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Hey guys! Found another good one. English subs are solid on this one.
Sold to the Warlord, Born for the Sky is a fantasy forced-marriage drama with a dragon-riding warlord and a princess who has to make an impossible choice. She's sold to the Blackclaw horde to save her dying people. Her dilemma: giving in to the man who bought her — is that betrayal or sacrifice? The dragon-riding visuals are decent, and the tension between duty and fear keeps it moving.
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00:00:02they say the black clough do not bed their brides they break them every girl in the north dreams of
00:00:07her binding day none of them dream of the cage a sky people with no dragons is just prey so
00:00:13my
00:00:13father sells the only thing he has left me the black claw warlord rides for our gate at dusk
00:00:18and you will be waiting at the binding altar to take him as your husband a husband ravek of the
00:00:22black claw his dragons are the only thing between us and the frost i will not be sold to a
00:00:27black
00:00:27claw warlord to pay for your war so this is the dragonless princess they are selling me they told
00:00:33me the north had nothing left worth taking they were wrong let go of me i have not been given
00:00:38to
00:00:39you yet you were mine the day your father ran out of options we were calling dragons out of the
00:00:43sky
00:00:43while your horde was still eating its dead do not lecture me on what we lost they told me you
00:00:48were
00:00:48timid timid does not survive my keep your wrist little queen my hands shake because your hand is
00:00:55on me do not mistake it for anything you would want to feel you can lock iron on me but
00:01:00you cannot
00:01:00make me want it skybound blood should stay with skybound blood our fathers meant you for me and
00:01:05one southern treaty does not unwrite it by the time he remembers he has a wife i will already have
00:01:09made you mine you put a hand on what belongs to a warlord did you think the dragons would not
00:01:17smell it on
00:01:41every girl in the north dreams of her binding day none of them dream of the cage my people used
00:01:46to be
00:01:46the best dragon callers alive we have not called one in a hundred years a sky people with no dragons
00:01:51is just prey so my father sells the only thing he has left me
00:02:10skybound i came for what is promised
00:02:23you belong to me now
00:02:32get up and dress the black claw warlord rides for our gate at dusk and you will be waiting at
00:02:37the binding
00:02:37altar to take him as your husband a husband you have kept me behind these walls my whole life i
00:02:42have
00:02:42never even spoken to a man who is not my god you will speak to this one tonight and bear
00:02:47his children
00:02:47after rayvek of the black claw his dragons are the only thing between us and the frost and he wants
00:02:53you
00:02:53for them so my blood buys your dragons and you call it a treaty i am trading one girl to
00:02:59keep 10 000
00:03:00people alive say no and the black claw rind south the frost can come down off that ridge and everyone
00:03:05in this keep is dead by spring i am not the answer to your problem find another way then walk
00:03:11out that
00:03:11door and tell 10 000 people yourself i will not be sold to a black claw warlord to pay for
00:03:16your war
00:03:16find another way cassia you will not shame me in front of the whole keep
00:03:38so this is the dragonless princess they are selling me they told me the north had nothing
00:03:44left worth taking they were wrong let go of me i have not been given to you yet
00:03:49you were mine the day your father ran out of options tonight is just the part with witnesses
00:03:54soft hand i hold people who forgot how to hold their own beasts no wonder the frost skin are
00:04:01sharpening their knives we were calling dragons out of the sky while your horde was still eating
00:04:06its dead do not lecture me on what we lost they told me you were timid timid does not survive
00:04:12my keep
00:04:12your wrist little queen
00:04:20what is this my cuff and yours came out of the same iron after tonight there is no one making
00:04:26it
00:04:26the north gave you away little queen i keep what the north gives you are shaking
00:04:34good a dragon can smell a coward and a coward it will not carry be afraid but do not be
00:04:40a coward
00:04:40my hands shake because your hand is on me do not mistake it for anything you would want to feel
00:04:45give it time you will stop hating me when you realize i am the only one keeping your people alive
00:04:50you can lock iron on me but you cannot make me want it
00:05:08every one of them lives or dies on what i say next
00:05:12no one walks out of a door with all of that on the other side of it
00:05:22i will take you not for my father for her and every one of them out there on the ice
00:05:28you give your word standing up like an equal on your knees you will thank the warlord for saving
00:05:35this keep with your worthless hand
00:05:40she kneels to me not for you and not because you put her there
00:05:48she is mine now old man remember that the next time you raise your hand to her
00:05:52they call him a monster right now he is the only wall between me and a war that eats children
00:05:59and tonight i will not just touch you i will ruin you and you will ask me for more
00:06:11they say the blackcloth do not bed their brides they break them and his dragons sleep at the foot
00:06:15of bed and watch enough she will be presentable she will be obedient and she will hold that alliance
00:06:22together that is the end of it leave us i will have a moment with my bride custom keeps the
00:06:31warlord and
00:06:32the bride apart until the altar i do not ask twice tonight everyone will say i forced a scared girl
00:06:38into this
00:06:39i want them to look at you and see something different i want them to see you chose me
00:06:44not that your father sold you
00:06:52it is too tight
00:06:53it is meant to be uncomfortable every black claw bride wears one so nobody asks who she belongs to
00:06:59only i take it off wear it to the altar let them all see it before you say my name
00:07:28i have a great father sold you and I will be a person who can see me and i have
00:07:35a boss
00:07:35but i will only do this as a family but i still want to call them
00:07:42You are bleeding.
00:07:44Frostkin blood, not mine.
00:07:47Their scout will not report what he saw.
00:07:51What happens tonight is yours to give.
00:07:53I do not take it.
00:07:56Do you take each other through war and peace until the end?
00:08:01Say the words.
00:08:03Loud enough for the whole North to hear.
00:08:05By sky and by iron, I bind my life to his.
00:08:09Whatever comes for him gets through me first.
00:08:14Our people do not deserve death.
00:08:16I am doing this for her.
00:08:18For all the innocents in the North, I am not doing this for him.
00:08:23Then seal it!
00:08:29No one has ever kissed you, I can tell.
00:08:32Tonight gives me everything, but I am taking this right now.
00:08:34In front of all of them!
00:08:36In front of all of them!
00:08:45I always believed our fathers would give you to me.
00:08:48Then a southern brute rides in and takes you in an afternoon.
00:08:51Let go of me!
00:08:56A sky-bound altar makes a wife.
00:08:59The Black Claw need more than words.
00:09:02Bring him in!
00:09:07The Proving.
00:09:08He puts her in front of the dragon.
00:09:10Everyone watches to see if it bows or bites.
00:09:13No one from the North has ever passed it.
00:09:14It will not bow to a sky girl with no gift in her blood.
00:09:17He is going to get her killed in front of her own mother.
00:09:19Do not pull back and do not look away.
00:09:22It smells fear and it smells lies.
00:09:24Show it neither.
00:09:27You will burn my arm off.
00:09:29Then we will both find out what you are made of.
00:09:46Beast knows its queen!
00:09:48Let the North remember it!
00:09:57I am a person, Raybeck.
00:09:59Not something you show off to your men.
00:10:02You humiliated me out there.
00:10:10Hello, little queen.
00:10:16Lothra, you should not be in here.
00:10:18Skybound Blood should stay with Skybound Blood.
00:10:19Our fathers meant you for me
00:10:21and one southern treaty does not unwrite it.
00:10:23I am only here for what was promised first.
00:10:25The binding is sealed, Lothra.
00:10:27Lay one finger on me
00:10:28and you are not insulting a girl
00:10:29or insulting the whole Black Claw horde.
00:10:31Think hard about what that buys you.
00:10:33He is drunk in the feast hall
00:10:34with Black Claw girls in his lap.
00:10:36By the time he remembers he has a wife,
00:10:38I will already have made you mine.
00:10:40The warlord is in his cups
00:10:41and you are all alone, girl.
00:10:43One sound out of you
00:10:45and I will tell them you invited me in.
00:10:48Raybeck!
00:10:51Where is your frightened little northern bride?
00:10:54She does not even want you.
00:10:56Come remind yourself
00:10:59what real women are.
00:11:02I called for Raybeck.
00:11:03I do not even know why.
00:11:05He is not my husband.
00:11:06He is my warden.
00:11:07But he is the only one I called.
00:11:09In here, no one will find us.
00:11:12No!
00:11:13Raybeck!
00:11:15Raybeck!
00:11:15Help me!
00:11:23Raybeck!
00:11:24Please!
00:11:26He is not coming for you.
00:11:29You should thank me.
00:11:30When I take you,
00:11:32I will at least be gentle,
00:11:34which is more than that animal
00:11:36would ever give you.
00:11:41You think the warlord cares
00:11:43what becomes of you tonight.
00:11:44He will never love a skybound girl.
00:11:47He will feed you to his dragon for this.
00:11:49My father commands the king's own guard.
00:11:52No southern dog can touch me in this keep
00:11:54and no one is coming down that corridor
00:11:56for a skybound bride.
00:12:01You little skybound bitch!
00:12:20What is mine I keep.
00:12:22What touches it I burn.
00:12:26Right.
00:12:32You put a hand
00:12:33on what belongs to a warlord.
00:12:37Did you think the dragons
00:12:39would not smell it on you?
00:12:48You all came to watch a binding.
00:12:51Watch this instead.
00:12:53Look at her.
00:12:54The North handed me
00:12:55their last real dragon caller.
00:12:57From tonight, she is one of mine.
00:12:59We do not touch our own women like that.
00:13:01We do not go after another man's wife.
00:13:04And we do not lie to the man
00:13:06whose dragons are keeping your North standing.
00:13:16What are you doing?
00:13:20He reached for a warlord's wife.
00:13:22He will carry the answer on his face
00:13:25where the whole North can read it.
00:13:28No!
00:13:33No!
00:13:35No!
00:13:36No!
00:13:39No!
00:13:40No!
00:13:41No!
00:13:42No!
00:13:43No!
00:13:44No!
00:13:45No!
00:13:47No!
00:13:49No!
00:13:50The dragon keeps looking at me like it knows something I do not.
00:13:53And honestly, at this point, so do I.
00:13:58So this is where it happens.
00:14:00Get it over with.
00:14:01Look at the roost, little queen.
00:14:02That is where it happens.
00:14:04Not here.
00:14:05A Blacklaw wedding is not sealed in a bed.
00:14:07It is sealed in fire.
00:14:10At dawn, everyone watches the warlord
00:14:11walk through his own dragon's breath.
00:14:13If it is real, the dragon holds.
00:14:16If it is not,
00:14:17he burns in front of everyone and she goes free.
00:14:20You are going to walk in dragon fire to prove you own me?
00:14:23I am going to walk into dragon fire to prove this is real.
00:14:26What you do with that is up to you.
00:14:29A whole dying kingdom.
00:14:31And the only thing in it worth burning for is you.
00:14:34Do not say that.
00:14:35You do not get to say that!
00:14:37You bought me.
00:14:38You may own this cluff on my wrist.
00:14:40You will never own the rest of me.
00:14:42I will not love you.
00:14:47He's going to ravage me now.
00:14:50I don't want to lose it like this.
00:14:55I do not know what came over me.
00:14:57I will take only what you give me tonight.
00:15:00Sleep, little queen.
00:15:01At dawn, you watch what your husband walks into for you.
00:15:05He's sparing my virginity.
00:15:07For now.
00:15:22He's sparing my virginity.
00:15:28A
00:15:49Judge me, old friend.
00:15:51The claim is true.
00:15:53Rayback.
00:15:54Rayback, no.
00:16:16You walked into it for me.
00:16:18You would have burned to ash.
00:16:20A binding is sealed.
00:16:22The Horde has seen it.
00:16:23That is all that happened here.
00:16:25Now you come to me, to my bed.
00:16:27I will try to be patient.
00:16:29I will not beg, but I also will not love.
00:16:48So he actually did it.
00:16:50Walked into the fire for you.
00:16:53I honestly did not think you would.
00:16:56Not for some scared little northern girl.
00:16:58I do not know you.
00:17:00Give your name before you speak to me like I am livestock.
00:17:07Drusilla.
00:17:08My father rides at the warlord's right hand, the strongest warrior in this Horde.
00:17:12And before your father sold you north, I was the one in Ravik's bed.
00:17:17So I know things about him that you do not.
00:17:21You do not know how to keep a warlord, little northern bird.
00:17:25I had him before you wore that cuff, and I will have him after.
00:17:29Ask anyone in this keep whose furs he slept in last winter.
00:17:58First night here, and my wife will not eat.
00:18:01Is this a northern thing?
00:18:03Or are you actually trying to starve yourself?
00:18:06Starving myself?
00:18:09Skybound children went hungry all winter so I could eat.
00:18:12I do not waste food.
00:18:16I do not even know what half of this is.
00:18:18You have never put southern meat in your mouth.
00:18:21My father never let his daughters pass the inner wall.
00:18:25We ate what the kitchens cooked, and the kitchens cook north.
00:18:32Open.
00:18:34No wife of mine goes hungry at my own fire.
00:18:41There.
00:18:43The north did not crumble.
00:18:46Your color is up, wife.
00:18:47I am warm from the fire.
00:18:48The fire is behind you.
00:18:50I am the one in front.
00:19:09He walked into Dragonfire in front of everyone to keep my people safe.
00:19:13Whatever else he is, he did that.
00:19:15I can say thank you for that much, even if it kills me.
00:19:24We just got married, and he is already doing this.
00:19:27I knew it.
00:19:28I knew exactly what he was.
00:19:33Cassia.
00:19:35Stop.
00:19:36Not one more step.
00:19:43Sit.
00:19:45Run from her in tears, and by morning the whole keep says the north broke in a week.
00:20:15They say the Blackclaw do not bed their brides.
00:20:18They break them.
00:20:19Every girl in the north dreams of her binding day.
00:20:21None of them dream of the cage.
00:20:23A sky people with no dragons is just prey.
00:20:25So my father sells the only thing he has left.
00:20:28Me.
00:20:29The Blackclaw warlord rides for our gate at dusk,
00:20:31and you will be waiting at the binding altar to take him as your husband.
00:20:34A husband.
00:20:35Ravek of the Blackclaw.
00:20:36His dragons are the only thing between us and the Frosk.
00:20:39I will not be sold to a Blackclaw warlord to pay for your war.
00:20:42So, this is the dragonless princess.
00:20:45They are selling me.
00:20:46They told me the north had nothing left worth taking.
00:20:49They were wrong.
00:20:50Let go of me.
00:20:51I have not been given to you yet.
00:20:52You were mine the day your father ran out of options.
00:20:55We were calling dragons out of the sky while your horde was still eating its dead.
00:20:59Do not lecture me on what we lost.
00:21:01They told me you were timid.
00:21:02Timid does not survive my keep.
00:21:04Your wrist, little queen.
00:21:06My hands shake because your hand is on me.
00:21:08Do not mistake it for anything you would want to feel.
00:21:11You can lock iron on me, but you cannot make me want it.
00:21:14Skybound blood should stay with skybound blood.
00:21:16Our fathers meant you for me, and one southern treaty does not unwrite it.
00:21:20By the time he remembers he has a wife, I will already have made you mine.
00:21:24Ravek!
00:21:25Help me!
00:21:25You put a hand on what belongs to a warlord.
00:21:29Did you think the dragons would not smell it on you?
00:21:32No!
00:21:54Every girl in the north dreams of her binding day.
00:21:56None of them dream of the cage.
00:21:58My people used to be the best dragon callers alive.
00:22:01We have not called one in a hundred years.
00:22:03A sky people with no dragons is just prey.
00:22:05So my father sells the only thing he has left.
00:22:08Me.
00:22:22Skybound.
00:22:22Skybound.
00:22:23I came for what is promised.
00:22:36You belong to me now.
00:22:45Get up and dress.
00:22:46The Blackclaw warlord rides for our gate at dusk,
00:22:49and you will be waiting at the binding altar to take him as your husband.
00:22:52A husband.
00:22:53You have kept me behind these walls my whole life.
00:22:55I have never even spoken to a man who is not my guard.
00:22:57You will speak to this one tonight, and bear his children after.
00:23:01Ravek of the Blackclaw.
00:23:03His dragons are the only thing between us and the Frostkin.
00:23:06And he wants you for them.
00:23:07So my blood buys your dragons, and you call it a treaty.
00:23:10I am trading one girl to keep ten thousand people alive.
00:23:14Say no, and the Blackclaw rides south, the Frostkin come down off that ridge,
00:23:18and everyone in this keep is dead by spring.
00:23:20I am not the answer to your problems.
00:23:22Find another way.
00:23:23Then walk out that door and tell ten thousand people yourself.
00:23:26I will not be sold to a Blackclaw warlord to pay for your war.
00:23:29Find another way.
00:23:31Cassia, you will not shame me in front of the whole keep.
00:23:51So, this is the Dragonless Princess.
00:23:54They are selling me.
00:23:55They told me the North had nothing left worth taking.
00:23:58They were wrong.
00:23:59Let go of me.
00:24:01I have not been given to you yet.
00:24:03You were mine.
00:24:03The day your father ran out of options.
00:24:06Tonight is just the part with witnesses.
00:24:08Soft hand.
00:24:10A whole people who forgot how to hold their own beasts.
00:24:13No wonder the Frostkin are sharpening their knives.
00:24:15We were calling dragons out of the sky while your horde was still eating its dead.
00:24:19Do not lecture me on what we lost.
00:24:21They told me you were timid.
00:24:24Timid does not survive my keep.
00:24:26Your wrist, little queen.
00:24:33What is this?
00:24:34My cuff and yours came out of the same iron.
00:24:37After tonight, there is no one making it.
00:24:39The North gave you away, little queen.
00:24:41I keep what the North gives.
00:24:45You are shaking.
00:24:47Good.
00:24:48A dragon can smell a coward.
00:24:49And a coward it will not carry.
00:24:51Be afraid, but do not be a coward.
00:24:53My hands shake because your hand is on me.
00:24:55Do not mistake it for anything you would want to feel.
00:24:58Give it time.
00:24:59You will stop hating me when you realize I am the only one keeping your people alive.
00:25:03You can lock iron on me, but you cannot make me want it.
00:25:21Every one of them lives or dies on what I say next.
00:25:25No one walks out of a door with all of that on the other side of it.
00:25:29No.
00:25:35I will take you.
00:25:37Not for my father.
00:25:38For her.
00:25:39And every one of them out there on the ice.
00:25:42You give your word standing up like an equal.
00:25:44On your knees.
00:25:46You will thank the warlord for saving this keep with your worthless hand.
00:25:53She kneels to me.
00:25:54Not for you.
00:25:55And not because you put her there.
00:26:01She is mine now, old man.
00:26:03Remember that the next time you raise your hand to her.
00:26:05They call him a monster.
00:26:08Right now he is the only wall between me and a war that eats children.
00:26:12And tonight I will not just touch you.
00:26:15I will ruin you.
00:26:16And you will ask me for more.
00:26:23They say the Blackclough do not bed their brides.
00:26:26They break them.
00:26:27And his dragons sleep at the foot of bed and watch.
00:26:29Enough.
00:26:30She will be presentable.
00:26:32She will be obedient.
00:26:33And she will hold that alliance together.
00:26:37That is the end of it.
00:26:39Leave us.
00:26:41I will have a moment with my bride.
00:26:44Custom keeps the warlord and the bride apart until the altar.
00:26:47I do not ask twice.
00:26:48Tonight everyone will say I forced a scared girl into this.
00:26:52I want them to look at you and see something different.
00:26:55I want them to see you chose me.
00:26:57Not that your father sold you.
00:27:05It is too tight.
00:27:06It is meant to be uncomfortable.
00:27:08Every Blackclough bride wears one so nobody asks who she belongs to.
00:27:12Only I take it off.
00:27:14Wear it to the altar.
00:27:16Let them all see it before you say my name.
00:27:31Let them all see it before you say my name.
00:27:55You are bleeding.
00:27:56Frostkin blood, not mine.
00:28:00Their scout will not report what he saw.
00:28:04What happens tonight is yours to give.
00:28:06I do not take it.
00:28:09Do you take each other through war and peace until the end?
00:28:14Say the words.
00:28:16Loud enough for the whole North to hear.
00:28:18By sky and by iron, I bind my life to his.
00:28:22Whatever comes for him gets through me first.
00:28:27Our people do not deserve death.
00:28:29I am doing this for her.
00:28:31For all the innocents in the North.
00:28:33I am not doing this for him.
00:28:35Then seal it!
00:28:42No one has ever kissed you, I can tell.
00:28:45Tonight gives me everything, but I am taking this right now in front of all of them!
00:28:58I always believed our fathers would give you to me.
00:29:01Then a southern brute rides in and takes you in an afternoon.
00:29:04Let go of me!
00:29:09A sky-bound altar makes a wife.
00:29:12The Black Claw need more than words.
00:29:15Bring him in!
00:29:20The Proving.
00:29:21He puts her in front of the dragon.
00:29:23Everyone watches to see if it bows or bites.
00:29:26No one from the North has ever passed it.
00:29:27It will not bow to a sky girl with no gift in her blood.
00:29:30He is going to get her killed in front of her own mother.
00:29:32Do not pull back and do not look away.
00:29:35It smells fear and it smells lies.
00:29:37Show it neither.
00:29:39You will burn my arm off.
00:29:42Then we will both find out what you are made of.
00:29:59Beast knows its queen!
00:30:01Let the North remember it!
00:30:10I am a person, Ravec.
00:30:12Not something you show off to your men.
00:30:15You humiliated me out there.
00:30:23Hello, little queen.
00:30:29Lothra, you should not be in here.
00:30:30Skybound blood should stay with skybound blood.
00:30:33Our fathers meant you for me,
00:30:34and one southern treaty does not unwrite it.
00:30:36I am only here for what was promised first.
00:30:38The binding is sealed, Lothra.
00:30:40Lay one finger on me,
00:30:41and you are not insulting a girl,
00:30:42insulting the whole Blackclow horde.
00:30:44Think hard about what that buys you.
00:30:45He is drunk in the feast hall,
00:30:47with Blackclow girls in his lap.
00:30:49By the time he remembers he has a wife,
00:30:51I will already have made you mine.
00:30:53The warlord is in his cups,
00:30:54and you are all alone, girl.
00:30:56One sound out of you,
00:30:57and I will tell them you invited me in.
00:31:01Ravec!
00:31:04Where is your frightened little northern bride?
00:31:07She does not even want you.
00:31:09Come remind yourself
00:31:12what real women are.
00:31:15I called for Ravec.
00:31:16I do not even know why.
00:31:18He is not my husband.
00:31:19He is my warden.
00:31:20But he is the only one I called.
00:31:22In here,
00:31:23no one will find us.
00:31:25No!
00:31:26Ravec!
00:31:27Ravec!
00:31:28Help me!
00:31:36Ravec, please.
00:31:39He is not coming for you.
00:31:42You should thank me.
00:31:43When I take you,
00:31:45I will at least be gentle,
00:31:47which is more than that animal would ever give you.
00:31:53You think the warlord cares
00:31:56what becomes of you tonight?
00:31:57He will never love a skybound girl.
00:32:00He will feed you to his dragon for this.
00:32:02My father commands the king's own guard.
00:32:04No southern dog can touch me in this keep,
00:32:07and no one is coming down that corridor
00:32:09for a skybound bride.
00:32:14You little skybound bitch!
00:32:33What is mine I keep?
00:32:35What touches it I burn.
00:32:45You put a hand
00:32:46on what belongs to a warlord.
00:32:50Did you think the dragons would not smell it on you?
00:33:01You all came to watch a binding.
00:33:04Watch this instead.
00:33:06Look at her.
00:33:07The North handed me their last real dragon caller.
00:33:10From tonight,
00:33:10she is one of mine.
00:33:12We do not touch our own women like that.
00:33:14We do not go after another man's wife,
00:33:16and we do not lie to the man
00:33:19whose dragons are keeping your North standing.
00:33:29What are you doing?
00:33:33He reached for a warlord's wife.
00:33:35He will carry the answer on his face,
00:33:38where the whole North can read it.
00:33:54What is mine I keep?
00:33:56The whole North can watch what touching it costs.
00:34:02That dragon keeps looking at me
00:34:04like it knows something I do not.
00:34:05And honestly, at this point,
00:34:07so do I.
00:34:11So this is where it happens.
00:34:13Get it over with.
00:34:14Look at the roost, little queen.
00:34:15That is where it happens.
00:34:16Not here.
00:34:17A Blacklaw wedding is not sealed in a bed.
00:34:20It is sealed in fire.
00:34:23At dawn, everyone watches the warlord
00:34:24walk through his own dragon's breath.
00:34:26If it is real, the dragon holds.
00:34:29If it is not,
00:34:30he burns in front of everyone,
00:34:31and she goes free.
00:34:32You are going to walk in dragon fire
00:34:34to prove you own me?
00:34:36I am going to walk into dragon fire
00:34:37to prove this is real.
00:34:39What you do with that is up to you.
00:34:42A whole dying kingdom.
00:34:44And the only thing in it worth burning for is you.
00:34:46Do not say that.
00:34:48You do not get to say that.
00:34:50You bought me.
00:34:51You may own this cluff on my wrist.
00:34:53You will never own the rest of me.
00:34:55I will not love you.
00:35:00He's going to ravage me now.
00:35:03I don't want to lose it like this.
00:35:08I do not know what came over me.
00:35:10I will take only what you give me tonight.
00:35:12Sleep, little queen.
00:35:14At dawn, you watch what your husband
00:35:15walks into for you.
00:35:18He's sparing my virginity.
00:35:20For now.
00:35:48He's sparing my virginity.
00:36:02Judge me, old friend.
00:36:04The claim is true.
00:36:06Ravac.
00:36:07Ravac, no.
00:36:10No.
00:36:29You walked into it.
00:36:30For me.
00:36:31You would have burned to ash.
00:36:33Your binding is sealed.
00:36:34The Horde has seen it.
00:36:36That is all that happened here.
00:36:38Now you come to me, to my bed.
00:36:40I will try to be patient.
00:36:42I will not beg.
00:36:43But I also will not love.
00:37:01So he actually did it.
00:37:03Walked into the fire for you.
00:37:06I honestly did not think you would.
00:37:09Not for some scared little northern girl.
00:37:11I do not know you.
00:37:12Give your name before you speak to me like I am livestock.
00:37:19Drusilla.
00:37:21My father rides at the warlord's right hand, the strongest warrior in this horde.
00:37:25And before your father sold you north, I was the one in Ravac's bed.
00:37:29So I know things about him that you do not.
00:37:34You do not know how to keep a warlord, little northern bird.
00:37:38I had him before you wore that cuff.
00:37:40And I will have him after.
00:37:42Ask anyone in this keep whose furs he slept in last winter.
00:38:11First night here, and my wife will not eat.
00:38:14Is this a northern thing?
00:38:16Or are you actually trying to starve yourself?
00:38:19Starving myself?
00:38:22Skybound children went hungry all winter so I could eat.
00:38:25I do not waste food.
00:38:29I do not even know what half of this is.
00:38:31You have never put southern meat in your mouth.
00:38:34My father never let his daughters pass the inner wall.
00:38:38We ate what the kitchens cooked.
00:38:40And the kitchens cooked north.
00:38:45Open.
00:38:47No wife of mine goes hungry at my own fire.
00:38:54There.
00:38:56The north did not crumble.
00:38:59Your color is up, wife.
00:39:00I am warm from the fire.
00:39:01The fire is behind you.
00:39:03I am the one in front.
00:39:14The fire is behind you.
00:39:22He walked into dragon fire in front of everyone to keep my people safe.
00:39:26Whatever else he is, he did that.
00:39:28I can say thank you for that much, even if it kills me.
00:39:36We just got married and he is already doing this.
00:39:40I knew it. I knew exactly what he was.
00:39:46Cassia. Stop.
00:39:49Not one more step.
00:39:57Sit. Run from her in tears and by morning the whole keep says the North broke in a week.
00:40:28They say the Blackclaw do not bed their brides, they break them.
00:40:32Every girl in the North dreams of her binding day. None of them dream of the cage.
00:40:36A sky people with no dragons is just prey. So my father sells the only thing he has left. Me.
00:40:42The Blackclaw warlord rides for our gate at dusk and you will be waiting at the binding altar to take
00:40:46him as your husband.
00:40:47A husband?
00:40:48Ravek of the Blackclaw. His dragons are the only thing between us and the Frost.
00:40:52I will not be sold to a Blackclaw warlord to pay for your war.
00:40:55So, this is the dragonless princess. They are selling me.
00:40:59They told me the North had nothing left worth taking. They were wrong.
00:41:03Let go of me. I have not been given to you yet.
00:41:05You were mine the day your father ran out of options.
00:41:08We were calling dragons out of the sky while your horde was still eating its dead.
00:41:12Do not lecture me on what we lost.
00:41:14They told me you were timid. Timid does not survive my keep.
00:41:16Your wrist, little queen.
00:41:19My hands shake because your hand is on me.
00:41:21Do not mistake it for anything you would want to feel.
00:41:24You can lock iron on me, but you cannot make me want it.
00:41:27Skybound blood should stay with skybound blood.
00:41:29Our fathers meant you for me, and one southern treaty does not unwrite it.
00:41:32By the time he remembers he has a wife, I will already have made you mine.
00:41:37Rayback, help me!
00:41:38You put a hand on what belongs to a warlord.
00:41:42Did you think the dragons would not smell it on you?
00:42:06Every girl in the north dreams of her binding day. None of them dream of the cage.
00:42:11My people used to be the best dragon callers alive.
00:42:14We have not called one in a hundred years.
00:42:16A sky people with no dragons is just prey.
00:42:18So my father sells the only thing he has left.
00:42:21Me.
00:42:35Skybound.
00:42:36I came for what is promised.
00:42:49You belong to me now.
00:42:58Get up and dress!
00:42:59The Blackclaw warlord rides for our gate at dusk.
00:43:02And you will be waiting at the binding altar to take him as your husband.
00:43:05A husband?
00:43:06You have kept me behind these walls my whole life.
00:43:08I have never even spoken to a man who was not my guard.
00:43:10You will speak to this one tonight, and bear his children after.
00:43:14Rayvec of the Blackclaw.
00:43:16His dragons are the only thing between us and the Froskin.
00:43:19And he wants you for them.
00:43:20So my blood buys your dragons, and you call it a treaty.
00:43:23I am trading one girl to keep ten thousand people alive.
00:43:27Say no.
00:43:27And the Blackclaw rides south, the Froskin come down off that ridge,
00:43:30and everyone in this keep is dead by spring.
00:43:33I am not the answer to your problems.
00:43:35Find another way.
00:43:36Then walk out that door and tell ten thousand people yourself.
00:43:39I will not be sold to a Blackclaw warlord to pay for your war.
00:43:42Find another way.
00:43:44Cassia, you will not shame me in front of the whole keep.
00:44:04So, this is the Dragonless Princess.
00:44:07They are selling me.
00:44:08They told me the North had nothing left worth taking.
00:44:11They were wrong.
00:44:12Let go of me.
00:44:13I have not been given to you yet.
00:44:15You were mine.
00:44:16The day your father ran out of options.
00:44:19Tonight is just the part with witnesses.
00:44:20Soft hand.
00:44:23I hold people who forgot how to hold their own beasts.
00:44:26No wonder the Froskin are sharpening their knives.
00:44:28We were calling dragons out of the sky while your horde was still eating its dead.
00:44:32Do not lecture me on what we lost.
00:44:35They told me you were timid.
00:44:37Timid does not survive my keep.
00:44:39Your wrist, little queen.
00:44:46What is this?
00:44:47My cuff and yours came out of the same iron.
00:44:50After tonight, there is no one making it.
00:44:52The North gave you away, little queen.
00:44:54I keep what the North gives.
00:44:58You are shaking.
00:45:00Good.
00:45:01A dragon can smell a coward, and a coward it will not carry.
00:45:04Be afraid, but do not be a coward.
00:45:06My hands shake because your hand is on me.
00:45:08Do not mistake it for anything you would want to feel.
00:45:11Give it time.
00:45:12You will stop hating me when you realize I am the only one keeping your people alive.
00:45:16You can lock iron on me, but you cannot make me want it.
00:45:34Every one of them lives or dies on what I say next.
00:45:38No one walks out of a door with all of that on the other side of it.
00:45:48I will take you.
00:45:50Not for my father.
00:45:51For her.
00:45:52And every one of them out there on the ice.
00:45:55You give your word standing up like an equal.
00:45:57On your knees!
00:45:59You will thank the warlord for saving this keep with your worthless hands.
00:46:06She kneels to me.
00:46:07Not for you.
00:46:08And not because you put her there.
00:46:14She is mine now, old man.
00:46:16Remember that the next time you raise your hand to her.
00:46:18They call him a monster.
00:46:20Right now he is the only wall between me and a war that eats children.
00:46:25And tonight I will not just touch you.
00:46:28I will ruin you.
00:46:29And you will ask me for more.
00:46:36They say the Blackclough do not bed their brides, they break them.
00:46:39And his dragons sleep at the foot of bed and watch.
00:46:42Enough!
00:46:43She will be presentable.
00:46:45She will be obedient.
00:46:46And she will hold that alliance together.
00:46:50That is the end of it.
00:46:52Leave us.
00:46:54I will have a moment with my bride.
00:46:56Custom keeps the warlord and the bride apart until the altar.
00:46:59I do not ask twice.
00:47:01Tonight everyone will say I forced a scared girl into this.
00:47:05I want them to look at you and see something different.
00:47:08I want them to see you chose me.
00:47:10Not that your father sold you.
00:47:18It is too tight.
00:47:19It is meant to be uncomfortable.
00:47:21Every Blackclough bride wears one so nobody asks who she belongs to.
00:47:25Only I take it off.
00:47:27Wear it to the altar.
00:47:29Let them all see it before you say my name.
00:47:39Too many days.
00:47:42I will be proud of you.
00:47:43Let them all know.
00:47:43Let them all see you.
00:47:43But I don't know.
00:47:44What are the only paths that are all the other people?
00:47:44I don't know.
00:47:44I think they're difficult for me to find you.
00:47:44They're not.
00:47:44Yeah, I think they're needing to know this.
00:47:50They're not very specific, but they're hungry.
00:48:08you are bleeding
00:48:09frost skin blood not mine
00:48:13their scout will not report what he saw
00:48:17what happens tonight is yours to give
00:48:19i do not take it
00:48:22do you take each other
00:48:23through war and peace until the end
00:48:27say the words loud enough for the whole north to hear
00:48:31by sky and by iron i bind my life to his
00:48:34whatever comes for him gets through me first
00:48:40our people do not deserve death i am doing this for her
00:48:43for all the innocents in the north i am not doing this for him
00:48:48then seal it
00:48:54no one has ever kissed you i can tell
00:48:57tonight gives me everything but i am taking this right now
00:49:00in front of all of them
00:49:11i always believed our fathers would give you to me
00:49:13then a southern brute rides in and takes you in an afternoon
00:49:16let go of me
00:49:22a skybound altar makes a wife the black claw need more than words
00:49:27bring him in
00:49:33the proving
00:49:34he puts her in front of the dragon
00:49:36everyone watches to see if it bows or bites
00:49:38no one from the north has ever passed it
00:49:40it will not bow to a sky girl with no gift in her blood
00:49:43he is going to get her killed in front of her own mother
00:49:45do not pull back and do not look away
00:49:47it smells fear and it smells lies
00:49:50show it neither
00:49:52you will burn my arm off
00:49:54then we will both find out what you are made of
00:50:12beast knows its queen
00:50:14let the north remember it
00:50:23i am a person rayvek
00:50:25not something you show off to your men
00:50:28you humiliated me out there
00:50:36hello little queen
00:50:42lothra you should not be in here
00:50:43skybound blood should stay with skybound blood
00:50:45our fathers meant you for me
00:50:47and one southern treaty does not unwrite it
00:50:49i am only here for what was promised first
00:50:51the binding is sealed lothra
00:50:52lay one finger on me
00:50:53and you are not insulting a girl
00:50:55insulting the whole black claw horde
00:50:56think hard about what that buys you
00:50:58he is drunk in the feast hall
00:51:00with black claw girls in his lap
00:51:02by the time he remembers he has a wife
00:51:04i will already have made you mine
00:51:05the warlord is in his cups
00:51:07and you are all alone girl
00:51:09one sound out of you
00:51:10and i will tell them you invited me in
00:51:14rayvek
00:51:15rayvek
00:51:17where is your frightened little northern bride
00:51:19she does not even want you
00:51:21come remind yourself
00:51:25what real women are
00:51:28i called for rayvek
00:51:29i do not even know why
00:51:30he is not my husband
00:51:32he is my warden
00:51:32but he is the only one i called
00:51:35in here
00:51:36no one will find us
00:51:38no
00:51:39rayvek
00:51:40rayvek
00:51:41help me
00:51:49rayvek
00:51:50please
00:51:52he is not coming for you
00:51:54you should thank me
00:51:56when i take you
00:51:58i will at least be gentle
00:52:00which is more than that animal
00:52:02would ever give you
00:52:06you think the warlord cares
00:52:09what becomes of you tonight
00:52:10he will never love a skybound girl
00:52:13he will feed you to his dragon for this
00:52:15my father commands the king's own guard
00:52:17no southern dog can touch me in this keep
00:52:20and no one is coming down that corridor
00:52:22for a skybound grind
00:52:27you little skybound bitch
00:52:46what is mine i keep
00:52:48what touches it i burn
00:52:58you put a hand
00:52:59on what belongs to a warlord
00:53:03did you think the dragons would not smell it on you
00:53:14you all came to watch a binding
00:53:16watch this
00:53:17instead
00:53:18look at her
00:53:19the north handed me their last real dragon caller
00:53:23from tonight she is one of mine
00:53:24we do not touch our own women like that
00:53:27we do not go after another man's wife
00:53:29and we do not lie to the man whose dragons are keeping your north standing
00:53:42what are you doing
00:53:46he reached for a warlord's wife
00:53:48he will carry the answer on his face
00:53:50where the whole north can read it
00:54:07what is mine
00:54:08what is mine i keep
00:54:09the whole north can watch what touching it costs
00:54:15that dragon keeps looking at me like it knows something i do not and honestly at this point
00:54:20so do i
00:54:50so this is where it happens
00:54:50prove this is real
00:54:52what you do with that is up to you
00:54:55a whole dying kingdom
00:54:57and the only thing in it worth burning for is that you do not say that you do not get
00:55:01to say that you bought me you may own this cloth on my wrist you will never own the rest
00:55:07of me i will not love you
00:55:13he's going to ravage me now
00:55:15i don't want to lose it like this
00:55:20i do not know what came over me
00:55:23i will take only what you give me tonight
00:55:25sleep little queen
00:55:26at dawn you watch what your husband walks into for you
00:55:31he's sparing my virginity
00:55:33for now
00:56:01he's sparing my virginity
00:56:15Judge me, old friend.
00:56:17The claim is true.
00:56:19Raven!
00:56:20Raven, no!
00:56:42You walked into it.
00:56:43For me, you would have burned to ash.
00:56:46A binding is sealed.
00:56:47The Horde has seen it.
00:56:49That is all that happened here.
00:56:51Now you come to me, to my bed.
00:56:53I will try to be patient.
00:56:55I will not beg, but I also will not love.
00:57:14So he actually did it.
00:57:16Walked into the fire for you.
00:57:19I honestly did not think you would.
00:57:21Not for some scared little northern girl.
00:57:24I do not know you.
00:57:25Give your name before you speak to me like I am livestock.
00:57:32Drusilla.
00:57:34My father rides at the warlord's right hand, the strongest warrior in this horde.
00:57:38And before your father sold you north, I was the one in Ravik's bed.
00:57:42So I know things about him that you do not.
00:57:47You do not know how to keep a warlord, little northern bird.
00:57:51I had him before you wore that cuff, and I will have him after.
00:57:54Ask anyone in this keep whose furs he slept in last winter.
00:58:24First night here, and my wife will not eat.
00:58:27Is this a northern thing, or are you actually trying to starve yourself?
00:58:32Starving myself?
00:58:34Skybound children went hungry all winter so I could eat.
00:58:38I do not waste food.
00:58:42I do not even know what half of this is.
00:58:45You have never put southern meat in your mouth.
00:58:47My father never let his daughters pass the inner wall.
00:58:51We ate what the kitchens cooked, and the kitchens cook north.
00:58:58Open.
00:59:00No wife of mine goes hungry at my own fire.
00:59:07There.
00:59:09The north did not crumble.
00:59:12Your color is up, wife.
00:59:13I am warm from the fire.
00:59:14The fire is behind you.
00:59:15I am the one in front.
00:59:35He walked into Dragonfire in front of everyone to keep my people safe.
00:59:39Whatever else he is, he did that.
00:59:41I can say thank you for that much, even if it kills me.
00:59:49We just got married, and he is already doing this.
00:59:53I knew it.
00:59:54I knew exactly what he was.
00:59:59Cassia.
01:00:01Stop.
01:00:02Not one more step.
01:00:09Sit.
01:00:10Run from her in tears, and by morning the whole keep says the north broke in a week.
01:00:17No!
01:00:19No!
01:00:20No!
01:00:23No!
01:00:24No!
01:00:25No!
01:00:27No!
01:00:28No!
01:00:29No!
01:00:30No!
01:00:31No!
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