00:00Marcus said, Isabel immediately shook her head, no speech provided, no speech provided,
00:07Adrian said, Marcus studied him for a long moment before nodding slowly, no speech provided,
00:15Marguerite sat calmly in the small visiting room, hands folded in front of her, looking
00:21smaller somehow than she had in the driveway two nights earlier, as though the weight of
00:26finally telling the truth had already begun settling over her, before Adrian even arrived,
00:32she said quietly as he sat down across from her, Adrian said, no speech provided, Marguerite
00:40was quiet for a long moment, studying his face with an expression, Adrian couldn't quite
00:45place, something between grief and tenderness, she finally said, Adrian asked, no speech
00:52provided, Marguerite said, Adrian's stomach tightened, no speech provided, Adrian went
00:59completely still, no speech provider, Adrian sat frozen, decades of assumptions collapsing
01:06all at once, her voice caught, emotion finally breaking through, decades of careful control,
01:13Adrian sat in stunned silence, trying to process the enormity of what she'd just told him,
01:19tears filled her eyes for the first time since Adrian had known her, she repeated, and then
01:26I spent 30 years watching you from every distance available to me, the tabloids, the palace
01:32announcements, the council records, I still had access to through Edmund's own network, without
01:38him ever knowing, I was watching you too, not just him, his voice raw, Marguerite admitted,
01:45no speech provided, her voice caught, emotion finally breaking through decades of careful
01:51control, Marguerite said, he spent this entire crisis discovering he has a mother, who orchestrated
01:59chaos around him, and a sister he never knew existed, I don't want to hand him a third revelation
02:05before he's had time to breathe, Marguerite said, as the visit drew to a close, Marguerite
02:11reached across the small table, hesitating before finally placing her hand gently over
02:17Adrian's, she said quietly, Adrian asked, she said, Adrian sat with the request for a long
02:24moment, before finally nodding, as Adrian rose to leave, Marguerite's expression shifted
02:31suddenly, something urgent breaking through the emotional weight of the conversation, she
02:36said, Adrian asked, Adrian felt a cold understanding settle over him, before she even finished the
02:43sentence, she paused, studying his face with something like dread, no speech provided, coming
02:50up in episode 32, the test results, Adrian faces the possibility of carrying the same condition
02:57that shaped his family's darkest secrets, as the palace confronts what genuine acceptance
03:03acceptance actually means, when it's no longer a hypothetical.
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