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