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Alright fantasy fam, this one's got dragons, duty, and a love that wasn't supposed to happen.
She's a princess from the North, sheltered and protected her whole life. Her kingdom is dying, and the only way to save it is to marry the warlord of the Blackclaw horde — a man who rides a dragon and rules through fear. She's terrified. But she says yes anyway. Because her people need her.
What she doesn't expect is that the warlord isn't the monster she was told he was. And what he doesn't expect is that the princess he married might be the one person who actually sees him.
**✨ The part that hit different:**
She went into this knowing exactly what she was sacrificing. That made the payoff so much better.
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📜Synopsis:
Alright fantasy fam, this one's got dragons, duty, and a love that wasn't supposed to happen.
She's a princess from the North, sheltered and protected her whole life. Her kingdom is dying, and the only way to save it is to marry the warlord of the Blackclaw horde — a man who rides a dragon and rules through fear. She's terrified. But she says yes anyway. Because her people need her.
What she doesn't expect is that the warlord isn't the monster she was told he was. And what he doesn't expect is that the princess he married might be the one person who actually sees him.
**✨ The part that hit different:**
She went into this knowing exactly what she was sacrificing. That made the payoff so much better.
💙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
06:56Let them all see you
07:21You are bleeding.
07:23Frostkin blood, not mine.
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 through war and peace until the end?
07:40Say the words.
07:42Loud enough for the whole North to hear.
07:44By sky and by iron, I bind my life to his.
07:48Whatever comes for him gets 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, I can tell.
08:11Tonight gives me everything, but I am taking this right now in front of all of them!
08:25I 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 sky-bound altar makes a wife.
08:38The Black Claw need more than words.
08:41Bring him in!
08:47The Proving.
08:48He 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.
08:54It 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.
09:25The beast knows its queen!
09:28Let the North remember it!
09:36I 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.
10:05The binding is sealed, Lothra.
10:06Lay one finger on me and you are not insulting a girl
10:08or insulting the whole Black Claw horde.
10:10Think hard about what that buys you.
10:12He is drunk in the feast hall with Black Claw 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.
10:23One 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.
10:35Come 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, no one will find us.
10:51No!
10:53Raybeck!
10:54Raybeck!
10:54Help me!
11:02Raybeck!
11:03Please!
11:06He is not coming for you.
11:08You should thank me.
11:10When I take you,
11:11I will at least be gentle,
11:14which is more than that animal would ever give you.
11:20You think the warlord cares what becomes of you tonight.
11:24He 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.
11:31No 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.
12:05Right.
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.
12:30Watch this, instead.
12:32Look at her.
12:33The North handed me their last real dragoncaller.
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, where the whole North can read it.
13:20What is mine I keep.
13:23The whole North can watch what touching it costs.
13:29That dragon keeps looking at me like it knows something I do not.
13:32And honestly, at this point, so 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.
13:44A 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, the dragon holds.
13:55If it is not, he 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.
14:13Do 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 do not 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.
14:39Sleep, little queen.
14:40At dawn, you watch what your husband walks into for you.
14:44He is sparing my virginity.
14:46For now.
15:03Oh, you have to be free.
15:04The statement stolen.
15:05But you will never die.
15:12The Anchor 거기 and The Fear Court cover is here,
15:13I cannot achieve this as a The Fear.
15:14And that is our Incre Aussie.
15:16By�st, we hold on our mediocre channel there.
15:20The cover of New Year,
15:20We must have reported.
15:28Judge me, old friend.
15:30The claim is true.
15:32Rayback.
15:33Rayback, no.
15:55You walked into it.
15:57For me, you 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 Ravik'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.
17:08Ask 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?
17:42Or 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.
19:30Yeah.
19:44Burn.
19:45Burn.
19:46Burn.
19:47Burn.
19:47Burn.
19:47Burn.
19:57To be continued...
20:18To be continued...
20:30To be continued...
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? You have kept me behind these walls my whole life. I have never even spoken to a man
21:20who was not my guard.
21:20You will speak to this one tonight, and bear his children after.
21:24Ravec of the Blackclaw. His dragons are the only thing between us and the Froskin, and he wants you for
21:29them.
21:30So my blood buys your dragons, and you call it a treaty.
21:33I am trading one girl to keep 10,000 people alive. Say no, and the Blackclaw rinds south, the Froskin
21:40come down off that ridge, and everyone in this keep is dead by spring.
21:43I am not the answer to your problems. Find another way.
21:46Then walk out that door and tell 10,000 people yourself.
21:49I will not be sold to a Blackclaw warlord to pay for your war. Find another way.
21:54Cassia, you will not shame me in front of the whole keep.
22:14So, this is the Dragonless Princess. They are selling me.
22:18They told me the North had nothing left worth taking. They were wrong.
22:22Let go of me. I 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. Timid 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, but 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 when you realize I am the only one keeping your people alive.
23:26You can lock iron on me, but 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.
23:52No.
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 Blackclaw 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.
26:38Loud 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.
26:56I 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 in front of all of them.
27:12I am not doing this for him.
27:15I am not doing this for her.
27:18I am not doing it for her.
27:21I always believed our fathers would give you to me.
27:24Then a southern brute rides in and takes you in an afternoon.
27:27Let 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 Skygirl 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.
27:57It 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.
28:21The beast 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, and 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, insulting the whole black-clow horde.
29:07Think hard about what that buys you.
29:09He is drunk in the feast hall with black-clow girls in his lap.
29:12By the time he remembers he has a wife, I will already have made you mine.
29:15The 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 what 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, please.
30:02He is not coming for you.
30:05You should thank me.
30:06When I take you, I will at least be gentle, which is more than that animal would ever give you.
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 bride.
30:37You little skybound bitch!
30:56What is mine I keep.
30:58What touches it I burn.
31:08You put a hand on what belongs to a warlord.
31:13Did you think the dragons would not smell it on you?
31:24You all came to watch a binding.
31:26Watch this instead.
31:29Look at her.
31:30The North handed me their last real dragoncaller.
31:33From tonight, she is one of mine.
31:35We do not touch our own women like that.
31:37We do not go after another man's wife.
31:40And we do not lie to the man whose dragons are keeping your North standing.
31:52What are you doing?
31:56He reached for a warlord's wife.
31:58He will carry the answer on his face.
32:01Where the whole North can read it.
32:17What is mine I keep.
32:20The 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.
32:36Get it over with.
32:37Look at the roost, little queen.
32:38That is where it happens.
32:39Not here.
32:40A Blacklaw wedding is not sealed in a bed.
32:43It is sealed in fire.
32:45At dawn everyone watches the warlord walk through his own dragon's breath.
32:49If it is real, the dragon holds.
32:52If it is not, he burns in front of everyone and she goes free.
32:55You are going to walk in dragon fire to prove you own me?
32:59I am going to walk into dragon fire to prove this is real.
33:02What you do with that is up to you.
33:05A whole dying kingdom.
33:07And the only thing in it worth burning for is you.
33:09Do not say that.
33:11You do not get to say that.
33:12You bought me.
33:14You may own this cluff on my wrist.
33:16You will never own the rest of me.
33:18I will not love you.
33:23He's going to ravage me now.
33:25I don't want to lose it like this.
33:30I do not know what came over me.
33:33I will take only what you give me tonight.
33:35Sleep little queen.
33:37At dawn you watch what your husband walks into for you.
33:41He's sparing my virginity.
33:43For now.
34:02I will take you.
34:04I will take you.
34:07I will take you.
34:10I will take you.
34:13I will take you.
34:21I will take you.
34:23I will take you.
34:25Judge me old friend.
34:27The claim is true.
34:29Raven.
34:30Raven, no.
34:52You walked into it.
34:53For 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.
35:00Now you come to me.
35:02To my bed.
35:03I will try to be patient.
35:05I will not beg.
35:06But I also will not love.
35:12gemeinsam.
35:24So he actually did it.
35:26Did he?
35:26Walked into the fire for you.
35:29I honestly did not think he would..
35:31Not 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.
35:42Drusilla.
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.
36:00I had him before you wore that cuff, and I will have him after.
36:05Ask 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?
36:39Or 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.
36:55You 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.
38:03Cassius, I 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.
38:25Go away.
38:28Go away.
38:48Go away.
38:54Wait.
39:13Every girl in the north dreams of her binding day.
39:16None of them dream of the cage.
39:18My people used to be the best dragon callers alive.
39:20We have not called one in a hundred years.
39:23A sky people with no dragons is just prey.
39:25So my father sells the only thing he has left.
39:27Me.
39:42Skybound.
39:43I came for what is promised.
39:55You belong to me now.
40:05Get up and dress.
40:06The Black Claw warlord rides for our gate at dusk.
40:09And you will be waiting at the binding altar to take him as your husband.
40:12A husband?
40:13You have kept me behind these walls my whole life.
40:15I have never even spoken to a man who was not my guard.
40:17He will speak to this one tonight and bear his children after.
40:21Ravek of the Black Claw.
40:22His dragons are the only thing between us and the Frosk.
40:25And he wants you for them.
40:26So my blood buys your dragons and you call it a treaty.
40:30I am trading one girl to keep ten thousand people alive.
40:33Say no.
40:34And the Black Claw rides south.
40:36The Froskin come down off that ridge.
40:37And everyone in this keep is dead by spring.
40:39I am not the answer to your problems.
40:42Find another way.
40:43Then walk out that door and tell ten thousand people yourself.
40:46I will not be sold to a Black Claw warlord to pay for your war.
40:49Find another way.
40:50Cassia, you will not shame me in front of the whole keep.
41:11So, this is the Dragonless Princess.
41:13They are selling me.
41:15They told me the North had nothing left worth taking.
41:18They were wrong.
41:19Let go of me.
41:20I have not been given to you yet.
41:22You were mine.
41:23The day your father ran out of options.
41:25Tonight is just the part with witnesses.
41:27Soft hand.
41:30A whole people who forgot how to hold their own beasts.
41:33No wonder the Froskin are sharpening their knives.
41:35We were calling dragons out of the sky while your horde was still eating its dead.
41:39Do not lecture me on what we lost.
41:41They told me you were timid.
41:43Timid does not survive my keep.
41:45Your wrist, little queen.
41:53What is this?
41:54My cuff and yours came out of the same iron.
41:57After tonight, there is no one making it.
41:59The North gave you away, little queen.
42:01I keep what the North gives.
42:04You are shaking.
42:07Good.
42:07A dragon can smell a coward.
42:09And a coward it will not carry.
42:11Be afraid, but do not be a coward.
42:13My hands shake because your hand is on me.
42:15Do not mistake it for anything you would want to feel.
42:18Give it time.
42:19You 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.
42:45No one walks out of a door with all of that on the other side of it.
42:55I will take you.
42:57Not for my father.
42:58For her.
42:59And every one of them out there on the ice.
43:01You give your word standing up like an equal.
43:04On your knees.
43:05You will thank the warlord for saving this keep with your worthless hand.
43:13And she kneels to me.
43:14Not for you.
43:15And not because you put her there.
43:21She is mine now, old man.
43:23Remember that the next time you raise your hand to her.
43:25They call him a monster.
43:27Right now, he is the only wall between me and a war that eats children.
43:32And tonight, I will not just touch you.
43:34I will ruin you.
43:36And you will ask me for more.
43:43They say the Blackclough do not bed their brides.
43:46They break them.
43:47And his dragons sleep at the foot of bed and watch.
43:49Enough.
43:50She will be presentable.
43:51She will be obedient.
43:53And she will hold that alliance together.
43:56That is the end of it.
43:58Leave us.
44:01I will have a moment with my bride.
44:03Custom keeps the warlord and the bride apart until the altar.
44:06I do not ask twice.
44:08Tonight, everyone will say I forced a scared girl into this.
44:12I want them to look at you and see something different.
44:15I want them to see you chose me.
44:17Not that your father sold you.
44:24It is too tight.
44:26It is meant to be uncomfortable.
44:27Every Blackclough bride wears one so nobody asks who she belongs to.
44:32Only I take it off.
44:34Wear it to the altar.
44:35Let them all see it before you say my name.
44:50A woman is fasting.
44:51It is worth it.
44:56I have a boy.
44:57I don't want them to see you.
44:58Very cold.
45:03Let them all know.
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.
45:28Do 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, for 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 in 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.
46:31The 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.
47:35You humiliated me out there.
47:43Hello, 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
48:02or insulting 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,
48:11I 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, no one will find us.
48:44No!
48:46No!
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.
49:34You 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
50:11would not smell it on you?
50:21You all came to watch a binding.
50:23Watch this instead.
50:25Look at her.
50:27The North handed me
50:28their last real dragoncaller.
50:30From tonight,
50:30she is one of mine.
50:31We do not touch
50:32our own women like that.
50:34We do not go after
50:35another man's wife.
50:36And we do not lie to the man
50:38whose dragons are keeping
50:39your North standing.
50:48What are you doing?
50:53He reached for a warlord's wife.
51:23He will carry the answer on his face
51:25and honestly at this point.
51:27And honestly at this point,
51:27so do I.
51:31So this is where it happens.
51:33Get it over with.
51:34Look at the roost,
51:35Look 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.
51:46If 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.
52:11You may own this cluff on my wrist.
52:13You will never own the rest of me.
52:15I will not love you.
52:20He's 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's sparing my virginity.
52:40For now.
52:54I have to swear to God for you.
52:55I don't know.
52:55I have to swear to God for you.
53:22Judge me, old friend.
53:23The claim is true.
53:25Rayback.
53:27Rayback, no.
53:48You walked into it for me.
53:51You 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.
54:20So 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.
54:41My father rides at the Warlord's right hand, the strongest warrior in this Horde.
54:45And before your father sold you north, I 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, and 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, or 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, and 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.
56:23I am the one in front.
56:42He walked into dragon fire in front of everyone to keep my people safe.
56:46Whatever else he is, he did that.
56:48I can say thank you for that much, even if it kills me.
56:56We just got married, and 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, and by morning the whole keep says the north broke in a week.
57:23No!
57:26No!
57:29No!
57:29No!
57:32No!
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