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00:00Daughter of the Lord, bloodline awakened, heir to the throne.
00:05Glory to the soul and plan, a gift from Hecatee well-deserved.
00:11Give me a red wine.
00:20The wine you asked for.
00:28You walk in here while he is clearly occupied?
00:31Are you blind or just stupid?
00:40Then Lord Rowan can pour his own wine.
00:42What did you just...
00:44Did you call him by his name?
00:46You address him as my lord, you disrespectful little twat!
00:53That is enough, Isolette.
00:57Know your place, Zahra.
00:59You have no house, no bloodline, nowhere you're in this realm that would take you in.
01:04I will leave then.
01:05I will go rogue before I die.
01:07You have no soul power yet.
01:11Until you do, you belong to this house.
01:14You belong to me.
01:18Come to my study once you have cleaned this up.
01:30Fifteen years with not a single confirmed trace of my daughter.
01:33What more do you need, Lord Blackwell?
01:36I hear you, Lord Cassian.
01:38But murder and abduction require proof.
01:42The other houses will not move against Greth without it.
01:44House Greth attacked House Solani fifteen years ago.
01:48My daughter vanished the same night.
01:50I know what happened to her.
01:52Her body was never found, Lord Blackwell.
01:55In fifteen years, no body.
01:57What does that tell you?
02:00Or do you just not want to hear it?
02:03You are the only one with the power and the standing to help us.
02:08You have to help me avenge my daughter.
02:15Clotha, Laxius, Hekma, if any of you are listening, please, tomorrow, give me my soul power when I turn eighteen.
02:24Set me free.
02:26We will live simply.
02:27In the woods if we have to.
02:29We will hunt for what we need.
02:31We will need nothing from anyone in this house ever again.
02:35I will attend Rowan Greth's feast tomorrow.
02:39Whatever is inside that castle, I will find it.
02:42You have my word.
02:46I will pull everything we have on the Greth Earth, attack on House Selenon.
02:51Every record.
02:54Every body.
02:56Body that was not found.
02:57Do it.
03:01Zara Saloni's body was never found.
03:04I suspect she is not dead.
03:26You're a fast learner, my lady.
03:49Rowan, you asked to see me.
03:51What is she doing here?
03:52Was she watching us?
03:55You will address me as my lord.
04:04If you walk in here without knocking again, I will make sure you cannot walk at all.
04:10Isolid, leave us.
04:14Excuse me?
04:15I said, leave us.
04:26How long have you lived here at House Greth?
04:29Almost 15 years.
04:31Have we ever let you go hungry?
04:34Cold?
04:36Without shelter?
04:38No.
04:39What are you trying to say?
04:43Are you jealous?
04:45Is that what this is?
04:47You wish you were the one I was fucking?
04:49You disgust me.
04:51What?
04:52I am not jealous.
04:54I am disgusted.
04:55And you are not my lord.
04:57The only L word that fits you is low life.
05:02My lord.
05:03Lord Theron Blackwell of House Blackwell has confirmed his attendance at tomorrow's feast.
05:11Taron Blackwell is coming here?
05:12I only sent that invitation out of courtesy.
05:14Why now?
05:15What does he want?
05:16My lord.
05:16I believe it signals respect.
05:18If Taron attends, the other houses will follow.
05:20It confirms our standing.
05:21You think so?
05:22He must know House Greth is the second house in the realm.
05:25He is acknowledging the threat.
05:30Since you find this so amusing,
05:32you will prepare and serve the entire feast,
05:35beginning to end.
05:36Tomorrow is my 18th birthday.
05:39You promised me a day's rest.
05:40I changed my mind.
05:51Does Zada know
05:52the cloth I wove her to you?
05:57Do not ever mention again.
06:03Forgive me, my lord.
06:06It only seemed as though you two were...
06:10We are nothing.
06:12She is a servant.
06:14An orphan.
06:16I do not know why the Moray goddesses chose her for me,
06:19and I do not care.
06:20I will not accept it.
06:23What do you plan to do with her?
06:26Once she turns 18 tomorrow,
06:28her soul power will awaken.
06:29She will feel the faded between us the moment it does.
06:32I will sever it publicly,
06:33in front of the entire feast.
06:35Severing a threat decreed by the Moray ass
06:37is not a simple act, my lord.
06:38Clothra herself spun it under the...
06:40I do not care.
06:41You are dismissed.
06:49Damn it, Zara.
06:54Sorin, I need you to source a worthy gift
06:56for Lord Rowan Greth before tomorrow's feast.
06:59A gift?
07:00For Rowan Greth?
07:01Why would you...
07:01We keep our friends close,
07:03and our enemies closer.
07:04Yes, my lord.
07:05Daughters of allied houses,
07:07each one a strong political match.
07:09If you arrive at the feast
07:11with one of them on your arm,
07:12it sends a message.
07:14House Blackhead is building alliances,
07:16not just a king.
07:17I will not be bringing you a companion.
07:19My lord,
07:20if House Greth discovers
07:21you are still unwavered at your age,
07:22they will question your standard.
07:24They will use it against you at the feast.
07:25Let them.
07:26I am Theron Blackwaite.
07:31Let's hope she is there,
07:33whoever she is.
07:41My lord,
07:42those burns,
07:43are those...
07:44Jade Hog?
07:44Yes.
07:45Inside the estate?
07:47How did it get past the...
07:48it was tracking something.
07:50A soul whose suppression is breaking.
07:52Something it could smell from a long distance.
07:59The trail leads toward House Greth territory.
08:03Lord Cassian's daughter.
08:04Have the carriage ready at dawn.
08:06Sauron,
08:08tell no one about the burns.
08:25Happy birthday to me.
08:26Happy birthday,
08:28Zara.
08:30Who is there?
08:31It is me,
08:33Lara.
08:34I am your divine gift,
08:35Zara.
08:36Hecate's gift.
08:37The one they sealed away
08:38when you were a child.
08:39I have been here the entire time.
08:42They simply would not let me speak.
08:44Hecate's gift.
08:45You are Hecate's gift.
08:47It is very good to finally meet you.
08:49And there is something I need to tell you
08:50about the one the Moiri decried for us.
08:52The one Clothra wove into your thread at birth.
08:54Clothra wove a thread for me?
08:56Yes.
08:56The one she decreed for us.
08:58He is here.
08:59He has always been here.
09:00In this castle.
09:05Clothra wove you for him at birth.
09:08He has known since the four you did.
09:32He is coming.
09:33I can feel him approaching.
09:35Zara,
09:36when you see the thread,
09:37do not let it show on your face.
09:52So,
09:54Hector finally broke the seal.
09:57You knew.
09:58This whole time,
10:00you knew what Clothra decreed,
10:01and you said nothing.
10:02So what?
10:03You are a servant.
10:04A casteless orphan.
10:06You have no house,
10:07no bloodline,
10:08and nothing.
10:09What Clothia decreed
10:10does not change what you are.
10:13I defy the decree,
10:15Zara.
10:27If you beg,
10:29perhaps I will reconsider.
10:31I accept your defiance,
10:33Rowan.
10:35What?
10:40The thread is gone.
10:42So are we.
10:43So are we.
10:43Clothra does not weave a second thread
10:44for the same person.
10:45You will live and die casteless.
10:48So be it.
10:49Pack what you have tonight.
10:50After today,
10:51I do not want to see you
10:51in this castle again.
10:53I have been waiting years
10:54for you to say that,
10:55Rowan.
10:59You are allowed to feel it,
11:01Zara.
11:01What he did this morning.
11:05I just need to get through this feast.
11:09There is someone coming tonight.
11:11I can feel a presence in the road.
11:13Something old.
11:14Something that knows
11:15Hector's gift from a distance.
11:17Everything can wait
11:17until after the feast.
11:26The carers were in this tree line
11:27last night.
11:28How close?
11:30Close enough to leave tribute
11:31at the window.
11:33Someone inside that castle
11:34has been paying them
11:34to stay back.
11:35Paying the carers
11:36to stay back from whom?
11:46Hector's bloodline.
11:48An inside house Gryth.
12:12Lord Blackwit.
12:13What a pleasure.
12:14I hope the road treated you well.
12:16Our castle sits deep in the forest.
12:17Not the easiest journey.
12:19Lord Rowan built
12:20House Gryth Castle
12:21from the foundations up.
12:23It is everything
12:23a great house should be.
12:25Hmm.
12:26A gift from House Blackwit,
12:27Lord Gryth.
12:28In honor of tomorrow's betrothal.
12:32Lord Blackwit,
12:33this is far too generous.
12:35We could not possibly...
12:37Pocket change.
12:37Shall we?
12:41What do you think you are doing?
12:43Do not embarrass me.
12:47I saw a servant girl
12:50at the rest juice pile.
12:52Find out who she is,
12:53how she came from,
12:55how long she has been here,
12:57everything.
12:57And the carers were paying her
12:58the kind of attention
12:59they paid...
12:59I know, Sorin.
13:00Find out who she is
13:01tonight
13:02before the feast ends.
13:11Lord Blackwit.
13:12I have always admired
13:13what House Blackwit
13:14has built
13:15in the Northern Territory.
13:16The estate,
13:17the trade routes.
13:18I feel we share
13:18very similar tastes
13:20in what a great house
13:20should be.
13:21Isoleth.
13:21Zara,
13:22wine.
13:25We have an important guest,
13:27Lord Blackwell
13:28of House Blackwell.
13:29Show some respect.
13:32What are you waiting for?
13:33We have an important guest.
13:34This is Lord Theron Blackwell
13:36of House Blackwell.
13:37Show some respect.
13:40I need to step out
13:41a moment, my lord.
13:47Excuse me.
13:49Where are you going with that?
13:52I am trying to wash.
13:54Wash?
13:55You call that washing?
13:56Can you just leave me alone?
13:58Please.
13:59I am not even supposed
14:00to be talking to you.
14:02I just want to know
14:03your name.
14:04Please.
14:05It's my 18th birthday today.
14:07Just do not make this worse.
14:12It is her birthday.
14:15Lord Blackliffe
14:15is going to want to know that.
14:18I noticed you came alone,
14:19Lord Blackwell.
14:20No companion for the feast.
14:23Is there no one
14:24who has caught your interest?
14:25I hear House Blackwell
14:26has no shortage
14:27of fine houses
14:28seeking alliance.
14:30There is someone.
14:31Is that so?
14:35Well,
14:36we have some of the finest
14:37bloodlines in the realm
14:38here tonight.
14:39Lady Maron of House Vale.
14:41Strong covenant line.
14:43Excellent standing.
14:45Lady Maron,
14:46Lord Blackwet
14:47of House Blackwet.
14:48She has good bloodline.
14:50And,
14:50well,
14:52if Lady Maron is not to your pace,
14:54take your pick of any house
14:55here tonight.
14:56This is the finest gathering
14:57in the realm this season.
14:59There is someone,
15:00actually.
15:01Oh?
15:01Who is the lucky lady?
15:03That servant girl.
15:04From earlier.
15:05The one who poured the wine.
15:10You cannot be serious,
15:11Lord Blackwell.
15:13She is a costless servant
15:14with no house name.
15:17Whatever interest you have,
15:20surely one of the noble daughters
15:21here tonight
15:22would serve you far better.
15:23I am not interested
15:24in the noble daughters.
15:25She does not even
15:26bathe properly.
15:28She has no access
15:28to moods a lot.
15:29Is that something
15:30she chooses?
15:31Or something
15:32she is not permitted?
15:37Send her to my guest room.
15:38I would like to speak with her.
15:41That is not going to...
15:45Of course.
15:47We will send her up.
16:01Well,
16:02it seems you have admirers.
16:05Lord Blackwell has requested
16:06your company
16:07in his guest room
16:08this evening.
16:10For some reason,
16:12Lord Blackwell wants you
16:13for the evening.
16:14No idea why.
16:16What are you talking about?
16:20Please do not wear that.
16:24Consider it a parting gift.
16:26I heard Rowan sent you away.
16:28Finally.
16:31Lord Blackmoth's guest room.
16:32To the right
16:33at the end of the upper corridor.
16:34Do not disappoint him.
16:35I am not going.
16:36Why not?
16:37Does he not interest you?
16:38I do not know him.
16:39And Clothie does not weave
16:41second threads.
16:41You said so yourself.
16:42Clothie does not weave
16:43the same thread twice.
16:45But she weaves
16:46more than one kind.
16:48Go and see for yourself.
16:50And Zara.
16:51Please.
16:53Change your dress.
17:09the mask.
17:16The other thing is...
17:29Theola, Lord Blackwet.
17:31What did you just call me?
17:35Rowan!
17:36Isoleth sent me to the wrong room.
17:37She did this deliberately.
17:50Zahra!
17:52What in the name of the gods?
17:55What do you think you are doing with my betrothed?
17:58You castless little witch!
18:03She came to seduce my betrothed.
18:06In his own room.
18:08Look at what she is wearing.
18:10You put me in this dress.
18:11You sent me to this room.
18:13You told me it was Lord Blackwell's...
18:15You lying?
18:17Do not touch her.
18:22If you lay another hand on her,
18:24I will make certain you regret it for the rest of your days.
18:38Blackwell, this is my castle.
18:40My house!
18:41You do not!
18:42She is with me now.
18:43Come.
18:54How is your face?
18:55It is fine.
18:57I am used to it.
18:59Why do you let them do that?
19:00In case you have not noticed,
19:02I am not exactly in a position of power here.
19:05So,
19:06this is the castless servant of House Greth,
19:09with an attitude.
19:11Thank you for what you did back there.
19:13You do not have to.
19:14I am leaving this house tonight.
19:15Release me.
19:17You are aware I am Lord of Shouse Blackwell,
19:19the more powerful house in Auvran.
19:22I am.
19:24Which is exactly why you would not want someone like me.
19:28No house, no bloodline.
19:29What is your name?
19:31Zara.
19:33Just Zara.
19:35I do not remember my house name.
19:37My parents died when I was small.
19:39House Greth took me in.
19:40You are with me now, Zara.
19:42You do not have to go anywhere tonight.
19:44Or at all.
19:56Happy birthday.
20:00This is my castle.
20:03My territory.
20:04Step aside.
20:06Lord Blackwell has requested privacy.
20:07I cannot allow entry.
20:09You cannot allow.
20:09I am Lord of this house.
20:11I could have you removed from this castle entirely.
20:13The accord between houses expires soon, my lord.
20:16You would not want to offend Lord Blackwen over a servant.
20:19There is no way a lord like Theron Blackwell accepts someone like her.
20:24She has nothing.
20:25She is nothing.
20:27Zara is not nothing, my lord.
20:28She is Lord Blackwell's guest.
20:36Why do you care so much about her?
20:38She is irrelevant.
20:39She is nothing.
20:40I do not want to talk about it.
20:41I imagine she is doing everything she can to please Lord Blackwell right now.
20:45That shameless, castless wench.
20:47I said I do not want to talk about it.
20:54Zara.
20:55Did you just call me Zara?
20:59What?
21:00You are being paranoid.
21:01Paranoid.
21:02I am paranoid.
21:04I knew it.
21:05I have always known it.
21:07It was always about her.
21:09Always Zara.
21:11Did you ever even care about me?
21:13What am I to you?
21:14What have I ever been?
21:15You are right.
21:17He cannot have her.
21:19What?
21:20Are you serious right now?
21:21I am talking to you.
21:24Rowan.
21:25Do not you dare leave me here.
21:33Lord Rowan insists on seeing Zara.
21:35He says it is urgent.
21:37You do not have to go.
21:41I should.
21:43I want to end this properly.
21:51What do you want, Rowan?
21:52You cannot go with Theron Blackneck.
21:54You do not even know him.
21:55Clotha decreed him for me.
21:57I am your decree.
22:00Zara, do not leave.
22:02I know things between us have been...
22:04Things between us?
22:05There were no things between us, Rowan.
22:07For 15 years you treated me like a servant.
22:09You watched Isolde abuse me and you said nothing.
22:12You kept Hekti's seal on me so I would never know who I was.
22:15And then you broke Clotha's thread.
22:17You rejected me, Rowan.
22:18Your words to the gods.
22:19I will marry Isolde.
22:21The betrothal is too far along to break.
22:23But I can move you somewhere safe.
22:25A house of your own.
22:26You would want for nothing.
22:28You do not have to go to Blackwick.
22:29You do not have to...
22:29What are you trying to say to me right now?
22:31Are you telling me you want me to be your kept secret?
22:33The other woman while you marry Isolde?
22:36I came to say goodbye, Rowan.
22:38That is all this is.
22:41Zara, I have always loved you.
22:44What?
22:45I said I love you.
22:47Do you hear me?
22:48You cannot treat someone like nothing for 50 years and then tell them you love you.
22:52That is not love.
22:52Let me go!
22:53I told you I am willing to work something out.
22:56What more could you possibly want from me?
22:57This is how you show love?
22:59I do not want it.
22:59Let me go!
23:00Stop pretending.
23:01You think I do not know?
23:02You disobeyed me, gave me that attitude every day to get my attention.
23:07You have it.
23:08Just stay and we can...
23:09I never wanted your attention.
23:09I never wanted any of this.
23:11Let me go!
23:14You are leaving.
23:15Now.
23:18What about my things?
23:19I have everything you will ever need.
23:41You will have your own rooms at House Blackneck.
23:44Tomorrow I can arrange for whatever you need.
23:47Clothing, anything you want.
23:48We can send for.
23:49Is that a village?
23:50The market town of Veld.
23:53Three leagues from Greth territory.
23:55A market town.
23:59We will sort out the council inquiry tomorrow.
24:03Lord Cassian will want to move quickly once.
24:07Forgive me.
24:08What were you saying?
24:09I have never even seen anything beyond the castle walls.
24:14Call me Theron.
24:18Take the long road through Veld.
24:20We are not going home yet.
24:33Zara.
24:34Zara.
24:35This house.
24:35It knows us.
24:36Hectala and Niamh have walked the same road since before mortals had names for either of them.
24:41This is a safe place.
24:44The shadows.
24:45They are moving.
24:48They are the nextborn.
24:50They guard this house.
24:51They will not harm you.
24:52They are alive?
24:54They are older than alive.
24:56They have been here since Nyx first made her covenant with my bloodline.
25:03They have never done that before.
25:05They recognize Hecate's gift.
25:08They are saying hello.
25:15I want the girl.
25:16Send her out.
25:17She is a guest of House Blacknickth.
25:19She leaves when she chooses.
25:21Open the gate, Zoran.
25:23Last time I ask.
25:25No.
25:26No.
25:28No.
25:29No.
25:37You brought hollow men to my house.
25:40You broke my gate.
25:42Think very carefully about what you do next.
25:45The girl is a servant of my house.
25:47She is not yours to keep.
25:48Give me the girl and I walk away.
25:50She is not a servant of your house.
25:52She never was.
25:54And I think you have always known that.
26:20What are you doing?
26:31Stand down.
26:35This isn't over, Blackweck.
26:37Send a raven next time.
26:39Like a lord.
26:42Rowan.
26:50I know about the attack on House Saluni.
26:52I know you sealed a three-year-old child and kept her hidden for fifty years.
26:54And I know Clotha with thread for her and you threw it away.
26:58Atrotus is watching you.
26:59You defied the Moraes, buried Hecate's bloodline and destroyed an entire house.
27:03The gods don't forget that.
27:04And neither do I.
27:05You read my ring without permission.
27:07That is a violation of the accord between houses.
27:16Do not go out there, Zara.
27:19Rowan's RS gift is not controlled when he is this angry.
27:23He would not mean to, but he could drain you through the seal fractures.
27:27The cracks make you vulnerable.
27:29I am not afraid of him.
27:31I know.
27:32But the seal is not fully broken yet.
27:35Until it is.
27:36Stay inside this house.
27:38The Nyxspawn will not let him pass the gate.
27:41What happened at the gate?
27:43He backed down, for now.
27:45But he will move against you, soon.
27:48Rowan does not accept losses.
27:49What does he want from me?
27:51He defied the decree himself.
27:52He sent me away.
27:53What is there left to take?
27:55He does not want you.
27:55He wants to make certain no one else has you.
27:57There is a difference.
27:58Your name is not just Zara.
27:59Your full name is Zara Selene.
28:02Daughter of Lord Cassiel Solene and Lady Neva Solene of House Solene.
28:06That is not possible.
28:09My parents died when I...
28:11They did not die.
28:14House Greth attacked House Solene 15 years ago.
28:16Your parents survived.
28:18You were taken in the chaos.
28:20Either by Greth soldiers, or hidden here afterward.
28:23Your parents have been searching for you ever since.
28:25My parents are alive?
28:26Yes.
28:27I met with them two days ago.
28:29Your father sat across a desk from me, and told me 15 years of searching.
28:33Your mother has not stopped looking since the night you disappeared.
28:36House Solene, Hector's Covenant.
28:39Yes.
28:40Your bloodline carries Hector's Gift.
28:43Soulsight, the ability to see the complete truth of any person, rarest gift in Arvran.
28:46It is why the Covenant Seal was placed on you as a child.
28:49To keep Hector's Gift buried.
28:50To keep you buried.
28:53Why are you doing this?
28:54I gave your father, Lord Cassian, my word.
28:56That is not what I mean.
28:58You came to that feast looking for something.
28:59You saw me, and you spent the rest of the night trying to find out who I was, why.
29:02The Shadehound tracks in my study led to House Greth territory.
29:05The Keris retreating when I arrived.
29:06The pieces were already there.
29:08That is still not what I mean.
29:11My gift responded to you at the gate before I knew who you were.
29:14That does not happen.
29:15Not to me.
29:16Lyra said Clothda weaves more than one kind of thread.
29:19Yes.
29:20She does.
29:41Lord Cassian.
29:42I said I would find her.
29:49You have her eyes.
29:52Your mother's eyes, exactly.
30:01I did not know you were alive.
30:03They told me.
30:03I thought...
30:04I know.
30:04I know what they told you.
30:06I prayed.
30:07For years I prayed.
30:09I did not know who I was praying to.
30:11I called her Hectith.
30:12I just prayed that someone was listening.
30:14Hector was listening.
30:15She always was.
30:17I never stopped looking for you.
30:19Not one day.
30:21Not one hour.
30:28You were three years old.
30:30The night they came.
30:32House Greth attacked at the third bell of night.
30:34No warning.
30:35No declaration.
30:36Just Greth's soldiers at our walls.
30:38They knew exactly what they wanted.
30:40Hectartus' covenant had just passed to you at birth.
30:43House Solane with a newborn heir carrying the full force of soul sight that terrified them.
30:47You would have been the most powerful voice at any council table in Auron.
30:51So they took me instead of killing me.
30:54They put the covenant seal on you that same night.
30:57And they kept you where they could watch you and where the seal would never break.
31:00Surrounded by Rowan Zara's gift.
31:02Pressing the seal down every day simply by existing near you.
31:06I am clothed as decree.
31:08Rowan was woven for me at birth.
31:10He knew if the thread appeared he could not hide who I was any longer.
31:14Which is why he defied it immediately.
31:16Better to pay the cost of defying the Moirai than to let you know who you were.
31:22He was afraid of me.
31:27His entire house has been afraid of you since the night you were born.
31:34The seal will fully break within days.
31:36Once Hectecta's gift is free in her.
31:39Tea through every lie in this realm.
31:41She will see what we did to her family.
31:44She will be able to prove it at council.
31:46Then we stop it before it breaks.
31:48The seal is too far gone.
31:49Rowan's suppression cannot close those fractures.
31:51Hector is driving them open from the divine side.
31:53There is only one thing that stops Hecta's gift once it starts.
31:55Voidban.
31:57Voidban severs the Covenant permanently.
31:59Hecta's gift gone from her bloodline entirely.
32:02Gone.
32:03I know someone who can get it.
32:08Get it.
32:15How does it work?
32:16One touch to bare skin.
32:18The poison enters through contact.
32:20It reaches the Covenant connection in the blood within one hour.
32:23After that, the gift is gone.
32:25The bloodline's Covenant with Hecta dissolves permanently.
32:28As if the original bargain was never made.
32:30If I use it on her, what happens?
32:33She lives.
32:34She simply becomes ordinary.
32:49Good morning.
32:50Good morning.
32:52This was always your room.
32:53We never changed it.
33:02Tell me what Lyra says your gift does.
33:04In full.
33:05Soul sight.
33:06Hecta's gift.
33:07I can see the complete truth of any person.
33:10What they intend, what they hide, what they have done.
33:12No lie survives it.
33:14In its full form, Lyra says I can read an entire room simultaneously.
33:17Can you use it now?
33:18Not yet.
33:19The seal is still there.
33:20Most of it.
33:21Lyra says when it fully breaks, the gift will arrive all at once.
33:24She says it will be overwhelming.
33:26At first.
33:27When it does, you will be able to see the truth of everyone around you.
33:31Including me.
33:32Does that concern you?
33:34No.
33:35Zara.
33:36The warmth between you.
33:38That is real.
33:39Clothy wove it differently this time.
33:41It will not collapse if defied.
33:42It only grows.
33:44Not yet.
33:44What?
33:45Nothing.
33:46Lyra talks a great deal.
33:50Rowan demands we surrender Zara to House Graith, custody within three days.
33:55Or he declares inter-house conflict.
34:01He cannot declare conflict against both our houses.
34:04House Selene and House Blackwell together outrank him at every council.
34:08He does not need to win the conflict.
34:10He only needs to create enough chaos that the other houses look away while he moves against Zara directly.
34:18He is not going to wait for the council.
34:20He is going to move before the seal breaks.
34:23Lord Cassian, can you call the council?
34:26Formally.
34:28Openly.
34:29Before Rowan moves first.
34:33I can.
34:35But if Rowan has something that can stop the seal breaking before the council convenes.
34:40Do not let anyone you do not trust come near your wrist.
34:43Not until the seal is fully gone.
34:5815 years ago, House Graith attacked House Solani without declaration, without cause, and without consequence.
35:03My door three years old was taken that same night.
35:06A covenant seal placed on a child of Hecate's bloodline to suppress her divine gift.
35:10She was kept as a servant in House Graith for 15 years.
35:14I am asking this council to answer for what was done.
35:16House Graith denies every accusation.
35:19The girl in question was an orphan found wandering near our territory.
35:22We took her in out of charity.
35:24The covenant seal was placed for her own protection.
35:27Her gift was unstable.
35:28Lord Cassian has no proof of anything he has claimed.
35:31Furthermore, this girl has no documented bloodline.
35:35No House Solian birth record survives the attack on their estate.
35:39Lord Cassian is asking the council to accept the word of a casteless servant over the standing of House Graith.
35:45I have proof.
35:47When Ronan showed up to my house, I used my gift and read his ring.
35:51What I found wasn't pretty.
35:5215 years of deliberate moves against House Solane.
35:55The attack, taking the child, locking Hectima's gift inside her with that seal.
35:59All of it.
36:00That ring has witnessed everything.
36:02He read my ring without permission.
36:04Article 7 of the Accord permits a reading of House Insignia when a missing heir is involved.
36:08That itself is a violation of the Accord.
36:10Everything he claims to have read is inadmissible.
36:12Zahra Salande is a missing heir.
36:13Her father sits at this table.
36:25Zahra, left side.
36:26Now!
36:33Zahra, fight it.
36:35Do not let it reach the Covenant.
36:37Do not.
36:48What did you give her?
36:51Nothing that was not necessary.
36:56Zahra!
36:59Zahra!
37:00Zahra!
37:01Zahra!
37:01Hectias is here!
37:02She is fighting it!
37:04Hold on!
37:28This is what you were born for, Zahra Salenia.
37:32Now, let them see you.
37:36Welcome home.
37:38Welcome home.
38:27ZARA SOLINE
38:30My house made a covenant with Hector at our founding.
38:33Her gift allows me to see the complete truth of any person in this room.
38:36Nothing hidden survives it.
38:37You accepted payment from House Grief six years ago
38:40in exchange for blocking House Solane's petition to this council.
38:45You told your household it was a trade agreement.
38:47I am not here to expose every secret in this room.
38:50I am here to confirm one thing.
38:52Everything Lord Blackwell told this council is true.
38:55I can see it in every person who was present at House Grief during the years they kept me.
38:59Every action, every decision, every order given.
39:03This council will not accept the testimony of a girl who just had a vow pressed to her wrist.
39:08She is clearly...
39:12Sit down.
39:20Rowan, you lost.
39:21Accept the judgment of the council for the mistakes you have made.
39:30You're done, Rowan.
39:32Look around you.
39:33I'm not done until I say I'm done!
39:35Rowan.
39:37You won't know who you, but I'm done.
39:37Rowan.
39:41Rowan.
39:54I'm not done.
40:08It is over, Rowan.
40:15You went to a crossroads at night.
40:17You took something from Hades Domain.
40:19Don't.
40:20You pressed it against my wrist in front of this entire council
40:24and watched me go down.
40:27You tried to kill a divine gift.
40:29In neutral land.
40:31In front of eight houses sitting in the room.
40:33Every lord hearing it clearly.
40:35I protected my house.
40:37What she would have done with that gift...
40:39I can see every lie you've ever told.
40:41Don't try another one.
40:42I move that House Crane be held responsible
40:44for the attempted use of Hades-sourced poison
40:46on a divine heir in neutral ground.
40:48Isalte Crane to be stripped of her house title
40:50and remanded to council custody pending full judgment.
40:53You cannot.
40:54I am the daughter of House Crane.
40:56My father will...
40:56Your father is not in this room.
40:58Rowan.
40:59Rowan, tell them.
41:00Tell them I did it for us.
41:01For the house.
41:02You told me to get it.
41:04You said, get it!
41:07You're not going to say anything.
41:09Are you?
41:12I did everything for you.
41:14Every single thing.
41:16The room.
41:17The vial.
41:20Fifteen years of watching you look at her
41:22instead of me and I said nothing.
41:24I did everything you needed
41:26and you won't even...
41:27I loved you.
41:28That was real.
41:30Even if nothing else was.
41:45I want you to know something before you go.
41:48You spent fifteen years trying to stop this moment.
41:51And here we are anyway.
41:53What do you want, Zara?
41:54An apology?
41:55I want nothing from you.
41:57That is what I came to tell you.
41:58After everything you did,
42:00I feel nothing when I look at you.
42:06The council exiled him.
42:08He lost any powers he had.
42:18I do not know how to do this.
42:28Every single day.
42:30I said your name every single day
42:32so I would not forget the sound of it.
42:34So it would still be ready when you came back.
42:41Welcome home, Zara.
42:54You found her.
42:55You brought her home.
42:58House Barnett has House Solina's gratitude
43:00for what you did
43:01and I mean that without reservation.
43:03I did not come today for gratitude.
43:06No.
43:07I did not think so.
43:08What are your intentions
43:09toward my daughter, Lord Blackwell?
43:10Honorable ones,
43:11I want the right to court her.
43:12Properly, openly,
43:13with your knowledge and consent.
43:14Nothing hidden, nothing rushed.
43:15She has been kept hidden
43:16and castless for 15 years.
43:17She has just received
43:18her full divine gift
43:18and learned who she is.
43:19She is not a prize to be collected,
43:21Lord Blackwell, by anyone,
43:22including the man who helped find her.
43:24I know that.
43:24The decision is hers entirely.
43:26I am asking your permission
43:27to be considered,
43:28not your permission
43:28to decide for her.
43:30She already knows you came.
43:31She saw it in your face
43:33the moment you arrived.
43:34I am aware of that.
43:35Good.
43:35Then there is no point
43:36pretending this conversation
43:37is a secret.
43:47I spoke with your father.
43:48I know.
43:49I saw it in your face
43:50before you said a word.
43:51Is that going to be
43:51a permanent condition?
43:53Reading everything
43:54before anyone speaks?
43:54Yes.
43:56Good.
44:00In the Accord Hall,
44:02when you read me,
44:03what did you see?
44:03Everything you have done.
44:05Everything you intend.
44:07Everything you have been afraid
44:07to say out loud
44:08since the gate at House Greth.
44:10And?
44:11And nothing hidden.
44:12You are exactly
44:13what you appear to be.
44:14That is rarer than you know.
44:17Do you see that?
44:21I see it.
44:22I told you.
44:23A decree of purpose.
44:25It only grows.
44:27So,
44:28what do we do with it?
44:29I have a few ideas.
44:31You are not as serious
44:32as you pretend to be.
44:34And you are not as unbothered
44:35as you pretend to be.
44:37I read you, you know.
44:38What am I supposed to do with it?
44:40I know.
44:42You were not afraid of that.
44:45I had nothing to hide.
44:54Lyra is going to be
44:55insufferable about this.
44:57I heard that.
44:58Come on.
44:59Your father is going to
45:00send someone to find us soon.
45:02Let him.
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