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00:00:04My mother was once chosen by Selina. Her mate bond with my father was real. But in Grey Hollow, Selina's
00:00:11choice was not enough.
00:00:18You can be my wife. You can stay in Grey Hollow.
00:00:25But I leave for war against Red Rage Pack before dawn. If I die, you will still serve Grey Hollow
00:00:31in the way you are worth most.
00:00:38Bondless widow can still be traded.
00:00:40A bond can be given by Selina. Aluna is accepted by the pack.
00:00:44My mother thought the bond would give her a home. My father used it to keep her useful.
00:00:49Daemon is dead. The bond is gone.
00:00:52Then the clause stands.
00:00:54We give Blackpune the widow. Blackpune gives us the eastern hunting line. That is the trade.
00:01:03No proper she-wolf would willingly enter an exiled pack so a bondless widow is enough.
00:01:09That was the first time I heard the name Blackpine. The adults said it like a curse. Like a place
00:01:16wolves were sent where no one wanted them alive.
00:01:20The first time I saw the alpha of Blackpine, he came out of the forest as a black wolf. They
00:01:25said he killed his luna. They said his wolf had gone mad before he was driven out. When he changed
00:01:30into a man in front of us, I believed every word.
00:01:42We brought the widow. Grey Hollow recognizes your claim to the eastern line.
00:01:49A pup can stay with her. Blackpune needs pups too, doesn't it? For that, Grey Hollow want passage through the
00:01:58lower ridge.
00:02:00My lord, I will follow Blackpune's rules. Put me with the Omegas. Put me in the kitchen. Keep me out
00:02:06of your hall if you must. Just let my pup live under your protection.
00:02:14Do not look at him like that, weak pup. You are lucky any alpha would take you.
00:02:26My alpha.
00:02:28Her father's body is not even cold and she is already begging another alpha? Like mother, like...
00:02:34enough.
00:02:41The pup stays. The woman stays. Grey Hollow leave.
00:02:47That day I called a monster alpha. I thought I was begging him not to throw us back. I did
00:02:53not know the moment his blood touched the pack stone. Grey Hollow had lost us.
00:03:02In the end, under Grey Hollow's elders and Blackpine Sledger, the transfer was sealed. My mother and I became Blackpine
00:03:10wolves.
00:03:11Bring them in.
00:03:24My mother put down our bundle and started looking for work. She wanted to be useful in Grey Hollow. Useful
00:03:33wolves might get leftovers. Useless wolves were thrown away first. My mother thought his silence meant she was already doing
00:03:41something wrong.
00:03:45Enough. We don't need you doing this here.
00:03:56The Omega room was tucked under the stairs. Shabby, but cleaner than Grey Hollow's basement. My mother took one look
00:04:07and decided people like us belonged there.
00:04:15Nia.
00:04:16Nia, don't be afraid. We can sleep here.
00:04:20Mishnah.
00:04:29Mom, I'm not afraid. In Grey Hollow we slept in the Omega basement too. This place is cleaner.
00:04:38Maybe, if your wolf scent grows stronger, or if one day I can give this pack a strong pup, things
00:04:44will get easier.
00:04:45When my father was alive, he watched my mother closely. He did not let her leave the pack house. He
00:04:52did not let her stand beside him.
00:04:57Mama, if father had a bond with you, why did he ride us into Blackpens' ledger?
00:05:03He did not let others see her bond mark.
00:05:09Cover that mark. A bond does not make her lunar.
00:05:18But even then, I felt it was not only because my wolf scent was weak. My father hid my mother's
00:05:25bond mark long before anyone knew what kind of pup I would become.
00:05:34As Blackpine had land Grey Hollow wanted.
00:05:37She did not say the rest, but I knew. My father sent my mother here to die. Before he left,
00:05:44he had already decided to sell her for land. He could not come back, and he would not let my
00:05:50mother live well either.
00:05:52I guessed it not because I was clever, but because they made it too obvious. The elders said it. The
00:05:58kitchen wolves said it. Even the pups knew. A bondless widow could buy Grey Hollow land.
00:06:04And Blackpine was where wolves were sent. Where no one wanted them alive.
00:06:25Lucy!
00:06:43Use it.
00:06:45He sounded angry. The room looked better. That made it harder to understand him.
00:07:10Supper is starting.
00:07:12Where should I stand?
00:07:13With the Omegas or outside the hall?
00:07:19I can serve first.
00:07:21Nia can wait with me.
00:07:23There.
00:07:24In Grey Hollow, supper had rules.
00:07:27My mother served first.
00:07:29I waited behind the kitchen door.
00:07:31After the pack eats, where do we take what is left?
00:07:35We only ate when the pack was done.
00:07:37Sit before the pub falls over.
00:07:51Do not look at the pups table.
00:07:52Wolves who cannot scent like wolves do not eat like wolves.
00:07:56In Grey Hollow, alpha blood ate first.
00:08:00Warriors ate next.
00:08:01Pure.
00:08:03Blood pups got the warm balls.
00:08:05My mother and I waited until the serving line was empty.
00:08:09Kitchen pups wait.
00:08:18Eat.
00:08:23That was the first time I sat at a pack table before the soup turned cold.
00:08:28I did not know if Ronan was angry.
00:08:30I only knew he did not send us to the leftovers line.
00:08:36Grey Hollow never let us use scent.
00:08:39Cleansing herbs, they said.
00:08:42My mother's blood was not clean enough.
00:08:45And my wolf scent was too weak to matter.
00:08:50Clean the Grey Hollow scent.
00:08:51That night, Blackpeen gave us herbs and hot water.
00:08:57My mother looked more frightened than she had in the snow.
00:09:02First night.
00:09:04If I smell clean, maybe he will not be disgusted.
00:09:15Nia, remember this.
00:09:17If the alpha comes tonight, cover your ears.
00:09:20Whatever you hear, do not come out.
00:09:22Pretend you heard nothing.
00:09:23I nodded hard.
00:09:24I knew.
00:09:26In Grey Hollow.
00:09:27When a man came through the door at night.
00:09:30Children learned to stay quiet.
00:09:34My father hurt my mother before.
00:09:37I ran to Beck and to stop him.
00:09:39He threw me aside.
00:09:41And I hurt my mother.
00:09:44This time, I would not call out.
00:09:47My mother and I had to live carefully.
00:09:51Living was the only hope we had.
00:09:54Even if I did not know where that hope was.
00:10:01Soon, the door opened hard.
00:10:03Ronan stood there with a light, staring at me on the floor.
00:10:07I tried to shrink away.
00:10:08My hands were sweating.
00:10:09He was bigger than my father had ever been three.
00:10:29The room had changed.
00:10:31The platform was wide.
00:10:32The furs were old but clean.
00:10:34And the floor no longer touched my back.
00:10:37Ronan put me down.
00:10:39He threw a blanket over me.
00:10:41And left.
00:10:43He did not stay.
00:10:45He did not touch my mother.
00:10:50Mama, it's warm.
00:10:52I have never been this warm in winter.
00:10:54Nia, the soup was warm too.
00:10:56I think this is what living feels like.
00:10:59You called him my alpha.
00:11:01Tomorrow, call him that again.
00:11:03From now on, call him that.
00:11:04Alpha Ronan is better than father.
00:11:15In Grey Hollow, wolf enhancement.
00:11:18Elixir was never for pups like me.
00:11:21It was for strong pups.
00:11:22Alpha born pups.
00:11:24Pups worth strengthening.
00:11:26They said if I touched it, my weak wolf would break.
00:11:30The broth tasted warm and sweet.
00:11:32Weak scent.
00:11:34A drop may help her wolf hold.
00:11:36I thought it was medicine.
00:11:38One drop.
00:11:39I thought Black Pine was trying to make my weak wolf a little stronger.
00:11:43I did not know the elixir was not waking a weak wolf.
00:11:46It was touching something much older.
00:11:49Will it hurt her?
00:11:51Not if her wolf is only weak.
00:11:54I knew why my mother could not sleep.
00:11:57I had taken the wolf enhancement elixir.
00:12:03If my wolf still did not wake, then Grey Hollow was right.
00:12:08I was not a weak wolf.
00:12:09I was no wolf at all.
00:12:11And if Ronan saw that, maybe Black Pine would throw us away too.
00:12:15My mother kept looking at my wrists.
00:12:17She wanted a sign.
00:12:18A claw.
00:12:20A scent.
00:12:21Anything that could prove I was worth keeping.
00:12:23That night, the elixir did not wake my wolf the way it was supposed to.
00:12:27Something inside me answered.
00:12:29But it felt wrong.
00:12:32Mom, what is happening?
00:12:35Nia, listen to me.
00:12:38No one.
00:12:40Did I do something wrong?
00:12:43No.
00:12:44No.
00:12:44No, baby.
00:12:46You did nothing wrong.
00:12:47But if they see it, they will throw us out.
00:12:49Do you understand?
00:12:50They will say you are strange.
00:12:52They will say I brought trouble into this pack.
00:12:55My mother had been afraid I had no wolf.
00:12:57When she saw me finally react, she looked even more scared.
00:13:01Mom.
00:13:03Alara.
00:13:04I had taken the wolf enhancement elixir.
00:13:06If my wolf still did not wake, Grey Hollow was right.
00:13:09I was not a weak wolf.
00:13:11I was no wolf at all.
00:13:12But when my body finally answered, it looked worse than silence.
00:13:16In Grey Hollow, when a weak pup reacted badly, they used bitter ash herbs to press the wolf back down.
00:13:23My mother had seen them do it to other children.
00:13:26That was the only way she knew to save me.
00:13:28I was only trying to help her.
00:13:36Mom!
00:13:37Ronan saw the ash herbs and looked angrier than before.
00:13:42I thought he was angry because I had ruined the room.
00:13:45Then he wrapped me in fur and carried me out.
00:13:49Healer.
00:13:50Door open.
00:13:54Look at her.
00:13:55Elixir reaction and ash herbs on top of it.
00:13:58A wolf is not gone.
00:14:00It has been pressed down too long.
00:14:01And this is not a common weak wolf response.
00:14:04One full drop was too much at once.
00:14:07For one second, I almost felt happy.
00:14:11I had a wolf.
00:14:13Something inside me had answered.
00:14:15I did not know yet that the thing they feared would one day become the part of me that saved
00:14:20us.
00:14:20I took the elixir and still made everyone scared.
00:14:26Maybe Grey Hollow was right.
00:14:29Maybe I cannot take it.
00:14:33Then smaller drops.
00:14:35Let the wolf learn.
00:14:38A buried wolf does not stand in one night.
00:14:43He did not say I was strong. He did not say I was special. He only said my wolf needed
00:14:50time.
00:14:51For the first time, my weakness sounded like something that had been done to me, not something I was.
00:14:59No more Grey Hollow Herbs.
00:15:04Tomorrow, smaller.
00:15:10I thought the elixir had proved I was broken. Ronan treated it like my wolf had only taken too much
00:15:16too soon. Like strength was something I could learn, little by little.
00:15:27Less than half a drop, mixed with moon herb water.
00:15:31After that night, even half a drop looked frightening.
00:15:36My mother was afraid it would hurt me again.
00:15:39I was afraid it would prove I still could not hold it.
00:15:43Ronan said nothing.
00:15:45He only stood there until I drank.
00:15:48Ronan still looked angry.
00:15:50He did not ask if I felt better.
00:15:53He did not praise me for drinking the medicine.
00:15:59But every time I stopped eating, his eyes went to my bowl.
00:16:16I wanted to ask if I could train one day.
00:16:19I wanted to ask if the thing under the bandage was truly a wolf.
00:16:24Not today.
00:16:25But Ronan said not today, in Black Pine.
00:16:28Not today sounded different from never.
00:16:33Grey Hollow was afraid of Ronan.
00:16:35But Black Pine was afraid of the wolves who made Ronan stop speaking.
00:16:39Your father's wolves crossed the North Line.
00:16:43I did not know who his father was.
00:16:46I only knew the room changed when that token hit the table.
00:16:50Doors barred.
00:16:51Pups inside.
00:16:52Mark covered.
00:16:53My alpha!
00:16:54The first time I called him my alpha.
00:16:56Inside.
00:16:57I was begging him not to send us back.
00:16:59Come back!
00:17:00This time, I called him that because I wanted him to return.
00:17:06He left before the moon rose.
00:17:09My mother told me not to listen.
00:17:11But I could still hear their paws in the snow.
00:17:14I thought he would be back by morning.
00:17:17But that night, Black Pine waited.
00:17:19And Ronan did not come back.
00:17:23Ronan left before the moon rose.
00:17:25He told us to stay inside.
00:17:27But Black Pine did not sleep that night.
00:17:29Every grown wolf kept looking at the North Door.
00:17:32And that made me more afraid than any how.
00:17:43Mom, is that him?
00:17:46My mother did not say yes.
00:17:48She did not say no.
00:17:50Her hand was shaking over my wrist.
00:17:52That was how I knew she was afraid too.
00:18:06Where is Alpha Ronan?
00:18:08North line.
00:18:12Alpha stayed behind.
00:18:13Alpha stayed behind.
00:18:15Those three words sat in the hall like snow that would not melt.
00:18:19Ronan had carried me through the night once.
00:18:22Mom, he has to come back.
00:18:24Now he was the one left in the snow.
00:18:35No one leaves until Alpha returns.
00:18:39They barred the doors because Ronan had not returned.
00:18:42I understood the rule.
00:18:44Pups stayed inside.
00:18:45Weak wolves stayed behind.
00:18:47That was how Pax kept children alive.
00:18:57Mom, did Alpha Ronan stay behind to protect us?
00:19:00My mother kept tightening the bandage around my wrist.
00:19:03It covered my mark.
00:19:05And it gave her hands something to do.
00:19:07Ronan had stayed behind.
00:19:09If Black Pine lost its Alpha,
00:19:11the little safety we had just begun to believe in would disappear with him.
00:19:15So she packed the herbs and forced herself to move.
00:19:22Alpha set everyone inside.
00:19:25Then we move quietly.
00:19:27He came for me in the night.
00:19:29We cannot leave him in the snow.
00:19:40I thought my mother would tell me
00:19:42weak pups should not run into danger.
00:19:45Instead, she covered my mark,
00:19:47tightened my cloak,
00:19:49and taught me how to break a rule without making a sound.
00:19:53Gray Hollow sent us to Black Pine because they thought we would die here.
00:19:57Ronan did not let that happen.
00:19:59Now Black Pine wanted us to stay inside and wait.
00:20:02But waiting felt worse than the snow.
00:20:07We broke Ronan's rule and left Black Pine.
00:20:11My mother did not say she was scared.
00:20:13But she kept looking back at the house.
00:20:15I knew she was not only afraid of the forest.
00:20:18She was afraid we would find him too late.
00:20:36I did not know how to track wolves.
00:20:39But I knew Ronan's scent by then.
00:20:41Pine.
00:20:42Snow.
00:20:43Blood.
00:20:44Every broken branch smelled like him.
00:20:47And every step made my mother's face worse.
00:20:55My alpha.
00:20:57I thought we were too late.
00:20:58The snow had covered his tracks.
00:21:00And the forest would not answer me.
00:21:03For the first time,
00:21:04I understood why my mother afraid to come.
00:21:10I thought we had come to find Ronan.
00:21:13Then I saw the wolves who had come to finish him.
00:21:19Black Pine left its pup in the snow.
00:21:27Mom.
00:21:28If he is gone, will they take us back?
00:21:33For one moment, I thought Ronan was really gone.
00:21:36And if he was gone,
00:21:37Black Pine was just another place that could not keep us.
00:21:41The silver wolves stopped looking at us.
00:21:44They looked behind us.
00:21:45That was when I heard him.
00:21:47Not wounded.
00:21:48Not dying.
00:21:49Angry.
00:21:50My alpha.
00:21:52Oh.
00:21:54Oh.
00:21:56Oh.
00:21:59Oh.
00:22:00Oh.
00:22:08You left the house.
00:22:10He had won.
00:22:11He had come back.
00:22:14Inside.
00:22:15But the first thing he did was not smile.
00:22:17He looked at us like we had scared him into anger.
00:22:22I thought we had come to save him.
00:22:24But Ronan had already won.
00:22:26We found a battlefield.
00:22:28And he brought back proof.
00:22:30By sunrise, everyone would hear that Black Pine's alpha had returned.
00:22:37Grey Hollow came before they knew Ronan had returned.
00:22:40They thought Black Pine had lost its alpha.
00:22:43They thought my mother and I would be cold, hungry, and begging to be taken back.
00:22:47You are sitting by the fire.
00:22:53I thought Black Pine would have put you below stairs by now.
00:23:00If Black Pine cannot keep you, Grey Hollow can still take you back.
00:23:05The woman can work in the kitchen.
00:23:07The pup can serve the pup's table.
00:23:10She did not come because she missed us.
00:23:12She came because she thought she could use us again.
00:23:16They came because they thought he was gone.
00:23:18Then the door opened and...
00:23:19Finish the broth.
00:23:22We did not know you had returned, Alpha Ronan.
00:23:25I can see that.
00:23:26And Ronan walked in with the enemy's token in his hand.
00:23:30Grey Hollow came to see us cold and ruined.
00:23:34They stay here.
00:23:36Instead, they saw me by the fire.
00:23:38My mother beside me.
00:23:39And Ronan standing in front of us.
00:23:42Do not make me say it twice.
00:23:44Out.
00:23:45I still did not understand Paklor.
00:23:48I only understood that he did not let them take us back.
00:23:54They will need these before the next snow.
00:23:57Grey Hollow thought Black Pine was a place where unwanted walls went to freeze.
00:24:01Then they saw Black Pine's winter stores.
00:24:04She had come to see us cold.
00:24:05She found me by the fire.
00:24:08Where did she get that cloak?
00:24:10Winter stores.
00:24:11Pops get warm first.
00:24:12She had come to pity my mother.
00:24:14She found my mother beside me.
00:24:16With medicine.
00:24:16Warm cloth.
00:24:17And a place no one had taken away.
00:24:20Black Pine is feeding her too well.
00:24:24Grey Hollow did not ask if I was happy.
00:24:26They asked what I had eaten.
00:24:28They did not ask if my mother was safe.
00:24:31They asked what Black Pine had given us.
00:24:35The pup was sitting by the fire.
00:24:37Wearing Black Pine fur.
00:24:39Drinking hot broth.
00:24:42Hot broth with moon herb?
00:24:44How would I know?
00:24:45It smelled like it.
00:24:47Weak scent does not steady itself.
00:24:49She was barely a wolf here.
00:24:52Then Black Pine changed something.
00:24:53Food?
00:24:54Herbs?
00:24:54Alpha protection?
00:24:55Maybe elixir?
00:25:11Find out what Black Pine gave her.
00:25:12And if the pup is not what we thought.
00:25:16Then we sold too cheaply.
00:25:29In Grey Hollow, adults watched my bowl to see what they could take away.
00:25:34In Black Pine, Ronan watched until I finished.
00:25:36He still looked angry.
00:25:38But my bowl stayed mine.
00:25:59Mom, can a weak pup learn too?
00:26:04Not today.
00:26:09In Grey Hollow, not for you mean forever.
00:26:12It meant never ask again.
00:26:14In Black Pine, Ronan said.
00:26:16Not today.
00:26:17He said no.
00:26:19He said not today.
00:26:21I did not know if that meant tomorrow, but for the first time tomorrow, sounded possible.
00:26:30Less than half a drop mixed with moon herb water.
00:26:37Last time, one drop almost broke me open.
00:26:40This time, the bowl was smaller.
00:26:42The light was weaker.
00:26:43But I was still afraid.
00:26:45I was afraid the wolf inside me would answer wrong again.
00:27:02Good.
00:27:04Let it pass.
00:27:05Do not fight it.
00:27:12Again tomorrow.
00:27:13I did not hear what the healer said.
00:27:15I only knew that.
00:27:16For the first time, the thing inside me did not feel like a punishment.
00:27:19It felt small, frightened, and alive.
00:27:22Arthur.
00:27:24That was not weak.
00:27:31Keep it quiet.
00:27:37Watch her through the night.
00:27:39If the pulse jumps, call me.
00:27:43My mother had slept in rooms with men before.
00:27:45She knew how to stay quiet.
00:27:47How to protect me.
00:27:49How to wait for a night to pass.
00:27:51But Ronan did not come closer.
00:27:52He sat by the door.
00:28:01You do not have to stay.
00:28:03I know the signs.
00:28:17Cold.
00:28:19That was the first night my mother slept in the same room as an alpha and woke up untouched.
00:28:25She did not know what to do with that kind of safety.
00:28:30Stable.
00:28:31Stable.
00:28:34Stable.
00:28:55We brought what belonged to Daemon.
00:28:58The pup should remember her father's scent.
00:29:01Grey Hollow did not bring memories.
00:29:03They brought a hook.
00:29:05They wanted to see if I would still answer to Daemon's scent.
00:29:13Do not hide her.
00:29:15She is Daemon's blood.
00:29:28She knows enough.
00:29:33Finish it.
00:29:56What was that?
00:30:01Not what she sounded like in Grey Hollow.
00:30:05They came to see if I still belonged to Daemon.
00:30:08They left hearing a sound Grey Hollow had never heard from me.
00:30:20She pulled away from Daemon's scent.
00:30:23She was sitting by Black Pine's fire, drinking their herbs, wearing their fur.
00:30:27She was sitting by Black Pine, drinking her hand, and drinking his dirt.
00:30:37She was training.
00:30:37She was training.
00:30:41She was a Kannstorpe.
00:30:43She was training.
00:30:44If Black Pine woke something in her, she should not stay there.
00:30:54The pup is Daemon's blood
00:31:04You remembered that late
00:31:06Blood does not disappear because of one trade
00:31:17It disappeared when you sold her
00:31:21Then we reopened the trade
00:31:24When they thought I was weak, I was a burden
00:31:30No
00:31:33Black Pine did not know what it was taking, Grey Hollow did not know what it was giving
00:31:36When they thought I might be useful, I became blood
00:31:40I did not understand trade, but I understood that Grey Hollow wanted to name me again
00:32:03The widow was settlement, the pup is Daemon's blood
00:32:10Daemon's widow should know better than to keep his blood from Grey Hollow
00:32:16Her name is Alara
00:32:18They kept saying blood, Ronan kept the ledger open
00:32:22I did not understand Paklor, but I saw my name beside my mother's
00:32:26And for once, no one separated us
00:32:36Both names are in my ledger
00:32:49The girl carries Grey Hollow blood
00:32:53You sold her too
00:33:08Then this is not finished
00:33:14It is here
00:33:19Grey Hollow
00:33:20Grey Hollow came to name me again
00:33:22Ronan closed the ledger before they could
00:33:24But when they left, I saw their faces
00:33:27They had stopped looking at me like a burden
00:33:30That frightened me more
00:33:43Blackpint's ledger
00:33:44Blackpint's ledger protects her there
00:33:45But Crownpak will not care about Blackpint ink
00:33:51If she is rare, Grey Hollow should not be the last to speak
00:34:15Do not say White Wolf, not yet
00:34:20Say enough to make them come
00:34:23Grey Hollow had already sold us once
00:34:26When they could not take me back with their own hands
00:34:32Stronger wolves
00:34:47Weak pup
00:34:48White response
00:34:51Blackpint
00:34:58My son Ronan has hidden enough from me
00:35:13Grey Hollow
00:35:14Grey Hollow used the old message trail
00:35:15Crown scent crossed it before dawn
00:35:18I did not know it then
00:35:20But Ronan had smelled Crownpak before
00:35:24Not like an enemy from far away
00:35:26That is his father's house
00:35:28He had been driven out of
00:35:41No visitors
00:35:43No scent tests
00:35:45No elixir outside this room
00:35:47No elixir outside this room
00:35:57Is it because of Nia?
00:36:05Keep it covered
00:36:06Keep it covered
00:36:14My mother had seen bundles before
00:36:17A bundle meant leaving
00:36:19A bundle
00:36:21Meant someone else
00:36:23Had decided
00:36:24Where we were going
00:36:29Mama
00:36:30Are we being sold again?
00:36:49Mama
00:36:51Are we being sold again?
00:36:53My mother had packed before
00:36:55Every bundle in my memory meant someone else had decided where we would go
00:36:59Grey Hollow packed us once
00:37:02And called it a trade
00:37:04I thought Blackpint
00:37:05Blackpint was doing the same
00:37:11If you want us gone
00:37:13Say it to my face
00:37:21Do not dress it up as protection
00:37:23Do not dress it up as protection
00:37:29Do not dress it up as protection
00:37:46Do not dress it up as protection
00:37:47You are not sending us away
00:37:49I was giving you a way out
00:37:54I do not want you taken
00:38:07Crown riders at the Northgate
00:38:08For the first time
00:38:10A bundle did not mean someone was throwing us away
00:38:13It meant someone had thought of how we might survive
00:38:29Grey Hollow came with noise
00:38:30Crown pack came with silence
00:38:32Even before they spoke
00:38:34I knew they were not like the small packs that came to bargain
00:38:37They came like the snow already belonged to them
00:38:47Crown pack claims the pup
00:38:54No
00:38:54A rare wolf does not belong in an exile's den
00:39:03Your father has been patient
00:39:05I knew crown pack was dangerous
00:39:07I did not know it was his father's house
00:39:09The place that had driven him out had come to take me in
00:39:13Tell him to come himself
00:39:19He will
00:39:20He will
00:39:29You built a den of strays and called it a pack
00:39:36Ronin, heir of the crown line
00:39:44Exile
00:39:46Traitor
00:39:48Lunar killer
00:39:51Mummy
00:39:53Did he really kill someone?
00:39:55He did not defend himself
00:39:57That scared me more than the words
00:39:59In Grey Hollow, guilty wolves shouted
00:40:01Ronin only moved us farther behind him
00:40:04The crown does not forget blood
00:40:07It does not forget murder either
00:40:11Then it remembers where to find me
00:40:13Then it remembers where to find me
00:40:14That night crown pack did not take me
00:40:16But it left something worse behind
00:40:17A name Ronin never used
00:40:19And a crime he would not deny
00:40:20Pups inside
00:40:22Doors barred
00:40:36The crown pack called him
00:40:37The crown pack called him air, exile, traitor, and lunar killer
00:40:40Ronin did not deny any of it
00:40:42Ronin did not deny any of it
00:40:43He only barred the doors and sent the pups inside
00:40:45That made the words feel heavier
00:40:51Lunar killer
00:40:52Lunar killer
00:40:53The crown would not say it for nothing
00:41:03Mama
00:41:04Did he really kill someone?
00:41:07He heard the fear
00:41:08I know he did
00:41:09But he still did not defend himself
00:41:12He gave my mother the bar for the door
00:41:14The same way he always did when the night became too dangerous
00:41:23Inside
00:41:24Inside
00:41:24Barred
00:41:31Mom
00:41:33Are we safe with him?
00:41:39My mother was afraid of the name crown pack had given him
00:41:42But the room around us was full of things
00:41:45Ronin had done without explaining
00:41:47A platform off the cold floor
00:41:50A cloak cut to miss eyes
00:41:53A bar that locked from inside
00:42:04Pups first
00:42:05Wounded next
00:42:15Why don't you tell them the truth?
00:42:18Why don't you tell them the truth?
00:42:22The truth can wait
00:42:25The door cannot
00:42:26Of course
00:42:29Tonight we stay inside
00:42:31Tomorrow
00:42:33We watch what he does
00:42:35My mother did not say she trusted him
00:42:37Not yet
00:42:38But that night
00:42:40She stopped packing
00:42:41In our life
00:42:43That was already a choice
00:42:59Lunar killer
00:43:01I did not see his past that night
00:43:04But later
00:43:05I learned crown pack did not call wolves
00:43:08Weak the way Grey Hollow did
00:43:10They had a stone for it
00:43:11A rite
00:43:13A beautiful name for throwing wolves away
00:43:31The crown does not carry weak blood
00:43:35The crown does not carry weak blood
00:43:57The crown does not carry effect
00:43:59Ghostly
00:43:59Let her back
00:44:19He killed the Luna.
00:44:22They said he stole broken wolves from the crown.
00:44:26They said he killed the Luna.
00:44:28But the wolves he carried out that night became Black Pine.
00:44:37Give us the pup. Crown Pack has no quarrel with the Widow.
00:44:46Be clever for once. Give the child back to real blood and maybe Crown Pack will still keep you alive.
00:44:52They spoke to my mother. Like she was a door they could open to reach me.
00:44:57Grey Hollow had used her fear before.
00:45:00This time, Crown Pack used the same hand.
00:45:16I was sent here as settlement.
00:45:23I am not leaving as cargo.
00:45:25And my daughter is not being carried away like one.
00:45:38Then she dies with Black Pine.
00:45:43Leave.
00:45:48Her mother was still afraid.
00:45:50I could feel it in the way her hand shook behind my shoulder.
00:45:53But she did not step back.
00:45:56For the first time, she did not wait for someone else to decide where we belong.
00:46:03Crown Pack had called him a killer.
00:46:05Black Pine still followed him.
00:46:07But some of them looked at his back differently.
00:46:09I hated that.
00:46:10I did not know why yet.
00:46:31I did not save him.
00:46:36Not yet.
00:46:37I only stood beside him for one breath.
00:46:39But for that one breath, Crown Pack stopped pushing him down.
00:46:43Enough.
00:46:48It is her.
00:46:55I did not know how to fight Crown Pack.
00:46:57I only knew Ronan was standing alone.
00:47:00And I did not want him to stand alone.
00:47:02For one breath, the pressure at the door weakened.
00:47:06I did not understand why.
00:47:08I only knew it happened when I stood beside him.
00:47:11You are doing what they all did.
00:47:13Deciding where I go without asking me.
00:47:17Crown Pack will take her.
00:47:19Then say you are afraid.
00:47:22Do not call it my choice when you never gave me one.
00:47:25I do not want you taken.
00:47:27The road is there.
00:47:28If you choose it.
00:47:29That night, Ronan did not close the road.
00:47:32My mother did not take it.
00:47:34For the first time, leaving or staying was not a command.
00:47:38It waited on the table.
00:47:43The road was still there.
00:47:45Ronan did not close it.
00:47:47He did not order us to stay.
00:47:49And he did not order us to leave.
00:47:52That made my mother stand there longer than any command would have.
00:48:03You gave me a way out.
00:48:11I am choosing not to take it.
00:48:16My mother had spent her life behind doors other people closed.
00:48:21That night, she pushed the bar herself.
00:48:25I did not know if that meant we were brave.
00:48:27I only knew we had stopped running.
00:48:30Then bar the doors.
00:48:35I only knew we had to take it.
00:48:46Gray Hollow could not take us back from Ronan.
00:48:54Black Pine watches the North Gate.
00:48:56The back trail is thinner.
00:48:58So they brought stronger wolves.
00:49:00And showed them the road around our new home.
00:49:04you sold the pup once now you guide us back to her we sold what had no value we did
00:49:10not know
00:49:11what she was that was the sound of betrayal not a shout not a blade just one old voice outside
00:49:30our
00:49:31door mom someone is outside
00:49:45telling them exactly where to find us
00:49:50she is in the east room
00:50:04Ronan was at the north door because that was where crown pack wanted him to look
00:50:07gray hollow had shown them another way in
00:50:23move
00:50:26you should have come back when you were told
00:50:56i had been sold once under a
00:50:58full moon this time they did not call it a trade
00:51:02they called me key
00:51:13they did not bring me to a den
00:51:14they did not bring me to a healer
00:51:16they brought me to a stone
00:51:18that was when i understood crown pack had not come for a pup
00:51:24they had come for what they thought i could open
00:51:28gray hollow did not regret losing me
00:51:30kay your wolf can wake the crown stone
00:51:38if we had known what she was we would never have sold her with the widow
00:51:46we regretted the price alpha ronan will come
00:51:51i know
00:51:53that is why you are here
00:52:11for one breath
00:52:13alpha ronan
00:52:14i thought he had come to carry me home again
00:52:17he had done it before
00:52:19through walls
00:52:20through snow
00:52:21through every door that tried to keep us trapped
00:52:24no
00:52:25i needed the key
00:52:28i was waiting for my son
00:52:32eyes down
00:52:36tonight black pine ends
00:53:00an exile cannot keep a park
00:53:08eyes down
00:53:08he told me not to look
00:53:10but i had spent too long looking away in gray hollow
00:53:13i knew what happened when children looked down
00:53:16and adults took what they wanted
00:53:21a rare wolf belongs to the crown
00:53:24not to a broken alpha who collects unwanted things
00:53:28he called us unwanted things
00:53:30my mother
00:53:31black pine
00:53:33ronan
00:53:34me
00:53:34and for the first time
00:53:36the wolf inside me did not feel afraid
00:53:38it felt angry
00:53:45you
00:53:49you
00:54:04you
00:54:05you
00:54:09Hold her down.
00:54:26Nia, eyes down!
00:54:27He told me to look away. My mother was reaching for me.
00:54:31Black Pine could not lift its head,
00:54:33and the man who had carried me through the night was being taken apart in front of me.
00:54:49Oh...
00:55:03Uh...
00:55:06I'm sorry.
00:55:18I had called him alpha because I was afraid to be sent away but that night
00:55:23when the crown tried to take his wolf from him the word alpha was not enough
00:55:28so I called him dad not because he owned me because he was the first one who
00:55:33made me feel like I could all my life they called me weak impossible but when I
00:55:40called him dad the wolf inside me finally knew who were protecting
00:56:06find the child now
00:56:38dad
00:56:50you do not touch her again
00:56:56the crown stone was supposed to judge wolves
00:56:58that night
00:57:00they began to remember what had happened
00:57:29crown pack called it a right a judgment a way to keep the
00:57:33bloodline strong but the stone showed what the words covered children being
00:57:37sorted wolves being named unfit before they could stand
00:58:01go before the moon sets
00:58:04if they stay the crown will bury them under a prettier name
00:58:10they said ronin stole broken wolves from the crown
00:58:13but the stone showed the first line
00:58:23you chose the unfit over the crown
00:58:26i chose wolves over stone
00:58:31he did not steal them alone
00:58:34i sold open the door with him then the stone showed the second line
00:58:38ronin did not kill the moon she stayed behind so he could get the others out
00:58:49he killed the lunar
00:59:00ronin had carried the living out
00:59:02magnus kept the dead behind him
00:59:04and called that truth
00:59:09then why did you call him lunar killer
00:59:11then why did you call him lunar killer
00:59:21the stone showed it clearly ronin did not kill the lunar
00:59:26he carried the living out
00:59:28magnus kept the dead behind him and called that truth
00:59:36then why did you call him lunar killer
00:59:42enough
00:59:44come here
00:59:48he still did not defend himself
00:59:50even after the stone spoke for him
00:59:52he only wanted me away from the danger
01:00:03the crown decides truth
01:00:17not anymore
01:00:33i remember the stone room
01:00:36some of them had forgotten
01:00:38some had remembered
01:00:39and never said it out loud
01:00:41that night the stone said it for them
01:00:44ronin had not gathered useless wolves
01:00:46he had opened the door
01:00:49for the wolves the crown wanted to throw away
01:00:52strays kneel easily
01:01:03we are not kneeling
01:01:04we are standing where he put us
01:01:08behind him
01:01:10alive
01:01:11alive
01:01:32gray hollow thought black pine was where unwanted wolves disappeared
01:01:35but Black Pine had always been something else.
01:01:38It was the door Ronan opened
01:01:40and the wolves who walked through it together.
01:01:57We did not know what Crown would do.
01:02:00We only gave them a name.
01:02:05Ilarra, tell her.
01:02:07Grey Hollow raised her.
01:02:12You knew I was hungry.
01:02:15You knew I was cold.
01:02:17You knew Mama was afraid.
01:02:31You traded them once.
01:02:33You do not stand near them again.
01:02:39Grey Hollow had called me weak.
01:02:42Then blood.
01:02:43Then key.
01:02:46But none of their names could reach me anymore.
01:02:50Ronan stood there.
01:02:53My mother stood there.
01:02:57Black Pine stood there.
01:03:03And for the first time, Grey Hollow had no place to put me.
01:03:10The Crown decides who belongs.
01:03:15Not here.
01:03:28You are still my blood.
01:03:30I am their alpha.
01:03:37Magnus kept saying blood.
01:03:40Ronan did not look back at the blood he came from.
01:03:43He stood in front of the wolves who had chosen him.
01:03:46They were still my blood.
01:03:59They were still my blood.
01:04:05Kneel.
01:04:11You are my blood, Neil.
01:04:37I gave you blood Ronan you gave me a cage
01:04:56Magnus had ruled by command
01:04:58Ronan had built black pine with doors opened
01:05:01Food shared and wolves kept alive
01:05:05That night even the crown command found no place to land
01:05:29We only guided them because crown pack forced us
01:05:36Ilara, you know Grey Hollow raised the child
01:05:44I was hungry there
01:06:01You bought land with a widow and a pup
01:06:06Then you sold the pup again
01:06:08The line returns to black pine
01:06:16Damon's widow
01:06:20My name is Alara
01:06:27You traded them once
01:06:29You do not stand near them again
01:06:32Grey Hollow lost the land they bought with us
01:06:35They lost the crown road they tried to use
01:06:37And when my mother said her own name
01:06:39They lost the last name they had for her too
01:06:48After the fighting
01:06:49Black pine did not look grand
01:06:51The door was cracked
01:06:52The floor was scratched
01:06:54Half the wolves still carried bandages
01:06:57But it was standing
01:06:59But it was standing
01:07:26Your hand
01:07:28Your name
01:07:34This time I write it myself
01:07:36This time I write it myself
01:07:37This time I write it myself
01:07:45In Grey Hollow names were written for us
01:07:48Widow
01:07:49Settlement
01:07:50Weak pup
01:07:52Blood
01:07:52Key
01:07:53That morning
01:07:55My mother wrote her own name
01:07:56And no one corrected it
01:08:12Can I write mine?
01:08:25If you can hold the pen
01:08:28I had been called many things
01:08:30Weak pup
01:08:32Damon's blood
01:08:32Crown's key
01:08:35I had heard every name adults gave me
01:08:37When they wanted to use me
01:08:38But this one was mine
01:08:41Dad
01:08:47In Grey Hollow
01:08:48Tomorrow meant to survive in one more day
01:08:50Again tomorrow
01:08:53In Black Pine
01:08:54Tomorrow sounded like a promise
01:09:25Stand with them
01:09:26Stand with them
01:09:53Ready to escape
01:09:54As if I reached out
01:09:54In Green Hollow
01:09:54And it was made
01:09:54Up to me
01:09:56And it was called
01:09:59And it was a violent
01:10:00In Black Pine
01:10:01As if i had been
01:10:03In Black Pine
01:10:10This one
01:10:10This one
01:10:11In Grey Hollow, when I made a sound, someone told me to be quiet.
01:10:16In Black Pine, I howled once, and someone answered.
01:10:35Grey Hollow thought Black Pine was where unwanted wolves disappeared.
01:10:39They were wrong.
01:10:41Black Pine was where unwanted wolves learned to answer back.
01:10:45And that morning, when I howled, it answered me first.
01:11:05It is over.
01:11:07Daemon is never coming back.
01:11:10This is where your road ends.
01:11:14No.
01:11:16This is where ours begins.
01:11:18I do not want to force you the way Daemon did.
01:11:21A mark means our souls answer each other.
01:11:23It means you would feel everything in me.
01:11:25Even the parts of me that are too possessive.
01:11:38You are free, Lara.
01:11:41You always have been.
01:12:01My mother didn't just find a home.
01:12:03She became the heart of one.
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