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Every girl in the north dreams of her binding day, but what happens when that day means a cage? Witness the epic tale of a princess traded for survival in a land forgotten by its dragons.
Forced into a marriage with the fearsome Blackclaw warlord, Cassia must navigate a world of icy politics and ancient prophecies. Her people, once proud dragon callers, now face extinction at the hands of the Froskin. Her father's desperate bargainโher hand in marriageโis the only hope for thousands.
Can Cassia find her strength amidst betrayal and doubt? Will she discover a lost power within herself to save her kingdom or will she be consumed by the monster she's bound to?
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Forced into a marriage with the fearsome Blackclaw warlord, Cassia must navigate a world of icy politics and ancient prophecies. Her people, once proud dragon callers, now face extinction at the hands of the Froskin. Her father's desperate bargainโher hand in marriageโis the only hope for thousands.
Can Cassia find her strength amidst betrayal and doubt? Will she discover a lost power within herself to save her kingdom or will she be consumed by the monster she's bound to?
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00:00:30Every girl in the north dreams of her binding day. None of them dream of the cage.
00:00:35My people used to be the best dragon callers alive. We have not called one in a hundred years.
00:00:39A sky people with no dragons is just prey, so my father sells the only thing he has left. Me.
00:00:58Sky bound.
00:01:00I came for what is promised.
00:01:12You belong to me now.
00:01:21Get up and dress. The Blackclaw warlord rides for our gate at dusk, and you will be waiting at the
00:01:27binding altar to take him as your husband.
00:01:29A husband? You have kept me behind these walls my whole life. I have never even spoken to a man
00:01:33who is not my guard.
00:01:34You will speak to this one tonight, and bear his children after.
00:01:38Ravec of the Blackclaw. His dragons are the only thing between us and the Froskin. He wants you for them.
00:01:43So my blood buys your dragons, and you call it a treaty.
00:01:47I am trading one girl to keep ten thousand people alive. Say no. And the Blackclaw rides south, the Froskin
00:01:53come down off that ridge, and everyone in this keep is dead by spring.
00:01:56I am not the answer to your problems. Find another way.
00:02:00Then walk out that door and tell ten thousand people yourself!
00:02:03I will not be sold to a Blackclaw warlord to pay for your war. Find another way.
00:02:07Cassia, you will not shame me in front of the whole keep.
00:02:28So, this is the Dragonless Princess. They are selling me. They told me the North had nothing left worth taking.
00:02:35They were wrong.
00:02:36Let go of me. I have not been given to you yet.
00:02:39You were mine. The day your father ran out of options. Tonight is just the part with witnesses.
00:02:44Soft hand.
00:02:47A whole people who forgot how to hold their own beasts. No wonder the Froskin are sharpening their knives.
00:02:52We were calling dragons out of the sky while your horde was still eating its dead.
00:02:56Do not lecture me on what we lost.
00:02:58They told me you were timid. Timid does not survive my keep. Your wrist, little queen.
00:03:10What is this?
00:03:11My cuff and yours came out of the same iron. After tonight, there is no one making it.
00:03:16The North gave you away, little queen. I keep what the North gives.
00:03:21You are shaking. Good. A dragon can smell a coward. And a coward it will not carry. Be afraid, but
00:03:29do not be a coward.
00:03:30My hands shake because your hand is on me. Do not mistake it for anything you would want to feel.
00:03:35Give it time. You will stop hating me when you realize I am the only one keeping your people alive.
00:03:40You can lock iron on me, but you cannot make me want it.
00:03:58Every one of them lives or dies on what I say next.
00:04:01No one walks out of a door with all of that on the other side of it.
00:04:12I will take you. Not for my father. For her. And every one of them out there on the ice.
00:04:18You give your word standing up like an equal. On your knees. You will thank the warlord for saving this
00:04:25keep with your worthless hands.
00:04:30She kneels to me. Not for you. And not because you put her there.
00:04:38She is mine now, old man. Remember that the next time you raise your hand to her.
00:04:42They call him a monster. Right now he is the only wall between me and a war that eats children.
00:04:49And tonight I will not just touch you. I will ruin you. And you will ask me for more.
00:05:00They say the Blackcloth do not bed their brides. They break them. And his dragons sleep at the foot of
00:05:05bed and watch.
00:05:06Enough. She will be presentable. She will be obedient. And she will hold that alliance together.
00:05:14That is the end of it.
00:05:16Leave us. I will have a moment with my bride.
00:05:20Custom keeps the warlord and the bride apart until the altar.
00:05:23I do not ask twice. Tonight everyone will say I forced a scared girl into this.
00:05:29I want them to look at you and see something different.
00:05:32I want them to see you chose me. Not that your father sold you.
00:05:41It is too tight.
00:05:43It is meant to be uncomfortable. Every Blackclaw bride wears one so nobody asks who she belongs to.
00:05:49Only I take it off.
00:05:51Wear it to the altar. Let them all see it before you say my name.
00:06:02Please do not let them watch your dad.
00:06:04Please do not feel the same way.
00:06:04Not that your fathered.
00:06:06Please do not feel the same way.
00:06:08Remember do not feel the same way.
00:06:08People are missing from theat ะฐั.
00:06:09Just a kiss.
00:06:10Quite telling me.
00:06:10No.
00:06:10You're missing from theat.
00:06:14When theat.
00:06:15Theat.
00:06:18Theat.
00:06:32You are bleeding
00:06:33Frostkin blood, not mine
00:06:37Their scout will not report what he saw
00:06:41What happens tonight is yours to give
00:06:43I do not take it
00:06:46Do you take each other?
00:06:48Through war and peace, until the end
00:06:51Say the words
00:06:52Loud enough for the whole North to hear
00:06:55By sky and by iron, I bind my life to his
00:06:58Whatever comes for him, gets through me first
00:07:03Our people do not deserve death
00:07:06I am doing this for her
00:07:07For all the innocents in the North
00:07:09I am not doing this for him
00:07:12Then seal it!
00:07:18No one has ever kissed you, I can tell
00:07:21Tonight gives me everything, but I am taking this right now
00:07:24In front of all of them
00:07:35I always believed our fathers would give you to me
00:07:38Then a southern brute rides in and takes you in an afternoon
00:07:41Let go of me!
00:07:46A sky-bound altar makes a wife
00:07:48The Black Claw need more than words
00:07:52Bring him in!
00:07:57The Proving
00:07:58He puts her in front of the dragon
00:08:00Everyone watches to see if it bows or bites
00:08:02No one from the North has ever passed it
00:08:04It will not bow to a sky girl with no gift in her blood
00:08:07He is going to get her killed in front of her own mother
00:08:09Do not pull back and do not look away
00:08:11It smells fear and it smells lies
00:08:14Show it neither
00:08:16You will burn my arm off
00:08:18Then we will both find out what you are made of
00:08:35The Beast knows its queen
00:08:38Let the North remember it
00:08:47I am a person, Ravec
00:08:49Not something you show off to your men
00:08:52You humiliated me out there
00:09:00Hello, little queen
00:09:06Lothra, you should not be in here
00:09:07Skybound Blood should stay with Skybound Blood
00:09:09Our fathers meant you for me
00:09:11And one southern treaty does not unwrite it
00:09:13I am only here for what was promised first
00:09:15The binding is sealed, Lothra
00:09:17Lay one finger on me
00:09:18And you are not insulting a girl
00:09:19Insulting the whole Black Claw horde
00:09:21Think hard about what that buys you
00:09:22He is drunk in the feast hall
00:09:24With Black Claw girls in his lap
00:09:26By the time he remembers he has a wife
00:09:28I will already have made you mine
00:09:29The warlord is in his cups
00:09:31And you are all alone, girl
00:09:33One sound out of you
00:09:35And I will tell them you invited me in
00:09:38Ravec!
00:09:41Where is your frightened little northern bride?
00:09:44She does not even want you
00:09:45Come remind yourself
00:09:49What real women are
00:09:52I called for Ravec
00:09:53I do not even know why
00:09:55He is not my husband
00:09:56He is my warden
00:09:57But he is the only one I called
00:09:59In here
00:10:00No one will find us
00:10:02No!
00:10:03Ravec!
00:10:05Ravec!
00:10:05Help me!
00:10:09Ravec!
00:10:13Ravec!
00:10:14Please!
00:10:16He is not coming for you
00:10:18You should thank me
00:10:20When I take you
00:10:22I will at least be gentle
00:10:24Which is more than that animal
00:10:26Would ever give you
00:10:31You think the warlord cares
00:10:33What becomes of you tonight
00:10:34He will never love a skybound girl
00:10:37He will feed you to his dragon for this
00:10:39My father commands the king's own guard
00:10:41No southern dog can touch me in this keep
00:10:44And no one is coming down that corridor
00:10:47For a skybound ride
00:10:51You little skybound bitch
00:11:10What is mine I keep
00:11:11What touches it I burn
00:11:22You put a hand
00:11:24On what belongs to a warlord
00:11:28Did you think the dragons would not smell it on you?
00:11:39You all came to watch a binding
00:11:41Watch this instead
00:11:43Look at her
00:11:44The north handed me their last real dragon caller
00:11:47From tonight she is one of mine
00:11:49We do not touch our own women like that
00:11:51We do not go after another man's wife
00:11:54And we do not lie to the man whose dragons are keeping your north standing
00:12:06What are you doing?
00:12:10He reached for a warlord's wife
00:12:12He will carry the answer on his face
00:12:15Where the whole north can read it
00:12:31What is mine I keep
00:12:34The whole north can watch what touching it costs
00:12:39That dragon keeps looking at me like it knows something I do not
00:12:43And honestly at this point
00:12:44So do I
00:12:49So this is where it happens
00:12:50Get it over with
00:12:52Look at the roost little queen
00:12:53That is where it happens
00:12:54Not here
00:12:55A Blacklaw wedding is not sealed in a bed
00:12:57It is sealed in fire
00:13:00At dawn everyone watches the warlord walk through his own dragon's breath
00:13:04If it is real
00:13:05The dragon holds
00:13:06If it is not
00:13:07He burns in front of everyone
00:13:09And she goes free
00:13:10You are going to walk in dragon fire to prove you own me?
00:13:13I am going to walk into dragon fire to prove this is real
00:13:17What you do with that is up to you
00:13:19A whole dying kingdom
00:13:22And the only thing in it worth burning for is you
00:13:24Do not say that
00:13:25You do not get to say that
00:13:27You bought me
00:13:28You may own this cluff on my wrist
00:13:30You will never own the rest of me
00:13:33I will not love you
00:13:38He is going to ravage me now
00:13:40I do not want to lose it like this
00:13:45I do not know what came over me
00:13:48I will take only what you give me tonight
00:13:50Sleep little queen
00:13:51At dawn you watch what your husband walks into for you
00:13:56He is sparing my virginity
00:13:57For now
00:14:40Judge me old friend
00:14:41The claim is true
00:14:43Rayback
00:14:44Rayback
00:14:45No
00:15:06You walked into it
00:15:08For me
00:15:09You would have burned to ash
00:15:11A binding is sealed
00:15:12The horde has seen it
00:15:13That is all that happened here
00:15:15Now you come to me
00:15:17To my bed
00:15:17I will try to be patient
00:15:20I will not beg
00:15:21But I also will not love
00:15:38So he actually did it
00:15:41Walked into the fire for you
00:15:44I honestly did not think you would
00:15:46Not for some scared little northern girl
00:15:49I do not know you
00:15:50Give your name before you speak to me like I am livestock
00:15:57Drusilla
00:15:59My father
00:16:00My father rides at the warlord's right hand
00:16:01The strongest warrior in this horde
00:16:03And before your father sold you north
00:16:05I was the one in Ravik's bed
00:16:07So I know things about him that you do not
00:16:12You do not know how to keep a warlord
00:16:14Little northern bird
00:16:15I had him before you wore that cuff
00:16:18And I will have him after
00:16:19Ask anyone in this keep
00:16:21Whose furs he slept in last winter
00:16:49First night here
00:16:50And my wife will not eat
00:16:52Is this a northern thing
00:16:54Or are you actually trying to starve yourself
00:16:57Starving myself?
00:17:00Skybound children went hungry all winter
00:17:02So I could eat
00:17:03I do not waste food
00:17:07I do not even know what half of this is
00:17:09You have never put southern meat in your mouth
00:17:11My father never let his daughters pass the inner wall
00:17:16We ate what the kitchens cooked
00:17:17And the kitchens cook north
00:17:23Open
00:17:25No wife of mine goes hungry at my own fire
00:17:32There
00:17:34The north did not crumble
00:17:37Your color is up wife
00:17:38I am warm from the fire
00:17:39The fire is behind you
00:17:41I am the one in front
00:18:01He walked into dragon fire in front of everyone
00:18:03To keep my people safe
00:18:04Whatever else he is
00:18:05He did that
00:18:06I can say thank you for that much
00:18:08Even if it kills me
00:18:15We just got married
00:18:16And he is already doing this
00:18:18I knew it
00:18:19I knew exactly what he was
00:18:25Cassia
00:18:26Stop
00:18:27Not one more step
00:18:34Sit
00:18:36Run from her in tears
00:18:37And by morning the whole keep says
00:18:39The north broke in a week
00:18:58Blackclaw law does not let a warlord settle a woman's war
00:19:02This is between the two of you wife
00:19:06Settle it
00:19:07Or sit there and watch it settle itself
00:19:11I warned you the first night
00:19:13Little bird
00:19:14He needed a treaty
00:19:16Not a wife
00:19:17You cannot even hold his eyes
00:19:19I have held the rest of him for years
00:19:21Are you truly going to let her do this, Ravec?
00:19:24She is in your seat, little queen
00:19:26And weeping
00:19:28Has never moved a blackclaw off anything
00:19:39Watch, northern girl
00:19:42This is how you hold a man like him
00:19:45He wants me to break and beg him to stop
00:19:47I will choke on my own tongue
00:19:49Before I give that woman the satisfaction
00:19:52Well, wife
00:19:54The seat is still yours if you want it
00:20:14Your beast is as ill-mannered as your bride
00:20:18Ravec
00:20:19Call it off and let me finish what I came up up to do
00:20:23Eyes on me, Cassia
00:20:25Watch what you keep handing another woman
00:20:27Because you are too proud to take it yourself
00:20:30Enough games
00:20:33Let me give him the rest
00:20:35Where the little bird can watch
00:20:37And learn her place
00:20:39Stop!
00:20:41That is enough!
00:20:42The seat is mine
00:20:44And so is the man
00:20:46Move!
00:20:48You heard the queen
00:20:50Off!
00:20:51I will say this once
00:20:53I am Cassia
00:20:54Ravec's wife
00:20:55Stay away from him
00:20:57Or find out what happens to women who do not
00:21:01He does not want you
00:21:03Your own father sold you off like a lame mask
00:21:06No other man would take
00:21:21He keeps you because you tease and never give
00:21:24The day he tires of your weeping
00:21:25He throws you back over the wall
00:21:27To your dying little kingdom
00:21:28Dragon or no dragon
00:21:29Say one more word about my people
00:21:32And I will give you a matching mark
00:21:34On the other side
00:21:35Your people are already dead little bird
00:21:38They simply have not
00:21:39Lain down yet
00:21:41A dragonless treaty
00:21:43Playing at warlord's wife
00:21:44He will tire of you
00:21:46And I will still be here
00:21:49And your north will still be ash
00:21:51Under our boots
00:21:56You raised this hand at a black claw queen
00:21:58Be glad I only gave it back to you
00:22:01He hit her for touching me
00:22:02Not because she was embarrassing him
00:22:04For touching me
00:22:05I am still thinking about that
00:22:18The black claw do not kill women
00:22:20Be glad
00:22:22Get out of my keep
00:22:24And hope I forget your father's name by morning
00:22:35Come to the war map then
00:22:36Queen
00:22:38The whole horde should see where the queen stands
00:22:41Have you lost your mind?
00:22:43You let that woman pour at you
00:22:44While I sat caged behind your dragons
00:22:47And now you call me to your map
00:22:49As if nothing happened on it
00:22:50Drusilla's father holds my eastern passes
00:22:52So I let her games go on too long
00:22:54Today you ended them for me
00:22:55In front of the whole horde
00:22:57They saw their queen show her teeth
00:22:59I will not pretend I am sorry they did
00:23:01You needed her father's spears
00:23:03So I paid for them in shame
00:23:04In front of your whole horde
00:23:06You know nothing of what shame does
00:23:08To a northern woman
00:23:09I know it could fire
00:23:10Where there were only tears
00:23:11An hour ago
00:23:12You could not hold my eyes
00:23:13Now you have struck a warrior's daughter
00:23:15And bared your teeth at me
00:23:16On my own terrace
00:23:18I want you exactly this way
00:23:19In my bed
00:23:20You are exactly the monster
00:23:22They warned me about
00:23:22When I was little
00:23:30You want a dead bride
00:23:32Say so
00:23:33A blade is faster than a slow death
00:23:35In this frozen pit
00:23:36As a thing you bought
00:23:37Cassia
00:23:38Put it down
00:23:39Why?
00:23:40She was right
00:23:40You do not care if I live or die here
00:23:43So I will spare us both the rest of it
00:23:50Look at my side
00:23:53I walked through dragon fire to take you
00:23:56A man does not burn for a thing he regrets buying
00:23:59I walked into that beast fire in front of the whole horde
00:24:01So your people could sleep knowing the binding was true
00:24:04You think I burned for your father's alliance
00:24:06I burned for you
00:24:08Give me the knife little queen
00:24:09I burned for you once
00:24:10I will walk back into that fire every dawn they ask
00:24:14Before I let you do that to yourself
00:24:30Do not touch me
00:24:33The binding fire is barely cold
00:24:35And you let that woman drape herself across your war terrace
00:24:38You bar your door to me every night
00:24:41Tell me what a man owes a wife who bolts her door
00:24:44I do not want you bedding other women
00:24:47But you will not bed me
00:24:48I am a warlord little queen
00:24:50I fight all day
00:24:51At night I need a woman
00:24:52If that is not you it will be someone else
00:24:54Then perhaps I will find some southern boy
00:24:56And let him have me where you can watch
00:24:58And we will see how the great warlord likes it
00:25:01I would feed into my dragons one piece at a time
00:25:06And put the leash in your hand
00:25:12Then do it Ravec
00:25:14Take me now and be done
00:25:17So I can hate you honestly
00:25:19Go on
00:25:20You will not get gentle from me
00:25:22Gentlemen do not survive the frozen waste
00:25:24But I swore at the binding fire
00:25:26That you come to me on your own feet or not at all
00:25:28And my horde has watched me keep harder oaths than that
00:25:31Though the horde will sing about your hand at that woman's mouth for a year
00:25:35Keep the jealousy
00:25:35I do not want Drusilla
00:25:37Then why parade her in front of me at all
00:25:39If you do not want her
00:25:41I told you
00:25:41I do not do love
00:25:43But I want you
00:25:44Only you
00:25:45More than I know what to do with
00:25:46I told myself I would never feel anything for him
00:25:50I came all the way down here telling myself that
00:25:52I am such a liar
00:25:55All that fury at Drusilla
00:25:58And now you are breathing hard with my hands
00:26:01On you
00:26:02Tell me to stop then
00:26:12No
00:26:12Not on the same stones where she just stood
00:26:15I will not take a place that woman warmed an hour ago
00:26:23Then I wait
00:26:25I told you I could be patient
00:26:27You will learn how patient a warlord can be
00:26:29When he has decided a thing is his
00:26:40That beast has never bowed its head to anyone but me
00:26:43Three times now it has left my side to come to you
00:26:46Lift your hand Cassia
00:26:47Slow
00:26:49Let me see what the North forgot how to do
00:27:08Giant stone
00:27:09What is that?
00:27:10Get it off the bed
00:27:11A hatchling
00:27:14Born on my roost three nights ago
00:27:16Same night that big one came to you
00:27:18I want to see something
00:27:19Do not move
00:27:22It hates me
00:27:23Take it back to its roost before it bites one of us
00:27:25Baby this young does not trust anyone except
00:27:27Who hatched it
00:27:30Not even me
00:27:33Hold still
00:27:34Open your hand
00:27:35Do not reach
00:27:36Let it come to you
00:27:49It stopped
00:27:51Why did it stop?
00:27:53A hundred years the North has not called a beast
00:27:55And a three night wilt crawls into her hand like she hatched it herself
00:27:59The skybound never lost the blood
00:28:01They lost the teachers
00:28:02And no one alive has thought to teach her but me
00:28:06Keep it then
00:28:07It shows
00:28:08Feed it raw meat
00:28:09And keep it off my firks
00:28:20My wife at the hearth
00:28:22I did not take you for a woman who knew which end of a fire to stand at little queen
00:28:26Council so early
00:28:28The bread is not even out of the oven
00:28:29I do not eat in the morning
00:28:31I have a council on the terrace
00:28:32Go to the markets
00:28:34Buy whatever northern women buy
00:28:37You think a string of beads is the whole of what a woman wants?
00:28:51Council waits
00:28:52Keep the keep standing until I am back, wife
00:29:23This I baked with my own hands, husband
00:29:25And I am not carrying it back down those stairs
00:29:29Eat
00:29:31Captains
00:29:33I would have the warlock alone
00:29:35My lord
00:29:35We were mapping the Frostkin raids on the northern passes
00:29:38This is no audience for a southern feast
00:29:39And a bride playing serving girl
00:29:41The Frostkin take the passes
00:29:43Because the north has no dragons to hold them
00:29:46I was born in that north, captain
00:29:48You map my home
00:29:49I will stand here while you do it
00:29:52Five blades drawn
00:29:53And a roost full of dragons
00:29:55Her hand did not shake once
00:30:09You broke a council of war
00:30:12Little queen
00:30:13How will you make it worth the captains?
00:30:16I just sent away hungry
00:30:19There is something I want
00:30:21I do not quite know how to ask a warlord for it
00:30:23No honey and no games
00:30:25Ask it straight and I will answer it straight
00:30:28The passes your captains were mapping
00:30:32Brira is still behind them
00:30:33She is 17 and I left her there
00:30:35Fly me north one day
00:30:37Long enough to put this in her hands
00:30:39And see that she is safe
00:30:40Is that all?
00:30:42No
00:30:42You cannot cage me in the south forever
00:30:45She is 17, she is my sister
00:30:46She is the only thing back there I still care about
00:30:49You came south so your people would not die
00:30:51I have heard nothing of your family
00:30:53Your sister
00:30:54The passes are burning
00:30:55And I am not flying my wife into a Frostkin war for a wooden bird
00:31:24She is the only thing that she is
00:31:28Standing in my room
00:31:29How are you here?
00:31:31I thought I would not see you again before midwinter
00:31:33If ever
00:31:35How did you cross the whole north to the south in a single day?
00:31:40I said I would not take you into danger
00:31:42I never said I would not bring her to you
00:31:44I sent someone at dawn before you even showed up with that bread
00:31:48You flew through burning passes
00:31:50To pull a skybound girl out of a war
00:31:54Why would the monster of the south do that?
00:31:59That is what husbands do
00:32:00And soon you will do what wives do
00:32:10He sent a dragon to bring my sister here before I even ask
00:32:14He is never going to admit what that means
00:32:19Neither am I
00:32:20Not yet
00:32:22Now one night
00:32:23Tell me everything about the south he says I cannot see
00:32:35You are out of the passes and you are safe
00:32:38Ask me for anything you want
00:32:39The warlord all but owns the south
00:32:41The night market under the black moon
00:32:43The one the warlord's people throw past the walls
00:32:46With the fire dancers
00:32:47And the caged sky plane hatchlings
00:32:49I want to dance
00:32:50No
00:32:51I am not allowed past the keep without Ravek
00:32:54Not among strange southern men
00:32:58You said whatever I want
00:33:00I am going
00:33:01If you are too frightened of your husband's sister
00:33:03That is your trouble
00:33:04Coming or not
00:33:12He said not past the keep
00:33:14He did not say anything about the street right outside the keep
00:33:17Technically
00:33:24Shall I hold them back my lord
00:33:25No
00:33:27Follow
00:33:28Keep your distance
00:33:29Ren, Tobin are my wife the whole night
00:33:31One southern hand on her
00:33:32You take the hand
00:33:50Sky and stone
00:33:51Look at all of it
00:33:55Dance with me sister
00:34:02Ren
00:34:02Men, hand off me
00:34:03We are dancing
00:34:04Nothing more
00:34:05The warlord does not know his wife is past the walls
00:34:08I have to send word up
00:34:12Want it back?
00:34:14You will have to reach down a married woman's dress for it
00:34:18We both know what Ravek does to men who put a hand where it does not belong
00:34:29For about five minutes I completely forgot I was sold to a warlord
00:34:32It was the best five minutes I have had in weeks
00:34:44It was the best five minutes I have had in weeks
00:35:09My wife
00:35:09Dancing among strange men under a black moon
00:35:12You have been a bold little queen tonight
00:35:14Brea wanted the fire dancers
00:35:16I was not going to send a girl of seventeen into a horde market alone
00:35:19I know
00:35:20I have had eyes on you both since the first drum
00:35:24Half the market watched my wife dance tonight
00:35:26And not one of them will ever know what that costs to touch
00:35:29Dance with me
00:35:33Warlords do not dance
00:35:34You try and bed me but you won't try and dance with me?
00:35:37One dance, Ravek
00:35:38Please
00:35:45So
00:35:47So
00:35:48So
00:35:58Oh, my God.
00:36:20The Black Moon is up, and the wine is winning. Ren takes you and Bri up before the crowd turns
00:36:25ugly. There is a man down here I still have to see.
00:36:29We just arrived. Stay, then. Watch over us yourself.
00:36:32I have a horde to run, not a festival to enjoy. Listen to me, little queen. When some drunk man
00:36:37puts his hands on you tonight, do not come crying to me to deal with it.
00:36:49Go! Go!
00:37:08Years rotting in the southern wars on the Warlord's order, and my first night home he hands me a market
00:37:12full of pretty things. Let us find some trouble.
00:37:15Careful, my lord. The Warlord hold this market, and the oath you two swore did not survive your exile. He
00:37:21does not know you have come back.
00:37:23Ravek holds this market, so I do as I please in it. And tonight it pleases me to have her.
00:37:31Find the moment and put those two guards to sleep. The night is young, and my sworn brother owes me
00:37:36a homecoming.
00:37:39An empty cup at the Warlord's own festival. He would whip that stallkeeper for it.
00:37:44Christ wine for the lady. On me.
00:37:47You know the Warlord?
00:37:48He and I swore the shield oath together before he ever wore the talk.
00:37:52Stay where you are. The wine will find you faster than you found it.
00:37:57I should not. My husband is somewhere about. One second I want him gone, and the next I am looking
00:38:02for him in a crowd.
00:38:04I need to pick one.
00:38:10One cup. It cannot hurt. Let me only tell my sister where I am.
00:38:14Of course. Tell her you are in good hands.
00:38:17My sworn brother casts me out, then leaves his sweet northern wife unguarded at his own market.
00:38:23By dawn she will not even remember my face.
00:38:39Drink up, Cassia.
00:39:06Off her.
00:39:09Now, I let you keep breathing.
00:39:11When the Horde dragged you out of this keep, you crawl back and touch what is mine.
00:39:17Brother, I did not know she was yours.
00:39:20She looked like any other girl at the market. I swear it!
00:39:24My guards are poisoned and my wife can barely stand up.
00:39:27You knew exactly who she was. You picked her.
00:39:31Stay with her. When this starts, turn her face away.
00:39:37What did he give her?
00:39:38Something he is going to tell me right now.
00:39:58Not this one.
00:39:59You do not need to see this. Close your eyes.
00:40:04The powder. What was in the cup?
00:40:07Dreamleaf. Just under a killing dose.
00:40:09She wakes by morning and remembers nothing.
00:40:12I was only going to take her for a few hours.
00:40:14He drugged my wife to take her.
00:40:17You all heard him say it!
00:40:21You poured it yourself.
00:40:24You held her up while you waited for it to work.
00:40:27We swore the shield oath, Ravek.
00:40:29My shield over your back, yours over mine.
00:40:31You do not kill your sworn brother.
00:40:33You broke the oath when you touched what is mine.
00:40:36Iron holds! Fire proves!
00:40:38The Horde remembers!
00:40:57There was a man.
00:40:59A cup of spiced wine.
00:41:02I told him my husband was somewhere about, and then the floor came up at me.
00:41:06He is dealt with. He will not bother you again. Ever.
00:41:10You left me at that stall.
00:41:12You told me some drunk would put his hands on me, and I should not come crying to you.
00:41:16I did.
00:41:17I rode off and left my gate open for the one man down here who hates me most.
00:41:22That is my fault.
00:41:24Not yours.
00:41:25Who was he to you?
00:41:27You said his name like it cost you something.
00:41:30My sworn brother, once.
00:41:33I exiled him years ago for what he did to women in my villages.
00:41:36I should have killed him then.
00:41:38The shield oath talked me out of it.
00:41:42You paid for that mercy tonight, Drake.
00:41:44Slow.
00:41:45I am not leaving this room tonight.
00:41:47You are gentler with me half as asleep than you ever let the Horde see.
00:41:50Tell one of them that and I will deny it to your face.
00:42:01Your people never taught you because they forgot how themselves.
00:42:04So I am teaching you on mine.
00:42:07Put your hand out.
00:42:25It wants nothing to do with me.
00:42:27Nothing down here does.
00:42:29It can smell that you are scared.
00:42:31A Skyfang will not bow to something that is afraid of it.
00:42:35Stop asking for its permission.
00:42:38You have ridden them since before you could walk.
00:42:41I have a week of being laughed at by your warriors.
00:42:44Then give them something else to talk about.
00:42:49Do not reach for it.
00:42:50Let it come to you.
00:42:51Find what the two of you have in common and hold on to that.
00:43:00I feel heat.
00:43:02A heartbeat.
00:43:03Follow it.
00:43:04Push into it.
00:43:13This one already chose you once.
00:43:16In front of everyone.
00:43:17Start with the easy one.
00:43:25It came to me.
00:43:26I did not pull it.
00:43:28It just came.
00:43:30It is not a leash.
00:43:31It is not a spur.
00:43:33It is a line between you.
00:43:35Pull too hard and it breaks.
00:43:37Hold it.
00:43:37And it holds you back.
00:43:40My whole life the Elders told me our blood went cold.
00:43:43That the dragons closed the door on us and were never coming back.
00:43:46So why is it opening for me here?
00:43:48On your dragons?
00:43:49Your blood never went cold.
00:43:51Your people just lost the ones who knew how to teach it.
00:43:54A gift no one uses goes to sleep.
00:43:56I am waking it up.
00:43:58A hundred years of my people dying.
00:44:01Just because no one taught them.
00:44:03A hundred years your kings married for armies.
00:44:05When they should have been marrying for dragon callers.
00:44:12Yours finally did.
00:44:14Even if he did not know it.
00:44:22No hand on yours today.
00:44:24Just you and it.
00:44:25Hold the thread and do not let it pull you off it.
00:44:31I am not asking.
00:44:33I am the one voice you have not listened to yet.
00:44:35Come hear me out.
00:44:51A hundred years in the North raised no one who could do that.
00:44:54I bought you for a deal I had no idea.
00:44:56I was getting the last caller alive.
00:44:58You did not buy this.
00:44:59You taught it.
00:45:01Those are different things.
00:45:02I am not letting you forget that.
00:45:12My father's banner is coming home.
00:45:14And I am leading it.
00:45:16Three winters is a long time.
00:45:18For a woman to sleep alone.
00:45:20Your father's banner is welcome under my roof.
00:45:22Stand.
00:45:28So this is the Northern Bride.
00:45:30They say she showed up not knowing how to dress herself.
00:45:32And that she cannot walk past a sky fawn without holding someone's hand.
00:45:37People say a lot of things in this keep.
00:45:38Most of them are already out of date.
00:45:47He turns away the second the border needs him.
00:45:50He will keep doing that.
00:45:51Let me show you around while he is busy.
00:45:54The hot springs at dusk.
00:45:56Just us women.
00:45:57At dusk then.
00:45:59I can find it on my own.
00:46:02Come alone.
00:46:04The springs are no place for guards.
00:46:25Come in, little queen.
00:46:27Let us all get a look at what the warlord traded a whole kingdom for.
00:46:30I came for a bath, not a show.
00:46:32Move over or get out.
00:46:36Lay a hand on me and he takes it.
00:46:38You saw what he did to his own sworn brother on the dask.
00:46:40His sworn brother touched something he wanted for himself.
00:46:43That is different.
00:46:44Ravek is at his war table and he cannot hear you.
00:46:47This water is for Blacklaw women.
00:46:49And a treaty and address is not one of us.
00:46:51Take it off her!
00:47:00He will know about this before you even get back down there.
00:47:03Tell him!
00:47:04Tell him his little northern treaty stood naked on the rocks and could not call a single
00:47:09bird to help her!
00:47:21Who's hands?
00:47:25Ravek, it was just women being women.
00:47:28I was in your furs for three winters.
00:47:30She has not been there a single night and everyone knows it!
00:47:33The whole keep-watched-my-fire Skyfin bowed to her this morning.
00:47:39And you, strip the last dragoncaller alive on a rock for fun.
00:47:43I am a war captain's daughter!
00:47:45You cannot cast me out over a treaty bribe!
00:47:49You put hands on my queen in front of half the Horde.
00:47:51The Horde remembers.
00:47:52Your father stays.
00:47:54You leave at first light and you do not come back.
00:47:57If I see your face here again, my dragons will not wait for permission.
00:48:17Out there, she said I was a treaty in a borrowed gown.
00:48:23For a moment on those rocks, I believed her.
00:48:26She said it because it is the cruelest thing she could reach for, not because it is true.
00:48:30Then tell me a true thing.
00:48:32You have bled for me, killed for me, walked into your own dragon's fire for me, and I still do
00:48:37not know the man who did it.
00:48:38My father's own captain put hands on my mother in front of the whole hall.
00:48:42So I opened his throat at the high table.
00:48:44I was still a boy.
00:48:51He laughed when I drew the knife.
00:48:53The Horde follows what it fears.
00:48:55I learned that before I learned to shave.
00:48:58Everyone who has ever gotten close to me wanted something from me.
00:49:00The dragons, the land, or me dead.
00:49:02So I stopped letting people close.
00:49:04It was easier.
00:49:05I came here with nothing.
00:49:06No dragon, no army, nothing at all.
00:49:09I came because I had no other choice.
00:49:12And somewhere in the middle of it, I stopped just getting through each day.
00:49:15That is the first time anyone has put a hand on that mark and not pulled it back.
00:49:25At dawn after the binding, I walked into my own dragon's fire to seal the claim and came out burned
00:49:30down my whole left side.
00:49:33I swore in that fire, I would not take you until you came to me wanting it.
00:49:38And the Horde let a warlord wait?
00:49:40They watched my dragon bow past me to you instead.
00:49:42They have been afraid of my wife ever since.
00:49:46So am I a little.
00:49:48Afraid of what?
00:49:49I have nowhere in the wide world but the keep of the man who bought me.
00:49:54Afraid I signed a deal and ended up with someone I would burn everything down for.
00:49:59That was not the plan.
00:50:01I do not like wanting things I cannot control.
00:50:03Then stop trying to rule it.
00:50:05You have bled for me.
00:50:08Put your cloak on me and waited at a fire that no one else in your Horde would.
00:50:13You have done everything except the one thing you keep saying no to.
00:50:18Say it plain.
00:50:19I am done guessing at what you want.
00:50:36Why did you bring me here?
00:50:38This is where they held me down.
00:50:40I know what happened in this water.
00:50:42After tonight this is the place you chose me.
00:50:44They do not get to keep it.
00:50:46Last chance to push me away.
00:50:48After this there is no deal between us anymore.
00:50:51Just this.
00:50:52I have been turning away from you for months.
00:50:54I am done with that.
00:50:56Do not make me ask twice.
00:50:57Ask me then.
00:50:59Out loud.
00:51:00I want to hear you actually say it.
00:51:02Please.
00:51:03I want you.
00:51:04All of you.
00:51:05Not just the warlord.
00:51:06Now.
00:51:20Say it.
00:51:22The thing you will not say in your home.
00:51:25Mine.
00:51:25Not the treaties.
00:51:27Not the North's.
00:51:28Mine.
00:51:35Your sister carved this.
00:51:36Bria.
00:51:38The morning my father sold me.
00:51:40So the sky would know where I was wherever you took me.
00:51:45She said a skybound girl should never be somewhere a bird cannot find her.
00:51:49She was right.
00:51:52By summer every sky thing alive will know exactly where you are.
00:51:56A few weeks ago a man like you would have frightened me out of my skin.
00:52:01Now I cannot find the part of me that was afraid.
00:52:26What is it?
00:52:28Just say it.
00:52:29Stop trying to protect me from it.
00:52:31Frostkin banners on the northern passes.
00:52:34Boren.
00:52:34Coming straight for the border.
00:52:36He thinks the North has no dragons and that I have gone soft.
00:52:40Is he wrong about the second part?
00:52:43He is wrong about what it makes me.
00:52:48Get up little queen.
00:52:50It is time everyone met you before Boren does.
00:53:06Coming afterwards.
00:53:30You determined for me.
00:53:31They did not see other minions when the peacemies were killed.
00:53:32But.
00:53:33It was a double queen.
00:53:35No chain, no caller. Bring it down and no one on this wall will ever call you dragonless again.
00:53:52I am the last of the North that can hear you. Come down.
00:54:10Every dragon on this roof knows her now. The whole horde can see it.
00:54:30The North finally sent me something worth riding for!
00:54:43Boren crossed the Gree Pass at dawn. 300 lances, two frost sky widths. He is moving for the Neck.
00:54:49He wants the Neck before the Thor. If he takes it, the whole North ride is divided and he can
00:54:54pick us apart.
00:54:56I ride. You stay.
00:54:58And Boren? He will take the Neck and then he will ride south for you.
00:55:03While I am out there, you run the keep. You do not cross the outer wall. The dragons will know.
00:55:08If Boren takes you, I will not stop until there is nothing left of him. You do not want to
00:55:13see what that looks like.
00:55:18Do not push the dragons. They will come to you, but they cannot carry you yet.
00:55:49He told you to stay.
00:55:54He told the Cuff to hold me.
00:55:59I am not testing them. I am asking.
00:56:04What are you doing?
00:56:06He said the harness is not a chain.
00:56:09A real caller does not tell the dragon to obey. She asks it to choose.
00:56:19There are two of them out there now.
00:56:21I know.
00:56:40Open the gate.
00:56:41The warlord's order, my lady. The inner face...
00:56:44The warlord's order was for the Cuff. He did not give an order...
00:56:49...to the gate.
00:57:03He is going to be furious.
00:57:04He is going to be alive for it.
00:57:07That is what matters.
00:57:08Last time I crossed a gate without his permission, he took my horse.
00:57:12He will not take yours.
00:57:14How do you know?
00:57:15Because you are doing this for me.
00:57:17He will know that.
00:57:25There are Froskin Scouts in these hills.
00:57:28Revax Outriders cleared them.
00:57:30Two days ago, but Boring will have sent more.
00:57:33He knows we left the keep.
00:57:34Somebody at that gate will send a bird.
00:57:36Then we ride faster than the bird.
00:57:43It is not flying.
00:57:47It is circling.
00:57:49Is that bad?
00:57:51It circles when it is watching something it cannot reach yet.
00:58:01Something on the left ridge.
00:58:03I do not see.
00:58:26The warlord of the Black Clo is two hours north of here running our false trail.
00:58:30He is very fast and he is going the wrong direction.
00:58:33Lay down.
00:58:33Tell Boren he sent a captain to take a princess and he should have sent a warlord.
00:58:39We have two Frost Sky Fangs in these hills, cold and loaded.
00:58:44Call yours off or we loose them.
00:58:57Not today. I am sorry.
00:59:20Ren and Tobin were two hours behind us. They will have found the gate guards.
00:59:23They will go north and find Revec before they come south for me.
00:59:26That was the plan.
00:59:28That was the plan.
00:59:30I am not bait by accident.
00:59:32I am not bait by accident.
00:59:32Ravak cannot reach Boren without riding into those dragons.
00:59:36Boren needs leverage to hold him back.
00:59:39I am the leverage.
00:59:40While he has me, Ravak has to stop.
00:59:45You walked out of the keep to get captured.
00:59:48I walked out because he rode into a trap.
00:59:52Boren's fake trail.
00:59:53The move at the neck, all of it was to pull him forward.
00:59:56If I stay in the keep, he charges through and dies.
00:59:59If I am here, he stops.
01:00:02I need him to think.
01:00:12I have heard two things about the new Black Clo wife.
01:00:15That she is very beautiful.
01:00:16And that no Skybound has called a dragon in a hundred years.
01:00:20I see both are true.
01:00:21The second one will not be true much longer.
01:00:24The Warlord tell you that?
01:00:25The Warlord showed me.
01:00:28Ravak teaches his wife party tricks the way you teach a child.
01:00:31The calling is not a trick.
01:00:33A real caller is born that way.
01:00:35And the North has not had one in a hundred years.
01:00:38You are a princess from a dying line in a dying kingdom.
01:00:41And your husband knows it.
01:00:43He bought you to stop the Skybound from hitting his border.
01:00:46That is it.
01:00:47Then why are you using me to stop him?
01:00:49A man who bought his wife just to hold a border
01:00:52does not ride two days ahead of his whole army when she goes missing.
01:00:55You know exactly what he is coming to do.
01:00:58You need me between you and him.
01:01:01Send him a message.
01:01:03He pulls back to his border.
01:01:05He ends the Skybound Alliance.
01:01:07And you go home.
01:01:08Everyone walks away.
01:01:09And if I say no?
01:01:18Then I send him a different kind of message.
01:01:29The gate guard at the keep says she walked out four hours before we turn back.
01:01:33The Skyfling went with her.
01:01:34She was not taken, Lord.
01:01:36She walked through that gate by choice.
01:01:38I know.
01:01:40Then why?
01:01:41Because she knew Boren's fake trail would pull me north before I realized she was gone.
01:01:47She knew I would be two hours past her before I turned around.
01:01:51She did this so I would stop.
01:01:52My wife walked out of the keep and let herself get taken so I would not ride into those dragons
01:01:56without a plan.
01:01:57Is that good or bad, Lord?
01:02:01It is exactly what I would have done.
01:02:03Now we do what I do next.
01:02:16He is there.
01:02:20You see him?
01:02:22I see him.
01:02:24Lord Boren is about to talk to him.
01:02:26You stand here where he can see you and hear the terms.
01:02:36Ravec of the Black Claw!
01:02:38I have your wife.
01:02:40And I have two Frost Scythanes loaded and waiting.
01:02:43You have until the sun clears the ridge to send your horde back and give me the neck.
01:02:48Or I send back pieces.
01:02:50Do not.
01:02:51He will ride up that hill within both those dragons and he will not stop.
01:02:56That is the point.
01:02:58I need to know if he still will.
01:03:13Far enough!
01:03:15You see her?
01:03:17I see her.
01:03:18Then you know what this costs you.
01:03:21Dissolve the Skybound Alliance and pull back to your border.
01:03:24You have until midday.
01:03:26You brought two Frost Skyfangs into my passes, blocked my road, and took my wife.
01:03:32Midday is generous.
01:03:34Midday!
01:03:35Or I take the hand she let you hold!
01:03:41Eek!
01:03:42Eek!
01:03:43Eek!
01:03:46Eek!
01:03:48Eek!
01:03:49Eek!
01:03:50Eek!
01:03:51Eek!
01:03:51Eek!
01:03:52Eek!
01:03:54Eek!
01:03:56Eek!
01:03:59He is going to ride that camp apart!
01:04:02Not until he has a way through the frost sky fits, he will wait for one.
01:04:07And if no way comes?
01:04:10Then I make one.
01:04:25Cassia!
01:04:25Be quiet.
01:04:39The frost sky veins are chained on the east ledge.
01:04:42Two callers inside the upper camp.
01:04:44If you breach the gate, the callers loose, the dragons before you are through it.
01:04:49Take the callers first and the frost sky flinks.
01:04:51Go wild inside a camp full of our people.
01:04:54We do not breach the gate.
01:04:56We make Borin open it.
01:04:59Twelve riders, ravine behind the east ledge.
01:05:02Wait until dark.
01:05:03Nobody makes a sound until I am inside.
01:05:05How do you get inside, Lord?
01:05:07He will not open that gate unless you give him what he wants.
01:05:10He will open it to watch me kneel.
01:05:17Lord, if it goes wrong in there...
01:05:19It will not go wrong.
01:05:20Pick your twelve.
01:05:40Weapons.
01:05:43Lord Borin will have the warlord's words spoken aloud in front of his captains.
01:05:47Not written.
01:05:47Spoken.
01:05:49Take me to him.
01:06:05He is counting the chains.
01:06:23Say it out loud.
01:06:25The Black Claw ends its deal with the Skybound.
01:06:29Pulls back south of the Gripass and gives me the neck.
01:06:33Say it!
01:06:34Do you know what the binding cost me?
01:06:35Heh.
01:06:36A burn across your ribs.
01:06:38I heard.
01:06:39I walked into that fire not knowing if my dragon would hold.
01:06:42I have been in plenty of battles.
01:06:44I always knew the odds going in.
01:06:47That fire I had nothing.
01:06:48It is the only time I have ever been actually scared.
01:06:58I will not say those words.
01:07:02Get to the ledge!
01:07:24Run!
01:07:25Not.
01:07:25Yet.
01:07:42Whatever comes out of that tent...
01:07:45Stay behind me.
01:08:07Why are you left us?
01:08:09Why are you left us?
01:08:14Wait.
01:08:15Let's do this.
01:08:15How are you left us?
01:08:16Kaseia!
01:08:17The Caller is still.
01:08:18I know.
01:08:19Why are you left us?
01:08:19He is not the only voice you know.
01:08:22I am here!
01:08:23Leave him!
01:08:25Come to me!
01:08:27Don't listen to her!
01:08:29Don't listen to her!
01:08:37No!
01:08:40Come back!
01:09:01That is not possible. Those dragons belong to a caller. They cannot just...
01:09:06They could not before. Things change. I knew she could do it.
01:09:20You were going to kneel. For him.
01:09:23I was going to say the words and then tear the camp apart once you were clear.
01:09:28The kneeling was just to get the gate open.
01:09:31You told him. The fire was the only thing that frightened you.
01:09:35I lied. You scared me. Every day since the temple. I could walk into that fire again. I could not
01:09:41lose you.
01:09:41Say the rest of it.
01:09:42I love you. I have loved you since you put your bare hand on that dragon and did not pull
01:09:46back. Tell me you heard that.
01:09:48I heard you!
01:09:57You are always like the worst you wanted.
01:10:01Meanwhile, the people of God was playing.
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