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Welcome to My vertical Obsession. And today we are talking
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about call Me Alpha, which is located on short max.
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And when I was looking this one up, this one
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had two other names to it on short Max. One
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of them is my dustined Alpha Mate and the other
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is Stealing my Icy Alpha, and I don't remember those
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being names for this one, so it was very interesting
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to see that. And I've kind of noticed that a
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little bit on short Max is that some of the
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older ones that I watched kind of have duel names
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or they have put out not two different versions, but
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like two different cover photos for the series. There are
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a couple that have two different versions. They're the same story,
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but they kind of like added some added some scenes
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in there, or changed the opening. And I've only kind
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of really noticed it on short Max, especially with one
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of them. And I went back and was looking at
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which was like marriage to my Alpha, because I remember
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there was two different ones for that one, and how
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it started was different, and that kind of always confused
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me how that happened. But it's also kind of interesting
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to watch them both and be like, Okay, well, what's
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different and did it actually change anything throughout the storyline?
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And while I have not watched the one the other
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ones for this one, only really watched They Call Me Alpha,
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because that is the one that I remember. I may
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go back and watch the other two and see if
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anything has changed. I kind of just wanted to stick
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to the one that I knew for this review for
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right now, but now that I know that those are
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out there, I kind of want to check them out
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and see what has changed or what they might have
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cut out slash added in, because I think when I
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was looking for this one, I stumbled on it was
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my destined Alpha Mate, and the way it started was
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a little bit different than when I opened or played
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the one that I know, which is Call Me Alpha.
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That's the one that I remember watching, and so there
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are some differences, and I guess I'll probably go back
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and check them out and see what they might have changed.
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But this is one of the ones that I first
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saw Seth in this I think this was also one
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of his first ones, if not his first one, but
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I'm not sure, but I just know that it was
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the first one that I saw with Seth, so I've
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kind of followed him since this particular series. This one
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was always an interesting series to me. Because it was
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a wolf were wolf story, but it introduced this type
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of wolf called a steeler, and I don't think that's
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ever been played in a series since, so I don't
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know if this was just kind of like made up
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for short Max and they kind of like we're the
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only ones that were going to use it and keep it,
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or if it is something that is within where wolf lore.
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But I kind of liked the concept of the steeler.
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It's the whole point of the steeler wolf. They were
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kind of like a rogue wolf, but they had this
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ability that any male wolf who had recently lost their
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mate would think that she was their mate and destined
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to be, which could complicate things because that wasn't true.
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But if she was to find her true maate, then
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she wouldn't steal or be stolen away. I think that's
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how it was said. Yeah, it says that, you know,
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she had to find her true mat or any widow
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or maid would think that she was their true love.
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But if she found her true mate, she would not
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be stolen. And of course after she found her truemate,
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which was Aiden Seth's character who was the Alpha, he
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refused to claim her because she was a rogue, and
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he didn't think that she was I wouldn't say worthy,
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but strong enough to be Luna. So we kind of
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kept her at arm's length and wouldn't claim her, which
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of course kind of complicated things because now if she
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was to interact with a wolf who happened to be
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a widower, they could see that she is their true
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love and it would just cause chaos, which ended up
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happening when she met with Titus, who is one of
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the border patrol wolves under Aiden. He had just lost
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his wife and a Shira, who is the Steeler and
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Aiden's mate, was going to offer her condolences and talk
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to him as Luna of this pack. But when she
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met with him, he realized she was a Steeler and
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he was drawn to her, but he knew that she
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was not his wife and she would she would never
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be his wife, so he wasn't trying to take her.
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But her bodyguard, who was good friends and part of
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the pack and part of Aiden's loyal wolves, was there,
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saw this, realized she was a Steeler, and Shira convinced him,
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don't tell Aiden. I'll tell him myself, but I got
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to do it in my time. Basically, of course, Aiden
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ends up finding out in the worst possible way, and
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he is upset with Seth that he kept this from Aiden,
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and he kind of punished a Shar a Shira by
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locking her in her room and not letting her leave
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or go anywhere, But he ended up kind of bringing
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back realizing that she wasn't trying to trick him, that
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she did love him, and that it wasn't a ploy
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because his family had issues with steelers before, and his
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cousin was the son of a steeler, so he had
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issues with steelers, and that's why he was very upset
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when he realized that a Shira was a steeler because
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he thought that this was all just a game. It
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happened with his father and his uncle, I believe, and
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how that all went down and then went to complicate
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things more. Another pack kept causing issues, which was Elon,
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who was the the pack alpha, and I wrote it
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down and I can't can't read what I actually wrote
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as their alpha their pack name, but he was causing
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issues and trying to upset this peace treaty that Aiden
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was trying to put into place with all the different packs,
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and Elon eventually attacked Aiden's pack with rogues to distract
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him so he could kidnap a Shira and kind of
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turn her against Aiden. His original plot was to have
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a Shia have his baby, but she was already pregnant
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with Aiden's baby, so instead, when he talked to his mother,
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she was able to give him this potion that would
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cause a Shira to forget Aiden and think she was
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in love with Elon and that that she was pregnant
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with their baby. So in a sense, it was how
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a Steeler was stolen, which was something that a Sheer
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was warned about, is that a Steeler could be stolen.
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She did not want to be stolen, but this potion,
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since it was magic, she couldn't fight it. Then in
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the end, with the help of the Wolf King, he
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was able to bring a Shira back to Aiden, so
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that way she remembered him and that they could be happy.
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The only thing was is that their baby had this
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strength because he was an alpha and she was a Steeler,
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and it would be this strong and powerful alpha, so
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that the alpha wolf King would take the child's strength
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in order to bring back Shira's memories of Aidan and
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their love. And Aiden took that deal because he wanted
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a Shira back, and he felt that this was the
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only way the baby was not to be harmed or killed.
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It just happened that this powerful strength that this child
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would have would no longer be something that the child
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had in the end, and a Shia understood that, and
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she was not angry with him for doing that, and
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it kind of ends with the two of them happy
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and watching over their baby. And also one of the
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things that it ended with, which was very weird because
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I never saw follow up, was that it said that
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there would be a season two, which is not something
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these series do. I've never seen a series actually do that.
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I think the only one only ones that I've seen
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since are Taming the Heiress because it actually said part
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one on Candy Jar, so you knew that there was
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going to be another part. Plus it was similar to
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The Arrangement, which is another series that they have, and
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that one had four parts to it in the end,
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so I think they were kind of following it up
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with that one with the multiple parts, and Taming of
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the Ears only ended up having two parts, which I
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feel like maybe they could do more, which I would
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I would actually really enjoy if there was more to
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that one, and then the other one that I know
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off top of my head that I've seen is Love
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and Blood, which said coming soon or not coming soon,
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but to be continuous. So those are the two that
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I know off the top of my head that had
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some that said that there'd be more to come. And
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this one was like an earlier one because it came out,
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I want to say, in like twenty twenty three, around
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the same time of True Luna and Atticist Fawn, you know,
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the unwanted bride of Atticist Fawn. So I think maybe
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they planned to have more for this one, but they
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just never did. But I don't know. I just remember
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that and it still shows when you play the series,
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it still shows, you know, season two coming soon, but
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I've never seen a follow up to it. Also kind
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of curious how they would follow up to that one,
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because I mean, it ended happy, it ended on a
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good note. There was no real cliffhanger to that one.
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I'd be very interested to see how they would continue
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with that one. So one of the things about this
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series that kind of always confused me, and I've always
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had this question and rewatching it, it reminded me there's
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this one scene that always kind of confused me in
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this series, and when I rewatched it, it reminded me
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of it. I always had that question. So when Asher
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and her friend Lucy are kind of running away because
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Lucy's in a terrible relationship with an Elpha and she
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wants to escape, and Shira said that she would help her,
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so they're running, but Shira ends up getting stopped by Zeke,
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who is Aidan's cousin and the son of another stealer,
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and he wanted to talk to Aiden about helping his
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mother because she was sick and Aiden's blood is the
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only way that could help her, so he figured Ashier
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would be able to help her or help him help
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his mother. And before we see this happen, it's said
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that Asher's been missing for three hours, and when we
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see her again, she's laying in bed kind of all
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confused and looking injured and kind of weak. But when
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they actually showed the interaction between her and Zeke, they're
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just talking and then Nick finds her not long after.
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So now my brain looks at that and goes, I
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feel like those two don't match up. So it's like,
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why is she in bed? Why did they say she's
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been gone for three hours, and why does she look
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like she was injured when the flashback didn't show any
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of that. It didn't feel like those two scenes connected
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the way they should have, and that always kind of
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confused me how they fit together. I could understand if
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maybe she was hurt unintentionally or she fell or something,
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but it just that those two scenes never made sense
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on how they connected to me, and it was always
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something that just kind of annoyed me when I would
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watch it. One of the other things that also kind
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of annoyed me with it was the whole wrapping up
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the story at the end, because we go from Elon
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using the potion to stay a Shira to Aiden having
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a Shira at their house and it's months later and
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she's still not remembering who he was. So I kind
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of always hated that they did that. They just kind
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of jumped ahead and there was no like, hey, him
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saving her, and I feel like maybe there was a
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scene that I'm remembering of him finding her and her
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being upset that Elon was dead. Maybe that was in
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one of the other versions of this. Now I'll definitely
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have to go back and watch them and see if
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that is in there, because I feel like that was,
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and for some reason, I feel like I remember watching
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that even if it was kind of like a flashback scene,
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because that's how I feel like I remember it, is
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that it was more of a flashback scene that they
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they still did the whole like jump for forward between
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Ashira being stolen and Aiden being upset that she's upstairs
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and you know, things haven't changed type of time and jump.
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But I feel like there was a scene where he's
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kind of remembering when he found her, and I don't
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remember it being there in this version I watched recently,
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like that I rewatched, So yeah, definitely, I'm gonna have
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to rewatch the other ones to see if it exists
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or if I'm just losing my mind. But to go
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back to that, that was something that just kind of
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did annoy me that it just jumped ahead, you know,
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that you don't see him going to save her or
