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The Silt Verses

Chapter 40: This Hateful Hymn Shall Cease

Season 3, Ep. 12

Carpenter and Hayward make contact with Shrue in Glottage, hoping to persuade the Adjudicator to defect - while across the channel, Val brings the war to a startling and unexpected climax...


This episode features Jimmie Yamaguchi, Méabh de Brún, Daisy Bilenkin, Nathan Lunsford, Sarah Griffin, Felix Trench, Rhys Lawton, Marta da Silva and William A. Wellman, with additional voices from Harlan Guthrie and AJ Fidalgo.


Transcript: https://www.thesiltverses.com/transcript-season-3-chapter-11


Content warnings:

War, missile strikes, some gory violence.

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