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