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00:00This familiar scene is exactly the same as in the previous life.
00:03The sky outside turned the color of a wound.
00:06A Lycan lord, in his full power, in human form.
00:10But how did the person in his arms become my sister?
00:12In my previous life, on the day of the sacred bonding rite,
00:16my sister chose the phoenix.
00:18She left the bear shifter, the one nobody wanted.
00:21It was fate.
00:23A cast-off for a beast.
00:25Instead, I saved a Lycan lord by accident.
00:28He took me as his queen.
00:30After the bonding, I bore five airs for the Lycan bloodline,
00:33a clan that had gone generations without children.
00:36I became a legend across the realm beyond.
00:39My sister, bonded to the phoenix, was cast out for barrenness.
00:43I came home with my youngest.
00:45My sister poisoned my bowl, me and my child both.
00:55When I woke, it was the day of the rite again.
00:59Everyone present is a worthy son of their bloodline.
01:03Choose freely.
01:04The hall filled with glances,
01:06with quiet negotiations between bodies and bloodlines.
01:09I didn't want any of it.
01:11In my last life, childbirth had nearly killed me.
01:14I wasn't doing it again.
01:15I stood alone.
01:17Then the doors blew open.
01:18Time returns to the present.
01:19And for some reason, my sister has taken my husband from my previous life.
01:27Vivian saved my life.
01:29From this day forward, she is my true mate.
01:31A Lycan lord choosing one of ours.
01:34Choosing her as first and only.
01:36It hadn't happened in living memory.
01:38I knew then.
01:39She'd been reborn too.
01:40Now I looked at her.
01:42Draped against the Lycan lord.
01:44Already victorious.
01:45She thought she'd won.
01:46She hadn't thought through what it would cost her.
01:49Lycan lords are of the fire element.
01:52Their mates sleep in fire.
01:54Eat fire-aspected food.
01:56For a bloodline like ours,
01:58cold-aspected by nature,
01:59that's not a marriage.
02:00Delicious.
02:01It's a slow execution.
02:03Last time, I had no choice but to pretend to like it.
02:06Every day.
02:07I smiled through the sacred fire walks.
02:10Through the meals that felt like swallowing colds.
02:12By the time I was pregnant,
02:14my core was already cracked.
02:16The children drew what was left.
02:18Vivian was cold-aspected too.
02:20She just didn't know what she'd agreed to yet.
02:23The whole heap celebrated.
02:25Every unmaided girl in the Order
02:27delayed her own bonding to help prepare Vivian's.
02:30The gift list ran ten feet long.
02:33The High Lord nearly emptied the sanctuary's vaults.
02:36I was the only unmaided woman left.
02:38That made me the obvious choice for handmaid.
02:41Vivian stood over me and smiled.
02:43Before you were the Elder,
02:45I deferred to you.
02:47How does this feel, sister?
02:49I said nothing.
02:51Ha!
02:51That look.
02:53You'll get used to it.
02:55The High Lord has already agreed.
02:56You belong to me now.
02:58I'll hit you when I want.
02:59Praise you when I want.
03:01You have no say.
03:03Start learning.
03:05A courier arrived from the Lycan Lord.
03:07A red and gold cloak.
03:09Light as feathers.
03:10Fire-resistant.
03:12Enchanted for speed.
03:13Vivian touched it with both hands.
03:15I knew that cloak.
03:17For fire-aspected bloodlines,
03:19it was a treasure.
03:20For cold-aspected bloodlines,
03:22it was a punishment.
03:23I'd worn it every day of my first marriage.
03:26It had carved away at my core for years.
03:29Vivian would find that out eventually.
03:32Then a girl came running.
03:33Fire on the back mountain!
03:35What an awful omen.
03:37Today of all days.
03:38I didn't wait.
03:39I ran.
03:40The mountain was burning hard when I arrived.
03:43Black smoke.
03:44Screaming from inside the tree line.
03:46The elders stood at the edge and wouldn't move.
03:49That fire belongs to a Lycan Lord.
03:52We interfere, we offend him.
03:54Your sister's bonding is today.
03:56Don't make trouble.
03:57No rank fallinities.
04:00I looked at him for a long moment.
04:02Then I went in.
04:03The smoke blinded me fast.
04:06The fire took my fur.
04:07But I was cold-aspected.
04:09Wherever I moved,
04:11frost spread behind me.
04:12It slowed the flames enough to matter.
04:18But I can't stop this fire with my own strength.
04:21I remembered what my foster mother taught me.
04:23Clear a line.
04:25Deny the fire somewhere to go.
04:26I shifted to full form and called out.
04:29Wolf.
04:30Eagle.
04:31Tiger.
04:32Bear.
04:33They came.
04:34They carried ice-hardened vessels in their jaws.
04:37An elephant used its trunk.
04:39Ants and mantises worked the fire breaks.
04:41We were losing.
04:43Then we weren't.
04:44Then the mountains shook.
04:45The ground split open.
04:47A dragon came out of it.
04:49Black.
04:50Ancient.
04:51Large enough to block the sun.
04:53He opened the night and it rained.
04:55The fire died.
04:57The dragon's voice didn't come from one direction.
04:59It came from everywhere.
05:03This mountain is mine.
05:05Who lit it?
05:07The elders said nothing.
05:08A thousand years in this valley.
05:10And nobody had thought to check whether something older already lived here.
05:14Then Vivian pointed at me.
05:16Ash everywhere.
05:17Burned fire.
05:18It had to be her.
05:20Every eye turned.
05:21Charred.
05:22Bleeding in two places.
05:23The same hands that had just spent an hour fighting the fire.
05:26I was certain someone would say it.
05:28Any of them.
05:29They'd all seen me run in.
05:31The elder looked at me for a long time.
05:33Then he knelt.
05:36The dragon's sovereign.
05:38Our wayward daughter did this.
05:40She is yours to punish.
05:41We offer her freely.
05:43I stood still.
05:44Not one of them spoke for me.
05:48I had bent myself in half for these people in my last life.
05:51I had burned from the inside out.
05:54Carrying children for a clan that wasn't mine.
05:56For a man who never once made me warm.
05:59I'd done it for them.
06:00Kept them safe.
06:02Kept them proud.
06:03And now they were handing me to a dragon.
06:05To buy themselves a quite.
06:07The fire was Lyocon.
06:08Everyone here knows that.
06:10I'm cul-de-sected.
06:11How would I produce sacred flame?
06:12You're my handmaid.
06:13You had access to my husband's fire tokens.
06:15Easy enough to steal a spark.
06:17If I started it, why did I try to stop it?
06:19To look innocent.
06:20What do I have to gain?
06:22Any of it.
06:23What exactly do you think I wanted?
06:25Mara, just admit it.
06:27I'm done with this covenant.
06:28All every debt between us is settled.
06:30Enough.
06:31The girl comes with me.
06:33Whatever she is to you, she isn't anymore.
06:36When I opened them, I was somewhere else.
06:39Torchlight.
06:40Stone.
06:41A ceiling so high, I couldn't see the end of it.
06:44He was in human form.
06:45Black robes edged in gold.
06:47He sat like someone who had never once needed anything from anyone.
06:51He was watching me with something almost like amusement.
06:54He said.
06:55Go ahead.
06:56Say what you want to say.
06:58You knew.
06:59You knew the whole time what happened.
07:02Why play along with them?
07:03Because you needed a reason to leave.
07:05And my palace is considerably more comfortable than a foxhole.
07:09I thought you might prefer it.
07:11I thought about what he'd said.
07:12In my last life, he had sent me a healing stone during my labor.
07:16Only later did I understand.
07:18The mountain was his.
07:20I had defended it.
07:21He remembered.
07:23Thank you, my lord.
07:24I'll serve faithfully.
07:26Don't do it again.
07:27He looked satisfied.
07:28Do what?
07:30Throw yourself at people who aren't worth it.
07:32He tilted his head.
07:34Get dressed.
07:35We're going to watch the bonding ceremony.
07:38He handed me a gown.
07:40Black.
07:41Covered with shimmering scales.
07:43I put it on and stood beside him.
07:45And we looked like we matched.
07:46I felt my face go warm without meaning to.
07:50The ceremony hall blazed with firelight.
07:53Vivienne walked the red carpet on the lichen lord's arm.
07:56She looked extraordinary.
07:58She always did.
07:59Then they reached the threshold.
08:01Every lichen bonding began the same way.
08:04The new mate had to walk a path of sacred embers.
08:07The lichen lord stepped onto the embers without pausing.
08:10For him, it was nothing.
08:12Vivienne stopped cold.
08:14People noticed.
08:15He pulled her toward the embers.
08:17She dug in.
08:19The hall went quiet in that particular way that means everyone is watching,
08:23while pretending not to.
08:25He leaned in and said something low and sharp.
08:28She went white.
08:29Then she walked.
08:31The sound when the fire touched her was something I would remember.
08:35She made it through.
08:36Barely.
08:37She knelt before the clan elder with shaking hands
08:40and held a cup of tea for half an hour before he finally took it.
08:44After the ceremony, in the corridor outside...
08:47No mate in our head have insulted the sacred fire at her own binding.
08:52Not one.
08:54You were the first.
08:55Congratulations.
08:57He walked.
08:57Don't wait up.
08:59I had turned to leave when my foot landed on a dry branch.
09:03Vivienne spun.
09:04How are you here?
09:06Her face twisted.
09:07She lunged.
09:08Her feet, still burned, betrayed her.
09:11She went down hard.
09:12The dragon should have killed you!
09:14I touched the fabric of my new gown.
09:17He's fair-minded.
09:19He doesn't punish the innocent.
09:20I looked at her.
09:22I'm his now.
09:23You can't touch me.
09:25She grabbed my throat.
09:26Her nails drew blood.
09:28You're lying.
09:30If he wanted you, he'd be here.
09:33He wouldn't leave you alone.
09:34One more inch, and she'd have managed it.
09:37I'll kill you right now, and no one will care.
09:39The air moved.
09:41Vivienne flew sideways.
09:43She hit the wall hard enough to cough blood.
09:46A hand settled at my waist.
09:49Warm.
09:50Steady.
09:51Power moving through it, like current.
09:53The dragon sovereign said pleasantly.
09:56I'm her intended.
09:57You can call me Aldrich.
09:58Or dragon sovereign.
10:01Either works.
10:03Vivienne stared at him.
10:05You can't.
10:06She has no standing.
10:07She's nothing.
10:08The Lycan Lord appeared in the doorway.
10:10Took one look at the dragon sovereign.
10:13Your Grace.
10:14I apologize for my mate's behavior.
10:17Today, of all days, I hope you'll forgive it.
10:20Your mate could use managing.
10:23The dragon sovereign glanced back at Vivienne.
10:25Then he took my arm, and we left.
10:29The next morning, his household was buzzing.
10:32The Lycan Lord's new bride had lost favor on her wedding night.
10:36She'd insulted the sacred fire.
10:38He'd taken a sparrow shifter servant to his bed,
10:40and elevated her to second mate.
10:43Vivienne had locked herself in her chambers.
10:45That news traveled fast.
10:47I found a mineral spring in the upper realm.
10:49I went every night for a month.
10:51One night I arrived and heard laughter.
10:53I looked.
10:54Then I wished I hadn't.
10:56Vivienne was in the water, with two men.
10:59Two dragon shifters.
11:00Junior officers, by the look of them.
11:02I left quietly.
11:04The heat didn't go away.
11:05I wandered the grounds, trying to walk it off.
11:08Aldrich was outside his own chambers, not sleeping either.
11:11He looked like the night had gotten into him.
11:13Dragonkind had their own rhythms, their own seasons.
11:17I looked at him for a moment.
11:18Then I made a decision.
11:20I used the oldest skill our bloodline carried.
11:23He would experience it as a dream.
11:25He wouldn't remember clearly.
11:29You're too thin.
11:30I don't know how you're holding yourself up.
11:31His skin against mine carried a faint, natural coolness, like stone in a river.
11:37It moved through me like relief.
11:57I'd planned to clear the memory.
11:59He seemed not to have noticed, or not to care.
12:02Then my body reminded me of something.
12:04I recognized the feeling immediately.
12:07I was pregnant.
12:09Around the same time, so was Vivian.
12:11The Lycan Lord's servants spread it everywhere.
12:14Seven heirs expected.
12:15A miracle for a clan that hadn't produced children in generations.
12:19The keep rejoiced.
12:20Even Aldrich's household received the announcement.
12:23I thought about those two men in the spring.
12:25I hoped for her sake, she knew what she was carrying.
12:28She came to see me a few weeks later, surrounded by attendants.
12:32She looked radiant.
12:33She always found a way to look radiant.
12:36She pressed her hand to my stomach, then looked at my broom.
12:39I thought you'd found yourself a dragon sovereign.
12:41Looks like you're still sweeping floors.
12:43I'm going to be named Holy Sovereign of the Lycan Clan.
12:46First woman in a thousand years to carry their heirs.
12:49The clan elder promised,
12:51Once these children come, I'll have everything.
12:54You should stay away from my hall once I'm settled.
12:56Don't embarrass yourself pretending we're still family.
13:00She turned.
13:01With a gesture, she scattered dead leaves across the path I'd just cleaned.
13:05Then Aldrich appeared.
13:07The leaves reversed direction and hit Vivian in the face.
13:12My household staff aren't yours to entertain yourself with.
13:16I'm carrying the Lycan Lord's A's!
13:18You wouldn't dare hurt me!
13:20My wife is also expecting.
13:23You disrespect her.
13:25I haven't begun to address that yet.
13:27You.
13:28You have no bond.
13:30No ceremony.
13:31No standing.
13:32You're a hollowborn with a child and no covenant!
13:39Mara became my wife before heaven and earth witnessed it.
13:42This stone is my line's oldest heirloom.
13:45It belongs to her now.
13:47She is my mate in full.
13:51A messenger arrived from the High Court.
13:53Mara of the Holy Maiden Bloodline, recognized for valor in defense of a sacred site, is hereby elevated to Holy
14:00Sovereign.
14:00Her bonding to the Dragon Sovereign Aldrich is sanctioned and recorded.
14:04Let it be so!
14:05Vivian's eyes filled.
14:07She cried silently, and the tears were not the soft kind.
14:11The Lycan Lord arrived shortly after.
14:13Dragon Sovereign, I apologize.
14:15The pregnancy is affecting her temperament.
14:18Aldrich looked at her one last time.
14:20She could use a firmer hand.
14:22Then he brought me home.
14:24That night.
14:27Do you remember it?
14:29My gift of recall isn't something your bloodline's arts can touch.
14:33You were never dreaming either.
14:35I wanted you.
14:37I've wanted you since I watched you fight a sacred fire to save animals that weren't yours and people who
14:43didn't deserve it.
14:45I took you to my bed.
14:47I owe you a name for it.
14:49A name isn't enough.
14:50So I owe you the formal bond, witnessed by heaven and earth, and every treasure in my line, and the
14:57largest bonding celebration the realm has seen in a century.
15:01You'll have all of it.
15:03After the children come, when you're ready.
15:07But you are mine, Mara.
15:11That part was settled the moment I chose it.
15:13I held on to him, and for the first time since waking into this second life, I didn't have to
15:18hold myself together.
15:19My body moved through the pregnancy with almost uncanny ease.
15:23I was tired, and hungry for strange things, and I slept too long.
15:28Vivian's nights were another matter.
15:30She screamed through them, every night, longer.
15:33The Lycan Lord put a silencing ward around her wing.
15:36It didn't reach the gossip.
15:38They sent fire-aspected tonics, womb-strengthening remedies.
15:42All of it intensified the fire.
15:44None of it helped the mother.
15:46She came to show off, still.
15:47By the time I saw her, she was enormous.
15:50Her face had hollowed out.
15:52Her hands and feet were swollen.
15:54She moved like it hurt.
15:55I took her arm before she fell.
15:58You shouldn't be walking around like this.
16:00She shook me off.
16:01My husband says movement makes labor easier.
16:04He knows more about this than you do.
16:07He knows Lycan physiology.
16:09That's not the same thing.
16:10She looked at me with complete contempt.
16:11You're jealous.
16:13You've got that cold little belly, and you know I've won.
16:18Seven heirs.
16:20Seven.
16:21What do you have?
16:23One.
16:26I'm going to be holy sovereign of the most ancient shifter bloodline in the realm.
16:31My children will be legends.
16:33Yours will be a footnote.
16:35She used her power to scatter leaves across my clean steps on the way out.
16:39I watched her go.
16:41Vivian.
16:42What's going to happen when those children arrive?
16:44And none of them are what anyone's expecting?
16:48Vivian went into labor before me.
16:50I brought snacks and found a good position near the back.
16:53She'd been sending celebration sweets to every household in the upper realm since she announced the pregnancy.
16:59Half the realm had shown up to witness the arrival of the Lycan clown's first heirs in a thousand years.
17:06The Lycan lord paced outside.
17:08His entire extended family had come in.
17:10The high court had sent observers.
17:12They weren't there to congratulate anyone.
17:15They were there to record.
17:16I spotted the two dragon shifters from the spring, both very still.
17:21Vivian screamed from midday to sunset.
17:23Then she went quiet.
17:25The crowd held its breath.
17:26The attending midwife came out first.
17:28Then six attendants behind her.
17:31One after another.
17:32Seven children.
17:33The Lycan lord went to look.
17:35He picked up the first one.
17:37It shifted in his hands.
17:38Black scales.
17:40His face had gone very wrong.
17:41What is this?
17:42My lord, please, don't.
17:45The Lycan lord looked at him, then at the child, then back.
17:49He understood.
17:50He picked up the next five, one by one.
17:53His hands were shaking by the third.
17:56None of them were Lycan.
17:58He looked up at the crowd.
17:59Hundreds of witnesses.
18:01The high court observers with their recording stones.
18:04Then six more men stepped forward from different directions.
18:07Each one claiming a child.
18:09The seventh child was half sparrow.
18:12The same bloodline as the servant Vivian had despised enough to betray on purpose.
18:17The crowd didn't make any sound for a long moment.
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