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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
00:12and grabbed Crown Prince Caelan between his pants.
00:15This little whore could be a clingy breeder in the future.
00:21He 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.
00:32Freya, 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, but 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. No one should pity her.
01:17One week later, he threw me into the velvet quarter.
01:21A 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.
01:47Your majesty. I respect the crown prince as someone I grew up with. Like a brother. I never wanted him.
01:54Not as a man. Not as a husband.
01:58My heart only belongs to dragon crook Lufician Draenmore. If I couldn't marry him, I'd go finish myself.
02:03The court exploded. I had refused Valeria's golden prince and chosen his uncle.
02:08The cursed black silver dragon. The most fierce dragon who destroyed wild dragonkins for 200 years.
02:20Lucian Draenmore fell coma since year ago on the northern war front. Hurt by an unseen blade with curse.
02:27The healers said he would never wake. I 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. Lucian Draenmore stood between us.
02:46Half crippled, but still terrifying. Back to now.
02:50Little one, marrying Lucian would waste your gift. Choose another lord. Someone who can speak to you.
02:55I kept my forehead against the marble floor. Your majesty, I swore before the old gods. It is Lucian Draenmore
03:01or no one.
03:02I hit my forehead on the floor. Once and once again. The court went quiet. Only left the sound of
03:08my bones crack.
03:09Queen Marianne smiled like she had been handed a gift. If the human girl wants a sleeping dragon, let her
03:14have him.
03:16So be it. Your bloodline is gone. Lucian cannot answer for himself. My queen will arrange the wedding for you
03:23too.
03:23I rose my bloody forehead and crumbling stood up. I am humbled beyond speech.
03:29I did not look at Caelan. I only felt his gold fire burning behind me. Let him burn. I would
03:35never choose him again.
03:36Lucian is way better than Caelan. Last life, though he's still weak, he's nice to me. I'll save him this
03:41time.
03:42We'll claw our way out of this shithole. Together.
03:44For three days, I slept like someone freed from a cage. Then came the knock at Ashbourne Hall.
03:52The queen commands your presence at the royal citadel tonight. My blood went cold.
03:57At dusk, Madame Corvin led me through the royal corridors. Dragon flowers scented the stone. Then she stopped and bowed.
04:05Your highness, crown prince. I lifted my head. It's Caelan.
04:20Caelan stepped into the lamplight. He looked exactly like a future king. Proud and untouchable. Beautiful in the cruel Valorian
04:27way.
04:28Your highness. He looked me over from crown to shoes, as if searching for the girl who used to chase
04:32him through these halls.
04:33That's all? In my last life, I knew his every habit. I baked honey cakes for him. I waited outside
04:39Crown Tower just to hand them over.
04:40He always tossed them to the palace drakes.
04:43Stop this pathetic chase, Freya. You are marrying my uncle now. Try to have some dignity. You disgust me.
04:50I am not chasing anyone. I was only telling the truth to your king father. I do not love you.
04:56Then you wandered into the royal family's private wing by accident?
04:58The queen summoned me. Ask Madame Corvin. His gold fire flared. So it was true. I had not come for
05:04him.
05:05My uncle is a corpse with a title. You 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. And before I had even finished my audience with her, my wedding to
05:37Lucien Dravenmore was set for one week later.
05:39Dravenmore's black silver banners stretched across the road as Gareth Thorne bowed before me.
05:44Lady Ashborough, Derrenmore receives you with honor.
05:48In my last life, Crown Tower never gave me this much respect. Some 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, Gareth Thorne led me straight to the bridal chamber.
06:03Lucien Dravenmore lay on the bed, pale and silent. But even unconscious, he did not look weak.
06:08His sharp features, silver black hair and quiet dragon pressure made him seem less like a dying man and more
06:14like 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. He is my husband now. I'll stay here.
06:23The room went silent. After they left, I sat beside him. The 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. His lips were warm.
06:38For a heartbeat, nothing happened. Then the air broke open.
06:41Dark pressure slammed through the room. Black silver scales erupted along his neck.
06:46Windows cracked. His hand shot up and caught my throat. Not gentle, not soft.
06:50Dragon fire exploded from his body, scorching the ceiling and bed frame.
06:54I gasped, gripping his wrist.
06:56Lucien!
06:57His fingers burned against my skin, yet he didn't push me away.
07:19The air pulled back. His hand dropped. The room went flat.
07:29His fingers burned against my skin, then the fire pulled back. His hand dropped.
07:34The room went flat, then the bed frame split. I grabbed his wrist.
07:35dark. Outside, Dravenmore Keep erupted. Shouts, running boots, dragon flame lighting up the sky.
07:41Gareth broke through the door. My lady. I touched my neck. It was bruised. Lucien lay still again,
07:47but his breathing had changed. Deeper. Stronger. The curse had cracked, but whatever was underneath
07:52was not gentle. I didn't know if I had started to wake him up, or started something worse.
07:57By dawn, healers filled the hall. Gareth locked down the entire floor.
08:11No one tells the Royal Citadel what happened last night. The mate Flyme responded to the
08:16marriage bond. That's all anyone needs to know. The bruise on my neck was already dark. A healer
08:21offered to treat it. Leave it. I went back to Lucien's room. He was still, but the black silver
08:26scales on his hand had not faded. His dragon blood was fighting something. The curse, the medicine,
08:31maybe both. I sat beside him. I don't know if you can hear me, but I'm not leaving. His fingers
08:38moved,
08:38barely. The news reached Crown Tower before noon. Caelan was sparring when a servant ran in.
08:43Your Highness, Dravenmore's mate flame answered Freya last night. Caelan stopped mid-swing. The whole
08:49northern sky lit up. Goldfire burst from Caelan's palm. Training post shattered. He thought the wedding
08:56would humiliate me. Instead, all of Royal Citadel was talking about how Dravenmore's dragon blood
09:01had chosen a human bride. Princess Anya walked in. So it's true. She looked at the burned post.
09:07They say Freya looked more like a duchess than a widow. Careful, Caelan. People might think you're
09:13the one who got left behind. That afternoon, Caelan called his steward. The Ashborough war records we
09:19archived, move them to the sealed vault and send a message to the Royal Pharmacy. Any requests from
09:24Dravenmore go through my office first.
10:18Dravenmore go through the evidently trial in the strange event that clips have continued
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 parlour.
10:31Then she can come here.
10:32The servants froze.
10:33Davinmoor Keep is not Seleneva Lavasse's 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 Lucien's healer records, medicine ledgers, and nightwatch 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 Lucien.
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.
11:16They said all pharmaceutical inquiries from Dravenmoor require approval from the Crown Prince's office.
11:21I 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.
11:30Send Rowan.
11:30Let my son teach her what happens to lonely wives in this house.
11:57Rowan Vos waited outside my chamber door.
12:00He smelled of wine.
12:01Lady Dravenmoor.
12:03I stopped.
12:04Come on.
12:04Your husband can't even open his eyes.
12:07Don't waste your youth on a sleeping man.
12:09He stepped closer.
12:10Selene runs this keep.
12:11I am her son.
12:13You are just the human bride they sent to warm Lucien's bed.
12:16Then I slapped him.
12:17Servants rushed over.
12:19No one dared speak.
12:20Rowan wiped blood from his lip.
12:21My mother will hear about this.
12:24Good.
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 Lucien's medicine.
12:51He looked up shaking.
12:52She knows who kept him asleep.
12:53And Crown Tower knows she knows.
13:03She knows.
13:05So we can take her off my face.
13:14Cause you're
13:14a pretty beautiful friend, who will see
13:15what he's ever going away from her. And I'm
13:15like, okay. Who doesn't
13:15do this magic? Who doesn't
13:16do this magic? Oh, you'll
14:05He 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.
14:40Then explain this.
14:41Her smile stopped.
14:42Lucian's dose changed three months ago. The healer 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.
15:03Black silver fire burned across the floor. Lucian'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 Caelan, a royal medical delegation will be dispatched to Dragonmore Keep
15:19to evaluate Duke 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 Caelan's doctors walked in here, they would take over Lucian's treatment,
15:31reverse everything I had changed, put Celine's people back in charge, and I couldn't refuse.
15:36He was using his nephew's health as the excuse.
15:39Then we have three days.
15:59I'm sure you are.
16:04He just went, he was getting a little learning.
16:06Last day, chances by all, that didn't drive to him now, and he's not as cheap to the office.
16:07This isga Davis amazing police officer.
16:07I got a real set of you.
16:08A lot of you have come back to offices, when you have everything to be拳 всем day.
16:16I really don't have enough of his wife to get a little hold on.
16:17That's going to be better.
16:19That's the opportunity.
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19:40beside Lucian. I can handle Selina. I can handle the servants and the whispers. But I can't fight
19:46your nephew and the crown at the same time. Not alone. His hand was warm. The scales pulsed. I
19:51need you to wake up. Silence. Then his fingers closed around mine. Freya. His dark gold eyes
19:56opened. Who came into my keep and thought he could question my wife for protecting me. Lucian sat up
20:02in bed. Black silver flame tore through the room. He looked at the bruise on my neck. Who did this?
20:07You. When your dragon blood broke through. He touched the bruise. Black silver light wrapped
20:12around my neck. It faded under his hand. Outside, every dragon torch in Dravenmore keep lit at once.
20:17The whole northern sky burned silver. In crown tower, a rider burst through the gate.
20:24Your highness, dragon Onmor's fire just lit the northern line. All of it.
20:27Caelan stood up. The duke is awake. Caelan's cup shattered in his hand.
20:33tua. The duke is awake. Caelan hanging on his cab. Caelan with a
20:38pagor's stand, buc Stahead,AH multif or
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20:43clog. Caelan showed up his hand? I think noible
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23:21The royal medical delegation arrived before noon.
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23:26They found Lucian Dravenmore seated in the main hall.
23:29He leaned on a cane.
23:30His face was pale, but black-silver pressure filled the room so hard the candles bent sideways.
23:35The late physician swallowed.
23:37Your Grace, Crown Prince Caelan sent us to review your treatment.
23:40Lucian looked at him.
23:41My nephew sends doctors into my keep without asking me?
23:44No one answered.
23:45The crown is concerned for your health.
23:48My wife kept me alive while your prince tried to take control of my be-medicine.
23:53From today on, Dravenmore's healers answer to me and Lady Davenmore, no one else.
23:56The delegation left before sunset.
23:58Caelan watched from the upper hall, white-faced.
24:01That night, she sent a servant through the east gate with a sealed message.
24:04I watched him disappear into the dark road.
24:06I could stop him, but I didn't.
24:08I want to see who will answer.
24:09Later, Lucian found me by the chamber fire.
24:12How much did they make you carry alone?
24:14His jaw tightened.
24:17I'll start carrying it with you.
24:45解決 the section.
24:46Take the section.
24:46You καιτερ One.
25:04I don't understand.
25:05I don't you mind what if it's common to sleep in the iniciating.
25:05You your sweet Lord and queixaed from thelaw pier.
25:05Can that you accept it?
25:15You're right.
25:15With your personalized guidance, you're right.
25:15.
26:05At dawn, Lucien ordered the ledgers sealed. Gareth brought iron boxes from Selene's office,
26:10tax books, supply lists, military payment rolls. By noon, the truth was on the table.
26:15Northern Rider pay was cut for 8 months. Wintergrain was marked as delivered, but the storehouses never received it.
26:21He placed another page down.
26:23And this money went to the Gilded Den.
26:25Rowan's name was written beside the account. Selene gripped her sleeve.
26:28My husband died for this house. I raised my son here. I made sacrifices.
26:34Lucien looked at her.
26:35You sold my soldiers food and called it sacrifice?
26:37I protected Dravenmoor while you slept.
26:40No. You fed off it.
26:43The hall went silent. Rowan was dragged in, bruised and terrified.
26:48Mother, say something!
26:50Selene did not look at him. Lucien tapped the ledger.
26:53Rowan Vos goes to the dungeon until I decide his sentence.
26:56You can't do this to family!
26:57Family does not touch my wife, steal from my riders, or poison my house.
27:02The guards took him away.
27:05Selene Vox is removed from all household authority.
27:08She will remain under guard in the east wing.
27:11Then he turned to me.
27:12The accounts are yours now.
27:13Every servant in the hall dropped to one knee.
27:16For the first time, they were not kneeling because Lucien had woken.
27:20They were kneeling because I had won.
27:33I wasados inside Latina for the second adventures of Victoria.
27:34Thank you very much.
27:34Glory to the priest in the house to me.
27:34You quite suck.
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34:32The news reached Crown Tower by nightfall.
34:35Kaelin read the report once, then gold fire burst from his hand.
34:38Half the desk burned before the guards could move.
34:40He threw out my delegation?
34:42The messenger shook.
34:43Yes, your highness. Lady Selina has been confined. Rowan Vos is in the dungeon.
34:47Kaelin's eyes went gold.
34:49Freya did this.
34:50Lucian did this. Freya gave him the knife.
34:53Later, Queen Marian called House Marian into her private chamber.
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, accuse him of hiding troops, ignoring royal summons and using illness to build power in the north.
35:07At the same time, Kaelin went to King Alaric.
35:10Father, Uncle Lucian just woke from a curse. He should return to the royal citadel for treatment.
35:14You sound very concerned.
35:15Kaelin'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. Try to keep up.
35:29Edric's face changed.
35:30Send word to Dravenmoor. Tell Lady Dravenmoor the Queen is moving first.
36:02THANKS DIAZEN
36:03.
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.
36:53Some nights, his fire turned wild.
36:54One burst split the bedpost.
36:56Another 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.
37:04The force threw me against the floor.
37:06My arm hit broken stone.
37:07Blood ran to my wrist.
37:09Lucian froze.
37:09The fire died at once.
37:11He tried to stand too fast and nearly fell.
37:14It's a scratch.
37:15I hurt you.
37:16The curse hurt me, not you.
37:19Do not make this sound easy.
37:21I 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.
37:27You should not only be ready to suffer.
37:29His thumb brushed my bandage.
37:30You should be treated well.
37:32I stopped breathing.
37:33For the first time, he wasn't speaking as a duke.
37:35He was speaking as my husband.
38:01He closed.
38:01He was speaking as a duke.
38:17His thumbшее talking as a duke too.
38:17May the ordentlicher.
38:20His thumbifies.
38:20You should be treated well.
38:20He has stood well.
38:27So he couldn't be treated well.
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40:14The summons arrived three days later.
40:17King 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.
40:38If 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.
40:55Mira tied the case shut.
40:58Are you afraid?
40:58I looked at the royal seal.
41:00I died in that city once.
41:03Mira went quiet.
41:05I'm not going back as that girl.
41:08Before dawn, I found Lucian on the tower.
41:12Royal citadel was far beyond the dark hills.
41:15Kaelin will be there.
41:16So will the queen.
41:19And me.
41:19He 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.
42:02That hurt him more.
42:03Queen Marianne held a welcome feast that night.
42:06Duke Lucian, Valeria is relieved to see you awake.
42:08Relieved enough to send her a second.
42:10Her smile tightened.
42:11The king missed his brother.
42:13Then we are happy to answer his majesty.
42:15We brought everything he needs to see.
42:16Her eyes moved to the locked case beside my chair.
42:19How thoughtful.
42:20After 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.
43:10go to the final room for the rainy day.
43:14The empress.
43:29Theorian.
43:29The novel.
43:29The empress.
43:29The Kelly.
43:29The zwei.
43:29The two.
43:33The 14.
43:34The 21.
43:34The 21.
43:35The 21.
43:35.
44:05The autumn court filled the royal hall by sunrise.
44:08Dragon lords, human nobles, crown loyalists.
44:11Lucian entered with a cane.
44:13The room still bowed.
44:14Black silver pressure rolled over the floor.
44:16Even House Marianne's men stopped smiling.
44:18Caelan sat in the prince's seat, gold fire flickering under his skin.
44:21A Marianne lord stepped forward first.
44:23Your majesty, Duke Lucian has been absent from court for a year.
44:26His private dragon riders remain under northern command.
44:28Valeria needs a royal oversea her in Drevenmore.
44:30The hall stirred.
44:31So that was their move.
44:32Call Lucian weak.
44:33Call his army dangerous.
44:34Put crown tower inside our key.
44:36Lucian handed Gareth's sealed report to the king's steward.
44:39Current rider count.
44:40Grain stores.
44:41Border patrols.
44:42Tax ledgers records for Sinervos and her son.
44:45King Alaric read in silence.
44:46Reports can be dressed up.
44:48So can treason.
44:49The lord froze.
44:50King Alaric lowered the report.
44:52The north appears better managed than half the estates in this room.
44:56No oversaw will be sent.
44:58Caelan's jaw tightened.
45:00After 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?
45:08To speak to the king.
45:10I stepped around him.
45:11This has nothing to do with you.
45:14For once, Caelan had no answer.
45:18To be continued.
45:19To be continued.
45:19To be continued.
45:23To be continued.
45:32To be continued.
45:32To be continued.
45:32To be continued.
45:34To be continued.
45:34To be continued.
45:34To be continued.
45:37To be continued.
45:50To be continued.
45:50.
46:22.
46:22.
46:22.
46:22.
46:22.
46:22.
46:22.
46:22.
46:24.
46:24.
46:27.
46:27.
46:27.
46:28.
46:47The next day the court gathered in the rose dragon garden.
46:51I 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.
46:58Then 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?
47:09You were ten.
47:10Soaked through.
47:11Furious at the pond.
47:13And you remembered that?
47:14I remembered you.
47:15For a second the court noise faded.
47:17Then Queen Marion's voice cut through the garden.
47:19How charming.
47:20A human duchess among dragonhounds.
47:23Valeria is becoming very generous.
47:25The noble ladies went quiet.
47:27Caelan looked at me.
47:28I did not speak.
47:29Lucien did.
47:30House Ashborough bled for Valeria before half these dragonhouses learned how to hold a border.
47:35Queen Marion's smile cracked.
47:38Freer'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.
48:20there was a very clear force of the women who have loved us.
48:21He was the doctor who had not had never been tested.
48:24I did not speak to him.
48:27He was the doctor.
48:28I heard you were the doctor.
48:28I asked him, do you know.
48:28Who the doctor was a doctor?
48:31I said he had never done anything.
48:32And that he said I was the doctor.
48:44And that he only praised him.
48:45I asked him, do you know.
48:45I knew he was the doctor, do you know.
48:46And he was the doctor and he said no.
48:50Three visits.
48:52Madame Corvin entered the sealed wing each time with a Marianne clerk.
48:56The exit list is wrong. Files went in, fewer came out.
48:59Which files?
49:00Northern Warfront, Ashpington Marching Routes, Dragonblood Curse Reports.
49:04Lucien's hand tightened on his cane.
49:06They are destroying the trail.
49:08Then we split it.
49:09Lucien 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.
49:40One letter marked my father's route through the northern pass.
49:42One confirmed the route had been sent before the ambush.
49:45The last carried a red wax seal.
49:47House Marianne.
49:48Mira stared at it.
49:50My lady.
49:51That's the Queen's family.
49:53I closed the letters.
49:55Not just her family.
49:58Lucien entered before dawn.
50:00The King agreed to open the vault tomorrow.
50:02I handed him the copies.
50:03Good.
50:04His face changed as he read.
50:07Because now we know what they'll try to hide.
50:15constante of Chanel's yards to show her her writing.
50:17I went to this miniers room full of homme.
50:17So, wedding house depends a lot everyone to end.
50:31Cruel the fairy pillar to grow.
50:31And no.
50:32We're in particular for girls to watch the sea.
50:32They've come to much of the stack tonight.
50:32And all of them downstairs.
50:34The ship's in the to her hotel.
50:41Pcrews came from home.
50:42The ship's home of a horse.
50:42.
51:37Don't yell. I know it looks stupid.
51:40She pulled the cloth aside.
51:41Three copies of the cloth.
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