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hierarchy read on Their Brother, the Dragon Sacrifice — all in the smallest gestures.
Watch how they make room. Who sits first. Who finishes a sentence uninterrupted. That's rank, and it's set long before anyone raises a voice.
He's the one nobody defers to. Not the youngest, not the weakest — just the one whose presence costs nothing to ignore.
Which is why he's the one they can spend.
That's the maths of every court: value is how much your absence would be felt, and his is the cheapest option.
Then he comes back changed and the maths breaks. The cheapest option is now the only one with weight.
✨ What worked:
- No ranking ceremony. It's all blocking and seating.
- His return reads as an audit, not a revenge.
✨ Bottom line: a court drama where the throne is a dinner table.
Whose absence would your family feel first? Be honest.
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00:28I've decided not to tell them.
00:30They'll find out soon enough.
00:32Will you keep this between us?
00:35Yes, I will keep your secret.
00:37The realm needs a sacrifice, not a family scandal.
00:40A heart can break twice, boy.
00:42Once from cruelties, and once from silence.
00:47Then let mine break quietly.
00:51Emrys was the man who found me as a baby.
00:53Later, he would come to work for my family.
00:56I know I can trust him.
00:58Certainly more than my family.
01:03That scream came from Lady Quinn's rose garden.
01:31Our realm is under dragon attack.
01:35The only way to end it is for one human to willingly enter the Dragon Valley as a sacrifice.
01:42Will anyone step forward to save the realm?
01:47I volunteer as sacrifice.
01:57You are young to have such a death wish.
01:59I'm 18, your majesty.
02:01My only wish is that my life means something.
02:04Very well.
02:05You shall travel to the Dragon Valley in three days' time with the arrival of the full moon.
02:11And there you will die.
02:13Before you go, I must ask.
02:15You are so young, why would you give up your life so freely?
02:18I'm an orphan.
02:19Found near the Dragon Valley as a child.
02:21I have no true family to mourn me.
02:23That is because my family already treats me like I'm dead.
02:26Though it was not always the case.
02:29I was raised a noble of House Quinn by Lord Quinn and Lady Quinn.
02:37They took me in as a child and brought me up as one of their own.
02:45Lord Quinn taught me to ride.
02:48I'm doing it, Father. Look!
02:49That's it, Alistair.
02:50Soon you shall be riding a horse like a knight.
02:53My mother, Lady Quinn, taught me to be gentle.
02:58Remember, Alistair. Delicate.
03:07My older sister, the brave knight Kaya, taught me to fight.
03:11Better luck next time, brother.
03:15And my sister, Elaine, blinded by a fever, taught me to see more than just what was on the surface.
03:30What is that open?
03:35Dorian, the son of a defeated noble sent to my father as payment.
03:39I thought I found a brother that was like me.
03:42An orphan, except he came from noble birth.
03:46But it was not meant to be.
03:58While hunting, Dorian blamed me for a stab wound he gave himself.
04:06There is room for only one foundling in this family.
04:14My family believed him.
04:17Father banished me from the house, ordering me to live in the stables.
04:23I've been there ever since, despite the pain.
04:26The Quinns loved me for many years.
04:30They saved my life.
04:32Now I can repay them by saving their lives and the realm.
04:36No one will miss me.
04:40You are very brave to do this, Alistair.
04:42I will make sure you have the finest clothes from my palace and you can travel home in my private
04:46carriage.
04:47Majesty, I do have one request.
04:49Name it and it is yours.
04:50I wish that my identity stays a secret.
04:53That no one outside of the people in this room will know what I have volunteered to do.
04:57I promise no one will know.
05:00Let no one here ever speak Alistair's name or mention what he promised to do today so long as Alistair
05:05is alive.
05:06This is my command under penalty of death.
05:18Three days.
05:20In three days I will be gone.
05:21I will be gone.
05:36I will be gone.
05:36I will be gone.
05:37I will be gone.
05:38I will be gone.
05:43Just as I had hoped, the manor was quiet this early.
05:47There would be no family around to see me from my secret trip to the capital.
05:51Please don't understand.
05:51You will see me.
05:52Though perhaps I've spoken too soon.
05:56They seem angry.
05:59And where have you been?
06:00There are dragons on the loose, boy.
06:03You should be guarding this manor with your life, not disappearing like a common coward.
06:07Forgive me, my lord.
06:10A stable rat dressed as a prince.
06:12You probably stole these clothes.
06:14You're lying!
06:16A thief in fancy clothes.
06:18Are the clothes we give you not enough?
06:20Did you have to go steal these?
06:21Did you have to go steal these?
06:29Yet again, you embarrass our family.
06:32Your stolen clothes don't look so nice now.
06:34Come on, Kaya, ignore him.
06:36You are just a stable boy.
06:38The mud is where you belong and where you should stay.
06:47In three days, I will be gone.
07:04Tell me, when do you plan to tell the Quinns that you volunteered as the dragon sacrifice?
07:08You know?
07:09But how?
07:13People see me as nothing more than a loyal butler.
07:15But there is more to me than meets the eye.
07:31I've decided not to tell them.
07:33They'll find out soon enough.
07:35Will you keep this between us?
07:38Yes.
07:39I will keep your secret.
07:40The realm needs a sacrifice, not a family scandal.
07:43A heart can break twice, boy.
07:45Once from cruelties and once from silence.
07:50Then let mine break quietly.
07:54Emrys was the man who found me as a baby.
07:56Later, he would come to work for my family.
07:59I know I can trust him.
08:01Certainly more than my family.
08:06That scream came from Lady Quinn's rose garden.
08:09Mother!
08:15My roses.
08:17My beautiful, innocent roses.
08:20They're dead.
08:25Mother, someone put salt in the soil.
08:28Nothing can survive in your garden.
08:30Who could have done this?
08:31Alistair was angry that you praised my pruning yesterday.
08:34That's not true.
08:35I've been gone and only just now returned.
08:37Gone where?
08:38To destroy the evidence.
08:39We should search his room.
08:44There is nothing to find.
08:47I swear, please believe me.
08:49There, under his bed.
09:01I don't believe my eyes.
09:03A sack of salt.
09:04Half empty.
09:13I told you he did it.
09:15Those roses were the one thing I trusted you with.
09:19How could you...
09:20I swear I didn't harm your roses.
09:25I haven't even been here long enough to do it.
09:27You saw me arrive early this morning.
09:29That's true.
09:31Alistair wasn't here this morning.
09:32Yes.
09:33Very convenient that he was absent.
09:35Almost like he knew he needed an alibi.
09:37What?
09:37No, that isn't what I was doing.
09:39Then what were you doing?
09:40Where were you exactly, Alistair?
09:43I can't say.
09:44But it will become clear in three days.
09:46It's clear to me now.
09:48You intentionally destroyed my wife's prized roses.
09:51I didn't.
09:52Please, mother.
09:53Do not call me that.
09:55You've changed, Alistair.
09:57I don't know this person you've become.
09:59I'm not your mother and you're not my son.
10:01My heart is breaking.
10:03Her words hurt worse than any beating ever could.
10:09First, you crippled Dorian on the hunt.
10:11And now you murder mother's prized rose garden.
10:14I didn't do any of those things.
10:18Isn't it suspicious that Dorian knew exactly where to find the salt?
10:21How dare you accuse Dorian!
10:29Please, Kaya.
10:30Please believe me.
10:34Don't hurt him, dear sister.
10:36We should feel sorry for Alistair.
10:38It's been hard for him to adjust to having me around as a foster brother.
10:41But I understand.
10:42Dorian, you're so kind despite everything Alistair has done to you.
10:45It's a shining light that even I can see.
10:48If only they knew the truth.
10:51That it was Dorian stabbed himself to turn the Quinns against me.
10:54The Quin family will blame you for this.
10:56And love me in return.
11:00It doesn't matter.
11:02In three days I'll be gone and never return.
11:07It took so long to clean the mud off me that I arrived at dinner late.
11:11But, to my surprise, I found Dorian sitting in my usual seat at the family table.
11:16Excuse me, Dorian.
11:18There must be some mistake.
11:19You're in my seat.
11:21Rather than fight Dorian, I figured it best to treat him with kindness and hope he did the same.
11:27But Lord Quinn had other ideas.
11:29The only mistake, Alistair, is you thinking that there is a seat here for you at this table after what
11:34you did today.
11:35You may dine with the servants.
11:38Until you stop these desperate cries for attention, you will remain as you were when we found you.
11:43An outsider.
11:49Yes, my lord.
11:50Father, you'll regret the way you've treated me when I'm gone.
11:53If you only knew that I've already promised to save your life.
12:04Now that he's washed the mud off his stolen clothes, I'd like to propose a toast to Alistair, the cleanest
12:11stable boy I know.
12:13If only they knew what I have promised to do.
12:16My sacrifice to the Dragon King would earn a real toast, not this nasty joke.
12:27My lords, the family sheep, they have escaped from their pins into the night.
12:33How could this have happened?
12:35Alistair is the stable boy.
12:36It was his responsibility.
12:38He must have let them escape.
12:41I couldn't believe it.
12:42I cared for those sheep and would never let them loose.
12:45But there's no time to argue.
12:47With dragons in the realm, I must hurry to save their lives.
13:00Come on, sheep.
13:01Come back to your pens.
13:06My worst fear.
13:07A dragon at my family's home.
13:13It will kill me.
13:14Now I'll never make it to the Vale.
13:16Never save the realm.
13:19Just make it quick.
13:36Why haven't you killed me?
13:40Well, well, well.
13:41There you are.
13:42Dorian.
13:43Come to rub it in my face.
13:44He has no idea the danger he's in.
13:49Dorian, you must leave.
13:51I wouldn't miss the sight of you scrambling for the world.
13:54You see, I was the one that let the sheep out of their pens.
14:01I did it because I knew that you would be blamed.
14:04There is only room for one of us in House Quinn, and it will be me.
14:11Finally, Dorian admits his plan.
14:14He wants to make my family hate me and love him.
14:22But Dorian has no idea what danger he's gotten us into.
14:25I need to act now or we both will die.
14:29Brother, watch out!
14:47Allister attacked me.
14:49He spooked the sheep and caused a stampede.
14:53it's not true there was a dragon i was only trying to save dorian the dragon that almost
14:58burnt us both alive has disappeared and where has this dragon gone why do you keep lying father
15:04please don't be so hard on alistair he only lies like this because he is so jealous of me
15:32mother father
15:49my hidden magic will reset your broken bones but it will be painful
15:59the pain of emeris setting my bones back into place was great
16:02but nothing compared to the pain of how my family treats me
16:08you have done so much for the quints
16:12you saved your sister kaya's life
16:17don't worry kaya i'm here
16:21alistair go save yourself i'm done for brother
16:28the hell you are you're gonna make it
16:31i'll get you to your horse
16:35alistair
16:36and nearly lost yours
16:40you nursed your blind sister elaine through fever
16:44back back
16:46and protected the animals of the stable with your life
16:50and still your family leaves you on the ground like trash
16:53it's true that i love my family even though they treat me so poorly
16:57but they once loved me too and i can never forget that
16:59it doesn't matter
17:01i'll soon be gone from this place forever
17:04gone?
17:05gone to where?
17:06my sister's heard my secret plan
17:09i've been caught
17:10what have you been hiding from us?
17:20gone to where?
17:28gone to where?
17:35go to the streets
17:46Our realm is under dragon attack
17:49The only way to end it is for one human
17:52To willingly enter the dragon valley
17:54As a sacrifice
17:56Will anyone step forward
17:58To save the realm
18:02I volunteer as sacrifice
18:11You are young to have such a death wish
18:13I'm 18, your majesty
18:16My only wish is that my life means something
18:18Very well
18:20You shall travel to the dragon valley
18:22In three days time with the arrival of the full moon
18:25And there you will die
18:28Before you go, I must ask
18:29You are so young, why would you give up your life so freely?
18:32I'm an orphan
18:34Found near the dragon valley as a child
18:36I have no true family to mourn me
18:38That is because my family already treats me like I'm dead
18:40Though it was not always the case
18:44I was raised a noble of House Quinn
18:46By Lord Quinn and Lady Quinn
18:52They took me in as a child
18:53And brought me up as one of their own
19:00Lord Quinn taught me to ride
19:02I'm doing it, Father, look!
19:04That's it, Alistair
19:05Soon you shall be riding a horse like a knight
19:08My mother, Lady Quinn, taught me to be gentle
19:12Remember, Alistair, delicate
19:22My older sister, the brave knight Kaya
19:24Taught me to fight
19:26Better luck next time, brother
19:30And my sister Elaine, blinded by a fever
19:33Taught me to see more than just what was on the surface
19:45I step up
19:49Dorian, the son of a defeated noble sent to my father as payment
19:53I thought I found a brother that was like me
19:57An orphan, except he came from noble birth
20:01But it was not meant to be
20:10But it was not meant to be
20:12While hunted, Dorian blamed me for a stab wound he gave himself
20:20There is room for only one foundling in this family
20:29My family believed him
20:31Father banished me from the house
20:34Ordering me to live in the stables
20:38I've been there ever since
20:39Despite the pain
20:41The Quinns loved me for many years
20:45They saved my life
20:47Now I can repay them by saving their lives
20:49And the realm
20:51No one will miss me
20:54You are very brave to do this, Alistair
20:56I will make sure you have the finest clothes from my palace
20:59And you can travel home in my private carriage
21:02Majesty, I do have one request
21:03Name it and it is yours
21:05I wish that my identity stays a secret
21:07That no one outside of the people in this room
21:10Will know what I have volunteered to do
21:12I promise no one will know
21:14Let no one here ever speak Alistair's name
21:17Or mention what he promised to do today
21:19So long as Alistair is alive
21:20This is my command
21:22Under penalty of death
21:33Three days
21:34In three days I will be gone
21:53Thank you
21:58Just as I had hoped, the manor was quiet this early
22:01There would be no family around to see me arriving from my secret trip to the capital
22:07Though perhaps I've spoken too soon
22:10They seem angry
22:14And where have you been?
22:15There are dragons on the loose, boy
22:17You should be guarding this manor with your life
22:19Not disappearing like a common coward
22:22Forgive me, my lord
22:24A stable rat dressed as a prince
22:26You probably stole these clothes
22:28You're lying
22:30A thief in fancy clothes
22:32Are the clothes we give you not enough?
22:34Did you have to go steal these?
22:44Yet again you embarrass our family
22:46Your stolen clothes don't look so nice now
22:48Come on, Kaya, ignore him
22:50You are just a stable boy
22:52The mud is where you belong
22:53And where you should stay
23:01In three days I will be gone
23:19Tell me, when do you plan to tell the quins that you volunteered as the dragon sacrifice?
23:23You know, but how?
23:27People see me as nothing more than a loyal butler
23:30But there is more to me than meets the eye
23:46I've decided not to tell them
23:47They'll find out soon enough
23:50Will you keep this between us?
23:52Yes
23:54I will keep your secret
23:55The realm needs a sacrifice, not a family scandal
23:57A heart can break twice, boy
23:59Once from cruelties
24:00And once from silence
24:05Then let mine break quietly
24:08Emrys was the man who found me as a baby
24:11Later he would come to work for my family
24:13I know I can trust him
24:16Certainly more than my family
24:21That scream came from Lady Quinn's rose garden
24:24Mother!
24:30My roses
24:32My beautiful, innocent roses
24:34They're dead
24:40Mother, someone put salt in the soil
24:42Nothing can survive in your garden
24:44Who could have done this?
24:46Who could have done this?
24:46Alistair was angry that you praised my pruning yesterday
24:48That's not true
24:49I've been gone and only just now returned
24:51Gone where?
24:52To destroy the evidence
24:54We should search his room
24:59There is nothing to find
25:01I swear, please believe me
25:03There, under his bed
25:15I don't believe my eyes
25:17A sack of salt
25:19Half empty
25:27I told you he did it
25:30Those roses were the one thing I trusted you with
25:34How could you
25:35How could you
25:37I swear I didn't harm your roses
25:40I haven't even been here long enough to do it
25:42You saw me arrive early this morning
25:44That's true
25:45Alistair wasn't here this morning
25:46Yes, very convenient that he was absent
25:49Almost like he knew he needed an alibi
25:51What?
25:52No, that isn't what I was doing
25:53Then what were you doing?
25:55Where were you exactly, Alistair?
25:57I can't say
25:59But it'll all become clear in three days
26:01It's clear to me now
26:02You intentionally destroyed my wife's prized roses
26:06I didn't
26:07Please, mother
26:07Do not call me that
26:10You've changed, Alistair
26:11I don't know this person you've become
26:13I'm not your mother and you're not my son
26:16My heart is breaking
26:17Her words hurt worse than any beating ever could
26:24First you crippled Dorian on the hunt
26:26And now you murder mother's prized rose garden
26:28I didn't do any of those things
26:32Isn't it suspicious that Dorian knew exactly where to find the salt?
26:36How dare you accuse Dorian?
26:43Please, Kaya
26:44Please believe me
26:48Don't hurt him, dear sister
26:50We should feel sorry for Alistair
26:52It's been hard for him to adjust to having me around as a foster brother
26:55But I understand
26:56Dorian, you're so kind despite everything Alistair has done to you
26:59It's a shining light that even I can see
27:02If only they knew the truth
27:05That it was Dorian stabbed himself to turn the Quinns against me
27:08The Quin family will blame you for this
27:11And love me in return
27:15It doesn't matter
27:17In three days I'll be gone and never return
27:22It took so long to clean the mud off me that I arrived at dinner late
27:26But to my surprise
27:27I found Dorian sitting in my usual seat at the family table
27:31Excuse me, Dorian
27:32There must be some mistake
27:33You're in my seat
27:36Rather than fight Dorian
27:37I figured it best to treat him with kindness
27:39And hope he did the same
27:41But Lord Quinn had other ideas
27:44The only mistake, Alistair
27:46Is you thinking that there is a seat here for you at this table
27:49After what you did today
27:50You may dine with the servants
27:52Until you stop these desperate cries for attention
27:55You will remain as you were when we found you
27:58An outsider
28:03Yes, my lord
28:04Father
28:05You'll regret the way you've treated me when I'm gone
28:08If you only knew that I've already promised to save your life
28:18Thank you
28:19Now that he's washed the mud off his stolen clothes
28:22I'd like to propose a toast
28:23To Alistair
28:24The cleanest stable boy I know
28:28If only they knew what I have promised to do
28:31My sacrifice to the Dragon King would earn a real toast
28:34Not this nasty joke
28:41My lords
28:42The family sheep
28:43They have escaped from their pins into the night
28:47How could this have happened?
28:49Alistair is the stable boy
28:50It was his responsibility
28:52He must have let them escape
28:55I couldn't believe it
28:57I cared for those sheep and would never let them loose
28:59But there's no time to argue
29:01With dragons in the realm
29:03I must hurry to save their lives
29:15Come on sheep
29:16Come back to your pens
29:21My worst fear
29:22A dragon at my family's home
29:27It will kill me
29:29Now I'll never make it to the Veil
29:30Never save the realm
29:34Just make it quick
29:50Why haven't you killed me?
29:54Well, well, well
29:55There you are
29:57Dorian
29:58Come to rub it in my face
29:59He has no idea the danger he's in
30:04Dorian, you must leave
30:06I wouldn't miss the sight of you scrambling for the world
30:09You see
30:10I was the one that let the sheep out of their pens
30:15I did it because I knew that you would be blamed
30:19There is only room for one of us in House Quinn
30:21And it will be
30:23Me
30:25Finally
30:26Dorian admits his plan
30:28He wants to make my family hate me and love him
30:37But Dorian has no idea what danger he's gotten us into
30:40I need to act now or we both will die
30:44Brother, watch out
31:02Allister attacked me
31:03He spooked the sheep and caused a stampede
31:07It's not true
31:09There was a dragon
31:10I was only trying to save Dorian
31:12The dragon that almost burnt us both alive has disappeared
31:14And where has this dragon gone?
31:17Why do you keep lying?
31:18Father, please
31:19Don't be so hard on Allister
31:20He only lies like this because he is so jealous of me
31:47Mother, father
32:04My hidden magic will reset your broken bones, but it will be painful.
32:13The pain of Emerus setting my bones back into place was great, but nothing compared to the pain of how
32:19my family treats me.
32:23You have done so much for the Quints. You saved your sister Kaya's life.
32:32Don't worry, Kaya, I'm here. Alistair, go. Save yourself. I'm done for, brother.
32:43The hell you are! You're gonna make it! I'll get you to your horse!
32:50Alistair!
32:51I nearly lost yours. You nursed your blind sister Elaine through fever.
32:58Back! Back!
33:00And protected the animals of the stable with your life.
33:05And still your family leaves you on the ground like trash.
33:08It's true that I love my family even though they treat me so poorly, but they once loved me too,
33:13and I can never forget that.
33:14It doesn't matter. I'll soon be gone from this place forever.
33:19Gone? Gone to where?
33:21My sister's heard my secret plan. I've been caught.
33:25What have you been hiding from us?
33:28Who was hopes because I didn't get rid of them so its good.
33:35Nice night,惜itful.
33:48Just the moonlight says after dangerous things.
33:48I just thought I didn't want one. Let's just leave someone else.
33:48Oh no, in the memories, are you gonna die now?
34:01our realm is under dragon attack the only way to end it is for one human to willingly enter the
34:08dragon valley as a sacrifice will anyone step forward to save the realm i volunteer a sacrifice
34:26you are young to have such a death wish i'm 18 your majesty my only wish is that my life
34:32means
34:32something very well you shall travel to the dragon valley in three days time with the arrival of the
34:38full moon and there you will die before you go i must ask you are so young why would you
34:45give up
34:46your life so freely i'm an orphan found near the dragon valley as a child i have no true family
34:51to
34:51mourn me that is because my family already treats me like i'm dead though it was not always the case
34:58i was raised a noble of house quinn by lord quinn and lady quinn
35:06they took me in as a child and brought me up as one of their own
35:14lord quinn taught me to run i'm doing it father look that's it alistair soon you shall be riding a
35:20horse like a knight my mother lady quinn taught me to be gentle remember alistair delicate
35:36my older sister the brave knight kaya taught me to fight better luck next time brother
35:45and my sister elaine blinded by a fever taught me to see more than just what was on the surface
36:04dorian the son of a defeated noble sent to my father as payment
36:08i thought i found a brother that was like me
36:11an orphan except he came from noble birth
36:15but it was not meant to be
36:27while hunting dorian blamed me for a stab wound he gave him
36:35there is room for only one foundling in this family
36:43my family believed him father banished me from the house ordering me to live in the stables
36:52i've been there ever since despite the pain the quinn's loved me for many years
36:59they saved my life now i can repay them by saving their lives and the realm no one will miss
37:06me
37:09you are very brave to do this alistair i will make sure you have the finest clothes from my palace
37:14and you can travel home in my private carriage
37:16majesty i do have one request name it and it is yours
37:19i wish that my identity stays a secret that no one outside of the people in this room
37:25will know what i have volunteered to do
37:26i promise no one will know
37:29let no one here ever speak alistair's name or mention what he promised to do today so long as alistair
37:34is alive
37:35this is my command under penalty of death
37:47three days
37:49in three days i will be gone
38:07thank you
38:12just as i had hoped the manor was quiet this early
38:16there would be no family around to see me arriving from my secret trip to the capital
38:22though perhaps i've spoken too soon
38:25they seem angry
38:28and where have you been
38:29there are dragons on the loose boy
38:32you should be guarding this manor with your life not disappearing like a common coward
38:36forgive me my lord
38:39a stable rat dressed as a prince
38:41you probably stole these clothes
38:43you're lying
38:45a thief in fancy clothes
38:47are the clothes we give you not enough
38:49did you have to go steal these
38:58yet again you embarrass our family
39:01your stolen clothes don't look so nice now
39:03come on kaya ignore him
39:05you are just a stable boy
39:07the mud is where you belongs and where you should stay
39:16in three days i will be gone
39:34tell me
39:34when do you plan to tell the quins that you volunteered as the dragon sacrifice
39:37you know
39:38but how
39:42people see me as nothing more than a loyal butler
39:45but there is more to me than meets the eye
40:00i've decided not to tell them
40:02they'll find out soon enough
40:04will you keep this between us
40:07yes
40:08i will keep your secret
40:09the realm needs a sacrifice not a family scandal
40:12a heart can break twice boy
40:14once from cruelties
40:15and once from silence
40:19then let mine break quietly
40:23emrys was the man who found me as a baby
40:26later he would come to work for my family
40:28i know i can trust him
40:31certainly more than my family
40:35that scream came from lady quinn's rose garden
40:39mother
40:44my roses
40:46my beautiful innocent roses
40:49they're dead
40:55mother
40:55someone put salt in the soil
40:57nothing can survive in your garden
40:59who could have done this
41:00alistair was angry that you praised my pruning yesterday
41:03that's not true
41:04i've been gone and only just now returned
41:06gone where
41:07to destroy the evidence
41:08we should search his room
41:13there is nothing to find
41:16i swear please believe me
41:18there
41:19under his bed
41:30i don't believe my eyes
41:32a sack of salt
41:33half empty
41:42i told you he did it
41:44those roses were the one thing
41:46i trusted you with
41:48how could you
41:52i swear i didn't harm your roses
41:54i haven't even been here long enough to do it
41:56you saw me arrive early this morning
41:58that's true
41:59alistair wasn't here this morning
42:01yes
42:02very convenient that he was absent
42:04almost like he knew he needed an alibi
42:06what
42:06no that isn't what i was doing
42:08then what were you doing
42:09where were you exactly
42:11alistair
42:12i can't say
42:14but it all will become clear in three days
42:15it's clear to me now
42:17you intentionally destroyed my wife's prized roses
42:20i i didn't
42:21please mother
42:22do not call me that
42:24you've changed alistair
42:26i don't know this person you've become
42:28i'm not your mother and you're not my son
42:30my heart is breaking
42:32her words hurt worse than any beating ever could
42:38first you crippled dorian on the hunt
42:40and now you murder mother's prized rose garden
42:43i didn't do any of those things
42:47isn't it suspicious that dorian knew exactly where to find the salt
42:50how dare you accuse dorian
42:58please kaya
42:59please believe me
43:03don't hurt him dear sister
43:05we should feel sorry for alistair
43:07it's been hard for him to adjust to having me around as a foster brother
43:10but i understand
43:11doran
43:11you're so kind despite everything alistair has done to you
43:14it's a shining light that even i can see
43:17if only they knew the truth
43:20that it was dorian stabbed himself to turn the quins against me
43:23the quinn family will blame you for this
43:25and love me in return
43:30it doesn't matter
43:31in three days i'll be gone and never return
43:36it took so long to clean the mud off me that i arrived at dinner late
43:40but to my surprise
43:42i found dorian sitting in my usual seat at the family table
43:46excuse me dorian
43:47there must be some mistake
43:48you're in my seat
43:50rather than fight dorian
43:52i figured it best to treat him with kindness
43:54and hope he did the same
43:56but lord quinn had other ideas
43:58the only mistake alistair
44:01is you thinking that there is a seat here for you at this table after what you did today
44:04you may dine with the servants
44:07until you stop these desperate cries for attention
44:10you will remain as you were when we found you
44:13an outsider
44:18yes my lord
44:19father
44:20you'll regret the way you've treated me when i'm gone
44:22if you only knew that i've already promised to save your life
44:32thank you
44:34now that he's washed the mud off his stolen clothes
44:36i'd like to propose a toast to alistair
44:39the cleanest stable boy i know
44:43if only they knew what i have promised to do
44:46my sacrifice to the dragon king would earn a real toast
44:49not this nasty joke
44:56my lords
44:57the family sheep
44:58they have escaped from their pins into the night
45:02how could this have happened
45:04alistair is the stable boy
45:05it was his responsibility
45:06he must have let them escape
45:10i couldn't believe it
45:12i cared for those sheep and would never let them loose
45:14but there's no time to argue
45:16with dragons in the realm i must hurry to save their lives
45:30come on sheep
45:30come back to your pens
45:35my worst fear
45:36a dragon at my family's home
45:42it will kill me
45:43now i'll never make it to the veil
45:45never save the realm
45:48just make it quick
46:05why haven't you killed me
46:09well well well there you are
46:11dorian
46:12come to rub it in my face
46:13he has no idea the danger he's in
46:18dorian you must leave
46:20i wouldn't miss the sight of you scrambling for the world
46:23you see
46:24i was the one that let the sheep out of their pens
46:30i did it because i knew that you would be blamed
46:34there is only room for one of us in house quinn
46:36and it will be
46:38me
46:40finally
46:41dorian admits his plan
46:43he wants to make my family hate me and love him
46:51but dorian has no idea what danger he's gotten us into
46:55i need to act now or we both will die
46:58brother watch out
47:17alistair attacked me
47:18he spooked the sheep and caused a stampede
47:22it's not true
47:23there was a dragon
47:24i was only trying to save dorian
47:26the dragon that almost burnt us both alive has disappeared
47:29and where has this dragon gone
47:31why do you keep lying
47:33father please don't be so hard on alistair
47:35he only lies like this because he is so jealous of me
48:01mother father
48:04jory's placed just out
48:19My hidden magic will reset your broken bones, but it will be painful.
48:28The pain of Emerus setting my bones back into place was great, but nothing compared to the pain of how
48:33my family treats me.
48:38You have done so much for the Quints. You saved your sister Kaya's life.
48:46Don't worry, Kaya, I'm here. Alistair, go. Save yourself. I'm done for, brother.
48:58The hell you are! You're gonna make it! I'll get you to your horse!
49:04Alistair!
49:05And nearly lost yours.
49:09You nursed your blind sister Elaine through fever.
49:13Back! Back!
49:15And protected the animals of the stable with your life.
49:19And still your family leaves you on the ground like trash.
49:23It's true that I love my family even though they treat me so poorly.
49:26But they once loved me too, and I can never forget that.
49:29It doesn't matter. I'll soon be gone from this place forever.
49:33Gone? Gone to where?
49:36My sister's heard my secret plan. I've been caught.
49:39What have you been hiding from us?
49:58Gone? The Hard Man
50:02No! The Hard Man
50:02horns! No!
50:04Let's
50:05go! Go!
50:07Go! Freeze!
50:15our realm is under dragon attack
50:18the only way to end it is for one human
50:21to willingly enter the dragon valley
50:23as a sacrifice
50:26will anyone step forward
50:27to save the realm
50:31I volunteer as sacrifice
50:41you are young to have such a death wish
50:43I'm 18 your majesty
50:45my only wish is that my life means something
50:48very well
50:49you shall travel to the dragon valley
50:51in three days time with the arrival of the full moon
50:55and there you will die
50:57before you go I must ask
50:59you are so young why would you give up your life so freely
51:01I'm an orphan
51:03found near the dragon valley as a child
51:05I have no true family to mourn me
51:07that is because my family already treats me like I'm dead
51:10though it was not always the case
51:13I was raised a noble of House Quinn
51:16by Lord Quinn and Lady Quinn
51:21they took me in as a child
51:22and brought me up as one of their own
51:29Lord Quinn taught me to ride
51:32I'm doing it father look
51:33that's it Alistair
51:34soon you shall be riding a horse like a knight
51:37my mother Lady Quinn taught me to be gentle
51:41remember Alistair
51:43delicate
51:51my older sister
51:52the brave knight Kaya
51:53taught me to fight
51:54better luck next time brother
51:59and my sister Elaine
52:01blinded by a fever
52:02taught me to see more than just what was on the surface
52:18Dorian
52:19Dorian
52:19the son of a defeated noble sent to my father as payment
52:23I thought I found a brother that was like me
52:26an orphan
52:27except he came from noble birth
52:30but it was not meant to be
52:41while hunting Dorian blamed me for a stab wound he gave him
52:50there is room for only one foundling in this family
52:58my family believed him
53:00father banished me from the house
53:03ordering me to live in the stables
53:07I've been there ever since
53:08despite the pain
53:10the quins loved me for many years
53:14they saved my life
53:16now I can repay them by saving their lives
53:18and the realm
53:20no one will miss me
53:23you are very brave to do this Alistair
53:26I will make sure you have the finest clothes from my palace
53:28and you can travel home in my private carriage
53:31majesty I do have one request
53:33name it and it is yours
53:34I wish that my identity stays a secret
53:36that no one outside of the people in this room
53:39will know what I have volunteered to do
53:41I promise no one will know
53:44let no one here ever speak Alistair's name
53:46or mention what he promised to do today
53:48so long as Alistair is alive
53:50this is my command
53:51under penalty of death
54:02three days
54:04in three days I will be gone
54:22thank you
54:27just as I had hoped
54:28the manor was quiet this early
54:31there would be no family around to see me arriving from my secret trip to the capital
54:36though perhaps I've spoken too soon
54:39they seem angry
54:43and where have you been?
54:44there are dragons on the loose, boy
54:46you should be guarding this manor with your life
54:49not disappearing like a common coward
54:50forgive me, my lord
54:54a stable rat dressed as a prince
54:56you probably stole these clothes
54:58you're lying
54:59a thief in fancy clothes
55:01are the clothes we give you not enough?
55:04did you have to go steal these?
55:13yet again you embarrass our family
55:16your stolen clothes don't look so nice now
55:18come on, Kaya, ignore him
55:20you are just a stable boy
55:22the mud is where you belong
55:23and where you should stay
55:31in three days I will be gone
55:48tell me
55:49when do you plan to tell the quins
55:50that you volunteered as the dragon sacrifice?
55:52you know?
55:53but how?
55:56people see me as nothing more than a loyal butler
55:59but there is more to me than meets the eye
56:15I've decided not to tell them
56:17they'll find out soon enough
56:19will you keep this between us?
56:22yes
56:23I will keep your secret
56:24the realm needs a sacrifice
56:25not a family scandal
56:27a heart can break twice, boy
56:28once from cruelties
56:30and once from silence
56:34then let mine break quietly
56:38Emrys was the man who found me as a baby
56:40later he would come to work for my family
56:43I know I can trust him
56:45certainly more than my family
56:50that scream came from Lady Quinn's rose garden
56:53mother
56:59my roses
57:01my beautiful innocent roses
57:03they're dead
57:09mother
57:10someone put salt in the soil
57:12nothing can survive in your garden
57:13who could have done this?
57:15Alistair was angry that you praised my pruning yesterday
57:17that's not true
57:19I've been gone and only just now returned
57:20gone where?
57:22to destroy the evidence
57:23we should search his room
57:28there is nothing to find
57:30I swear, please believe me
57:32there, under his bed
57:45I don't believe my eyes
57:46a sack of salt
57:48half empty
57:57I told you he did it
57:59those roses
58:00those roses were the one thing
58:01I trusted you with
58:03how could you
58:04harm
58:07I swear I didn't harm your roses
58:09I haven't even been here long enough to do it
58:11you saw me arrive early this morning
58:13that's true
58:14Alistair wasn't here this morning
58:16yes, very convenient that he was absent
58:19almost like he knew he needed an alibi
58:20what?
58:21no, that isn't what I was doing
58:22then what were you doing?
58:24where were you exactly?
58:26Alistair
58:26I can't say
58:28but it all will become clear in three days
58:30it's clear to me now
58:31you intentionally destroyed my wife's prized roses
58:35I didn't
58:36please, mother
58:37do not call me that
58:39you've changed, Alistair
58:40I don't know this person you've become
58:43I'm not your mother and you're not my son
58:45my heart is breaking
58:46her words hurt worse than any beating ever could
58:53first you crippled Dorian on the hunt
58:55and now you murder mother's prized rose garden
58:58I didn't do any of those things
59:01isn't it suspicious that
59:03Dorian knew exactly where to find the salt
59:05how dare you accuse Dorian
59:13please, Kaya
59:13please believe me
59:18don't hurt him, dear sister
59:20we should feel sorry for Alistair
59:21it's been hard for him to adjust to having me around as a foster brother
59:24but I understand
59:25Dorian, you're so kind despite everything Alistair has done to you
59:29it's a shining light that even I can see
59:32if only they knew the truth
59:35that it was Dorian stabbed himself to turn the Quinns against me
59:38the Quinn family will blame you for this
59:40and love me in return
59:44it doesn't matter
59:46in three days I'll be gone and never return
59:48you