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00:00I was back on the day the heat drug took him.
00:02This time, I let Korra be his cure.
00:05And I walked straight into his serpent lord father's bed instead.
00:08When I opened my eyes again, I was...
00:10Korra's eyes flushed pink with delight.
00:12Then, like she feared I'd see too much, she squirmed and refused.
00:15But, my lady, don't you love your highness?
00:18How could I take your place?
00:19Even now, she wanted to play me.
00:21She'd been a beggar, half-starved by the roadside.
00:23I saved her. I kept her close.
00:25I never guessed she was planning to take my mate.
00:27Your highness said it himself.
00:29You're the one he wants.
00:30My fist clenched, but my voice remained gentle.
00:32You can be with him.
00:33I'd like to see how Caius manages to keep his throne this time around, without my fertility.
00:38Korra gave a tight smile, then slipped inside and shut the door.
00:41Soon, the moans came through the wall, and the heat drug inside my blood began to burn.
00:46Heat coiled between my thighs, wave after wave.
00:49My whole body trembled.
00:51I needed to get through my heat.
00:52And in the entire estate, there was only one other male besides Caius.
00:56The lord himself, Kael.
00:57Kael was barren, and I was a rabbit, built to conceive.
01:02Caius was merely his adoptive son.
01:04If Kael ever had a child of his own blood, the high seat would never belong to Caius.
01:09So I gathered my courage and knocked on the lord's door.
01:12The door opened, and Kael's face filled my vision.
01:15He was in his prime.
01:16Taller, broader, far more imposing than Caius.
01:19Black scales shimmered faintly at his temples, making him look almost like a demon.
01:23His cold expression shifted, just a little, when he realized it was me.
01:27Elise?
01:28You were meant to be with Caius tonight.
01:29Why are you at my door?
01:31Did that little snake hurt you?
01:33Tell me.
01:33I'll set it right.
01:34His serpent eyes flashed blue, his pupils narrowed, and something cruel crossed his face.
01:39But the heat had already costumed me.
01:41I couldn't even stand.
01:42So I wrapped my arms around his lean waist.
01:44Don't call anyone.
01:46Someone else has already relieved Caius.
01:48I'm the one burning now.
01:50Will my lord be willing to relieve me?
01:54Elise, look at me.
01:55You know who I am.
01:56Have mercy on me.
01:58Please.
01:59Something in him snapped.
02:00Elise, tell me.
02:02When the heat clears, will you regret this?
02:04His lips parted and closed, and all I could think was that they were an invitation.
02:08Clumsy, I lifted up and kissed him.
02:10I want this.
02:10His eyes went dark.
02:12The last of his control broke.
02:13His mouth found the soft tip of my ear, and it trembled against his lips.
02:17His hands tore my thin robe to pieces.
02:19After that, there was only my breathing, and the dark rhythm of him.
02:22I woke.
02:23Kale was still out cold beside me.
02:25I slept with my ex's father.
02:27Heat crept up my face.
02:28I looked down.
02:29Bruises and marks all over me.
02:31In a whole lifetime, Caius had never wanted me like that.
02:34Never so hard.
02:35So hungry.
02:36It was the first time the sex had ever been sweet for me.
02:38Maybe it was the blessed fertility in me.
02:40My belly felt full and warm, like there was already a life curled inside.
02:44I couldn't face him.
02:45So I pulled on one of his robes and slipped back to my own rooms to clean up.
02:48When Kale woke, the rabbit was gone from his bed.
02:51He chuckled, picking up the torn lingerie.
02:52What a rabbit.
02:54Used me and ran.
02:55He called his servants to dress him.
02:56His guard came in first.
02:58My lord!
02:59The heir and that servant girl are beating a list.
03:01Should we go?
03:01Dress me!
03:02I want to see who dares lay hands on my future lady!
03:04I'd just gotten back, about to bathe and change, when a hand clamped my wrist.
03:08I looked up.
03:08Whose robe is that?!
03:11Then his eyes hit the marks on my neck.
03:14His face changed.
03:16Elise!
03:17You've got some nerve!
03:18I didn't know why he'd come to rage at me.
03:19This life he had, Korra.
03:21The one he'd always wanted.
03:22Shouldn't he be staying far away from me?
03:24I shook off his hand and walked towards the room.
03:26The attitude lit something in him.
03:29Shameless slit!
03:30Where were you last night?
03:31Which guard left those marks on you?
03:33You swore you loved me!
03:34How could you do something this filthy?!
03:36Pupils narrowed to slits two lifetimes, and I'd never seen him this angry.
03:41I looked at his throat, bite marks all over it.
03:44What right did he have to judge me?
03:46I didn't want any trouble, so I said,
03:48I was young and foolish once.
03:50My feelings for your highness only brought you trouble.
03:52I've changed now.
03:53I will never love you again.
03:55You don't need to worry.
03:56You can be with anyone you want.
03:58His face twisted.
03:59He started to say more.
04:00Your highness!
04:01He turned.
04:02It was Korra.
04:02His face softened at once.
04:04He crossed to her and pulled her gently into his arms.
04:07The look he threw me was pure scorn.
04:09You throw yourself at some guard and then play cold with me?
04:11You think I care?
04:13You didn't know.
04:15Korra was the one who saved me last night.
04:17A clean girl like her is worth ten of you.
04:19I'll ask the lord to name her my only mate.
04:22And one day I'll make her my queen.
04:24Trash like you isn't even fit to serve her.
04:26Thank you, Caius.
04:28Because only I knew how thin Caius' seed ran.
04:31Last life, even built to breed as I am, carrying his children nearly broke me.
04:36Korra was just a normal rabbit.
04:38Give him children?
04:39Impossible.
04:40No children.
04:41No steady seat.
04:42Take the throne one day?
04:43Never.
04:45Korra suddenly caught my arm.
04:46I shouldn't have fought with you, sister.
04:49You saved my life.
04:51If you'd only say the word-
04:52I hope you two stay together forever.
04:54Truly.
04:55Elise.
04:56What game are you playing now?
04:57Drop the high and muddy act.
04:59Your parents are long dead.
05:00You're no rabbit princess anymore.
05:02You've lost your value.
05:03And by clan law, you should be cast out.
05:05Kneel and apologize to me.
05:07And maybe I'll consider taking you as a mistress.
05:09His words stung and dragged me back into the past.
05:12When I first came to the estate, I couldn't settle.
05:15At night, I couldn't sleep.
05:16And I wept in the garden.
05:17Caius found me.
05:18He pulled me into his arms.
05:19From now on, I'll be your family.
05:21I'll protect you.
05:22That's where it started.
05:23After that, I fell for him and couldn't stop falling.
05:26Looking back, it was just something he said offhand.
05:29And for it, I gave him my body.
05:31Three births and my life.
05:32Words that light.
05:33He'd probably said them to other girls too.
05:35Not worth my heart.
05:36Not worth my life.
05:37I shook my head.
05:38Then cast me out!
05:39I said, kneel down.
05:41His pupils narrowed to slits.
05:42And the terrible serpent aura rolling off him slammed me to the floor.
05:47Korra hooked her arm through Caius's and started playing the good girl.
05:51Caius.
05:52Maybe it's all too much for her.
05:54Let me talk to her alone.
05:55He gave me a warning look.
05:57Don't you dare bully Korra.
05:58She's not your servant anymore.
06:00Korra watched him go, eyes soft with longing.
06:03You must hate this, don't you?
06:04He's young, beautiful, full of feeling.
06:07And now he's mine.
06:08Pity you, all those years giving everything to him and he never had room for you in his heart.
06:11I was born low.
06:13But I'm the one he loves.
06:14My lady, I do feel sorry for you.
06:16Couldn't have him so you gave yourself to some stray guard, hoping to make him jealous.
06:20Last life, I didn't learn how much she hated me until I was dying.
06:24I'd arranged a fine match for her, the brother of a respected elder.
06:27Good family, real wealth.
06:29She'd have run her own household as first wife.
06:31Instead, she went behind my back and took Caius to her bed.
06:35Her husband knew it and he began to take his violence out on her.
06:38Then she told Caius, it was all my fault.
06:41In the end, she took her own life, just to make him hate me.
06:44In this life, she thinks she's climbed high, latched onto the air, beaten fate.
06:49She doesn't know.
06:50Without me, he can't father a child.
06:53He'll never hold the seat.
06:55I had no patience left for her gloating.
06:57Leave now.
06:58But then Korra grabbed my other glass lamp and smashed it.
07:01Then she screamed and dropped knees first onto the shards.
07:03Caius heard her and burst in.
07:05He saw the glass in her knees and swept me aside with his serpent tail.
07:08You vicious little thing.
07:09You'd still dare hurt her?
07:11You think I'll keep letting you get away with this?
07:12He seemed startled by his own force.
07:14Panic flickered in his eyes.
07:16Elise, are you alright?
07:17Caius, she's jealous I get to be yours.
07:19She hurt me on purpose.
07:20That flicker of feeling vanished.
07:22The disgust I knew so well slid back over his face.
07:25Elisa, it's high time someone taught you a lesson.
07:27He came at me.
07:28I scrambled back, desperate to get out of his reach.
07:30Then noise broke out beyond the door.
07:33Caius' companions had come.
07:34They'd heard I'd be with him the night before.
07:36And they'd come to congratulate me.
07:38Elise chased Caius for years.
07:40Looks like she finally got her wish.
07:41Will Caius be asking the lord to name her his mate?
07:44I was raised like a princess, yes.
07:46But underneath, just an orphan with no blood to my name.
07:49To them, a girl like me reaching for the air was reaching too high.
07:52They came in, saw me half-dressed, and their faces curled with contempt.
07:56Caius doesn't hold back, does he?
07:57Look at her.
07:58All tears and ruin.
07:59Be fair.
08:00That heat drop was a killer.
08:01Drawn out too late, it'd have ended him.
08:03He owes her thanks, really.
08:04Some of them, seeing how Caius looked at me with distaste, turned hostile on purpose.
08:08Who even cursed her?
08:10For all we know, she did it herself, then played savior to force his hand.
08:13I stood and stepped back, well clear of Caius.
08:15I didn't drug him, and I didn't cure him.
08:17There's nothing between me and Caius.
08:19That stunned the room.
08:20They all knew my temper.
08:21They thought I'd never let another girl near him.
08:23A chance like last night?
08:24Surely I'd never let it slip.
08:25With outsiders watching, Caius had cooled.
08:28Caius sneered.
08:29That's right.
08:29It was Cora who relieved me.
08:31The place at my side is hers alone.
08:33Only then did they look down at the little maid next to him, whose neck was covered in
08:36hickeys.
08:36And the marks on Elise.
08:37I was unmated.
08:38If I didn't sleep with Caius, then who had left those marks on me?
08:42Don't tell me she was so heartbroken the here wouldn't touch her that she went and bedded
08:46some stray.
08:47Shameless.
08:47No wonder he never wanted her.
08:49I went white.
08:50I bit down hard on my lip.
08:51The one who'd taken me was Kale, the lord himself.
08:54But this life, I didn't know yet where he stood.
08:56I didn't dare say it.
08:57Then Cora's voice cut in first.
08:59A loose woman like this.
09:01By law, she can be dragged off to be a sex slave.
09:04Can't she?
09:05I heard they banned the lust mark right into her chest with a needle.
09:08The room laughed, ugly and eager.
09:10My blood ran cold.
09:11A woman branded with the lust mark was the lowest thing alive in any pack.
09:15Anyone could take her, use her, pass her on like a toy.
09:18Last life, Cora's own husband had pressed that mark into her skin.
09:22Caius gave a cold laugh.
09:23Someone, bring the needle.
09:24His guard seized my wrists.
09:26His hand closed around my throat.
09:27He held the silver needle, hovering it right over my heart.
09:31One last chance.
09:33He leaned in, his voice almost gentle.
09:35I know you did this to yourself to spine me.
09:37But for old times' sake, I won't turn you into a slave.
09:40The needle tip burned my skin.
09:42But you hurt Cora today.
09:43So kneel.
09:44Bow your head.
09:45Apologize.
09:46And beg me to take you as my lesser woman.
09:48Then kill me!
09:49It'll never happen!
09:50A drop of blood slid down my chest.
09:52My patience is thin, Elise.
09:53Kneel or be Brand.
09:55Choose!
09:56Cora smiled at last.
09:57Soft.
09:58Radiant.
09:58Mistress.
09:59Just kneel.
10:00I'll forgive you.
10:01I promise.
10:02I couldn't bear it.
10:03Tears streamed down.
10:04The needle sank deeper.
10:05My legs gave out and I fell.
10:07And then, a blast of raw magic tore across the hall and slammed into Caius.
10:11How dare you!
10:12Arms caught me before I ever touched the ground.
10:15Kale had come.
10:16Elise, what happened?
10:17Who hurt you?
10:18He saw the glass cut bleeding on my hand.
10:20The look he swept over the room was murderous.
10:23Faced with the Lord, everyone dropped to their knees.
10:25Heads bowed, not daring to speak.
10:27Father, why are you here?
10:29No one bullied her.
10:30She was the one who got jealous because Cora was with me last night.
10:33She pushed Cora to the ground.
10:34I couldn't just stand by and watch.
10:35I only taught her a little lesson.
10:37Kale paid him no mind at all.
10:38Kale sent for the healer.
10:39He bound my hand himself.
10:41The look he gave Cora was the look you give a dead woman.
10:43Aren't you Elise's maid?
10:44You dare slander your own mistress?
10:46Drag her to the altar.
10:4730 slaps.
10:48Seeing Cora about to be punished, Caius forgot everything else and dropped to his knees before
10:53Kale.
10:54Father, you can't.
10:55The venom nearly killed me last night.
10:57Cora saved me.
10:58I beg you, let me name her my mate.
11:00Kale laughed.
11:01Hold.
11:01A servant like this, fit to stand beside the heir of the Vale clan?
11:06Hardly.
11:06For saving you, she earns a place.
11:08A low consort, nothing more.
11:10Caius was dreaming.
11:11Even setting me aside, Cora was born far too low to ever stand as the heir's mate.
11:15If Kale still tolerated his noise at all, it was only because he had no son of his own.
11:19Saving you was a service.
11:21Abusing Elise was a crime.
11:22The 30 laps stand.
11:23Cora was already hurt, and now she'd be flawed.
11:26So Caius dumped the blame back on me.
11:28Elise!
11:28Please, tell my father right now that you're the one who hurt Cora.
11:31Beg for her, and I'll still take you as mine.
11:34Kale said nothing more.
11:35No.
11:36Why would I confess to something I didn't do?
11:39Cora was dragged out to be flogged, but Caius ignored her wailing.
11:43His eyes stayed stuck on me.
11:45He's always spoiled you, but clinging to him like this is too much.
11:49He even reached a hand out to me.
11:51Father, please don't punish her for the disrespect.
11:54I buried my face against Kale and refused to look at him again.
11:57Something about that pleased Kale.
11:59When he spoke, there was a smile in his voice.
12:02Son, from now on you'll show Elise more respect.
12:05No more calling her by name.
12:07Last night I took Elise.
12:10Next month I'll make her my lady.
12:12You're a few years older than she is, but by the laws of this clan, you'll call her mother.
12:17What? Mother?
12:19He looked up at me.
12:20Disbelief all over him.
12:22Outside, Cora was beaten senseless, and he never even noticed.
12:26Father, she's vicious to the bone.
12:28How can you marry her?
12:29Kale hauled him aside.
12:30I said she's now my lady, the future queen, your mother.
12:34The companions who'd mocked me didn't dare lift their heads now, terrified I'd hold it against them.
12:39Not one of them had dreamed the Lord would favor me like this.
12:43Last life, I'd only ever seen Kale as a respected elder.
12:47Elise has been stubborn since she was little.
12:49You must take good care of her.
12:51When I was small, my father entrusted me to him before he died.
12:55That cold, silent serpent lord wiped away my tears and carried me back to his nest.
12:59Legend said the cruel serpent lord only ever smiled when he killed, but I alone knew he smiled too, whenever
13:05he took a gift from my hands.
13:06He was good to me, but I always thought it was for my parents' sake.
13:09Not until he died in a war and I sorted through his things did I learn the truth.
13:14In his collection room, my clumsy first writing drafts.
13:18The scraps of cloth I'd ruined learning to stitch.
13:20He'd kept every one, neatly, in a treasure box at the very center of his collection room.
13:25He'd hidden a crooked little marriage pledge I'd scrawled as a child.
13:29Elise will marry the Lord Kale when she grows up.
13:32Then I grew up, decided it was Caius I wanted, and spent my days chasing after him.
13:37So Kale folded his feelings away and played the good elder.
13:39While he lived, he kept Caius on a tight leash, made him treat me well, forbade him other women.
13:44He never knew what happened in the end.
13:46This life, I'd decided to answer his feelings at last.
13:49Only after Kale had sued me and left...
13:51Elise, you can't marry my father.
13:53Did Caius come back again?
13:54He's old enough to be your father, and he's barren.
13:57He couldn't sire young, so he took me as his son in the first place.
14:01I know you're doing this to spite me, but don't throw your whole life away over it.
14:05I sat there, sipping coffee, and didn't so much as blink.
14:08Watch your tone, Caius, I'll soon be your elder.
14:10Is this how you speak to your elders?
14:12He choked on his anger.
14:13You think tying yourself to my father puts you above me?
14:16Then he dropped his voice low.
14:18Here's the truth.
14:19In five years, my father will be dead, and then I take the high seat.
14:23At that, I finally looked up at him.
14:25No wonder he'd seemed off since the start.
14:27Like he was straining to make something up to Korra.
14:30He was reborn too.
14:32But last life, he only rose from heir to lord because I gave him three sons.
14:36To spare his pride, I'd never told him the truth, that his own line was barren.
14:40So this life, he still thinks there's nothing wrong with him.
14:43Before Kale left, he'd posted a whole guard of attendants to watch over me at all hours.
14:48One small wave of my hand, and they blocked Caius off.
14:51Elise needs her rest now, here.
14:52He thought I didn't believe him.
14:54Every trace of a smile left his face.
14:56He turned to go.
14:57At the door, he left me one last line.
14:59This life, you will regret it.
15:02Watching his back, I felt something in me finally let go.
15:05I'd already turned my own death aside, but Kale's death, that I had to take seriously.
15:10Last life, war broke out on the borderlands.
15:13The clan had no general fit to lead.
15:15To protect his territory and his people, Kale rode out himself.
15:18A traitor sold him, and he died for it.
15:20This life, that war was five years off.
15:23Time enough to warn him.
15:24Time enough for him to prepare.
15:27Soon the day for the mating ceremony came.
15:29Last life, I'd served five faithful years as Caius' mate, and died without ever wearing the crown.
15:35This life, I chose Kale, and went straight to the seat beside the lord.
15:38At the feast, the same people who'd looked down on me, now clawed over each other to win my favor.
15:43I sat at Kale's side and looked down on them all.
15:45In the crowd, Caius, and trailing meekly behind him, Korra, the low consort.
15:50Word was, Caius had called the healer in more than once.
15:53He wanted to know if Korra was carrying.
15:55Because last life, that was the very night I'd conceived our first son.
15:59And his roughness with me that night had nearly cost the child.
16:02Stubborn, he took Korra to his bed almost every night.
16:05But every time, the healer's word was the same.
16:07The consort was not with child.
16:10Whispers spread through the estate.
16:12Was the heir barren too, like the lord?
16:14If so, the seat might pass to a different adopted son.
16:17The worry over heirs aided him.
16:19Even the way he treated Korra, the girl he'd pined for, soured.
16:22Last life, after Korra died, he'd sworn himself to her ghost.
16:26With a right grand enough to shake the clan.
16:28Even the common folk had praised him for love deep as the sea.
16:31But this life, Korra called to him, again and again.
16:34And he acted deaf.
16:35Korra was low-born to begin with.
16:37And now, Caius's pack of hangers-on heaped on her all the cruelty they'd once aimed at me.
16:41Just a servant.
16:42Latched onto the hare and thought she'd turn from gutter to glory.
16:46If she doesn't get a child to secure her place soon, the hare will be taking someone new.
16:52He stared blankly toward the high dais.
16:54And our eyes happened to meet.
16:55I expected him to look away in disgust.
16:57Instead, he just looked at me.
16:59His eyes full of things he wanted to say.
17:02Kale suddenly took my hand.
17:04I'd like my lady to keep her eyes on her own mate.
17:08I laughed.
17:09He was actually jealous of his own son.
17:11Right.
17:12I had a second life now.
17:14Caius was the past.
17:15And it had been close to a month since the night with Kale.
17:18I hadn't called the healer, but my courses still hadn't come.
17:21My mother always said I was born to carry easy.
17:23I was almost certain I'd conceived again.
17:26Midway through the feast, I slipped out to freshen up.
17:29Elise!
17:30I didn't expect Caius to come find me.
17:32Hush.
17:32The moment he spoke, I put a finger to my lips.
17:34Mind your words, heir.
17:36I'm your mother now.
17:38He hadn't expected me to be this cold.
17:40You.
17:41I know you.
17:42You'd never give me up so easily.
17:43My father's always spoiled you.
17:45This is all a play, isn't it?
17:46The two of you scheming to force me back to you.
17:50That made me laugh outright.
17:52You should know.
17:53That night, your own men dosed me with a heat draft too.
17:58Without a male to break it, how was I supposed to survive?
18:00You were busy nesting with Korra.
18:03So I went to the Lord.
18:05There was no one else.
18:06His whole body shook.
18:07I had no wish to look at him longer.
18:09I turned and went back to Kale.
18:11This life, same as the last.
18:13Kale had loved me in silence.
18:14All along.
18:15In his chambers, I caught a scent I knew.
18:18It came back to me.
18:19Caius' company had never spared me from the nightmares.
18:22It was Kale who'd gone to such trouble to recreate the calming perfume my mother used to blend.
18:26And that was what finally ended the nightmares.
18:29The one I should have given my heart to, all along, was Kale.
18:34Korra's belly stayed flat.
18:35Pressed for an heir, Caius finally took two more consorts and six lesser ones besides, hoping to spread his seed.
18:42When Korra heard, she wept and raged through his wing for hours.
18:46It only stopped when Caius slapped her and locked her in a tower room.
18:49But no matter how he tried, not one of the women in his wing quickened.
18:52Seeing this, Kale began again to look through the clan bloodlines for a fit heir to adopt.
18:57The Veil clan could not be left without a line.
18:59But before any new heir was settled, I fainted one evening over dinner.
19:02Kale called the healer to read my pulse.
19:04And the news came back.
19:05I was with child.
19:06Word raced through the whole estate.
19:07Now Kale was in no hurry to choose an heir.
19:09His own blood was coming.
19:10Why adopt another's child?
19:12And so, the once untouchable heir Caius found himself in a very awkward place.
19:16Kale had only chosen Caius because he was barren.
19:18Who'd have guessed Caius was barren too?
19:20And least of all, that the lady would carry the lord's child.
19:24One way or another, Caius' place as heir was slipping.
19:27To celebrate, Kale threw a great feast and announced it to the whole clan.
19:31This time, no one crowded around Caius to flatter him.
19:33If I bore a son, that son would be the new heir.
19:36Cora trailed at Caius' side.
19:37Her face mottled with bruises.
19:39None of the fierce tenderness he'd once shown her left.
19:41Because after he'd taken her, Caius had learned something.
19:44He'd fallen for the servant Cora back when he was nobody.
19:46Just an overlooked, down-and-out bastard of the clan, long before he was named heir.
19:50Cora, just a servant then, had secretly sold off her own wages to buy him magic herbs.
19:55He'd carried that kindness with him for two lifetimes.
19:57But in the middle of a fight with her, the truth came out.
19:59The one who'd paid to help him back then wasn't Cora.
20:02It was me.
20:03After I came to the Veil clan, Lord Kale gave me more silver than I could ever spend.
20:08So I often went out with the servants to help other weak, struggling shifters.
20:11And to avoid drawing needless trouble, I always kept my face veiled.
20:14But Cora got ideas above her station.
20:16She secretly pulled the veil off in front of Caius.
20:18And it won Caius' heart.
20:20Caius saw now what a fool he'd been.
20:22The one he'd loved was me all along.
20:23He'd fixed on the wrong woman.
20:25And watched the love of his life walk away.
20:27He took all his fury out on Cora.
20:29He'd beat her until she was covered in wounds.
20:31Then he dragged her to me, meaning to confess.
20:33At least I know now how wrong I was.
20:35I was blind.
20:36I picked the wrong woman.
20:37I fought my own feelings for you.
20:39And I put you through so much pain.
20:41He looked so sincere.
20:42As if he weren't the one who'd killed me and my children last life.
20:46There's one thing you have to believe.
20:48I'm reborn.
20:49I know my father's days are nearly up.
20:51Soon he'll be gone.
20:52When he dies, I'll be young and strong.
20:54Won't all of this be mine then?
20:55He grabbed my hand.
20:56Come back to me.
20:57I'll cherish you and the child in your dummy.
20:59Then, as if something had just struck, his face twisted.
21:02So you'd best give me one of my own.
21:03No, three.
21:04Last life we had three sons.
21:05Clever.
21:06Every one.
21:07They all look just like me.
21:08My cold laugh dragged him out of his dream.
21:10Oh, you're reborn?
21:12Then do you know why?
21:12The night you were drugged, it was Cora who slept with you and not me?
21:15Because I'm reborn too.
21:17I said it slow.
21:17Last life you killed me and my three sons I haven't forgotten.
21:21You think you killed us and could just find another woman to give you heirs?
21:24Dream on.
21:24The truth is you are boring.
21:26You just never took a mate before, so no one ever knew.
21:29Last life you'd rather have wed Cora's ghost than live without her.
21:32Well, this time I wish you both a long and happy life together.
21:35Caius looked at Cora, trembling, then at the small swell of my belly, and he snapped.
21:40No.
21:40You should be carrying my child.
21:42You should be my mate.
21:43You loved me so much.
21:45How can you not want me this life?
21:47Even as he spoke, he shook.
21:48His tail shot toward my belly.
21:50I couldn't get clear in time.
21:51I went down hard.
21:52Before the dark took me, I saw a huge, ferocious serpent coil around Caius.
21:56When I woke, Caius was gone, but there was still blood in the room.
21:59Cale sat at my bedside, his eyes blood-red.
22:02Elise, you're awake at last.
22:04Don't be afraid.
22:05Our child is safe, and the healer says you may be carrying triplets.
22:08I never dreamed it.
22:10Barren most of my life, and you give me this.
22:12So many at once.
22:13Then his eyes turned vicious.
22:14Caius dared raise a hand to you?
22:16I've stripped him of his place's air and thrown him in the dungeon.
22:18And Cora, babbling her nonsense, claiming she's reborn too.
22:22I had her thrown in beside him.
22:24That struck me silent.
22:25So besides Caius and me, Cora had come back as well.
22:28No wonder she'd been waiting at the heir's door so early that night.
22:31Had I not called her in, she'd have found her own way to take my place and bend fate.
22:35Seeing me sink into thought, Cale pulled me close and murmured to soothe me.
22:39Elise, don't let her strange words trouble you.
22:41I put no faith in ghost tales.
22:43All I want is to keep you and our child safe.
22:46Something in me moved.
22:46I tightened my hand around his.
22:48My lord, would you believe that some people can dream the future?
22:52So I picked out every place last life had nearly cost him, and I told him.
22:56I had him raise up generals he could trust, well ahead of time.
22:59And every traitor I knew of, he had hunted down and put to death.
23:01Anything to spare him the end he'd met before.
23:04Cale put no stock in omens or spirits, but he believed me.
23:07He did all of it, at once.
23:08My labor time came soon enough.
23:11Just as the healer had said, I bore three children, all of them sons.
23:14And that shattered every rumor of the lord's barren line for good.
23:17He named the eldest of the three his heir.
23:18Not a soul in the clan doubted it.
23:19Over the next few years, with how easily I carried, I conceived three more times.
23:23The first birth, three sons.
23:24The next, three sons again.
23:26Cale no longer feared a barren line.
23:27Now his worry was too many sons.
23:29Nine of them filled the estate.
23:30He hoped for a little daughter, one like me, that he could dote on.
23:32And with the last birth, I gave him a boy and a girl.
23:35Twins, ten sons doted on their little sister like a treasure.
23:37Soon enough, the time came that, last life, would have seen Cale die in war.
23:41Only this life, he was too busy minding children at home to ever ride out himself.
23:44The generals he'd raised early put down the fighting with ease.
23:46The whole realm turned to him.
23:47It was then I remembered Caius, still locked in the deep cells.
23:51In my ceremonial robes, a crown wrought with ten serpents coiled around one bright gem set upon my head.
23:57I went down to the cells with my attendants around me.
24:00Five whole years he'd been caged.
24:02His mind had broken.
24:03Beside him lay a rotting skeleton.
24:05And the scales on his serpent tail had nearly all fallen away.
24:08The jailer said that for some reason, Caius had killed Cora with his own hands.
24:12When he saw me, the light came back into his clouded eyes.
24:15Elise, you came.
24:17You've come to save me, haven't you?
24:19I've been counting the days.
24:21My father, he's fallen in battle by now, hasn't he?
24:23The high seed is still mine, isn't it?
24:24To honor what I've done, he had his finest craftsman forge this crown for me.
24:28Ten serpents for my ten boys.
24:31One jewel for my girl.
24:33The Lord's seed runs far stronger than yours ever did.
24:36And this life, busy with me and our children, he never once left home.
24:39So he slipped clean past the death that took him before.
24:42And you, you killed me and you killed my three children.
24:45This life, you'll repent in this prison until you rot.
24:48Caius finally wept, tears of regret.
24:50He screamed my name over and over in that dungeon.
24:53The way I'd cried his name countless times in the life before.
24:56But I had no interest left in hearing it.
24:58After all, as the Lord's Lady, I had a long and beautiful life ahead.
25:04Three years as the Serpent Lord's Lady and I still woke surprised by it.
25:08Warm bed.
25:09A husband's arm heavy across my waist.
25:12No knife waiting in the dark.
25:13Ten small sons and one bright daughter filled the estate with noise.
25:17KL pretended to scold them and spoiled them worse than I did.
25:20He wanted new robes made for me too.
25:22The ones I'd worn while carrying the children had gone a little out of fashion.
25:25This morning, a silk merchant lord from the eastern reaches came to call.
25:29Rich and proud.
25:30I like to keep things quiet.
25:32So I went down to greet him in plain robes.
25:34My hair still loose.
25:35He took one look at me and sniffed.
25:38You, rabbit girl.
25:40Fetch your mistress.
25:41Tell the lady a lord of the east is waiting.
25:43The servants near us froze.
25:44I only smiled.
25:46And who shall I say is calling?
25:48Lord Aldrich.
25:49I've brought silk fit for a queen.
25:51Though from the look of this house, I wonder if there's a queen worth the name.
25:53Behind me, a small voice piped up.
25:56Sharp and clear.
25:57That's my mama.
25:58And she is the queen.
26:00Lord Aldrich's face began to change.
26:03Ethan marched down and took my hand, glaring up at the merchant.
26:06You have to bow to my mama.
26:08Everyone bows to her.
26:10Even father bows when he brings her flowers.
26:12Lord Aldrich's mouth opened and shut.
26:15Then, the great doors darkened.
26:17Kale filled the frame.
26:18Guards behind him.
26:19There you are, my lady.
26:21His arm wrapped around my shoulder.
26:23Who's kept my wife standing in her own hall?
26:26My lord.
26:27Forgive me.
26:28She was dressed so plainly.
26:29I took her for a servant.
26:31A servant.
26:32He drew my hand to his lips.
26:33There, before them all.
26:35This is the lady of the Vale clan.
26:37Men have died for less than the insult you just gave her.
26:40Aldrich dropped to his knees.
26:42Rise, Lord Aldrich.
26:43You wish to sell silk to a queen.
26:46As it happens, you're looking at one.
26:48I let it go.
26:49In the end, he left me a bolt of gold silk.
26:51Kale said it made my skin look like snow.
26:53It didn't last even one night.
26:55He used it to cover my eyes and bind my wrists.
26:58The sense of being wholly his sent a shiver through me.
27:01You're mine.
27:03For your whole life.
27:05He wanted me.
27:06Later, my head on his chest in the dark.
27:08The happiness nearly swallowed me whole.
27:10Then Ethan pounded on the door.
27:12Mom!
27:13Dad!
27:14I can't sleep!
27:15Tell me a story!
27:16We sprang apart in a panic.
27:19Ethan marched down and took my hand, glaring up at the merchant.
27:22You have to bow to my mama.
27:24Everyone bows to her.
27:25Even father bows when he brings her flowers.
27:28Lord Aldrich's mouth opened and shut.
27:30Then the great doors darkened.
27:32Kale filled the frame.
27:33Guards behind him.
27:35There you are, my lady.
27:36His arm wrapped around my shoulder.
27:39Who's kept my wife standing in her own hall?
27:41My lord.
27:42Forgive me.
27:43She was dressed so plainly.
27:45I took her for a servant.
27:46A servant.
27:47He drew my hand to his lips.
27:49There before them all.
27:51This is the lady of the Vale clan.
27:53Men have died for less than the insult you just gave her.
27:56Aldrich dropped to his knees.
27:58Rise, Lord Aldrich.
27:59You wish to sell silk to a queen.
28:01As it happens, you're looking at one.
28:03I let it go.
28:04In the end, he left me a bolt of gold silk.
28:07Kale said it made my skin look like snow.
28:09It didn't last even one night.
28:11He used it to cover my eyes and bind my wrists.
28:13The sense of being wholly his sent a shiver through me.
28:17You're mine.
28:18For your whole life.
28:21He wanted me.
28:22Later, my head on his chest in the dark.
28:24The happiness nearly swallowed me whole.
28:26Then Ethan pounded on the door.
28:28Mom!
28:29Dad!
28:29I can't sleep!
28:30Tell me a story!
28:32We sprang apart in a panic.
28:35Happiness never lasts long.
28:37For three years, no shadow had crossed our door.
28:39I'd let myself forget that peace always has an ending.
28:42Then, on a bright morning, two rabbit shifters arrived at the gates in fine traveling cloaks.
28:47The herald named them my kin.
28:49My mother's sister, Bryony.
28:50And her daughter, Ilara.
28:52I hadn't heard those names in years.
28:54I'd hoped never to hear them again.
28:55When I was small, and my father lay dying, he'd sent word to Bryony.
28:59His own blood.
29:00He'd begged her to take his orphan girl.
29:02She sent the messenger back, with her door barred.
29:05Now, here she stood, sweeping into my hall, arms flung wide.
29:09Elise!
29:10Look at you!
29:11A queen!
29:12I always knew you were born for greatness.
29:15Ilara sank into a pretty curtsy, her rabbit ears trembling, her eyes wet and shining.
29:19Cousin, we've missed you so.
29:22The servants cooed at the tender reunion.
29:24Long lost family.
29:25Home at last.
29:26I kept my face soft.
29:28I'd learned long ago never to show these two my teeth first.
29:31Aunt Bryna.
29:32What a surprise.
29:33We've come such a long way, dear niece.
29:37And we've brought you a gift.
29:39One only family could give.
29:42Then she smiled, and turned to Ilara.
29:46Bryony drew Ilara forward, like she was presenting the jewel.
29:50Your lord has ten fine sons.
29:53But a bloodline this rare should never be left to thin.
29:56My Ilara is pure rabbit stock.
29:58Born to breed, same as you.
30:00The hall went quiet.
30:02A generous queen shares her fortune.
30:04Let my girl serve the lord.
30:06Give him heirs of true rabbit blood.
30:08She said it sweetly.
30:10Like she was doing me a kindness.
30:12I understood the game at once.
30:13She'd climb on my back to plant her daughter in the lord's bed.
30:16And she dressed the theft up as family love.
30:19Ilara lowered her lashes.
30:20The picture of shy willingness.
30:22Only if it pleases you, cousin.
30:24I'd never wish to trouble you.
30:27The aunt speaks sense.
30:28More rabbit-blooded heirs can only strengthen the clan.
30:30Our lady should consider it.
30:32Others murmured their agreement.
30:33Just like that, the room turned.
30:36My silence was starting to look like refusal.
30:38And a queen who refused good counsel looked jealous.
30:41Small.
30:42Bryony's eyes gleamed.
30:44She thought she had me cornered.
30:45Well, niece, surely you won't be selfish.
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