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Silk Over Scars Ep
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00:00My sister forced me to crawl to the healer to prove our wolf's pride, while she stripped for a beta
00:06and called it love.
00:07I died that winter.
00:09Now I'm back, and I'm walking straight into the arms of the cruelest prince in my past life.
00:15The day our mother was gasping her final breath, a noblewoman tossed us a bowl of thick porridge.
00:20We used to be royal. How could we take scraps from a lesser rank?
00:24I watched the light fade from my mother's sunken eyes, her hand going cold and wide.
00:29To survive, we entered the Lycan Palace as servant girls.
00:33Lyra sold off what remained of our mother's belongings, and bought herself a new set of clothes.
00:39When the head matron came to select maids, my sister's silk gown stood out among every head turned.
00:45She only straightened her spine.
00:47Alara, what have I always taught you?
00:50No matter the circumstance, dress with dignity.
00:55Never let yourself appear lesser.
00:57This servant carries herself well.
01:00My sister curtsied, poised, neither fawning nor cold.
01:04I was once taught by a tutor who said that no matter how harsh one's circumstance is, a wolf must
01:09always tend to her own dignity.
01:12Wolf pride.
01:13You'll serve in the real chamber.
01:16The sister is composed and clean.
01:19This one looks like she rolled through the mud.
01:21Send her to the washing dens.
01:22My sister claimed the better post, the same as last time.
01:26A duty is just a means of surviving.
01:28Good or bad, they're all the same.
01:30But the washing dens were brutal, exhausting.
01:33And the man in charge of it was a disgusting creep, who simply can't take his eyes off young girls.
01:39I had barely stepped into the washing dens before Thorne set his sights on me.
01:44His gaze crawled over my body like something rotting, demanding I warm his bed.
01:49No.
01:49My defiance enraged him.
01:51He buried me under every filthy, back-breaking task he could find.
01:56Every day I drowned in laundry.
01:58From before dawn until past midnight.
02:00My hands swelled until I could barely close my fists.
02:04My sister's hands, meanwhile, painted rune stones.
02:07One night, I had just wrung out the last garment when something seized my sleeve and yanked me toward the
02:14dark tree lawn beside the path.
02:16Thorne pressed his weight down on me.
02:19Scream all you want.
02:20No one is coming.
02:22Beta Silas passed that way.
02:23He heard my cry and pulled me from beneath Thorne.
02:26What the fuck do you think you are doing in the royal palace?
02:30Throne staggered off, fleeing.
02:32Silas turned to me.
02:34I was disheveled, eyes burning red.
02:36You looked like a frightened rabbit.
02:38So cute.
02:39He offered to take me as his mistress.
02:41I'll keep you safe.
02:41I am not gonna lie.
02:42I nearly wept with relief.
02:44But then my sister arrived.
02:46Lyra came to Silas' quarters that night, wearing only a thin shift.
02:50Alara.
02:51How can you sink so low as to become someone's mistress?
02:54Didn't we vow we would only accept a true mate bond?
02:57One soul?
02:58For life?
02:59I carry pride all my life.
03:01How do I have a sister who would grovel and submit like a rogue with no pride left?
03:06How did I miss a prize like you in these pits?
03:15You've got fire in those eyes.
03:17I like that.
03:18That night, my sister became Silas' chosen consort.
03:24Didn't you say you didn't want to be a mistress?
03:26What would you know?
03:27Silas keeps me because he likes me.
03:29What we have between us is real.
03:30Lyra, you call this.
03:31Lyra, a wolf stands on her own four paws.
03:34I may be Vita mistress now, but you are still an Omega servant.
03:37Your path is yours to carve.
03:38Don't expect me to clear the way for you.
03:43That is your fate.
03:45I have a very low tolerance for noise, and I find the screams of a woman particularly grating.
03:50Alpha Kaelin ruined it.
03:51He had Thorn killed, but my hands were already rotting.
03:55I sent word to my sister.
03:56I begged her to summon a pack healer.
03:58She sent back only this.
04:00A wolf with pride does not beg.
04:02Even if you must crawl, crawl yourself to the healers.
04:04I dragged myself toward the healing den, ran out of strength, and crashed to the earth.
04:09In my fading vision, I thought I saw my mother.
04:12During the famine, our mother had given us everything.
04:15A noble wolf, seeing her near collapse, offered her a bowl of broth.
04:19Our tutor taught us.
04:21A wolf of worth does not eat what is thrown down in pity.
04:24Our pack would rather starve than accept charity.
04:27Our mother eventually passed away.
04:29I died too, on the road.
04:31When I woke up again, I found myself returning to the day Matron allocated us.
04:35Where are your manners?
04:37Thank the Matron.
04:38Now!
04:40Allara!
04:41What are you doing?
04:46Allara, let go of me!
04:47You feral girl!
04:49What is this?
04:52Even if you're angry at the mate for sending you to the washing duns, don't take it out on me!
04:58What a savage creature.
04:59We cannot keep this one in the palace.
05:01Send her to the rogue trader.
05:03Alpha Kaelin appeared.
05:04He stopped directly in front of me.
05:06In my last life, he had passed this spot too, but never looked at me.
05:10This time, the prince drew a silk claw.
05:12Don't sell her.
05:13Send her to my chambers.
05:15My sister's eyes went wide, disbelieving.
05:18Your highness, surely you've made an error.
05:20My sister is vulgar and base.
05:21I am the one with true pride.
05:23The prince gave her a single cold glance.
05:25My gamble had worked.
05:26In my last life, I had once witnessed two servants fighting, then chosen the one who struck harder to serve
05:33at his side.
05:33So today, I had struck in front of everyone.
05:37One reason, to lash out the anger buried in my chest.
05:40The other, to make the prince notice me.
05:42So my sister went to the rune chamber as before, while I became Alpha Kaelin's personal attendant.
05:48My monthly allowance exceeded hers.
05:50But from the day she entered the palace, she had also begun wearing earrings, bracelets that chimed at her wrists.
05:57Every servant girl envied her.
05:59Lyra only lifted her chin higher.
06:01We live once.
06:02Always shine.
06:04Around the same time, the steward cataloged the rune chamber and found parchment and painting tools missing.
06:10Like in palace stock.
06:12Worth more than any servant's yearly wage.
06:15Every quarter was searched.
06:17Nothing turned up.
06:18Then someone pointed at Lyra.
06:20She's been in the rune chamber since day one.
06:21And the way she dresses?
06:27Those are things I bought with my own savings.
06:30Besides, a wolf with true pride does not steal.
06:33That's fair.
06:33Lyra has too much pride to steal palace for company.
06:35She must have bought it with her own coin.
06:37But where had she gotten coin?
06:39We arrived at the palace with nothing.
06:41Our mother's possessions had barely covered one silk skirt.
06:44I had no proof.
06:46I couldn't accuse her.
06:47Then, one morning, I was hauled before the head matron without warning.
06:51Do you know what you've done?
06:52Matron.
06:53What are you referring to?
06:55I knew from the day she attacked Lyra she's no good.
06:57But who would have thought she'd be bold enough to steal from the palace itself?
07:01Thank the moon goddess Lyra has principles.
07:04She turned her own sister in.
07:06Otherwise this one would have walked free.
07:07My sister exhaled a long, sorrowful breath.
07:10Allura, last night when you came off duty, I noticed you creeping around like you were hiding something.
07:15I looked closer, and you were clutching a piece of the ancestral wolf stone beneath your cloak.
07:19She shook her head with theatrical disappointment.
07:22Why steal?
07:23This is a grave offense.
07:24Found it! Found it!
07:25A guard came sprinting in.
07:28Under Alara's pillow!
07:30Right here!
07:31He raised a small, smooth piece of runestone.
07:34The head matron seized my shoulders and forced me to my knees.
07:38What do you have to say for yourself?
07:40Before I could speak...
07:42Matron, my sister has done something wrong and I will not plead for her, but I failed to raise her
07:47properly.
07:49Punished me alongside her.
07:51You did the right thing by reporting it.
07:53I should be rewarding you, not punishing you.
07:56Then she turned back to me.
07:58I'll report this to the prince.
08:00Fifty strokes of the rod, then she gets sold.
08:03That piece of wolf stone isn't mine!
08:05It was...
08:06I'm asking one thing.
08:08Was it found under your pillow?
08:10Yes.
08:12She didn't let me say another word.
08:15My sister insisted on coming along.
08:18She had dressed carefully today.
08:20Alpha Kaelin was reading when we swept in.
08:22He looked up with a slight furrow between his brows.
08:25What has Alara done?
08:29Thank the moon goddess, Sinerea had the integrity to come forward to report her own sister.
08:35My sister stepped up, smoothing a strand of hair behind her ear.
08:39I don't play favorites.
08:40Not even with my own blood, your highness.
08:43Please punish my sister severely as a warning to others.
08:46The prince didn't look at her.
08:48Ilarra, you didn't explain yourself?
08:51They had already decided I was guilty.
08:54They wouldn't listen.
08:56When I gave you that piece of the ancestral wolf stone, what did I say?
09:01You said that slamming someone's head against a wall is inelegant.
09:04You suggested I simply throw the wolf stone at their skull directly.
09:07My sister's face drained white.
09:11Then I believe you can use it now.
09:13I tore the wolf stone fragment from the guard's eyes.
09:16She let out a sharp cry.
09:18The head matron stumbled backward.
09:20Oh, I see now.
09:23The wolf stone was a gift from the prince to Alara.
09:26Alara, I misunderstood.
09:29I wrongly accused you.
09:31It was you who stirred this.
09:33You made me accuse Alara for nothing.
09:35You are the head matron.
09:37You took one side without investigation and let someone attack a member of my household on false claims.
09:43You are dismissed.
09:45The matron and my sister were removed together.
09:48I retrieved the wolf stone from the floor.
09:51A hairline fracture had split the surface.
09:53Pity.
09:54When I spotted a figure I knew too well on the side path near the washing den.
09:59Thorn.
10:00Walking and fastening his belt as he went.
10:03No, didn't he?
10:04I waited until he disappeared, then moved deep into the shadows of the path.
10:09There, half hidden in the dark, lay a young she-wolf.
10:13Bruises and red marks covered her skin.
10:15She was sobbing quietly.
10:17She heard me approach, but didn't move.
10:20Only stared up at the black sky with empty eyes.
10:23I knew what had happened to her.
10:25In my last life, it had happened to me too.
10:29She scrambled suddenly to her feet.
10:31Teeth clenched and ran.
10:33I grabbed her wrist.
10:35What are you doing?
10:36Her voice was barely a sound.
10:38I-I can't go on living.
10:40You'd end your life because that old bastard hurt you?
10:43You don't understand.
10:44It isn't the first time.
10:47He drags me into the dark whenever he wants.
10:50He doesn't stop even when I'm bleeding from my moon cycle.
10:54I truly cannot go on.
10:57Something broke open in my chest.
10:59I should have found Thorn sooner.
11:01I knew what kind of wolf he was.
11:03Even if it hadn't been me in his path,
11:05he would have hunted someone else.
11:07I had let this happen.
11:08I pressed my hand to her shoulder
11:10and wiped the tears from her face.
11:12Let me deal with him for you.
11:14Would that help?
11:15She stared at me.
11:17Is that...
11:18possible?
11:20The next night,
11:21the young she-wolf sent Thorn a message
11:24to meet her along the side path
11:26near the east courtyard.
11:27Thorn came shuffling up the path.
11:29Why all the secrecy?
11:30What surprise have you got for me tonight?
11:34Then he saw my face instead.
11:38Who are you?
11:39I swallowed back my revulsion.
11:41I only just arrived at the palace.
11:43I have no one here.
11:45I heard you're a man of standing,
11:48and I thought...
11:50I'd ask for your protection.
11:52Thorn stared,
11:53genuinely thrown.
11:55In all his years,
11:56no she-wolf had ever come
11:57seeking him willingly.
11:59Will you take me under your care?
12:02Thorn swallowed hard.
12:04That little girl did me proud,
12:05going out to find me a new friend.
12:07He started toward me,
12:09lust clouding every movement.
12:11The stench of him hit me before he did.
12:14Every brutal memory rose at once.
12:18Oh, she wants to play.
12:22Come on.
12:24Beg and resist all you want.
12:26Then I spotted something on the path above,
12:29pale shape moving toward us through the dark.
12:32Every evening at this hour,
12:33Alpha Kaelin took his walk.
12:35In my last life,
12:36it was on one of these walks
12:38that he'd found me beneath Thorn
12:40and had the man put down.
12:42So when Thorn's fingers
12:43reached for the laces at my waist,
12:47You lured me here just to play games?
12:50No.
12:50I'll make you regret this
12:51before the night's over.
12:54A lantern swung into view.
12:56Alpha Kaelin had arrived.
12:59Your Highness, please.
13:01He pulled me upright,
13:03his eyes moving immediately
13:04to my loosened collar
13:05and understood everything
13:07without a word spoken.
13:10Your Highness,
13:11this servant came to me herself.
13:13She invited me out here.
13:17Liar.
13:18I am the Prince's personal attendant.
13:20Why would I lower myself
13:21to someone like you?
13:23You dare do this within Palace Wells?
13:26Your Highness,
13:27I swear it!
13:30She arranged this meeting.
13:32The girl sent for me herself.
13:36She arranged it?
13:38Then show me proof.
13:40Thorn had nothing.
13:41He knew the young She-Wolf and I
13:43would never betray each other.
13:45Without testimony,
13:46he stood naked of any evidence.
13:48I can bear witness.
13:50My sister arranged this meeting herself.
13:52My sister was walking toward us
13:54through the moonlight.
13:56I followed her after noticing her
13:58heading toward the East Courtyard.
14:00I was curious.
14:02I heard it myself.
14:03Yes.
14:04My sister told him
14:05he was a man of standing here
14:06in the Palace.
14:07That she wanted his protection.
14:08Yes, exactly as she says.
14:10She summoned me.
14:11Is that true?
14:12I considered denying it.
14:14Alara,
14:15I want the truth.
14:17My pulse lurched.
14:17He already suspected something.
14:20Yes,
14:21I arranged it.
14:22He had been violating
14:23a young She-Wolf
14:24in the dens repeatedly.
14:25I couldn't continue
14:26to watch it happen.
14:27I knew Uriah just walks here
14:28every evening.
14:29I brought him to this spot
14:30so you would find him.
14:31Sister,
14:32you dared to use the Prince this way.
14:34That is unforgivable.
14:35Thank the Moon Goddess
14:36I was here to witness
14:37everything,
14:38Your Highness.
14:38Otherwise,
14:39you would have been
14:40deceived entirely.
14:41The Prince had thrown
14:42a dagger at my feet.
14:44Alara,
14:45this is the first time
14:46you've used me.
14:47My sister stood in the moonlight.
14:48Using people through
14:49these degrading schemes
14:50has no dignity.
14:51The Prince wants you dead.
14:52Do it yourself.
14:53But the Prince
14:54nodded toward his guards
14:55and they pinned Thorne.
14:57Kill him.
14:58The Prince saw my hesitation.
15:02Too afraid?
15:04Afraid?
15:04I closed my eyes
15:06and let the memories
15:07flood in.
15:08The weight of him.
15:09The shame.
15:12My grip on the blade
15:14hardened.
15:14A scream split the dark.
15:16First cut.
15:17I unmade him as a male.
15:19Second cut.
15:20Straight into his heart.
15:30Where did this wolf do his work?
15:33The washing dens.
15:34Since you testified so enthusiastically
15:36on his behalf
15:37and seem so fond of him,
15:38you can go work
15:39in the dens yourself.
15:40My sister was stripped
15:41of her post in the rune chamber.
15:43Just like past me,
15:45she became a low rank Omega
15:46buried under mountains
15:48of soiled laundry
15:49every single day.
15:51I went to see her.
15:52Her hands were submerged
15:54in the wash basin.
15:56Growing up,
15:57she had never touched
15:58a household chore.
15:59Too proud for that.
16:00The scrubbing
16:01and the hauling
16:02fell to me
16:02and our mother.
16:04So her hands
16:05had no calluses.
16:07Now,
16:08only a few days in,
16:09they were already swollen.
16:10Faster!
16:11There's another basket
16:12after this one.
16:13She yanked her hands back,
16:15wincing hard.
16:16These hands are meant
16:17for painting and...
16:18You're in the washing dens now.
16:20What writing?
16:21Let's see if I can
16:22beat some sense into you.
16:23I walked past
16:24and glanced over.
16:25That is my blood sister.
16:27She is Alpha Kaelin's
16:28personal attendant.
16:29She speaks for him.
16:30Sister,
16:31a wolf stands
16:32on her own four paws.
16:34Your path is yours to carve.
16:35Don't expect me
16:36to clear the way for you.
16:39You heard her,
16:40didn't you?
16:40Your powerful little sister
16:42wants nothing to do with you!
16:43What?
16:44I left to the sound
16:45of her muffled crying
16:46and was still half lost
16:47in the echo of it
16:48when I walked straight
16:49through the prince's
16:50closed chamber door.
16:52When Alpha Kaelin's
16:54door was closed,
16:55no one entered
16:56without his explicit permission.
17:00Then I noticed
17:01the hidden room door
17:02open.
17:03The prince was inside,
17:05holding a carving blade.
17:14Elara,
17:15come here.
17:16I crossed the threshold.
17:18The man on the frame
17:19had barely any breath
17:20left in him.
17:23Disturbing, isn't it?
17:24He survived a boiling pull.
17:26He survived fire.
17:27He has survived everything,
17:29holding on to that
17:30last thread of life.
17:32I've been teaching myself
17:33to carve.
17:34Are you frightened,
17:35Elara?
17:36No.
17:37I only want to ask,
17:38what did he do
17:39to deserve this?
17:40Years ago,
17:41there was a rebellion.
17:42My birth mother
17:42was separated from the palace
17:44and thrown to the outer wilds.
17:45He was the leader
17:46of the rogues
17:47who found her.
17:48They degraded her
17:49until she died of shame.
17:50I killed every last one of them,
17:52except him.
17:53Death would be a mercy
17:54for someone like him.
17:55Shocked and afraid,
17:56aren't you?
17:57The prince who shines in public,
17:59rotten and cruel in private.
18:01I smiled.
18:03I picked up the carving blade,
18:04a single word
18:06into the center
18:06of the man's forehead.
18:08Beast.
18:11I don't find you
18:12frightening,
18:13your highness.
18:13A wolf who uses
18:14his brute strength
18:15against she-wolves
18:16deserves every cut he receives.
18:19In my eyes,
18:20your highness
18:21still shines like the full moon.
18:22Don't let creatures
18:23like this taint you.
18:25Is that so?
18:27Yes.
18:29Alara,
18:30I feel like you're
18:31flattering me.
18:33You are my prince
18:34and I am your servant.
18:36Keeping my prince
18:37in good spirits,
18:38isn't that simply my duty?
18:40And besides,
18:41I have plans
18:42that require you.
18:44Honest enough,
18:44I suppose.
18:46After that night,
18:48the prince stopped
18:49hiding himself from me.
18:50He let me move freely
18:51in and out of his private quarters.
18:53He began sharing things with me,
18:55new methods he was testing,
18:57rare instruments
18:58of his dark craft.
18:59It wasn't long before
19:00a rumor swept
19:01through the palace.
19:03Beta Silas had spotted
19:04a servant girl
19:05in the washing dens
19:06and intended to take her
19:07as his mistress.
19:09But sure enough,
19:10even from the dens,
19:11she had found her way
19:12back to Silas.
19:13Word was that
19:14Silas had passed by
19:15the washing dens
19:16when my sister
19:17was there alone.
19:18she told her
19:18and show
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