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ENGSUB Reborn as the Sleeping Dragon's Bride
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00:01I was born with a blood scent that could make dragon lords lose control.
00:04Pure breeding blood. The rarest kind in 300 years.
00:08At my mating ceremony, I crawled past the sacred gold offerings and grabbed Crown Prince Caelan between his pants.
00:15This little whore could be a clingy breeder in the future.
00:20He was wrong. Caelan and I became enemies.
00:24For 10 years, I watched his dragon eyes learn to hate my scent.
00:27On my 18th birthday feast, the king called me before the throne.
00:31Freya, choose any dragon lord in Valeria. I will grant him to you.
00:36Before I could answer, Caelan's voice cut across the hall.
00:39I would rather be torn apart by wild dragon knees than mate her.
00:44Something inside me broke. Good. Then make him choke on it.
00:47Then I will leave his fate to the gods. Pay for the price, Crown Prince Caelan.
00:51I thought he didn't mean it. Our betrothal ceremony was beautiful.
00:54But Caelan never gave me a glance.
00:58Your scent makes me sick.
01:00Years passed. I gave him no air. The court stopped bowing.
01:04Dragonborn ladies spat in my food, ripped my gowns and called me a barren human leech.
01:10Caelan only smiled. Then I heard him say it.
01:12She forced this marriage. She deserves karma.
01:16No one should pity her.
01:18One week later, he threw me into the velvet quarter.
01:20A useless breeder belongs in a pleasure house.
01:24I died there, bloody and left like rotten meat. His figure was the last thing I saw. He never looked
01:30back.
01:30Then lights split open. I woke on cold marble, gasping. I was reborn at my mating ceremony.
01:37Freya. Choose any dragon lord in Valeria. I will grant him to you.
01:42The royal citadel. The feast. I would not risk my life on Caelan again. I took a deep breath.
01:48Your majesty. I respect the Crown Prince as someone I grew up with. Like a brother.
01:53I never wanted him. Not as a man. Not as a husband.
01:58My heart only belongs to dragon crook Lufician Drayenmore.
02:01If I couldn't marry him, I'd go finish myself.
02:03The court exploded.
02:04I had refused Valeria's golden prince and chosen his uncle.
02:08The cursed black silver dragon.
02:10The most fierce dragon who destroyed wild dragonkins for 200 years.
02:20Lucian Drayenmore fell coma since a year ago on the northern warfront.
02:24Hurt by an unseen blade with curse, the healers said he would never wake.
02:29I knew they were wrong.
02:30In my last life, Lucian woke during my third year in hellish marriage.
02:34When dragonborn ladies had cornered me in the kitchens, they laughed, tore my sleeves, and called me a barren human
02:40leech.
02:41Then a broken dragon rose from his wheeled chair.
02:44Lucian Drayenmore stood between us.
02:46Half crippled, but still terrifying.
02:49Back to now.
02:50Little one, marrying Lucian would waste your gift.
02:53Choose another lord, someone who can speak to you.
02:55I kept my forehead against the marble floor.
02:57Your majesty, I swore before the old gods.
03:00It is Lucian Drayenmore or no one.
03:02I hit my forehead on the floor.
03:04Once and once again.
03:05The court went quiet, only left the sound of my bones crack.
03:09Queen Marianne smiled like she had been handed a gift.
03:12If the human girl wants a sleeping dragon, let her have him.
03:16So be it.
03:17Your bloodline is gone.
03:19Lucian cannot answer for himself.
03:21My queen will arrange the wedding for you too.
03:23I rose my bloody forehead and crumbling stood up.
03:26I am humbled beyond speech.
03:29I did not look at Caelan.
03:31I only felt his gold fire burning behind me.
03:33Let him burn.
03:34I would never choose him again.
03:36Lucian is way better than Caelan.
03:38Last life, though he's still weak.
03:40He's nice to me.
03:40I'll save him this time.
03:42We'll claw our way out of this shithole.
03:44Together.
03:44For three days, I slept like someone freed from a cage.
03:49Then came the knock at Ashbourne Hall.
03:51The queen commands your presence at the royal citadel tonight.
03:55My blood went cold.
03:57At dusk, Madam Corvin led me through the royal corridors.
04:01Dragonflowers scented the stone.
04:03Then she stopped and bowed.
04:05Your highness, crown prince.
04:07I lifted my head.
04:08It's Caelan.
04:20Caelan stepped into the lamplight.
04:22He looked exactly like a future king.
04:24Proud and untouchable.
04:25Beautiful in the cruel Valorian way.
04:28Your highness.
04:29He looked me over from crown to shoes,
04:31as if searching for the girl who used to chase him through these halls.
04:33That's all?
04:34In my last life, I knew his every habit.
04:36I baked honey cakes for him.
04:38I waited outside Crown Tower just to hand them over.
04:40He always tossed them to the palace drakes.
04:43Stop this pathetic chase, Freya.
04:46You are marrying my uncle now.
04:47Try to have some dignity.
04:49You disgust me.
04:50I am not chasing anyone.
04:52I was only telling the truth to your king father.
04:54I do not love you.
04:55Then you wandered into the royal family's private wing by accident?
04:58The queen summoned me.
05:00Ask Madam Corvin.
05:01His gold fire flared.
05:02So it was true.
05:03I had not come for him.
05:05My uncle is a corpse with a title.
05:07You may be a widow before your wedding bed even cools.
05:11Then I will be the happiest widow in Valoria.
05:14His pupils narrowed, then went black.
05:30Queen Marianne heard me out in silence.
05:32And before I had even finished my audience with her,
05:35my wedding to Lucien Dravenmore was set for one week later.
05:40Dravenmore's black silver banners stretched across the road
05:42as Gareth Thorne bowed before me.
05:44Lady Ashborough, Darrenmore receives you with honor.
05:48In my last life, Crown Tower never gave me this much respect.
05:51Some nobles called it widowhood with a title.
05:54I ignored them.
05:55Dravenmore had already given me more honor than Crown Tower ever did.
05:58When I reached Dravenmore Keep,
06:00Gareth Thorne led me straight to the bridal chamber.
06:03Lucien Dravenmore lay on the bed, pale and silent.
06:06But even unconscious, he did not look weak.
06:08His sharp features, silver black hair and quiet dragon pressure
06:11made him seem less like a dying man and more like a sleeping dragon.
06:15My lady, I prepared another room for you.
06:17I looked at Lucien, my heart steady despite the tension.
06:19No.
06:20He is my husband now.
06:22I'll stay here.
06:23The room went silent.
06:24After they left, I sat beside him.
06:26The air itself seemed to hold its breath.
06:29I leaned closer, feeling the subtle warmth of his body beneath the thin sheets.
06:33You're asleep anyway, so this doesn't count.
06:35I lowered my head and kissed him.
06:37His lips were warm.
06:38For a heartbeat, nothing happened.
06:40Then the air broke open.
06:41Dark pressure slammed through the room.
06:43Black silver scales erupted along his neck.
06:46Windows cracked.
06:47His hand shot up and caught my throat.
06:49Not gentle, not soft.
06:50Dragon fire exploded from his body,
06:52scorching the ceiling and bed frame.
06:54I gasped, gripping his wrist.
06:56Lucien.
06:57His fingers burned against my skin,
06:59yet he didn't push me away.
07:27His fingers burned against my skin,
07:32then the fire pulled back.
07:33His hand dropped.
07:34The room went dark.
07:36Outside, Draven Moor Keep erupted.
07:38Shouts, running boots.
07:39Dragon flame lighting up the sky.
07:41Gareth broke through the door.
07:43My lady.
07:44I touched my neck.
07:45It was bruised.
07:46Lucien lay still again,
07:47but his breathing had changed.
07:49Deeper, stronger.
07:50The curse had cracked,
07:51but whatever was underneath was not gentle.
07:53I didn't know if I had started to wake him up,
07:55or started something worse.
07:57By dawn, healers filled the hall.
07:59Gareth locked down the entire floor.
08:11No one tells the Royal Citadel what happened last night.
08:14The mate Flyam responded to the marriage bond.
08:17That's all anyone needs to know.
08:18The bruise on my neck was already dark.
08:20A healer offered to treat it.
08:22Leave it.
08:22I went back to Lucien's room.
08:24He was still.
08:25But the black silver scales on his hand had not faded.
08:28His dragon blood was fighting something.
08:29The curse.
08:30The medicine.
08:31Maybe both.
08:32I sat beside him.
08:33I don't know if you can hear me,
08:35but I'm not leaving.
08:37His fingers moved, barely.
08:38The news reached Crown Tower before noon.
08:41Caelan was sparring when a servant ran in.
08:43Your Highness,
08:45Dravenmoor's mate Flame answered Freya last night.
08:47Caelan stopped mid-swing.
08:48The whole northern sky lit up.
08:51Goldfire burst from Caelan's palm.
08:54The training post shattered.
08:55He thought the wedding would humiliate me.
08:57Instead, all of Royal Citadel was talking about
08:59how Dravenmoor's dragon blood had chosen a human bride.
09:02Princess Anya walked in.
09:04So it's true.
09:06She looked at the burned post.
09:07They say Freya looked more like a duchess than a widow.
09:10Careful, Caelan.
09:12People might think you're the one who got left behind.
09:16That afternoon, Caelan called his steward.
09:18The Ashborough war records we archived
09:20move them to the sealed vault
09:21and send a message to the Royal Pharmacy.
09:23Any requests from Dravenmoor go through my office first.
09:36Don't stop it.
09:40You got to go.
10:03Well, it's been released
10:04since the whole last 24-7 million years ago.
10:23I put on Dravenmoor black and silver and walked straight into the main hall.
10:27Selene's housekeeper stepped in front of me.
10:29Lady Selene is waiting in the west parlor.
10:31Then she can come here.
10:32The servants froze.
10:33Davenmoor keep is not Seliva Lavas' house, and I am not her guest.
10:37Gareth stood behind me.
10:38He said nothing.
10:39Every servant in the hall understood it.
10:41Gareth supported me as Lady Dravenmoor.
10:43Bring me Lucian's healer records, medicine ledgers, and night watch lists now.
10:47Selene arrived with a soft smile.
10:48Freya, you were married yesterday.
10:50Leave the household matters to me.
10:52This isn't household business.
10:53This is my husband's life.
10:54Selene kept smiling, but her eyes didn't.
10:57By sunset, I found the first problem in the medicine logs.
10:59Some herbs were not healing Lucian.
11:01They were suppressing his dragon blood.
11:03He wasn't too weak to wake.
11:04Someone was keeping him asleep.
11:06I needed the source records.
11:07Where the herbs came from.
11:08Who ordered them?
11:09The trail pointed to the royal pharmacy.
11:11I sent a rider to request the purchase records.
11:14The rider came back empty-handed.
11:15Crown Tower denied the request.
11:17They said all pharmaceutical inquiries from Dravenmoor require approval from the Crown Prince's office.
11:20I understood.
11:21Selene's confidence didn't come from Dravenmoor.
11:24It came from Crown Tower.
11:25That night, Selene heard I had found the local records.
11:28For the first time, she stopped smiling.
11:29Send Rowan.
11:30Let my son teach her what happens to lonely wives in this house.
11:57Rowan Vos waited outside my chamber door.
11:59He smelled of wine.
12:01Lady Dravenmoor.
12:03I stopped.
12:03Come on.
12:04Your husband can't even open his eyes.
12:06Don't waste your youth on a sleeping man.
12:09He stepped closer.
12:10Selene runs this keep.
12:12I am her son.
12:13You are just the human bride they sent to warm Lucian's bed.
12:16Then I slapped him.
12:17Servants rushed over.
12:18No one dared speak.
12:20Rowan wiped blood from his lip.
12:22My mother will hear about this.
12:23Good.
12:24Tell Lady Selene I saved her the trouble.
12:27His face twisted.
12:28My mother!
12:28Your mother failed to raise you.
12:31That makes it my problem now.
12:33I turned to the hall.
12:34Freya.
12:34Gareth.
12:35Put him in the lower water cell.
12:37By morning, maybe he'll remember whose keep this is.
12:41The guards moved toward Rowan.
12:42That was when the whole keep understood.
12:44I was Lady Dravenmoor.
12:46Below the keep, Rowan shook in freezing water.
12:49My mother knows about Lucian's medicine.
12:51He looked up, shaking.
12:52She knows who kept him asleep.
12:53And Crown Tower knows she knows.
13:16He knows where the pain was Heat空.
13:34Doug would be Freund, and they did not ain't going to do it.
13:34I went back to the extreme side.
13:35He talked to Australians and coffee.
13:35He looked down and cultivated impure.
13:35And the social care person is.
13:35Those clergies.
13:35They weren't going to die through that toast because,
13:36they weren't onhov ocult.
13:36They realized that he only was there in a few minutes.
13:37They knew she knew when they were in the distance.
14:03At dawn, Gareth brought me Rowan's confession.
14:06He was drunk, but he said the medicine was switched and he said Crown Tower was involved.
14:10I looked at Lucian. The black silver scales on his hand had faded, but his fingers were warmer than before.
14:15Bring me every medicine log from the last year.
14:18And find me a healer who doesn't answer to Salona or the Royal Pharmacy.
14:22By breakfast, the hall was full. Servants stood with their heads down.
14:26Selina sat at the high table, calm as ever.
14:28Freya, you locked my son in a water cell over drunken words. Now you want to accuse me too?
14:33I want records. Household records are not toys for a new bride.
14:38I placed the medicine book on the table.
14:39Then explain this.
14:41Her smile stopped.
14:42Lucian's dose changed three months ago. The healer's seal is missing. The delivery mark belongs to your steward.
14:48Gareth, step beside me.
14:49From today on, no one touches Lucian's food, wine, or medicine unless I see it first.
14:53You think you can run, Darren Moore?
14:56No. I already am.
14:58A crash came from Lucian's chamber. We ran back. The medicine bowl had split in half. Black silver fire burned
15:04across the floor.
15:05Lucian's eyes were still closed, but his hand had crushed the bed rail.
15:08That evening, a sealed letter arrived from Crown Tower. Not a personal note. An official order with the royal stamp.
15:13Gareth read it aloud.
15:14By the authority of Crown Prince Kaelin, a royal medical delegation will be dispatched to Dragan Moore Keep to evaluate
15:20Duke Lucian's condition and review all medical arrangements currently in place.
15:23The room went quiet.
15:24When?
15:26Three days.
15:27I looked at the letter. If Kaelin's doctors walked in here, they would take over Lucian's treatment, reverse everything I
15:32had changed, put Selene's people back in charge, and I couldn't refuse.
15:35He was using his nephew's health as the excuse.
15:38Then we have three days.
19:34Gareth's contact in Crown Tower sent word.
19:36The delegation was leaving one day early.
19:38I locked the chamber door and sat beside Lucian.
19:41I can handle Selene.
19:42I can handle Selene.
19:43I can handle the servants and the whispers.
19:45But I can't fight your nephew and the crown at the same time.
19:47Not alone.
19:48His hand was warm.
19:49The scales pulsed.
19:50I need you to wake up.
19:52I need you to wake up.
19:52Then his fingers closed around mine.
19:54Freya.
19:55His dark gold eyes opened.
19:57Who came into my keep and thought he could question my wife for protecting me.
20:01Lucian sat up in bed.
20:02Black silver flame tore through the room.
20:04He looked at the bruise on my neck.
20:06Who did this?
20:07You.
20:08When your dragon blood broke through.
20:10He touched the bruise.
20:11Black silver light wrapped around my neck.
20:13It faded under his hand.
20:14Outside, every dragon torch in Dravenmoor keep lit at once.
20:17The whole northern sky burned silver.
20:19In Crown Tower, a rider burst through the gate.
20:24Your highness, Dragon Onmor's fire just lit the northern line.
20:27All of it.
20:27Caelan stood up.
20:28The duke is awake.
20:29Caelan's cup shattered in his hand.
20:38The duke is awake.
20:39His strength has us in the stride and the dead.
20:45He ruled out a huge drop zone.
20:47The controllable building is better.
20:48The dots have an superANS, his target.
20:50The lightides are better.
20:50The all the delay seems to come.
20:51The danger came.
20:52In an illusion, right?
20:52He looked at slowly.
20:53At an illusion, right?
20:59He looked at the weight.
21:00He looked at you.
21:01He looked at a lovely design.
21:04He looked at the faces that he was with a gente.
21:04tumor.
21:04The quelqu PPE hearing here.
21:04WarIMah was not hisporting it.
21:06That he looked so far.
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23:21The Royal Medical Delegation arrived before noon. They expected a sleeping Duke. They found Lucian Dravenmore seated in the main
23:28hall. He leaned on a cane. His face was pale, but black-silver pressure filled the room so hard the
23:34candles bent sideways. The late physician swallowed.
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23:40Lucian looked at him.
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24:07stop him but i didn't i want to see who will answer later lucian found me by the chamber fire
24:11how much did they make you carry alone his jaw tightened i'll start carrying it with you
24:44you
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26:05at dawn lucian ordered the ledgers sealed gareth brought iron boxes from celine's office
26:10tax books supply lists military payment rolls by noon the truth was on the table northern
26:16rider pay was cut for eight months winter grain was marked as delivered but the storehouses never
26:21received it he placed another page down and this money went to the gilded den rowan's name was written
26:26beside the account celine gripped her sleeve my husband died for this house i raised my son here
26:32i made sacrifices lucian looked at her you sold my soldiers food and called it sacrifice i protected
26:38dreven moore while you slept no you fed off it the hall went silent rohan was dragged in bruised and
26:47terrified mother say something celine did not look at him lucian tapped the ledger
26:53rohan voss goes to the dungeon until i decide his sentence you can't do this to family family does not
26:58touch my wife steal from my riders or poison my house the gods took him away
27:05celine vox is removed from all household authority she will remain under guard in the east wing
27:10then he turned to me the accounts are yours now every servant in the hall dropped to one knee
27:16for the first time they were not kneeling because lucian had woken they were kneeling because i had won
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34:55The news reach crown tower by nightfall.
34:56If Lucian speaks of the northern war front, every old wound opens.
35:00A lord leaned close.
35:01Then we strike first.
35:02At court.
35:03Accuse him of hiding troops, ignoring royal summons, and using illness to build power
35:07in the north.
35:07At the same time, Caelan went to King Alaric.
35:09Father, Uncle Lucian just woke from a curse.
35:12He should return to the royal citadel for treatment.
35:14You sound very concerned.
35:16Caelan's mouth tightened.
35:17He is family.
35:18Across the hall, Princess Anya heard enough.
35:20That night, she found Edric Ravenshade near the chapel.
35:23Your cousin is walking into a trap.
35:25Which cousin?
35:26The one Freya married.
35:28Try to keep up.
35:28Edric's face changed.
35:30Send word to Dravenmore.
35:32Tell Lady Dravenmore the Queen is moving first.
35:55There woman wants to pass.
36:23Please fortuna Shows can also pass.
36:24There was nothing but never tra сторону.
36:46Lucian could stand now, not long, not without pain.
36:49His dragon blood had broken the curse, but the damage stayed in his legs.
36:52Some nights, his fire turned wild. One burst split the bedpost. Another cracked the stone wall.
36:58I worked his legs every morning, mixed the new medicine myself.
37:01On the fourth night, the flame surged before I could move. The force threw me against the floor.
37:06My arm hit broken stone. Blood ran to my wrist. Lucian froze. The fire died at once.
37:11He tried to stand too fast and nearly fell.
37:13It's a scratch.
37:15I hurt you.
37:16The curse hurt me, not you.
37:19Do not make this sound easy.
37:20I wrapped cloth around my arm.
37:22I knew what I was choosing when I married you.
37:25He stared at me for a long second.
37:26You should not only be ready to suffer.
37:29His thumb brushed my bandage.
37:30You should be treated well.
37:32I stopped breathing. For the first time, he wasn't speaking as a duke. He was speaking as my husband.
38:02He was saying, are you caring for me.
38:03That's what I love.
38:03I felt like находites him.
38:04I felt like he was mentioning everything I were playing.
38:04Probably the other day, need to know.
38:04I loved him for the last days as my husband's friends.
38:10He was holding the bar in.
38:11I was littleremey, but I couldn't believe that.
38:14How do I wonder I'm holding myself?
38:15Why did I know that left?
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40:14The summons arrive three days later.
40:16King Alaric's seal, royal parchment.
40:19No room to refuse.
40:21Gareth read it in the hall.
40:22Dragon Duke Lucian Dravenmore and Lady Freya Davenmore are commanded to attend the royal citadel.
40:27The servants looked at me.
40:29Lucian took the letter.
40:30So they finally want us in the open.
40:32It could be a trap.
40:34It is a trap.
40:35Then we should not go.
40:36If I refuse, they call it rebellion. If I go, they have to face me in front of the king.
40:40He looked at me.
40:41And I have things to show my brother.
40:43That night, I packed the evidence myself.
40:46Selene's ledgers.
40:47The medicine logs.
40:49The payment trail to the royal pharmacy.
40:51Every page that tied Dravenmore's sickness to crown tower and the royal citadel.
40:56Mira tied the case shut.
40:57Are you afraid?
40:58I looked at the royal seal.
41:00I died in that city once.
41:03Mira went quiet.
41:04I'm not going back as that girl.
41:08Before dawn, I found Lucian on the tower.
41:11Royal citadel was far beyond the dark hills.
41:15Kaelin will be there.
41:16So will the queen.
41:19And me.
41:20He offered his hand.
41:21I took it.
41:22This time, I was not walking into crown tower alone.
41:39We returned to the royal citadel under black silver banners.
41:43The streets went quiet first.
41:44Then everyone started whispering.
41:46Lucian Dravenmore was not dead.
41:47And I was not the ruined girl crown tower once threw away.
41:50Northern dragon riders rode on both sides of our carriage.
41:53Gareth led them with one hand on his sword.
41:55At the palace gate, Kaelin stood above the steps.
41:57He looked at Lucian's cane.
41:59Then he looked at me.
42:00I looked past him.
42:01That hurt him more.
42:03Queen Marianne held a welcome feast that night.
42:05Duke Lucian, Valeria is relieved to see you awake.
42:08Relieved enough to send her a suckon?
42:10Her smile tightened.
42:11The king missed his brother.
42:13Then we are happy to answer his majesty.
42:14We brought everything he needs to see.
42:16Her eyes moved to the locked case beside my chair.
42:18How thoughtful.
42:19After dinner, Princess Anya caught my sleeve near the corridor.
42:23Madame Corvik has been going to the royal archive every night.
42:26I stopped.
42:27Whatever you brought, she may be trying to burn the matching half.
42:31That night, Lucian closed our chamber door.
42:35Edric confirmed it.
42:36The original letter about your father's march is still sealed in the archive.
42:40Can we get it?
42:41Only the king can open that vault.
42:46Then we make him want to.
42:58Our team now has to leave us all alone.
43:06I think that you are listening to the soldiers.
43:06Other people who have been watching by the soldiers.
43:06You're well-being.
43:07You believe we must have been watching in the archive for a long time?
43:07I want to keep watching.
43:08Why are you on the phone?
43:08Both of you in the archive and we are gonna be watching on this avant.
43:08I'll see you next time.
43:10It's going to be a great time.
43:12I hope you're having the best.
43:12You're not really after you.
43:12It's going to be doing it.
43:13.
44:05The Autumn Court filled the Royal Hall by sunrise, Dragon Lords, Human Nobles, Crown Loyalists. Lucian entered with a cane.
44:12The room still bowed. Black silver pressure rolled over the floor. Even House Marianne's men stopped smiling.
44:18Caelan sat in the Prince's seat, gold fire flickering under his skin. A Marianne Lord stepped forward first.
44:23Your Majesty, Duke Lucian has been absent from court for a year. His private Dragon Riders remain under Northern Command.
44:28Valeria needs a Royal Overseer in Drevenmoor.
44:30The Hall stirred. So that was their move. Call Lucian weak. Call his army dangerous. Put Crown Tower inside our
44:36key.
44:36Lucian handed Gareth's sealed report to the King's steward.
44:38Current rider count, grain stores, border patrols, tax ledgers records for Sinervas and her son.
44:45King Alaric read in silence. Reports can be dressed up. So can treason.
44:49The Lord froze. King Alaric lowered the report.
44:52The North appears better managed than half the estates in this room. No oversaw will be sent.
44:57Caelan's jaw tightened. After court, he blocked me on the stone steps.
45:02Did you come back just to parade him in front of me?
45:05No.
45:06Then why are you here?
45:07To speak to the King.
45:10I stepped around him.
45:11This has nothing to do with you.
45:13For once, Caelan had no answer.
45:28Even though he ran around him.
45:34But he says it's never went on.
45:34He got his head down him.
45:35This cannot be чув manifest God.
45:36The only thing Papa thought of next bill that snuggled him up to us.
45:43But he mightiam, Mrs. Copson.
45:46For once, it would usually Diagn fever is a objective.
45:47That's right.
45:49The only difference between him within Anybody.
45:50He's gone away to his whole magnitude.
45:57But here he loses over.
45:57.
46:47The next day, the court gathered in the Rose Dragon Garden.
46:50I found the old pool behind the rose wall.
46:53I had fallen in there as a child.
46:55I remembered cold water.
46:57Small hands, then a black cloak around my shoulders.
47:00Lucien stopped beside me.
47:02You told me Ashborough girls didn't cry over water.
47:06I turned.
47:07That was you?
47:08You were ten, soaked through, furious at the pond.
47:13And you remembered that?
47:14I remembered you.
47:15For a second the court noise faded, then Queen Marion's voice cut through the garden.
47:19How charming.
47:20A human duchess among dragonhounds.
47:23Velouria is becoming very generous.
47:25The noble ladies went quiet.
47:27Kaelin looked at me.
47:28I did not speak.
47:29Lucien did.
47:30House Ashbird bled for Valeria before half these dragonhouses learned how to hold a border.
47:35Queen Marion's smile cracked.
47:38Freya's bloodline has earned its place here.
47:40A Marion lady muttered.
47:41Human blood is still human blood.
47:45Lucien turned his dark gold eyes on her.
47:47Then pray you never need human soldiers to die for your comfort again.
47:50No one laughed.
47:52I looked at Lucien.
47:53For the first time, I understood.
47:55His silence all these years had never been indifference.
47:59It had been restraint.
48:12For the first time, I was left with him.
48:16I understood his face from the former captain.
48:16I understand.
48:22I understand.
48:30He had never been preserved.
48:30For the first time, I was looking forward to the next steps.
48:30What is it?
48:31It's also been a good place of his life.
48:31I understand.
48:31It's been a good place of the first time.
48:31It's been a good place.
48:33I understand.
48:44Anya's warning was real. Edric checked the Royal Archive records for me. Three nights. Three visits.
48:52Madam Corvin entered the sealed wing each time with a Marianne clerk.
48:55The exit list is wrong. Files went in. Fewer came out.
48:59Which files?
49:00Northern Warfront. Ashpington marching routes. Dragonblood curse reports.
49:04Lucian's hand tightened on his cane.
49:06They are destroying the trail.
49:08Then we split it.
49:09Lucian went to request royal access from King Alaric.
49:12I sent Edric to the old Archive clerk who had served my father.
49:16By midnight, Mira came to my room carrying a basket of white roses.
49:31Don't yell. I know it looks stupid.
49:34She pulled the cloth aside.
49:36Three copied letters lay under the flowers.
49:38My hands went cold.
49:39One letter marked my father's route through the northern pass.
49:43One confirmed the route had been sent before the ambush.
49:45The last carried a red wax seal.
49:47House Marriand.
49:48Mira stared at it.
49:49My lady, that's the Queen's family.
49:52I closed the letters.
49:55Not just her family.
49:58Lucian entered before dawn.
49:59The King agreed to open the vault tomorrow.
50:01I handed him the copies.
50:03Good.
50:04His face changed as he read.
50:07Because now we know what they'll try to hide.
50:52But, no...
50:52I'm sorry.
50:52Yes, no.
50:52Please on her,
50:52She X-rays.
50:52She X-rays versus Dom?
50:53Yes, no.
50:53Don't become human right now.
50:53Let me go into song and nod
50:53to her.
50:53I deber to listen and see what she'll do in her.
50:53I'll go into it.
50:53I'll cast everything oh and see what the time tour has been shallow.
50:53.
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51:37.
51:38Don't yell.
51:38I know it looks stupid.
51:40She pulled the cloth aside.
51:41Three copies.
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