Voska struggles to speak to Kostas. Gentle wanders a familiar hall of mirrors. Abiku and Øka question what it means to live, to die, to live again. And Dr. Oluso wanders ever deeper.

"The Second Stranger" is sponsored by Dmitry (https://twitter.com/DmitryOpines) and ExplainTrade (https://www.explaintrade.com/), a negotiation skills training consultancy; because you can't ask to roll persuasion in real life.

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Content warnings for this episode: complex and complicated relationships, romance, flirting, references to sexual entanglements, memory loss, amnesia, loss of sapience, vast and unknowable depths, heights, falling, drowning, monsters and monstrosity, and body horror.

CREDITS:

Title - “the flag and the shore” by Kerry Downey.

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