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Claimed by the Cursed Kingdom EPISODE
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00:00Daughter of the Lord, bloodline awakened, heir to the throne.
00:04Glory to the soul and clan, a gift from Hekney, well-deserved.
00:11Give me a red wine.
00:20The wine you asked for.
00:27You walk in here while he is clearly occupied?
00:31Are you blind or just stupid?
00:39Then Lord Rowan can pour his own wine.
00:42What did you just...
00:43Did you call him by his name?
00:45You address him as my lord, you disrespectful little twat!
00:53That is enough, Isolette.
00:56Know your place, Zahra.
00:58You have no house, no bloodline, nowhere you're in this realm that would take you in.
01:03I will leave then.
01:04I will go rogue before I die.
01:07You have no soul power yet.
01:10Until you do, you belong to this house.
01:13You belong to me.
01:17Come to my study once you have cleaned this up.
01:29Fifteen years with not a single confirmed trace of my daughter.
01:33What more do you need, Lord Blackwell?
01:35I hear you, Lord Cassian.
01:37But murder and abduction require proof.
01:41The other houses will not move against Greth without it.
01:44House Greth attacked House Solani fifteen years ago.
01:47My daughter vanished the same night.
01:49I know what happened to her.
01:51Her body was never found, Lord Blackwell.
01:54In fifteen years, no body.
01:57What does that tell you?
01:59Or do you just not want to hear it?
02:02You are the only one with the power and the standing to help us.
02:07You have to help me avenge my daughter.
02:15Clotha, Laxius, Hekma, if any of you are listening, please, tomorrow, give me my soul power when I turn eighteen.
02:23Set me free.
02:25We will live simply.
02:26In the woods if we have to.
02:28We will hunt for what we need.
02:30We will need nothing from anyone in this house ever again.
02:34I will attend Rowan Greth's feast tomorrow.
02:38Whatever is inside that castle, I will find it.
02:41You have my word.
02:45I will pull everything we have on the Gretheth, attack on House Selenen.
02:50Every record.
02:53Every body.
02:55Body that was not found.
02:57Do it.
03:00Zara Saloni's body was never found.
03:03I suspect she is not dead.
03:25You're a fast learner, my lady.
03:27You're a fast learner, my lady.
03:48Rowan, you asked to see me.
03:50What is she doing here?
03:52Was she watching us?
03:54You will address me as my lord.
04:03If you walk in here without knocking again, I will make sure you cannot walk at all.
04:10Isolid, leave us.
04:13Excuse me?
04:14I said, leave us.
04:25How long have you lived here at House Greth?
04:28Almost 15 years.
04:30Have we ever let you go hungry?
04:33Cold?
04:35Without shelter?
04:37No.
04:38What are you trying to say?
04:43Are you jealous?
04:44Is that what this is?
04:47You wish you were the one I was fucking?
04:49You disgust me.
04:50What?
04:51I am not jealous.
04:53I am disgusted.
04:54And you are not my lord.
04:56The only L word that fits you is low life.
05:01My lord.
05:02Lord Theron Blackwell of House Blackwell has confirmed his attendance at tomorrow's feast.
05:10Taron Blackwell is coming here?
05:12I only sent that invitation out of courtesy.
05:14Why now?
05:14What does he want?
05:15My lord.
05:15I believe it signals respect.
05:17If Taron attends, the other houses will follow.
05:19It confirms our standing.
05:21You think so?
05:22He must know House Greth is the second house in the realm.
05:24He is acknowledging the threat.
05:29Since you find this so amusing,
05:31you will prepare and serve the entire feast, beginning to end.
05:35Tomorrow is my 18th birthday.
05:38You promised me a day's rest.
05:40I changed my mind.
05:50Does Zada know the cloth I wove her to you?
05:56Do not ever mention again.
06:02Forgive me, my lord.
06:05It only seemed as though you two were...
06:10We are nothing.
06:12She is a servant.
06:14An orphan.
06:15I do not know why the Moray goddesses chose her for me,
06:18and I do not care.
06:20I will not accept it.
06:22What do you plan to do with her?
06:25Once she turns 18 tomorrow,
06:27her soul power will awaken.
06:28She will feel the faded between us the moment it does.
06:31I will sever it publicly,
06:32in front of the entire feast.
06:34Severing a threat decreed by the Moray ass
06:36is not a simple act, my lord.
06:38Clothra herself spun it like her.
06:39I do not care.
06:40You are dismissed.
06:48Damn it, Zara.
06:50A worthy gift for Lord Rowan Greth
06:52before tomorrow's feast.
06:53A gift?
06:54For Rowan Greth?
06:55Why would you...
06:56We keep our friends close,
06:57and our enemies closer.
06:59Yes, my lord.
06:59Daughters of allied houses,
07:01each one a strong political match.
07:04If you arrive at the feast
07:05with one of them on your arm,
07:06it sends a message.
07:08House Blackhead is building alliances,
07:10not just the enemy.
07:11I will not be bringing a companion.
07:13My lord,
07:14if House Greth discovers
07:15you are still unwavered at your age,
07:17they will question your standing,
07:18and they will use it against you at the feast.
07:19Let them.
07:20I am Theron Blackway.
07:25Let's hope she is there,
07:27whoever she is.
07:35My lord.
07:36Those burns?
07:37Are those...
07:38Jade Hog?
07:39Yes.
07:39Inside the estate?
07:41How did it get past the...
07:42It was tracking something.
07:44A soul whose suppression is breaking.
07:47Something it could smell
07:48from a long distance.
07:54The trail leads toward
07:55House Greth territory.
07:57Lord Cassian's daughter.
07:59Have the carriage ready at dawn.
08:00Sauron,
08:02tell no one about the burns.
08:19Happy birthday to me.
08:21Happy birthday, Zara.
08:24Who is there?
08:26It is me,
08:27Lara.
08:28I am your divine gift, Zara.
08:30Hecate's gift.
08:31The one they sealed away
08:32when you were a child.
08:34I have been here the entire time.
08:36They simply would not let me speak.
08:38Hecate's gift.
08:39You are Hecate's gift.
08:41It is very good to finally meet you.
08:43And there is something I need to tell you
08:45about the one the Moiri decried for us.
08:47The one Clothra wove into your thread
08:48at birth.
08:49Clothra wove a thread for me?
08:50Yes.
08:51The one she decreed for us.
08:52He is here.
08:53He has always been here.
08:54In this castle.
08:56Who?
08:57Roan Greth,
08:58Lord of this house.
09:00Clothra wove you for him in the birth.
09:02He has known since before you did.
09:26He is coming.
09:27I can feel him approaching.
09:29Zara, when you see the thread,
09:32do not let it show on your face.
09:47So,
09:48Hector finally broke the seal.
09:51You knew.
09:53This whole time,
09:54you knew what Clothra decreed,
09:55and you said nothing.
09:56So what?
09:57You are a servant.
09:59A casteless orphan.
10:00You have no house,
10:01no bloodline,
10:02nothing.
10:03What Clothra decreed
10:05does not change what you are.
10:07I defy the decree, Zara.
10:21If you beg,
10:23perhaps I will reconsider.
10:26I accept your defiance,
10:27Rowan.
10:30What?
10:34The thread is gone.
10:36So are we.
10:37Clothra does not weave a second thread
10:39for the same person.
10:40You will live and die casteless.
10:42So be it.
10:43Pack what you have tonight.
10:44After today,
10:45I do not want to see you
10:46in this castle again.
10:47I have been waiting years
10:48for you to say that, Rowan.
10:54You are allowed to feel it, Zara.
10:56What he did this morning.
10:59I just need to get through this feast.
11:03There is someone coming tonight.
11:05I can feel a presence in the road.
11:07Something old.
11:09Something that knows
11:09Hector's gift from a distance.
11:11Everything can wait
11:12until after the feast.
11:20The carers were in this tree line
11:21last night.
11:23How close?
11:24Close enough to leave tribute
11:25at the window.
11:27Someone inside that castle
11:28has been paying them
11:29to stay back.
11:30Paying the carers
11:31to stay back from whom?
11:39Hector's bloodline
11:41in Inside House Greth.
12:06Lord Blackwit.
12:08What a pleasure.
12:09I hope the road treated you well.
12:10Our castle sits deep in the forest.
12:12Not the easiest journey.
12:13Lord Rowan built
12:14House Greth Castle
12:15from the foundations up.
12:17It is everything
12:18a great house should be.
12:19Hmm.
12:20A gift from House Blackwit,
12:22Lord Greth.
12:22In honor of tomorrow's betrothal.
12:26Lord Blackwit,
12:27this is far too generous.
12:29We could not possibly...
12:31Pocket change.
12:32Shall we?
12:36What do you think you are doing?
12:38Do not embarrass me.
12:42I saw a servant girl
12:44at the rest-use pile.
12:46Find out who she is,
12:48how she came from,
12:49how long she has been here,
12:51everything.
12:51And the carers were paying her
12:52the kind of attention
12:53they paid to...
12:54I know, Sorin.
12:55Find out who she is
12:56tonight,
12:57before the feast ends.
13:05Lord Blackwit.
13:06I have always admired
13:07what House Blackwit
13:08has built
13:09in the Northern Territory.
13:10The estate,
13:11the trade routes.
13:12I feel we share
13:13very similar tastes
13:14in what a great house
13:15should be.
13:15Isoleth.
13:16Zara,
13:17wine.
13:19We have an important guest,
13:21Lord Blackwell
13:22of House Blackwell.
13:24Show some respect.
13:26What are you waiting for?
13:27We have an important guest.
13:29This is Lord Theron Blackwell
13:30of House Blackwell.
13:31Show some respect.
13:34I need to step out
13:35a moment, my lord.
13:42Excuse me.
13:43Where are you going
13:44with that?
13:46I am trying to wash.
13:48Wash?
13:49You call that washing?
13:50Can you just leave me alone?
13:52Please.
13:54I am not even supposed
13:55to be talking to you.
13:56I just want to know
13:57your name.
13:58Please.
13:59It's my 18th birthday today.
14:01Just do not make this worse.
14:07It is her birthday.
14:09Lord Blackliffe
14:10is going to want to know that.
14:12I noticed you came alone,
14:13Lord Blackwell.
14:15No companion for the feast.
14:17Is there no one
14:18who has caught your interest?
14:19I hear House Blackwell
14:21has no shortage
14:21of fine houses
14:22seeking alliance.
14:24There is someone.
14:26Is that so?
14:29Well,
14:30we have some of the finest
14:32bloodlines in the realm
14:33here tonight.
14:34Lady Maron of House Vale.
14:36Strong covenant line.
14:37Excellent standing.
14:39Lady Maron,
14:40Lord Blackwet
14:41of House Blackwet.
14:42She has good bloodline.
14:44And,
14:45well,
14:46if Lady Maron is not to your pace,
14:48take your pick of any house
14:49here tonight.
14:50This is the finest gathering
14:52in the realm this season.
14:53There is someone,
14:54actually.
14:55Oh?
14:56Who is the lucky lady?
14:57That servant girl.
14:59From earlier.
15:00The one who poured the wine.
15:04You cannot be serious,
15:06Lord Blackwell.
15:07She is a costless servant
15:09with no house name.
15:11Whatever interest you have,
15:14surely one of the noble daughters
15:15here tonight
15:16would serve you far better.
15:17I am not interested
15:18in the noble daughters.
15:20She does not even
15:21bathe properly.
15:22She has no access
15:23to moods a lot.
15:24Is that something
15:24she chooses?
15:26Or something
15:26she has not permitted?
15:31Send her to my guest room.
15:33I would like to speak with her.
15:35That is not going to...
15:39Of course.
15:41We will send her up.
15:56Well, it seems
15:57you have admirers.
15:59Lord Blackwell
16:00has requested your company
16:01in his guest room
16:02this evening.
16:05For some reason,
16:06Lord Blackwell
16:07wants you for the evening.
16:08No idea why.
16:11What are you talking about?
16:15Please do not wear that.
16:18Consider it a parting gift.
16:20I heard Rowan
16:21sent you away.
16:23Finally.
16:25Lord Blackmoth's guest room.
16:26To the right
16:27at the end
16:27of the upper corridor.
16:28Do not disappoint him.
16:30I am not going.
16:31Why not?
16:31Does he not interest you?
16:32I do not know him.
16:34And Clothie does not
16:35weave second threads.
16:36You said so yourself.
16:37Clothie does not weave
16:38the same thread twice.
16:39But she weaves
16:40more than one kind.
16:42Go and see for yourself.
16:44And Zara,
16:46please,
16:47change your dress.
16:54To the left.
16:55To the left.
17:00To the right.
17:19Now let's go.
17:20To the left.
17:23Thiel, Lord Blackwet.
17:26What did you just call me?
17:29Rowan!
17:30Isileth sent me to the wrong room.
17:32She did this deliberately.
17:44Zara!
17:47What in the name of the gods?
17:49What do you think you are doing with my betrothed?
17:52You castless little witch!
17:58She came to seduce my betrothed.
18:00In his own room.
18:02Look at what she is wearing.
18:04You put me in this dress.
18:05You sent me to this room.
18:07You told me it was Lord Blackwell's...
18:10You lying.
18:11Do not touch her.
18:16If you lay another hand on her, I will make certain you regret it for the rest of your days.
18:32Blackwell, this is my castle.
18:34My house!
18:35You do not...
18:36She is with me now.
18:38Come.
18:48How is your face?
18:50It is fine.
18:51I am used to it.
18:53Why do you let them do that?
18:54In case you have not noticed, I am not exactly in a position of power here.
19:00So, this is the castless servant of House Greth with an attitude.
19:05Thank you for what you did back there.
19:07You do not have to.
19:08I am leaving this house tonight.
19:10Release me.
19:11You are aware I am Lord of Shouse Blackwell, the more powerful house in Auvrin.
19:16I am.
19:18Which is exactly why you would not want someone like me.
19:22No house, no bloodline.
19:24What is your name?
19:26Zara.
19:27Just Zara.
19:29I do not remember my house name.
19:31My parents died when I was small.
19:33House Greth took me in.
19:35You are with me now, Zara.
19:36You do not have to go anywhere tonight.
19:38Or at all.
19:51Happy birthday.
19:54This is my castle.
19:57My territory.
19:58Step aside.
20:00Lord Blackwell has requested privacy.
20:02I cannot allow entry.
20:03You cannot allow.
20:04I am Lord of this house.
20:05I could have you removed from this castle entirely.
20:08The accord between houses expires soon, my lord.
20:11You would not want to offend Lord Blackwell over a servant.
20:13There is no way a lord like Theron Blackwell accepts someone like her.
20:18She has nothing.
20:20She is nothing.
20:21Zara is not nothing, my lord.
20:23She is Lord Blackwell's guest.
20:30Why do you care so much about her?
20:32She is irrelevant.
20:33She is nothing.
20:34I do not want to talk about it.
20:36I imagine she is doing everything she can to please Lord Blackwell right now.
20:40That shameless, castless wench.
20:42I said I do not want to talk about it.
20:48Zara.
20:49Did you just call me Zara?
20:53What?
20:54You are being paranoid.
20:56Paranoid.
20:56I am paranoid.
20:58I knew it.
20:59I have always known it.
21:01It was always about her.
21:03Always Zara.
21:05Did you ever even care about me?
21:07What am I to you?
21:08What have I ever been?
21:10You are right.
21:11He cannot have her.
21:13What?
21:14Are you serious right now?
21:16I am talking to you!
21:18Rowan!
21:19Do not you dare leave me here!
21:27Lord Rowan insists on seeing Zara.
21:29He says it is urgent.
21:32You do not have to go.
21:36I should.
21:37I want to end this properly.
21:45What do you want, Rowan?
21:46You cannot go with Theron Blackneck.
21:48You do not even know him.
21:49Clotha decreed him for me.
21:51I am your decree.
21:53Zara.
21:55Do not leave.
21:56I know things between us have been...
21:58Things between us?
21:59There were no things between us, Rowan.
22:01For 15 years you treated me like a servant.
22:04You watched Isolde abuse me and you said nothing.
22:06You kept Hekti's seal on me so I would never know who I was.
22:09And then you broke Clotha's thread.
22:11You rejected me, Rowan.
22:12Your words to the gods.
22:14I will marry Isolde.
22:15The betrothal is too far along to break.
22:18But I can move you somewhere safe.
22:20A house of your own.
22:21You would want for nothing.
22:22You do not have to go to Blackwick.
22:23You do not have to...
22:24What are you trying to say to me right now?
22:25Are you telling me you want me to be your kept secret?
22:28The other woman while you marry Isolde?
22:30I came to say goodbye, Rowan.
22:32That is all this is.
22:35Zara.
22:35I have always...
22:36Loved you.
22:38What?
22:40I said I love you.
22:41Do you hear me?
22:42You cannot treat someone like nothing for 50 years and then tell them you love you.
22:46That is not love.
22:47Let me go!
22:48I told you I am willing to work something out.
22:50What more could you possibly want from me?
22:52This is how you show love?
22:53I do not want it.
22:54Let me go!
22:54Stop pretending.
22:56You think I do not know?
22:57You disobeyed me.
22:58Gave me that attitude every day to get my attention.
23:01You have it.
23:02Just stay and we can...
23:03I never wanted your attention.
23:04I never wanted any of this.
23:05Let me go!
23:09We are leaving.
23:10Now.
23:12What about my things?
23:14I have everything you will ever need.
23:35You will have your own rooms at House Blackneck.
23:38Tomorrow I can arrange for whatever you need.
23:41Clothing, anything you want.
23:43We can send for.
23:43Is that a village?
23:45The market town of Veld.
23:47Three leagues from Greth territory.
23:49A market town.
23:54We will sort out the council inquiry tomorrow.
23:57Lord Cassian will want to move quickly once.
24:01Forgive me.
24:02What were you saying?
24:04I have never even seen anything beyond the castle walls.
24:08Call me Theron.
24:13Take the long road through Veld.
24:14We are not going home yet.
24:27Zara.
24:28This house.
24:29It knows us.
24:31Hectala and Niamh have walked the same road since before mortals had names for either of them.
24:36This is a safe place.
24:38The shadows.
24:39They are moving.
24:42They are the nextborn.
24:44They guard this house.
24:45They will not harm you.
24:47They are alive.
24:48They are older than alive.
24:50They have been here since Nyx first made her covenant with my bloodline.
24:58They have never done that before.
24:59They recognize Hecate's gift.
25:02They are saying hello.
25:09I want the girl.
25:10Send her out.
25:11She is a guest of House Blacknickth.
25:14She leaves when she chooses.
25:16Open the gate, Zorin.
25:17Last time I ask.
25:19No.
25:32You brought hollow men to my house.
25:34You broke my gate.
25:36Think very carefully about what you do next.
25:39The girl is a servant of my house.
25:41She is not yours to keep.
25:43Give me the girl and I walk away.
25:45She is not a servant of your house.
25:47She never was.
25:49And I think you have always known that.
26:15What are you doing?
26:25Stand down.
26:29This isn't over, Blackweck.
26:31Send a raven next time.
26:33Like a lord.
26:36Rowan.
26:44I know about the attack on House Saluni.
26:46I know you sealed a three-year-old child and kept her hidden for fifty years.
26:49And I know Clotha with thread for her and you threw it away.
26:52Atrotus is watching you.
26:53You defied the Moraes, buried Hecathar's bloodline and destroyed an entire house.
26:57The gods don't forget that.
26:58And neither do I.
26:59You read my ring without permission.
27:01That is a violation of the accord between houses.
27:10Do not go out there, Zara.
27:13Rowan's RS gift is not controlled when he is this angry.
27:17He would not mean to, but he could drain you through the seal fractures.
27:21The cracks make you vulnerable.
27:24I am not afraid of him.
27:25I know.
27:26But the seal is not fully broken yet.
27:29Until it is.
27:31Stay inside this house.
27:33The Nyxborn will not let him pass the gate.
27:35What happened at the gate?
27:37He backed down for now.
27:39But he will move against you soon.
27:42Rowan does not accept losses.
27:43What does he want from me?
27:45He defied the decree himself.
27:47He sent me away.
27:48What is there left to take?
27:49He does not want you.
27:50He wants to make certain no one else has you.
27:52There is a difference.
27:52Your name is not just Zara.
27:54Your full name is Zara Solene.
27:56Daughter of Lord Cassiel Solene and Lady Neva Solene of House Solene.
28:01That is not possible.
28:04My parents died when...
28:05They did not die.
28:08House Greth attacked House Solene 15 years ago.
28:11Your parents survived.
28:12You were taken in the chaos.
28:14Either by Greth soldiers or hidden here afterward.
28:17Your parents have been searching for you ever since.
28:19My parents are alive?
28:21Yes.
28:21I met with them two days ago.
28:23Your father sat across a desk from me and told me 15 years of searching.
28:28Your mother has not stopped looking since the night you disappeared.
28:30House Solene.
28:32Hector's Covenant?
28:33Yes.
28:34Your bloodline carries Hector's gift.
28:37Soul Sight.
28:37The ability to see the complete truth of any person.
28:39Rarest gift in Arvran.
28:40It is why the Covenant Seal was placed on you as a child.
28:43To keep Hector's gift buried.
28:44To keep you buried.
28:47Why are you doing this?
28:49I gave your father, Lord Cassian, my word.
28:51That is not what I mean.
28:52You came to that feast looking for something.
28:54You saw me and you spent the rest of the night trying to find out who I was, why.
28:56The Shadehound tracks in my study led to House Greth territory.
28:59The Keris retreating when I arrived.
29:01The pieces were already there.
29:02That is still not what I mean.
29:05My gift responded to you at the gate before I knew who you were.
29:08That does not happen.
29:10Not to me.
29:11Lyra said Clothdoor weaves more than one kind of thread.
29:13Yes, she does.
29:35Lord Cassian.
29:37I said I would find her.
29:43You have her eyes.
29:46Your mother's eyes, exactly.
29:55I did not know you were alive.
29:57They told me, I thought...
29:58I know.
29:59I know what they told you.
30:00I prayed.
30:01For years I prayed.
30:03I did not know who I was praying to.
30:05I called her Hector if I just prayed that someone was listening.
30:08Hector was listening.
30:09She always was.
30:11I never stopped looking for you.
30:13Not one day.
30:15Not one hour.
30:18I did not know you were alive.
30:22You were three years old.
30:24The night they came.
30:26House Greth attacked at the third bell of night.
30:28No warning.
30:29No declaration.
30:30Just Greth's soldiers at our walls.
30:32They knew exactly what they wanted.
30:34Hector's covenant had just passed to you at birth.
30:37House Solane with a newborn heir carrying the full force of soul sight.
30:41That terrified them.
30:42You would have been the most powerful voice at any council table in Auron.
30:46So they took me instead of killing me.
30:48They put the covenant seal on you that same night.
30:51And they kept you where they could watch you and where the seal would never break.
30:54Surrounded by Rowan Zara's gift.
30:57Pressing the seal down every day simply by existing near you.
31:00Then Clotha's decree.
31:02Rowan was woven for me at birth.
31:04He knew if the thread appeared he could not hide who I was any longer.
31:08Which is why he defied it immediately.
31:11Better to pay the cost of defying the Moirai than to let you know who you were.
31:16He was afraid of me.
31:21His entire house has been afraid of you since the night you were born.
31:28The seal will fully break within days.
31:30Once Hectecta's gift is free in her.
31:33See through every lie in this realm.
31:35She will see what we did to her family.
31:38She will be able to prove it at council.
31:40Then we stop it before it breaks.
31:42The seal is too far gone.
31:43Rowan's suppression cannot close those fractures.
31:45Hector is driving them open from the divine side.
31:47There is only one thing that stops Hecta's gift once it starts.
31:50Voidban.
31:51Voidban severs the Covenant permanently.
31:54Hecta's gift gone from her bloodline entirely.
31:56Gone.
31:57I know someone who can get it.
32:02Get it.
32:09How does it work?
32:11One touch to bare skin.
32:12The poison enters through contact.
32:14It reaches the Covenant connection in the blood within one hour.
32:17After that, the gift is gone.
32:19The bloodline's covenant with Hecta dissolves permanently,
32:22as if the original bargain was never made.
32:25If I use it on her, what happens?
32:27She lives.
32:29She simply becomes ordinary.
32:43Good morning.
32:45Good morning.
32:46This was always your room.
32:47We never changed it.
32:56Tell me what Lyra says your gift does, in full.
32:59Soul sight.
33:01Hecta's gift.
33:02I can see the complete truth of any person.
33:04What they intend, what they hide, what they have done.
33:06No lie survives it.
33:08In its full form, Lyra says I can read an entire room simultaneously.
33:12Can you use it now?
33:13Not yet.
33:13The seal is still there, most of it.
33:15Lyra says when it fully breaks, the gift will arrive all at once.
33:19She says it will be overwhelming at first.
33:22When it does, you will be able to see the truth of everyone around you, including me.
33:26Does that concern you?
33:28No.
33:29Zara.
33:31The warmth between you.
33:32That is real.
33:33Clothy wove it differently this time.
33:35It will not collapse if defied.
33:37It only grows.
33:38Not yet.
33:38What?
33:39Nothing.
33:40Lyra talks a great deal.
33:44Rowan demands we surrender Zara to House Graith custody within three days.
33:49Or he declares inter-house conflict.
33:56He cannot declare conflict against both our Houses.
33:59House Selene and House Blackworld together outrank him at every Council.
34:02He does not need to win the conflict.
34:05He only needs to create enough chaos that the other Houses look away while he moves against Zara directly.
34:12He is not going to wait for the Council.
34:15He is going to move before the seal breaks.
34:17Lord Cassian, can you call the Council?
34:34Do not let anyone you do not trust come near your wrist.
34:37Not until the seal is fully gone.
34:5215 years ago, House Graith attacked House Solani without declaration, without cause, and without consequence.
34:58My door three years old was taken that same night.
35:00A covenant seal placed on a child of Hecate's bloodline to suppress her divine gift.
35:04She was kept as a servant in House Graith for 15 years.
35:08I am asking this Council to answer for what was done.
35:11House Graith denies every accusation.
35:13The girl in question was an orphan found wandering near our territory.
35:16We took her in out of charity.
35:18The covenant seal was placed for her own protection.
35:21Her gift was unstable.
35:23Lord Cassian has no proof of anything he has claimed.
35:25Furthermore, this girl has no documented bloodline.
35:29No House Solian birth record survives the attack on their estate.
35:33Lord Cassian is asking the Council to accept the word of a castless servant over the standing of House Graith.
35:39I have proof.
35:42When Ronan showed up to my house, I used my gift and read his ring.
35:45What I found wasn't pretty.
35:4615 years of deliberate moves against House Solane.
35:49The attack, taking the child, locking Hectima's gift inside her with that seal.
35:53All of it.
35:54That ring has witnessed everything.
35:56He read my ring without permission.
35:58Article 7 of the Accord permits a reading of House Insignia when a missing heir is involved.
36:02That itself is a violation of the Accord.
36:04Everything he claims to have read is inadmissible.
36:06Zahra Solande is a missing heir.
36:08Her father sits at this table.
36:19Zahra, left side.
36:21Now!
36:28Zahra, fight it.
36:30Do not let it reach the Covenant.
36:32Do not.
36:43What did you give her?
36:45Nothing that was not necessary.
36:51Zahra?
36:53Zahra?
36:54Zahra!
36:54Zahra!
36:55Hectias is here!
36:56She is fighting it!
36:58Hold on!
37:22This is what you were born for, Zahra Solanea.
37:26Now, let them see you.
37:31Welcome home.
37:56Let them see you!
38:21My name is Zara Soleen.
38:24My house made a covenant with Hector at our founding.
38:27Her gift allows me to see the complete truth of any person in this room.
38:30Nothing hidden survives it.
38:32You accepted payment from House Grief six years ago
38:35in exchange for blocking House Solane's petition to this council.
38:39You told your household it was a trade agreement.
38:42I am not here to expose every secret in this room.
38:44I am here to confirm one thing.
38:47Everything Lord Blackwell told this council is true.
38:49I can see it in every person who was present at House Grief during the years they kept me.
38:53Every action, every decision, every order given.
38:58This council will not accept the testimony of a girl
39:00who just had a vow pressed to her wrist.
39:02She is clearly...
39:06Sit down.
39:14Rowan, you lost.
39:16Accept the judgment of the council for the mistakes you have made.
39:24You're done, Rowan.
39:26Look around you.
39:27I'm not done until I say I'm done!
39:29I'm done!
39:31I'm done!
39:31I'm done!
39:44I'm done!
40:02It is over, Rowan.
40:09You went to a crossroads at night.
40:11You took something from Hades' domain.
40:13Don't.
40:14You pressed it against my wrist in front of this entire council and watched me go down.
40:21You tried to kill a divine gift.
40:23In neutral land.
40:25In front of eight houses sitting in the room.
40:27Every Lord hearing it clearly.
40:29I protected my house.
40:32What she would have done with that gift...
40:34I can see every lie you've ever told.
40:35Don't try another one.
40:37I move that House Crane be held responsible for the attempted use of Hades-sourced poison
40:40on a divine heir in neutral ground.
40:43Isulta Crane to be stripped of her house title and remanded to council custody pending full judgment.
40:47You cannot.
40:48I am the daughter of House Crane.
40:50My father will...
40:50Your father is not in this room.
40:52Rowan.
40:53Rowan, tell them.
40:54Tell them I did it for us.
40:56For the house.
40:57You told me to get it.
40:58You said, get it!
41:01You said, you're not going to say anything, are you?
41:06I did everything for you.
41:08Every single thing.
41:10The room.
41:12The vial.
41:14Fifteen years of watching you look at her instead of me and I said nothing.
41:18I did everything you needed and you won't even...
41:21I loved you.
41:22That was real.
41:24Even if nothing else was.
41:39I want you to know something before you go.
41:42You spent fifteen years trying to stop this moment.
41:46And here we are anyway.
41:47What do you want, Zara?
41:49An apology?
41:49I want nothing from you.
41:51That is what I came to tell you.
41:53After everything you did, I feel nothing when I look at you.
42:00The council exiled him.
42:02He lost any powers he had.
42:12I do not know how to do this.
42:22Every single day.
42:24I said your name every single day so I would not forget the sound of it.
42:29So it would still be ready when you came back.
42:35Welcome home, Zara.
42:48You found her.
42:50You brought her home.
42:52House Barnett has House Solina's gratitude for what you did and I mean that without reservation.
42:57I did not come today for gratitude.
43:00No.
43:01I did not think so.
43:02What are your intentions toward my daughter, Lord Blackwell?
43:04Honorable ones, I want the right to court her.
43:06Properly, openly, with your knowledge and consent.
43:08Nothing hidden, nothing rushed.
43:09She has been kept hidden and castless for fifteen years.
43:11She has just received her full divine gift and learned who she is.
43:14She is not a prize to be collected, Lord Blackwell, by anyone, including the man who helped find her.
43:18I know that.
43:19The decision is hers entirely.
43:20I am asking your permission to be considered, not your permission to decide for her.
43:24She already knows you came.
43:26She saw it in your face the moment you arrived.
43:28I am aware of that.
43:29Good.
43:29Then there is no point pretending this conversation is a secret.
43:41I spoke with your father.
43:42I know.
43:43I saw it in your face before you said a word.
43:45Is that going to be a permanent condition?
43:47Reading everything before anyone speaks?
43:49Yes.
43:50Good.
43:54In the Accord Hall, when you read me, what did you see?
43:57Everything you have done.
43:59Everything you intend.
44:01Everything you have been afraid to say out loud since the gate at House Greth.
44:05And?
44:05And nothing hidden.
44:07You are exactly what you appear to be.
44:08That is, rarer than you know.
44:11Do you see that?
44:15I see it.
44:16I told you.
44:18A decree of purpose.
44:19It only grows.
44:21So, what do we do with it?
44:24I have a few ideas.
44:25You are not as serious as you pretend to be.
44:28And you are not as unbothered as you pretend to be.
44:31I read you, you know.
44:32What am I supposed to do with it?
44:34I know.
44:37You were not afraid of that.
44:39I had nothing to hide.
44:49Lyra is going to be insufferable about this.
44:51I heard that.
44:52Come on.
44:53Your father is going to send someone to find us soon.
44:56Let him.
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