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00:00:00They forgot my name, my six older brothers, my mother and my father, all of them forgot.

00:00:07So tonight, 11 minutes before midnight, I'm going to take my motorcycle and disappear for good.

00:00:13Happy birthday to me. My name is Aurora Kane. They used to call me Rory.

00:00:18Our family controlled the most elite private security empire on this side of the Atlantic.

00:00:22Then I turned 17. My family threw me a party and gave me this motorcycle.

00:00:27That night, I went to bed, feeling like the luckiest girl in the world.

00:00:31The next morning, I woke up invisible.

00:00:35I shut off the engine and pushed the motorcycle slowly down the gravel drive.

00:00:39I passed the still-lit west wing and avoided the security cameras.

00:00:42I stopped at the edge of the trees and looked back.

00:00:45Just this once, I allowed myself that.

00:00:48Goodbye. I know none of you will miss me.

00:00:50Then I flipped the ignition and my Harley roared to life.

00:00:53I knew exactly where every guard was posted that night.

00:00:56I knew which shift was understaffed on Thursdays and which gate's camera had been broken since April.

00:01:01After all, I was the only person in the entire Kane family who bothered to learn these things.

00:01:06I hit the north road at 60 miles an hour and drove out of my father's property without triggering a

00:01:11single alarm.

00:01:12In less than 9 minutes, I would turn 18.

00:01:15No one in Blackwater Mantra knew.

00:01:17What could a 17-year-old girl have done to make her mother refuse to look at her?

00:01:21Her father stopped speaking to her.

00:01:23And even the six older brothers who used to fight over, who got to teach me how to ride a

00:01:27motorcycle, treat me like a ghost?

00:01:30I'd spent 365 days trying to find the answer.

00:01:33And I had nothing.

00:01:35Six weeks ago, I went to the family archives where every Kane is recorded from birth to burial.

00:01:40I found my own file.

00:01:41Fourteen pages chronicled my childhood.

00:01:43Report cards, vaccine records, every entry in my father's handwriting.

00:01:47The last line of the file was written on my 17th birthday.

00:01:50Aurora K. Kane, 17.

00:01:52No further record.

00:01:54The moment I read that sentence, I stopped hoping.

00:01:57I twisted the throttle harder.

00:01:59The highway opened up in front of me, black and gold.

00:02:03A strange feeling rose in my chest, like the hand that had been around my tech had finally let go.

00:02:08At 11.58, my watch vibrated.

00:02:10Two minutes until legal adulthood.

00:02:12Then the whole world exploded.

00:02:15Not the road collapsing.

00:02:17Sound.

00:02:18Crickets in the ditch.

00:02:19The heartbeat of a deer three acres away.

00:02:20The off-keck voice of a truck driver two miles away.

00:02:23Singing country radio.

00:02:26Thousands of sounds crashed into my mind all at once.

00:02:29So loud, I almost lost control of the bike.

00:02:31I swerved to the side of the road, took off my helmet, and clamped my hands over my ears.

00:02:36The sounds faded slowly.

00:02:38Like someone turning down the volume on the whole world.

00:02:41Beneath all that noise, from somewhere far behind me, I heard my father's voice.

00:02:47Clear as if he were standing right over my shoulder.

00:02:50No matter what happens tomorrow, she must never find out the truth.

00:02:54If Rory learns the truth before then, she won't live to see Sunday.

00:03:01I sat there on the motorcycle seat for twenty full minutes, waiting to hear the voice again.

00:03:06But nothing came.

00:03:08Only crickets chipping, and my own heartbeat.

00:03:11I told myself it was a hallucination.

00:03:14Lack of sleep.

00:03:15Too much adrenaline.

00:03:16A girl running away in the middle of the night, shouldn't trust voices in her head.

00:03:20So I climbed back onto the bike, and let my thoughts drift back over this entire year.

00:03:25Every single humiliating moment.

00:03:27Every second of it.

00:03:28It had all started the morning after my seventeenth birthday.

00:03:31I woke up smiling.

00:03:33I showered, braided my hair, put on mascara, the night before people had said I looked pretty.

00:03:39I was seventeen, naive and happy back then.

00:03:42Then I walked out to the family floor, and it was empty.

00:03:46My father's suite, my mother's study, the six bedrooms down the East Hall, all empty.

00:03:51I made breakfast all by myself, and sat alone at the nine-person island table to eat.

00:03:56I told myself they were letting me sleep in.

00:03:59Downstairs, the staff who'd watched me grow up glanced at me strangely and quickly looked away.

00:04:04My father's office door was shut, a door that had never been closed to me before.

00:04:12At lunch, the rest of the family filed in and sat all around me, but no one spoke.

00:04:17Everyone kept their phones under the table, staring down at their plates.

00:04:21Ten people at one table, having a whole conversation I was completely locked out of.

00:04:26Mom, when is our Wednesday date?

00:04:29She didn't even lift her eyelids.

00:04:31Halfway through the meal, she got up and left the room with the operations director.

00:04:35I told myself, she's just having a bad day.

00:04:39I clung to that thought for three whole months.

00:04:42Dad, do you need me in the office today?

00:04:45Not available.

00:04:46Ashton, do you want me to work through the Hollis file for you?

00:04:49I'm busy, Roy.

00:04:51Later on, even that reply stopped.

00:04:54Nothing but silence.

00:04:55By week nine, I stopped saying good morning.

00:04:58My combat instructor never showed up for lessons again.

00:05:01No explanation.

00:05:03My mother's assistant deleted our long-standing Wednesday date from the shared calendar.

00:05:07I scrolled three months ahead.

00:05:08It was blank.

00:05:10Eleven years of tradition, just gone.

00:05:12Little by little, I ceased to matter, until I was heir.

00:05:18Four months into it, I found the old gardener's cottage at the north edge of the estate.

00:05:22Two rooms, a wood-burning stove, and a view out over the river.

00:05:26I packed clothes, my laptop, my book, and moved out of my parents' big house one bag at a time.

00:05:31Nobody noticed.

00:05:32I lived there 111 nights.

00:05:34No more dinner, no more breakfast.

00:05:36I would sneak back to my old bathroom in the family wing to shower, wipe away all traces, then slip

00:05:41back to the cottage.

00:05:42No one ever came looking for me.

00:05:44Many nights, I lay wide awake, counting the days.

00:05:48Still, my mother never knocked on my bedroom door.

00:05:51Sometimes, along the way, I stopped crying.

00:05:54My heart went cold and quiet, and I started making plans.

00:05:57After all, I'd picked up a lot of secrets growing up around my father's office.

00:06:02At seven months, I submitted an application.

00:06:04I applied to Sovereign Academy, the inclusive training program for the Royal Guards of Alaville, a selective institution in the

00:06:10whole world.

00:06:111,500 people applied every year.

00:06:1382 got in.

00:06:15Nothing left to lose.

00:06:16I took all the examines from a public library three towns over, on a laptop with a throwaway email address,

00:06:22and I didn't use my real name.

00:06:24Six days ago, the acceptance email arrived.

00:06:27Late at night, in that cabbage no one knew I lived in, I read the email 11 times.

00:06:31Congratulations. Your composite score is the highest in program history.

00:06:36Please report to the Academy Gates on your 18th birthday.

00:06:39Welcome, Cadet R. Voss.

00:06:45It took my family 19 hours to figure out I was gone.

00:06:49I knew exactly how long.

00:06:52At 6.47 the next evening, 41 missed calls.

00:06:56My six older brothers, both my parents, plus three unknown numbers.

00:07:00Voicemail piled up.

00:07:02I sat by the road, holding a bottle of water, and only listened to the message from my oldest brother.

00:07:07He was the one who taught me to ride, to fight, to read contracts.

00:07:12Rory, your room, it's empty.

00:07:15The closets are empty.

00:07:17How long, baby, how long have you been gone?

00:07:20He didn't finish.

00:07:21There were sounds on the other end of the line.

00:07:24A woman screaming my name.

00:07:26Then a huge crash, and the message cut off.

00:07:29I deleted the remaining 103 messages without listening to them.

00:07:33Then I did the only thing I knew how to do, put my head down and keep going.

00:07:38Two hours later, driving through pine forest country, that strange auditory thing hit me again.

00:07:44I was going 70 miles an hour down an empty interstate when I heard someone crying.

00:07:50It wasn't close.

00:07:52There was nothing but woods as far as the eye could see.

00:07:55Still, I pulled over.

00:07:59I could hear her sopping, every catch in her breath crystal clear.

00:08:03I turned on my phone flashlight and headed into the trees, following the sound, until the beam landed on crumpled,

00:08:09twisted metal.

00:08:13A car had gone over the edge into a ravine.

00:08:16A girl about my age hung suspended by her seatbelt, scalp bleeding, one arm twisted out of shape.

00:08:24She'd been trapped there since early that morning.

00:08:26You couldn't see the wreck from the highway, and no one passing could hear her screaming for help.

00:08:31And I had heard her from a mile away.

00:08:34I got her out.

00:08:36I rigged a splint for her arm with a crape hole and the sleeve of my own jacket.

00:08:40Halfway back, I carried her on my back.

00:08:43Standing there in the dark while I called for help, my hands wouldn't stop shaking.

00:08:47This isn't real. I'm dead.

00:08:49When thoughts that weren't mine flooded into my head.

00:08:52This is all a hallucination.

00:08:53The girl's lips didn't move at all.

00:08:55I looked down at her, and she looked back up at me.

00:08:59Don't leave me here.

00:09:00I'm not going to leave you.

00:09:02Her peoples blew wide.

00:09:04When the girl's father showed up at the hospital, he insisted on paying me.

00:09:09I turned it down.

00:09:11Then he tried offering me a job.

00:09:13I turned both down.

00:09:15He seemed decent, and this thing was tearing me apart, so I told him the truth.

00:09:19I don't know what's happening to me.

00:09:21I heard her from a mile away.

00:09:23I read thoughts in her head.

00:09:24I've had this for exactly twenty-six hours.

00:09:27He didn't laugh.

00:09:28I remembered that.

00:09:30His expression turned grave.

00:09:32He stared at me for a long time, and only asked one question.

00:09:36How old are you, kid?

00:09:37Eighteen.

00:09:38Turned eighteen yesterday.

00:09:39Something flickered across his eyes.

00:09:42Maybe fear.

00:09:43He walked me back to my motorcycle before I left and warned me.

00:09:47Whatever this thing you have is, never tell anyone.

00:09:50Especially not people who would try to use it.

00:09:54I nodded.

00:10:02Sovereign Academy sat nested in a valley, ringed by a three-hundred-year-old wall.

00:10:07Forty cadets in the yard, all turned to stare.

00:10:10Every single one of them was male, over six feet tall.

00:10:13And I was five and a half feet tall, covered in road dust.

00:10:16I took off my helmet.

00:10:18Somebody snirkered out in the crowd.

00:10:20The gate guard read my acceptance letter over and over, ears bright red.

00:10:25Stepping backward like I might attack him.

00:10:27Cadet R. Voss?

00:10:29Ma'am, these scores, they can't be possible.

00:10:32Wait right here. Don't move.

00:10:33Instead of calling for drill instructors, he dialed the main building.

00:10:37Four minutes later, a black sedan with a gold crest painted on the doors came rolling up the drive.

00:10:43Every single cadet in the yard dropped to one knee on the gravel, all at once.

00:10:47Like they'd been struck down.

00:10:49Only I stayed standing.

00:10:51I didn't understand the protocol back then.

00:10:54The back car door opened.

00:10:56The gate guard went pale.

00:10:58Miss Voss, His Majesty wishes to see you.

00:11:03The King of Alivain stared at me for eleven full seconds before he spoke.

00:11:08Aurora Cain.

00:11:09I didn't flinch.

00:11:10My paperwork says Voss, Your Majesty.

00:11:13Your paperwork contains a great many deliberate falsehoods.

00:11:16You have your grandmother's jawline and your father's always coiled stance.

00:11:20I have known Damon Cain for twenty-six years.

00:11:23He does not know you are here.

00:11:24No, he does not.

00:11:25If you notify him, I will climb over these walls before you finish the sentence.

00:11:30Eighty-two cadets knelt on the gravel and heard every word I said to the king.

00:11:35Silence fell over the yard.

00:11:37Then the king laughed.

00:11:38All of you, rise.

00:11:40The king's gaze never left me.

00:11:43She may keep using the name Voss.

00:11:45Inside these academy walls, anyone who insists on correcting her name leaves immediately.

00:11:51Do I make myself clear?

00:11:53Yes, Your Majesty.

00:11:55That concluded the conversation.

00:11:57He offered no explanation for why he had come down in person to meet an eighteen-year-old girl on

00:12:02a Harley.

00:12:02I was proud.

00:12:04I didn't ask.

00:12:05I wouldn't learn the full truth for four more months.

00:12:08By then, it would almost be too late.

00:12:15The academy inside was like a small walled city.

00:12:18Six barracks buildings.

00:12:19A training center the size of an airport.

00:12:21A library with a spiral staircase carved from a single enormous tree.

00:12:26I was assigned to Barracks 3.

00:12:28I had only forty minutes to make it to new cadet orientation.

00:12:31Silver-haired instructor Larson stood there with my file in his hands, his tone flat.

00:12:36Zero warmth.

00:12:37You are skipping the first two weeks of basic instruction.

00:12:40Instructor?

00:12:40Your entrance scores are the highest this academy has ever seen.

00:12:44Repeating basic firearms trills and similar material would be a waste for both of us.

00:12:49Attend the new cadet assembly this morning.

00:12:51After that, you report to instructor Emmett for individual competency evaluation.

00:12:56Every head turned in the great hall.

00:12:58Forty-one hostile stares, all pointed straight at me.

00:13:01Two names I would learn very quickly.

00:13:03They made sure I would.

00:13:05Deacon Price, second son of the powerful McKetsey house.

00:13:08Hard, sharp jawline.

00:13:10He talked a big game about ladies first.

00:13:12What he really meant was step aside.

00:13:15Then slain Adel.

00:13:16Pretty as a magazine model.

00:13:18Who liked to brag about her exam scores while waiting in chow lines.

00:13:21First day of orientation, Deacon stepped into my path in the hallway and clapped a hand on my shoulder.

00:13:26Nice bike.

00:13:27Whose is it?

00:13:28Mine.

00:13:29He leaned in close.

00:13:31Listen, this isn't some little girl's playhouse.

00:13:33Save yourself the humiliation and quit before you wash out on Friday.

00:13:37Right then, his private thoughts flooded straight into my head.

00:13:40God, she smells good.

00:13:41Probably gonna be crying to go home by Friday.

00:13:43I smiled at him.

00:13:45Friday?

00:13:45I'll remember that.

00:13:50The two weeks training under instructor Emmett were the best I'd had in a whole year.

00:13:54He drilled me on command structures, treaty law, threat assessment, hostage negotiation protocols.

00:13:59On the ninth day, he gave me a mock crisis scenario with nine shifting variables.

00:14:03I resolved it in 11 minutes.

00:14:05He sat down his pen and stared at me.

00:14:07Who taught you all this?

00:14:09In my father's office.

00:14:10I sat in the corner.

00:14:11Nobody thought I was paying attention.

00:14:13How old were you?

00:14:14Four.

00:14:15Cadet Voss, a lot of men twice your age couldn't pull off what you just did.

00:14:19Something I understood very well.

00:14:20Being ignored for all those months at Blackwater Manor had felt like dying.

00:14:25But here, being overlooked, it was my greatest advantage.

00:14:29Two weeks of training done.

00:14:30Elimination assessment day arrived.

00:14:32All cadets gathered in the great hall.

00:14:35Larson climbed up onto the high platform.

00:14:37Behind him, people gasped.

00:14:38The king had arrived.

00:14:40And a younger man with dark eyes, unmistakably the crown prince.

00:14:43Everyone here.

00:14:44Thirty-five will stay.

00:14:46Forty-seven leave tonight.

00:14:47Permanent disqualification.

00:14:48I will read the team captains first, then the eliminated names.

00:14:51And last, the highest rank a cadet can earn here.

00:14:54Supreme Commander.

00:14:55He read off seven captain names.

00:14:57Mine came last.

00:14:58Then Larson read the elimination list.

00:15:00Adele Price.

00:15:01Sloan Adele shot out of her seat, screaming.

00:15:04The king stepped past Larson and walked to the front of the platform.

00:15:08The great hall went dead silent.

00:15:10I could hear forty hearts hummering all at once.

00:15:13One final appointment remains.

00:15:15He said it, his gaze cutting across the room to lock onto me in the back row.

00:15:20Supreme Commander this year is...

00:15:26Cadet Voss.

00:15:27No one clapped.

00:15:28Every eye locked onto me, the shortest person in the room.

00:15:31The only sound in the great hall was Sloan Adele's ragged, furious breathing.

00:15:35Commander Voss, stand.

00:15:36Let them all see who you are.

00:15:38A thought from someone in the front row seats flooded into my mind.

00:15:41I'm not taking orders from some little girl.

00:15:43Did she sleep with the instructors to get this boat?

00:15:45I heard every single one of those thoughts loud and clear.

00:15:48Two weeks earlier, those thoughts would have broken me.

00:15:51Right now, I let all that malice pass straight through me and fade away.

00:15:55Yes, your majesty.

00:15:56He gave a short nod.

00:15:57Less than an hour later, all the rejected cadets had been cleared out.

00:16:01Sloan Adele stopped as she walked past me.

00:16:03A kid who rode in here on a Harley, and you get to be commander.

00:16:07And I'm being sent home.

00:16:08I'll be back next year.

00:16:10I will remember you.

00:16:15No second chance readmission.

00:16:16Anyone dismissed is permanently barred.

00:16:19Sloan's last shred of hope died on the spot.

00:16:22Something far more dangerous flicked to life in her eyes.

00:16:24I filed that away in my head, and told myself it was nothing serious.

00:16:31They handed me a tablet holding the files of 34 people.

00:16:35Full psych evaluations, combat scores, every detail.

00:16:38I was to assemble seven full squads before dawn.

00:16:41I stayed up all night, reading every file twice.

00:16:44By dawn, the squads were assembled, and I'd picked my core team.

00:16:48Chaya, could read a whole room's intentions in four seconds flat.

00:16:52Skylar, unshaken by even the loudest explosions.

00:16:55Danica, could dig up any piece of information from the databases.

00:16:59And Faith, 19, who had managed her father's household staff for three full years.

00:17:04Four women.

00:17:05It wasn't intentional.

00:17:06They were simply the best.

00:17:07At the oath-taking ceremony, we stood inside the 300-year dust-covered library.

00:17:11Instructor Emmett read the oath aloud.

00:17:1334 voices answered as one.

00:17:15Until we got to the final line of the oath.

00:17:17Do you swear not to pursue romantic or sexual relationships within this service or other

00:17:22guard units, except under special royal dispensation?

00:17:25Five people did not answer.

00:17:27Instructor Emmett called each of them by name, asking for their reasoning.

00:17:31Each said they had never been told that rule existed beforehand.

00:17:33He patiently explained how casualties caused by broken-up in-unit relationships outweighed

00:17:38harm from outside enemies.

00:17:39All five took the oath after that.

00:17:42Then that thought hit me again, not coming from any of my team members.

00:17:46A cold, distant thought flooding into my head from behind me, and I could not identify

00:17:50whose mind it came from.

00:17:52It's true.

00:17:53The cane girl is inside these walls.

00:17:56Send word about her presence to him.

00:17:58I spun around so fast, I nearly twisted my ankle.

00:18:01The doorway was full of people.

00:18:03Eleven faces in total, but every single one of them was looking somewhere else.

00:18:07Commander?

00:18:08I'm fine.

00:18:09Only four people on this entire continent knew I was Aurora Cain, going by R. Voss.

00:18:14The King, Instructor Larson, the Gate Sentry, and myself.

00:18:18And someone inside this hall was sending information about me to an unknown third party.

00:18:26We occupied the East Wing of Barracks 3.

00:18:29The West Wing belonged to 1st Squad, the most capable unit in the Guard, commanded by Jaron Rourke.

00:18:37For those 10 months, I had not spoken a single word to any of them.

00:18:42It was strategy, not cowardice.

00:18:45My team took meals in our private top-floor kitchen, trained at 5 o'clock each morning to avoid the

00:18:52crowded yard.

00:18:53To the rest of the Guard, we were nothing but rumour.

00:18:56And in those rumours, Commander Voss was a man.

00:19:00I heard them plain as day, even through two stone walls, talking about me.

00:19:05Has anyone actually seen Commander Vox?

00:19:08Reese caught a glimpse once at the oath-taking ceremony.

00:19:11Short, black hair, didn't catch the name.

00:19:14I bet Voss is just another spare, noble son.

00:19:18Always like that.

00:19:19Arrogant, stuck-up li-

00:19:21Watch your mouth.

00:19:22This guy aced every single evaluation.

00:19:24That was Jaron's voice.

00:19:26Deep, rough, with weary, dry amusement at his own men.

00:19:30I never corrected them.

00:19:33Being underestimated and profiting from it is a rare gift.

00:19:36For 10 whole months, I let them build their imagined version of me inside their heads.

00:19:43Meanwhile, I sharpened my skills day after day, growing more capable.

00:19:47My enhanced senses grew both more terrifying and more useful at the same time.

00:19:52Sometimes out on the training grounds, I could hear what was going on down in the kitchens.

00:19:58Sometimes total strangers' thoughts would crash into my head so loud, I would stumble mid-step.

00:20:04I told my whole team about it.

00:20:06I gathered all 34 of us in one room and closed the doors.

00:20:11It was the biggest risk I had ever taken.

00:20:14And also the best decision I ever made.

00:20:20Dancia went digging through records first.

00:20:23Then Rain.

00:20:25Captain Rain, my steadiest officer, who had studied bloodline nanetics before combat training,

00:20:30came to me holding printed papers, her face ashen.

00:20:33There are only two documented bloodlines gifted with heightened perception still alive.

00:20:38One died out in 1904.

00:20:41What about the other?

00:20:42The Caines.

00:20:44The room went dead silent.

00:20:46There's someone written about in the archives.

00:20:48Alice Caine, born 1890.

00:20:50Her powers awakened on her 18th birthday.

00:20:53She married at 19 to a man of great name.

00:20:56Enormous family.

00:20:58Vast fortune.

00:20:59Her parents trusted that man and told him the full truth of her gift.

00:21:06And then he used her for 11 full years.

00:21:11Brought her to every gathering to listen to other people's private thoughts.

00:21:17When she refused to keep doing it, there are medical records, Commander.

00:21:22She died at 30, carrying a baby daughter.

00:21:25It was listed as an accident.

00:21:28It was not.

00:21:29Chaya swore quietly.

00:21:31Skylar clapped a hand over her mouth.

00:21:34That family still exists to this day.

00:21:37On the night of my 18th birthday, fleeing the manor, my father's words came flooding back.

00:21:43She will not live to see Sunday, no matter what happens.

00:21:46She must never learn the truth.

00:21:53I buried my face in my hands.

00:21:55The team gathered silently around me.

00:21:58No one told me everything would be fine, because nothing would.

00:22:01That night, all 34 of us swore on our commissions,

00:22:05never to reveal my real identity or my gift outside these barracks.

00:22:09We finished our training three weeks early.

00:22:12All seven squads passed with zero dismissals,

00:22:16something that had not happened in 40 years at this academy.

00:22:20We had four days of leave before active duty assignments.

00:22:23On the second day of leave, I asked Rain to cut my hair down to shoulder length.

00:22:29Braids were a vulnerability, and I was tired of having them grabbed.

00:22:33On the fourth day of leave, I heard Rain's footsteps on the stairs

00:22:37before she even set foot on the second floor.

00:22:39I knew something was wrong purely from the sound of her footsteps.

00:22:43She burst into the kitchen trembling, shoved a supply crate into Whelan's arms,

00:22:47and went straight over to Beck.

00:22:49Beck, her partner, who had loved her since week nine of training,

00:22:53Beck wrapped his arms around her as she sobbed,

00:22:56and she told them what had happened to her.

00:22:58She had gone to the main building kitchen alone, out of uniform.

00:23:02Commander Burns had blocked her at the doorway.

00:23:04He told her to show up to his quarters in one hour, naked,

00:23:07and get down on her knees for him.

00:23:08She refused.

00:23:09He laughed and threatened her.

00:23:11Deliver a report stating you are unfit for duty to the king on Monday.

00:23:16Who do you think?

00:23:17His majesty will believe?

00:23:18A nine-year senior commander?

00:23:20Or an 18-year-old girl from an unknown squad?

00:23:24Beck's voice tore with rage.

00:23:26No.

00:23:27Everyone in the room turned to look at me.

00:23:29Nobody touches him.

00:23:31No one leaves the east wing of these barracks unnotified.

00:23:34Who else has been subjected to this kind of coercion from other commanders?

00:23:39Speak now.

00:23:40Nine female team members were in the room.

00:23:42None spoke.

00:23:43I grabbed my outer jacket.

00:23:45Burns.

00:23:47I will handle him.

00:23:52Early Monday morning, the team gathered in the kitchen,

00:23:54and watched me pull on my commander's uniform for the very first time.

00:23:58Black uniform with silver trim along the collar.

00:24:01It had been cut for a man.

00:24:03Faith had altered it by hand to fit me properly.

00:24:07Coffee.

00:24:08Welton immediately handed over a ceramic mug.

00:24:11Faith set a plate of food down in front of me.

00:24:14Orson, standing in the doorway, voiced what everyone was thinking.

00:24:17Commander.

00:24:17But everyone expects the new supreme commander to be a man.

00:24:22As far as I know, I don't possess male metatony.

00:24:25But you have more than enough grit.

00:24:29I was still smiling when I walked into the council chamber, eleven minutes late.

00:24:34Eight commanders, instructor Larson, and the king.

00:24:37Seated beside the king was a younger man, with dark eyes and an amused twist to his mouth.

00:24:42I recognized Crown Prince Cassius at once.

00:24:45He held himself exactly like his father.

00:24:48Every head turned towards me.

00:24:52Your majesty.

00:24:53My apologies for being late.

00:24:54The king's mud expression remained serious, but amusement lurked deep in his eyes.

00:24:58Congratulations to you and your team for finishing training three weeks early.

00:25:01People around the table drew in sharp breaths.

00:25:04This is my son, Crown Prince Cassius.

00:25:08The prince shook my hand.

00:25:09How did your team react, when they learned you were not a man?

00:25:12One of them commented that I had more grit than any man, your highness.

00:25:17Two of the commanders choked and coughed.

00:25:20The prince could not hold back his laughter any longer.

00:25:23I won't have her in my bed within a week.

00:25:29That thought flooded straight into my mind from the fourth seat across the table,

00:25:33and I knew exactly who it came from.

00:25:35It was Commander Burns.

00:25:37Fifty pounds heavier than me.

00:25:38Nine-year veteran.

00:25:39Holding his coffee mug.

00:25:40A fake pleasant smile on his face.

00:25:44Your majesty, if you will excuse me for a brief moment.

00:25:47Something I forgot to handle.

00:25:49I crossed the long council fable, gathering all my strength,

00:25:52and knocked Burns clean off his chair onto the floor.

00:26:01Everyone in the room surged to their feet,

00:26:04but no one was fast enough to stop me.

00:26:06I stood over him, my voice low and dangerous.

00:26:10If you ever threaten to file a false report,

00:26:14labeling a woman unfit for duty because she refuses your advances,

00:26:17then the king will be the least of your worries.

00:26:20I will find you,

00:26:21and you will regret ever being born.

00:26:24Do you understand me?

00:26:27Burns stopped struggling,

00:26:28made no attempt to get back up.

00:26:31Commander Vos.

00:26:32The king's hand rested lightly on my shoulder,

00:26:34his demeanor calm.

00:26:35Tell us the full story.

00:26:37I laid everything bare.

00:26:39Everything that had happened on Friday,

00:26:41what Reen had endured,

00:26:42the coercion at the doorway,

00:26:43the one-hour ultimatum,

00:26:44and the threat of the false fitness for duty report.

00:26:47Your majesty,

00:26:49I pressed the question.

00:26:51How many women over these nine years

00:26:53have been given an unfit for duty label

00:26:56solely for saying no?

00:26:57A long, heavy silence fell across the council chambers.

00:27:01Lawson,

00:27:02guards,

00:27:03take him away.

00:27:03Two royal guards stepped forward,

00:27:05seized Burns,

00:27:06and dragged him out of the room.

00:27:08I watched him go,

00:27:09and I felt nothing.

00:27:11After this council meeting concludes,

00:27:13I will speak with every commander one-on-one.

00:27:15If any of you have used this kind of coercive tactic,

00:27:19I will uncover every last instance.

00:27:21The penalty will not simply be dismissal.

00:27:24It will be imprisonment.

00:27:25The room felt completely quiet.

00:27:28We sat back down and moved on to official business.

00:27:31Two active case files lay on the table.

00:27:33One already resolved,

00:27:35in usual circumstances,

00:27:36handled by first squad.

00:27:38The second was a cold case stalled for two years,

00:27:40on the brink of open fighting over land.

00:27:43Two squads have been sent to mediate,

00:27:45both returned with nothing accomplished.

00:27:47If we delay further,

00:27:48people will bleed and die.

00:27:50Your majesty,

00:27:52what do the files state

00:27:53is the root cause of this land dispute?

00:27:54Silence fell across the room.

00:27:56The king flipped through the documents again and again,

00:27:59then lifted his head,

00:28:01his expression one I would not soon forget.

00:28:04The files do not state the reason at all.

00:28:06For two full years,

00:28:07no one ever thought to ask.

00:28:09May I take this case?

00:28:13He did not ask a single further question.

00:28:16He passed the case file across the table to me.

00:28:19The rest of the commanders filed out one by one.

00:28:22I gathered my staff of documents

00:28:24and was heading through the door

00:28:25when the king called my name quietly.

00:28:27Miss Kane.

00:28:32He petitioned the royal family

00:28:34for something no member of the Kane family

00:28:36had ever asked for in 300 years.

00:28:39Whatever he asked for,

00:28:40I'm not interested.

00:28:42Aurora, sit down.

00:28:44I did not sit.

00:28:45I stood in the doorway,

00:28:46a stack of files tucked under my ribs,

00:28:48my hands gradually going numb.

00:28:53The king walked around to this side of the desk.

00:28:55Up close,

00:28:56he was no longer the lofty monarch,

00:28:58just a man in his fifties.

00:29:01He asked me to send royal witnesses,

00:29:03official observers,

00:29:04to record everything under seal,

00:29:06to attend a private closed-door family gathering

00:29:09on your 18th birthday.

00:29:10He petitioned to add a Kane child

00:29:12to the royal protected person's role,

00:29:14and he demanded the whole matter stay sealed.

00:29:17If it become public,

00:29:18you won't live a month.

00:29:21He didn't speak a single word to me

00:29:22for a whole year.

00:29:25My tone had completely changed.

00:29:27Not one word.

00:29:28My mother cancelled Lauren's

00:29:30our 11-year-old Wednesday

00:29:31mother-daughter date.

00:29:32I lived in the cottage on the estate

00:29:34for four months,

00:29:35and nobody noticed.

00:29:37Do you understand what I'm saying?

00:29:39Nobody noticed.

00:29:40I understand.

00:29:43The king said.

00:29:44The don't tell me he was doing this

00:29:46to protect me.

00:29:47The way he handled this was cowardly.

00:29:49The king said.

00:29:50I told him as much in my written reply.

00:29:53But before you pass judgment,

00:29:55you deserve to know the full context

00:29:57of what came before.

00:29:59With all due respect,

00:30:00your majesty,

00:30:02I'd already made up my mind

00:30:03by the 90th day.

00:30:05He almost smiled.

00:30:07Your father said you were

00:30:08the most stubborn person

00:30:09this family had ever produced.

00:30:10He would say that to you,

00:30:12but never to me.

00:30:15I turned and walked out of the room.

00:30:22Back in the barracks,

00:30:2330-14 members waited for me

00:30:25in the top floor common room.

00:30:27I told them most of the truth,

00:30:30holding back only that final part.

00:30:32Byron is in a cell now.

00:30:33The king is questioning

00:30:35all guard commanders.

00:30:36Rain buried her face

00:30:38in her hands

00:30:39and Beck and Beck

00:30:40put his arms around her.

00:30:45She whispered.

00:30:46Don't thank me.

00:30:48This was my duty.

00:30:50I looked around the room

00:30:52at everyone.

00:30:53Every single one of you.

00:30:54If someone lays hands on you,

00:30:57threatens you,

00:30:58even just verbally humiliates you

00:31:00in the hallway

00:31:01and makes you feel small,

00:31:03come to me at once.

00:31:05Don't wait until afterwards.

00:31:07Immediately.

00:31:09Then I handed out case files

00:31:10and got to work.

00:31:11Only work could hold me together.

00:31:15Two hours later,

00:31:17team assignments were finished

00:31:18and all mission briefings

00:31:20were in place.

00:31:21The House of Aldridge

00:31:22and the House of Serrano

00:31:23locked in a two-year conflict

00:31:25over a disputed valley.

00:31:29We will summon both

00:31:30clan patriarchs

00:31:31to meet at the border.

00:31:33Not on either family's estate.

00:31:34Right there

00:31:35on the disputed land.

00:31:38Hear both sides out

00:31:39and I will deliver

00:31:40a resolution.

00:31:41If they refuse,

00:31:43the crown will issue

00:31:44a mandatory ruling.

00:31:46And nobody wants that outcome.

00:31:48What if they refuse

00:31:50even the crown's ruling?

00:31:51Then they will learn

00:31:52exactly

00:31:53what the king's scarred

00:31:55exists for.

00:32:00We packed our supplies,

00:32:01preparing for a four-day deployment.

00:32:06As we headed for the door,

00:32:07I saw Flora slip a playing card

00:32:09into the crack of the stair hall door

00:32:11before locking it.

00:32:14What's that for?

00:32:15Some of us suspect

00:32:17our barracks

00:32:17have been broken into.

00:32:20Strange things

00:32:21started happening

00:32:21about a week ago.

00:32:23Doors left open

00:32:24would be found shut,

00:32:26drawers shifted out of place.

00:32:31If the card is still

00:32:32wedged there

00:32:32when we get back,

00:32:33we were just imagining things.

00:32:35If the card is on the floor,

00:32:38it means someone

00:32:39has been inside.

00:32:40Hmm.

00:32:42Good work.

00:32:43Come tell me

00:32:43the very next day

00:32:44something like this

00:32:45happens in the future.

00:32:46At noon,

00:32:47two off-road vehicles

00:32:49drove out of the valley.

00:32:50An hour out

00:32:51from Serrano lands,

00:32:53we stopped

00:32:54to eat at a small diner

00:32:56among the pine trees.

00:32:58Over dinner,

00:33:00I thought back

00:33:01to the old days.

00:33:02When I was three years old,

00:33:04the first time

00:33:05I answered

00:33:05my father off his phone,

00:33:07my voice still childish.

00:33:10Hello?

00:33:11Who is this calling?

00:33:14Weiland laughed so hard

00:33:15he nearly collapsed

00:33:16onto the table.

00:33:17For that one short hour,

00:33:20I felt a happiness

00:33:22I hadn't known

00:33:23in a long time.

00:33:25Then the phone

00:33:26on the table vibrated.

00:33:28Unknown number.

00:33:29Only one single message.

00:33:31Before I even opened it,

00:33:33cold dread

00:33:34washed over me.

00:33:35I recognized

00:33:36this writing style

00:33:37very well

00:33:38from childhood.

00:33:43Rory,

00:33:44it's Aston.

00:33:44Don't delete this message.

00:33:46We know where you are.

00:33:48We've tracked

00:33:48your movements

00:33:48for six days.

00:33:50It's not only us

00:33:51who have found you.

00:33:52Whatever you do,

00:33:53stay far away

00:33:54from the house of Aldrich.

00:33:55I set the phone

00:33:56face down

00:33:57on the table

00:33:57and finished my coffee.

00:33:59Commander?

00:34:00A message from home?

00:34:02Everyone,

00:34:03assemble,

00:34:03move out.

00:34:04After a full year

00:34:05of being ignored,

00:34:06when they finally reached out,

00:34:08I could not bring myself

00:34:09to trust them.

00:34:10We arrived at the gates

00:34:11of the Serrano estate first.

00:34:13I got out of the vehicle

00:34:14and walked toward

00:34:15two armed guards

00:34:16twice my size.

00:34:17Tell your patriarch

00:34:18to meet you

00:34:18at the northeast border

00:34:19of your lands

00:34:20in one hour.

00:34:21No refusals.

00:34:24Without waiting

00:34:25for their reply,

00:34:26I turned and walked away.

00:34:27I did exactly the same thing

00:34:28at the Aldrich state,

00:34:29then turned

00:34:30and left.

00:34:32When we drove out

00:34:33to that valley,

00:34:3430 armed men

00:34:34stood on Serrano's side

00:34:35and 35 on Aldrich's.

00:34:37Things must not go wrong today.

00:34:40Not while I was here.

00:34:41I ordered my team

00:34:43to form a line

00:34:43right in the middle

00:34:44of the valley.

00:34:4534 sets of silver

00:34:47and black royal guard uniforms.

00:34:48I stood at the center

00:34:49of the formation,

00:34:51two case files

00:34:51tucked under my arm,

00:34:53waiting for the two patriarchs

00:34:54to walk towards me.

00:34:55Lord Serrano looked

00:34:56about 60,

00:34:57and it was plain

00:34:58he had not slept well

00:34:59in two years.

00:35:00Aldrich was younger,

00:35:02sharp-featured,

00:35:03with an air

00:35:03of grim determination.

00:35:05The crown sends

00:35:06just you to resolve this?

00:35:08Just a little girl?

00:35:13The crown sends

00:35:14just you to resolve this?

00:35:16Just a little girl?

00:35:17What stands before you

00:35:18is your commander.

00:35:21We will occupy

00:35:22one hour of your time.

00:35:23After that,

00:35:24if you insist

00:35:24on slaughtering one another,

00:35:27you may do as you please.

00:35:29I asked only one question,

00:35:31a question nobody

00:35:32had bothered to ask

00:35:33for two full years.

00:35:35Why are you fighting

00:35:36over this valley?

00:35:37Aldrich began talking

00:35:37of strategic terrain,

00:35:39water rights,

00:35:40honor,

00:35:40and grand principles.

00:35:41He was lying.

00:35:42Deep in his thoughts came,

00:35:43if they dig here,

00:35:45they will find her.

00:35:46I turned toward

00:35:46Lord Serrano.

00:35:48My lord,

00:35:48why do you want this valley?

00:35:50The old man's lips trembled.

00:35:51In front of 65 armed men,

00:35:53he completely broke down.

00:35:55My daughter is buried

00:35:56in this valley.

00:35:57Only wind echoed

00:35:58across the valley.

00:35:59Elena

00:36:00died at 19.

00:36:02At the north end

00:36:03of the valley

00:36:04sits a small old chapel,

00:36:05unmarked,

00:36:06long since fallen

00:36:07into ruin.

00:36:08She died in 1997.

00:36:10We buried her here

00:36:11because this was

00:36:12neutral ground,

00:36:13accessible to both houses.

00:36:15And...

00:36:16His voice cracked with grief.

00:36:18It was his father

00:36:19behind the hit and run

00:36:20all those years ago.

00:36:24It was his father

00:36:25behind the hit and run

00:36:26all those years ago.

00:36:28Aldrich's face

00:36:29went deathly pale.

00:36:30Two years of standoff,

00:36:32three failed mediations,

00:36:33two deployments

00:36:34of the King's Guard,

00:36:35and nobody

00:36:36had ever bothered

00:36:36to ask what this conflict

00:36:37was really about.

00:36:39I drew in a deep breath.

00:36:41Then here is the resolution.

00:36:43This valley will neither

00:36:44be sold nor ceded.

00:36:46It will pass into

00:36:47crown stewardship

00:36:48to serve as a shared

00:36:49memorial graveyard

00:36:50for both houses.

00:36:51Repairs and upkeep

00:36:52will be shared equally

00:36:53by the two families

00:36:54in perpetuity.

00:36:56Neither of you

00:36:56will own this land

00:36:58and...

00:36:59neither of you

00:37:00will lose it.

00:37:01You will both

00:37:01stand guard over it

00:37:03together.

00:37:03The house of Aldrich

00:37:05shall fund and erect

00:37:06a headstone

00:37:06bearing Elena Serrano's

00:37:08name before the

00:37:09first frost comes.

00:37:10Lord Serrano broke down

00:37:11and wept openly

00:37:12where he stood.

00:37:13Aldrich stood motionless

00:37:14for a long while.

00:37:16Then he did something

00:37:17nobody expected.

00:37:19He stepped across

00:37:20the standoff line

00:37:20between the two parties

00:37:21and held out his hand.

00:37:24I watched the two

00:37:25old enemies shake hands

00:37:27across the memory

00:37:27of a girl dead

00:37:2826 years.

00:37:30At that very instant

00:37:31I caught movement.

00:37:37a sharp metallic click

00:37:39came from high up

00:37:39on the east ridge.

00:37:41A rifle bolt

00:37:42being cocked.

00:37:431,400 meters away

00:37:45drove my shoulder

00:37:46hard into Lord Serrano's

00:37:47chest and we both

00:37:48crashed onto the grass.

00:37:49A gunshot split the valley.

00:37:52The bullet ricocheted

00:37:53off rock exactly

00:37:53where his head

00:37:54had been a moment

00:37:55before.

00:37:55Chaos erupted

00:37:56in the clearing.

00:37:5765 men raised

00:37:58their firearms

00:37:58all at once.

00:37:59No firing!

00:38:01I was already

00:38:02on my feet

00:38:03and running.

00:38:04Rayan,

00:38:04Beck,

00:38:05follow me up

00:38:05the east ridge.

00:38:06Everyone else,

00:38:07hold your fire!

00:38:08Four minutes later,

00:38:09we found the gunman

00:38:10among the pine trees.

00:38:11I could hear his breathing

00:38:12from 300 meters away,

00:38:14sense his hammering

00:38:15heartbeat

00:38:15from 2,000 meters out.

00:38:20Sense his hammering

00:38:21heartbeat

00:38:21from 2,000 meters out.

00:38:22The man was roughly

00:38:2425 years old,

00:38:25holding a professional

00:38:26sniper rifle,

00:38:27no family crest

00:38:28anywhere on his clothing.

00:38:30Beck tackled him

00:38:31and pinned him

00:38:31to the ground.

00:38:32I knelt down

00:38:33in front of him.

00:38:34Before he could speak,

00:38:35screaming thoughts

00:38:36flooded straight

00:38:36into my mind.

00:38:38It's her.

00:38:39Black hair,

00:38:405 1⁄2 feet,

00:38:4018.

00:38:41He was right.

00:38:42That cane girl is alive,

00:38:43wearing Royal Guard uniform.

00:38:45I grabbed him hard

00:38:46by the collar.

00:38:46Who is he?

00:38:47Who sent you?

00:38:48Tell me the name!

00:38:50The man lifted his eyes

00:38:52to look at me

00:38:53and suddenly he laughed.

00:38:55You heard me, didn't you?

00:38:57You heard every single thought.

00:39:00Then he bit down hard

00:39:02on something.

00:39:04Then his eyes stayed wide open

00:39:06and he collapsed

00:39:07onto the pine needles,

00:39:08lifeless.

00:39:12We drove back

00:39:13through the night.

00:39:14Ashton's message

00:39:15weighed heavy on my phone.

00:39:16It's not only us

00:39:17who have found you.

00:39:19Six days.

00:39:20My family had known

00:39:21where I was

00:39:22for six whole days

00:39:23and never come for me.

00:39:25There were only

00:39:26two possibilities.

00:39:27Either they had

00:39:28completely given up on me

00:39:29or someone had ordered

00:39:30them not to come.

00:39:32To show themselves

00:39:33would mean giving away

00:39:33my location

00:39:34to our enemies.

00:39:36I did not know

00:39:37which possibility

00:39:37hurt were.

00:39:39We got back to the academy

00:39:40at 4 o'clock

00:39:41in the early morning.

00:39:42I opened the stairwell door

00:39:43and shone my flashlight

00:39:44downward.

00:39:45Flora's playing card

00:39:46lay face up

00:39:47on the third step.

00:39:4834 people

00:39:49hurried upstairs

00:39:50and searched

00:39:51every single room

00:39:51in the barracks.

00:39:53At last,

00:39:54on my desk

00:39:55in the top floor room,

00:39:56we found what the intruder

00:39:57had left behind.

00:39:58A single photograph.

00:40:00Six-year-old me

00:40:01in a blue dress

00:40:01sitting on the floor

00:40:02of my father's office

00:40:03holding a telephone receiver.

00:40:05Only one place

00:40:06in the whole world

00:40:06held this photograph.

00:40:08The locked archive vault

00:40:09deep under Blackwater Manor.

00:40:11On the back

00:40:11of the photograph,

00:40:12written in ballpoint pen,

00:40:14one single line.

00:40:15Her voice sounded

00:40:15so sweet

00:40:16when she answered

00:40:17the phone.

00:40:19The photograph

00:40:20was about to slip out

00:40:20of my hand

00:40:21and Faith caught it.

00:40:23I did not even remember

00:40:24letting go of it.

00:40:29I did not even remember

00:40:30letting go of it.

00:40:33I walked out

00:40:33of the barracks

00:40:34and hurried down

00:40:35two flights of stairs.

00:40:37It was four o'clock

00:40:38in the morning

00:40:38and I banged hard

00:40:39on the west wing

00:40:40barracks door.

00:40:42I was done

00:40:43keeping up appearances,

00:40:45done being

00:40:45some distant rumor.

00:40:46The door swung open.

00:40:47Jaron Rourke,

00:40:48wearing nothing

00:40:49but a t-shirt,

00:40:50his hair messy,

00:40:51one hand gripping

00:40:52a sidearm.

00:40:52At any other moment

00:40:53I might have savored

00:40:54the look on his face.

00:40:55What can I?

00:40:56His words died

00:40:57mid-sentence.

00:40:58His gaze locked

00:40:59onto my uniform,

00:41:00the silver indignia

00:41:01on the collar.

00:41:01You are Voss.

00:41:03Commander Voss.

00:41:04Someone has been

00:41:05breaking into my barracks

00:41:06at least twice.

00:41:07They got past

00:41:08locked stairwell doors

00:41:09only 40 feet away

00:41:10from where your unit sleeps.

00:41:11I need to know

00:41:12if anyone on your side

00:41:13saw anything

00:41:14out of the ordinary.

00:41:15He was already

00:41:16bending down

00:41:16to pull his boots on.

00:41:19Over the next four hours

00:41:20I learned exactly

00:41:21who Jaron Rose was.

00:41:22He had joked with his men

00:41:23ten months prior

00:41:25but there was no trace

00:41:26of amusement in him now.

00:41:27Long before sunrise

00:41:28he mobilized his entire unit

00:41:30to conduct the investigation.

00:41:31There had been

00:41:32two separate break-ins.

00:41:35Both had taken place

00:41:36between two and three o'clock

00:41:37in the early morning

00:41:38on nights when my unit

00:41:39was away on field exercises.

00:41:41The intruder possessed

00:41:42a master key

00:41:43and valid staff

00:41:44identification credentials.

00:41:45This was no outside intruder.

00:41:47Someone on the inside.

00:41:51Someone on the inside.

00:41:53We ended up

00:41:53in the empty mess hall.

00:41:55Two mugs of coffee

00:41:56between us.

00:41:58Voss.

00:41:58He turned the ceramic mug

00:42:00around in his hands.

00:42:02Why should I not

00:42:02call you Voss?

00:42:03I stared at him

00:42:04for a long time.

00:42:05His mind stayed shielded.

00:42:07Kane.

00:42:08Aurora Kane.

00:42:10He did not look terrified.

00:42:11He only went rigid.

00:42:12A reaction heavier than fear.

00:42:14Damon Kane's daughter.

00:42:16That is correct.

00:42:17The only girl

00:42:18born to the Kanes.

00:42:19One hundred and fifteen years.

00:42:22I set my mug down.

00:42:25How do you know that?

00:42:26Jaron glanced

00:42:27toward the doorway

00:42:27and finally told the secret

00:42:29he had kept for ten months.

00:42:31I am not just another cadet.

00:42:34I am crown house

00:42:35service personnel.

00:42:36My father is

00:42:37captain general

00:42:37of the royal guard.

00:42:39When Prince Casillas ascends

00:42:40I will succeed him.

00:42:42There exists a sealed

00:42:43crown house file

00:42:44on your family.

00:42:45I have read it.

00:42:47Three weeks before

00:42:48you rode up

00:42:49to the academy gates

00:42:50the king unsealed

00:42:51that archive.

00:42:52Say the name.

00:42:54The house of Colvin.

00:42:55Emuri Colvin.

00:42:56Great grandson

00:42:57of the man

00:42:57who married Alice Kane

00:42:58and destroyed her

00:42:59over eleven years

00:43:00back in 1909.

00:43:01Aurora.

00:43:03This whole family

00:43:04has waited a full century

00:43:05for another girl

00:43:06to be born into the Kanes.

00:43:10This whole family

00:43:11has waited a full century

00:43:12for another girl

00:43:13to be born into the Kanes.

00:43:16They had men

00:43:16watching your father's manner

00:43:17long before you

00:43:18ever learned to walk.

00:43:19The mess hall

00:43:20fell dead silent.

00:43:21They know I am here.

00:43:23The sniper knew.

00:43:25There is someone

00:43:26inside these walls

00:43:26feeding them information.

00:43:28Then we will root

00:43:29the traitor out

00:43:29today.

00:43:32He stood up.

00:43:34Do your family know

00:43:35what danger is coming

00:43:35for you?

00:43:36At that exact moment

00:43:37something deep inside me

00:43:38finally shattered.

00:43:40My father had begged

00:43:41the king for witnesses.

00:43:42He had said

00:43:43she will not live

00:43:44to see Sunday.

00:43:46He had tried to build

00:43:47a wall to protect me

00:43:48and he had forgotten

00:43:49to tell me

00:43:50I was locked inside a cage.

00:43:52Almost without

00:43:52my own control

00:43:53I picked up my phone

00:43:54and dialed the number

00:43:55for home.

00:43:57The phone rang once.

00:43:59Before the second ring

00:44:00could finish

00:44:00my mother answered.

00:44:04Rory!

00:44:05Rory!

00:44:06My God!

00:44:08A full year had passed

00:44:09since I'd last heard

00:44:10her say my name.

00:44:11I could only sit down

00:44:12on the mess hall floor

00:44:13my back braced

00:44:14against a table leg.

00:44:17Mother.

00:44:19A sob tore out

00:44:20of her throat.

00:44:22Don't hang up on me

00:44:23please baby.

00:44:24Don't hang up!

00:44:25I will not hang up.

00:44:27I need you to answer

00:44:28me one question.

00:44:29Does the name

00:44:30Imeric Coleran

00:44:31mean anything to you?

00:44:32The crying stopped short.

00:44:34I heard out of the mouthpiece

00:44:35with her hand

00:44:36and shout from my father

00:44:37across the huge manor house.

00:44:39Five hours later

00:44:40they arrived

00:44:41at the academy gates.

00:44:42I made them wait

00:44:4340 minutes

00:44:44outside the gates

00:44:44compared to a full year

00:44:46of suffering.

00:44:4740 minutes was nothing.

00:44:48I only wanted them

00:44:49to taste a thousandth

00:44:50of what I went through.

00:44:51Then I walked downstairs

00:44:52in full dress uniform

00:44:53two team captains

00:44:54following close behind me.

00:44:55For the first time

00:44:56in 12 months

00:44:56my family saw

00:44:57who I had become.

00:45:00My mother clapped

00:45:01both hands over her mouth.

00:45:02My father,

00:45:03Damon Cain,

00:45:04the man of overwhelming presence

00:45:05staggered one single step.

00:45:08Ashton caught him

00:45:08by the arm.

00:45:09I had cut my hair short

00:45:10and eight subordinates

00:45:11stood behind me

00:45:12ready to take a bullet for me.

00:45:16An eight subordinates

00:45:17stood behind me

00:45:18ready to take a bullet for me.

00:45:20Out here

00:45:20I had built something

00:45:21for myself.

00:45:22People who would

00:45:23never forget my name.

00:45:25Rory.

00:45:26Please address me

00:45:27as commander.

00:45:28He froze mid-sentence.

00:45:29You have 20 minutes.

00:45:30Speak.

00:45:32Then my father

00:45:33began to speak.

00:45:34He told the story

00:45:35of Alice Cain

00:45:35and the marriage

00:45:36back in 99.

00:45:38How the man

00:45:38who was supposed

00:45:39to love her

00:45:39used her as a listening tool

00:45:41for 11 long years.

00:45:42What choice she had made

00:45:43when she learned

00:45:44her unborn daughter

00:45:45would inherit

00:45:46this same curse.

00:45:47He told me

00:45:47that the Cain gift

00:45:48always awakened

00:45:49exactly at the hour

00:45:50of your 18th birthday.

00:45:51Three days after

00:45:53my 17th birthday party

00:45:54he had found out

00:45:55that the House of Colbyn

00:45:56was pouring money

00:45:57into property purchases

00:45:58all around Blackwater Manor.

00:46:00This is what we planned.

00:46:01Your mother

00:46:02your brothers

00:46:03two of my senior aides

00:46:04every morning at six

00:46:05for a full year

00:46:07we met in my office

00:46:08to plan.

00:46:09We petitioned

00:46:10for royal witnesses

00:46:11filed you

00:46:12under the crown's

00:46:12protected persons role.

00:46:14We purchased a property

00:46:15in Allerville

00:46:15with no mention

00:46:16of your name

00:46:16anywhere on the deeds.

00:46:20We purchased a property

00:46:22in Allerville

00:46:22with no mention

00:46:23of your name

00:46:24anywhere on the deeds.

00:46:25We were going to throw you

00:46:26an unforgettable birthday

00:46:28out in the west side

00:46:30woodland clearing.

00:46:32Indigo and burgundy decorations.

00:46:35We were going

00:46:36to tell you

00:46:37you everything

00:46:38that night.

00:46:40And we wanted to give you

00:46:41wanted to give you

00:46:42one perfect night first.

00:46:44And the simple solution

00:46:46you chose

00:46:46to keep this secret

00:46:47from me

00:46:48was to never speak

00:46:49to me

00:46:49at all.

00:46:51Nobody said a word.

00:46:53All of you

00:46:55I want you to understand

00:46:56what you have done.

00:46:58Declan was in tears.

00:47:00Hudson could not

00:47:01bring himself

00:47:01to look down

00:47:02from the gravel

00:47:02at his own feet.

00:47:04We thought it would

00:47:05only last a few weeks.

00:47:06Every morning

00:47:07we told ourselves

00:47:07just get through

00:47:09this week.

00:47:09But day after day

00:47:11passed Rory.

00:47:12You stopped

00:47:13asking questions

00:47:14and it grew easier.

00:47:16And we let ourselves

00:47:17keep making

00:47:18that terrible mistake.

00:47:20I will never

00:47:21forget-

00:47:21I lived 111 nights

00:47:23in the gardener's cottage.

00:47:24My mother broke down

00:47:26into quiet sobbing.

00:47:27I packed my things

00:47:28and moved out

00:47:29of that house

00:47:29bit by bit

00:47:30and nobody noticed.

00:47:33I pulled my own file

00:47:34out of the family archives.

00:47:40Do you know

00:47:40what the very last line said?

00:47:45Do you know

00:47:46what the very last line said?

00:47:48Rory!

00:47:48No further record.

00:47:50My father raised a hand

00:47:51and covered his own eyes.

00:47:52At that moment

00:47:53my mother stepped forward

00:47:54and held out

00:47:54a black ringbender notebook.

00:47:56Her hands shook so hard

00:47:57she could barely

00:47:58hold on to it.

00:47:59I started writing in it

00:48:00the day you were born, Rory.

00:48:03I stared for a long time

00:48:04at that notebook.

00:48:06The bitter truth was

00:48:07I wanted so badly

00:48:08to take it.

00:48:10You keep it.

00:48:11There is danger

00:48:12behind these academy walls.

00:48:14A dead sniper

00:48:15lies in the crown morgue.

00:48:16Upstairs I have

00:48:1734 people

00:48:18who will always

00:48:19remember who I am.

00:48:21If you want me

00:48:22to come home

00:48:22show me action.

00:48:24Send

00:48:24every single

00:48:26document

00:48:26you hold

00:48:27on the Colbin house.

00:48:29To me before

00:48:30the end of this night

00:48:30I turned

00:48:31and walked away.

00:48:32It was the second time

00:48:33I had walked away

00:48:34from my family

00:48:35within a single year.

00:48:36As I walked away

00:48:37a thought from my father

00:48:38drifted unabitted

00:48:39into my mind.

00:48:40Please don't let it

00:48:41be the little brother.

00:48:42Anyone but him.

00:48:44If she finds out

00:48:45it was Gideon

00:48:45who betrayed her

00:48:46it will break her in half.

00:48:48I came to a complete

00:48:49stop in my steps.

00:48:50Gideon

00:48:51old family friend

00:48:52my godfather

00:48:53the man on the other

00:48:54end of that phone call

00:48:55I'd answered

00:48:56when I was three years old.

00:49:00I did not look back

00:49:01forcing myself

00:49:02to keep walking forward.

00:49:04If I turned around

00:49:05my father would read

00:49:06the shock right off

00:49:07my face.

00:49:07Back upstairs

00:49:08to the dormitory

00:49:09I punched straight

00:49:10through the drywall

00:49:10plaster of the wall.

00:49:11Commander

00:49:12speak it out.

00:49:13Gideon Voss.

00:49:14Skyler's brows

00:49:15drew together in a frown.

00:49:16Voss?

00:49:18Could it be

00:49:19he was my godfather

00:49:19my father's oldest

00:49:20and closest friend.

00:49:22When I was nine years old

00:49:23he gave me

00:49:24my first small knife.

00:49:26I used his last name

00:49:27as a pseudonym

00:49:27when I enrolled.

00:49:28It was the only

00:49:29fake identity I trusted.

00:49:30Danica was already

00:49:32sitting in front

00:49:32of the laptop.

00:49:34Commander

00:49:34if he is the mole

00:49:36then the moment

00:49:37you submitted

00:49:37your application

00:49:38under the surname Voss

00:49:39you directly told him

00:49:40where to find you.

00:49:41That means

00:49:41he has had

00:49:42ten whole months.

00:49:43Drive staff

00:49:44duplicate keys

00:49:45sneak in

00:49:46and leave that photograph.

00:49:47I know.

00:49:48Danica's fingers

00:49:49hovered above the keyboard.

00:49:51Commander

00:49:51he is in charge

00:49:52of site

00:49:53and archive maintenance.

00:49:54He passed vetting

00:49:55eleven months ago.

00:49:57He is inside

00:49:57the academy

00:49:58right now.

00:49:59In an instant

00:50:00every sound

00:50:00from the entire building

00:50:01flooded into my senses.

00:50:03The heartbeat

00:50:04of people

00:50:05inside all six barracks

00:50:06rain beating down

00:50:08on the east side roof

00:50:09and one door

00:50:10on the ground floor

00:50:11of our barrack

00:50:11being pushed open.

00:50:13Beneath all the noise

00:50:14a thought I knew

00:50:15all too well

00:50:15drifted in

00:50:16faint and full of fear.

00:50:18Rory

00:50:18don't go downstairs.

00:50:20He is

00:50:23Rory

00:50:24don't go downstairs.

00:50:25He is

00:50:25It was Rayen.

00:50:26Rayen is trapped

00:50:27in the stairwell.

00:50:28I yelled

00:50:28then climbed

00:50:29straight out

00:50:29of the window

00:50:31three stories high.

00:50:32I rolled on landing

00:50:33scraping skin

00:50:34off my forearms

00:50:35then got to my feet

00:50:36and sprinted

00:50:37toward the ground floor door

00:50:38down at the bottom

00:50:39of our own stairwell.

00:50:40He was holding

00:50:40Rayen hostage.

00:50:41Gideon Voss

00:50:4262 years old

00:50:43one arm locked

00:50:44around Rayen's neck

00:50:45a syringe pressed

00:50:46against the side

00:50:46of her neck.

00:50:47You finally came.

00:50:49Hello there

00:50:49good child.

00:50:51Let her go.

00:50:52She ran right into me

00:50:53poor girl.

00:50:54I only came

00:50:54looking for you.

00:50:55He looked toward me

00:50:56that exact smile

00:50:57from long ago

00:50:58on his face.

00:50:59You cut your hair.

00:51:00Your mother

00:51:01will be very upset.

00:51:03Gideon

00:51:04my voice held

00:51:05no inflection at all.

00:51:06How long has this

00:51:07been going on?

00:51:0819 years.

00:51:09He spoke calmly.

00:51:10Ever since the week

00:51:11you were born

00:51:12Aurora

00:51:12do you know

00:51:13what price

00:51:14the house of Colbyn

00:51:15will pay

00:51:15for information

00:51:16about a cane girl?

00:51:17Do you understand

00:51:18how valuable

00:51:18this gift is

00:51:19to a family

00:51:20that has waited

00:51:21an entire century?

00:51:22You were the one

00:51:23holding me

00:51:23at my baptism.

00:51:25That is true.

00:51:26A flicker of genuine

00:51:27emotion crossed his eyes.

00:51:28If I had not argued

00:51:29on your behalf

00:51:31they would have

00:51:31taken you away

00:51:32when you were six.

00:51:33In a way

00:51:34I bought you

00:51:34twelve extra years.

00:51:36Lord Emeril

00:51:37is at the east gate.

00:51:39He wants to talk to you.

00:51:44He wants to talk to you.

00:51:45Come with me

00:51:46or I will inject

00:51:47four hundred milligrams

00:51:48of this drug

00:51:49straight into

00:51:50this girl's neck.

00:51:51You will watch her

00:51:52slowly die

00:51:53right here

00:51:53on our own stairwell.

00:51:55It is that simple.

00:51:56Commander don't go.

00:51:58A year earlier

00:51:58I would have gone

00:51:59with him obediently

00:52:00but over these past

00:52:01ten months

00:52:02I was no longer

00:52:03worthless.

00:52:04I was the commander

00:52:05of all these people.

00:52:06Gideon

00:52:06what is behind you?

00:52:08He would not

00:52:08fall for it.

00:52:09Of course he would not.

00:52:10But everyone's body

00:52:11will react unconsciously

00:52:12when they hear

00:52:12a question like that.

00:52:13Beck came charging

00:52:14down the stairs

00:52:15barefooted

00:52:15consumed by rage.

00:52:17He grabbed Gideon's

00:52:18elbow holding the syringe.

00:52:19I pulled Ray into safety.

00:52:21We restrained him

00:52:22flat on the floor

00:52:22using zip ties.

00:52:23Ray knelt on the ground

00:52:24one hand covering her neck.

00:52:26Good child.

00:52:27Colvin has fourteen men

00:52:29waiting at the east gate.

00:52:30He also holds a royal

00:52:31archived marriage contract

00:52:33dated 1909

00:52:34written in black and white

00:52:36stating that the first born girl

00:52:37of the house of Cain

00:52:39shall marry into his family.

00:52:41That document carries

00:52:41no legal force.

00:52:43Jalen said coldly.

00:52:44It is true

00:52:45it is not legal statute

00:52:46but it is bargaining leverage

00:52:48and he has already breached

00:52:50the academy's

00:52:51outer perimeter wall.

00:52:53Your family just drove out

00:52:54to me

00:52:54all eight of them.

00:52:56Twenty minutes ago

00:52:57I sent them the message

00:52:59using your phone.

00:53:03I would replay those nine minutes

00:53:04countless times

00:53:05in my head afterward

00:53:06but the things I truly remember

00:53:07are only fragmented images.

00:53:09I remember that Jaren

00:53:10was the first one

00:53:10to burst out through that door.

00:53:12When he reached the top step

00:53:13he looked back at me

00:53:14and said only one thing.

00:53:15Commander

00:53:15give the order.

00:53:16I also remember

00:53:17how my voice sounded

00:53:18at that moment

00:53:18unusually steady.

00:53:19Flora

00:53:20seal off this side

00:53:21keep Gideon contained

00:53:23no one speaks to him

00:53:24and no one moves him away.

00:53:26Enzo

00:53:26wait the guard barracks

00:53:27contact the duty captain

00:53:28tell him to activate

00:53:28black alert at the east gate.

00:53:30Maeve

00:53:31notify the king directly

00:53:32go through no intermediaries.

00:53:34Orson Weiland

00:53:34hold the outer perimeter

00:53:35do not engage

00:53:36of your own accord.

00:53:38Beck Rayan

00:53:38go to the medical unit

00:53:39Beck this is in order

00:53:40do not argue with me.

00:53:43Chaya

00:53:44Skylar

00:53:44Denasa

00:53:44Faith

00:53:45come with me.

00:53:47Jeron

00:53:48take your men

00:53:49and swing around

00:53:49from the north.

00:53:50We will close in

00:53:51from both sides.

00:53:54Heavy rain was falling

00:53:55that night.

00:53:56Searchlights shunned

00:53:57down onto the ground.

00:53:58The second I stepped

00:53:59outside

00:54:00I saw three black sedans

00:54:01and fourteen men

00:54:02and my family.

00:54:03They were all lined up

00:54:05hands held

00:54:05where everyone could see them.

00:54:07Standing at the front of them

00:54:08was a Merrick Colvin

00:54:08fifty years old

00:54:09dressed in an expensive

00:54:10tailored suit.

00:54:11the kind of face

00:54:12that would still be

00:54:13described as

00:54:13dignitified and refined

00:54:15even in an obituary.

00:54:19The kind of face

00:54:20that would still be

00:54:20described as

00:54:21dignitified and refined

00:54:22even in an obituary.

00:54:24The second he laid

00:54:25eyes on me

00:54:25he smiled.

00:54:26Rory get back!

00:54:27Go back inside the walls!

00:54:29I cut him off directly.

00:54:30Shut up father.

00:54:32I stopped roughly

00:54:32ten feet away

00:54:33from Colvin.

00:54:34This is Crown Land.

00:54:36You have brought

00:54:36fourteen armed men

00:54:38and breached

00:54:39the outer perimeter

00:54:39defenses of a

00:54:40royal military facility.

00:54:42Do you realize

00:54:43what you have done tonight?

00:54:44But Colvin

00:54:45could not care less.

00:54:47He said he had

00:54:48merely come to

00:54:48collect a 115 year old

00:54:50debt.

00:54:51He said my

00:54:52great grandmother

00:54:53had belonged to them.

00:54:56They even had

00:54:57documents to prove it

00:54:57but I told him

00:54:58that was no debt at all.

00:54:59That was a girl

00:55:00named Alice.

00:55:01His great grandfather

00:55:02had exploited her

00:55:03for eleven full years

00:55:04using her as a tool.

00:55:06In the end

00:55:07Alice had chosen

00:55:08to end her own life

00:55:08at thirty

00:55:09rather than hand over

00:55:10a daughter

00:55:11into their grasp.

00:55:12So she never owed

00:55:13the house of Colvin

00:55:13a single thing.

00:55:14The ones who truly

00:55:15owed a debt

00:55:15were them

00:55:16because it was

00:55:16a human life

00:55:17and they had

00:55:18never paid for it.

00:55:19Colvin's expression

00:55:19did not change

00:55:20but in that exact instant

00:55:21I heard his thoughts.

00:55:24She can hear.

00:55:25Watch her reaction.

00:55:26She hears every

00:55:27unspoken word

00:55:28inside my head.

00:55:29Damn it.

00:55:29She inherited

00:55:30the full power.

00:55:31She is worth

00:55:32far more than

00:55:32that manor house.

00:55:36She is worth

00:55:37far more than

00:55:37that manor house.

00:55:38When I heard

00:55:39those words

00:55:39I finally understood

00:55:40everything.

00:55:41What my father

00:55:42had feared

00:55:42for all those years

00:55:43and I finally

00:55:44understood

00:55:44why he had

00:55:45tried so hard

00:55:46to protect me.

00:55:47Only

00:55:47the method

00:55:48he had chosen

00:55:48was utterly rotten.

00:55:49Colvin spoke

00:55:50my name again.

00:55:51Aurora.

00:55:51His tone

00:55:52turned unexpectedly

00:55:53gentle.

00:55:54He even held

00:55:54one hand out

00:55:55towards me.

00:55:56He said

00:55:56if I would

00:55:57just come

00:55:57and talk to him

00:55:58just talk

00:55:58my family

00:55:59would get out

00:55:59of here

00:55:59unharmed tonight.

00:56:01As for me

00:56:01and him

00:56:01before he

00:56:02could finish

00:56:02his sentence

00:56:03Jaren's voice

00:56:04crackled

00:56:04in my earpiece.

00:56:05Commander

00:56:06Northern team

00:56:06is in position.

00:56:08All 14 targets

00:56:08confirmed.

00:56:09Awaiting your order.

00:56:10I looked at the hand

00:56:11Colvin was holding

00:56:12out to me.

00:56:13Then in front

00:56:13of every single

00:56:14person present

00:56:14I told him

00:56:15clearly.

00:56:16My name is

00:56:16Aurora Kane

00:56:17commander

00:56:18of the Royal

00:56:18King's Guard.

00:56:19You are all

00:56:20under arrest

00:56:20now.

00:56:21The whole fight

00:56:22lasted only 40 seconds

00:56:23and I had 14 men

00:56:24who had

00:56:25two complete

00:56:26Royal Guards.

00:56:2741 more

00:56:28Royal Guards

00:56:28were rushing down

00:56:29from the hills

00:56:29behind us.

00:56:30Driver in the

00:56:30left hand car

00:56:31reaching for his

00:56:31gun.

00:56:32Skylar!

00:56:32Right after that

00:56:33I picked up

00:56:34another thought.

00:56:35Colvin's target

00:56:36was my father.

00:56:37I shouted

00:56:38at once.

00:56:39Ashton get down!

00:56:43Ashton get down!

00:56:44There was no time

00:56:45to wait for him

00:56:45to react.

00:56:46I charged forward

00:56:47and slammed my

00:56:48shoulder hard

00:56:48into my father's

00:56:49back and we both

00:56:50crashed down

00:56:50onto the gravel.

00:56:51A bullet whistled

00:56:52over our heads

00:56:53the next instant.

00:56:54At that exact

00:56:55same moment

00:56:56Jaren burst out

00:56:57from the darkness

00:56:58and attacked

00:56:59Emmeryn Colvin

00:56:59straight to the ground.

00:57:01The fight

00:57:01was over.

00:57:02Nobody had been

00:57:03killed.

00:57:04Two of their

00:57:05men were wounded.

00:57:06On our side

00:57:06Orson got

00:57:07grazed by a bullet

00:57:08across the arm

00:57:09and he would go

00:57:10on bragging

00:57:10about it

00:57:11for years

00:57:11afterward.

00:57:14When I climbed

00:57:14back to my feet

00:57:15my father was

00:57:16still lying

00:57:17underneath me.

00:57:18He asked me

00:57:18in a voice

00:57:19like a man

00:57:19nearly drowning.

00:57:21You can hear.

00:57:22I have been able

00:57:23to hear ever since

00:57:24midnight on my

00:57:24birthday.

00:57:25Father,

00:57:26all you really

00:57:27needed to do

00:57:28was tell me

00:57:28the truth.

00:57:31All you really

00:57:32needed to do

00:57:33was tell me

00:57:33the truth.

00:57:34Off to one side

00:57:35Colvin was already

00:57:36pinned to the gravel

00:57:36ground by Jaren's

00:57:37knee.

00:57:38But Colvin still

00:57:39would not stop

00:57:40talking.

00:57:40Man like him

00:57:41never shut their

00:57:41mouths until the

00:57:42very last second.

00:57:43You cannot lock

00:57:44me away.

00:57:45You have no idea

00:57:46what you have

00:57:47stumbled into

00:57:48tonight.

00:57:49Then he told me

00:57:50something else.

00:57:51Besides the house

00:57:52of Colden,

00:57:53there were nine

00:57:53other families.

00:57:54They had been

00:57:54trading Kane

00:57:55family archives

00:57:55among each

00:57:56other's sit

00:57:56to my tree

00:57:57since 1912.

00:57:58And Colden

00:57:58was only the

00:57:59one I had

00:57:59seen so far.

00:58:00Car headlights

00:58:01lit up from

00:58:01behind the hills.

00:58:03Right behind it

00:58:04came the crown

00:58:04prince's car.

00:58:05And near the

00:58:06end of this

00:58:07worst ever

00:58:07night of my

00:58:07life,

00:58:08I looked over

00:58:09at Jaren.

00:58:10He was soaked

00:58:11all over.

00:58:12Blood was

00:58:12trickling from

00:58:13the corner of

00:58:13his eyebrow.

00:58:14Then he said

00:58:15one of the

00:58:15most wildly

00:58:16inappropriate

00:58:16lines I had

00:58:17ever heard

00:58:17in my life.

00:58:18You were

00:58:18absolutely

00:58:19terrifying a

00:58:19moment ago.

00:58:20If you were

00:58:21not my

00:58:21superior,

00:58:22I would have

00:58:22kissed you

00:58:23right there

00:58:23at the

00:58:23East Gate.

00:58:27Three months

00:58:28later,

00:58:29I stood in

00:58:30a clearing

00:58:30near the

00:58:31western border

00:58:31of Blackwater

00:58:32Manisher,

00:58:33wearing an

00:58:33indigo blue

00:58:34dress.

00:58:35Before all

00:58:36of that,

00:58:37Emreer

00:58:37Colbin sat

00:58:38locked up

00:58:38in royal

00:58:39facility custody

00:58:40awaiting trial.

00:58:41He faced

00:58:42nine counts

00:58:42of charges,

00:58:43including the

00:58:44death of

00:58:44Alice Kane

00:58:45back in

00:58:461920.

00:58:47Legally

00:58:48speaking,

00:58:48this matter

00:58:49was complicated.

00:58:51Morally

00:58:51speaking,

00:58:52it could

00:58:52not be

00:58:53more

00:58:53straightforward.

00:58:54Gideon

00:58:54Voss

00:58:55entered a

00:58:55guilty plea

00:58:56and reached

00:58:57a plea

00:58:57deal agreement.

00:58:58He would

00:58:59spend the

00:58:59rest of

00:58:59his life

00:59:00trying to

00:59:01explain to

00:59:01himself

00:59:02exactly what

00:59:03he had

00:59:03done for

00:59:03those 19

00:59:04years.

00:59:05Nine

00:59:05families.

00:59:06That was

00:59:07what Colbin

00:59:07had told

00:59:08us,

00:59:08and he

00:59:09had told

00:59:09the truth,

00:59:10because if

00:59:11he had

00:59:11been lying,

00:59:12I would

00:59:13certainly

00:59:13have heard

00:59:14it in

00:59:14his thoughts.

00:59:15The king

00:59:16set up a

00:59:16permanent royal

00:59:17special investigation

00:59:18task force to

00:59:19hunt down the

00:59:20remaining eight

00:59:20families.

00:59:21Then he

00:59:22appointed a

00:59:22person to

00:59:23command this

00:59:24task force.

00:59:25That person

00:59:26was me.

00:59:27In that

00:59:28very same

00:59:28council chamber,

00:59:30the king

00:59:30looked at me

00:59:31and said,

00:59:32You are only

00:59:3318 years old,

00:59:34and I am

00:59:35about to make

00:59:36you the

00:59:36youngest black

00:59:37alert commander

00:59:38in 300 years.

00:59:41Half my

00:59:42ministers will

00:59:43lose their

00:59:43minds over

00:59:43this.

00:59:44Then let

00:59:45them lose

00:59:45their minds,

00:59:46your majesty.

00:59:47I will

00:59:48hear every

00:59:48single thought

00:59:49going through

00:59:50their heads.

00:59:54Now

00:59:55Rain ran

00:59:56my

00:59:56intelligence

00:59:56division,

00:59:57and Beck

00:59:58was almost

00:59:58never far

00:59:59from her

01:00:00side.

01:00:01They were

01:00:02planning to

01:00:02get married

01:00:03the following

01:00:03spring.

01:00:04Faith handled

01:00:05my day-to-day

01:00:06administrative

01:00:06affairs.

01:00:08Dania had

01:00:08built a

01:00:08comprehensive

01:00:09database.

01:00:10I guarantee

01:00:11those

01:00:11centuries-old

01:00:12ancient families

01:00:13are going to

01:00:13hate it

01:00:13bitterly.

01:00:14As for

01:00:15Jaron Rusker,

01:00:15he resigned

01:00:16his military

01:00:17commission six

01:00:18weeks later.

01:00:19Around that

01:00:19same time,

01:00:20his father

01:00:21finally announced

01:00:22his retirement

01:00:23as Captain

01:00:24General of

01:00:24the Royal

01:00:25Guard.

01:00:26Before inviting

01:00:27me out for

01:00:27our first

01:00:28proper dinner,

01:00:29he had gone

01:00:30to see the

01:00:30king first.

01:00:32He petitioned

01:00:33the king for

01:00:34official exemption

01:00:34from Statute

01:00:359.

01:00:36Over that

01:00:37dinner, he

01:00:38showed me the

01:00:38sealed approval

01:00:39letter.

01:00:40I read it

01:00:41twice.

01:00:42You went to

01:00:43petition the

01:00:43king before

01:00:44you even

01:00:44asked if I

01:00:45wanted to

01:00:45go out

01:00:46with you?

01:00:48I go to

01:00:49the king for

01:00:50everything.

01:00:51Call it one

01:00:52of my character

01:00:52flaws.

01:00:53I kissed him

01:00:54right there

01:00:54inside the

01:00:55dining hall.

01:00:56After that,

01:00:57I sat through

01:00:57conversation

01:00:58after conversation.

01:01:01I took the

01:01:02phone calls

01:01:03they placed

01:01:03to me.

01:01:04I made my

01:01:04father tell

01:01:05me face-to-face

01:01:06out in the

01:01:06open sunlight

01:01:07exactly what

01:01:08he had done.

01:01:09He told me.

01:01:11He had

01:01:11made that

01:01:12decision all

01:01:12by himself

01:01:13at the very

01:01:14beginning.

01:01:15He had

01:01:16believed my

01:01:16safety mattered

01:01:17more than my

01:01:18heart, but he

01:01:19had been wrong.

01:01:20He knew he

01:01:21had been cowardly,

01:01:22and he had never

01:01:23mustered the courage

01:01:24to admit it.

01:01:25I made my

01:01:26mother spend

01:01:27every single

01:01:27Wednesday with

01:01:28me for 11

01:01:29straight weeks.

01:01:30Only at the

01:01:31very end did I

01:01:32allow her to

01:01:33hold me in

01:01:33her arms.

01:01:37two weeks

01:01:38after the

01:01:39Colbin

01:01:39incident, I

01:01:41also made

01:01:41Ashton stand

01:01:42out at the

01:01:43East Gate.

01:01:44It kept

01:01:45raining that

01:01:46day.

01:01:47He stood

01:01:47there for

01:01:48four whole

01:01:48hours, refusing

01:01:50to leave, until

01:01:53I came down to

01:01:54meet him.

01:01:55Then, one

01:01:56Saturday in

01:01:56September, I

01:01:58finally allowed

01:01:59them to hold

01:01:59that birthday

01:02:00feast.

01:02:01They had

01:02:01spent an

01:02:02entire year

01:02:03preparing.

01:02:04My six

01:02:05older brothers,

01:02:06both my

01:02:07parents, 34

01:02:09royal guardsmen

01:02:10in formal

01:02:10dress uniforms.

01:02:12This later

01:02:13caused quite a

01:02:14bit of trouble

01:02:14for the local

01:02:15young women.

01:02:17Two hundred

01:02:17lights were

01:02:18strung on the

01:02:19tree branches,

01:02:21and my father

01:02:22stood at the

01:02:22very front of

01:02:23the crowd.

01:02:24He held a

01:02:24wine cup in

01:02:25his hand, facing

01:02:26everyone we

01:02:27knew.

01:02:28When he spoke

01:02:29his very first

01:02:29sentence, his

01:02:31voice was already

01:02:32breaking with

01:02:32emotion.

01:02:33I have seven

01:02:34children.

01:02:35My youngest is

01:02:36the only child

01:02:37who ever

01:02:37frightened me,

01:02:38and also the

01:02:39one I

01:02:40underestimated

01:02:41above all

01:02:41others.

01:02:43And I ruined

01:02:44everything terribly.

01:02:46She left this

01:02:47house and became

01:02:48commander of the

01:02:48royal king's guard,

01:02:50and none of us

01:02:51even noticed when

01:02:52she had packed

01:02:53her bags and

01:02:53gone.

01:02:55When he

01:02:56finished speaking,

01:02:57he looked

01:02:57toward me.

01:03:00Rory, down

01:03:01in the

01:03:01archive's vault

01:03:02there is a

01:03:03file bearing

01:03:04your name.

01:03:05The very

01:03:06last entry

01:03:06was written

01:03:07by my own

01:03:07hand.

01:03:08It was

01:03:09written on

01:03:09the day

01:03:10of your

01:03:1017th birthday.

01:03:12It reads

01:03:13only two

01:03:14words.

01:03:18After

01:03:18everything.

01:03:20He set

01:03:20down his

01:03:21wine glass

01:03:21after finishing

01:03:22speaking.

01:03:23Then he

01:03:24pulled out a

01:03:25folded sheet of

01:03:25paper from

01:03:26inside his

01:03:27coat.

01:03:27I have

01:03:28already

01:03:28written the

01:03:28next entry.

01:03:29Eleven full

01:03:30pages.

01:03:31It begins

01:03:32after everything.

01:03:34People told

01:03:34me I had

01:03:35been crying.

01:03:36I refused

01:03:36to admit it.

01:03:37Late that

01:03:38same night,

01:03:39Jaron found

01:03:40me on the

01:03:41edge of the

01:03:41clearing,

01:03:42right where

01:03:43the lantern

01:03:43light could

01:03:43not reach.

01:03:44We stood

01:03:45side by

01:03:46side,

01:03:47200 feet

01:03:47away.

01:03:48My older

01:03:48brothers were

01:03:49still arguing

01:03:50over something

01:03:50trivial.

01:03:52Jaden suddenly

01:03:53asked me,

01:03:54What do you

01:03:55hear?

01:03:55He always

01:03:56asked me

01:03:57that.

01:03:58And that

01:03:58was one of

01:03:59the things

01:03:59I liked

01:04:00most about

01:04:00him.

01:04:01I closed

01:04:02my eyes.

01:04:03900

01:04:03insects.

01:04:05The sound

01:04:06of the river

01:04:06flowing.

01:04:08The crackle

01:04:09and burn

01:04:09of 200

01:04:10candles.

01:04:12My mother

01:04:12was laughing.

01:04:14It sounded

01:04:15like Deacon

01:04:15had just said

01:04:16something funny.

01:04:17And 60 feet

01:04:18away, my

01:04:19father's

01:04:19heartbeat.

01:04:2060 beats

01:04:21every single

01:04:22minute.

01:04:23For the

01:04:23very first

01:04:24time in

01:04:25an entire

01:04:25year,

01:04:26it was

01:04:27completely

01:04:27calm.

01:04:28And 34

01:04:29other people.

01:04:30People who

01:04:31had never

01:04:31forgotten my

01:04:32name.

01:04:33Beneath all

01:04:34these sounds,

01:04:35there was

01:04:36one quiet,

01:04:37clear thought.

01:04:38And the

01:04:39silent thought

01:04:39in the man's

01:04:40mind,

01:04:40I want to

01:04:41marry her.

01:04:43I opened

01:04:44my eyes.

01:04:45I smiled

01:04:46out into

01:04:46the darkness.

01:04:47Then I

01:04:48answered,

01:04:49everything.

01:04:50thing.

01:04:53We'll see you next time.

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