(Original/Outdated) Chapter 22 of 'Fourth Wing -Xaden's POV'

This was the first version I posted of Chapter 22 but I came to find out later that it contained several errors, so I reposted a corrected version which you can find here • Fourth Wing -Xaden's P...
Because almost half of the public watch hours my channel have come from this video I've decided to leave it up at least for the time being, hopefully the channel will eventually grow to the point that deleting this version and losing those public watch hours wouldn't be a significant hit.
This is Chapter 22 of a fanfiction I wrote that retells 'Fourth Wing' by Rebecca Yarros from Xaden's point of view. It contains spoilers for all of Fourth Wing and Iron Flame. If you’d like to read along or would just prefer a text version, you can find it here: archiveofourown.org/works/516...
Feel free to let me know what you think or provide constructive feedback in the comments, I always try to reply to any that allow me to share explanations of how I was thinking about specific parts of the narrative, and then I just wanted to make clear that all rights belong to Rebecca Yarros, and thank her for creating this incredible world and characters to have fun with.
Also, here's my theory as to what Violet's 2nd signet will turn out to be, which I allude to in this story • I Am CONVINCED This Is...
Note: I wrote this shortly after the release of Iron Flame, all speculation/theories are my own and could easily prove incorrect based on subsequent books. This work contains new scenes between Xaden and Sgaeyl, Liam, Tairn Imogen, Garrick, Bodhi, etc.
Thanks for listening!
0:00 Tairn's Requirement
4:29 Lead-up to Sparring
13:52 Sparring with Garrick
17:35 Face-off with Barlowe
20:18 Face-off with Violet
25:18 Liam and 'the prophecy'
35:31 Making up with Sgaeyl
44:01 Teaching Vi to Shield
59:18 First Kiss
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[@seawolf365]

This is my favorite of all your Chapters. I listen to it when I am having a 4th Wing craving. It's fabulous.

[@George_RR_Sagan]

Thank you! I'm torn between this one and Ch 18 as my personal favorite so far (the text version at least, not sure yet if I'll be able to pull off the audio adaptation of that one as well as I'm hoping 😅)

[@seawolf365]

​@@George_RR_SaganI'm sure you'll do fine. And with your perfectionism ( you told me about that) i have no doubt.😊

[@robinnichols]

Thanks so much both for writing this and performing it so well! You’re truly gifted.

[@SkylerForsey]

Congratulations! This audio narration that you have graciously provided us with has prompted me to reactivate my long lost KZbin account. I greatly appreciate you taking my comment on, archive of our own, to heart. :) Amazing chapter! I thoroughly look forward to the next interaction Xaden and Brennan have! I am sensing some more, “big brother“ conversations coming soon. Especially after Xaden broke their newly forged terms of agreement pertaining to violet. And of course… Congratulations are in order for all of your hard work paying off! Wonderful fan fiction! “May the wind always be at your back” SF

[@George_RR_Sagan]

It's the person of the hour! Yes, I'm looking forward to writing the next interaction between Xaden and Brennan, still trying to decide if I should try to make that happen earlier on and not resolve it until they all show up in Aretia after Resson, or if I should just put that all together into one big scene in the next to last chapter. Let me know if you have an opinion on that. Thank you so much for inspiring me to do this, so many people have also expressed how much they appreciate the audio version so it's definitely been a win. Not least for me, I can't believe how fast this channel is growing now, I'm actually starting to get hopeful that by the time I finish the fanfic the channel might have grown enough to join the KZbin Partner Program and hopefully that'll give me a better shot at having some leverage toward getting my own original work published. P.S. Sorry for the delay here, I could've sworn I responded to this comment 3 weeks ago but maybe I never actually hit the 'Reply' button, or else maybe there was some kind of glitch because I just found a couple of other comments on this video specifically with a similar thing going on. Anyway, thanks again!

[@elizabethwheeler4749]

I’m so happy to hear Xadens pov it’s everything and more ❤ I can’t wait to hear the rest 😊😅❤Thanks 😊

[@George_RR_Sagan]

Thanks! As a heads up it'll probably still be at least a month before I finish getting the audio version caught up and get back to writing new chapters, but I will finish the fanfic eventually 😅

[@elizabethwheeler4749]

@@George_RR_Sagan that’s OK we have till January 😍

[@anushkasasidharan8616]

Your writing is amazing. Thanks a lot for all the chapters so far. I'm waiting to see the rest of your work. I can barely contain my excitement after all I've just read. By god, 'You seriously want to go fight shirtless to see if it catches the eye of our crushes.' This line is just so them.

[@George_RR_Sagan]

Haha, thanks! Yeah, at first I was a little worried that claiming their shirtless fight was all a ploy would seem too immature for them, but it seems like people have largely been accepting of the idea that if they came up with the plan while high and then had second thoughts afterward then it'd seem plausible, plus it's just fun 😅

[@PixieSugar1991]

This was fantastic. You have a gift.

[@cathiescathie3306]

Loved it! Will you be doing all the chapters or just the ones with Violet & Xaden? ❤😊

[@George_RR_Sagan]

Just did this one out of sequence with the other audio chapters I've made so far as a little treat since there won't be any new ones for a while. Not sure how long it'll take but I do intend to make audio versions of every chapter, I kind of explained what's going on with that in this video if you care to take a look kzbin.info/www/bejne/pZqvY6yumLCDptUsi=Q5w1cC_wE8NzKWLd

[@kilenewilson5691]

Im trying to figure out what Tairn did to upset Sgaeyl

[@George_RR_Sagan]

The audio version here on youtube isn't fully caught up yet, for that context you'd need to read chapter 20 (and arguably 21) which are currently only available in the text version here archiveofourown.org/works/51670834/chapters/137506843

[@victoriafoster1821]

No don’t skip all the way to chapter 22

[@George_RR_Sagan]

I'm going back to make audio versions for chapters 4 - 21 now, but since I'm taking a break from writing new text chapters to do that, I wanted to make the last one I posted on Archive of Our Own (AO3) special by uploading the audio version of it too so the AO3 readers understand what I'm doing/why. You can watch this video I made for a more complete explanation kzbin.info/www/bejne/pZqvY6yumLCDptU (or read the text chapters on AO3 to get caught up to Ch. 22 archiveofourown.org/works/51670834/chapters/130620541 )

[@Ashervalcrux]

It’s to late…

[@SkylerForsey]

Congratulations! This audio narration that you have graciously provided us with has prompted me to reactivate my long lost KZbin account. I greatly appreciate you taking my comment on, archive of our own, to heart. :) Amazing chapter! I thoroughly look forward to the next interaction Xaden and Brennan have! I am sensing some more, “big brother“ conversations coming soon. Especially after Xaden broke their newly forged terms of agreement pertaining to violet. And of course… Congratulations are in order for all of your hard work paying off! Wonderful fan fiction! “May the wind always be at your back” SF 0:02

[@George_RR_Sagan]

Hey, it's the person of the hour! good to hear from you again 😀 Yeah, I'm so glad you reached out about continuing the audio version, I think it's going to end up working out to everyone's benefit. Haha, there will definitely have to be another fun conversation between them. Haven't decided if I want to broach that before the whole crew shows up after Resson or not. It definitely won't get resolved until then at least.