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Seven Years of Ice and Vengeance HD
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00:13Seven years after his death, my husband came back to life at Flamekeep's Spring Feast.
00:41He'd been living easy all these years.
00:43He had no notion that his desertion had long since been laid bare, nor that White Flamekeep had passed to
00:48another hand.
00:49The day he faked his death and fled to the neighboring kingdom, he thought it was nothing.
00:53He thought Torrin would answer for him.
00:55But on that same day, the Iron Cavalry of Sarn smashed the gates of White Flamekeep.
01:00In a single night, he was branded a traitor and a deserter.
01:03The city was put to the sword.
01:05Nearly all were butchered, including my parents.
01:08There was not even enough left of them for a proper burial.
01:11Had Lord Roderick Harwin not descended from the sky on Dragonback, I would not be standing here now.
01:17And Torrin, the old Lord of White Flamekeep, the Father Edren kept talking about.
01:21On the day Lord Harwin pulled him from the ruins, he confessed his son's treason and threw himself into the
01:26flames.
01:28As for me, I survived.
01:30But I had remarried a long time ago.
01:32Darren was still jeering, playing to the crowd.
01:35By the gods, that's cold.
01:37Your lyre was a beauty.
01:39Were you not afraid she would run off with another?
01:45Run off?
01:46She was eight months pregnant.
01:47What man of honor would have her?
01:49And she was crazy about me.
01:51She was likely clutching my air to her breast every night, praying for my return.
01:55She would never have left.
01:57Given how hard Lyre was obsessed with you, she spent all these years hiding like a rat and will die
02:02alone still whispering your name.
02:04Honestly, she brought it on herself.
02:06Shameless, the way she begged for the marriage.
02:08No wonder she found herself a widow so young.
02:10I wager she's wasting away in her grief.
02:12If she saw you now, she'd probably lose her mind.
02:15He didn't object to a single word.
02:18I only slept with her once, and she got pregnant.
02:21What does that make her, huh?
02:22Sounds like a whore to me.
02:23Several men exchanged leave grins.
02:25I locked my eyes on Edrin's face, and a cold fire began to burn in my veins.
02:29Seven years ago, he abandoned us all.
02:32Old Torrin was forced to drag his ailing body into a suit of rusted armor and ride out to meet
02:36the war.
02:37Mira and I were left behind in the war camp, huddled together, counting the last of our meager supplies.
02:42And there was nothing we could do.
02:48Torrin's forces were broken, again and again.
02:51From the rear, we heard the news from the front.
02:54Each report worse than the last.
02:56I heard my parents had been slain.
02:58I heard my family's wrath, gathered over generations, had been looted.
03:02On the distant ridgelines, the warning beacons were lit.
03:05One after another.
03:07Until he came.
03:08Down from the clouds, through the smoke and ash, on the back of a dragon.
03:13Lord Roderick Harwood.
03:14The dragon lord, the master of the starling dragons, the keeper of the iron flame throne, ruler of the scarlet
03:19sun kingdom, lord of flame keep and the dragon's pine sea.
03:22He buried the truth of Edrin's treason.
03:24In return, I was wed to him.
03:26The keeper of the iron flame throne held too much power for anyone to question him.
03:30The official story was that Torrin and Mira Castwood had died of a sudden sickness.
03:34It was a lie that preserved what little honor their name had left.
03:37Then someone in the crowd spotted me.
03:40His face lit up.
03:41He slapped Edrin on the arm and pointed straight in my direction.
03:48Laya?
03:48What are you doing here?
03:49Damn, Aedlin.
03:50You're barely back from the grave and she's already tracked you down.
03:53Someone's desperate.
03:54Have you no shame?
03:55This feast is Lady Harwood's.
03:57Were you even summoned?
03:58Do not disgrace me before the guards drag you out.
04:00The dragon lord is insanely protective of his wife.
04:03Lady Harwood doesn't like seeing people, so he keeps her completely hidden away.
04:06No one's ever seen her face.
04:07This is the first feast she's ever hosted.
04:09We all came tonight hoping for a glimpse of her.
04:11So, Leah, I know you missed Aedrin, but try not to ruin the feast for the rest of us.
04:16You just crawled out of your grave, Sir Caitlyn.
04:19Worry about yourself.
04:21White flame coal is not as you remember it.
04:24Back then, Torrin sent him to the war hoping he'd earn some glory.
04:27I remember my belly was so swollen it was hard to walk, but I stood with him at the gates,
04:32terrified, begging him to stay safe.
04:33The only news we received was that he'd faked his death and fled the battlefield.
04:38I was eight months pregnant, hauling arrows and tending to the wounded in the rear camp.
04:42But the enemy broke through the other words faster than anyone feared.
04:46Boys, a fat-bellied one.
04:48Any of you had the taste?
04:49One of them kicked me hard.
04:51I hit the ground.
04:52Blood poured down my legs.
04:55You don't have to make up such pathetic lies to lure me back.
04:58If loneliness has made you so desperate, beg me sweetly enough and I may grant you one night in my
05:03bed.
05:04He saw the flicker of pain in my eyes and thought he'd hit the mark.
05:07He looked proud of himself.
05:23It was Leora Fane.
05:26She hid behind the lie that died of heartbreak and gone away with Edrin.
05:29To live as man and wife in some other place.
05:31And Edrin, who knew the whole thing was a lie.
05:34I remember.
05:35He once forced me to stand outside in the freezing cold all night as penance for Leora.
05:39My nails dug into my palms as I stared at the two of them.
05:42After Leora's tragedy, a healer managed to save her.
05:45Turns out she was already pregnant.
05:46She's been recovering in seclusion all these years.
05:48It hasn't been easy for her.
05:49A widow with a child.
05:50I couldn't just abandon them, so I decided to marry her.
05:52Make her my wife.
05:53Her son will inherit the title of White Flame Keep.
05:54It's the least I can do to honor my brother's memory.
05:56You will return and make the keep ready.
05:58And if I hear so much as a whisper against her, you will answer for it.
06:01I had never heard such shamelessness uttered aloud.
06:04That boy was obviously his.
06:06His and Leora's.
06:07Whom you wed is no concern of mine, Sir Castwood.
06:11I was wed again long ago.
06:15Remarried?
06:15You think I give a damn?
06:17I didn't come back for a woman like you.
06:18I heard the dragon egg at White Flame Keep hatched.
06:20The ice dragon egg my family has guarded for generations.
06:22I, Adian of House Castwood, shall mount the ice dragon and rule as king.
06:26And that dragon is my bloodlite.
06:27Don't you come crying back to me when it happens.
06:29Of course.
06:30No wonder you came back now, Adrian.
06:32You're about to become a dragon lord.
06:34Even Lord Harwin will have to bow to you then, won't he?
06:36Already picturing himself on the back of a great ice dragon.
06:39And all I could think was, he has no idea that dragon hatched seven years ago.
06:43It hatched on the night White Flame Keep was slaughtered.
06:46It hatched while the Sarn Riders were smearing over me.
06:48After my blood soaked into the dirt, my blood fell upon the ancient shell, already split
06:53with cracks.
06:54Then it broke.
06:55A little dragon blew as winter ice.
06:58And you, the nerve you have, saying things like that.
07:02If I remember correctly, you were eight months pregnant.
07:05What man of rank would take a woman swollen with another man's bastard, or'd you have to
07:08go crawling to some lowborn merchant?
07:10Right.
07:11You are common trash, after all.
07:12The men are having left again.
07:15Mother, when is father coming back?
07:16These people are so loud.
07:18You want me back that badly?
07:20You even brought the child with you?
07:25This child!
07:26She should be seven by now, should she not?
07:29Why is she so slight?
07:32Liar, even if you're angry with Adrien, you can't take it out on the child.
07:36That's just cruel.
07:37Just then, her son came charging back.
07:40He saw the unique dragon scale pendant around Alia's neck.
07:43Give me that!
07:45Mom said you and everything this woman has belongs to me.
07:50Give it back!
07:53It's my birthday present!
07:55It's not yours!
07:57It all happened so fast.
07:58I didn't have time to think.
08:00I just shoved the boy back and scooped Alia into my arms.
08:03The boy fell on his back and let out a piercing, theatrical shriek.
08:09You dare lay a hand on a child?
08:13Leora was right.
08:14You're a bitch who belongs in the slums or a brothel!
08:19I've known Adrien since we were children.
08:21When other kids would corner me and bully me, he was the one who fought for me.
08:25He'd get his face bruised and bloodied, but he would always stand stubbornly in front of me.
08:29Back then, I thought he would protect me forever.
08:32And that I would love and cherish him forever.
08:34But now, in front of this whole crowd, for another woman, he had just humiliated me without a second thought
08:40for my dignity.
08:41He reeled from the slap, his rage about to explode.
08:45But when he saw my red-rimmed eyes, he faltered for a second.
08:48For the briefest instant, he looked almost ashamed.
08:51Leora seized the moment.
08:53She clutched her son to her chest and let out a choked sob.
08:56It seems Leora doesn't want us to come back.
08:59I always knew Meera preferred her.
09:01But now that I'm a widow, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised I'm not welcome.
09:05Maybe we should just leave.
09:08I left you in charge.
09:10To see to my parents and the running of the keep.
09:13How dare you waste the keep's money on useless things like this!
09:16His eyes fell on the dragon scale pendant around Alia's neck.
09:20Wait!
09:21Where did you get that dragon scale?
09:23That's a scale from my family's ice dragon.
09:25That scale is mine by blood.
09:27Mine!
09:28You have the nerve to scavenge it and wear it?
09:30That belongs to me!
09:32You've been squatting in White Flame Keep all these years.
09:35You probably never even got to touch the egg, did you?
09:39Now the dragon has hatched and that scale is mine!
09:43You're a commoner's daughter.
09:45By what right do you touch it?
09:46I couldn't even be bothered to answer him.
09:48I turned to a handmaiden who had just rushed over.
09:52Get the healer.
09:54Being ignored sent Edrin over the edge.
09:57He grabbed my arm.
09:59It's a little scratch.
10:00And you're gonna bother Lord Harwin's people over that?
10:07Liar, what the hell is wrong with you?
10:09Have seven years alone surely made you so bitter?
10:11Are you just lonely, is that it?
10:13Blaming me because you've had no one?
10:15Ask pardon as you ought, and I may yet come to your bed tonight.
10:19I have told you I am remarried.
10:22You need to start worrying about yourself.
10:27Fine.
10:28Be stubborn.
10:29I'll be waiting for the day you come begging me to take you back.
10:32After the healer had cleaned and dressed Alia's cheek, a deep wave of exhaustion washed over me.
10:37I used to wonder, for a long time, if Edrin had a reason.
10:40Some secret hardship that made him abandon his wife, his unborn child, and his home for seven years.
10:46I remember the night before Miro walked into the throne room and took her own life.
10:50I never should have gone to your father's house with Torrid.
10:53I never should have promised you, on that monster's behalf, that he would be good to you.
10:59We did this.
11:01We ruined you!
11:05Mira had always been so full of life, a woman who refused to grow old.
11:09From the day I married Edrin, she treated me like her own daughter.
11:12But in one single night, the weight of it all had broken her.
11:15Liar.
11:17White Flame Keep has failed you.
11:19If that animal ever comes back, I give you my blessing to kill him yourself.
11:24Now you go find a good man.
11:27And don't you dare grieve for us.
11:29In the seven years since I married Roderick Harwin, I've rarely left the castle.
11:33This was the day the stranger took Mira.
11:35I hosted this feast to tell the spirit of the old woman who loved me like a daughter that I
11:38was okay.
11:39That I had finally moved on.
11:42I took a breath, composed myself, and walked back to the great hall.
11:47Edrin and Leora were sitting together, acting for all the world like a happy couple.
11:51I walked right past their table without even a glance.
11:56But as I passed, the blue caught my head.
12:01I remember her.
12:03That's Adrian Casford's wife.
12:04The one who's been lonely for seven years.
12:07Is she doing this to get his attention?
12:08How shameless.
12:10Is she crazy, making a scene at a feast by Lady Harwin?
12:13Liar!
12:14How could you?
12:16I know you're upset with Adrian, but you can't act like this at Lady Harwin's feast.
12:21Are you trying to make Lord Harwin angry with Adrian on purpose?
12:25Edrin's expression turned lethal.
12:26Leah, so you are here to cause trouble.
12:29Seven years, and you still haven't learned a thing?
12:34As I tried to push myself up.
12:39The fault is mine.
12:41I should have kept this bitch in hand.
12:44She's disturbed all of you.
12:47I'll make her apologize.
12:50I'm saving you, Liar.
12:52If you make Lady Harwin angry, you're dead.
12:54Lord Harwin doesn't have a good temper.
12:57I heard the last person who pissed him off was cut over 300 times before he was allowed to die.
13:03I am Lady Harwin.
13:05Take your foot off me, Adrian Castwood, or this day will be your last.
13:09The hall fell silent for a single.
13:11Then it erupted in a roar of laughter.
13:19Liar, you'd even dare to tell a lie like that?
13:21Take a look at yourself.
13:22And you think a creature such as you could pass herself off as Lady Harwin?
13:27Alia came running back into the hall.
13:29She saw me pinned to the ground and charged at him like a furious little animal.
13:33Mama!
13:37You little brat.
13:38No manners at all.
13:40When I get back, I will have you and your mother thrown out onto the ice field for three days.
13:46My father will not suffer this.
13:48Edrin was losing his patience.
13:50He opened his mouth to say something else.
13:53But just then, a huge commotion started outside.
13:56Then came a roar like a stormwind, so fierce it seemed to shake the very stones.
14:00The dragon lord was back.
14:06Everyone stretched their necks.
14:08Does that mean we'll finally get to see Lady Harwin?
14:10The dragon lord adores his wife.
14:12If he finds out someone dared to impersonate her, he'll probably torture this woman to death.
14:17As they snickered, a world-shattering dragon's cry split the sky.
14:21A massive shadow swept over the grounds.
14:24A colossal dragon dove from the clouds.
14:32The dragon lord.
14:33The keeper of the iron flame throne.
14:35He had returned.
14:36Father, you're finally back!
14:41You little bastard.
14:43Daring to impersonate Lord Harwin's daughter?
14:45You're just as low as your mother.
14:47This is the finest silk imported from myrrh.
14:49You and your mother are not fit to touch clothes so fine.
14:52We can't have them making a scene here.
14:54It'll ruin the mood for Lord Harwin and his lady.
14:56Let's get them out of sight.
14:57I'll deal with them after I've properly met Lady Harwin.
14:59We cannot have such filth before Lady Harwin's eyes.
15:02While Roderick was still on the far side of the hall,
15:04Ezra gagged me and started dragging me away in the opposite direction, Dot.
15:08He was dragging me into the thick bushes at the edge of the trees' grounds.
15:11I had no idea where he'd be taking Alia.
15:14I struggled, trying to get up, but he just kicked my back, pinning me down.
15:18I picked this special place for you.
15:20Maybe it'll help you wake up and stop dreaming.
15:22You stay here and wait for Lady Harwin to deal with you properly.
15:28He straightened up, brushing the dust from his clothes.
15:31He was about to leave, but his eyes were drawn to the colossal beast at the edge of the grounds,
15:35Dot.
15:36He stared at the dragon, and I could see him imagining his own ice dragon there instead,
15:41with everyone in the kingdom bowing and scraping before him, Dot.
15:47A slow, arrogant smile spread across his face, Dot.
15:52Just wait.
15:53When I get back, all of Flametuck will kneel to House Castwood,
15:56and then this dragon lord, this iron flame throne.
16:00They will all make way for me.
16:02By the time he got there, Roderick Harwin was already seated.
16:05The man's gaze swept coolly over the crowd.
16:08Where are my lady and my daughter?
16:09Sweat beaded on the steward's forehead.
16:11Lady Harwin said she did not wish to have her identity known, my lord.
16:14She instructed us not to follow.
16:16I'll send men to find her at once.
16:20Lord Harwin!
16:21It's an honor to finally meet you.
16:23Isn't Lady Harwin with you?
16:25Roderick gave him a cold, indifferent glance.
16:28It's me, my lord.
16:30Adrian Castwood of White Flame Keep.
16:32I've only just recently returned.
16:33I heard Lady Harwin was hosting a feast, and I came especially to pay her my respects.
16:39You would pay her honor?
16:41You aren't fit to speak her name.
16:47White Flame Keep.
16:48That place has been all but forgotten.
16:50And even if he does hatch some little ice dragon, it will still be no more than a lizard beside
16:54the dragon lord's beasts.
16:56He actually thought he could use this to curry favor with the dragon lord.
16:59Exactly.
17:00The dragon lord has seen every kind of dragon that exists.
17:03This idiot thinks he can show off some unproven ice hatchling?
17:07He's clearly never been anywhere.
17:09Or seen anything.
17:11Besides paying my respects, I also have something to report to Lady Harwin.
17:16Someone here had the audacity to impersonate her.
17:19I've already forced her to her knees to repent, but she refuses to learn her lesson.
17:23I beg you, Lord Harwin, to punish her severely.
17:26It's true.
17:27Not only did that woman impersonate Lady Harwin, she deliberately caused a scene knocking over food and wine.
17:33She meant to spoil the entire feast.
17:35And her daughter is just as arrogant.
17:37She dared to pull a scale from my family dragon and wear it as a pendant.
17:41That's right.
17:42Does she have any idea where she is impersonating Lady Harwin?
17:46A low-class, vulgar woman like that could never deserve such a position.
17:50She probably thinks holding one shed dragon leer makes her some dragon queen in her own mind.
17:55Don't worry, Lord Harwin.
17:58I've already tied her up and thrown her in the bushes to reflect on what she's done.
18:02She's probably been without a man for so long it's added her brain.
18:07That's why she was asking for death.
18:18Where is she?
18:21Liar is finished now.
18:23The dragon lord is truly furious.
18:25A man like him would never allow someone to impersonate his wife.
18:28A few years ago, someone secretly mocked Lady Harwin for being a recluse, saying she must be too ugly to
18:33show her face.
18:34He had that man thrown alive into a volcano.
18:38What a waste, though.
18:40Liar has a face and a body like that.
18:42Too bad to throw in a volcano.
18:44They should just send her to one of the city's brothels.
18:48Your grace, it is all my fault.
18:50Please, punish me.
18:52What Liar did is a crime deserving of a hundred deaths, but why don't you leave her to me?
18:57I will see her tongue torn out or her legs broken so she never runs nor speaks against me again.
19:02Please, Lord Harwin, spare the bitch's life.
19:07The dragon lord let go.
19:09Poor Edrin could even gasp for air.
19:12Where is she?
19:13Take me to her!
19:16Shaking, stumbling, he led the way to the edge of the pond where he'd thrown me dot.
19:21You bitch!
19:22Why did you have to come here and make Lord Harwin angry?
19:30He knelt down, untied the ropes, and lifted me from the water as if I were made of glass.
19:35I was soaked through, my cheek swollen and bruised.
19:38I managed a weak, trembling smile dot.
19:42Just then, Alia, who must have escaped from wherever they locked her.
19:46Father, father, they hit mother!
19:48They almost killed her!
19:50We almost never got to see you again!
19:54Lord Harwin, it was all Adriel!
19:56He's the one who hurt her!
19:58We didn't do anything!
19:59Please, my lord!
20:00You have to believe us!
20:04I have nothing to do with him, Lord Harwin!
20:06He must have deceived me!
20:08Lord Harwin, Alia Mola is my wife!
20:11How can she be your wife?
20:12There must be some kind of misunderstanding!
20:15He's right, Lord Harwin!
20:16That woman is Adrien's wife!
20:18She even had his child!
20:19This woman was already married!
20:21And she dared to hide her identity and tricked you!
20:23It's shameful!
20:27You are Leora Fang.
20:29She'd always known she was beautiful.
20:32If such a woman could win his favor, why should she not do better?
20:37Lord Harwin, you know my name.
20:42But I was told you died for your late husband.
20:45Leia has blamed herself for your death all these years.
20:48So as not to make her grief a waste, then it is past time you return to your grave.
20:53As for these two...
20:56Kill them both!
20:57Adrien's face with child fight.
20:59You dare!
21:01I'm the heir of Whiteflame Halt!
21:03You stole my wife!
21:05My parents will go to the king!
21:07And I have an ice dragon!
21:08You think you'll keep that throne when my dragon is grown?
21:11Are you afraid I'm going to take your title?
21:15Back in our chambers, the healer gently bandaged my wounds.
21:31They shouldn't get to die that easily!
21:34Not after what they did to you, mother!
21:38If I had known, the day you married him, I should have killed him myself.
21:45A warmth spread through my chest.
21:47When Roderick first made his offer of marriage, I was more terrified than anything.
21:51I knew that in this world, no one does a kindness for no reason.
21:55But I had no other choice.
21:57I was ready to accept whatever came next.
21:59I always thought he just wanted my dragon.
22:02The ancient, precious ice dragon that hatched from its egg in the ruins of Whiteflame Keep.
22:06But he never tried to take her from me.
22:09Instead, he was kind.
22:11He treated me with a respect I'd never known, asking for my opinion on everything.
22:15Until today, I had almost managed to forget Edrin even existed.
22:20Your grace, I have failed you.
22:22As the guards were escorting Edrin away, he slammed his own son into the guards to break their grip.
22:27In the ensuing chaos, he managed to slip away.
22:32But rest assured, I have men after him.
22:35He won't get far.
22:36You are, he's running back to Whiteflame Keep.
22:39Edrin was the youngest child.
22:41He'd been spoiled his whole life by Torrin and Mira.
22:44Whenever he got into trouble, he always ran home.
22:47He still doesn't know that every person in that keep who ever loved him is dead.
22:51And he is the one who killed them.
22:54This day belongs to Mira.
22:56Since he's returned, we'll use Adrian's life as the offering.
23:03After Torrin and Mira died, Roderick gave the castle to me.
23:07All the old servants were gone.
23:09Replaced long ago, Edrin ran straight to Whiteflame Keep.
23:13How dare you stop me?
23:18I am the heir of Whiteflame Keep, the master of the Ice Dragon, the future rival to the Dragon Lord's
23:24throne.
23:25Father, mother, Edidrin is home.
23:30Was it that bitch, Leah?
23:32Did she put you up to this?
23:34So clever!
23:36Seduces another man, climbs into the Dragon Lord's bed.
23:39And now she's even turned my own parents against me?
23:42That whore!
23:43The Dragon Lord will see her for what she is, soon enough!
23:47My mother would never abandon me!
23:49All I have to do is apologize, and she'll forgive me!
23:53You'll all be beaten to death for this!
23:57Just then, the person of the party arrived, pinning him to the ground.
24:01My lady, Lady of Whiteflame Keep.
24:03I stepped out from behind the guards.
24:06Bring him inside.
24:11You're insane!
24:13You actually got them to play along with this ridiculous charade!
24:16You are fit for washing linen and warming a man's bed, nothing more!
24:20How long do you think Lord Harmon will tolerate a lying bitch like you?
24:24Master of the Ice Dragon?
24:26Just wait, when the Ice Dragon sees me, you'll find out who its real master is!
24:31Are you deaf?
24:32I am the true master of the Ice Dragon!
24:35The Lord of Whiteflame Keep!
24:38I am your master!
24:40No one moved.
24:41No one answered him.
24:43The servants bowed to me once more and dispersed.
24:46Liar!
24:47You bitch!
24:49You'll die for this!
24:50How long do you think you can fool the Dragon Lord?
24:53When he gets tired of you, you'll be nothing!
24:55Let me go!
24:56A moment ago, he was desperate to get in.
25:00Now, a nameless dread seemed to surround him.
25:02Struggling, cursing.
25:04Do you know who I am?
25:05I am the master of the Ice Dragon!
25:09They threw him down in front of a row of black tombstones.
25:12This is Torrent's grave.
25:14He put on rusted armor and rode to war in his son's place.
25:17When Lord Harwin saved him, he confessed.
25:19And walked into the fire!
25:21This is Meera's!
25:22She was with me in the rear camp.
25:24We were nearly killed by the enemy before we were saved.
25:26The day after Torrent died, she walked into the throne room, confessed her guilt, and drove a dagger into her
25:31own heart.
25:31And this one is for my unborn child.
25:34She was eight months along.
25:35The day White Flame Keep was sacked, a Sarn Rider kicked me to the ground.
25:39I felt her blouted of me into the mud.
25:42I just had to lie there and watch as she became a plot of blood mixed with dirt.
25:47And beyond all that, do you have any idea that in the chaos, I never even found my parents' bodies
25:53to bury?
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