00:00I have been turning away from you for months. I am done with that. Do not make me ask twice.
00:06Ask me then, out loud. I want to hear you actually say it.
00:10Please, I want you. All of you, not just the warlord. Now.
00:19I will not be sold to a Black Clo warlord to pay for your war.
00:24A sky people with no dragons is just prey, so my father sells the only thing he has left. Me.
00:34So, this is the Dragonless Princess. They are selling me. They told me the North had nothing left worth taking.
00:40They were wrong.
00:41Let go of me. I have not been given to you yet.
00:44You were mine the day your father ran out of options. Tonight is just a part with witnesses.
00:49Soft hand.
00:51A whole people who forgot how to hold their own beasts. No wonder the Frostkin are sharpening their knives.
00:56We were calling dragons out of the sky while your horde was still eating its dead.
00:59Do not lecture me on what we lost.
01:01They told me you were timid. Timid does not survive my keep. Your wrist, little queen.
01:12What is this?
01:13My cuff and yours came out of the same iron. After tonight, there is no one making it. The North
01:18gave you away, little queen. I keep what the North gives. You are shaking. Good. A dragon can smell a
01:26coward. And a coward it will not carry. Be afraid, but do not be a coward.
01:30My hands shake because your hand is on me. Do not mistake it for anything you would want to feel.
01:35Give it time. You will stop hating me when you realize I am the only one keeping your people alive.
01:39You can lock iron on me, but you cannot make me want it.
01:56Every one of them lives or dies on what I say next. No one walks out of a door with
02:01all of that on the other side of it.
02:08I will take you. Not for my father. For her. And every one of them out there on the ice.
02:14You give your word standing up like an equal. On your knees. You will thank the warlord for saving this
02:20keep with your worthless hands.
02:25And she kneels to me. Not for you. And not because you put her there.
02:32She is mine now, old man. Remember that the next time you raise your hand to her.
02:36They call him a monster. Right now he is the only wall between me and a war that eats children.
02:42And tonight I will not just touch you. I will ruin you. And you will ask me for more.
02:51They say the Blackclough do not bed their brides. They break them. And his dragons sleep at the foot of
02:56bed and watch.
02:56Enough. She will be presentable. She will be obedient. And she will hold that alliance together.
03:03That is the end of it.
03:05Leave us. I will have a moment with my bride.
03:09Custom keeps the warlord and the bride apart until the altar.
03:12I do not ask twice. Tonight everyone will say I forced a scared girl into this.
03:17I want them to look at you and see something different. I want them to see you chose me. Not
03:22that your father sold you.
03:29It is too tight.
03:30It is meant to be uncomfortable. Every Blackclough bride wears one so nobody asks who she belongs to. Only I
03:36take it off.
03:37Wear it to the altar. Let them all see it before you say my name.
03:49What?
04:10You say my little brother, what's wrong with me?
04:13you are bleeding
04:14frost skin blood not mine
04:18their scout will not report what he saw
04:21what happens tonight is yours to give
04:23i do not take it
04:26do you take each other
04:27through war and peace
04:29until the end
04:30say the words
04:31loud enough for the whole north to hear
04:34by sky and by iron
04:36i bind my life to his
04:37whatever comes for him gets through me first
04:42our people do not deserve death
04:44i am doing this for her
04:45for all the innocents in the north
04:47i am not doing this for him
04:50then seal it
04:55no one has ever kissed you
04:57i can tell tonight gives me everything
04:59but i am taking this right now
05:01in front of all of them
05:09i always believed our fathers would give you to me
05:11then a southern brute rides in and takes you in an afternoon
05:15let go of me
05:19a skybound altar makes a wife
05:22the black claw need more than words
05:24bring him in
05:29the proving
05:30he puts her in front of the dragon
05:32everyone watches to see if it bows or bites
05:34no one from the north has ever passed it
05:36it will not bow to a sky girl with no gift in her blood
05:38he is going to get her killed in front of her own mother
05:40do not pull back and do not look away
05:42it smells fear and it smells lies
05:44show it neither
05:47you will burn my arm off
05:49then we will both find out what you are made of
06:04the beast knows it's queen
06:06let the north remember it
06:09i am a person raybeck
06:16not something you show off to your men
06:18you humiliated me out there
06:26hello little queen
06:31lothra you should not be in here
06:32skybound blood should stay with skybound blood
06:34our fathers meant you for me
06:35and one southern treaty does not unwrite it
06:37i am only here for what was promised first
06:39the binding is sealed lothra
06:40lay one finger on me
06:41and you are not insulting a girl
06:43insulting the whole black claw horde
06:44think hard about what that buys you
06:46he is drunk in the feast hall
06:47with black claw girls in his lap
06:49by the time he remembers he has a wife
06:51i will already have made you mine
06:52the warlord is in his cups
06:54and you are all alone girl
06:56one sound out of you
06:57and i will tell them you invited me in
07:00rebeck
07:03where is your frightened little northern bride
07:05she does not even want you
07:06come remind yourself
07:10what real women are
07:12i called for rebeck
07:14i do not even know why
07:15he is not my husband
07:16he is my warden
07:17but he is the only one i called
07:19in here
07:20no one will find us
07:21no
07:23rebeck
07:23rebeck
07:25help me
07:32rebeck
07:32please
07:33he is not coming for you
07:35you should thank me
07:37when i take you
07:39i will at least be gentle
07:41which is more than that animal would ever give you
07:47you think the warlord cares what becomes of you tonight
07:50he will never love a skybound girl
07:52he will feed you to his dragon for this
07:54my father commands the king's own guard
07:56no southern dog can touch me in this keep
07:59and no one is coming down that corridor
08:01for a skybound grind
08:05you little skybound bitch
08:11what is mine i kill
08:12what touches it i burn
08:21you put a hand
08:22on what belongs to a warlord
08:26did you think the dragons would not smell it on you
08:37you all came to watch a binding
08:39watch this
08:40instead
08:41look at her
08:42the north handed me their last real dragon caller
08:46from tonight she is one of mine
08:47we do not touch our own women like that
08:50we do not go after another man's wife
08:52and we do not lie to the man whose dragons are keeping your north standing
09:05what are you doing
09:09he reached for a warlord's wife
09:11he will carry the answer on his face
09:14where the whole north can read it
09:30what is mine i keep
09:33the whole north can watch what touching it costs
09:38that dragon keeps looking at me like it knows something i do not
09:41and honestly at this point so do i
09:46so this is where it happens
09:48get it over with
09:49look at the roost little queen that is where it happens
09:51not here
09:53a blacklaw wedding is not sealed in a bed
09:55it is sealed in fire
09:58at dawn everyone watches the warlord walk through his own dragon's breath
10:02if it is real
10:03the dragon holds
10:04if it is not
10:05he burns in front of everyone and she goes free
10:08you are going to walk in dragon fire to prove you own me
10:11i am going to walk into dragon fire to prove this is real
10:15what you do with that is up to you
10:17a whole dying kingdom
10:19and the only thing in it worth burning for is you
10:21do not say that
10:23you do not get to say that
10:25you bought me
10:26you may own this cluff on my wrist
10:28you will never own the rest of me
10:30i will not love you
10:35he's going to ravage me now
10:38i don't want to lose it like this
10:43i do not know what came over me
10:45i will take only what you give me tonight
10:47sleep little queen
10:48at dawn you watch what your husband walks into for you
10:53he's sparing my virginity
10:55for now
11:03you
11:04hello
11:04you
11:08you
11:13you
11:14you
11:36Judge me, old friend.
11:38The claim is true.
11:40Ravak.
11:41Ravak, no.
12:00You walked into it for me.
12:03You would have burned to ash.
12:05A binding is sealed.
12:06The Horde has seen it.
12:08That is all that happened here.
12:09Now you come to me, to my bed.
12:11I will try to be patient.
12:14I will not beg.
12:15But I also will not love.
12:32So he actually did it.
12:35Walked into the fire for you.
12:38I honestly did not think you would.
12:40Not for some scared little northern girl.
12:43I do not know you.
12:44Give your name before you speak to me like I am livestock.
12:51Drusilla.
12:52My father rides at the warlord's right hand, the strongest warrior in this horde.
12:57And before your father sold you north, I was the one in Ravak's bed.
13:01So I know things about him that you do not.
13:05You do not know how to keep a warlord, little northern bird.
13:09I had him before you wore that cuff, and I will have him after.
13:13Ask anyone in this keep whose furs he slept in last winter.
13:41First night here, and my wife will not eat.
13:45Is this a northern thing, or are you actually trying to starve yourself?
13:50Starving myself?
13:52Skybound children went hungry all winter so I could eat.
13:55I do not waste food.
14:00I do not even know what half of this is.
14:02You have never put southern meat in your mouth.
14:04My father never let his daughters pass the inner wall.
14:08We ate what the kitchens cooked, and the kitchens cook north.
14:15Open.
14:17No wife of mine goes hungry at my own fire.
14:25There.
14:27The north did not crumble.
14:29Your color is up, wife.
14:31I am warm from the fire.
14:32The fire is behind you.
14:33I am the one in front.
14:52He walked into Dragonfire in front of everyone to keep my people safe.
14:56Whatever else he is, he did that.
14:58I can say thank you for that much, even if it kills me.
15:06We just got married, and he is already doing this.
15:09I knew it.
15:11I knew exactly what he was.
15:14What happens next?
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