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