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00:00Je n'ai jamais vouloir votre trône.
00:25Je n'ai jamais vouloir votre trône.
00:31I lay in that coffin, stripped, broken, sealed in the dark.
00:39Then a drop of blood seeped through a crack in the lid.
00:41Through the gap, I saw a pair of eyes, not aldriques.
00:44Desperate, loving, dying, the sound of arrows, a body hitting the ground.
00:48I stopped grieving and started burning.
00:49I lit every last ember of moonfire I had left.
00:52My soul tore through time like a blade through silk.
00:54When I opened my eyes again, silver fire was crawling over my palms.
00:58I was back at the rite of choosing.
00:59Cerevian, take a good look.
01:02Which of my sons carries dragon blood, worthy of your hand?
01:06The princes stood below the altar, dragon marks glowing along their wrists and collarbones.
01:10Aldric's mark shone the brightest.
01:12Gold, pulsing like a second heartbeat.
01:14He caught my gaze and flinched.
01:15The disgust in his eyes was impossible to miss.
01:18Then he turned away, eyes cutting straight to Ren at the edge of the crowd.
01:21She stood half hidden behind a pillar, fingers twisting the silk of her sleeve.
01:24No mark, no crest.
01:26Just a minor lord's daughter with wide, wet eyes.
01:28His gaze softened, so that's what you want.
01:30I won't choose you again.
01:34Cerevian, take a good look.
01:36Which of my sons carries the dragon's blood, worthy of your hand?
01:39Below the steps, the princes stood in a line, waiting for my answer.
01:42I was a gift from Moon Hollow to the Aurelian throne.
01:45Sent here as a child, raised alongside the princes.
01:47I grew up in this court.
01:48The emperor has always doted on me.
01:50But I know what that affection really is.
01:52I'm not just me.
01:53Win me, win a kingdom.
01:54Whoever I choose becomes crown prince.
01:56The princes were already whispering.
01:58Everyone knows Cerevix's in love with Aldric.
02:01Today's just a formality.
02:03Lucky blasted.
02:04Not the strongest bloodline.
02:06Not the sharpest mind.
02:08Not even the best looking.
02:10But the saint wants him.
02:11So the crown's his for the taking.
02:14And he still walks around scrawling.
02:16Like she owes him something.
02:18I glanced toward Aldric.
02:19He stood rigid.
02:20Jaw tight.
02:21Face blank.
02:22I looked at his dragon mark again.
02:23Closely, this time.
02:24Bright, yes.
02:25But the glow was shallow.
02:26Then my gaze moved past him to the man standing at the far end of the line.
02:30Sorin.
02:30The emperor's forgotten son.
02:32Dark hair.
02:33Dark eyes.
02:33A face that gave nothing away.
02:35No dragon mark touched his skin.
02:36He had been born without a flame.
02:38His mother died bringing him into the world.
02:40And the court had called him cursed ever since.
02:42Years ago, Kashin sent him to the borderlands.
02:44No one expected him to return alive.
02:46Yet there he stood, apart from his brothers.
02:48As if he already knew he did not belong among them.
02:51Our eyes met.
02:52I smiled, leaned close to the emperor.
02:54And whispered.
02:55Kashin's smile vanished.
02:56Are you certain, Serevin?
02:58Is this your choice?
03:01Aldric stepped forward.
03:03He dropped to his knees before the throne and pressed his forehead to the floor.
03:06Your majesty, I'm honored by Serevin's regard.
03:08However, my heart belongs to Lady Rurne.
03:15I cannot let her be cast aside.
03:18I beg you.
03:21Allow me to wed them both.
03:23Enough!
03:24Enough!
03:27The dragon marks on every prince in the room dimmed.
03:30Instinct, bowing to the source.
03:31A minor lord's daughter equal to the moon hollow saint.
03:35Are you out of your mind?
03:37Wrynn's birth may be beneath Serevin's.
03:40That's exactly why I must stand for her.
03:42If I can't even protect the woman I love, how can I protect an empire?
03:47Silence fell across the hall.
03:48Then the murmurs began.
03:50I thought Aldric was merely unremarkable.
03:52Turns out he's completely deluded.
03:55He hasn't even heard Serevi's choice.
03:57And he's already demanding two wives.
03:59He's so certain she'll choose him no matter what.
04:02That's why he dares ask for this.
04:05Aldric, you're set on this?
04:07The girl over everything else.
04:09I beg you, father.
04:11Cashin studied him for a long moment.
04:13Then looked towards Sorin.
04:14Sorin stood at the edge of the hall, silent and unreadable.
04:17At last, Cashin waved his hand.
04:19Enough!
04:20The wedding will take place in seven days.
04:22Make your preparations.
04:24Aldric's face lit up.
04:26He rushed to Wrynn and seized her hands.
04:27Seven days, Wrynn.
04:29He's letting me have you both.
04:31But you're the only one I want.
04:35Wrynn's tears spilled over, clutching his fingers, then spotted me walking past and shrank back,
04:40dipping into a hasty curtsy.
04:41Aldric pulled her up before she finished.
04:43If you're upset, take it out on me.
04:46Not Wrynn.
04:47She bruises easily.
04:49He tapped a strand of hair behind Wrynn's ear, right in front of me.
04:52After the wedding, she'll be your equal in every way, so she won't be bowing to you anymore.
04:57Your Highness, as long as I can be with you, I'm willing to accept a lesser rank.
05:02Please don't quarrel with the Saint over me.
05:05When you take the throne, you'll need Moon Hollow's loyalty.
05:09You must consider their feelings.
05:12Foolish girl.
05:13The dragon crown was always mine.
05:16Once I'm Emperor, Moon Hollow will bow with everyone else.
05:21Serevin's feelings are irrelevant.
05:23Behave after the wedding, and I may still give you a child to keep you occupied.
05:27Displease me, and even that mercy is gone.
05:31Last life, Wrynn slipped from a bridge in the castle grounds.
05:34The guards pulled her out, but years of bitterness had already hollowed her from the inside.
05:38She wasted away within a few seasons.
05:40Aldric pinned it on me anyway.
05:41The bridge was steps from your chambers.
05:44You heard her fall, and you chose to let her drown.
05:47The cold finished what your jealousy started.
05:50He used Wrynn's death to justify everything.
05:52When I still gave him no response, his gaze followed mine across the hall.
05:55Soren stood beneath the northern banners, alone as always.
05:59You're about to become my wife.
06:00Have some shame and stop staring at other men.
06:03Especially him.
06:04He may have a prince's name, but he was born without a dragon mark.
06:08He killed his mother coming into this world, and every flame he touches turns to ash.
06:14He isn't a dragon, Cerevian.
06:16He's a snake wearing royal blood.
06:18Stay away from him.
06:19I won't have you bringing his bad luck into our marriage.
06:24Soren, seven days.
06:26I'll be waiting for you.
06:27You won't stand me up, will you?
06:28Something shifted behind his gaze.
06:30Then his face hardened.
06:32Whatever game you're playing with, Aldric, leave me out of it.
06:35I'm not playing a game.
06:36You spent years chasing him.
06:39I have no interest in becoming the weapon you used to punish another man.
06:44Good.
06:44Because I don't need a weapon.
06:48I need a husband.
06:50I'm marrying you, Soren.
06:51I won't regret it.
06:53And whether you agree or not, you'll be standing beside me in seven days.
06:59You have no idea what you're choosing.
07:01Then come to the wedding and prove me wrong.
07:03Soren stared at me for a long moment.
07:05Then he left without another word.
07:06Watching his broad back disappear through the doors.
07:09I felt something I hadn't felt in two lifetimes.
07:11Safe.
07:12Last life.
07:12He had ridden back from the borderlands alone.
07:14I lay sealed inside that coffin.
07:16Fading in the dark.
07:17Then I heard it.
07:18Steel on steel.
07:19He fighting through Aldric's guards.
07:20Screaming my name and tearing at the coffin with his bare hands.
07:26Aldric gave you a hundred arrows.
07:28Soren's blood seeped through the cracks and fell across my face.
07:31Across my heart.
07:32Only then did I understand the love he had carried in silence for years.
07:35Aldric caught my wrist and dragged me around.
07:37What is so-one's getting married?
07:39What does Soren as a tenant's Fremens matter?
07:42A useless thing like him belongs at the border.
07:44Bleeding in some frozen ditch where no one has to look at him.
07:48What happened?
07:49Did that face turn your head?
07:51Listen carefully, Seravi.
07:52I don't love you.
07:54I never will.
07:55But you are still going to be my wife.
07:59So behave like one.
08:01You don't get to humiliate me by panting after another man in front of the entire court.
08:09Ren's eyes flicked between us.
08:10She stepped closer to Aldric.
08:12Your highness, please don't misunderstand.
08:14Soren is handsome.
08:16Perhaps the saint simply forgot herself for a moment.
08:19Forgot?
08:20She's about to become my wife.
08:21She'd better remember where she belongs.
08:24All I did was greet an old friend.
08:26You were throwing yourself at another woman's fiancée before the rite was even over.
08:30So shut your mouth, Wyn.
08:33You!
08:34Aldric pulled her against him.
08:35I turned and walked away.
08:36Back in my chambers, Aldric was everywhere.
08:38A fire rose he'd given me when we first met was still pressed inside an old spellbook.
08:42I had kept it for years.
08:44Now it only looked like blood.
08:45I ordered the servants to clear out everything he had ever given me.
08:48What could burn went into the fire.
08:50What couldn't?
08:50I smashed.
08:52By dawn, the room was empty.
08:53The moonfall had taken more from me than I thought.
08:55My moon marks had faded, and my magic barely answered.
08:58When I woke, three days had passed.
09:00My lady, you're finally awake.
09:01Briar nearly dropped the tea tray.
09:05What happened at the rite?
09:06Everyone says Aldric is marrying both you and Wind.
09:08Same rank.
09:09No difference.
09:10You missed everything.
09:11Aldric had an entire wing redone for Wind.
09:13He even took a moonshed chandelier from the royal vaults for her bedroom.
09:16She doesn't like sweet wine, so he'd be from the whole estate.
09:19I smiled at Briar.
09:20How are you smiling?
09:22If you marry him, you'll disappear in that house.
09:25She's already acting like its mistress.
09:27Relax, Briar.
09:28I'm not marrying him.
09:29Then Aldric walked through the door.
09:31He heard every word.
09:34Aldric froze.
09:35Then a slow, contemptuous smile pulled at his mouth.
09:37If you truly meant any of this, you would have gone to the emperor and publicly denied our marriage.
09:42But you didn't.
09:43You're angry because you can't stand watching me give Wind the affection you've always begged for.
09:49So now you're pretending not to want me, hoping I'll chase after you.
10:21I came to inform you of something.
10:22Why not give her something from your own vault?
10:25Or does Prince Aldric only know how to prove his love with another woman's treasures?
10:29Enough!
10:30I'm giving you a chance to show Wind some goodwill.
10:33In return, I'll spend the wedding night in your chambers.
10:36But I promised Wind I would never touch you.
10:39Once midnight passes, I'll go to her.
10:40Return everything you took, Aldric.
10:42I never agreed to marry you.
10:46Uncertainty crossed his face.
10:48Then his gaze landed on the enchanted fire rose lying on my desk.
10:51Relief softened his expression.
10:53You're angry.
10:54I understand.
10:55But you still kept the first gift I ever gave you.
10:58Don't pretend you've stopped loving me.
11:00I walked to the desk and picked up the rose.
11:03Its crimson petals still glowed faintly between my fingers.
11:06I closed my fist.
11:07Silver moon fire burst through the cracks between my fingers.
11:10The rose shrieked, split apart, and burned down to black dust in my palm.
11:13Serevan, what are you doing?
11:16So this is your latest performance.
11:18Destroy every gift.
11:19If it helps you feel powerful, you'll still be standing beside me at the altar in seven days.
11:24He turned and slammed the door behind him.
11:54So much for marrying me.
11:56Then he saw the moon hollow bridal crown woven into my hair, and the smile vanished.
12:00That is not a consort's crown.
12:02He dismounted and walked toward me.
12:04Trying to remind Wynne that you outrank her, before the wedding has even begun.
12:08He flicked two fingers toward the attendants.
12:10Two attendants seized my arms.
12:12You wanted my attention Serevan.
12:15Now you have it.
12:17Aldric grabbed the crown and ripped it from my hair.
12:21Stop.
12:23That was Serevan's voice.
12:25He stood at the edge of the courtyard in black ceremonial coat, looking exactly as the court had always seen
12:29him.
12:30Cold, unwanted, out of place.
12:32But he had come.
12:33Serevan caught Aldric's wrist, and forced his hand away from my hair.
12:36Let her go.
12:37Aldric tried to wrench free, but Serevan shoved him back hard enough to send him stumbling across the stones.
12:42He stepped closer and carefully set the moon hollow crown back into my hair.
12:49I stepped out from behind Serevan and took his hand.
12:52The man I am marrying today is Serevan.
12:56No.
12:58You chose him.
12:59I chose him at the right.
13:01I told you more than once that I was not marrying you.
13:06I waited for him today.
13:08And I will leave this courtyard as his wife.
13:13Aldric's dragon mark flared.
13:14Golden fire crawled across his collarbone as he turned on Serevan.
13:18A dragonless cripple the court had already cast aside.
13:23Step away from her.
13:24The flames behind him surged higher.
13:26A golden dragon took shape in the heat, its wings spreading across the courtyard in a blaze of light.
13:30The noble stumbled back as its shadow fell over the wedding stones.
13:34Aldric lifted his chin.
13:42Serevan did not move.
13:43He stood beneath the burning shape of Aldric's beast, silent and utterly unafraid.
13:47Then he drew his sword.
13:48Aldric's smile vanished.
13:49You really do want to die.
13:53Golden fire tore across the courtyard.
13:55Serevan stepped through it.
13:56The flame scorched him, but his blade struck Aldric's hard enough to force him back a full step.
14:00He had no dragon flame, but he had survived years of battles meant to kill him.
14:05Every movement was fast, brutal, and precise.
14:07Aldric's dragon roared overhead as golden fire crashed down around them.
14:11Serevan slipped beneath the flames, drove his shoulder into Aldric's chest, and slammed him against the stone altar.
14:16Aldric's face twisted with humiliation.
14:18His dragon mark flared, and golden fire exploded from his blade at point-blank range, throwing Serevan across the stones.
14:24Serevan landed hard on one knee.
14:25Gray veins spread beneath the skin of his throat.
14:27Aldric advanced through the flames, his dragon looming behind him.
14:31Look behind me.
14:32Where is yours, the dragon?
14:38You have no mark?
14:40No flame?
14:41No beast answering your blood?
14:43So tell me, cripple.
14:45What exactly do you have that could ever compare to me?
14:49Something dark flashed across Serevan's face, spreading down beneath his collar as he forced himself upright.
14:54Heat rolled from his body, but it carried no flame.
14:56Only ash.
14:57Real pain broke through his cold expression.
14:59His sword slipped lower.
15:00I felt it then.
15:01The same force that had answered my moon marks at the right was roaring beneath Serevan's skin, trapped behind layers
15:06of dead magic.
15:07It was a cage.
15:08Aldric brought his sword down.
15:09I ran between them and caught Serevan's hand.
15:13Fire surged through our joint palms.
15:15The gray veins flared white.
15:17Serevan arched with a sharp breath as cracks of light spread across the ash beneath the skin.
15:21Burning fragments peeled away from his throat and chest, dissolving before they touched the ground.
15:25The entire courtyard shook.
15:27Golden dragon marks blazed across Serevan's skin, brighter and deeper than Eldricks had ever been.
15:31Every flame in the courtyard bent toward him.
15:33Behind Serevan, something vast opened its eyes.
15:38Aldric's golden dragon faltered above the altar.
15:40The dragon marks on the other princes dimmed.
15:42Aldric's nearly went dark.
15:44He stared at Serevan, all color draining from his face.
15:46A roar shook the courtyard.
15:48The dragon crown tore free from the altar.
15:50Black gold fire coiled around it as it rose above the wedding guests.
15:53The pressure of its power swept across the stones, forcing nobles and princes alike to their knees.
15:57Aldric braced himself against his sword.
15:59Teeth clenched as his legs began to tremble.
16:02He can't control it.
16:04Look at him.
16:05That thing has been buried inside him his entire life.
16:08He is not an heir.
16:09He is a threat.
16:10The crown turned toward Serevan.
16:12Black gold fire rushed over him, swallowing him from sight.
16:15Torek!
16:18I started toward him, but heat rolled across the courtyard and drove everyone else back.
16:23Inside the blaze, Serevan stood rigid.
16:25The power was tearing him apart.
16:26It wrapped around his arms, flowed through the golden marks across his skin, and sank into his body.
16:31Serevan stood at the center of the scorched courtyard, breathing hard but untouched.
16:35I crossed the blackened stones and took his hand.
16:37The moment our hands joined, his dragon marks flared brighter.
16:40Black gold light swept through his dark hair, leaving silver at the ends.
16:43He looked taller, fiercer, no longer like the forgotten prince the court had cast aside.
16:47The ground trembled beneath us.
16:49A vast dragon rose behind Serevan.
16:52Aldric stumbled backward.
16:54You don't have a dragon.
16:56Serevan looked at him, molten gold still burning in his eyes.
16:58I do now.
17:01The dragon crown descended and settled onto Serevan's head.
17:04The great beast behind him lowered its head, and every flame in the palace bowed.
17:08The courtyard erupted.
17:10That dragon is larger than the emperor's.
17:12Look at his marks, they're pure gold.
17:14The crown chose him without a royal decree.
17:17He was power was dragonless.
17:19Emperor Kashin arrived as the nobles dropped to their knees.
17:21He stopped at the edge of the scorched courtyard, staring at the sun he had allowed the empire to dismiss
17:26for years.
17:28Serevan ignored the kneeling court and tightened his hand around mine.
17:31The ash inside me is gone.
17:33Your moonfire broke the seal.
17:35I looked at the golden marks burning across his skin, still hardly able to believe what I had awakened.
17:42You were a dragon all along.
17:46I spent years mistaking a sealed power for weakness.
17:50I was wrong.
17:51Serevan removed the dragon crown and placed it beside him on the scorched stones.
17:55Then, before the entire court, he went down on one knee.
18:19A rare smile touched Soren's mouth.
18:21Then he bent his head and kissed me beneath the bowed wings of his dragon.
18:26Kashin looked from the bowed dragon to the waiting wedding chariot.
18:29Soren, are you planning to keep your bride waiting?
18:33No father.
18:34Only when Soren helped me into the chariot did Aldric finally seem to understand that we were leaving.
18:38Serevan!
18:39He shoved through the attendants and caught the carriage curtain before it fell.
18:43Get down.
18:43You have made your point.
18:45You humiliated me in front of the entire court and you proved that Soren was not as useless as everyone
18:52believed.
18:53But this has gone far enough.
18:55You loved me for years.
18:57You cannot simply marry someone else because you are angry.
19:00I am not angry, Aldrian.
19:03Then what is this?
19:04You expect me to believe you suddenly love him?
19:09I chose him.
19:10You chose me.
19:11You were always supposed to choose me.
19:14I will forgive this.
19:16I will let you keep the crown, the title, and your place beside me.
19:19Wynne can have my affection, but you will still be my wife.
19:23You should be grateful I am still willing to take you after this humiliation.
19:28Let her go.
19:29Aldric looked at the golden dragon marks covering Soren's skin and hatred twisted his face.
19:33You think one awakened beast makes you worthy of her?
19:38No.
19:39Her choice does.
19:40Aldric stumbled into the attendants.
19:42Something inside him broke.
19:43Saravan, come down!
19:45You cannot do this to me!
19:46I was meant to have the crown.
19:48I was meant to have Moonholland.
19:50You were meant to be mine!
19:54The spectral stags began to move.
19:56You will regret this!
19:59Only after the doors of the bridal chamber closed behind us, Soren finally turned to face me.
20:04Serevian, there is still time.
20:08Time for what?
20:09To change your mind.
20:11You chose a man everyone believed was cursed.
20:14Then, within a single morning, that man became heir to the Empire.
20:18I don't know whether you wanted Sorak, or what Sorak became today.
20:24For years, I looked past you, because I thought I already knew what I wanted.
20:29We grew up in the same court, but I never truly saw you.
20:33That was my mistake.
20:34Not this.
20:37Soren, I chose you before the crown did.
20:40Before the dragon.
20:42Before any of them knew what you were.
20:44So don't ask whether I want the man or the power.
20:48I chose you when everyone else still called you nothing.
20:53My silver cornet slipped from my hair and fell onto the carpet.
20:57Then stopped when he felt the tears on my face.
21:00Did I hurt you?
21:01No.
21:02I'm just afraid of losing you.
21:04You won't lose me, I swear.
21:06You said that as though you can command fate now.
21:09I can command a dragon.
21:14That night, Soren held me like a man who had spent years wanting something he had never allowed himself to
21:19reach for.
21:20By morning, pale light spilled across the bed.
21:22Soren was already awake beside me.
21:24He reached toward the table beside the bed and picked up a small velvet box.
21:29Soren most.
21:31Soren.
21:31Hope you're done.
21:31Thanks again.
21:32Bye!
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