Episode 1

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## Plot Summary

Astrid stumbles over dark swamps of blood at night, trying to run away from her past self. As her wrongdoings haunt her, Nightmare Astrid blames all the fault on Astrid stating that “We did this.” Astrid further runs away as Nightmare Astrid chases her. She later wakes up from her dream.

Astrid is woken up from daydreaming at school by her classmate, Azzie. She joins in on Azzie and her friends gossip about the hunting regiment to eliminate the unbounded from Estra, so far they have already killed 40% of the Estralin unbounded. Azzie says it’s due to Izetta undertaking the position of “Esteemed Commander”. They further praise Izetta. Astrid recounts her meeting Izetta, while being cheered on by fans, she states that she feels something is off about the Esteemed Commander, but she didn’t know what.

Astrid arrives at the Nursery to help her best friend, Nyssa Beckett. She is greeted warmly by the 4 children. One of the children, Gwenith drew a picture of a hand, and Astrid says she is going to draw the other kids later. Finn and Griffin argue over who Gwenith should draw next, and Xyla suggests that the two boys shouldn’t fight. Astrid agrees with Xyla and warns the children to behave well and leaves to help Nyssa.

Astrid comes into the room as Nyssa jokingly calls her a “duku”. Astrid responds by saying dukus are stupid, but they’re cute and questions Nyssa that’s what she says when her friend helps her out. Nyssa joked she is here to help dingus. The girls throw insults at each other, as Nyssa said “the Curse” Astrid fell silent and admitted there’s nothing worse than the curse. Nyssa further added she is worse than the curse. Astrid laughs it off.

The best friends look through some papers. Astrid tells Nyssa that she might think of seeking out to the S.U.A(Secret Unbounded Association) for help, since the new commander is getting out of control with her large scale unbounded assassinations and it’s kinda scary. Nyssa replies saying the S.U.A can’t save every unbounded and Astrid has a powerful wind divinity, Astrid asks Nyssa ifs the increasing unbounded death rate not worrying her. Nyssa admits she’s worried about the safety of her family and questions Astrid if she will put family first. She responds yes as Nyssa confesses to Astrid she is almost like family to her. Astrid gave an awkward laugh and says she doesn’t want to be family zoned. Nyssa wasn’t paying attention and Astrid joked it off.

Astrid noticed Nyssa seemed to be worried about something, she said she was fine and Astrid insisted she didn’t act like they have been best friends since they were 14. Astrid comments her eyes looking restless, she admits it’s just talking about the curse, it’s affecting her more than normal because the chances of getting hunted down are increasing. Astrid thinks there’s more to this, suddenly Nyssa farts and Astrid starts laughing, Nyssa starts tickling Astrid as they both giggled.

Astrid comes back to the Nursery and gives the children the snacks Nyssa prepared. Then, Griffin asked Astrid about what he learned in school, yesterday about the “blessing” of the Light Raeda and he is still confused about some things. Astrid decides to explain their history in drawings.

It is revealed that a Divine God created and ruled over the world, but with the knowledge it will fall into a deep slumber after using too much celestial power on the world, so it created a council of 3 gods known as the Raeda, they ruled with stability for centuries until they broke out into an argument between their differences and each cursed to a mortal kingdom to their beliefs in fury. Since they made a contract to the Divine God to never use their powers for selfish reasons, they got their immortality revoked and vanished.

But people on the outskirts of the kingdoms are unaffected by the curse, they’re known as the Unbounded. To this day they’re shunned and hunted for being different and Astrid is currently an unbounded living in Estra.

Griffin corrects Astrid on her explanation saying the Light Raeda blessed Estra and didn't curse it. Astrid corrects her “mistake” and continues going on saying the other 2 kingdoms are cursed and explains to Gwenith that Valonis was cursed to be bound by corruption and Zorano bounded by Order. Then there’s Estra being bound by harmony and there’s no room for evil people. Xyla responds by saying she is kind of tired of being nice, the curse immediately comes into effect and she falls unconscious. Nyssa helps Xyla and she wakes up.

In the evening, Astrid complains to her adoptive parents about the curse, her dad said you have to learn to live with it. Her mother points out she has a carrot stuck in her hair. At night, Zayden finds out Astrid’s bed was creaky, they suggested they swap beds until they get it fixed. At midnight, Astrid is waiting for an Assassin to murder them because of being Unbounded, she heard footsteps and realised the assassin wants to kill her but since she and her parents switched rooms, the assassin is going to kill her parents.

When Astrid barges into her room, she found her dad dead and dying mother, she attacks the assassin with a dagger and uses her wind divinity to dodge the attacks, as her past self mocks her for her actions.

### Post-Credit

Commander Izetta is shown being congratulated by Lieutenant Freya while Calix is listening on reading a book.

## Characters in Order of Appearance

* Astrid Langston
* Azzie
* Sage
* Val
* Izetta
* Finn
* Griffin
* Gwenith
* Xyla
* Nyssa Beckett
* Divine God
* Light Raeda
* Dark Raeda
* Orderly Raeda
* Fae Langston
* Zayden Langston
* Freya Caddel(voice)
* Calix(cameo)

## Trivia

* Finn(one of the nursery kids) is voiced by NotZoey herself.