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Episode 005: Wolves at the Supper Table

Episode 005: Wolves at the Supper Table

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 A seventeen-year-old girl walks through the door of her family's tenement, and her nine-year-old sister nearly knocks her off her feet. It's been one day. She left this morning for her first day of work at an Edinburgh fashion house, and she's come back a different person. She's spent the last twelve hours learning to press silk and keep secrets. She's watched a noblewoman pass hidden documents through a dress fitting. She's been told that the last apprentice who asked too many questions simply vanished. She's walked home through Edinburgh's closes with the distinct feeling of being followed, a stranger's perfume clinging to the air behind her. And now she's standing in a cramped room that smells of peat smoke and beef stew, with her little sister's arms around her waist and the weight of a world she can't explain pressing against the inside of her ribs. She's going to have to talk about her day. She's going to have to lie. That's the moment.
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