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00:00:00I'm a snake who won't live past 22.
00:00:02To stay alive, I pretended to be a dragon,
00:00:05tricked Crown Prince Kale into becoming my lifelong mate,
00:00:08and ended up pregnant with his dragon egg.
00:00:10I hate snakes.
00:00:11Then I found out the council had already chosen his fiancée,
00:00:14and I heard him say it himself, he hated snakes.
00:00:16So I hid the pregnancies and ran that night.
00:00:18By the time the dragon clan started hunting me,
00:00:20Kale still didn't know the dragon egg I took was his child.
00:00:24Six months ago, I got sick again.
00:00:26Rowan confirmed I wouldn't live past 22.
00:00:27Only the Crown Prince's dragon aura can save you.
00:00:30Rowan found only one way to save me.
00:00:31Get close to Crown Prince Kale and take his dragon aura.
00:00:34To get me into the academy, he forged me a dragon identity.
00:00:37Remember this, dragons hate serpents.
00:00:40No one can find out you're a snake.
00:00:41I hid my tail and wore fake dragon arms to pass as a dragon.
00:00:44If they found out, the dragon clan would execute me.
00:00:47On my first day at the academy,
00:00:49Silas, the council's consort king, stopped me.
00:00:51He claimed he was Kale's fiancée and said I wasn't allowed in Kale's training class.
00:00:55You're this weak and you call yourself a dragon?
00:00:58The place beside Kale is mine.
00:01:00You don't belong anywhere near him.
00:01:01Silas twisted my fake horns and had the others shove me down.
00:01:04I couldn't fight back.
00:01:05If they came off, everyone would see I was a snake.
00:01:08Take your hand off him.
00:01:10The council authorized me to inspect anyone who gets close to you.
00:01:14You don't get to touch him.
00:01:15The first time Kale saw me, he shoved Silas aside and pulled me up in front of everyone.
00:01:18His dragon aura hit me.
00:01:19My failing heart started beating again.
00:01:22I had just found a reason to hope.
00:01:23Then Kale saw my fake horns were loose.
00:01:25Why are your horns moving?
00:01:28I pulled away and lied that my horn had been injured before.
00:01:30Kale checked again.
00:01:31He'd expose me as a serpent on the spot.
00:01:33Old injury.
00:01:33Don't touch.
00:01:34He's lying!
00:01:35He's not a dragon!
00:01:36Enough!
00:01:36Stop using my name to bully him.
00:01:37The council already chose me as your Prince Comport!
00:01:39This is the academy, not your father's council.
00:01:41Kale didn't force me to prove who I was.
00:01:43He took me away in front of everyone.
00:01:45After that, Silas blocked me every time I got near Kale and said I'd stolen his place.
00:01:50Over the next few weeks, we became friends.
00:01:52Kale remembered I was sensitive to the cold, and whenever anyone came for me, he stepped in front of me.
00:01:57Why are you always so cold?
00:01:59Because I'm a water dragon.
00:02:00At first, I only got close to him to stay alive.
00:02:02But after he kept protecting me, I started wanting more than his dragon, Adma.
00:02:06Don't mistake his protection for love.
00:02:08Kale's Prince Compoint would be me.
00:02:10Silas was forcing me away from Kyle, and Rowan was telling me I had six months left.
00:02:14One wouldn't let me near him.
00:02:15The other was warning me that if I didn't act, I'd die.
00:02:18That night, I put a bond catalyst into Kale's drink.
00:02:20It wouldn't make him lose consciousness.
00:02:21It would only open his Dragon Era channel.
00:02:23But I never got his consentient.
00:02:25Kale never takes a drink from anyone.
00:02:27But that night, he took the cup from my hand and drained it.
00:02:29Watching him swallow it without a second thought, I realized how badly I'd betrayed his trust.
00:02:34What's in this drink?
00:02:38Did you drink it?
00:02:39Are you hurt?
00:02:40Kale knew something was wrong with the drink, but he checked me first.
00:02:42Seeing how worried he was, I had to admit it was me.
00:02:45I'm sorry.
00:02:45I put it in there.
00:02:46Why?
00:02:47I didn't tell him I was dying.
00:02:48I didn't tell him I was from the Serpent Clan.
00:02:50I only said I needed his dragon aura.
00:02:51I need your dragon aura.
00:02:52The catalyst had already poured into Midid, had already opened a path for his Dragon Era.
00:02:56Kale could have shut it down, but first he told me the Dragon Clan's rule.
00:02:58A dragon only gets one lifelong mate.
00:03:01If I stop now, you can leave.
00:03:02He gave me a chance to refuse.
00:03:03If I left, I'd die.
00:03:04More than that, I didn't want to leave him.
00:03:06So I stayed.
00:03:07I know.
00:03:07I choose you.
00:03:08Look at me.
00:03:09Say it again.
00:03:10Kale, I choose you.
00:03:11When Kale kissed me, his dragon aura poured into me.
00:03:13I was terrified.
00:03:14He'd see what I was, but I still held onto him.
00:03:16He completed the mate bond ritual with me while fully conscious.
00:03:19That mark saved my life and made me the only lifelong mate he would ever have.
00:03:22The next day, Silas saw the mark and grabbed me in front of everyone.
00:03:25He said I'd stolen what should have been his.
00:03:27You stole what should have been mine.
00:03:29Kale chose me.
00:03:30The council will never recognize you.
00:03:33And I'll find out what you really are.
00:03:35I went to see Rowan in secret.
00:03:37He confirmed the Dragon Aura had kept me alive, but his hug left the scent of the Serpent Clan on
00:03:41me.
00:03:41I survived, but the guilt never left.
00:03:46The second I got back to the dorm, Kale smelled it.
00:03:48I'd survived, but for the first time there was real proof of what I was.
00:03:52Asher, why do you smell like a serpent?
00:03:57My brother's scent was still on my collar.
00:03:59I couldn't admit it, so I lied.
00:04:01A Serpent Clan peddler bumped into me earlier.
00:04:04That's probably where it came from.
00:04:06Kale didn't press me.
00:04:07He destroyed the only scent evidence himself.
00:04:09Holding the broken scale his second brother had left behind, he told me a snake had lured him away.
00:04:13A snake lured my second brother away.
00:04:16I won't make that mistake again.
00:04:18That was when I knew for sure he'd never love a snake.
00:04:24The next day, Silas searched my locker and found one of my shed lanes.
00:04:28He finally had proof to dig into who I was.
00:04:32Once I know what this is, he'll never get me killed again.
00:04:35Silas hadn't even proved I was a snake.
00:04:37He was already threatening me with that scale.
00:04:39If he confirmed it, I'd never get near Kale again.
00:04:42After we bonded, I always kept the lights off when I was with Kale.
00:04:45Only in the dark could I hide my scales and fake dragon horns.
00:04:51You won't even look at me.
00:04:52I was scared he'd see my scales, so all I could do was push him away.
00:04:56Make it sound like I was disgusted by him.
00:04:58Right.
00:04:59With what we are, it means nothing.
00:05:01With the lights on.
00:05:03The dark kept my secrets safe.
00:05:05It also let my cold words hurt Kale.
00:05:07That weekend, Kale took me through the market, alone for the first time.
00:05:11But he never called it a date.
00:05:12And I didn't dare take his gentleness for love.
00:05:17The next day, Silas went public with a forged engagement notice.
00:05:21It had the council seal and his Prince Kapord badge.
00:05:23I had no idea Kale had never agreed to it.
00:05:27Look closely.
00:05:28I'm the one Kale acknowledged in public.
00:05:30A tossed-aside toy like you thinks he can take the Prince Kapord's place.
00:05:35Silas made everyone see me as the Crown Prince's side piece.
00:05:38They tore at my clothes, slammed me into the wall.
00:05:40I was too scared to tell them who I really was.
00:05:43Let me go.
00:05:47You said you could touch my neck.
00:05:49By the time Kale got there, Silas had already hidden a fake engagement notice.
00:05:54He only saw my injuries.
00:05:55He had no idea everyone was saying I stole his fiancée.
00:05:58I thought Silas was really the one Kale had chosen, so I hid the torn piece of the notice.
00:06:02The more Kale protected me, the more I believed the mate mark was the only reason he felt responsible for
00:06:07me.
00:06:13Don't hide from me tonight.
00:06:14Turn it off!
00:06:15Asher, what do you really want from me?
00:06:18Kale asked what I wanted from him.
00:06:20All I could think was if that light stayed on one second longer, he'd see the mate in his arms
00:06:24was really a snake.
00:06:25Kale didn't push again, he just held me in the dark.
00:06:28But the more he respected my fear, the harder it was to tell him the truth.
00:06:32The second Kale left, a sharp pain being tore through my stomach.
00:06:35I almost shifted back into my snake.
00:06:37You're carrying Kale's dragon egg.
00:06:39Roland told me I was carrying Kale's child.
00:06:41After dragons complete the lifelong mate-bond ritual, either one can carry the egg.
00:06:45I just stole Kale's one and only lifelong mate, and I was already carrying his child.
00:06:49I was happy and terrified.
00:06:51Will this baby hurt me?
00:06:52No.
00:06:53It's using dragon aura to keep you alive.
00:06:56The diagnostic crystal showed that once the egg is born, I won't need Kale's dragon aura to stay alive anymore.
00:07:01Rowan warned me that if Kale couldn't accept snake, I had to protect the baby first.
00:07:05This egg gave me a real chance to live, and for the first time, I had someone to protect.
00:07:12The next day, Silas stopped me and stole the pregnancy report.
00:07:16He saw the royal mark on the egg and knew I was carrying Kale's child.
00:07:20You dare carry a royal heir, you filthy half-blood.
00:07:27Once I'm Kale's prince consort, the council would personally get rid of this child of unknown parentage.
00:07:35Silas used the engagement notice, the pure-blood judgement, to threaten my baby.
00:07:39If the council ruled the egg impure, they'd destroy it. I had to hear Kale's answer from him.
00:07:44That night, I wrote down three questions.
00:07:46Who he loved, our child, and the serpent clan.
00:07:48Kale's answers would decide if my baby and I could stay.
00:07:53Kale, do you already love someone else?
00:07:58Yes.
00:07:59The mate mark only proved Kale and I were bonded, it didn't prove he loved me.
00:08:03Holding that torn engagement notice, I thought the one he wanted was Silas.
00:08:07Do you like kids?
00:08:09I won't have a child with anyone else.
00:08:11All I heard was anyone else.
00:08:13I tricked him into the bond, and I still couldn't believe I was really his mate.
00:08:16What if a serpent was carrying your child?
00:08:20That won't happen.
00:08:21I only have one lifelong mate, and I hate serpents.
00:08:24Kale said it himself, he hated serpents.
00:08:27All I could think was this, if he learned the truth, my baby and I were dead.
00:08:32Outside the door, Silas pulled out another forbidden serpent prophecy.
00:08:36It said a serpent mate would drain dragon aura and corrupt the royal heir.
00:08:39Once he finds out what you are, and what you're carrying, he killed both of you himself.
00:08:45Kale's answer and Silas's prophecy pointed to the same end.
00:08:48I couldn't gamble my baby's life on whether Kale would accept a serpent.
00:08:54So I decided to leave with the baby before Kale found out.
00:08:58Brother, arrange for me to leave Kale.
00:09:00Well, thank you for that.
00:09:01This is
00:09:02another problem, Mr. Moje.
00:09:02I'm so amazed that the man has done this.
00:09:04I'm so worried about his thing, and I know his Twitchey is going to have to keep him through that.
00:09:10What's going on?
00:09:16I'm so worried about him.
00:09:18I can't believe he will.
00:09:18I'm so scared of if heYoq, you're out.
00:09:19The title is the King's feet.
00:09:20Rowan agreed to help me fake my death during the field exercise, the After Tomorrow.
00:09:23I deleted the records, hid the report, and started packing.
00:09:26Why have you been avoiding me lately?
00:09:28I just wanted a little more dragon aura.
00:09:30I lied to him again. Our baby was right under his hand, and I still moved it away.
00:09:34I was leaving in two days. I just wanted to hold on to his warmth a little longer.
00:09:38The next day, Lucen, the son of the Western Sea Dragon King, transferred in.
00:09:42He and Kale were never formally engaged, but that old story still made me think Kale had been waiting for
00:09:46a pureblood dragon mate.
00:09:47Don't look at him. He's engaged.
00:09:50Kale wouldn't let me look at Lucen, and he made a point of saying Lucen was engaged.
00:09:53I took that to mean he still cared about that old arrangement.
00:10:04The only one who will ever stand beside Kale is a pureblood dragon.
00:10:08You're just something he keeps hidden.
00:10:09Silas shoved the fake engagement notice in that old article in front of me,
00:10:13insisting that Kale would only keep a pureblood dragon.
00:10:16I was even less willing to call off my escape.
00:10:18That night, I emptied the closet and got ready to disappear for good.
00:10:22During the field exercise, I thought Kale wouldn't notice.
00:10:25But then he came back early.
00:10:26Where's the rest of your stuff?
00:10:29Old clothes.
00:10:30I was sending them to Rowan's.
00:10:32Kale saw I'd even packed my ID badge.
00:10:34I lied and said I was just sorting old clothes.
00:10:37But he kept staring at it.
00:10:38He didn't press me.
00:10:40He just put the ID badge back on me himself.
00:10:42After that, his eyes never left me.
00:10:44That night, Kale still held me the way he always did.
00:10:47I couldn't bear to push him away.
00:10:48I forgot the dragon egg could recognize its father's presence, too.
00:10:56Asha, what's in your belly?
00:10:59The baby moved under his hand.
00:11:02One more look, and Kale would know I was pregnant.
00:11:06Don't touch me.
00:11:07I don't need your dragon aura anymore.
00:11:09We're done.
00:11:10To protect my baby, I had to hide the biggest secret behind the cruelest troops.
00:11:14I did use his dragon aura, but I never meant to leave him after.
00:11:17You used me, and now you think you can leave?
00:11:19Asha, not a chance.
00:11:20Kale kept hold of my wrist from the dorm, all the way to the assembly ground, and didn't
00:11:24let go until the instructor called roll.
00:11:27But that day was the abyss field exercises.
00:11:29I had to disappear right in front of him.
00:11:30Silas used his authority as discipline captain to move me alone onto the deadliest route in
00:11:35the abyss.
00:11:36When he disabled my safety chain, too, I knew it was a death trap.
00:11:39The abyss will rip your mask off for me.
00:11:41But Rowan had set up my fake death through this field exercise.
00:11:44If I fell into the abyss, he'd catch me below and make everyone believe I was dead.
00:11:49The second I entered the abyss zone, Silas used his seal to shut off my safety chain.
00:11:53Then a monster grabbed my leg and dragged me toward the cliff.
00:11:58Falling was part of the plan.
00:12:00When the escape sigil lit up, I let go so Rowan could catch me at the bottom.
00:12:04Then golden dragon aura exploded above the cliff.
00:12:40Kale jumped after me, in front of everyone.
00:12:42That's when I understood.
00:12:43He'd rather fall into the abyss with me than let me vanish.
00:12:47Kale caught me in middle air and shielded me to his dragon form.
00:12:50The abyssal monsters slammed into his scales, but I never took a single hit.
00:12:54Silas threw me into the abyss.
00:12:56Kale took the fall and the monsters for me.
00:12:58The man everyone claimed treated me as nothing more than a playfid risked his life for me again.
00:13:03Rowan was already waiting at the bottom.
00:13:05Kale had never met him.
00:13:07The moment the serpent guards approached, he shielded me and my belly behind him.
00:13:11The dragon egg moved again under Kale's hand.
00:13:15I couldn't push him away this time.
00:13:17He froze and looked at my stomach for the first time.
00:13:20The dragon reinforcements were already coming.
00:13:22To get my baby out, I had to strike the heartthorn Kale exposed to protecting me and weaken him for
00:13:27a moment.
00:13:30Asher, are you pregnant with my child?
00:13:32Kale finally asked if the baby I was carrying was his.
00:13:35I almost told him, but I still believed Kale would never let a serpent carry his child.
00:13:40So I stayed silent again.
00:13:41The baby's father is a serpent, not you.
00:13:44Rowan lied to protect me.
00:13:46He said Kale wasn't the father, but the dragon egg still reached for him.
00:13:49And the lie cracked on the spot.
00:14:21The George was rejected by yonan, he kept saying he had to your life.
00:14:22mine. Why did he answer me? Rowan denied it for me, but the egg answered Kale right away. The lie
00:14:28didn't fool the baby's real father for a second. Before Kale got an answer, Rowan triggered the
00:14:32evacuation circle and pulled me out of his reach. Once it went through, I could vanish with the
00:14:37baby. Right before the evacuation circle finished, Silas came after us with academy instructors and
00:14:43dragonsault. He didn't come near me. He held up the fake prophecy for everyone to see. My fake
00:14:47dragonhorns finally came off, and at Kale's feet was the horn that proved I'd lie to him.
00:14:57He's a serpent who stole that mate mark with lies. That child will corrupt the royal bloodline.
00:15:03Execute them both! Silas used the fake prophecy to demand that my baby and I be executed. My
00:15:08serpent form, my pregnancy, and my lies were all exposed at once. I thought Kale would draw his
00:15:13sword too, but he didn't even look at Silas. He picked up the fake horn and walked toward
00:15:18me. Why does this child have my dragon aura?
00:16:03Kale had seen my snake scales. He knew the baby carried his dragon aura.
00:16:09Before I could answer, Silas went straight for my child.
00:16:13Kale had seen my snake scales. He knew the baby carried his dragon aura.
00:16:13Calling it protection of the royal bloodline.
00:16:19Kale stopped the blade with his bare hand.
00:16:23He didn't know the whole truth, but he still put me and the baby behind him.
00:16:27Even with my snake form exposed.
00:16:30He's a serpent. That egg will taint your bloodline.
00:16:42He is my lifelong mate. Anyone who touches him or the child again answers to me.
00:16:49Every dragon soldier lowered their weapon.
00:16:53Only Silas kept staring at my stomach.
00:17:00It was as if he knew that as long as the baby lived, he would never have the place beside
00:17:05Kale.
00:17:07Roland's evacuation circle was already active.
00:17:09But Kale still grabbed my hand, risking the serpent circle tearing into him.
00:17:15He was still waiting for my answer.
00:17:18Is this baby mine?
00:17:32Even if the baby is yours, your counsel will kill him.
00:17:35Until I can trust you, I'm not giving you my child.
00:17:39This time, Silas didn't silent me.
00:17:42I chose not to answer.
00:17:45It wasn't just about who the baby's father was anymore.
00:17:49I needed to know if Kale would turn against the entire dragon clan for us.
00:18:00Then watch me prove it.
00:18:05Before the circle took me, Silas still wanted me dead.
00:18:10Kale turned his back on me, took every arrow.
00:18:13Issue a search order. Find Asher. Bring him back alive and don't hurt him.
00:18:20Kale's order said to bring me back alive.
00:18:23Before the circle closed, I saw Silas stamp it again.
00:18:28But I couldn't tell what the red seal covered.
00:18:37When I landed back in serpent territory, the wanted order came with me.
00:18:42Kale's royal seal was still on it.
00:18:45But do not harm had turned into kill if he resists.
00:18:50That's not what he said.
00:18:55I knew Silas had touched the order, but I couldn't prove what he changed.
00:18:59Kale did protect me.
00:19:01He also ordered them to bring me back.
00:19:05Even the baby responded to his father's error.
00:19:11But when I saw kill if he resists, all I could do was hide him even deeper.
00:19:23Rowan confirmed it.
00:19:25Someone covered that order with a second seal.
00:19:29But the original still with the dragon clan.
00:19:32All I saw was Silas stamp it.
00:19:34And no one would believe a snake who just stole a mate mark.
00:19:41If Kale wanted you dead, he wouldn't have taken that sword for you.
00:19:44But he's still taking me back.
00:19:51The baby's safe for now.
00:19:53I didn't have to hide my scales anymore.
00:19:55Or stay near Kale just to survive.
00:19:58But after I left him, even sleep felt cold.
00:20:04That night, the egg reached for its father for the first time in my sleep.
00:20:12By the time I blacked out, I'd shifted back.
00:20:15And started crawling towards Kale, following that golden light.
00:20:20I never woke up.
00:20:22I didn't even know I'd passed through Rowan's barrier.
00:20:25The second my tail left the cabin, it sealed behind me.
00:20:39In my sleep, I crawled all the way to the dragon camp.
00:20:43The closer I got to Kale, the faster the baby moved.
00:20:47Like he was searching for his other father.
00:20:53My father controls the council.
00:20:56Until the baby's bloodline is confirmed, I have the right to enforce the pure blood prophecy.
00:21:01Kill him!
00:21:03Silas invoked his father's authority as High Elder and the fake prophecy to order them to kill me.
00:21:10The others hesitated.
00:21:12He took the spear himself and aimed it at my baby.
00:21:17The second that spear came down, Kale threw himself in front of me again.
00:21:22His dragon aura wrapped around me.
00:21:25And I still didn't wake up.
00:21:38Kale burnt through the second pier and pulled me against his heart scale.
00:21:42The egg knocked against his chest, and both golden lights flared again.
00:21:48Hand the snake over.
00:22:01Kale burned Silasize's command badge.
00:22:04The soldiers backed off, and he never handed me over.
00:22:09Even in my sleep, I curled around Kale's wrist.
00:22:13The baby settled under his hand, and I finally stopped shivering.
00:22:24A warm tear hit my scales.
00:22:27Your Prinus, why are you crying?
00:22:30Then I heard the soldier's question, woke from that haze, and looked straight into Kale's red-rimmed eyes.
00:22:38The second I woke up, I wanted to run.
00:22:44But Kale didn't grab me.
00:22:47He just held my head gently, the way he used to touch my fake dragon horns.
00:22:54Asher, how long are you going to keep hiding?
00:22:58He said my name.
00:23:00Kale had known all along that snake was me, and he still took two spears for me and brought me
00:23:05back to his tent.
00:23:10I'm the council's appointed Prince Comport.
00:23:13Hand him over.
00:23:14You were never my mate.
00:23:16I never accepted that engagement.
00:23:19I heard Kale reject Silas again.
00:23:23But the wanted order that gave them the right to kill me still bore his royal seal.
00:23:30I still couldn't hand myself and my baby over.
00:23:39I bit Kale and ran for the forest when he let go.
00:23:43The dragon soldiers raised their bows, but he stopped them.
00:23:46Let him go.
00:23:48No one follows.
00:23:54Use my name to hurt him again, and you'll lose your candidate status forever.
00:24:00I hid in the brush and watched Kale stop Silas in front of everyone.
00:24:07But Silas was still staring where I'd gone, and he'd already crushed a black message stone in his other hand.
00:24:18The next day, word spread throughout serpent territory that Kale had been poisoned by me.
00:24:26The notice said only the snake who bit him could cure him, and it deliberately marked the dragon camp's location.
00:24:32Your venom can't hurt the crown prince.
00:24:35It's a trap.
00:24:37Silas is trying to force you back.
00:24:42Rowan recognized Silas' family wax seal right away.
00:24:45I knew it was a trap, but I couldn't gamble with Kale's life.
00:24:51Even if it's a trap, I need to see for myself that he's alive.
00:25:03I took the antidote and headed for the camp.
00:25:06Rowan couldn't stop me, so he gave me a teleport sigilet and told me to run the second I saw
00:25:10Silas.
00:25:19Every marker led me to the same place.
00:25:22Silas knew if Kale might be in danger, I'd walk right into his trap.
00:25:39Kale was never poisoned.
00:25:42Silas used that notice as bait to prove I still loved Kale, and I walked right into the dragon soldier's
00:25:49trap.
00:25:54Who told you I was dying?
00:25:59I did.
00:26:03I wanted to see if a snake who only uses you would come back for you.
00:26:09Silas admitted it in front of everyone.
00:26:12He spread the lie to expose my feelings and show Kale I came back anyway, even knowing it was a
00:26:19trap.
00:26:26Seeing Kale alive, I wasn't angry.
00:26:28I was relieved.
00:26:30But every step closer made me shield our baby tighter.
00:26:34Asha, look at me.
00:26:36I won't grab you.
00:26:40The dangerous snake walked right into our hands.
00:26:44Chain him.
00:26:45Hand the dragon egg over to the council.
00:26:50Silas cut off Kale's reach with the chains.
00:26:53The dragon soldiers closed in again.
00:26:56This time, Kale had to choose in front of everyone.
00:26:59Obey the council, or protect me.
00:27:08Kale shattered the council's chains in front of everyone.
00:27:13He wouldn't let anyone touch me.
00:27:18He got back on one knee in front of me anyway.
00:27:22You're defying the council for a snake who stole your dragon aura.
00:27:28He didn't just take my dragon aura.
00:27:31He took my lifelong maintenance mark too.
00:27:34Kale showed everyone the mate mark.
00:27:38He claimed me in public as his mate.
00:27:40And Silas couldn't call me some random fraud anymore.
00:27:47Kale cried in front of me.
00:27:53He didn't even know whose baby I was carrying.
00:27:56Yet he said he could accept a serpent and raise a child I had with someone else.
00:28:01So what if you're carrying someone else's child?
00:28:06Have the baby.
00:28:08I'll be his father.
00:28:13That gave me my answer before blood ever could.
00:28:18Kale wasn't choosing a royal heir.
00:28:21He was choosing me and the child I'd fought to protect.
00:28:26But don't you hate snakes?
00:28:32I hate the snake who lured my brother away and got his mate killed.
00:28:38Not every serpent.
00:28:42It was the first time Kale told me the whole reason.
00:28:45He hated the deceit and the harm.
00:28:49But all I heard was to the death.
00:28:51And I thought he'd kill me and our child too.
00:28:57I said cruel things.
00:28:59I ordered them to bring you in.
00:29:02But I never ordered your death.
00:29:06He admitted the wanted order was his.
00:29:09But denied the part that said they could kill me if I resisted.
00:29:14That's when I knew Silas had changed the original with a second seal.
00:29:25I had just started to believe Kale when Silas showed up with a council order.
00:29:30The lifelong mate mark couldn't be changed.
00:29:32But the council could still strip me of my Prince Comport status for deception and put Silas at Kale's side.
00:29:39A private mark means nothing without royal recognition.
00:29:43Hand over the snake and the dragon egg.
00:29:46I'm the council's chosen Prince Comport.
00:29:52No one chooses my mate for me.
00:29:54Not the council.
00:29:56Silas finally stopped hiding it.
00:29:59He never just wanted a pureblood royal line.
00:30:02He wanted Kale to belong to him in public.
00:30:10If he's the only one you recognize, tear up that order in front of the council.
00:30:23Kale tore up the royal mate eligibility order.
00:30:26In front of everyone, the seal on the fake engagement notice melted away.
00:30:31He stopped letting paperwork speak for him.
00:30:43Asher is my only lifelong mate.
00:31:00Asher is my only lifelong mate.
00:31:09The baby had been absorbing Kale's dragon aura for a long time, so the Heartstale resonance still wasn't public proof
00:31:15of paternity.
00:31:16But when Kale touched the baby again, three streaks of gold joined on their own.
00:31:26Every dragon soldier saw it.
00:31:29The egg wasn't just absorbing power.
00:31:32It was looking for its father.
00:31:35I believe this child is mine.
00:31:39But I won't let the council answer for you.
00:31:45Asher, look at me.
00:31:46Tell me yourself.
00:31:48Is he our child?
00:31:50This time, there was no evacuation circle and no Silas to cut me off.
00:31:55If I spoke, Kale would know what I'd really taken with me.
00:32:01I didn't push his hand away.
00:32:04For the first time, I stopped hiding behind silence.
00:32:09I wasn't going to let Silas define the truth for me anymore.
00:32:14Yes, the baby is yours.
00:32:17I've only ever completed the mate-bond ritual with you.
00:32:20I finally admitted it.
00:32:22This dragon egg was ours.
00:32:24Kale didn't ask why I hid it.
00:32:26He just used his injured hand to protect me and our baby.
00:32:30In private, we knew he was the father.
00:32:36But Silas could still use the council to deny it in public.
00:32:41He'd lost one way to tear us apart and was already looking for another.
00:32:46Rowan came to save me.
00:32:49This time, I didn't let them keep misunderstanding each other.
00:32:55I stepped between them and said it clearly.
00:32:58Rowan is my brother.
00:33:00In the Abyss, he only denied you with a father so he could get me out.
00:33:10Yesterday, you said the baby had nothing to do with Kale.
00:33:14Today, he's the father.
00:33:16So which is it?
00:33:19Rowan.
00:33:20Why let him think I'd kill my own mate and child?
00:33:26Asher heard you say you hated snakes more than anything.
00:33:29He thought that if the truth came out, you'd kill him and the baby yourself.
00:33:32Rowan said what I couldn't.
00:33:34It wasn't that I didn't love Kale.
00:33:36I just didn't believe the real me was someone he'd choose.
00:33:38I'll explain everything I've done, but I won't decide for you anymore.
00:33:42You choose whether you stay or go.
00:33:44Kale didn't order Rowan to hand me over.
00:33:47He gave me that broken scale, all that old hatred with it.
00:33:50And for the first time, he gave me the choice to stay or leave.
00:33:58Lucian brought two documents.
00:34:01Lucian brought two documents.
00:34:04Kale had already rejected the council's arranged engagement.
00:34:07And Lucian had already got engaged to someone else.
00:34:11The two rivals I feared were never who Kale chose.
00:34:16Sillis intercepted the rejection letter,
00:34:18then forged a notice saying Kale had accepted the engagement.
00:34:29The fake engagement was barely exposed before Sillis dragged out what I really did wrong.
00:34:34Everyone saw it.
00:34:36I tampered with Kale's drink without his knowledge just to stay alive.
00:34:41The engagement may have been fake.
00:34:44But he got close to you from the start to steal your dragon aura.
00:34:57If you hadn't needed my dragon aura then, would you still have chosen me?
00:35:07Sillis had finally asked the one question Kale couldn't avoid.
00:35:12At first, I went to him to survive.
00:35:17Later, I fell in love with him and kept hiding the truth because I was afraid to lose him.
00:35:23At first, no, I was trying to survive.
00:35:29But after that, every time I came close to you, every time I couldn't bear to leave, it was real.
00:35:38I just never gave you the chance to know the truth and choose again.
00:35:43I'm not using my short life as an excuse.
00:35:47Kale protected me and he hurt me.
00:35:50But I started this with a lie.
00:35:53I took away his right to choose.
00:35:56Then why didn't you tell me once you were safe?
00:35:59Because I was afraid that if you knew, you wouldn't choose me.
00:36:08I'll accept the investigation into the Bond Catalyst.
00:36:11And I'll give up my Prince Comport status for now.
00:36:15Not because Silas is right.
00:36:17Because I have to answer for what I did.
00:36:21While this is under investigation, I won't ask Kale to forgive me.
00:36:26And I won't use the mate mark to make him stay.
00:36:31Silas' father controlled the council.
00:36:35Until the official paternity test, Silas had custody of me.
00:36:40And every right to stay by Kale's side.
00:36:45Tomorrow, that child will prove you betrayed him.
00:36:49And Kale will give me back the place of Prince Contort himself.
00:36:57Then let everyone see whether Kale ever chose you, while under the drug's effects.
00:37:05At the next hearing, the one knight I most wanted to bury would be laid bare for everyone to see.
00:37:14Kale made the full memory of that knight public.
00:37:17Everyone saw it.
00:37:19The Catalyst opened his dragon era, but it did not take his consciousness.
00:37:24He chose that lifelong mate bond while he was fully awake.
00:37:28The Catalyst was Asher's mistake.
00:37:32But he didn't steal the mate mark.
00:37:36I gave it to him myself.
00:37:39The council couldn't break the lifelong mate mark, but they could suspend my royal status.
00:37:46Silas put on that candidate sash like he'd finally taken my place.
00:37:50Kale, at tomorrow's ceremony, I'll cleanse the royal house of this disgrace.
00:37:59I rejected you before I ever met Asher.
00:38:05Kale rejected Silas again in public, so the council suspended his authority as crown prince.
00:38:12As long as he kept standing with me, the dragon soldiers, the teleportation circles,
00:38:18and royal orders would no longer answer to him.
00:38:21Until the paternity test, Asher stays under Silas's custody.
00:38:26Kale is not permitted to approach him.
00:38:35Let me go on my own.
00:38:37This time, you need to respect my choice.
00:38:42Kale could have taken me out by force.
00:38:44But when I said no, he folded his wings.
00:38:48For the first time, he didn't turn protection into control.
00:39:02The second the door shut, Silas forced that waiver on me.
00:39:08He wanted me to deny our love and the baby, then use it to destroy whatever trust Kale had left.
00:39:14Sign it, and I'll let you leave alive with the child.
00:39:19Refuse, and Kale loses the throne because of you.
00:39:25Whether Kale wants the throne his choice.
00:39:29And you don't get to tell me whether I love him.
00:39:31I used to guess Kale's answer for him.
00:39:33I used to decide the truth for both of us.
00:39:36Not anymore.
00:39:37I'd rather face the fallout than let Silas choose for either of us again.
00:39:41Silas forged my signature right in front of me.
00:39:43Then he made me watch Kale get the letter.
00:39:45He believed that as long as the page said, I don't love you, Kale would trust the document instead of
00:39:49me again.
00:39:50Watch. He'll give you up any second.
00:39:53Asha would never say goodbye in your words.
00:39:55Once, Kale let a fake engagement notice come between us.
00:39:57This time, he didn't let a piece of paper speak for me.
00:40:04Then I'll make sure he doesn't see you again before tomorrow.
00:40:09Silas didn't kill me right away.
00:40:13He took me to the archives with the original rejection letter, the prophecy payment, and the wanted order.
00:40:21He was going to make me disappear with them.
00:40:24That's when I understood why Silas moved before the paternity test.
00:40:28I copied the rejection letter, the fake prophecy payment, and the original wanted order into three memory crystals.
00:40:36So the truth wouldn't die in one evidence box.
00:40:43I didn't know until later that Rowan, Lucian, and Kale each caught one.
00:40:49Even if Silas burned the originals, he couldn't bury the truth again.
00:40:54Silas finally dropped the royal security excuse.
00:41:00He grabbed me and demanded to know why Kale still wouldn't choose him.
00:41:04After seeing my serpent form, my lies, and the baby.
00:41:09You really think a few pieces of evidence will make Kale love you?
00:41:14Because he never loved you.
00:41:21The bloodline test wasn't supposed to happen until tomorrow.
00:41:25Then I'll prove you were never worthy of carrying his child.
00:41:29Silas moved it up and turned it into a pure blood test, aimed only on the serpent clan.
00:41:36Silas used his authority to start the test early.
00:41:40Officially, it was a council-approved bloodline test.
00:41:44But he slipped a black rudenstone into the circle, and pushed it to the highest safe dose.
00:41:50Last chance.
00:41:52Sign it.
00:41:54Admit the baby isn't Kale's, and I'll stop.
00:42:02He wanted one lie for my baby's life.
00:42:05I could give up the title of Prince Comport, but I couldn't erase Kale from our child's life.
00:42:14I won't decide for Kale anymore whether he deserves to be this baby's father.
00:42:21The second I refused to sign, the testing circle spun out of control.
00:42:26It started draining the baby's dragon era, and my mate mark was shrinking to a thin gold line.
00:42:34Stop! This isn't a normal test.
00:42:39Once that egg dies, Kale won't have any reason left to keep you.
00:42:47I won't.
00:42:47Silas finally said what this was really about.
00:42:50He was never trying to prove bloodline.
00:42:53He was trying to kill the child connecting me to Kale.
00:43:05When our baby's light went out, Kale found me through our mate mark.
00:43:10He'd already lost his authority as crown prince.
00:43:14But he still broke through the council wall alone, and carried me out of the circle.
00:43:23Sign it, and the council restores your command immediately.
00:43:27Accept me, and only then can you order them to stand down.
00:43:36I don't need to marry you to get them out.
00:43:40Silas tied Kale's command to Kale accepting him.
00:43:43Kale burned the order and chose to get us out without the council.
00:43:57The testing circle cut my lifelink to the baby.
00:44:02Kale's dragon aura could pull him back, but forcing it into me would only hurt me again.
00:44:09Asher has to give consent himself.
00:44:13You can say no.
00:44:16I'll protect both of you, but I won't make this choice for you again.
00:44:21Our baby's light was fading.
00:44:24But Kale didn't use his status as our baby's father or as my mate to order me.
00:44:30He just waited for me to choose.
00:44:35Asher, will you let me save him?
00:44:37I remembered I messed with his drink without asking.
00:44:42He once used the mate bond to keep me from leaving.
00:44:46We'd both made choices for each other.
00:44:49This time, he gave that choice back.
00:44:53I want this.
00:44:55Save our baby.
00:44:59Once I said yes, the dragon aura reconnected to our child.
00:45:06The egg's heartbeat came back.
00:45:10And the mate mark wasn't cut off by the black runestone anymore.
00:45:16Even after Kale saved our baby, he still waited.
00:45:22I moved closer on my own.
00:45:26That didn't mean the hurt was gone.
00:45:29It meant I could see he was changing.
00:45:35The second our baby stabilized, Silas used his father's power to turn tomorrow's paternity test
00:45:41into a confirmation banquet for the prince consort and heir.
00:45:46The whole dragon crown would be there to see who Kale chose.
00:45:53If that child isn't Kale's, you'll be exiled from the dragon realm.
00:45:58And I'll become his prince consort on the spot.
00:46:06I won't run again.
00:46:09And I won't let our child live under those rumors forever.
00:46:16Tomorrow, I'll walk into that banquet hall with my snake tail showing.
00:46:21And let everyone see the truth.
00:46:28The next day, I walked in with no fake dragon horns and nothing hiding my snake tail.
00:46:38Silas was waiting by the throne, dressed to be Prince Comport.
00:46:42Everyone was watching to see who Kale would choose.
00:46:45Kale didn't take the throne Silas had left for him.
00:46:49He came to my side and waited.
00:46:52I took his hand first.
00:46:54And together, we faced the entire dragon clan.
00:46:58If the paternity test fails, Asher will be exiled.
00:47:04Kale must accept the council's chosen prince consort.
00:47:07Then test the bloodline.
00:47:09My lifelong mate is not yours to assign.
00:47:17Silas exposed Rowan's lie first.
00:47:22He made sure everyone heard the baby had once been claimed as another serpent's child.
00:47:26Then called me a fraud, who used dragon aura to fake royal blood.
00:47:32He can change the child's father whenever he wants.
00:47:35And you still think a snake like that deserves to be Prince Comport.
00:47:46Kale is the father.
00:47:48I lied because I thought he'd kill them.
00:47:52Rowan admitted he lied to save me.
00:47:56Silas stamped him with a false testimony seal anyway,
00:47:59and still refused to let the baby answer for himself.
00:48:07The real paternity test finally began.
00:48:11One drop from me, one from Kale, and one from the baby.
00:48:16By tonight, every lie would have its answer.
00:48:21Kale gave his blood first.
00:48:24The physician confirmed the tray wasn't drawing any dragon aura.
00:48:30But behind the council seats, Silas already had his hand on a black runestone under the table.
00:48:37My blood, Kale's, and the baby's blood went into the tray together.
00:48:43Everyone watched the three drops.
00:48:47At the last second, Silas crushed the black rudenstone.
00:48:55No bloodline match.
00:48:58The bloodline tray declared Kale wasn't the baby's father.
00:49:01The whole banquet hall went silent.
00:49:05Silas finally smiled like he'd won.
00:49:07He tricked you into the mate-bond ritual.
00:49:10And he's carrying someone else's child.
00:49:14Now announce that I am your Prince Comport.
00:49:18Silas finally got what he'd been waiting for.
00:49:22If Kale believed the paternity test,
00:49:25I'd be cast out of the dragon clan.
00:49:27And my baby would once again be called
00:49:31A Stain on the Royal Bloodline.
00:49:33Before the truth came out,
00:49:35Kale came to me first.
00:49:42The result could be wrong.
00:49:44My choice stands.
00:49:46His next words would decide whether he chose the baby's bloodline or all of me.
00:49:54Everyone believed the baby wasn't Kale's.
00:49:57Silas told him to choose.
00:49:58The throne, a pure-blood Prince Comport, or me.
00:50:02Kale gave up his crown prince seal first.
00:50:06Even if this baby isn't mine,
00:50:07Asher is still my only lifelong mate.
00:50:11And I will acknowledge this child.
00:50:20If the throne requires me to marry you,
00:50:22then I give up the throne.
00:50:25This time, Kale didn't stay because the dragon egg was his.
00:50:30Even with everyone saying I'd betrayed him,
00:50:33he still chose a serpent and a child that might not be his.
00:50:37That's impossible.
00:50:39He was using you from the start.
00:50:42But he never chose you.
00:50:51It was as if the baby heard his father's choice,
00:50:54and pressed toward Kale again.
00:50:56The two blood drops they'd ruled indereferent kept pulling towards each other,
00:51:01forced apart by a black line.
00:51:12Someone tampered with the bloodline tray.
00:51:15Rowan and Lucian found a black runestone at Silas's feet.
00:51:18It used the same forbidden spell that harmed the dragon egg.
00:51:22The first paternity test was fake from the start.
00:51:25Replace the tray.
00:51:26Run the paternity test again.
00:51:29Now.
00:51:30Silas's proudest proof fell apart right there.
00:51:33In front of everyone, the second paternity test began again.
00:51:37The neutral physician held the new bloodline tray the whole time.
00:51:41No council runestone.
00:51:43Nothing Silas could touch.
00:51:46Kale and I gave our blood again.
00:51:48This time, the three drops merged without resisting.
00:51:54A golden hatchling rose from the bloodline tray,
00:51:57with the same silver-white snake scales on its tail as mine.
00:52:01The bloodline is confirmed.
00:52:04The dragon egg's father is Kale Draven.
00:52:10The whole dragon clan saw the truth.
00:52:14But Kale had already made the choice that mattered most to me before the result ever came out.
00:52:20Once Silas lost the bloodline claim, and his shot at becoming Prince Comport, he finally dropped the act.
00:52:28You stole him from me.
00:52:30You stole him from me.
00:52:31Without you, I'd be the one by his side!
00:52:35He admitted it was all because Kale never loved him.
00:52:41Kale took the first strike for me, but this time I didn't hide behind him.
00:52:48I swept Silas down with my tail and pinned his wrist myself.
00:52:54You didn't lose the bloodline test.
00:52:56You lost because Kale never chose you.
00:53:07Now let's show everyone what else he forged.
00:53:15we released all three copies at once
00:53:19silas's father couldn't destroy the evidence anymore
00:53:23the whole dragon clan saw his jealousy dressed up as a royal order
00:53:32silas vos forged the engagement notice the prophecy and the wanted order he tampered
00:53:39with the paternity test and attempted murder take him into custody
00:53:44silas lost his candidate status and his post at the academy
00:53:51by attacking me in public he took the final step that cost him the council's protection
00:53:56and any chance of returning to kail's side
00:54:01kail you'll regret choosing a snake
00:54:04what i regret most is letting him believe he wasn't worth choosing
00:54:14silas was taken away and our child was acknowledged in public
00:54:19but one right choice couldn't erase that kail had once grabbed me and hunted me down
00:54:25it couldn't rebuild our trust
00:54:29i can restore your title
00:54:31i can make them apologize
00:54:35i don't need a title to prove you love me
00:54:38i need you to admit you hurt me too
00:54:41this time i didn't run
00:54:48and i didn't take him back
00:54:51choosing me in public was only the start
00:54:55i needed kail to understand the difference between love and possession
00:55:02then what do i have to do for you to give me another chance
00:55:06kail asked how we could start over
00:55:08for the first time
00:55:11i didn't try to guess what he wanted to hear
00:55:16i waited for him to say what he'd actually done wrong
00:55:23i never should have grabbed you
00:55:25i never should have used a wanted order to force you back
00:55:29and i never should have treated our bond like a command
00:55:35i thought protecting you gave me the right to decide for you
00:55:37i was wrong
00:55:39he didn't use love as an excuse
00:55:42he didn't ask me to forgive him right away
00:55:45he admitted
00:55:46one by one
00:55:48every order that had scared me
00:55:50this time
00:55:51i won't ask you to stay
00:55:54i'll wait until you choose me again
00:55:58i went back to rowan's cabin
00:56:01kail didn't ask me to move into the palace
00:56:05he came to the serpent forest with one suitcase
00:56:09and waited to see if i'd let him in
00:56:13don't ever use mate duty to order me around again
00:56:16no more wanted orders
00:56:19if you touch me
00:56:20or decide anything about our child
00:56:22you ask me first
00:56:24i promise
00:56:26where you live when you see me
00:56:28that's up to you too
00:56:34getting through that door doesn't mean you're forgiven
00:56:37first
00:56:38prove the crown prince can take care of a pregnant man
00:56:43rowan's first test for kail wasn't a fight
00:56:46it was taking care of me for one full day
00:56:49without power
00:56:50or attendance
00:56:59kail didn't know how to make serpent medicine
00:57:02he didn't know dragon fire would scorch the egg cushion
00:57:07but he started over himself
00:57:10no servants
00:57:11no orders
00:57:16rowan mixed up the bottles on purpose
00:57:19but kail still knew which one i'd been taking at the academy
00:57:23he already knew i was hurting every day
00:57:26he just didn't know why
00:57:29you knew i was sick this whole time
00:57:32i only knew you were suffering in silence
00:57:34i never really asked
00:57:38that was the first time i believed he wasn't trying to keep me
00:57:41he was trying to hear me
00:57:49silas can't tear us apart anymore
00:57:51but the first lie is still there
00:57:56i have to tell kail why i stole his dragon aura
00:57:59and live with whatever he chooses after that
00:58:03serpent hybrids don't live past 22
00:58:09back then
00:58:10becoming a dragon's lifelong mate
00:58:11was the only way i knew to stay alive
00:58:19i admitted i only went to him at first to stay alive
00:58:24then i told him i had less than a month left
00:58:27before my 22nd birthday
00:58:32only then did he learn there had been a countdown to my death
00:58:35behind every secret i kept
00:58:39how long until you turn 22
00:58:43my lifelong mate mark kept steady dragon aura
00:58:46flowing into my heart the whole time
00:58:48roland checked again and again
00:58:50the life crystal had healed
00:58:53i wasn't going to die at 22 anymore
00:58:57take all my power
00:58:59i'm not dying young anymore
00:59:02now i need you safe
00:59:04with me
00:59:05and our child
00:59:06even after kail knew i'd live
00:59:08he still tried to give me everything
00:59:12i said no
00:59:13i didn't need sacrifice or guilt to prove we loved each other
00:59:21i did trick kail to stay alive
00:59:24but what i felt for him became real
00:59:27this time
00:59:28there was no drug
00:59:29no duty
00:59:30no death clock
00:59:32i chose to renew our mate vow
00:59:35i choose all of you
00:59:38your serpent form
00:59:39your mistakes
00:59:41and the truth you're ready to give me now
00:59:46kail
00:59:47i choose you again
00:59:49the mate mark was never broken
00:59:51what started over was us
00:59:54we finally learned to choose each other
00:59:56knowing the whole truth
00:59:58the second we finished our vows
01:00:00our dragon egg was about to be born
01:00:02labor started early
01:00:04i could barely stand
01:00:09kail's hand was shaking
01:00:10but he still waited for me to say yes
01:00:14can i carry you to the delivery room
01:00:16yes
01:00:17don't leave me
01:00:22i let him carry me
01:00:23for the first time i asked him to stay
01:00:26when i was at my weakest
01:00:28i used to be afraid he'd see my body
01:00:30now i'm only afraid he'll let go
01:00:33then the council called kail back
01:00:35to take the throne
01:00:38it was the one duty he'd never been allowed to refuse
01:00:46tonight i'm only your lifelong mate and this child's father
01:00:52kail burned the order in front of the messenger and came back to me
01:00:57the throne could wait
01:00:59this moment couldn't
01:01:07the baby's stuck between his serpent form and the egg
01:01:10kail has to guide him out
01:01:12or neither of them gets through this
01:01:18our baby has both forms
01:01:21he can't get through on his own
01:01:24kail has to support me with his tail
01:01:26and send his power through the mate mark to the baby
01:01:32asha
01:01:32can i touch you
01:01:36yes
01:01:37bring our baby out
01:01:39only after i said yes did his dragon aura entered me
01:01:42it didn't suppress my serpent form
01:01:44it just followed our baby's movement and eased him out
01:01:51finally
01:01:51the egg dropped into kail's hands
01:01:54for the first time
01:01:56silver serpent markings
01:01:57and golden dragon scales grew together in one complete form
01:02:02inside
01:02:03his heartbeat was strong and steady
01:02:09our baby was born safe
01:02:11but he couldn't break the shell
01:02:12stop using only dragon aura
01:02:15the shell's rejecting a single bloodline
01:02:18the stronger kail's dragon aura got
01:02:20the fast those silver crite sealed
01:02:25he didn't need a pure blood father
01:02:31kail stopped forcing the shell
01:02:33and let me take over
01:02:36our child needed more than dragon blood
01:02:39he needed my serpent breath too
01:02:41to bind our powers together
01:02:44together
01:02:45don't let either power overwhelm the other
01:02:48for the first time
01:02:49we weren't fighting over our child
01:02:51we were holding him together
01:02:53in the same rhythm
01:02:56he's answering us
01:02:57at daybreak
01:02:59the shell finally began to crack on its own
01:03:03kail didn't force it again
01:03:05he only kept his hand there
01:03:07and waited for our son to enter this world on his own
01:03:12what emerged first was neither a full dragon tail
01:03:16nor a snake tail
01:03:18with a tail that belonged to both of us
01:03:21our child reached for his two fathers
01:03:30our child has dragon horns
01:03:32a snake tail
01:03:33and kail's eyes
01:03:36being mixed didn't make him less
01:03:39he came into the world carrying both our bloodlines
01:03:49oliver
01:03:50may you always be safe
01:03:52and never have to hide who you are
01:03:55we named him oliver
01:03:56it wasn't a name chosen by the royal registry
01:03:59it came only from the life we wanted him to have
01:04:06rowan finally didn't have to pretend to be the baby's father
01:04:10and kail didn't have to hold on to anyone by force
01:04:14for the first time
01:04:16we were together like a real family
01:04:23but silas going to prison didn't erase the old rules
01:04:28in one month oliver has to show his full dragon form in public
01:04:33and he was born with a snake tail
01:04:39he will not hide any part of himself just to enter the royal registry
01:04:46at oliver's one month naming ceremony
01:04:48he showed his horns
01:04:50his wings
01:04:52his father's royal dragon breath
01:04:54and the snake tail he'd inherited from me
01:04:59the council refused to enter him in the royal registry for that tail alone
01:05:04a hybrid form does not meet the royal succession rules
01:05:17if my child has to deny one of his fathers to inherit
01:05:23then the royal bloodline ends with me
01:05:26kail didn't hide oliver's tail
01:05:28he made the council choose
01:05:30accept our child as he is
01:05:32or lose their only royal heir
01:05:36in the end
01:05:37the council abolished the pureblood restriction
01:05:41oliver entered the royal registry
01:05:43in both his dragon and serpent forms
01:05:45and the academy opened to the serpent clan
01:05:48and all hybrids
01:05:49for the first time
01:06:01i used to glue on fake dragon horns just to get in here
01:06:05now i stood in the middle of the academy as a serpent
01:06:08and no one would ever make my child hide the way i did
01:06:18he's with me tonight
01:06:20three years later
01:06:22oliver had never learned to hide his tail
01:06:24you two finally get an anniversary without a dragon egg between you
01:06:28that night
01:06:29rowan took him
01:06:30and for the first time
01:06:32kale and i had the whole little house to ourselves
01:06:40kale still asks before he touches me
01:06:43and i don't hide behind silence anymore
01:06:46three years ago i could only come to him in the dark
01:06:50now the lights are my choice
01:06:53can i hold you tonight
01:06:58you can
01:07:00but leave the lights on
01:07:06i used to be scared he'd see my snake scales
01:07:08find out i stole dragon aura
01:07:11or learn i was carrying his child
01:07:14those secrets made me kill the lights
01:07:16lie
01:07:17and stay ready to run