Tread Talks: A Bromance Fourth Wing Chapters 11-15

Tread Talks: A Bromance

Welcome to Tread Talks: A Bromance.
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In this week's episode we dive into chapters 11-15 with a short synopsis before taking a deeper dive.
Chapter 11.
It’s game day baby! We’re headed to the gauntlet! Vi wrestles with what she wants to do and what’s safe. There are 2 ways off the Gantlet, success or death. She has a choice, run and hide in the scribe's quadrant or find out if she’s got what it takes to make it as a rider. Rhi picks up on the tension between Vi and Blind Dick Dain. Dain applies more pressure and begs Vi to change her mind, she says No. His boy ears don’t listen and he still won’t give her credit for what she has and might accomplish. Vi chooses to stay, Dain pouts like a toddler. Vi is starting to give herself credit. She uses her head and bends the rules to her will. She conquers the gantlet and scores some power points with Xadey Pants.
Chapter 12.
Now that we’re passed the gantlet we’re headed to presentation where the dragons that agreed to bond this year will get their first look at the potential riders. There’s a twist this year, a feather tail is in the mix and it’s sending up some odd vibes. The plan is to parade past the dragons and act natural, so they get a feel for who you are. Tynan and Luca chat about killing the feather tail, Pryor gets smoked for being indecisive, and Vi gets the equivalent of the puppy butt sniff because of her dragon scale corset. Also, karma is a dragon fed up with Luca’s backtalk.
Chapter 13.
October 1st is threshing, by this time it’s possible to have some sense of which dragon you’ll bond to. A dragon may have chosen you in presentation and started sending you their dragon vibes. Vi is feeling a bit like she won’t bond and will be forced to repeat next year. She overhears Tynan, Jack and Oren conspiring to kill the gold feathertail. Violet decides she can use her speed to go warn the feathertail. She gets there first, twisting her ankle along the way and tries to warn the feathertail. The dragon seems to not want to participate and just kinda stands there. Jack takes the opportunity to kill 2 birds with 1 stone and just before he attacks, Violets scalp prickles and guess who’s there with a word of warning, Xadey Pants!
Chapter 14.
Jack and his pals the Jack-offs finally get their chance to attack Violet. The best part of this is that they get a shot at killing Violet, offing the feathertail, and Xadey Pants can only watch. Turns out that Violet might be a medium to ok fighter after all. She claps back pretty well with her daggers. Jack retreats like a coward, Oren takes a nap, Tynan gets a good flame job from Tairn, the big AF black dragon. Tairn asks Vi to kill Oren while he’s knocked out and she declines, message! Vi finally arrives at the realization that the badass black dragon has chosen to bond with her…
Chapter 15.
The last part of Threshing is the flight back to the field where she can record her bond with Tairn. Dragons don’t come with seatbelts and it’s a riders job to survive the flight. Vi is definitely struggling to keep her seat and Tain is forced to use his magic to help her keep her seat. When we land in the flight field we discover that Vi has bonded not 1 but 2 dragons. Or in this case 1.25 dragons. Turns out Tairn was a bogo and she’s now bonded with him and Andarnum, the feathertail.
Fourth Wing | Rebecca Yarros