on that platform.

Uh,

is it a password or something? Together platform. No luck.

I'm sure you'll figure it out, though. You're good at that.

You think so? Well, yeah. You've got a really good brain.

Okay. That did something. Uh, I talked about you. So.

Um, you have cat ears?

I think your cat ears are cute.

Nailed it. Even though I don't know what it is yet.

Maybe it's saying things we never said. To each other.

I think you're an extraordinary person.

You're. Always the first to light in a situation.

You act bravely when you're afraid. You do what you say.

Try to keep up.

I like that you've never been intimidated by me.

Even when you didn't like me all that much.

I was a little wary of people in general,

but you never gave up on them, even when they hurt you.

You never give up. You know what matters to you.

Let's make this quicker. Any big truths?

We haven't dropped on each other yet.

Did you? Just think of something that didn't say it.

That can't be what this is about.

It's like. A cliff. And if I do it, I'm just going to.

Fall. I think we're already falling.

Just. Say it. Yang.

I think I love you. I love you too.

And when you see.

Oh. How odd. This time you were in the first place.

I looked rather than the last. John told us.

No, I thought there was more to the story.

You're accusing me of something. Same page.

Now you're the one who gives afternoons to the tree.

Why haven't you been telling us the truth?

When afternoons get all higgledy piggledy, I help

them return to the ever after. Yes, but you're not after.

I'm not taking you there to ascend.

I'm taking you there because you all

have such delightful information for me.

You pretended like you'd never heard of

this story when you met us. But John had already told you.

I think old John's maybe a few

sand berries short of a picnic these days, wouldn't you say?

What happened when you took Alex and Lewis to the tree?

I, I don't know. She had told

me she'd take me with her through the door to remnant,

but.. She tricked me. Just.

Just like all of you. You only want to use me in the same

way I've only seen others as sources for knowledge and entertainment.

Well. At least now I know what not to do.

We just want to get home. Thank

you for this lesson. Ruby rose. Huntress.

I'll be on my way now. Stay with your friend.

Did we miss anything? It feels like

I've been waiting forever for that. Come on.

Hey, there's something I've..

Been holding on to for you. It was

the first thing I saw when I was falling.

Years later, when I finally found it. I knew I'd.

Ruby.

Hey.

I. Uh. Thank you. Sean. Don't mention it.

Sean. What did happen to Louis?

I think Alex traded him to the tree in order to leave,

and then she wrote him out of the story.

Not everyone.

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It.