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00:04I am the daughter of the true dragon.
00:08But on the day I gave birth, my husband, Varys, carried my children away with his own hands.
00:22The dragon crystal was bitterly cold.
00:25I lay in a pool of blood, my fingertips digging into the seams of the stone,
00:29my voice horny enough to sound like someone else's.
00:33Varys, give me back my children.
00:35The two newborns cried in his arms.
00:37Each cry stabbed it, hurting more than the tearing of flesh and bone during labor.
00:40Isolid stood below the steps of the throne, wrapped in a snow-white cloak.
00:44Her eyes read, as if she were the one who had suffered every injustice.
00:47Sister, don't be like this.
00:49She reached out and took the children, her voice as light as a scythe.
00:53I only want to share your burden.
00:55You have just given birth.
00:56Your body is too weak.
00:58Trembling, I crawled toward her.
01:00They are not a burden.
01:02They are my children!
01:04Varys looked down at me.
01:05There was no tenderness in his eyes, only impatience.
01:08He blocked my hand with one foot.
01:10Enough, Elana.
01:12I clenched my teeth and lifted my head.
01:15I beg you, let me hold them once.
01:18Just once.
01:19Isolid hugged the children tight and took half a step back.
01:22Varys, perhaps I should not have come.
01:26Sister seems to hate me so much.
01:28Varys immediately stood in front of her, as if shielding the most precious treasure in the world.
01:33Her soul is unstable.
01:35She can never bear children.
01:36His voice was cold.
01:38You are her elder sister.
01:40What is wrong with fulfilling her wish this once?
01:42Would you really watch her suffer for the rest of her life?
01:45I laughed until blood spilled from my mouth.
01:47Fulfill her wish with my flesh and blood!
01:51His brows drew tighter.
01:53Do not make yourself sound so pitiful.
01:56You are already the commander's wife.
01:58Is that still not enough?
01:59I looked at the children in his arms.
02:01My little daughter had cried until her face was red.
02:04My little son's dragon arms were no bigger than fingertips, glowing faintly.
02:08They should have been against my chest, listening to my heartbeat.
02:12But Varys turned and left.
02:13When Isolid passed by me, she lowered her head and smiled softly.
02:19Thank you, sister.
02:20In that moment, I learned that when a person's heart is hollowed out, she can still remain alive and grieve.
02:28That was eight years ago.
02:31Eight years later, I finally understood that what had been carried away that day was not only my children,
02:35but also my last hope of ever being loved.
02:41The dragon king of the western realm found me very late.
02:45Before that, I had grown up outside the dragon nest, like an abandoned wild beast.
02:51Later, they said I was the lost daughter of the true dragon,
02:54and they brought me back to the royal city, giving me fine clothes, a name, and an old betrothal contract.
03:03When I married Varys, he was the dragon bone commander.
03:06Cold, powerful, and disgusted by me.
03:09On our wedding night, he did not lift my bridle lailed.
03:12He only stood by the door and said,
03:14Alana, I married you only because of the betrothal.
03:17I asked softly.
03:19And afterwards?
03:20Do not covet what does not belong to you.
03:22He did not even look at me.
03:25A year later, he married Isloit.
03:27She was a false dragon daughter.
03:29Yet she looked more loved than I ever did.
03:32My parents doted on her.
03:33The servants respected her.
03:35And Varys protected her.
03:37Later, even my children called her mother.
03:40After eight years of marriage, the dragon god appeared again.
03:44A silver spirit body hovered above the outer keep, its light illuminating my empty room.
03:51The trial is over.
03:52Varys' soul love has reached completion.
03:55You may strip away your dragon soul and leave this world.
03:58Or you may remain.
04:00I stared at him blankly.
04:02He loves me.
04:03The words were so absurd, I almost wanted to laugh.
04:06He gave hatred to our wedding night.
04:08Gave my children to Isled.
04:10And gave all his tenderness to someone else.
04:14Dragon god, are you certain you have not seen wrong?
04:17The dragon god's gaze remained gentle.
04:19The love of the soul does not always appear as tenderness.
04:23Then how does it appear?
04:24As humiliation?
04:26Neglect?
04:27Or forcing me to kneel outside the door and listen to my children call another woman mother?
04:30The dragon god was silent.
04:33My tears finally fell.
04:34But not because I could not bear to leave Varys.
04:37I want to leave.
04:38Before the separation you have one day.
04:40The dragon god said.
04:42You may say goodbye.
04:44I thought of Lucian and Avaria.
04:46Even if they refused to acknowledge me.
04:49I wanted to see them one last time.
04:51So I went to the crystal corridor.
04:53Lucian was six.
04:55Standing in the light.
04:56His small dragon horns glimmering faintly.
04:59When he saw me, the first thing he said was.
05:02Why are you here again?
05:05Lucian stepped back warrily as if he had seen something filthy.
05:09Didn't I tell you not to come?
05:10If mother sees me talking to you, she will be sad.
05:14I crouched in front of him and tried to make my smile gentle.
05:17I only came to say goodbye.
05:20He frowned.
05:22Goodbye?
05:23Are you pretending to be pitiful again?
05:25My hand froze in midair.
05:30After today, we will not see each other again.
05:34Lucian paused, but his face quickly turned cold again.
05:38You say that every time.
05:40Are you trying to make me feel sorry for you so you can make mother cry?
05:45Lucian.
05:46I called his name softly.
05:47I am not trying to take you away.
05:50You are lying.
05:53Hatred filled his eyes.
05:55Mother said you have always wanted to steal me and my sister back.
05:59Why can't you leave us alone?
06:03Before I could answer, Varys' voice came from behind me.
06:08Elana.
06:10As he approached, the entire corridor seemed to grow colder.
06:16He seized my arm and dragged me into the room beside us.
06:20The door slammed shut, leaving Lucian outside.
06:24What exactly are you trying to do?
06:27Varys lowered his voice.
06:30Lucian and Aurelia were raised by Iselth.
06:32Must you expose their bloodline in front of them and make them suffer?
06:35I wrenched free of his hand.
06:37I am their birth mother.
06:40I only wanted to say goodbye before I die.
06:43Die.
06:44He sneered.
06:45Dragons do not die easily.
06:47Elana, do not use such words to trick others into pitying you.
06:50I am not lying to you.
06:52Then go apologize to Iseleth.
06:54He stared at me.
06:56Promise that from now on you will never disturb her family again.
07:02Her family.
07:03My husband.
07:04My children.
07:05The blood I had shed in childbirth.
07:07In the end, all of it had become her, her family.
07:10Suddenly, I became very calm.
07:16Varys.
07:18If one day I truly died, would you regret it?
07:23A flicker of impatience passed through his eyes.
07:26I would only regret having indulged you too much in the beginning.
07:32I nodded.
07:33All right.
07:35I will remember that.
07:39Outside the door, a maid's panicked voice suddenly rang out.
07:43Commander!
07:43Something is wrong!
07:44Miss Aurelia's dragon breath is unstable!
07:46And she is crying for Lady Elana's scent!
07:49Varys' expression changed, and he turned immediately.
07:52Looking at his back, I whispered.
07:54So she finally still remembers me.
07:57But that one memory almost cost me my life.
08:02Aurelia still remembered my scent.
08:05That alone was enough to make my heart ache.
08:08Until it softened.
08:10I returned to the outer keep and took out a soul crystal.
08:13The stone was cold in my palm.
08:15I cut my wrist open and let true dragon blood seep into it, drop by drop.
08:20When the blood fell into the crystal, silver-blue light flared.
08:24But my chest felt as if it had been torn open,
08:26and black dragon blood surged into my throat.
08:30The dragon god's voice sounded.
08:37Before the separation, your soul will split.
08:41Your blood will grow cold.
08:43And life will slowly leave your body.
08:47I wipe the blood from the corner of my mouth.
08:50It does not matter.
08:52I am very good at enduring pain.
08:56A child raised in the bone wasteland
08:59learns first not to cry, but to keep silent.
09:04Crying draws monsters.
09:06Saying it hurts only makes others think you are easier to bully.
09:10I carried the soul crystal to Silvermoon Tower.
09:14Inside the tower, warm light shone and soft fragrance drifted,
09:18as if it were another world.
09:20Lucian stood at the door and blocked me.
09:22What are you doing here again?
09:25Auraria wants my dragon breath.
09:26I brought it to her.
09:28Leave it here.
09:29He reached out and snatched the soul crystal away.
09:33You cannot go in.
09:34Mother will be unhappy.
09:40I looked at the figures through the crack in the door.
09:44Auradia lay in Isaleth's arms, calling her softly.
09:47Mother.
09:48Isalade lowered her head and kissed her forehead.
09:56Good child. Mother is here.
09:58Vera sat beside them, tucking Isalem's cloak around her.
10:02His voice was so gentle I nearly failed to recognize it.
10:05You have worked hard.
10:06I stood outside the door, my wrists still bleeding.
10:10Isaleth suddenly lifted her eyes and saw me.
10:13The corner of her mouth curved.
10:16Holding my daughter, she mouthed silently to me.
10:19See? She only recognizes me.
10:23I lowered my eyes and turned away.
10:28But before I had gone far, a scream suddenly came from inside the tower.
10:33Cups and dishes shattered.
10:35A maid rushed out in the panic.
10:37Something has happened to the soul-calming crystal!
10:40Lady Isalyn is coughing blood!
10:44Before I could return to the Outer Keep, Varys came after me.
10:47He seized my wrist, his grip almost crushing the bones.
10:51Elena, you have grown bold indeed.
10:54Pain darkened my vision.
10:56Let go.
10:57You placed a soul-splitting curse in the crystal.
10:59His voice was as cold as snow.
11:01After Isaleth touched it, her dragon soul became unstable, and Auroria vomited blood as well.
11:05I froze.
11:07Impossible.
11:08There was only my blood inside.
11:12Your blood?
11:13He laughed in fury.
11:15Do you think I would believe that?
11:16You can have the High Priest examine it.
11:18Before the matter is clarified, you will apologize to her first.
11:22He dragged me back to the front of Silvermoon Tower.
11:25Wind and snow struck my face, and I could barely stand.
11:29Lucien rushed out, his eyes frighteningly red.
11:32You hurt my sister!
11:34Lucy, I did not!
11:36You are still arguing!
11:37Flames of a young dragon lit on his little horns, and he slammed fiercely into my abdomen.
11:41I fell into the snow.
11:43My ribs felt broken, and my throat filled with the taste of blood.
11:46I hate you!
11:47He cried.
11:48Why don't you just die if you died?
11:50Mother would never be sad again!
11:52Only after those words fell did Varys finally pull him away.
11:55I looked up at Vase, thinking he would at least say,
11:57Enough.
11:58But he only said coldly,
11:59Until Isaleth and Auraria recover,
12:01kneel here and reflect on your wrongdoing.
12:03I knelt in the snow, the blood from my wrist freezing dark red.
12:07Inside Silvermoon Tower, the lamps were warm.
12:10My children were crying there, and my husband was guarding another woman.
12:13What if it turns out it was not me?
12:15He was silent for a moment.
12:17Then I will apologize.
12:19Apologize?
12:20Such a light word.
12:21Soon, the High Priest walked out of the tower, his face grave.
12:24Commander, the result is out.
12:26I lifted my head and saw Varys' face finally change.
12:32The High Priest said in a low voice,
12:35There is no curse.
12:36The crystal contains only true dragon blood.
12:39Miss Aurelia was merely frightened,
12:40and Lady Izzel's dragon soul briefly became unstable because of overexertion.
12:45The sound of snow suddenly seemed very loud.
12:48Varys froze where he stood.
12:49Lucian stood inside the tower door.
12:52Even after hearing the truth,
12:54he only clutched Isaleth's skirt tighter,
12:56and did not look at me.
12:58Varys came toward me as if he meant to help me up.
13:01Elena, I'm sorry.
13:04I did not give him my hand.
13:07He frowned.
13:09Lucian was only worried about his sister.
13:11He does not truly hate you.
13:13I wanted very much to ask.
13:14Then what would count as true hatred?
13:16Was it making me me kneel in the snow,
13:18letting my own child curse me to death?
13:20Or asking me to swallow all the pain and then understand them in return?
13:23But I was too tired.
13:25It does not matter.
13:26It will be over soon anyway.
13:28Varys' expression darkened slightly.
13:30What are you saying now?
13:32Before I could answer,
13:34Madam Morwen arrived with guards.
13:37She had been an old attendant by my birth parent's side.
13:40From the first day I returned to the dragon nest,
13:42she had never treated me as a true young lady.
13:45She glanced at me and frowned in disgust.
13:47Lady Alana,
13:49the dragon king and queen were furious
13:50when they heard you had harmed Isaleth.
13:52I am here to carry out family discipline.
13:55Varys said coldly,
13:56The matter has already been investigated.
13:58She did not cast a curse.
14:00But Morwen said indifferently,
14:02Yet Lady Isaleth was indeed frightened because of her.
14:05True dragon blood is filthy and uncontrollable.
14:09It deserves punishment.
14:11I lifted my head.
14:14My blood is filthy.
14:16Morwen waved her hand.
14:18Thirty strips with the dragon wax.
14:22When the first lash fell,
14:24I could not even make a sound.
14:26The dragon bit was carved with forbidden runes.
14:29Each strike felt as if my soul were being torn apart.
14:33After thirty trisses,
14:34the snow was dyed red with blood.
14:38Varys finally shouted in anger.
14:40Enough!
14:40But Morwen crouched down and pressed her hand to my chest.
14:43Not enough.
14:44Her most precious heart-guarding scale
14:46will be perfect stabilizing Lady Isaleth's dragon soul.
14:49My eyes widened.
14:50The next moment,
14:51she tore away my heart-guarding scale with my force.
14:55Do it.
15:07I am the daughter of the true dragon.
15:10But on the day I gave birth,
15:12my husband Varys carried my children away with his own hands.
15:25The dragon crystal was bitterly cold.
15:27I lay in a pool of blood,
15:29my fingertips digging into the seams of the stone,
15:32my voice horny enough to sound like someone else's.
15:36Varys, give me back my children.
15:37The two newborns cried in his arms.
15:39Each cry stabbed it,
15:40hurting more than the tearing of flesh and bone during labor.
15:43Isaleth stood below the steps of the throne,
15:45wrapped in a snow-white cloak.
15:46Her eyes red,
15:47as if she were the one who had suffered every injustice.
15:50Sister, don't be like this.
15:51She reached out and took the children,
15:53her voice as light as a sigh.
15:55I only want to share your burden.
15:58You have just given birth.
16:00Your body is too weak.
16:01Trembling, I crawled toward her.
16:03They are not a burden.
16:05They are my children.
16:07Varys looked down at me.
16:08There was no tenderness in his eyes,
16:10only impatience.
16:11He blocked my hand with one foot.
16:12Enough, Elana.
16:15I clenched my teeth and lifted my head.
16:18I beg you,
16:19let me hold them once.
16:21Just once.
16:22Isaled hugged the children tight
16:24and took half a step back.
16:26Varys, perhaps I should not have come.
16:28Sister seems to hate me so much.
16:30Varys immediately stood in front of her,
16:33as if shielding the most precious treasure in the world.
16:36Her soul is unstable.
16:37She can never bear children.
16:39His voice was cold.
16:41You are her elder sister.
16:42What is wrong with fulfilling her wish this once?
16:45Would you really watch her suffer for the rest of her life?
16:47I laughed until blood spilled from my mouth.
16:50Fulfill her wish with my flesh and blood?
16:54His brows drew tighter.
16:56Do not make yourself sound so pitiful.
16:58You are already the commander's wife.
17:01Is that still not enough?
17:02I looked at the children in his arms.
17:04My little daughter had cried until her face was red.
17:07My little son's dragon arms were no bigger than fingertips,
17:10glowing faintly.
17:11They should have been against my chest,
17:13listening to my heartbeat.
17:15But Varys turned and left.
17:16When Isolette passed by me,
17:18she lowered her head and smiled softly.
17:21Thank you, sister.
17:23In that moment,
17:24I learned that when a person's heart is hollowed out,
17:26she can still remain alive and breathe.
17:31That was eight years ago.
17:33Eight years later,
17:34I finally understood that what had been carried away that day
17:37was not only my children,
17:38but also my last hope of ever being loved.
17:43The dragon king of the Western realm found me very late.
17:47Before that,
17:48I had grown up outside the dragon nest,
17:51like an abandoned wild beast.
17:54Later they said I was the lost daughter of the true dragon,
17:57and they brought me back to the royal city,
18:00giving me fine clothes,
18:01a name,
18:02and an old betrothal contract.
18:06When I married Varys,
18:07he was the dragon bone commander,
18:09cold,
18:10powerful,
18:11and disgusted by me.
18:12On our wedding night,
18:13he did not lift my bridle laild.
18:15He only stood by the door and said,
18:17Alana,
18:17I married you only because of the betrothal.
18:20I asked softly,
18:22And afterwards?
18:23Do not covet what does not belong to you.
18:25He did not even look at me.
18:27A year later,
18:29he married Isloit.
18:30She was a false dragon daughter,
18:32yet she looked more loved than I ever did.
18:34My parents doted on her,
18:36the servants respected her,
18:38and Varys protected her.
18:40Later,
18:41even my children called her mother.
18:43After eight years of marriage,
18:45the dragon god appeared again.
18:47A silver spirit body hovered above the outer keep,
18:50its light illuminating my empty room.
18:53The trial is over.
18:55Varys' soul love has reached completion.
18:58You may strip away your dragon soul
18:59and leave this world,
19:01or you may remain.
19:02I stared at him blankly.
19:05He loves me.
19:06The words were so absurd,
19:07I almost wanted to laugh.
19:09He gave hatred to our wedding night,
19:11gave my children to Isled,
19:13and gave all his tenderness to someone else.
19:17Dragon god,
19:18are you certain you have not seen wrong?
19:19The dragon god's gaze remained gentle.
19:22The love of the soul
19:23does not always appear as tenderness.
19:25Then how does it appear?
19:27As humiliation?
19:29Neglect?
19:29Or forcing me to kneel outside the door
19:31and listen to my children
19:32call another woman mother?
19:33The dragon god was silent.
19:35My tears finally fell,
19:37but not because I could not bear to leave Varys.
19:40I want to leave.
19:41Before the separation,
19:42you have one day.
19:43The dragon god said,
19:45You may say goodbye.
19:46I thought of Lucian and Avaria,
19:49even if they refused to acknowledge me.
19:52I wanted to see them one last time.
19:53So I went to the crystal corridor.
19:56Lucian was six,
19:58standing in the light,
19:59his small dragon horns glimmering faintly.
20:02When he saw me,
20:03the first thing he said was,
20:04Why are you here again?
20:08Lucian stepped back warily,
20:10as if he had seen something filthy.
20:11Didn't I tell you not to come?
20:13If mother sees me talking to you,
20:15she will be sad.
20:17I crouched in front of him
20:18and tried to make my smile gentle.
20:20I only came to say goodbye.
20:22He frowned.
20:24Goodbye?
20:25Are you pretending to be pitiful again?
20:28My hand froze in midair.
20:32After today,
20:34we will not see each other again.
20:37Lucian paused,
20:38but his face quickly turned cold again.
20:40You say that every time.
20:42Are you trying to make me feel sorry for you
20:44so you can make mother cry?
20:48Lucian...
20:48I called his name softly.
20:50I am not trying to take you away.
20:53You are lying.
20:55Hatred filled his eyes.
20:58Mother said you have always wanted to steal me and my sister back.
21:01Why can't you leave us alone?
21:06Before I could answer,
21:08Varys' voice came from behind me.
21:12Elana...
21:12As he approached,
21:14the entire corridor seemed to grow colder.
21:19He seized my arm and dragged me into the room beside us.
21:23The door slammed shut,
21:25leaving Lucian outside.
21:27What exactly are you trying to do?
21:29Varys lowered his voice.
21:33Lucian and Aurelia were raised by Iselth.
21:35Must you expose their bloodline in front of them and make them suffer?
21:38I wrenched free of his hand.
21:40I am their birth mother.
21:42I only wanted to say goodbye before I die.
21:46Die.
21:46He sneered.
21:47Dragons do not die easily.
21:49Elana,
21:50do not use such words to trick others into pitying you.
21:53I am not lying to you.
21:55Then go apologize to Iseleth.
21:57He stared at me.
21:59Promise that from now on,
22:01you will never disturb her family again.
22:05Her family.
22:06My husband.
22:07My children.
22:07The blood I had shed in childbirth.
22:09In the end,
22:10all of it had become her, her family.
22:12Suddenly,
22:13I became very calm.
22:19Varys.
22:21Varys.
22:21If one day I truly died,
22:23would you regret it?
22:26A flicker of impatience passed through his eyes.
22:29I would only regret having indulged you too much in the beginning.
22:34I nodded.
22:36I nodded.
22:37All right.
22:38I will remember that.
22:42Outside the door,
22:43a maid's panicked voice suddenly rang out.
22:45Commander!
22:46Something is wrong!
22:47Miss Aurelia's dragon breath is unstable,
22:49and she is crying for Lady Alana's scent!
22:52Varys's expression changed,
22:53and he turned immediately.
22:55Looking at his back,
22:56I whispered,
22:57So she finally still remembers me.
22:59But that one memory almost cost me my life.
23:04Aurelia still remembered my scent.
23:07That alone was enough to make my heart ache,
23:11until it softened.
23:13I returned to the outer keep and took out a soul crystal.
23:16The stone was cold in my palm.
23:18I cut my wrist open and let true dragon blood seep into it,
23:22drop by drop.
23:23When the blood fell into the crystal,
23:25silver-blue light flared,
23:26but my chest felt as if it had been torn open,
23:29and black dragon blood surged into my throat.
23:33The dragon god's voice sounded.
23:40Before the separation,
23:42your soul will split,
23:44your blood will grow cold,
23:46and life will slowly leave your body.
23:50I wipe the blood from the corner of my mouth.
23:53It does not matter.
23:55I am very good at enduring pain.
23:59A child raised in the bone wasteland
24:02learns first not to cry,
24:04but to keep silent.
24:06Crying draws monsters.
24:09Saying it hurts only makes others think you are easier to bully.
24:13I carried the soul crystal to Silvermoon Tower.
24:16Inside the tower,
24:18warm light shone and soft fragrance drifted,
24:20as if it were another world.
24:22Lucian stood at the door and blocked me.
24:25What are you doing here again?
24:27Auraria wants my dragon breath.
24:29I brought it to her.
24:31Leave it here.
24:32He reached out and snatched the soul crystal away.
24:35You cannot go in.
24:37Mother will be unhappy.
24:43I looked at the figures through the crack in the door.
24:46Auradia lay in Isaleth's arms,
24:48calling her softly.
24:50Mother.
24:51Isalade lowered her head and kissed her forehead.
24:58Good child.
25:00Mother is here.
25:01Vera sat beside them,
25:02tucking Isalem's cloak around her.
25:04His voice was so gentle,
25:06I nearly failed to recognize it.
25:08You have worked hard.
25:09I stood outside the door,
25:11my wrists still bleeding.
25:12Isaleth suddenly lifted her eyes and saw me.
25:15The corner of her mouth curved.
25:18Holding my daughter,
25:20she mouthed silently to me.
25:22See?
25:23She only recognizes me.
25:25I lowered my eyes and turned away.
25:31But before I had gone far,
25:33a scream suddenly came from inside the tower.
25:36Cups and dishes shattered.
25:37A maid rushed out in the panic.
25:39Something has happened to the soul-calming crystal!
25:42Lady Isalyn is coughing blood!
25:46Before I could return to the Outer Keep,
25:48Varys came after me.
25:50He seized my wrist,
25:51his grip almost crushing the bones.
25:54Elena,
25:55you have grown bold indeed.
25:57Pain darkened my vision.
25:59Let go.
26:00You placed a soul-splitting curse in the crystal.
26:02His voice was as cold as snow.
26:04After Isaleth touched it,
26:05her dragon soul became unstable,
26:06and Auroria vomited blood as well.
26:08I froze.
26:09Impossible.
26:10There was only my blood inside.
26:14Your blood?
26:15He laughed in fury.
26:17Do you think I would believe that?
26:19You can have the High Priest examine it.
26:21Before the matter is clarified,
26:22you will apologize to her first.
26:25He dragged me back to the front of Silvermoon Tower.
26:28Wind and snow struck my face,
26:30and I could barely stand.
26:32Lucien rushed out,
26:33his eyes frighteningly red.
26:35You hurt my sister!
26:37Lucien, I did not!
26:38You are still arguing!
26:40Flames of a young dragon lit on his little horns,
26:42and he slammed fiercely into my abdomen.
26:44I fell into the snow.
26:45My ribs felt broken,
26:47and my throat filled with the taste of blood.
26:49I hate you!
26:50He cried.
26:51Why don't you just die if you died?
26:53Mother would never be sad again!
26:54Only after those words fell did Varas finally pull him away.
26:57I looked up at Vase,
26:59thinking he would at least say,
27:00enough.
27:01But he only said coldly,
27:02Until Isaleth and Auraria recover.
27:04Kneel here and reflect on your wrongdoing.
27:06I knelt in the snow,
27:07the blood from my wrist freezing dark red.
27:10Inside Silvermoon Tower,
27:11the lamps were warm.
27:13My children were crying there,
27:14and my husband was guarding another woman.
27:16What if it turns out it was not me?
27:18He was silent for a moment.
27:20Then I will apologize.
27:22Apologize?
27:22Such a light word.
27:24Soon,
27:24the High Priest walked out of the tower,
27:26his face grave.
27:27Commander,
27:28the result is out.
27:29I lifted my head and saw Varas' face finally change.
27:35The High Priest said in a low voice,
27:37There is no curse.
27:39The crystal contains only true dragon blood.
27:41Miss Aurelia was merely frightened,
27:43and Lady Isaleth's dragon soul briefly became unstable because of overexertion.
27:48The sound of snow suddenly seemed very loud.
27:50Varas froze where he stood.
27:52Lucien stood inside the tower door.
27:54Even after hearing the truth,
27:56he only clutched Isaleth's skirt tighter,
27:59and did not look at me.
28:00Varas came toward me as if he meant to be.
28:02To help me up.
28:04Elena,
28:05I'm sorry.
28:07I did not give him my hand.
28:10He frowned.
28:11Lucien was only worried about his sister.
28:14He does not truly hate you.
28:15I wanted very much to ask.
28:17Then what would count as true hatred?
28:19Was it making me kneel in the snow,
28:21letting my own child curse me to death?
28:22Or asking me to swallow all the pain,
28:24and then understand them in return?
28:26But I was too tired.
28:27It does not matter.
28:29It will be over soon anyway.
28:30Varas's expression darkened slightly.
28:33What are you saying now?
28:35Before I could answer,
28:37Madam Morwen arrived with guards.
28:40She had been an old attendant by my birth parent's side.
28:43From the first day I returned to the dragon nest,
28:45she had never treated me as a true young lady.
28:48She glanced at me and frowned in disgust.
28:50Lady Elana,
28:51the dragon king and queen were furious
28:53when they heard you had harmed Isoleth.
28:55I am here to carry out family discipline.
28:57Varys said coldly,
28:59The matter has already been investigated.
29:01She did not cast a curse.
29:03But Morwen said indifferently,
29:05Yet Lady Isoleth was indeed frightened because of her.
29:08True dragon blood is filthy and uncontrollable.
29:11It deserves punishment.
29:14I lifted my head.
29:17My blood is filthy.
29:19Morwen waved her hand.
29:21Thirty strips with the dragon wax.
29:24When the first lash fell,
29:26I could not even make a sound.
29:28The dragon bit was carved with forbidden runes.
29:31Each strike felt as if my soul were being torn apart.
29:35After thirty trisses,
29:37the snow was dyed red with blood.
29:40Varys finally shouted in anger.
29:42But Morwen crouched down and pressed her hand to my chest.
29:46Not enough.
29:47Her most precious heart-guarding scale
29:49will be perfect stabilizing Lady Isoleth's dragon soul.
29:52My eyes widened.
29:53The next moment,
29:54she tore away my heart-guarding scale with my force.
30:00I am the daughter of the true dragon.
30:03But on the day I gave birth,
30:05my husband Varys carried my children away with his own hands.
30:18The dragon crystal was bitterly cold.
30:20I lay in a pool of blood,
30:22my fingertips digging into the seams of the stone,
30:24my voice horny enough to sound like someone else's.
30:29Varys, give me back my children.
30:30The two newborns cried in his arms.
30:33Each cry stabbed it,
30:34hurting more than the tearing of flesh and bone during labor.
30:36Isolid stood below the steps of the throne,
30:38wrapped in a snow-white cloak.
30:40Her eyes red,
30:40as if she were the one who had suffered every injustice.
30:43Sister, don't be like this.
30:44She reached out and took the children,
30:47her voice as light as a sigh.
30:48I only want to share your burden.
30:51You have just given birth.
30:53Your body is too weak.
30:54Trembling, I crawled toward her.
30:56They are not a burden.
30:58They are my children.
31:00Varys looked down at me.
31:01There was no tenderness in his eyes,
31:03only impatience.
31:04He blocked my hand with one foot.
31:06Enough, Elana.
31:08I clenched my teeth and lifted my head.
31:11I beg you, let me hold them once.
31:14Just once.
31:15Isolid hugged the children tight and took half a step back.
31:19Varys, perhaps I should not have come.
31:21Sister seems to hate me so much.
31:24Varys immediately stood in front of her,
31:26as if shielding the most precious treasure in the world.
31:29Her soul is unstable.
31:31She can never bear children.
31:32His voice was cold.
31:34You are her elder sister.
31:35What is wrong with fulfilling her wish this once?
31:38Would you really watch her suffer for the rest of her life?
31:40I laughed until blood spilled from my mouth.
31:43Fulfill her wish with my flesh and blood?
31:47His brows drew tighter.
31:49Do not make yourself sound so pitiful.
31:52You are already the commander's wife.
31:54Is that still not enough?
31:55I looked at the children in his arms.
31:57My little daughter had cried until her face was red.
32:00My little son's dragon arms were no bigger than fingertips,
32:03glowing faintly.
32:04They should have been against my chest,
32:07listening to my heartbeat.
32:08But Varys turned and left.
32:09When Isolid passed by me,
32:11she lowered her head and smiled softly.
32:14Thank you, sister.
32:16In that moment,
32:17I learned that when a person's heart is hollowed out,
32:20she can still remain alive and breathe.
32:24That was eight years ago.
32:26Eight years later,
32:27I finally understood that what had been carried away that day
32:30was not only my children,
32:31but also my last hope of ever being loved.
32:37The dragon king of the western realm found me very late.
32:40Before that,
32:42I had grown up outside the dragon nest,
32:44like an abandoned wild beast.
32:47Later they said I was the lost daughter of the true dragon,
32:50and they brought me back to the royal city,
32:53giving me fine clothes,
32:54a name,
32:55and an old betrothal contract.
32:59When I married Varys,
33:01he was the dragon bone commander,
33:02cold,
33:03powerful,
33:04and disgusted by me.
33:05On our wedding night,
33:06he did not lift my bridle laild.
33:08He only stood by the door and said,
33:10Alana,
33:11I married you only because of the betrothal.
33:13I asked softly,
33:15And afterwards?
33:16Do not covet what does not belong to you.
33:18He did not even look at me.
33:20A year later,
33:22he married Isloit.
33:23She was a false dragon daughter.
33:25Yet she looked more loved than I ever did.
33:28My parents doted on her,
33:29the servants respected her,
33:31and Varys protected her.
33:33Later,
33:34even my children called her mother.
33:36After eight years of marriage,
33:38the dragon god appeared again.
33:40A silver spirit body hovered above the outer keep,
33:43its light illuminating my empty room.
33:46The trial is over.
33:48Varys' soul love has reached completion.
33:51You may strip away your dragon soul and leave this world.
33:54Or you may remain.
33:56I stared at him blankly.
33:58He loves me.
33:59The words were so absurd,
34:00I almost wanted to laugh.
34:02He gave hatred to our wedding night,
34:04gave my children to Isled,
34:06and gave all his tenderness to someone else.
34:10Dragon god,
34:11are you certain you have not seen wrong?
34:13The dragon god's gaze remained gentle.
34:15The love of the soul does not always appear
34:17in his tenderness.
34:18Then how does it appear?
34:20As humiliation?
34:22Neglect?
34:22Or forcing me to kneel outside the door
34:24and listen to my children call another woman mother?
34:26The dragon god was silent.
34:28My tears finally fell,
34:30but not because I could not bear to leave Varys.
34:33I want to leave.
34:34Before the separation,
34:35you have one day.
34:36The dragon god said,
34:38You may say goodbye.
34:39I thought of Lucian and Averia.
34:42Even if they refused to acknowledge me,
34:45I wanted to see them one last time.
34:47So I went to the crystal corridor.
34:49Lucian was six,
34:51standing in the light,
34:52his small dragon horns glimmering faintly.
34:55When he saw me,
34:56the first thing he said was,
34:57Why are you here again?
35:01Lucian stepped back warily,
35:03as if he had seen something filthy.
35:04Didn't I tell you not to come?
35:06If mother sees me talking to you,
35:08she will be sad.
35:10I crouched in front of him
35:11and tried to make my smile gentle.
35:13I only came to say goodbye.
35:15He frowned.
35:17Goodbye?
35:18Are you pretending to be pitiful again?
35:21My hand froze in midair.
35:25After today,
35:27we will not see each other again.
35:30Lucian paused,
35:31but his face quickly turned cold again.
35:33You say that every time.
35:35Are you trying to make me feel sorry for you
35:37so you can make mother cry?
35:41Lucian.
35:41I called his name softly.
35:43I am not trying to take you away.
35:46You are lying.
35:48Hatred filled his eyes.
35:51Mother said you have always wanted
35:52to steal me and my sister back.
35:55Why can't you leave us alone?
35:59Before I could answer,
36:01Varys' voice came from behind me.
36:04Elana.
36:05As he approached,
36:07the entire corridor seemed to grow colder.
36:12He seized my arm
36:13and dragged me into the room beside us.
36:16The door slammed shut,
36:18leaving Lucian outside.
36:20What exactly are you trying to do?
36:23Varys lowered his voice.
36:26Lucian and Aurelia were raised by Iselth.
36:28Must you expose their bloodline in front of them
36:30and make them suffer?
36:31I wrenched free of his hand.
36:33I am their birth mother.
36:35I only wanted to say goodbye before I die.
36:39Die.
36:39He sneered.
36:40Dragons do not die easily.
36:43Elana,
36:43do not use such words to trick others into pitying you.
36:46I am not lying to you.
36:48Then go apologize to Iseleth.
36:50He stared at me.
36:52Promise that from now on,
36:54you will never disturb her family again.
36:58Her family.
36:59My husband.
37:00My children.
37:01The blood I had shed in childbirth.
37:02In the end,
37:03all of it had become her,
37:05her family.
37:06Suddenly,
37:06I became very calm.
37:12Varys,
37:14If one day I truly died,
37:16would you regret it?
37:19A flicker of impatience passed through his eyes.
37:22I would only regret having indulged you too much in the beginning.
37:28I nodded.
37:29All right.
37:31I will remember that.
37:35Outside the door,
37:36a maid's panicked voice suddenly rang out.
37:38Commander!
37:39Something is wrong!
37:40Miss Aurelia's dragon breath is unstable!
37:42And she is crying for Lady Alana's scent!
37:45Varys' expression changed,
37:46and he turned immediately.
37:48Looking at his back,
37:49I whispered.
37:50So she finally still remembers me.
37:53But that one memory almost cost me my life.
37:58Aurelia still remembered my scent.
38:00That alone was enough to make my heart ache.
38:04Until it softened.
38:06I returned to the Outer Keep and took out a soul crystal.
38:09The stone was cold in my palm.
38:11I cut my wrist open and let true dragon blood seep into it, drop by drop.
38:16When the blood fell into the crystal, silver-blue light flared.
38:19But my chest felt as if it had been torn open,
38:22and black dragon blood surged into my throat.
38:26The dragon god's voice sounded.
38:33Before the separation,
38:35your soul will split.
38:37Your blood will grow cold.
38:39And life will slowly leave your body.
38:43I wipe the blood from the corner of my mouth.
38:46It does not matter.
38:47I am very good at enduring pain.
38:51A child raised in the bone wasteland
38:55learns first not to cry,
38:58but to keep silent.
39:00Crying draws monsters.
39:02Saying it hurts only makes others think you are easier to bully.
39:06I carried the soul crystal to Silvermoon Tower.
39:09Inside the tower,
39:11warm light shone and soft fragrance drifted,
39:14as if it were another world.
39:15Lucian stood at the door and blocked me.
39:18What are you doing here again?
39:20Auraria wants my dragon breath.
39:22I brought it to her.
39:24Leave it here.
39:25He reached out and snatched the soul crystal away.
39:28You cannot go in.
39:30Mother will be unhappy.
39:36I looked at the figures through the crack in the door.
39:40Auradia lay in Isaleth's arms,
39:42calling her softly.
39:43Mother.
39:44Isalade lowered her head and kissed her forehead.
39:51Good child.
39:53Mother is here.
39:54Vera sat beside them,
39:55tucking Isalem's cloak around her.
39:57His voice was so gentle,
39:59I nearly failed to recognize it.
40:01You have worked hard.
40:02I stood outside the door,
40:04my wrists still bleeding.
40:06Isaleth suddenly lifted her eyes and saw me.
40:08The corner of her mouth curved.
40:11Holding my daughter,
40:13she mouthed silently to me.
40:15See?
40:16She only recognizes me.
40:18I lowered my eyes and turned away.
40:24But before I had gone far,
40:26a scream suddenly came from inside the tower.
40:29Cups and dishes shattered.
40:30A maid rushed out in the panic.
40:32Something has happened to the soul-calming crystal!
40:36Lady Isalyn is coughing blood!
40:39Before I could return to the Outer Keep,
40:42Varys came after me.
40:43He seized my wrist,
40:44his grip almost crushing the bones.
40:47Elena,
40:48you have grown bold indeed.
40:50Pain darkened my vision.
40:52Let go.
40:53You placed a soul-splitting curse in the crystal.
40:55His voice was as cold as snow.
40:57After Isluit touched it,
40:58her dragon soul became unstable,
40:59and Auroria vomited blood as well.
41:01I froze.
41:02Impossible.
41:03There was only my blood inside.
41:07Your blood?
41:08He laughed in fury.
41:10Do you think I would believe that?
41:12You can have the High Priest examine it.
41:14Before the matter is clarified,
41:15you will apologize to her first.
41:17He dragged me back to the front of Silvermoon Tower.
41:21Wind and snow struck my face,
41:23and I could barely stand.
41:25Lucian rushed out,
41:26his eyes frighteningly red.
41:28You hurt my sister!
41:30Lucy, I did not!
41:31You are still arguing!
41:33Flames of a young dragon lit on his little horns,
41:35and he slammed fiercely into my abdomen.
41:37I fell into the snow.
41:39My ribs felt broken,
41:40and my throat filled with the taste of blood.
41:42I hate you!
41:43He cried.
41:44Why don't you just die if you died?
41:46Mother would never be sad again!
41:47Only after those words fell
41:49did Varas finally pull him away.
41:50I looked up at Vase,
41:52thinking he would at least say,
41:53Enough.
41:54But he only said coldly,
41:55Until Isoleth and Auraria recover.
41:57Kneel here and reflect on your wrongdoing.
41:59I knelt in the snow,
42:01the blood from my wrist freezing dark red.
42:03Inside Silvermoon Tower,
42:04the lamps were warm.
42:06My children were crying there,
42:07and my husband was guarding another woman.
42:09What if it turns out it was not me?
42:11He was silent for a moment.
42:13Then I will apologize.
42:15Apologize.
42:15Such a light word.
42:17Soon, the High Priest walked out of the tower,
42:19his face grave.
42:20Commander, the result is out.
42:22I lifted my head and saw Varys' face finally change.
42:28The High Priest said in a low voice,
42:30There is no curse.
42:31The crystal contains only true dragon blood.
42:34Miss Aurelia was merely frightened,
42:36and Lady Izzel's dragon soul briefly became unstable
42:39because of overexertion.
42:41The sound of snow suddenly seemed very loud.
42:43Varys froze where he stood.
42:45Lucian stood inside the tower door.
42:47Even after hearing the truth,
42:49he only clutched Isola's skirt tighter
42:51and did not look at me.
42:54Varys came toward me as if he meant to help me up.
42:57Elena, I'm sorry.
43:00I did not give him my hand.
43:03He frowned.
43:04Lucian was only worried about his sister.
43:07He does not truly hate you.
43:09I wanted very much to ask.
43:10Then what would count as true hatred?
43:12Was it making me kneel in the snow,
43:14letting my own child curse me to death,
43:16or asking me to swallow all the pain
43:17and then understand them in return?
43:19But I was too tired.
43:20It does not matter.
43:22It will be over soon anyway.
43:23Varys' expression darkened slightly.
43:26What are you saying now?
43:28Before I could answer,
43:30Madam Morwen arrived with guards.
43:33She had been an old attendant by my birth parent's side.
43:36From the first day I returned to the dragon nest,
43:38she had never treated me as a true young lady.
43:41She glanced at me and frowned in disgust.
43:43Lady Elana, the dragon king and queen were furious
43:46when they heard you had harmed Isoleth.
43:48I am here to carry out family discipline.
43:50Varys said coldly.
43:52The matter has already been investigated.
43:54She did not cast a curse.
43:56But Morwen said indifferently.
43:58Yet Lady Isoleth was indeed frightened because of her.
44:01True dragon blood is filthy and uncontrollable.
44:04It deserves punishment.
44:07I lifted my head.
44:10My blood is filthy.
44:12Morwen waved her hand.
44:14Thirty strips with the dragon one.
44:17When the first lash fell,
44:19I could not even make a sound.
44:21The dragon bit was carved with forbidden runes.
44:24Each strike felt as if my soul were being torn apart.
44:28After thirty trisses,
44:30the snow was dyed red with blood.
44:33Varys finally shouted in anger.
44:36Enough!
44:36But Morwen crouched down and pressed her hand to my chest.
44:39Not enough.
44:40Her most precious heart-guarding scale
44:42will be perfect stabilizing Lady Isoleth's dragon soul.
44:45My eyes widened.
44:46The next moment,
44:47she tore away my heart-guarding scale wheel by force.
44:53I am the daughter of the true dragon.
44:57But on the day I gave birth,
44:58my husband Varys carried my children away with his own hands.
45:11The dragon crystal was bitterly cold.
45:13I lay in a pool of blood,
45:15my fingertips digging into the seams of the stone,
45:18my voice horny enough to sound like someone else's.
45:22Varys, give me back my children.
45:23The two newborns cried in his arms.
45:26Each cry stabbed it,
45:27hurting more than the tearing of flesh and bone during labor.
45:29Isolid stood below the steps of the throne,
45:31wrapped in a snow-white cloak.
45:33Her eyes read,
45:33as if she were the one who had suffered every injustice.
45:36Sister, don't be like this.
45:37She reached out and took the children,
45:40her voice as light as a sigh.
45:42I only want to share your burden.
45:44You have just given birth.
45:46Your body is too weak.
45:47Trembling, I crawled toward her.
45:49They are not a burden.
45:51They are my children.
45:53Varys looked down at me.
45:54There was no tenderness in his eyes,
45:56only impatience.
45:57He blocked my hand with one foot.
45:59Enough, Elana.
46:01I clenched my teeth and lifted my head.
46:04I beg you,
46:05let me hold them once.
46:07Just once.
46:08Isolid hugged the children tight
46:10and took half a step back.
46:12Varys, perhaps I should not have come.
46:15Sister seems to hate me so much.
46:17Varys immediately stood in front of her,
46:19as if shielding the most precious treasure in the world.
46:22Her soul is unstable.
46:24She can never bear children.
46:25His voice was cold.
46:27You are her elder sister.
46:28What is wrong with fulfilling her wish this once?
46:31Would you really watch her suffer for the rest of her life?
46:34I laughed until blood spilled from my mouth.
46:36Fulfill her wish with my flesh and blood?
46:40His brows drew tighter.
46:42Do not make yourself sound so pitiful.
46:45You are already the commander's wife.
46:47Is that still not enough?
46:48I looked at the children in his arms.
46:50My little daughter had cried until her face was red.
46:53My little son's dragon arms were no bigger than fingertips, glowing faintly.
46:58They should have been against my chest, listening to my heartbeat.
47:01But Varys turned and left.
47:02When Isolid passed by me, she lowered her head and smiled softly.
47:08Thank you, sister.
47:09In that moment, I learned that when a person's heart is hollowed out, she can still remain alive and breathe.
47:17That was eight years ago.
47:19Eight years later, I finally understood that what had been carried away that day was not only my children, but
47:25also my last hope of ever being loved.
47:30The dragon king of the western realm found me very late.
47:34Before that, I had grown up outside the dragon nest, like an abandoned wild beast.
47:40Later, they said I was the lost daughter of the true dragon, and they brought me back to the royal
47:45city, giving me fine clothes, a name, and an old betrothal contract.
47:52When I married Varys, he was the dragon bone commander, cold, powerful, and disgusted by me.
47:58On our wedding night, he did not lift my bridle laild.
48:01He only stood by the door and said,
48:03Alana, I married you only because of the betrothal.
48:06I asked softly.
48:08And afterwards?
48:09Do not covet what does not belong to you.
48:11He did not even look at me.
48:14A year later, he married Isloid.
48:16She was a false dragon daughter.
48:18Yet she looked more loved than I ever did.
48:21My parents doted on her, the servants respected her, and Varys protected her.
48:26Later, even my children called her mother.
48:29After eight years of marriage, the dragon god appeared again.
48:33A silver spirit body hovered above the outer keep, its light illuminating my empty room.
48:39The trial is over.
48:41Varys' soul love has reached completion.
48:44You may strip away your dragon soul and leave this world.
48:48Or you may remain.
48:49I stared at him blankly.
48:51He loves me.
48:52The words were so absurd, I almost wanted to laugh.
48:55He gave hatred to our wedding night.
48:57Gave my children to Isloid.
48:59And gave all his tenderness to someone else.
49:03Dragon god, are you certain you have not seen wrong?
49:06The dragon god's gaze remained gentle.
49:08The love of the soul does not always appear as tenderness.
49:11Then how does it appear?
49:13As humiliation?
49:15Neglect?
49:15Or forcing me to kneel outside the door and listen to my children call another woman mother?
49:19The dragon god was silent.
49:21My tears finally fell.
49:23But not because I could not bear to leave Varys.
49:26I want to leave.
49:27Before the separation you have one day,
49:29the dragon god said,
49:31You may say goodbye.
49:33I thought of Lucian and Averia.
49:35Even if they refused to acknowledge me,
49:38I wanted to see them one last time.
49:40So I went to the crystal corridor.
49:42Lucian was six,
49:44standing in the light,
49:45his small dragon horns glimmering faintly.
49:48When he saw me, the first thing he said was,
49:51Why are you here again?
49:51Why are you here again?
49:52Why are you here again?
49:53Why are you here again?
49:53Why are you here again?
49:53Why are you here again?
49:53Why are you here again?
49:53Why are you here again?
49:54Why are you here again?
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