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This one caught me off guard. A northern princess, sold to a dragon-riding warlord to save her people. She expects cruelty. She expects fear. She doesn't expect to stay.
She's sent to the Blackclaw horde as a bride — a sacrifice to keep the peace. He's the warlord everyone fears, the man who rides a dragon and answers to no one. She's terrified of him. She's supposed to be. But somewhere between the fear and the uncertainty, she starts to see him differently. And he starts to see her as more than just a pawn in someone else's game.
**✨ What got me:**
She wasn't just dragged into this — she walked in knowing it was the only way to save her people. And that choice changed everything.
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📝Synopsis:
This one caught me off guard. A northern princess, sold to a dragon-riding warlord to save her people. She expects cruelty. She expects fear. She doesn't expect to stay.
She's sent to the Blackclaw horde as a bride — a sacrifice to keep the peace. He's the warlord everyone fears, the man who rides a dragon and answers to no one. She's terrified of him. She's supposed to be. But somewhere between the fear and the uncertainty, she starts to see him differently. And he starts to see her as more than just a pawn in someone else's game.
**✨ What got me:**
She wasn't just dragged into this — she walked in knowing it was the only way to save her people. And that choice changed everything.
💎Genre:Fantasy, Romance, Dragon, Forced Marriage, Kingdom
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00:04I
00:04Pull back and do not look away. It smells fear and it smells lies. Show it neither
00:13Then we will both find out what you are made of
00:30The Beast knows its Queen. Let the North remember it
00:36I am a person Raybeck not something you show off to your men you humiliated me out there
00:55Hello little Queen
01:00Oh
01:20Every girl in the North dreams of her binding day none of them dream of the cage
01:24My people used to be the best dragon callers alive
01:27We have not called one in a hundred years a sky people with no dragons is just prey so my
01:32father sells the only thing he has left
01:34me
01:49Skybound I came for what is promised
02:02You belong to me now
02:11Get up and dress the black claw warlord rides for our gate at dusk and you will be waiting at
02:16the binding altar to take him as your husband
02:18A husband you have kept me behind these walls my whole life
02:21I have never even spoken to a man who was not my guard
02:24You will speak to this one tonight and bear his children after
02:28Raybeck of the black claw his dragons are the only thing between us and the frost and he wants you
02:33for them
02:33So my blood buys your dragons and you call it a treaty
02:37I am trading one girl to keep ten thousand people alive say no and the black claw rind south the
02:43Froskin come down off that ridge and everyone in this keep is dead by spring
02:46I am not the answer to your problems
02:49Find another way then walk out that door and tell ten thousand people yourself
02:52I will not be sold to a black claw warlord to pay for your war find another way
02:57Cassia you will not shame me in front of the whole keep
03:18So this is the dragonless princess they are selling me they told me the north had nothing left worth taking
03:24they were wrong
03:25Let go of me. I have not been given to you yet
03:28You were mine the day your father ran out of options tonight is just the part with witnesses soft hand
03:37A whole people who forgot how to hold their own beasts
03:39No wonder the Froskin are sharpening their knives
03:41We were calling dragons out of the sky while your horde was still eating its dead
03:45Do not lecture me on what we lost
03:48They told me you were timid timid does not survive my keep your wrist little queen
03:59What is this my cuff and yours came out of the same iron after tonight?
04:04There is no one making it the north gave you away little queen. I keep what the north gives
04:11You are shaking
04:13Good a dragon can smell a coward and a coward it will not carry be afraid
04:18But do not be a coward my hands shake because your hand is on me
04:22Do not mistake it for anything you would want to feel give it time
04:25You will stop hating me when you realize I am the only one keeping your people alive
04:30You can lock iron on me, but you cannot make me want it
04:47Every one of them lives or dies on what I say next
04:51No one walks out of a door with all of that on the other side of it
05:01I will take you
05:03Not for my father for her and every one of them out there on the ice you give your word
05:09standing up like an equal
05:11On your knees you will thank the warlord for saving this keep with your worthless hands
05:20She kneels to me not for you and not because you put her there
05:28She is mine now old man remember that the next time you raise your hand to her
05:32They call him a monster
05:34Right now. He is the only wall between me and a war that eats children and tonight. I will not
05:40just touch you
05:42I will ruin you and you will ask me for more
05:50They say the Blackcloth do not bed their brides they break them and his dragons sleep at the foot of
05:55bed and watch
05:55Enough she will be presentable. She will be obedient and she will hold that alliance together
06:03That is the end of it
06:05leave us
06:08I will have a moment with my bride custom keeps the warlord and the bride apart until the altar. I
06:13do not ask twice
06:15Tonight everyone will say I forced a scared girl into this
06:19I want them to look at you and see something different. I want them to see you chose me not
06:24that your father sold you
06:31It is too tight it is meant to be uncomfortable every black claw bride
06:36Wears one so nobody asks who she belongs to only I take it off
06:40Wear it to the altar. Let them all see it before you say my name
07:00Aaaaahhhh
07:020
07:23Aaaaaaaahhhh
07:26Their scout will not report what he saw
07:30What happens tonight is yours to give
07:32I do not take it
07:35Do you take each other
07:37Through war and peace
07:39Until the end
07:40Say the words
07:41Loud enough for the whole north to hear
07:44By sky and by iron
07:46I bind my life to his
07:48Whatever comes for him
07:49Gets through me first
07:53Our people do not deserve death
07:55I am doing this for her
07:57For all the innocents in the north
07:59I am not doing this for him
08:02Then seal it
08:08No one has ever kissed you
08:10I can tell
08:10Tonight gives me everything
08:12But I am taking this right now
08:14In front of all of them
08:24I always believed our fathers would give you to me
08:27Then a southern brute rides in and takes you in an afternoon
08:30Let go of me
08:35A skybound altar makes a wife
08:38The black claw need more than words
08:41Bring him in
08:46The proving
08:47He puts her in front of the dragon
08:50Everyone watches to see if it bows or bites
08:52No one from the north has ever passed it
08:53It will not bow to a sky girl with no gift in her blood
08:56He is going to get her killed in front of her own mother
08:58Do not pull back and do not look away
09:01It smells fear and it smells lies
09:03Show it neither
09:06You will burn my arm off
09:08Then we will both find out what you are made of
09:25Beast knows its queen
09:27Let the north remember it
09:35I am a person Raybeck
09:38Not something you show off to your men
09:41You humiliated me out there
09:49Hello little queen
09:55Lothra you should not be in here
09:57Skybound blood should stay with skybound blood
09:59Our fathers meant you for me
10:00And one southern treaty does not unwrite it
10:02I am only here for what was promised first
10:04The binding is sealed Lothra
10:06Lay one finger on me and you are not insulting a girl
10:08Insulting the whole Blackclow horde
10:10Think hard about what that buys you
10:12He is drunk in the feast hall with Blackclow girls in his lap
10:15By the time he remembers he has a wife
10:17I will already have made you mine
10:19The warlord is in his cups and you are all alone girl
10:22One sound out of you and I will tell them you invited me in
10:27Raybeck!
10:31Where is your frightened little northern bride?
10:33She does not even want you
10:34Come remind yourself
10:38What real women are
10:41I called for Raybeck
10:43I do not even know why
10:44He is not my husband
10:45He is my warden
10:46But he is the only one I called
10:48In here
10:49No one will find us
10:51No!
10:53Raybeck!
10:54Raybeck!
10:54Help me!
11:02Raybeck!
11:03Please!
11:05He is not coming for you
11:07You should thank me
11:09When I take you
11:11I will at least be gentle
11:13Which is more than that animal would ever give you
11:20You think the warlord cares what becomes of you tonight
11:23He will never love a skybound girl
11:26He will feed you to his dragon for this
11:28My father commands the king's own guard
11:30No southern dog can touch me in this keep
11:33And no one is coming down that corridor for a skybound bride
11:40You little skybound bitch!
11:59What is mine I keep
12:01What touches it I burn
12:11You put a hand on what belongs to a warlord
12:16Did you think the dragons would not smell it on you?
12:27You all came to watch a binding
12:29Watch this instead
12:32Look at her
12:33The North handed me their last real dragon caller
12:36From tonight she is one of mine
12:38We do not touch our own women like that
12:40We do not go after another man's wife
12:43And we do not lie to the man whose dragons are keeping your North standing
12:55What are you doing?
12:59He reached for a warlord's wife
13:02He will carry the answer on his face
13:04Where the whole North can read it
13:20What is mine I keep
13:23The whole North can watch what touching it costs
13:28That dragon keeps looking at me like it knows something I do not
13:32And honestly at this point
13:33So do I
13:37So this is where it happens
13:39Get it over with
13:40Look at the roost little queen
13:42That is where it happens
13:43Not here
13:43A Blacklaw wedding is not sealed in a bed
13:46It is sealed in fire
13:49At dawn everyone watches the warlord walk through his own dragon's breath
13:53If it is real
13:54The dragon holds
13:55If it is not
13:56He burns in front of everyone and she goes free
13:59You are going to walk in dragon fire to prove you own me?
14:02I am going to walk into dragon fire to prove this is real
14:06What you do with that is up to you
14:08A whole dying kingdom
14:10And the only thing in it worth burning for is you
14:12Do not say that
14:14You do not get to say that
14:16You bought me
14:17You may own this cluff on my wrist
14:19You will never own the rest of me
14:21I will not love you
14:26He is going to ravage me now
14:29I don't want to lose it like this
14:34I do not know what came over me
14:36I will take only what you give me tonight
14:38Sleep little queen
14:39At dawn you watch what your husband walks into for you
14:44He is sparing my virginity
14:46For now
14:59Im ghanting
15:28Judge me, old friend.
15:30The claim is true.
15:33Ravak, Ravak, no.
15:55You walked into it for me.
15:57You would have burned to ash.
15:59A binding is sealed.
16:01The Horde has seen it.
16:02That is all that happened here.
16:04Now you come to me, to my bed.
16:06I will try to be patient.
16:08I will not beg, but I also will not love.
16:27So he actually did it.
16:29Walked into the fire for you.
16:33I honestly did not think you would.
16:35Not for some scared little northern girl.
16:37I do not know you.
16:39Give your name before you speak to me like I am livestock.
16:46Drusilla.
16:47My father rides at the warlord's right hand, the strongest warrior in this horde.
16:51And before your father sold you north, I was the one in Ravak's bed.
16:56So I know things about him that you do not.
17:00You do not know how to keep a warlord, little northern bird.
17:04I had him before you wore that cuff, and I will have him after.
17:07Ask anyone in this keep whose furs he slept in last winter.
17:37First night here, and my wife will not eat.
17:41Is this a northern thing, or are you actually trying to starve yourself?
17:46Starving myself?
17:48Skybound children went hungry all winter so I could eat.
17:51I do not waste food.
17:55I do not even know what half of this is.
17:58You have never put southern meat in your mouth.
18:00My father never let his daughters pass the inner wall.
18:04We ate what the kitchens cooked, and the kitchens cook north.
18:11Open.
18:13No wife of mine goes hungry at my own fire.
18:21There.
18:23The north did not crumble.
18:25Your color is up, wife.
18:26I am warm from the fire.
18:28The fire is behind you.
18:29I am the one in front.
18:49He walked into dragon fire in front of everyone to keep my people safe.
18:53Whatever else he is, he did that.
18:55I can say thank you for that much, even if it kills me.
19:03We just got married, and he is already doing this.
19:06I knew it.
19:08I knew exactly what he was.
19:14Cassia, stop.
19:15Not one more step.
19:22Sit.
19:24Run from her in tears, and by morning the whole keep says the north broke in a week.
19:30We will.
19:34We will.
19:37We will.
19:37We will.
19:38We will.
19:38You.
19:45Oh, no.
20:17Every girl in the north dreams of her binding day.
20:19None of them dream of the cage.
20:21My people used to be the best dragon callers alive.
20:24We have not called one in a hundred years.
20:26A sky people with no dragons is just prey.
20:28So my father sells the only thing he has left.
20:31Me.
20:45Skybound.
20:46I came for what is promised.
20:59You belong to me now.
21:08Get up and dress.
21:09The Blackclaw warlord rides for our gate at dusk and you will be waiting at the binding altar to take
21:14him as your husband.
21:15A husband?
21:16You have kept me behind these walls my whole life.
21:18I have never even spoken to a man who was not my guard.
21:20You will speak to this one tonight and bear his children after.
21:24Ravec of the Blackclaw.
21:26His dragons are the only thing between us and the Froskin.
21:29And he wants you for them.
21:30So my blood buys your dragons and you call it a treaty.
21:33I am trading one girl to keep ten thousand people alive.
21:37Say no.
21:38And the Blackclaw rides south.
21:39The Froskin come down off that ridge.
21:41And everyone in this keep is dead by spring.
21:43I am not the answer to your problem.
21:45Find another way.
21:46Then walk out that door and tell ten thousand people yourself.
21:49I will not be sold to a Blackclaw warlord to pay for your war.
21:52Find another way.
21:54Cassia, you will not shame me in front of the whole keep.
22:14So, this is the Dragonless Princess.
22:17They are selling me.
22:18They told me the North had nothing left worth taking.
22:21They were wrong.
22:22Let go of me.
22:24I have not been given to you yet.
22:25You were mine the day your father ran out of options.
22:29Tonight is just the part with witnesses.
22:31Soft hand.
22:33A whole people who forgot how to hold their own beasts.
22:36No wonder the Froskin are sharpening their knives.
22:38We were calling dragons out of the sky while your horde was still eating its dead.
22:42Do not lecture me on what we lost.
22:45They told me you were timid.
22:47Timid does not survive my keep.
22:49Your wrist, little queen.
22:56What is this?
22:57My cuff and yours came out of the same iron.
23:00After tonight, there is no one making it.
23:02The North gave you away, little queen.
23:04I keep what the North gives.
23:08You are shaking.
23:10Good.
23:11A dragon can smell a coward.
23:12And a coward it will not carry.
23:14Be afraid.
23:14But do not be a coward.
23:16My hands shake because your hand is on me.
23:18Do not mistake it for anything you would want to feel.
23:21Give it time.
23:22You will stop hating me.
23:23When you realize I am the only one keeping your people alive.
23:26You can lock iron on me.
23:28But you cannot make me want it.
23:44Every one of them lives or dies on what I say next.
23:48No one walks out of a door with all of that on the other side of it.
23:58I will take you.
24:00Not for my father.
24:01For her.
24:02And every one of them out there on the ice.
24:05You give your word standing up like an equal.
24:07On your knees.
24:09You will thank the warlord for saving this keep with your worthless hand.
24:16She kneels to me.
24:17Not for you.
24:18And not because you put her there.
24:24She is mine now, old man.
24:26Remember that the next time you raise your hand to her.
24:28They call him a monster.
24:30Right now he is the only wall between me and a war that eats children.
24:35And tonight I will not just touch you.
24:38I will ruin you.
24:39And you will ask me for more.
24:46They say the Blackcloth do not bed their brides.
24:49They break them.
24:50And his dragons sleep at the foot of bed and watch.
24:52Enough.
24:53She will be presentable.
24:55She will be obedient.
24:56And she will hold that alliance together.
25:00That is the end of it.
25:02Leave us.
25:04I will have a moment with my bride.
25:06Custom keeps the warlord and the bride apart until the altar.
25:10I do not ask twice.
25:11Tonight everyone will say I forced a scared girl into this.
25:15I want them to look at you and see something different.
25:18I want them to see you chose me.
25:20Not that your father sold you.
25:28It is too tight.
25:29It is meant to be uncomfortable.
25:31Every Blackcloth bride wears one so nobody asks who she belongs to.
25:35Only I take it off.
25:37Wear it to the altar.
25:39Let them all see it before you say my name.
25:45Let them all see you.
26:18You are bleeding.
26:19Frostkin blood, not mine.
26:23Their scout will not report what he saw.
26:27What happens tonight is yours to give.
26:29I do not take it.
26:32Do you take each other through war and peace until the end?
26:37Say the words.
26:39Loud enough for the whole North to hear.
26:41By sky and by iron, I bind my life to his.
26:45Whatever comes for him gets through me first.
26:50Our people do not deserve death.
26:52I am doing this for her.
26:54For all the innocents in the North.
26:55I am not doing this for him.
26:58Then seal it!
27:04No one has ever kissed you.
27:07I can tell.
27:08Tonight gives me everything.
27:09But I am taking this right now.
27:10In front of all of them!
27:12I am taking this right now in front of all of them!
27:13In front of all of them!
27:21I always believed our fathers would give you to me.
27:24Then a southern brute rides in and takes you in an afternoon.
27:26Let go of me!
27:32A sky-bound altar makes a wife.
27:35The Black Claw need more than words.
27:38Bring him in!
27:43The Proving.
27:44He puts her in front of the dragon.
27:46Everyone watches to see if it bows or bites.
27:49No one from the North has ever passed it.
27:50It will not bow to a sky girl with no gift in her blood.
27:53He is going to get her killed in front of her own mother.
27:55Do not pull back and do not look away.
27:58It smells fear and it smells lies.
28:00Show it neither.
28:02You will burn my arm off.
28:05Then we will both find out what you are made of.
28:22Beast knows its queen!
28:24Let the North remember it!
28:33I am a person, Raybeck.
28:35Not something you show off to your men.
28:38You humiliated me out there.
28:46Hello, little queen.
28:52Lothra, you should not be in here.
28:53Skybound Blood should stay with Skybound Blood.
28:56Our fathers meant you for me.
28:57And one southern treaty does not unwrite it.
28:59I am only here for what was promised first.
29:01The binding is sealed, Lothra.
29:02Lay one finger on me and you are not insulting a girl,
29:05insulting the whole Blackclow horde.
29:07Think hard about what that buys you.
29:08He is drunk in the feast hall with Blackclow girls in his lap.
29:12By the time he remembers he has a wife,
29:14I will already have made you mine.
29:16The warlord is in his cups and you are all alone, girl.
29:19One sound out of you and I will tell them you invited me in.
29:24Raybeck!
29:27Where is your frightened little northern bride?
29:30She does not even want you.
29:32Come remind yourself.
29:35What real women are.
29:38I called for Raybeck.
29:39I do not even know why.
29:41He is not my husband.
29:42He is my warden.
29:43But he is the only one I called.
29:45In here, no one will find us.
29:48No!
29:49Raybeck!
29:50Raybeck!
29:51Help me!
29:59Raybeck!
30:00Please!
30:02He is not coming for you.
30:05You should thank me.
30:06When I take you,
30:08I will at least be gentle,
30:10which is more than that animal would ever give you.
30:13But...
30:14Ah!
30:15Ah!
30:17You think the warlord cares what becomes of you tonight.
30:20He will never love a skybound girl.
30:23He will feed you to his dragon for this.
30:25My father commands the king's own guard.
30:27No southern dog can touch me in this keep.
30:30And no one is coming down that corridor for a skybound ride.
30:35Ah!
30:36Ah!
30:37Ah!
30:37Ah!
30:38You little skybound bitch!
30:39Ah!
30:40Ah!
30:41Ah!
30:41Ah!
30:41Ah!
30:42Ah!
30:42Ah!
30:42Ah!
30:42Ah!
30:43Ah!
30:44Ah!
30:45Ah!
30:56What is mine I keep?
30:58What touches it I burn.
31:02Right.
31:08You put a hand on what belongs to a warlord.
31:12What?
31:13Did you think the dragons would not smell it on you?
31:17Ah!
31:19Ah!
31:21Ah!
31:21Ah!
31:22Ah!
31:23Ah!
31:23Ah!
31:24Ah!
31:25Ah!
31:26Ah!
31:28Ah!
31:29Ah!
31:31Ah!
31:33Ah!
31:35Ah!
31:49Ah!
31:56Ah!
31:57Wow.
32:01Ah!
32:02Ah!
32:04Ah!
32:05Ah!
32:17what is mine i keep the whole north can watch what touching it costs
32:25that dragon keeps looking at me like it knows something i do not
32:28and honestly at this point so do i
32:34so this is where it happens get it over with look at the roost little queen that is where it
32:39happens
32:39not here a blacklaw wedding is not sealed in a bed it is sealed in fire at dawn everyone watches
32:47the warlord walk through his own dragon's breath if it is real the dragon holds if it is not he
32:53burns in front of everyone and she goes free you are going to walk in dragon fire to prove you
32:58own
32:58me i am going to walk into dragon fire to prove this is real what you do with that is
33:04up to you
33:05a whole dying kingdom and the only thing in it worth burning for is you do not say that you
33:11do
33:11not get to say that you bought me you may own this cluff on my wrist you will never own
33:17the rest of me
33:18i will not love you
33:23he's going to ravage me now i don't want to lose it like this
33:31i do not know what came over me
33:33i will take only what you give me tonight sleep little queen
33:36at dawn you watch what your husband walks into for you
33:41he's sparing my virginity for now
33:44he's sparing my virginity for now
34:07he's sparing my virginity for now
34:25Judge me, old friend.
34:27The claim is true.
34:29Raven.
34:30Raven, no.
34:52You walked into it for me.
34:54You would have burned to ash.
34:56A binding is sealed.
34:57The Horde has seen it.
34:59That is all that happened here.
35:01Now you come to me, to my bed.
35:03I will try to be patient.
35:05I will not beg, but I also will not love.
35:24So he actually did it.
35:26Walked into the fire for you.
35:29I honestly did not think you would.
35:32Not for some scared little northern girl.
35:34I do not know you.
35:35Give your name before you speak to me like I am livestock.
35:39Ha ha ha ha ha!
35:42Drusilla.
35:44My father rides at the Warlord's right hand, the strongest warrior in this Horde.
35:48And before your father sold you north, I was the one in Ravik's bed.
35:52So I know things about him that you do not.
35:57You do not know how to keep a Warlord, little northern bird.
36:01I had him before you wore that cuff, and I will have him after.
36:04Ask anyone in this keep whose furs he slept in last winter.
36:34First night here, and my wife will not eat.
36:37Is this a northern thing, or are you actually trying to starve yourself?
36:42Starving myself?
36:44Skybound children went hungry all winter so I could eat.
36:48I do not waste food.
36:52I do not even know what half of this is.
36:54You have never put southern meat in your mouth.
36:57My father never let his daughters pass the inner wall.
37:01We ate what the kitchens cooked, and the kitchens cook north.
37:08Open.
37:10No wife of mine goes hungry at my own fire.
37:17There.
37:19The north did not crumble.
37:22Your color is up, wife.
37:23I am warm from the fire.
37:24The fire is behind you.
37:26I am the one in front.
37:45He walked into dragon fire in front of everyone to keep my people safe.
37:49Whatever else he is, he did that.
37:51I can say thank you for that much, even if it kills me.
38:00We just got married, and he is already doing this.
38:03I knew it.
38:04I knew exactly what he was.
38:09Cassia.
38:11Stop.
38:12Not one more step.
38:19Sit.
38:21Run from her in tears, and by morning the whole keep says the north broke in a week.
38:25Chao.
38:30One more step.
38:32I don't know.
39:13Every girl in the North dreams of her Binding Day. None of them dream of the cage. My people used
39:19to be the best dragon callers alive. We have not called one in a hundred years. A sky people with
39:23no dragons is just prey. So my father sells the only thing he has left. Me.
39:41Skybound. I came for what is promised.
39:45Skybound.
39:55You belong to me now.
40:05get up and dress the black claw warlord rides for our gate at dusk and you will be waiting at
40:10the binding altar to take him as your husband a husband you have kept me behind these walls my
40:14whole life i have never even spoken to a man who was not my guard he will speak to this
40:18one tonight
40:19and bear his children after ravek of the black claw his dragons are the only thing between us
40:25and the frost and he wants you for them so my blood buys your dragons and you call it a
40:29treaty
40:30i am trading one girl to keep 10 000 people alive say no and the black claw rind south the
40:36frost can
40:36come down off that ridge and everyone in this keep is dead by spring i am not the answer to
40:41your
40:41problems find another way then walk out that door and tell 10 000 people yourself i will not be sold
40:47to a black claw warlord to pay for your war find another way cassia you will not shame me in
40:53front
40:53of the whole keep
41:11so this is the dragonless princess they are selling me they told me the north had nothing left worth
41:17taking they were wrong let go of me i have not been given to you yet you were mine the
41:24day your
41:24father ran out of options tonight is just the part with witnesses soft hand
41:30a whole people who forgot how to hold their own beasts no wonder the frost skin are sharpening their
41:34knives we were calling dragons out of the sky while your horde was still eating its dead
41:39do not lecture me on what we lost they told me you were timid timid does not survive my keep
41:45your wrist little queen
41:53what is this my cuff and yours came out of the same iron after tonight there is no one making
41:58it
41:59the north gave you away little queen i keep what the north gives you are shaking
42:07good a dragon can smell a coward and a coward it will not carry be afraid but do not be
42:12a coward
42:13my hands shake because your hand is on me do not mistake it for anything you would want to feel
42:17give it time you will stop hating me when you realize i am the only one keeping your people alive
42:23you can lock iron on me but you cannot make me want it
42:41every one of them lives or dies on what i say next no one walks out of a door with
42:46all of that on
42:47i will take you not for my father for her and every one of them out there on the ice
43:01you give your word standing up like an equal on your knees you will thank the warlord for saving this
43:08keep with your worthless hand
43:13she kneels to me not for you and not because you put her there
43:21she is mine now old man remember that the next time you raise your hand to her
43:25they call him a monster right now he is the only wall between me and a war that eats children
43:32and tonight i will not just touch you i will ruin you and you will ask me for more
43:43they say the black clough do not bed their brides they break them
43:46and his dragons sleep at the foot of bed and watch
43:49enough she will be presentable she will be obedient and she will hold that alliance together
43:57that is the end of it leave us i will have a moment with my bride custom keeps the warlord
44:04and the bride apart until the altar i do not ask twice tonight everyone will say i forced a scared
44:10girl into this i want them to look at you and see something different i want them to see you
44:16chose
44:24it is too tight it is meant to be uncomfortable every black claw bride wears one so nobody asks who
44:31she belongs to only i take it off wear it to the altar let them all see it before you
44:37say my name
44:44go
44:46this one is the most important part of the leed
45:08and i will not have to go back and get away from her
45:08or if she is a dream i will not have to go back the right
45:14You are bleeding.
45:16Frostkin blood, not mine.
45:20Their scout will not report what he saw.
45:24What happens tonight is yours to give.
45:26I do not take it.
45:29Do you take each other through war and peace until the end?
45:34Say the words.
45:35Loud enough for the whole North to hear.
45:38By sky and by iron, I bind my life to his.
45:42Whatever comes for him gets through me first.
45:46Our people do not deserve death.
45:49I am doing this for her.
45:50For all the innocents in the North.
45:52I am not doing this for him.
45:55Then seal it!
46:01No one has ever kissed you, I can tell.
46:04Tonight gives me everything, but I am taking this right now.
46:07In front of all of them!
46:18I always believed our fathers would give you to me.
46:20Then a southern brute rides in and takes you in an afternoon.
46:24Let go of me!
46:28A sky-bound altar makes a wife.
46:32The Black Claw need more than words.
46:35Bring him in!
46:40The Proving.
46:41He puts her in front of the dragon.
46:43Everyone watches to see if it bows or bites.
46:45No one from the North has ever passed it.
46:47It will not bow to a sky girl with no gift in her blood.
46:49He is going to get her killed in front of her own mother.
46:52Do not pull back and do not look away.
46:54It smells fear and it smells lies.
46:57Show it neither.
46:59You will burn my arm off.
47:01Then we will both find out what you are made of.
47:18Beast knows its queen!
47:21Let the North remember it!
47:30I am a person, Raybeck.
47:32Not something you show off to your men.
47:34You humiliated me out there.
47:42Hello, little queen.
47:49Lothra, you should not be in here.
47:50Skybound blood should stay with skybound blood.
47:52Our fathers meant you for me,
47:54and one southern treaty does not unwrite it.
47:56I am only here for what was promised first.
47:58The binding is sealed, Lothra.
47:59Lay one finger on me,
48:00and you are not insulting a girl,
48:02insulting the whole Black Claw horde.
48:03Think hard about what that buys you.
48:05He is drunk in the feast hall,
48:07with Black Claw girls in his lap.
48:09By the time he remembers he has a wife,
48:10I will already have made you mine.
48:12The warlord is in his cups,
48:14and you are all alone, girl.
48:16One sound out of you,
48:17and I will tell them you invited me in.
48:21Raybeck!
48:24Where is your frightened little northern bride?
48:26She does not even want you.
48:28Come remind yourself
48:32what real women are.
48:34I called for Raybeck.
48:36I do not even know why.
48:37He is not my husband.
48:38He is my warden.
48:39But he is the only one I called.
48:42In here,
48:42no one will find us.
48:44No!
48:46Raybeck!
48:47Raybeck!
48:48Help me!
48:56Raybeck, please.
48:59He is not coming for you.
49:01You should thank me.
49:03When I take you,
49:05I will at least be gentle,
49:07which is more than that animal
49:08would ever give you.
49:13You think the warlord cares
49:15what becomes of you tonight.
49:17He will never love a skybound girl.
49:19He will feed you to his dragon for this.
49:22My father commands the king's own guard.
49:24No southern dog can touch me in this keep,
49:27and no one is coming down that corridor
49:29for a skybound grind.
49:31Hide.
49:34You little skybound bitch!
49:52What is mine I keep.
49:54What touches it I burn.
50:05You put a hand
50:06On what belongs to a warlord
50:10Did you think the dragons would not smell it on you?
50:21You all came to watch a binding
50:23Watch this instead
50:25Look at her
50:26The North handed me their last real dragoncaller
50:29From tonight she is one of mine
50:31We do not touch our own women like that
50:33We do not go after another man's wife
50:36And we do not lie to the man whose dragons are keeping your North standing
50:48What are you doing?
50:53He reached for a warlord's wife
50:55He will carry the answer on his face where the whole North can read it
51:13What is mine I keep?
51:16The whole North can watch what touching it costs
51:22That dragon keeps looking at me like it knows something I do not
51:25And honestly at this point
51:26So do I
51:31So this is where it happens
51:32Get it over with
51:34Look at the roost little queen
51:35That is where it happens
51:36Not here
51:37A Blacklaw wedding is not sealed in a bed
51:39It is sealed in fire
51:42At dawn everyone watches the warlord walk through his own dragon's breath
51:45If it is real the dragon holds
51:48If it is not he burns in front of everyone and she goes free
51:52You are going to walk in dragon fire to prove you own me?
51:55I am going to walk into dragon fire to prove this is real
51:59What you do with that is up to you
52:02A whole dying kingdom
52:04And the only thing in it worth burning for is you
52:06Do not say that
52:07You do not get to say that
52:09You bought me
52:10You may own this cluff on my wrist
52:12You will never own the rest of me
52:15I will not love you
52:20He is going to ravage me now
52:22I don't want to lose it like this
52:27I do not know what came over me
52:30I will take only what you give me tonight
52:32Sleep little queen
52:33At dawn you watch what your husband walks into for you
52:38He is sparing my virginity
52:39For now
52:48I will jump
52:50I will take that
53:22Judge me, old friend.
53:23The claim is true.
53:25Rayback.
53:26Rayback, no.
53:48You walked into it.
53:50For me, you would have burned to ash.
53:53A binding is sealed.
53:54The Horde has seen it.
53:56That is all that happened here.
53:57Now you come to me, to my bed.
53:59I will try to be patient.
54:02I will not beg, but I also will not love.
54:21So he actually did it.
54:23Walked into the fire for you.
54:26I honestly did not think you would.
54:28Not for some scared little northern girl.
54:31I do not know you.
54:32Give your name before you speak to me like I am livestock.
54:39Drusilla.
54:40My father rides at the Warlord's right hand,
54:43the strongest warrior in this Horde.
54:45And before your father sold you north,
54:47I was the one in Ravik's bed.
54:49So I know things about him that you do not.
54:53You do not know how to keep a Warlord, little northern bird.
54:57I had him before you wore that cuff,
55:00and I will have him after.
55:01Ask anyone in this keep whose furs he slept in last winter.
55:30First night here, and my wife will not eat.
55:34Is this a northern thing?
55:36Or are you actually trying to starve yourself?
55:39Starving myself?
55:41Skybound children went hungry all winter so I could eat.
55:45I do not waste food.
55:49I do not even know what half of this is.
55:51You have never put southern meat in your mouth.
55:53My father never let his daughters pass the inner wall.
55:57We ate what the kitchens cooked,
55:59and the kitchens cook north.
56:05Open.
56:07No wife of mine goes hungry at my own fire.
56:14There.
56:16The north did not crumble.
56:18Your color is up, wife.
56:20I am warm from the fire.
56:21The fire is behind you.
56:22I am the one in front.
56:42He walked into Dragonfire in front of everyone
56:44to keep my people safe.
56:46Whatever else he is,
56:47he did that.
56:48I can say thank you for that much,
56:50even if it kills me.
56:56We just got married,
56:58and he is already doing this.
57:00I knew it.
57:01I knew exactly what he was.
57:06Cassia.
57:08Stop.
57:09Not one more step.
57:16Sit.
57:17Run from her in tears,
57:19and by morning,
57:20and by morning,
57:20the whole keep says,
57:21the north broke in a week.