2.08: Juno Steel and the Dragon's Den (Part 1)

Someone is out to kill Ramses O'Flaherty -- and whoever they are, they should be here. A killer called this home, but it isn't any kind of home Juno's ever seen before. This is a place where the impossible happens, where an ancient heroine walks the streets, where dragons live on every mountaintop... and where nothing is ever as it seems.

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Trigger warnings:

Sudden loud noises

Depictions and descriptions of violence and death

Close, claustrophobic spaces

Fire and burning-related violence

Depictions of being trapped

Gaslighting

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