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00:00Dès ago, I accepted the Empire's most classified commission to brew a potion for the Serpent King.
00:05To suppress his rut, everyone knows how dangerous Silas is.
00:13No one has ever walked away from him, in one piece after satisfying him to defend my title as a
00:17genius,
00:18I set out to create the Empire's coldest cure.
00:20I only took one whiff, and that one whiff ruined me.
00:23What I brewed wasn't an antidote at all, it was a violent potion,
00:26designed to drag every hidden desire from the depths of the body and force it into the light.
00:32As a physician, I immediately realized just how dire the situation was.
00:36Step 1, blood boiling, a searing heat surged through my entire body within seconds.
00:41Every breath felt like fire scorching my throat.
00:43The chill only made my body realize more acutely just how desperately I craved relief.
00:48Step 2, neural overload.
00:49Every touch became unbearable, the feel of fabric against my skin.
00:53Everything felt too much, too intimate, too filthy.
00:55And the worst part, my body actually liked it.
00:58Step 3, surrender.
01:00My mind was still screaming in refusal, but my body had already begun to beg.
01:04I mocked desire my whole life.
01:06Now desire has brought me to my knees, shaking like someone's starving.
01:09At the very moment I was about to shatter my pride with my own hands, my patron arrived.
01:16I lay crumpled on the floor, disheveled, burning.
01:19Silas looked down at me from above.
01:21I am here tonight for the desire killer.
01:24But from where I'm standing, it looks like you need to try my medicine on yourself first.
01:31Step back, your grace.
01:33I was burning, shaking, barely holding myself together beneath that thick cloth.
01:40The shop is closed.
01:42Please, please.
01:44Leave.
01:45Now.
01:48Leave?
01:49My chief physician.
01:51Do you know who you are ordering around?
01:53I bit my tongue hard.
01:54Pain was the only thing, keeping me from reaching for him.
01:57Even the snake lord cannot break into a private shop.
02:00I-I...
02:01Will return your deposit tomorrow.
02:03Now.
02:04Get out.
02:10Doctor.
02:11I heard you despised people who drowned in lust.
02:16Then why do you smell like you are begging me to stay?
02:22Nonsense.
02:23That is only the scent of dried herbs.
02:25I should have slapped his hand away.
02:26Instead, I almost leaned into it.
02:28His touch was freezing, and my body needed it like salvation.
02:38You keep telling me to leave.
02:40But the part of you hiding under all that pride seems far more honest than your mouth.
02:47Don't look at me like that.
02:49I was only drugged by my own potion.
02:52Only drugged.
02:54So the proud Grand Pharmacrist does understand desire after all.
02:58He simply never met anyone worthy of making him lose control.
03:01The touch was light, almost gentle.
03:03That made it worse.
03:06You think too high of yourself.
03:07Do I?
03:08Then why have you not pushed me away?
03:10My hand was pressed against his chest, but I did not push.
03:13Tell me, doctor.
03:14Have you ever looked at a man like this before?
03:17No.
03:18A woman?
03:19No.
03:19My fingers curled instead, dragging into the fabric like I was afraid he might actually leave.
03:25So that is the truth.
03:27You never hated desire.
03:29You were simply untouched.
03:31Stop talking.
03:32Untaught.
03:34Unopened.
03:35I do not care for gender.
03:37Man or woman makes no difference to me.
03:39I may not have the right to choose either.
03:42Say that again.
03:44I turned my face away.
03:46I have never been with a man.
03:47Or a woman.
03:49So I do not know what I like.
03:51But right now...
03:53I know I do hate you being close.
03:56Do you understand what those words mean to a serpent king in heat?
04:01And now what can calm you...
04:05Is not medicine.
04:07Then what is it?
04:10You are a doctor.
04:12Confirm it yourself.
04:13Wait.
04:15You really have two cocks?
04:19Scared.
04:22No, no, no.
04:23We can't do this.
04:24Stay away from me.
04:25You are holding on this hard and you want me to stay away?
04:30It's...
04:30The drug.
04:32Good.
04:33From now on, every pretty reaction you have can belong to the drug.
04:38Don't touch me.
04:39Do you mean...
04:40Don't touch?
04:41Or don't stop?
04:42Doctor.
04:44If you keep looking at me like that, I will misunderstand.
04:48Misunderstand what?
04:48That you want me to take what you are too proud to ask for.
04:54I don't.
04:56Then push me away.
05:11Uh...
05:12Are you still open?
05:15Shame cuts through the drug.
05:24We're open.
05:26Silas slowly straightens.
05:27The girl at the door shrank under his stare.
05:29If this is a bad time, I can come back tomorrow.
05:34It is not a bad time.
05:36What medicine do you need?
05:37Fever medicine.
05:38My brother has been burning all night.
05:40I heard you have a frost silver grass formula.
05:42Age.
05:42Weight.
05:42Chills.
05:43Hallucinations or unstable magic?
05:45Sixteen.
05:45Thin.
05:46Chills.
05:46His magic is a little unstable.
05:48My mind was still trapped against that work table.
05:55Doctor.
05:56Be good and do your work.
05:57Shut up.
05:59Huh?
06:00Not you.
06:02Sir.
06:03His gaze moved slowly.
06:04My red ears.
06:05My unsteady breath.
06:06The button I had fastened wrong.
06:08Your hands are shaking.
06:09They are not.
06:10Your left hand is about to ruin the dose.
06:12It is cold.
06:14No.
06:15His voice dropped.
06:16You were warmer when I was holding you.
06:19My wrist jerked.
06:20The glass vial rocked then fell.
06:23Sir!
06:27I forces myself to calm down and prepares the medicine again.
06:31No mistakes this time.
06:32The customer pays and rushes into the snow.
06:36The shop fell silent.
06:37Only our breathing remained.
06:39Now, doctor.
06:43Is your work finished?
06:44If I turned around too soon, I would lose.
06:46If I waited too long, I would beg.
06:48Not yet.
06:49I knew I failed.
06:50There is still one examination left.
06:56What examination?
06:58The thing I touched earlier.
06:59Silas' expression changed.
07:01Before my courage could die, I pulled him toward the back room.
07:04Click locked.
07:08Are you certain?
07:09My whole body burned, but my mind was clear enough to choose disaster.
07:13Stop asking.
07:16You want me.
07:18No.
07:24Are you ready for my two cocks?
07:28I stopped breathing.
07:31My gaze locked onto his waist in sheer unadulterated shock at the two monstrous.
07:38Are you afraid?
07:39Every medical formula, every ounce of my professional dignity, was insinuated in that suffocating, breathless heat.
07:47But your eyes say fear.
07:54Oh.
08:04Or is�al jalaping.
08:10What did you say?
08:11Oh.
08:13Oh.
08:13Oh.
08:14Oh.
08:14Oh.
08:15Oh.
08:16Oh.
08:28Sinus, wait.
08:30Not against the door.
08:40I am out of patience, my little doctor.
08:42The tight, untouched heat of my virgin entrance was completely exposed, trembling and weeping from the effects of my aphrodisiac.
08:49Beneath his black robe, those two terrifying silver-scaled cocks surged to life, pressing side by side, with destructive heat
08:56directly against my tightest ache.
09:04For one terrifying second, the entire room seemed to stop breathing with him.
09:08The heat between us had not vanished, it had only been forced into silence, sharpened into something darker.
09:18Enter.
09:34Forgive my intrusion, your majesty.
09:37The situation is dire.
09:39The blood pool's awakened.
09:41You must return to the palace immediately.
09:43Silas did not answer.
09:45You are coming with me.
09:47Wait! I did not agree to you, monster!
09:52My little doctor, I am taking you back to finish exactly what we started.
10:00Every wall smelled faintly of sandalwood, rain and Silas.
10:06You brought me to your bedroom.
10:21Before I could answer, the double doors opened.
10:24He was beautiful in a deliberate way.
10:26Soft black hair, bald throat, lowered lashes.
10:29Your majesty, I brought your cooling draught.
10:36I did not realize you had already found assistance.
10:40I am not assistance.
10:41I am a doctor.
10:45A human doctor?
10:51Your majesty, the blood heat is dangerous tonight.
10:54You should not strain yourself with someone experienced.
10:59If he is so experienced, maybe your majesty should call him closer.
11:05Careful, doctor.
11:15Jealousy suits you too well.
11:23Do you know what his majesty becomes during blood heat?
11:28A patient.
11:29A monster.
11:31No one can stand his two cocks.
11:33Human lovers break under him.
11:34Servants beg for his favor, until they see the truth, then crawl away screaming.
11:39Do you still want to play, doctor?
11:40My throat tightened.
11:41Not from fear, from anger.
11:43Thank you for telling me.
11:45That sounds exactly like where he needs me most.
11:51Everyone calls me a monster.
11:53His voice was quiet.
11:54Too quiet.
11:55You truly do not recoil?
11:57Shock is not disgust.
12:00And fear is not refusal.
12:02Lear saw him choose to move closer to me.
12:04His expression changed.
12:07Then allow me to assist him, your majesty.
12:09The doctor has knowledge.
12:11I have experience.
12:14Together, we could ease your heat.
12:17Assist.
12:18Yes, sire.
12:20I can...
12:20Shut up.
12:21You must be out of your mind with desperation for glory.
12:24Assisting the king.
12:25Who do you think you are?
12:28Forgive me, your majesty.
12:29I overstepped.
12:31Please, have mercy.
12:34You rejected him.
12:36I gave him an order.
12:38You rejected him for me.
12:41Do not sound so pleased.
12:55No.
12:56You chose me in front of him.
12:59So why are you pulling away now?
13:02What is it?
13:03Did you regret sending him away?
13:07Should I call your back for you?
13:09Do not.
13:10Why not?
13:11He offered so sweetly.
13:13He has experience.
13:14I am only the inconvenient human doctor you kidnapped.
13:19Enough.
13:21No.
13:22You do not get to drag me across kingdoms.
13:25Wrap me in your cloak.
13:26Make every nerve in my body answer to you.
13:28Then act noble at the edge of your own bed.
13:29The words came out too honest.
13:31I hated him for hearing them.
13:32Do you know why that bed is so large?
13:34Because kings enjoy being dramatic?
13:35Because restraint fails during blood heat.
13:37Some came for power.
13:38Some came for curiosity.
13:40Some came because they thought a monster with a crown could be tamed for one night.
13:45They all learned differently.
13:50You hurt them.
13:51I destroyed them.
13:53And still they call it desire until they...
13:55I am not them.
13:58And I am not afraid.
14:01You should be.
14:02I am a doctor.
14:04You are a temptation.
14:09Hate me if you must.
14:13But be alive to do it tomorrow.
14:18And for the first time all night, I felt truly cold.
14:23Naturally, it was luxurious.
14:25None of it smelled like Silas.
14:27That was the problem.
14:31This is clinical.
14:34I was merely suffering from a magical reaction caused by proximity to royal blood heat.
14:39Any rational doctor would require a stabilizing sample, a cloak for example.
14:55Clinical sample.
14:57By dawn, I had fallen asleep with a cloak wrapped around me like a scandal.
15:06By breakfast, a whole of Blackskill Palace knew.
15:11The human doctor had been cast out of the king's bedchamber and slept all night embracing the snake king's cloak.
15:21I was told later that he'd lowered his face too, only once.
15:26If he keeps taking what belongs to me, I may stop giving it back.
15:33Blackskill Palace had gathered its nobles beneath a ceiling of hanging crystal serpents.
15:37I chose a seat near the back.
15:39Safe, distant, professional.
15:42Come here, doctor.
15:44Absolutely not.
15:47That was not a request.
15:57Your pulse is unstable.
15:59The hall died.
16:00Someone dropped a cup.
16:03Only when you touch me.
16:05I am diagnosing you.
16:07Then diagnose honestly.
16:10Am I worsening, doctor?
16:13Yes.
16:15Then stay near me.
16:21The silver-haired count found me before dessert.
16:25Dr. Clay.
16:29Do I know you?
16:30Count Adrian Valcrest.
16:32Unfortunately, most people here prefer titles to introductions.
16:35You noticed His Majesty's blood heat before the court facetious did.
16:39They were busy whispering.
16:41And you were busy saving him.
16:43That startled me.
16:44Respect.
16:45A dangerous thing in this palace.
16:47Blackskill has a remarkable apothecary.
16:49If you wish, I could show you the sections the priests will try to hide.
16:53That sounds useful.
16:55Leor, still lingering where he had no right to linger, noticed too.
16:59Whatever it was, Silas's expression changed.
17:02A doctor should be valued for his mind, not caged beside a king's throne.
17:05The words landed too deep.
17:07I looked at Silas.
17:08He looked away.
17:09Something twisted in my chest.
17:13After the banquet, I called him near the corridor.
17:16If you wanted me gone, why did you bring me here?
17:27If you're here to dismiss your physician,
17:29then you should know that I am a very difficult man to fire.
17:32I know.
17:33Then why walk away?
17:37I heard more than enough last night.
17:39Heard from whom?
17:41Leor.
17:43Rage ignited inside me in an instant.
17:46You believed him?
17:47I simply believed what I already knew to be true.
17:50You can't even look at me without trembling.
17:53For a split second, all I could do was stare blankly at him.
17:57Then the heat surged up my throat.
18:00It wasn't fear.
18:01I was just trying not to make a fool of myself.
18:04The silence in the air shifted, almost imperceptibly.
18:06You're overwhelming in a medical sense.
18:10It's almost unfair how even a look of confusion can make him look so devastatingly handsome.
18:15In a medical sense.
18:16Don't make me repeat myself.
18:22Your pulse is rising again.
18:24Because you're touching me.
18:26Then stand still and let me work.
18:29Do you have any idea what you're doing to me?
18:31I looked up at him.
18:33I don't know.
18:37Liar.
18:39Leor still hasn't given up.
18:41He still appears around every corner in the corridors and their reflections.
18:47Dr. Clay.
18:48If this is another warning, at least try to make it more creative.
18:57I just wanted you to try some pastries fresh from the kitchen.
19:00I'm here to serve you, my lord.
19:03Though I'm simply a little curious.
19:06Which noble left a deeper impression on you?
19:09I don't make a habit of collecting nobles.
19:11His majesty is dangerous, while Count Edrian is gentle.
19:16Edrian stood a few paces away, his silver hair gleaming in the light.
19:20His expression was filled with regret for the simple fact that he was still alive.
19:25Liar's eyes glinted with a dangerous light.
19:27Tell me, doctor, which man would you choose?
19:29The air behind me turned abruptly cold.
19:31I didn't need to turn around to know it was Silas standing there.
19:35Perfect.
19:35A trap with an audience.
19:39I'd rather not get dragged into this question.
19:42Smart man.
19:43I looked at...
19:44Liar.
19:44The Count is very elegant.
19:47Polite.
19:47Rational.
19:48And probably safe.
19:50Liar.
19:51Laughed.
19:51Then I let out a sigh.
19:54Unfortunately, I have a fatal weakness for danger.
19:59Your majesty, I assure you, my interest is purely academic.
20:05Academic?
20:06Purely academic.
20:10Don't make yourself too interesting, Count.
20:13I'll do my best to remain dull.
20:18I should have felt a victor's thrill.
20:20Instead, Simus leaned in close and murmured, his voice low enough for only me to hear.
20:25A fatal weakness for danger.
20:27My pulse betrayed me.
20:29Don't look so pleased.
20:31Too late.
20:34Here we go again.
20:36Medically speaking, this is becoming increasingly harder to justify.
20:41It's still a clinical consideration.
20:43Is it?
20:45No crown.
20:47No ceremonial robes.
20:49Dressed only in loose black silk.
20:51His eyes fixed on me.
20:53As if I were the one who was dangerous.
20:55How long have you been standing there?
20:58Long enough to hear you justify theft as a medical procedure.
21:01You can't just burst into my room and accuse me of theft.
21:05This is my palace.
21:07This is my sleeping time.
21:12When you said I wasn't a monster, did you mean it?
21:16The question caught every sharp retort in my throat and stripped them all away.
21:21And that meant that deep down, he was far from calm.
21:27I'm too tired to bother refining a lie.
21:30And also, your scent is better than any sedative I own.
21:35It didn't sound quite like a laugh, nor quite like a groan of pain.
21:41You shouldn't say things like that when you're half as asleep.
21:44And come back when I'm fully awake, I'll say something even worse.
21:49Then do a proper job of treating me.
21:52Blood heat stirred in the air between them, restless and alive.
21:55And with it, something softer began to unfurl between them.
21:59Blood heat management treatment protocol.
22:04You made an instruction manual for me.
22:06You need this.
22:07Rule 1. Do not dismiss your physician without cause.
22:10Rule 2. Do not consume poison handed to you by pretty servants.
22:14Rule 3. When a pretty servant lies, do not believe their words.
22:17Rule 4. Report all symptoms truthfully.
22:23All symptoms?
22:25Yes.
22:26What about hunger?
22:27It's relevant.
22:29What about insomnia?
22:30It's relevant.
22:32What about obsession?
22:33My pen slipped.
22:35That depends on the severity.
22:40What if my rejection reaction is you?
22:43I just stared at him, frozen.
22:45A physician should always have an answer, and right now I don't have a single one.
22:50A physician should always have an answer, and right now I don't have a single one.
22:57High Priest Ovan entered, followed by two attendants in white-scaled robes.
23:01Your Majesty, Dr. Clay, forgive the injosian.
23:04I'm starting to grow rather tired of interruptions.
23:07Ovan's gaze landed on my wrist.
23:09The great serpent mark beneath my skin had deepened overnight, climbing further up my arm.
23:16Will this hurt him?
23:18He didn't ask what it was.
23:21Nor did he ask what it meant.
23:25Instead, he asked, will this hurt him?
23:28A strange, explicable warmth stirred in my chest.
23:31If left unsealed, yes.
23:34The blood heat will continue to pull at him.
23:37Unsealed?
23:39The physician must remain in the King's inner chambers tonight.
23:42Absolutely not.
23:46Rule number one, Doctor.
23:48I hate him, especially when he's right.
23:53The inner chambers were even worse than his bedchamber.
23:56Not because they were larger, but because they were worse.
24:00Because this place is overwhelmingly private.
24:03A bed, a brazier, a window overlooking the blood pool courtyard.
24:07This is nothing but a prison with a pillow.
24:09This is the safest room in the Blackscale Palace.
24:13That's what people usually say about prisons, too.
24:16The mark pulsed violently beneath the silver threads.
24:20This bond is ancient, older than this palace itself.
24:23I'll say it again.
24:24I prefer to classify it as a magical allergy.
24:26Allergic reactions don't resonate with royal blood.
24:28It was too quiet.
24:30I looked at him.
24:32Wipe that guilty look off your face.
24:34It's not charming at all.
24:37I'm the one who dragged you into all of this.
24:40Yes.
24:42And I'm still furious about it.
24:46Good.
24:48But if this bond can hurt me,
24:50I'd rather understand it than run from it.
24:53It's too dangerous.
24:57Before dawn, no one may enter except His Majesty.
25:00How conveniently convenient.
25:02Ancient rules.
25:03Conveniently ancient.
25:06The door closed.
25:08For a moment, we stood on opposite sides of the room like a pair of fools.
25:11Then the mark began to burn.
25:13Before I could hit the floor, Simus caught me.
25:15The moment he touched me, the pain vanished.
25:17Of course.
25:20And you still want to call this an allergy?
25:22I buried my face in his chest.
25:24I hate ancient rules.
25:26And yet you follow them beautifully.
25:28Outside, beneath the palace,
25:29the blood pool began to glow with an ominous light.
25:33By morning, the entire palace knew I had spent the night in the inner chambers.
25:38Of course, if these walls could talk, the Blackscale Palace would have no secrets left.
25:42Though Silas had banished him from the bedchamber, he hadn't cast him out of the Blackscale Palace entirely.
25:49That day, he began his quiet investigation.
25:53I didn't know it at the time.
25:55I only found out later.
25:58He bribed the laundry maids, interrogated the elderly apathy clerks,
26:02and searched through the records of every merchant granted access to the palace.
26:06The records of human merchants.
26:09By sunset, he had found my name, not in the medical registry,
26:14but in a sealed report.
26:20That file still bore up the seal of my old apothecary shop.
26:25The very same seal that had marked the confiscated crates of banned Serpent Blood Suppressors years ago.
26:33Dr. Clay Valley.
26:41The ink had faded, but the words were still legible.
26:44The Serpent King must never be cured.
26:46And all the while, I was hidden in the way of the apothecary grinding fast move.
26:51Pretending I couldn't feel Silas standing behind me.
26:53Stop hovering over me.
26:55I'm standing.
26:56You're standing like a threat.
26:58And you're grinding herbs like it's an accusation.
27:03Neither of us knew he had already found the thread.
27:07The thread of a secret even I had nearly forgotten.
27:11Two days later, Lior was arrested for hiding cornbane beneath the Serpent's stairs.
27:17I should have been relieved.
27:18I was not.
27:19People like Lior did not get caught unless they wanted an audience.
27:26Dr. Clay, the prisoner asks for you.
27:30No.
27:31He answered before I did.
27:33You do not even know what I was going to say.
27:36I know you.
27:38Then know I am going.
27:42I will come with you.
27:44The prisoner said the secret concerns the doctor's life.
27:47He will speak only to him.
27:48Silas looked ready to remove Lior's tongue preemptively.
27:52I touched his wrist.
27:54Five minutes.
27:55Three.
27:56Four.
27:57Two.
28:00Two.
28:01Two.
28:02Your majesty bargains terribly.
28:06If he harms you, I will make death jealous.
28:11That should not have warmed me.
28:13It did.
28:14Lior sat chained behind silver bars.
28:16His beauty had not faded.
28:18It had sharpened.
28:22Doctor, speak quickly.
28:24I negotiated poorly.
28:27You think you are his cure.
28:29I know I am tired.
28:31No.
28:33You were raised to be his poison.
28:35The floor seemed to vanish beneath me.
28:38What did you say?
28:41Your shop.
28:42Your training.
28:44Your precious formulas.
28:46Did you never wonder why every lesson you learned led back to serpent blood?
28:50My mouth went dry.
28:51Save me.
28:52And I keep silent.
28:54And if I do not, his smile widened.
28:59Then I tell the king what his little doctor was made for.
29:03I did not sleep that night.
29:05Memories are cruel things.
29:06They do not return gently.
29:08Serpent blood reacts violently to heat-binding catalysts.
29:12Royal venom can be weakened by frost root if combined with thornbane.
29:17A king in blood heat is most vulnerable when desire authorites caution.
29:21I knew those lessons.
29:23I had always known them.
29:27I had never questioned why.
29:30At the bottom lay my mentor's notebook.
29:32I had carried it for years.
29:34I had called it education.
29:38Now every page looked like a weapon.
29:41Do not trust serpent royalty.
29:44They killed your family.
29:46Learn their bodies.
29:48Cure no king.
29:50My chest tightened.
29:52No.
29:53I thought of Silas asking if I recoiled.
29:56I thought of his hand on my hair in the dark.
29:58I thought of him asking first if a mark would hurt me.
30:01Then I found the final formula.
30:03The one I had mistaken for an aphrodisiac in my shop.
30:07It was not meant for me.
30:08It was an inducement catalyst.
30:10Decided to draw out royal blood heat.
30:12Designed for Silas.
30:13I stopped breathing.
30:15Had I poisoned myself by accident.
30:17Or had someone placed the final ingredient.
30:19Where I would reach for it.
30:22Clay?
30:22I slammed the notebook shut.
30:24Too fast.
30:25His eyes dropped to it.
30:26Then to my face.
30:28What are you hiding?
30:29My mouth opened and no sound came.
30:31For the first time since entering Blacksville Palace.
30:33I was truly afraid.
30:36I lied.
30:36Badly.
30:37Old notes.
30:38Nothing useful.
30:40He knew.
30:41Of course he knew.
30:42But he did not force the book from my hands.
30:44Somehow that made it worse.
30:49Lior asked for you again.
30:50My stomach turned.
30:53Then I should...
30:54No.
30:55Silas.
30:56He is bait.
30:58And I am apparently fool enough to bite.
31:05I know.
31:06That was not comforting.
31:07Still I went.
31:08This time Silas followed at a distance.
31:11Hidden by shadow and rage.
31:17Have you remembered yet?
31:19Enough.
31:21Then you understand.
31:22You and I are alike.
31:25We both want something from the king.
31:27I want him alive.
31:29Lior's smile twisted.
31:31For now.
31:33A shard of silver flashed from beneath his sleeve.
31:35I stepped back but the blade cut across my neck.
31:38Pain burned hot.
31:39Before he could reach the bars of Black Arrow flew from the darkness.
31:42It pierced Lior through the shoulder.
31:44Not Silas's arrow.
31:46Not the guard's.
31:47Lior screamed and collapsed.
31:49He looked suddenly terrified.
31:57Lior grabbed my sleeve with bloody fingers.
32:00Valachrist.
32:01His voice broke into a whisper.
32:03Then his eyes rolled back.
32:09Who did this?
32:12I think the better question is...
32:15Who wanted him silent?
32:20Golden.
32:21Murderous.
32:23Adrian.
32:25Count Adrian Valcrest smiled when we confronted him.
32:28That was the worst part.
32:29Your majesty.
32:30Dr. Clay.
32:32This feels serious.
32:35Lior named you.
32:37A wounded servant under fear says many things.
32:42Convenient.
32:45Very.
32:48You should be resting.
32:50Silas stepped half in front of me.
32:52Adrian noticed.
32:53Of course he did.
32:55Protective.
32:58Careful.
33:00Always.
33:01I hated their polite murder.
33:03Did you know about my shop?
33:06Adrian's smile faded slightly.
33:08I knew enough to be curious.
33:11Answer him.
33:12Yes.
33:14Your shop once appeared in old siege records.
33:17Human anti-serpent factions use similar marks.
33:20My blood went cold.
33:23Similar?
33:25Not identical.
33:26The silence between us changed shape.
33:28Adrian saw it and pressed gently like a blade sliding between ribs.
33:32Dr. Clay.
33:34If the king learns what you truly were trained for,
33:36will he still look at you like that?
33:38Like what?
33:40Like you are the one thing he refuses to lose.
33:46Leave.
33:47Adrian bowed.
33:49As your majesty commands.
33:51Be careful, doctor.
33:52Secrets are kinder when confessed than when uncovered.
33:55Then he was gone.
33:57I stared at the floor.
34:00Is there something you need to tell me?
34:02My throat closed.
34:03Yes.
34:04Everything.
34:06I do not know yet.
34:07It was the weakest truth I had ever spoken.
34:10Then find out quickly.
34:11Silas.
34:12Before someone else tells me for you.
34:16And this time, I knew exactly why it hurt.
34:20The moon hunter arrived three days later.
34:23Apparently, ancient serpent tradition required nobles to celebrate political tension by entering a forest full of weapons.
34:29Brilliant.
34:30I rode beside Silas beneath a silver moon, wrapped in a dark cloak he had personally thrown over my shoulders
34:36without explanation.
34:37I have my own cloak.
34:38This one is warmer.
34:39It is summer.
34:40Then consider it royal preference.
34:42Behind us nobles whispered.
34:44Adrian rode to my left, doting our respectful distance.
34:47Leor, still recovering and under guard, was absent, for once.
34:51I thought the night might pass without poison, threats, or emotional disaster.
34:55Then I smelled bitter moonleaf.
34:57My spine stiffened.
34:58Stop.
34:58Silas reamed immediately.
35:00Every guard followed.
35:01What is it?
35:01I slid from the saddle and crouched near a crushed patch of grass.
35:05This scent was in my old formulas.
35:07Many herbs grow in the royal forest.
35:10Not this one.
35:12Moonleaf turns black when mixed with serpent blood venom.
35:15I touched the dirt.
35:16My fingertip came away stained dark.
35:18Silas' face went cold.
35:20Ambush.
35:20The forest answered with arrows.
35:22Guards shouted.
35:23Steel flushed.
35:24Silas pulled me behind him, drawing a black blade from nowhere.
35:28Itai met for Silas' heart.
35:30My body moved before my mind did.
35:32Silas!
35:33I threw myself in front of him.
35:35The arrow struck my chest.
35:37Four in a breath.
35:37There was no pain.
35:39Only shock.
35:39Then Silas caught me as my knees failed.
35:42His face, usually carved from royal arrogance, broke open with terror.
35:46Clay!
35:47My name in his mouth sounded like a wound.
35:50Pain arrived late.
35:52Then all at once.
35:57The poison spread from the arrow like blue fire beneath my skin.
36:02Silas held me against him.
36:04One hand pressed around the shaft, the other trembling at my back.
36:08He was trembling.
36:09That frightened me more than the arrow.
36:13That is medically bad.
36:15Do not speak.
36:16I am the doctor.
36:17His voice cracked on the last word.
36:19Then prescribe silence.
36:21Round us, guards fought shadows between the trees.
36:23I dream shouted order.
36:26Someone screamed.
36:28None of it felt real.
36:30Only Silas felt real.
36:31Cold arms, burning breath, golden eyes going wild.
36:35I knew that poison.
36:36It was made for royal blood.
36:38I need to tell you something.
36:39If it had struck him.
36:41Later.
36:42It would have reached his heart before any healer could act.
36:45His grip tightened.
36:47Clay.
36:47I smiled because he looked so furious with fear.
36:50I was raised by people who wanted you dead.
36:53The world stilled.
36:54Silas stared at me.
36:56They told me serpent royalty killed my family.
36:59They taught me formulas.
37:01Weaknesses.
37:02Blood reactions.
37:03My breath hitched.
37:04I think I was meant to become your poison.
37:07Silas's face went white.
37:09But I chose wrong.
37:12Wrong.
37:13I chose you.
37:15I lifted my hand with the last of my strength and touched his cheek.
37:19Terrible assassin, really.
37:21Something red shimmered at the corner of his eye.
37:24Do not you dare make jokes while dying.
37:27Then keep me alive.
37:29The last thing I heard was Silas roaring.
37:32For every healer in Blackskel Palace, I woke to pain, incense and Silas's hand crushing mine.
37:39My first thought was that death had excellent grip strength.
37:42Silas's head snapped up.
37:44Now.
37:44He leaned closer.
37:46Golden eyes bright with sleepless rage.
37:48His expression twisted.
37:49You are awake.
37:51Apparently.
37:53You are an idiot.
37:56Also apparently.
37:59You threw yourself in front of a king killer arrow.
38:03In fairness, it was aiming at you.
38:05That is not a defense.
38:07It is literally a defense.
38:12For a moment, I thought he might shout.
38:15Then furious, he leaned closer.
38:17You almost died.
38:22Why didn't I?
38:23High Priest Armin stepped from the shadows.
38:26Your witch core is not where it should be.
38:28That sounds insulting.
38:30Most human cores sit near the heart.
38:31Yours lies farther right.
38:33The arrow missed it.
38:34Why didn't I?
38:34And the consort mark absorbed part of the venom.
38:38He lifted my marked wrist.
38:40So the inconvenient magical allergy saved me.
38:43The ancient royal bond saved you.
38:45I prefer my wording.
38:49Orton wisely left.
38:50The words were quiet.
38:51Too quiet.
38:52He sat there sealant as a storm.
38:54Finally, he asked.
38:55How much of what you told me was a lie?
38:58Fewer than I feared.
38:59More than you deserved.
39:01His fingers tightened around mine.
39:02Tell me everything.
39:04From the beginning.
39:07So I told him.
39:08Just honestly.
39:09The room was dark.
39:10Except for the blue fire.
39:12And the silver thread glowing around my bandages.
39:15I told Silas about my mentor.
39:17How's the truth of it?
39:21I do not remember agreeing to kill you.
39:27But I think I was shaped for it anyway.
39:33If you want me gone after this, I will understand.
39:37Gone.
39:39Imprisoned.
39:39Or imprisoned.
39:40Or executed.
39:41I am trying to be realistic.
39:44You are terrible at it.
39:49I thought he was leaving.
39:51Then he crossed the room and pulled an open campaign map from the cabinet.
39:55My breath stopped.
39:56I did.
39:58Your village.
40:00What?
40:02Tell me the name.
40:08I do not slaughter border villages.
40:13If I cross a border, I go for generals, kings.
40:17The attack on your village happened during the Veilcrest border campaign.
40:21Someone killed your family, blamed me, and fed you hatred until you became useful.
40:27Then everything I knew was a knife pointed at me.
40:31He looked back at me.
40:32And they put it in your hands.
40:34The name hit like ice.
40:36Adrian.
40:36I could not breathe.
40:38I am sorry.
40:39I closed my eyes.
40:42Do not apologize for bleeding on someone else's blade.
40:45His voice turned deadly soft.
40:47I will kill everyone who made you hate me.
40:51Silas began with records.
40:53Not swords.
40:53That worried me more.
40:55He summoned generals, priests, spies, and archivists to the war chamber.
40:59I was forbidden to leave bed.
41:01Naturally, I left bed.
41:02I arrived wrapped in a blanket.
41:05If you are investigating my life, I am attending.
41:10You were shot yesterday.
41:14And I am healing today.
41:17Sit down before I carry you back.
41:20Threats are poor bedside manner.
41:22A general coughed on his face.
41:25Silas looked at him.
41:26The general stopped existing.
41:30Robin spread sealed documents across the table.
41:33The Veilcrest campaign records were altered.
41:36Adrian standing beneath the window gave a mild smile.
41:39Dangerous accusation.
41:41Accurate one.
41:42I stared at him.
41:44Did your family kill my village?
41:47Adrian smiled thin.
41:49My father did many things for the stability of the realm.
41:52That is a yes.
41:53Wearing perfume.
41:55Human hatred of serpent kings keeps borders clean.
42:01Kill me.
42:02And you prove every rumor true.
42:05I do not need rumors.
42:07The entire room flinched.
42:08Adrian did not.
42:09The palace shook.
42:10A deep boom rolled up from beneath the floor.
42:13Orban went pale.
42:16Another boom.
42:17Then screams from below.
42:19Adrian's smile returned.
42:21It's too late, your majesty.
42:23What did you do?
42:25Adrian looked at my marked wrist.
42:27His voice softened.
42:28Not me, doctor.
42:30You open the door.
42:33The blood pool chamber was beneath the oldest stone of Blackskill Palace.
42:37I knew this because Silas carried me there despite my protests.
42:41I can walk.
42:43Badly.
42:44I was shot, not demoted to luggage.
42:47Be quiet, luggage.
42:49I would have argued more, but then we reached the chamber.
42:52The floor opened into a vast cavern of black stone and red light.
42:56And at the far edge, bound in silver chains, was Leo alive.
43:00Leon?
43:02Barely.
43:02His eyes lifted.
43:04I told you.
43:06Veilcrust.
43:07Adrian stepped from the shadows behind him.
43:10And he was useful until he became sentimental.
43:12Release him.
43:15Still giving orders.
43:17As if the throne is not cracking beneath you.
43:20My wrist burned.
43:22Arm is staggered back.
43:23Someone used the doctor's blood trace from the arrow.
43:27The concert mark is resonating.
43:31My blood opened this?
43:33Your blood, his heat, and centuries of fear.
43:38The monster king finally found someone willing to touch him.
43:41How poetic that it ends his reign.
43:44He smiled at Silas.
43:45Silas' body went cold beside me.
43:47Not physically, emotionally.
43:49That was worse.
43:50I grabbed his sleeve.
43:51Do not listen.
43:53Clay.
43:54I am done being someone else's weapon.
43:57The blood pool rose behind Adrian like a living woman.
43:59Then choose quickly, doctor.
44:01Cure him.
44:02Or crown his curse.
44:06The priest argued.
44:07The blood pool screamed.
44:09Adrian smiled.
44:10Naturally, everyone expected me to solve it while bleeding through my bandages.
44:14Typical palace work.
44:16Orvin gripped my marked wrist.
44:17The bond is incomplete.
44:20The blood pool recognizes the doctor as an unsealed consort vessel.
44:25I hate every word in that sentence.
44:27If the bond is completed, it may stabilize the pool.
44:30No.
44:33Silas.
44:33No.
44:34He answered too fast.
44:35Adrian laughed softly.
44:37Still afraid to touch what wants you.
44:41Silas' eyes turned lethal.
44:44Or afraid you will ruin him like the others.
44:46The blood pool surged.
44:49Clear a cough blood from the floor.
44:52That surprised me.
44:54Doctor.
44:54Do not let him decide for you.
44:58What happens if we complete the bond?
45:00Your life will be tied to his royal blood.
45:04Pain.
45:05Heat.
45:07Danger.
45:09Some will pass between you.
45:12And if we do not...
45:16The pool consumes the weaker vessel first.
45:19I turn to Silas.
45:21There must be another way.
45:23There is not always another way.
45:29I will not make a cage out of love.
45:32Of all the things he could have said, that one hurt most.
45:38I walk to him.
45:40Every step burned.
45:42Then stand still.
45:44Clay.
45:45I am choosing my monster.
45:47His face broke.
45:49Not fully.
45:50Just enough.
45:51I pressed my marked wrist against his chest.
45:53The blood pool exploded into light.
45:57Bonding did not feel like a cage.
45:59It felt like falling into fire.
46:01And finding someone already there.
46:03Reaching back.
46:04Silas caught me.
46:05As a mark spread from my wrist in black gold light.
46:08His royal blood answered beneath my palm.
46:11For one breath I heard him.
46:12Not his voice.
46:13His fear.
46:14Clay hurt.
46:15Clay leave.
46:16Clay die.
46:16Never clay.
46:17My chest tightened.
46:18You dramatic snake.
46:20I heard that.
46:21Good.
46:22Stop thinking so loudly.
46:23The blood pool rolled.
46:24His eyes wide.
46:25Impossible.
46:26Orphan talked to his enemies.
46:27The bond accepted him.
46:29The silver chains allowed him in motion.
46:32He collapsed free.
46:35Silas lifted his hand.
46:38Black fire swept across the camera.
46:40Cutting off Adrian's retreat.
46:42Count Valakar.
46:43Adrian drew a hidden blade.
46:44You think a bond makes you less monstrous?
46:47No.
46:48Silas's fingers tightened around mine.
46:51Gives the monster someone worth obeying.
46:53I should not have found that attractive.
46:55Adrian lodged.
46:56Before Silas could move.
46:58I threw a vial for my sledge.
46:59It shattered at Adrian's feet.
47:01Releasing false smoke.
47:02Adrian froze mid-step.
47:05I swayed.
47:06Silas called me.
47:08Idiot.
47:09Consort vessel idiot.
47:11Apparently.
47:11The blood pool began to calm.
47:13Above us.
47:14Through every wall of black-scale falcon.
47:18Ancient serpent bells awakened.
47:23Not in warning and recognition.
47:29By dawn, Adrian Valley had been placed in heavy chains.
47:32Lior lay on a healer's cot, staring blankly at the ceiling, as if the very fact that he was still
47:36alive had personally offended him.
47:38I, meanwhile, was wrapped in three layers of blankets, all while Simus was trying to add a fourth.
47:42I'm not a freshly baked pastry.
47:45You nearly fell into the blood pool just now.
47:47And I'm still not a pastry.
48:02I stood side by side with Silas, because sitting would have made me look weak, and also because if I
48:07sat, he would have forcibly wrapped me in that fourth taugle.
48:12His arrogance had not faded.
48:14If anything, it had grown sharper.
48:17You always need a villain to appease the masses.
48:19I take the liberty of assuming that role has fallen to me.
48:22When you were plotting to use those slaughtered villages, and poisoned bloodlines to lay claim to my throne.
48:28You had already placed that role upon your own head.
48:35Clay Valley is not my pet.
48:38My heart skipped a beat.
48:40Nor is he my prisoner.
48:42Nor is he my cure.
48:44Everyone in the hall held their breath.
48:46He is my fated one.
48:48The word struck the hall like a thunderbolt.
48:54The contract has already revealed the divine will.
48:56One by one, the priests followed suit.
48:59Then the guards.
49:00And finally, the nobles.
49:02Those who knew the art of survival.
49:04When the chance to survive stood before them, they knew what to do.
49:08Liar end against the side door, pale and wrapped in bandages.
49:11And at last, he too bowed his head.
49:14Not exactly happy.
49:16But thoroughly subdued.
49:18Silas turned to face me.
49:20Say something, doctor.
49:22I surveyed the sea of kneeling courtiers before me.
49:25I'll need unrestricted access to the royal apothetory.
49:28And the priests are not allowed to hide the good ingredients on shelves I can't see.
49:32The hall fell into a stunned, dead silence.
49:35Then Silas burst out laughing.
49:38The consort chamber had been prepared by sunset.
49:40Black silk, gold candles, serpent flowers blooming white under moonlight, and the same massive bed I had once been thrown
49:47away from.
49:49Subtle.
49:51Ancient tradition.
49:53Conveniently ancient.
49:54But there was tension beneath it.
49:57Not hunger.
49:58Fear.
49:59I knew him well enough now to see the difference.
50:04Without it, he looked less like a king.
50:06More like the man who had sat beside my bed holding my hand too tightly.
50:10When you said you wanted me, was any of it true?
50:13My heart hurt.
50:17I lied about many things.
50:18His face closed, so I caught his hand before he could turn away.
50:22Not that.
50:26I wanted you when I thought you were dangerous.
50:28I wanted you when I thought you were impossible.
50:30I wanted you when I was angry enough to bite.
50:32You did bite.
50:33Clinically.
50:36I touched his face.
50:38I chose you before the bond did.
50:40Then he lifted me carefully.
50:42Still not afraid?
50:44Still medically overwhelmed?
50:46Beneath Blackscale Palace, the blood pool awakened one final time.
50:50I finally understood.
50:51The monster had never needed taming.
50:53Only choosing.
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