00:00First you crippled Dorian on the hunt, and now you murder Mother's prized Rose Garden!
00:05What? I didn't do any of those things!
00:09Isn't it suspicious that Dorian knew exactly where to find the salt?
00:12How dare you accuse Dorian!
00:16The realm is under dragon attack.
00:19The only way to end it is for one human to willingly enter the Dragon Valley as a sacrifice.
00:26Will anyone step forward to save the realm?
00:32I volunteer as sacrifice!
00:41You are young to have such a death wish.
00:44I'm 18, Your Majesty. My only wish is that my life means something.
00:48Very well. You shall travel to the Dragon Valley in three days' time with the arrival of the full moon.
00:55And there you will die.
00:58Before you go, I must ask, you are so young, why would you give up your life so freely?
01:02I'm an orphan.
01:04Found near the Dragon Valley as a child, I have no true family to mourn me.
01:08That is because my family already treats me like I'm dead, though it was not always the case.
01:14I was raised a noble of House Quinn. They took me in as a child and brought me up as
01:18one of their own.
01:24Lord Quinn taught me to run.
01:27I'm doing it, Father! Look!
01:28That's it, Alistair! Soon you shall be riding a horse like a knight!
01:32My mother, Lady Quinn, taught me to be gentle.
01:36Remember, Alistair. Delicate.
01:46My older sister, the brave knight Kaya, taught me to fight.
01:50Better luck next time, brother.
01:54And my sister, Elaine, blinded by a fever, taught me to see more than just what was on the surface.
02:09What is that option?
02:14Dorian, the son of a defeated noble sent to my father as payment.
02:18I thought I found a brother that was like me.
02:21An orphan, except he came from noble birth.
02:25But it was not meant to be.
02:36While hunted, Dorian blamed me for a stab wound he gave him.
02:44There is room for only one foundling in this family.
02:52My family believed him.
02:54Father banished me from the house, ordering me to live in the stables.
03:01I've been there ever since, despite the pain.
03:04The quins loved me for many years.
03:08They saved my life.
03:10Now I can repay them by saving their lives and the realm.
03:14No one will miss me.
03:17You are very brave to do this, Alistair.
03:20I will make sure you have the finest clothes from my palace and you can travel home in my private
03:24carriage.
03:25Majesty, I do have one request.
03:27Name it and it is yours.
03:29I wish that my identity stays a secret.
03:31That no one outside of the people in this room will know what I have volunteered to do.
03:35I promise no one will know.
03:38Let no one here ever speak Alistair's name or mention what he promised to do today, so long as Alistair
03:43is alive.
03:44This is my command, under penalty of death.
03:56Three days.
03:58In three days I will be gone.
04:21Just as I had hoped, the manor was quiet this early.
04:24There would be no family around to see me arriving from my secret trip to the capital.
04:30Though perhaps I've spoken too soon.
04:34They seem angry.
04:37And where have you been?
04:38There are dragons on the loose, boy.
04:40You should be guarding this manor with your life, not disappearing like a common coward.
04:45Forgive me, my lord.
04:48A stable rat dressed as a prince.
04:50He probably stole these clothes.
04:52You're lying!
04:54A thief in fancy clothes.
04:56Are the clothes we give you not enough?
04:57Did you have to go steal these?
05:07Yet again you embarrass our family.
05:10Your stolen clothes don't look so nice now.
05:12Come on, Kaya. Ignore him.
05:14You are just a stable boy.
05:16The mud is where you belong and where you should stay.
05:25In three days I will be gone.
05:42Tell me, when do you plan to tell the quins that you volunteered as the dragon sacrifice?
05:46You know? But how?
05:51People see me as nothing more than a loyal butler.
05:53But there is more to me than meets the eye.
06:09I've decided not to tell them. They'll find out soon enough.
06:13Will you keep this between us?
06:16Yes.
06:17I will keep your secret.
06:18The realm needs a sacrifice, not a family scandal.
06:21A heart can break twice, boy.
06:23Once from cruelties, and once from silence.
06:28Then let mine break quietly.
06:32Emrys was the man who found me as a baby.
06:34Later, he would come to work for my family.
06:37I know I can trust him.
06:39Certainly more than my family.
06:44That scream came from Lady Quinn's rose garden.
06:47Mother!
06:53Mother!
06:53My roses!
06:55My beautiful, innocent roses!
06:58They're dead!
07:03Mother, someone put salt in the soil.
07:06Nothing can survive in your garden.
07:08Who could have done this?
07:09Alistair was angry that you praised my pruning yesterday.
07:12That's not true. I've been gone and only just now returned.
07:15Gone where? To destroy the evidence.
07:17We should search his room.
07:22There is nothing to find.
07:25I swear, please believe me.
07:27There! Under his bed!
07:39I don't believe my eyes.
07:41A sack of salt.
07:42Half empty.
07:51I told you he did it.
07:53Those roses were the one thing I trusted you with.
07:57How could you...
07:58Oh!
08:01I swear I didn't harm your roses. I haven't even been here long enough to do it. You saw me
08:06arrive early this morning.
08:07That's true.
08:08Alistair wasn't here this morning.
08:10Yes. Very convenient that he was absent.
08:13Almost like he knew he needed an alibi.
08:15What? No, that isn't what I was doing.
08:16Then what were you doing? Where were you exactly, Alistair?
08:21I can't say.
08:22It would all become clear in three days.
08:24It's clear to me now.
08:26You intentionally destroyed my wife's prized roses!
08:29I didn't! Please, Mother!
08:31Do not call me that.
08:33You've changed, Alistair.
08:34I don't know this person you've become.
08:37I'm not your mother and you're not my son.
08:39My heart is breaking.
08:41Her words hurt worse than any beating ever could.
08:44Oh, my God.
08:47First, you crippled Dorian on the hunt.
08:49And now you murder Mother's prized rose garden!
08:52What? I didn't do any of those things!
08:55Isn't it suspicious that Dorian knew exactly where to find the salt?
08:59How dare you accuse Dorian!
09:06Please, Kaya. Please believe me.
09:09Don't hurt him, dear sister.
09:11We should feel sorry for Alistair.
09:13It's been hard for him to adjust to having me around as a foster brother.
09:16But I understand.
09:17Doran, you're so kind despite everything Alistair has done to you.
09:21It's a shining light that even I can see.
09:23If only they knew the truth.
09:26That it was Dorian stabbed himself to turn the Quins against me.
09:30The Quinn family will blame you for this.
09:32And love me in return.
09:36It doesn't matter.
09:38In three days I'll be gone and never return.
09:42It took so long to clean the mud off me that I arrived at dinner late.
09:46But, to my surprise, I found Dorian sitting in my usual seat at the family table.
09:52Excuse me, Dorian. There must be some mistake. You're in my seat.
09:57Rather than fight Dorian, I figured it best to treat him with kindness and hope he did the same.
10:02But Lord Quinn had other ideas.
10:04The only mistake, Alistair, is you thinking that there is a seat here for you at this table after what
10:10you did today.
10:11You may dine with the servants.
10:13Until you stop these desperate cries for attention, you will remain as you were when we found you.
10:19An outsider.
10:24Yes, my lord.
10:25Father, you'll regret the way you've treated me when I'm gone.
10:28If you only knew that I've already promised to save your life.
10:40Now that he's washed the mud off his stolen clothes, I'd like to propose a toast to Alistair, the cleanest
10:46stable boy I know.
10:49If only they knew what I have promised to do. My sacrifice to the Dragon King would earn a real
10:54toast, not this nasty joke.
11:02My lords! The family sheep! They have escaped from their pins into the night!
11:08How could this have happened?
11:10Alistair is the stable boy. It was his responsibility. He must have let them escape.
11:16I couldn't believe it. I cared for those sheep and would never let them loose.
11:21But there's no time to argue. With dragons in the realm, I must hurry to save their lives.
11:25No!
11:35Come on sheep! Come back to your pens!
11:41My worst fear. A dragon at my family's home.
11:48It will kill me. Now I'll never make it to the Vale. Never save the realm.
11:54Just make it quick.
12:11Why haven't you killed me?
12:15Well, well, well. There you are.
12:18Dorian. Come to rub it in my face. He has no idea the danger he's in.
12:25Dorian, you must leave.
12:26I wouldn't miss the sight of you scrambling for the world.
12:29You see, I was the one that let the sheep out of their pens.
12:36I did it because I knew that you would be blamed.
12:40There is only room for one of us in House Quinn, and it will be...
12:44me.
12:47Finally, Dorian admits his plan.
12:49He wants to make my family hate me and love him.
12:57But Dorian has no idea what danger he's gotten us into.
13:01I need to act now or we both will die.
13:04Brother! Watch out!
13:17Alistair attacked me. He spooked the sheep and caused a stampede.
13:22It's not true. There was a dragon. I was only trying to save Dorian.
13:26The dragon that almost burnt us both alive has disappeared.
13:29And where has this dragon gone?
13:31Why do you keep lying?
13:33Father, please don't be so hard on Alistair.
13:35He only lies like this because he is so jealous of me.
13:37I think he is so jealous of me.
13:50Who's your father?
13:54Grandpa, they're just a fluke.
13:56Richard Lazarus?
13:58Our chatted just...
14:03Mother? Father?
14:05Jory's placed her just down.
14:18My hidden magic will reset your broken bones, but it will be painful.
14:28The pain of Emerus setting my bones back into place was great, but nothing compared to the pain of how
14:33my family treats me.
14:37You have done so much for the Quints.
14:41You saved your sister Kaya's life.
14:46Don't worry, Kaya, I'm here.
14:50Alistair, go. Save yourself. I'm done for, brother.
14:58The hell you are! You're gonna make it! I'll get you to your horse!
15:03Alistair!
15:03And nearly lost yours.
15:08You nursed your blind sister Elaine through fever.
15:11Back! Back!
15:13And protected the animals of the stable with your life.
15:18And still your family leaves you on the ground like trash.
15:22It's true that I love my family even though they treat me so poorly.
15:25But they once loved me too, and I can never forget that.
15:27It doesn't matter.
15:29I'll soon be gone from this place forever.
15:32Gone? Gone to where?
15:34My sister's heard my secret plan.
15:36I've been caught.
15:38What have you been hiding from us?
15:43What's your plan? Rob us in the night? Leave us with nothing?
15:48I don't want your money. He's probably already taken it.
15:52Search his pockets.
15:59What Alistair means is that he intends to leave Quinn Manor and find work elsewhere.
16:05Alistair, is this true?
16:07How could I tell my mother the truth?
16:10Just the opposite.
16:11The Queen herself gave me these clothes when I volunteered a sacrifice.
16:23These are the nicest clothes I have ever been given.
16:28Here is your thief.
16:30Thief.
16:31I bring news from Her Majesty.
16:33A brave volunteer has stepped forward to sacrifice themselves to the Dragon Valley in two days' time.
16:39A volunteer?
16:43What are you doing here?
16:44I came to bring Embress a menu for the banquet but didn't expect to find you.
16:57What is that smell?
16:59Cinnamon?
17:00Cloves?
17:00What possible reason could you be hoarding these?
17:02You don't cook.
17:04Are you stealing from us?
17:05Elaine has mistaken my potion making for stealing, but I can't possibly tell her the truth.
17:10I can explain.
17:11It breaks my heart that you do not tell your family, but I have something I know you'd like.
17:16There is much work to do to repair the damage to this potion, but I will try my best.
17:23Coming! I'm coming!
17:24The Queen's messages are only for those she addresses them to.
17:27They are her secrets alone.
17:31To the volunteer chosen by Her Majesty, Queen Isolde.
17:37Alistair is the sacrifice.
17:40Who was that outside?
17:42If the family discovers that Alistair is the savior of the realm, they will love him forever.
17:47I must ensure that no one ever learns of his secret sacrifice.
17:52Who was that outside?
17:54No one. Just a beggar asking for orbs. I sent him away with coin.
17:59The poor wretch.
18:01Now, sister, not all of us can be so lucky.
18:05I thank the gods every day that I am a Quinn.
18:09Durian.
18:10You can walk.
18:12Of course I can, you imbecile.
18:15But why?
18:16Why are you doing this?
18:17Because you took the fucking life that I should have been living!
18:20I am the son of a noble, not some gutter trash foundling like you.
18:23I deserve the very finest in life.
18:25I deserve the love of the Quinns.
18:26And you deserve to go back to the sewer you came from.
18:29Surely there's enough love in this great house for both of us.
18:32That may be true.
18:33But I'd still want you gone for one simple reason.
18:36I don't fucking like you.
18:40Is there no end to your evil?
18:42My lord, please! It's not my fault! I swear it's not!
18:45Since I could walk, there was nothing more important to me than caring for father's horses.
18:52I never should have trusted a foundling with a knight's horse!
18:56You are no longer worthy to serve as my squire.
19:00My short sword.
19:01The same blade that Kaia gifted me for saving her life all those years ago.
19:05It was wrong to ever call you brother!
19:07The f-
19:09PEN
19:09The Force
19:09The Force
19:09The Force
19:10The Force
