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00:00En Midgard, he usado mi poder para hacer un secreto en maravilla,
00:03tirando a él de su bello.
00:04Después de la muerte, he ascended como el árbol de Helheim,
00:07emprisonando y torturing me.
00:09Por cientos de años, he made sure que cada alma en Helheim
00:12sabía que yo era su esposa.
00:13Luego, en el encontro de su hermano de su hermano,
00:16drove dozens de espacios de espacios en mi cuerpo.
00:19He declarado,
00:20mi corazón era vile,
00:21mi manos stained con los vidas de los inocentes,
00:24y he deslubedado mi alma con la oscuridad.
00:26Luego, por cada mirada,
00:28me dio dos choices.
00:30Remain and become his companion's servant as penance,
00:33o enter the Hall of Anguish as a corrupted soul,
00:36to suffer endlessly
00:36and be reborn into servitude across every life,
00:39never to know a good death.
00:40He knew I feared pain,
00:42feared suffering,
00:43but even if I had to endure every torment,
00:45even if my next life would know no peace,
00:47I could not bear to remain at his side one moment longer.
00:50After a hundred years imprisoned beside Sigrid,
00:52I was finally released from that lightless dungeon.
00:55When the iron chains fell from my pierced collarbones,
00:57I thought I would feel lighter.
00:59Instead,
00:59all I felt was the dense,
01:00crushing wave of pain across my shoulders.
01:02Seeing me hesitate,
01:03a death guard shoved me hard from behind.
01:06My lord summoned you to the wandering city.
01:09Move!
01:11Don't make me late with my dream.
01:13His expression was stone cold.
01:15He had no fear that I would disobey,
01:16because Sigrid had placed a curse on me.
01:18From the moment I entered Helheim,
01:20I was every soul's dog,
01:21summoned,
01:22dismissed,
01:23forbidden to resist.
01:23Now,
01:25I lowered my eyes,
01:26swallowed the pain,
01:27and walked out of the Arbiter's Hall.
01:29The moment I entered the city,
01:30a force seized me and wrenched me down.
01:34I crashed hard to the ground.
01:36The wounds on my shoulders tore open,
01:38another bloom of blood and rot.
01:40Sorin,
01:40standing at Sigrid's side,
01:42let a flash of pleasure cross her eyes.
01:44Then she twisted her face into fear and reddened her eyes.
01:47Sigrid,
01:48what did I ever do to make Rowan hate me so much
01:51that she would sever my limbs and have me tortured to death?
01:55The moment she spoke,
01:55Sigrid's gaze turned to ice.
01:57Don't be afraid.
01:59I'll make her pay.
02:00He never merely said things.
02:01The moment the words left his lips,
02:03he drove dozens of hell-forged spikes into my forelimbs.
02:06The agony hit like a collapsing sky.
02:08I couldn't hold back my scream.
02:10Every wound Sorin bore,
02:12I will return to you a hundredfold.
02:15Rowan's heart is rotten.
02:17She has taken lives without mercy.
02:19Her crimes are unforgivable.
02:21Under Sorin's cues,
02:22the crowd began to point and condemn.
02:24A woman like her
02:25deserves to be cast into the deepest abyss of Nif'him,
02:29never to be reborn.
02:30Hearing their words,
02:32Sigrid poured more darkness into my soul,
02:34his voice cold as iron.
02:35I give you two choices.
02:37Either remain and serve Sorda in penance,
02:39or enter the Hall of Anguish as a corrupted soul,
02:42be reborn into slavery across every life,
02:45and never know a good death.
02:47The pain was so absolute,
02:48I couldn't form a single word.
02:50Of course.
02:51You're too selfish,
02:52too cowardly.
02:53Why would you ever choose the cycle of Yggdorick?
02:57He turned and took Sorin's hand.
02:58Let's go.
03:00We have a wedding to plan.
03:02He knew I feared pain,
03:03feared suffering.
03:04He didn't believe I would choose rebirth,
03:06and so he went off cheerfully to plan his wedding.
03:08What he didn't know
03:09was that the moment I was released from the dungeon,
03:11I had already gone to the Hall of Anguish
03:13to register for the cycle of Yggdorick.
03:15Even if I had to endure every torment,
03:17even if my next life would know no peace,
03:19I could not bear to remain at his side one moment longer.
03:24By now, every soul in Helheim knew the story.
03:27In Midgard, I had used my power to force Sigrid into marrying me.
03:30I had murdered his aging mother.
03:31I had ordered Sorin's limbs severed and left her to be tortured.
03:35He had hated me with everything he had.
03:37In Midgard, he endured it all in silence,
03:39and in the tenth year of our marriage,
03:41he slaughtered the entire Rowan clan,
03:43dozens of lives,
03:44and then killed me.
03:45After my death, I learned the truth.
03:47He was the arbiter of Helheim,
03:49the High Valkyrie.
03:50Because of his hatred for me,
03:51he kept me imprisoned at his side for a century
03:53and subjected me to every torment he could devise.
03:56But what he didn't know
03:57was that he had hated the wrong woman.
03:59I had never killed his mother.
04:01I had never touched Sorin.
04:06For the first ten years of my imprisonment,
04:08I never stopped trying to explain.
04:10It wasn't me.
04:11But Sigrid would grab me by the throat,
04:12eyes blazing red,
04:13and scream,
04:14I only believe what I saw with my own eyes.
04:16Time wore me down.
04:17I went numb.
04:18I stopped explaining.
04:20Now he told every soul,
04:21it was I who had taken him by force
04:23and compelled him into marriage.
04:24He had forgotten.
04:25The year we first met,
04:27he was huddled among beggars,
04:28and he took the bowl of porridge
04:30I extended to him,
04:31and he looked up at me.
04:32That young man had gazed at me
04:33with something pure and shy in his eyes.
04:35My lady,
04:36do you need a guard?
04:38I'll work for a meal.
04:40It was a time of war and chaos.
04:41My heart had gone soft.
04:43I brought him home.
04:44I had people care for his ailing mother
04:45and younger brother.
04:47Years passed.
04:47He stood in front of me,
04:49unyielding,
04:49when danger came.
04:50Then came the day
04:51the royal house called for concerts.
04:53He grabbed my hand
04:53with reddened eyes
04:54and pleaded,
04:55Don't go.
04:56I'll work until I'm worthy of you.
04:59Can't you
05:00just consider me?
05:02I had no desire to marry some prince,
05:03and he had moved me
05:04just a little.
05:05So I said yes.
05:06He said he loved me.
05:07He said he would give himself fully
05:09and would not waver for a lifetime.
05:10After we wed,
05:11he gave me everything.
05:12He was tireless,
05:13devoted,
05:14always striving.
05:15Ten years passed.
05:16We were bound without doubt or shadow.
05:18Then came the moment
05:18he raised a bow
05:19and put an arrow through my chest,
05:21and I finally understood
05:22he had never loved me at all.
05:27Now he looked at my wretched figure
05:29with not a single flicker
05:30of emotion in his eyes.
05:32In seven days,
05:33Sorda and I will be wed.
05:34Right now,
05:35I need to take her
05:36to be fitted for wedding robes.
05:37Crawl back on your own
05:38and prepare to begin your penance.
05:39With that,
05:40he left with Sorin.
05:41The onlookers needed no invitation.
05:43The sneering words came fast.
05:45She entered Helhem
05:46and immediately called herself his wife.
05:48I almost believed
05:49they were tunnets.
05:50They were devoted to each other.
05:51Turns out,
05:52he only kept her around
05:53to let his beloved vent her anger.
05:54They laughed.
05:55They sneered.
05:56I did not raise my head.
05:57I used every last fragment of strength
05:59to drag myself forward.
06:00Blood trailed in thin streaks
06:02across the road.
06:02I ignored the pain
06:03consuming my body
06:04and crawled,
06:05truly crawled,
06:06back to the Arbiter's Hall.
06:10When I finally looked up,
06:11I did not know
06:12how much time had passed.
06:13Sigrid and Sorin
06:14returned to find me
06:15at the gates,
06:15drenched in blood.
06:16Sorin let out a sharp cry
06:17and rushed over,
06:18pulling me upright.
06:19Rowan,
06:21why are you covered
06:22in blood like this?
06:23She asked,
06:24though she already knew.
06:24The delight behind her eyes
06:25was unmistakable.
06:26My stomach turned.
06:27I tried to pull my hand free.
06:29Sorin crumpled
06:30straight to the ground.
06:31Sigrid's eyes
06:31went wide with fury.
06:33Sorin!
06:33He caught her immediately.
06:35When he saw she had fainted,
06:36his expression darkened.
06:38Without pause,
06:38he blasted me away.
06:39I was hurled a dozen meters
06:40and slammed into a wall.
06:42I couldn't stop the blood
06:43that came up with the impact.
06:44The pain in my body doubled.
06:45I clenched my fist against it.
06:47Out of the corner of my eye,
06:49I watched Sigrid
06:50carry Sorin on his back
06:51and leave swiftly,
06:52pausing only to give a cold order.
06:53Throw Rowan into the chasm of Niggdug.
06:56Let her learn her place.
06:58I won't have her
06:59forgetting what she is.
07:00He didn't hesitate
07:01for a single breath
07:01before concluding
07:02it was I who had harmed Sorin.
07:04He never once asked,
07:05what could I,
07:05a hollowed out soul,
07:06have even done?
07:07I said nothing.
07:08I did not call after him.
07:10I simply let the death guards
07:11drag me away
07:12because I already knew
07:13Sigrid would never believe me.
07:15The pain was overwhelming.
07:16I couldn't stop my eyes from closing.
07:19I drifted in and out of consciousness
07:21as they hauled me off the street.
07:23They were not gentle.
07:24They dragged me through thorns,
07:26leaving me torn and raw,
07:27a figure made of blood.
07:28The guards felt nothing.
07:29They simply pitched me over the edge
07:31and into the chasm of Nidhugger.
07:32The chasm is the one place
07:34every soul dreads most.
07:35The void serpents down there
07:37will keep you drowning
07:38in your own suffering,
07:39alive enough to wish you weren't.
07:41Every soul in this realm
07:42can see how much Sorin
07:44and means to our lord.
07:46You still went and provoked her.
07:48You deserve exactly this.
07:51They believed I deserved it.
07:52They walked away,
07:53not knowing I had done nothing.
07:55But I understood.
07:56Even if they knew,
07:57they would not help me.
07:58Without Hala present,
07:59Helheim answered to Sigrid.
08:01There was nothing more to say,
08:02nothing that would matter.
08:04The wind screamed past my ears.
08:05Then came the impact.
08:06I hit the floor of the chasm
08:08and the force tore more blood from me,
08:09painting my pale-faced crimson.
08:11The void serpents caught the scent
08:12and struck without waiting.
08:14Fang sank into my arm.
08:15As the venom spread,
08:16I closed my eyes.
08:19Long buried memories were pulled free
08:21and without meaning to,
08:22I smiled.
08:22Yet a single tear slipped into my hair.
08:24At the start of the story,
08:26my eyes had been full of happiness.
08:27Then a snowstorm passed
08:28and my eyes were dyed in blood.
08:30My beautiful husband came with an army
08:32and slaughtered my entire clan.
08:33When he looked at me,
08:35his eyes held nothing but hatred.
08:36That night,
08:37surrounded by the bodies
08:38of everyone I had loved,
08:39I screamed until I had nothing left.
08:41But my parents,
08:42who had cherished me,
08:43my sister,
08:44not one of them
08:45would ever answer me again.
08:46Sigrid stood with a bow in his hands,
08:48soaked in the blood
08:49of the Rowan clan,
08:50his eyes cold
08:51with savage satisfaction.
08:52I watched,
08:53numb,
08:54as he stepped forward
08:54and drove his blade
08:55through my chest
08:56without flinching.
08:57Before I fell,
08:58I asked him,
08:59Why?
08:59He stepped closer.
09:01With quiet tenderness,
09:02he wiped the blood
09:03from the corner of my lips,
09:05then smiled,
09:06and the smile was winter.
09:07I only ever saw Saul
09:08as a younger sister.
09:10Even if she was in love with me,
09:11why did you have to destroy her utterly?
09:13My mother treated you
09:14with nothing but kindness.
09:16You didn't spare her either.
09:17Rowan,
09:18how can you be this cruel?
09:19Desolation rose
09:20from somewhere deep in my chest.
09:22He was my husband,
09:23and without a single question,
09:24he had butchered my entire family
09:26and laid every crime at my feet.
09:27I had barely crossed paths with Sorin
09:29more than a handful of times.
09:31I had loved him
09:31with everything I had.
09:33Why would I ever
09:34have harmed his family?
09:35But it didn't matter.
09:36Nothing had ever been real between us.
09:38There was no tenderness to speak of.
09:39Not once.
09:40Not ever.
09:43Self-loathing sank
09:44into the marrow of me.
09:45I could not stop
09:46the anguished sounds
09:47that tore from my throat,
09:48nor the tears that fell
09:49without ceasing.
09:50The void serpents
09:51fed greedily on my suffering,
09:53curling the corners
09:53of their mouths
09:54in satisfaction.
09:55My family appeared before me,
09:56and their accusations
09:57came one after another.
09:59Rowan,
10:00how can you still love
10:02the one who destroyed us?
10:03He killed your family.
10:04Why haven't you made him pay?
10:06Rowan.
10:07If you hadn't let jealousy
10:09drive you to hurt
10:10Sauri and Sigran's mother,
10:11we would never have died.
10:13The whispers
10:14and the contempt
10:15circled me without end.
10:16I shook my head violently.
10:18The disappointment in their eyes
10:19broke something inside me.
10:21I didn't do it.
10:22My voice came out
10:23as a ragged rasp.
10:24My eyes were so swollen
10:25I could barely see.
10:26The suffering pouring from me
10:27drew more and more
10:28void serpents close.
10:29They sank their fangs in again,
10:31extracting the anguish,
10:32harvesting it.
10:33There was no escape.
10:34I could only relive it,
10:35drown in it,
10:35again and again,
10:36until I lost consciousness entirely.
10:40When I opened my eyes again,
10:41I was no longer
10:42in the chasm of Nidhuger.
10:44The familiar surroundings
10:45told me at once
10:46this was Sigrid's estate.
10:48Rowan,
10:48I'm so sorry.
10:50I never expected Sigrid
10:51to misunderstand
10:52and throw you into the chasm.
10:54I only fainted yesterday
10:55because I can't stand
10:56the sight of blood.
10:57Startled myself, really.
10:58I'm terribly embarrassed about it.
11:01Rowan is so kind-hearted.
11:03You'll forgive me,
11:04won't you?
11:05After all,
11:06I've decided not to hold a grudge
11:08about what you did
11:09to me in Nidhuger.
11:10Her eyes were filled with triumph.
11:11She was telling me plainly,
11:13even the smallest incident
11:14would be enough
11:14to make Sigrid
11:15turn his fury on me.
11:16I didn't speak,
11:17but Sigrid's face
11:18had already hardened.
11:19Sorin came to apologize
11:20in good faith.
11:21And this is how you respond?
11:23She's chosen not to pursue
11:24what you did to her in Midland,
11:25and you can't even offer
11:26a single word of apology.
11:28Today,
11:29you will apologize to Sorin.
11:31If you don't,
11:33I have no problem
11:34keeping you in the chas
11:35of Nindoor indefinitely,
11:36suffering every single day.
11:38Rowan,
11:39just bend a little.
11:40After this,
11:41we can be friends again.
11:42Her contempt was clear as glass.
11:44It pricked at something in me.
11:46I'm sorry.
11:48I had no desire to apologize,
11:49but I knew with certainty.
11:51Sigrid would make me pay
11:51on Sorin's behalf regardless.
11:53Good.
11:55At least you know
11:56when to yield.
11:57I couldn't afford
11:58to lose my chance
11:58at the cycle of Yggdrasil.
12:00That apology bought me
12:01a brief, fragile peace.
12:03A few days later,
12:04the moment I was well enough
12:05to leave my chamber,
12:06I moved to go.
12:07But Sorin stepped into my path.
12:11Going out to enjoy yourself, Roe?
12:14Then bring me back a lantern.
12:16I'm too occupied
12:17with the wedding to bother.
12:20I had no desire to humor her,
12:21but even less desire
12:22to endure her wheedling.
12:24I agreed.
12:25The moment I stepped out
12:26of the estate,
12:26I went straight
12:27to the hall of anguish.
12:28The warden led me inside,
12:30but no sooner had I faced
12:31the first trial of love
12:32and hatred
12:33than I nearly came apart
12:34at the seams,
12:35my soul unraveling.
12:39The warden brought me back out,
12:42shaking his head
12:43with a sigh.
12:45You cannot yet withstand
12:46the torments of love,
12:48hate,
12:48and obsession.
12:51I'll hold your place.
12:53Come back when you've recovered.
12:56There was nothing to be done.
12:57I could only return
12:58to the Arbiter's Hall.
12:59Secret's curse
13:00left me no choice.
13:01When Sorin saw me,
13:02she immediately took the lantern
13:03from my hands with a smile.
13:04I wanted to leave.
13:05Someone grabbed my wrist.
13:09I turned.
13:10You went to the hall of anguish?
13:12I lowered my eyes slightly.
13:14I merely passed by.
13:16He looked at my ashen face,
13:18pressed the unease back down.
13:19What?
13:21You saw the trials
13:22and were frightened
13:23into looking like that?
13:24He exhaled with quiet relief,
13:26a scornful thought
13:27crossing his mind.
13:28I was so small
13:29and so cowardly.
13:30Why would I ever enter
13:31the cycle of Yggdrasil
13:32just to leave him?
13:33I said nothing more.
13:35I turned to go,
13:35then heard Sorin
13:37let out a sharp cry
13:38and collapse,
13:38vomiting blood.
13:40The lantern had been unwrapped.
13:41The warmth of Midgard
13:42still clung to it.
13:44Any soul who had passed
13:45into Helheim
13:46would be burned
13:46by such living light.
13:49Do you hate Sura so much
13:50you'd see her soul torn apart?
13:52I pressed my lips together
13:53and said nothing.
13:54Since you love the light
13:55of the living world so much,
13:58let me give you
13:59your fill of it.
14:03At noon the following day,
14:04I was taken to Midgard.
14:05The blazing sun fell on me
14:07like a judgment.
14:08The pain was beyond bearing.
14:10In the shadows,
14:11a death guard shuddered.
14:12You can offend
14:14anyone in this realm.
14:16Just you.
14:17My lord is merciful.
14:20For one moment,
14:21I felt myself beginning
14:21to dissolve.
14:22Then Sigrid reappeared
14:23and wrenched me back
14:24into Helheim.
14:25I was forced to my knees
14:26before Sorin.
14:27Sigrid's voice was flat
14:28as still water.
14:29Apologize.
14:31He stood firm.
14:32I said nothing.
14:33Sorin glanced between us
14:34and waved Sigrid off.
14:37Let me have a word alone
14:38with Rowan.
14:39Of course.
14:42The moment he left,
14:44Sorin rose from her sickbed
14:45as though nothing had happened
14:46at all
14:46and produced a memory stone.
14:48Look at these people.
14:50Do you recognize them?
14:52I looked up instinctively.
14:54My parents.
14:55My family.
14:56All of them.
14:57Surrounded by something
14:58that looked like
14:59the inside of a furnace.
15:01Because of you,
15:03Sigrid and I
15:03were torn apart.
15:07And your family.
15:09They deserved what they got.
15:11Sigrid kept them around
15:12all the stairs
15:13so I could buy anger.
15:16They're screaming.
15:17Isn't it lovely?
15:18Don't you want to hear it?
15:20Her smile was radiant.
15:21Her eyes were full of cruelty.
15:22My vision flooded red.
15:24I couldn't stop myself.
15:25My hands closed around her throat.
15:27You deserve to die.
15:31But she laughed
15:32and then her face
15:33crumpled into fear.
15:36Sigrid!
15:37One word.
15:38Sigrid came at once,
15:39pulling her free
15:40and the rage that blazed
15:41in his eyes
15:41when he turned on me
15:42was absolute.
15:43Since hatred is all you have,
15:45I'll send you to the Hall of Anguish
15:47and strip it out of you.
15:51I won't have you thinking
15:52about hurting Sorin ever again.
15:57In an instant,
15:58I was thrown before the gates
15:59of the Hall of Anguish.
16:00Sigrid expected me to beg.
16:02I didn't look back.
16:03I walked straight through the doors
16:04into the blazing Hall of Hatred
16:06without hesitating
16:06for a single step.
16:08Sigrid watched.
16:09Something lodged in his chest,
16:10but he turned and left anyway.
16:14In the days that followed,
16:15Sigrid went through the motions
16:16of preparing the wedding,
16:17distracted and hollow.
16:19And I,
16:20inside the Hall of Anguish,
16:21walked through
16:22every trial there was.
16:23On the day of their wedding,
16:24I finally stepped onto the path
16:26of Yggdrasil's cycle.
16:27The old woman held out
16:28the mead of oblivion.
16:29I drained it in one swallow
16:31and left no trace of it
16:32on my lips.
16:33She watched my retreating back
16:35and shook her head quietly.
16:36All things are written in fate.
16:38Before the wedding ceremony began,
16:40Sigrid turned his gaze
16:41toward the Hall of Anguish
16:42as if drawn by something
16:43he couldn't name.
16:44Sorin concealed the malice
16:46in her eyes
16:46and spoke with a bright smile.
16:48Why don't we bring Rowan back?
16:50I'd like her here
16:51to bless us.
16:53He gave her the opening
16:54she needed.
16:55Sigrid's face shifted.
16:56I'll go.
16:57I won't be long.
16:59He went to retrieve me,
17:00but the warden of the hall
17:02stopped him cold.
17:03Rowan has already endured
17:05all four trials
17:06as a corrupted soul
17:07and entered the cycle
17:07of Yggdrasil.
17:10Sigrid could not believe it,
17:11but when the warden
17:12summoned the vision
17:13from an hour prior,
17:14all the color drained
17:15from his face
17:16because I had truly
17:17stepped into the cycle
17:18and I had not looked back.
17:20Not once.
17:21A sharp pain
17:21struck him in the chest.
17:23He stood there,
17:23stunned,
17:24something nameless
17:25and bitter rising
17:25through him.
17:26Sorin,
17:27tired of waiting,
17:28came after him.
17:29She took one look
17:30at his hollowed expression
17:31and reached out
17:31to tug at his sleeve,
17:32barely masking her impatience.
17:35Sigrid,
17:36the ceremony
17:36is about to begin.
17:37Let's go back.
17:38She had no interest
17:39in where Rowan had gone.
17:41All she knew
17:41was that if she didn't
17:42hold on to what was
17:43in front of her right now,
17:44she would never
17:44have another chance.
17:45But Sigrid,
17:46who had always been
17:47so tender with her,
17:48wrenched her arm free
17:49without a word
17:49and flew toward
17:50the gate of the cycle.
17:51Sigrid!
17:52Sorin screamed after him,
17:53but he didn't turn back.
17:55Her expression darkened.
17:56She almost followed,
17:57then stopped herself.
17:58The memories she carried
17:59from Midgard
18:00were not ones
18:00she wanted to revisit.
18:02She bit her lip
18:02and sent a spirit messenger
18:03to bring him back.
18:04So,
18:04let's take care of her.
18:05She been pretty hot.
18:05So,
18:07the time. And then,
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