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00:00Daughter of the Lord, bloodline awakened, heir to the throne, glory to the soulless lamb, a gift from Hector.
00:11Give me a red wine.
00:20The wine you asked for.
00:27You walk in here while he is clearly occupied?
00:31Are you blind or just stupid?
00:39Then Lord Rowan can pour his own wine.
00:42What did you just... Did you call him by his name?
00:45You address him as my lord, you disrespectful little twat!
00:53That is enough, Isolette.
00:56Know your place, Zahra.
00:58You have no house, no bloodline, nowhere in this realm that would take you in.
01:03I will leave then.
01:05I will go rogue before I die.
01:07You have no soul power yet.
01:10Until you do, you belong to this house.
01:13You belong to me.
01:18Come to my study once you have cleaned this up.
01:24You have no soul power yet.
01:25You have no soul power yet.
01:26You have no soul power yet.
01:27You have no soul power yet.
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.
01:41The other houses will not move against Greth without it.
01:44House Greth attacked House Solani fifteen years ago.
01:47My daughter vanished the same night.
01:49I know what happened to her.
01:52Her body was never found, Lord Blackwell.
01:54In fifteen years, no body.
01:57What does that tell you?
01:59Or do you just not want to hear it?
02:03You are the only one with the power and the standing to help us.
02:07You 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.
02:25We will live simply.
02:27In the woods if we have to.
02:28We will hunt for what we need.
02:30We will need nothing from anyone in this house ever again.
02:35I will attend Rowan Greth's feast tomorrow.
02:38Whatever is inside that castle, I will find it.
02:42You have my word.
02:46I will pull everything we have on the Gretteth attack on House Selenen.
02:51Every record.
02:53Every body.
02:55Body that was not found.
02:57Do it.
03:00Zara Salone's body was never found.
03:03I suspect she is not dead.
03:25You are a fast learner, my lady.
03:48Roan, you asked to see me.
03:50What is she doing here?
03:52Was she watching us?
03:54You will address me as my lord.
04:03If you walk in here without knocking again, I will make sure you cannot walk at all.
04:10Isolid, leave us.
04:13Excuse me?
04:14I said, leave us.
04:25How long have you lived here at House Greth?
04:28Almost fifteen years.
04:31Have we ever let you go hungry?
04:33Cold?
04:35Without shelter?
04:37No.
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.
04:50What?
04:52I am not jealous.
04:53I am disgusted.
04:55And you are not my lord.
04:56The 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.
05:10Theron Blackwell is coming here?
05:12I only sent that invitation out of courtesy.
05:14Why now?
05:14What does he want?
05:15My lord.
05:16I believe it signals respect.
05:18If Theron 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.
05:24He is acknowledging the threat.
05:29Since you find this so amusing,
05:31you will prepare and serve the entire feast.
05:35Beginning to end.
05:36Tomorrow is my eighteenth birthday.
05:38You promised me a day's rest.
05:40I changed my mind.
05:41I changed my mind.
05:41To be whole.
05:48The world.
05:50The world.
05:52The world.
05:57Let's go back.
05:58We are all raving.
05:59I changed my mind.
06:03The world.
06:05The world.
06:07Who learned the love.
06:08The world.
06:09The world.
06:10What?
06:10The world.
06:11nothing she is a servant an orphan i do not know why the moray goddesses chose her for me and
06:18i do
06:19not care i will not accept it what do you plan to do with her once she turns 18 tomorrow
06:27her
06:27soul power will awaken she will feel the faded between us the moment it does i will sever it
06:32publicly in front of the entire feast severing a thread decreed by the moray ass is not a simple
06:37act my lord clothra herself spun it i do not care you are dismissed
06:48damn it zara
06:54soren i need you to source a worthy gift for lord rowan greth before tomorrow's feast
06:58a gift for rowan greth why would you we keep our friends close and our enemies closer yes my lord
07:05daughters of allied houses each one a strong political match if you arrive at the feast with
07:10one of them on your arm it sends a message house blackhead is building alliances not just
07:16i will not be bringing a companion my lord if house greth discovers you are still unwavered
07:21at your age they will question your standard they will use it against you at the feast let them
07:25i am there on black weight
07:30let's hope she is there whoever she is
07:41my lord those burns are those jade hog yes inside the estate how did it get past the it was
07:48tracking
07:48something a soul whose suppression is breaking something it could smell from a long distance
07:59the trail leads toward house greth territory lord cassian's daughter have the carriage ready
08:05of dawn soren tell no one about the burns
08:24happy birthday to me happy birthday zara who is there it is me lara i am your divine gift zara
08:36hecate's gift the one they sealed away when you were a child i have been here the entire time
08:41they simply would not let me speak hecate's gift you are hecate's gift it is very good to finally meet
08:48you and there is something i need to tell you about the one the moiri decried for us the one
08:52clothra wove into your thread at birth clothra wove a thread for me yes the one she decreed for us
08:57he is here he has always been here in this castle who rowan greth lord of this house
09:05clothra wove you for him at birth he has known since before you did
09:31he is coming i can feel him approaching
09:35zara when you see the thread do not let it show on your face
09:53so hector finally broke the seal
09:56you knew this whole time you knew what clothra decreed and you said nothing so what
10:02you are a servant a castless orphan you have no house no bloodline nothing
10:08what clothia decreed does not change what you are
10:11i defy the decree zara
10:25if you beg perhaps i will reconsider i accept your defiance rowan
10:35what
10:39the thread is gone so are we clothra does not weave a second thread for the same person
10:45you will live and die castless so be it pack what you have tonight after today i do not want
10:51to see
10:51you in this castle again i have been waiting years for you to say that rowan
10:59you are allowed to feel it zara what he did this morning
11:04i just need to get through this feast
11:09there is someone coming tonight i can feel a presence in the road
11:12something old something that knows hector's gift from a distance
11:16everything can wait until after the feast
11:25the carers were in this tree line last night
11:28how close close enough to leave tribute at the window
11:32someone inside that castle has been paying them to stay back
11:35paying the carers to stay back from whom
11:45hector's bloodline
11:47in inside house greth
12:12lord blackwit what a pleasure i hope the road treated you well our castle sits deep in the forest
12:17not the easiest journey lord rowan built house greth castle from the foundations up
12:22it is everything a great house should be
12:24hmm a gift from house blackwit lord greth
12:27in honor of tomorrow's betrothal
12:31lord blackwit this is far too generous
12:34we we could not possibly pocket change shall we
12:41what do you think you are doing do not embarrass me
12:47i saw a servant girl at the rest juice pile
12:51find out who she is how she came from
12:54how long she has been here
12:56everything
12:57and the carers were paying her the kind of attention they paid
12:59i know soren
12:59find out who she is tonight
13:02before the feast ends
13:10lord blackwit
13:11i have always admired what house blackwit has built in the northern territory
13:15the estate the trade routes
13:17i feel we share very similar tastes in what a great house should be
13:20isoleth
13:21zara
13:21wine
13:24we have an important guest
13:26lord blackwell of house blackwell
13:28show some respect
13:31what are you waiting for we have an important guest
13:34this is lord theron blackwell of house blackwell show some respect
13:39i need to step out a moment my lord
13:47excuse me
13:49where are you going with that
13:51i am trying to wash
13:53wash
13:54you call that washing
13:56can you just leave me alone
13:58please
13:59i am not even supposed to be talking to you
14:01i just want to know your name
14:04please
14:05it's my 18th birthday today
14:06just do not make this worse
14:12it is her birthday
14:14lord blackliffe is going to want to know that
14:17i noticed you came alone lord blackwell
14:19no companion for the feast
14:22is there no one who has caught your interest
14:24i hear house blackwell has no shortage of fine houses seeking alliance
14:29there is someone
14:30is that so
14:35well
14:35we have some of the finest bloodlines in the realm here tonight
14:39lady marion of house vale
14:40strong covenant line
14:42excellent standing
14:44lady marion
14:45lord blackwet
14:46of house blackwet
14:47she has good bloodline
14:49and
14:50well
14:51if lady marion is not to your pace
14:53take your pick of any house here tonight
14:55this is the finest gathering in the realm this season
14:58there is someone
14:59actually
15:00oh
15:01who is the lucky lady
15:02that servant girl
15:03from earlier
15:05the one who poured the wine
15:09you cannot be serious lord blackwell
15:12she is a costless servant with no house name
15:16whatever interest you have
15:19surely one of the noble daughters here tonight would serve you far better
15:22i am not interested in the noble daughters
15:25she does not even bathe properly
15:27she has no access to moods
15:29a lot
15:29is that something she chooses
15:31or something she is not permitted
15:37send her to my guest room
15:38i would like to speak with her
15:41that is not going to
15:44of course
15:46we will send her up
16:01well
16:01it seems you have admirers
16:04lord blackwell has requested your company in his guest room this evening
16:10for some reason lord blackwell wants you for the evening
16:13no idea why
16:16what are you talking about
16:20please do not wear that
16:23consider it a parting gift
16:25i heard rowan sent you away
16:27finally
16:30lord blackmet's guest room
16:32to the right at the end of the upper corridor
16:33do not disappoint him
16:35i am not going
16:36why not
16:36does he not interest you
16:38i do not know him
16:39and clothie does not weave second threads
16:41you said so yourself
16:42clothie does not weave the same thread twice
16:45but she weaves more than one kind
16:47go and see for yourself
16:50and zara
16:51please
16:52change your dress
16:53to the right at the end of the upper corridor
17:31what did you just call me
17:34what did you just call me
17:35rowan
17:35isaleth sent me to the wrong room
17:37she did this deliberately
17:49Zara
17:52what in the name of the gods
17:55what do you think you are doing with my betrothed
17:57you castless little witch
18:03she came to seduce my betrothed
18:05in his own room
18:07look at what she is wearing
18:09you put me in this dress
18:10you sent me to this room
18:12you told me it was lord blackwell's
18:15you lying
18:16do not touch her
18:22if you lay another hand on her
18:24i will make certain you regret it
18:25for the rest of your days
18:37blackwell
18:37this is my castle
18:39my house
18:40you do not
18:41she is with me now
18:43come
18:53how is your face
18:55it is fine
18:56i am used to it
18:58why do you let them do that
19:00in case you have not noticed
19:01i am not exactly in a position of power here
19:04so
19:06this is the castless servant of house greth
19:09with an attitude
19:11thank you for what you did back there
19:12you do not have to
19:13i am leaving this house tonight
19:15release me
19:17you are aware i am lord of shouse blackweth
19:19the more powerful house in orvran
19:22i am
19:23which is exactly why
19:25you would not want someone like me
19:27no house
19:28no bloodline
19:29what is your name
19:31zara
19:32just
19:33zara
19:34i do not remember my house name
19:36my parents died when i was small
19:38house greth took me in
19:40you are with me now zara
19:41you do not have to go anywhere tonight
19:43or at all
19:56happy birthday
20:00this
20:00is my
20:01castle
20:02my territory
20:03step aside
20:04lord blackwell has requested privacy
20:07i cannot allow entry
20:08you cannot allow
20:09i am lord of this house
20:10i could have you removed from this castle entirely
20:13the accord between houses
20:14expires soon my lord
20:16you would not want to offend lord blackwen
20:18over a servant
20:19there is no way a lord like theron blackwell
20:22accepts someone like her
20:23she has nothing
20:24she is nothing
20:26zara is not nothing my lord
20:28she is lord blackwell's guest
20:35why do you care so much about her
20:37she is irrelevant
20:38she is nothing
20:39i do not want to talk about it
20:41i imagine she is doing everything she can to please lord blackwell
20:44right now
20:45that shameless castless went
20:47i said i do not want to talk about it
20:53zara
20:55did you just call me zara
20:59what you are being paranoid
21:00paranoid
21:01i am paranoid
21:03i knew it
21:04i have always known it
21:06it was always about her
21:08always zara
21:09did you ever even care about me
21:12what am i to you
21:13what have i ever been
21:15you are right
21:16he cannot have her
21:18what
21:19are you serious right now
21:21i am talking to you
21:23rowan
21:24rowan
21:25do not you dare leave me here
21:32lord rowan insists on seeing zara
21:34he says it is urgent
21:37you do not have to go
21:41i should
21:42i want to end this properly
21:50what do you want rowan
21:51you cannot go with theron blackneck
21:53you do not even know him
21:54clothar decreed him for me
21:56i am your decree
21:59zara
22:00do not leave
22:02i know things between us have been
22:03things between us
22:04there were no things between us rowan
22:06for 15 years you treated me like a servant
22:09you watched isolt abuse me
22:10and you said nothing
22:11you kept hectic seal on me
22:13so i would never know who i was
22:14and then you broke clothar's thread
22:16you rejected me rowan
22:17your words to the gods
22:19i will marry isolette
22:20the betrothal is too far along to break
22:23but i can move you somewhere safe
22:24a house of your own
22:26you would want for nothing
22:27you do not have to go to blackwick
22:28you do not have to
22:29what are you trying to say to me right now
22:30are you telling me you want me to be your kept secret
22:33the other woman while you marry isold
22:35i came to say goodbye rowan
22:37that is all this is
22:40zara
22:40i have always
22:42loved you
22:43what
22:45i said i love you
22:46do you hear me
22:47you cannot treat someone like nothing for 50 years
22:50and then tell them you love you
22:51that is not love
22:52let me go
22:53i told you i am willing to work something out
22:55what more could you possibly want from me
22:57this is how you show love
22:58i do not want it
22:59let me go
22:59stop pretending
23:00you think i do not know
23:02you disobeyed me
23:03gave me that attitude every day
23:05to get my attention
23:06you have it
23:07just stay and we can
23:08i never wanted your attention
23:09i never wanted any of this
23:10let me go
23:14we are leaving
23:15now
23:17what about my things
23:19i have everything you will ever need
23:40you will have your own rooms at house blackneck
23:43tomorrow i can arrange for whatever you need
23:46clothing anything you want
23:48we can send for
23:49is that a village
23:50the market town of veld
23:52three leagues from greth territory
23:55a market town
23:59we will sort out the council inquiry tomorrow
24:02lord cassian will want to move quickly once
24:06forgive me
24:07what 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
24:19we are not going home yet
24:33zara
24:33this house
24:34it knows us
24:36hector and neve
24:37have walked the same road
24:38since before mortals had names for either of them
24:41this is a safe place
24:44the shadows
24:44they are moving
24:48they are the nextborn
24:49they guard this house
24:50they will not harm you
24:52they are alive
24:53they are older than alive
24:55they have been here since nikes first made her covenant with my bloodline
25:03they have never done that before
25:04they recognize hecate's gift
25:07they are saying hello
25:14i want the girl
25:15send her out
25:17she is a guest of house blacknick
25:18she leaves when she chooses
25:20open the gate soren
25:22last time i ask
25:24no
25:37you brought hollow men to my house
25:39you broke my gate
25:41think very carefully about what you do next
25:44the girl is a servant of my house
25:46she 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
26:30stand down
26:34this isn't over blackweck
26:36send a raven next time
26:38like a lord
26:41rowan
26:49i know about the attack on house saluni
26:51i know you sealed a three-year-old child
26:53and kept her hidden for fifty years
26:54and i know clotho with thread for her
26:55and you threw it away
26:57atrotus is watching you
26:58you defied the morace
27:00buried hecate's bloodline
27:01and destroyed an entire house
27:02the gods don't forget that
27:03and neither do i
27:04you read my ring without permission
27:06that is a violation of the accord between houses
27:16do not go out there zara
27:18rowan's rs gift is not controlled
27:21when he is this angry
27:22he would not mean to
27:23but he could drain you
27:25through the seal fractures
27:26the cracks make you vulnerable
27:28i am not afraid of him
27:30i know
27:31but the seal is not fully broken yet
27:34until it is
27:35stay inside this house
27:38the nyxbourne will not let him pass the gate
27:40what happened at the gate
27:42he backed down
27:43for now
27:44but he will move against you
27:46soon
27:47rowan does not accept losses
27:49what does he want from me
27:50he defied the decree himself
27:52he sent me away
27:53what is there left to take
27:54he does not want you
27:55he wants to make certain
27:56no one else has you
27:57there is a difference
27:58your name is not just zara
27:59your full name is zara selene
28:00daughter
28:02of lord cassiel solen
28:04and lady neva solen
28:05of house solen
28:06that is not possible
28:09my parents died when
28:10they did not die
28:13house greth attacked house solena
28:1515 years ago
28:16your parents survived
28:17you were taken in the chaos
28:19either by greth soldiers
28:21or hidden here afterward
28:22your parents have been searching
28:24for you ever since
28:24my parents are alive
28:26yes
28:27i met with them two days ago
28:29your father sat across a desk from me
28:30and told me 15 years of searching
28:33your mother has not stopped looking
28:34since the night you disappeared
28:36house solena
28:37hector's covenant
28:38yes
28:39your bloodline carries hector's gift
28:42soul sight
28:42the ability to see the complete truth of any person
28:45rarest gift in arvrin
28:46it is why the covenant seal was placed on you as a child
28:48to keep hector's gift buried
28:49to 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
28:57you came to that feast looking for something
28:59you saw me and you spent the rest of the night
29:00trying to find out who i was why
29:01the shade hound tracks in my study led to house greth territory
29:04the caris retreating when i arrived
29:06the pieces were already there
29:07that is still not what i mean
29:10my gift responded to you at the gate before i knew who you were
29:13that does not happen
29:15not to me
29:16lyra said clothed her weaves more than one kind of thread
29:19yes
29:19she does
29:39lord cassian
29:42i said i would find her
29:49you have her eyes
29:52your mother's eyes exactly
30:00i did not know you were alive
30:02they told me i thought
30:03i know
30:03i know what they told you
30:05i prayed
30:07for years i prayed
30:08i did not know who i was praying to
30:10i called her hecteth
30:12i just prayed that someone was listening
30:13hector was listening
30:15she always was
30:16i never stopped looking for you
30:18not one day
30:20not one hour
30:27you were three years old
30:30the night they came
30:31house greth attacked at the third bell of night
30:33no warning
30:34no declaration
30:35just greth soldiers at our walls
30:37they knew exactly what they wanted
30:39hectartus covenant had just passed to you at birth
30:42house solane with a newborn heir
30:44carrying the full force of soul sight
30:46that terrified them
30:47you would have been the most powerful voice
30:49at any council table in oran
30:50so they took me instead of killing me
30:53they put the covenant seal on you that same night
30:56and they kept you where they could watch you
30:58and where the seal would never break
30:59surrounded by rowan zara's gift
31:01pressing the seal down every day
31:03simply by existing near you
31:05and clothi's decree
31:07rowan was woven for me at birth
31:09he knew if the thread appeared
31:11he could not hide who i was any longer
31:13which is why he defied it immediately
31:16better to pay the cost of defying the moirae
31:18than to let you know who you were
31:21he was afraid of me
31:26his entire house has been afraid of you
31:29since the night you were born
31:33the seal will fully break within days
31:35once hectecta's gift is free in her
31:38see through every lie in this realm
31:40she will see what we did to her family
31:43she will be able to prove it at council
31:45then we stop it before it breaks
31:47the seal is too far gone
31:48rowan's suppression cannot close those fractures
31:50hector is driving them open from the divine side
31:52there is only one thing that stops hector's gift once it starts
31:55void ban
31:56void ban severs the covenant permanently
31:59hector's gift gone from her bloodline entirely
32:01gone
32:02i know someone who can get it
32:14how does it work
32:16one touch to bare skin
32:17the poison enters through contact
32:19it reaches the covenant connection in the blood within one hour
32:22after that
32:23the gift is gone
32:25the bloodline's covenant with hector dissolves permanently
32:27as if the original bargain was never made
32:30if i use it on her what happens
32:32she lives
32:33she simply becomes ordinary
32:48good morning
32:50good morning
32:51this was always your room
32:52we never changed it
33:02tell me what lyra says your gift does
33:03in full
33:04soul sight
33:06hector's gift
33:07i can see the complete truth of any person
33:09what they intend
33:10what they hide
33:11what they have done
33:11no lie survives it
33:13in its full form
33:14lyra says i can read an entire room simultaneously
33:16can you use it now
33:18not yet
33:18the seal is still there
33:20most of it
33:20lyra says when it fully breaks
33:22the gift will arrive all at once
33:24she says it will be overwhelming
33:26at first
33:27when it does
33:27you will be able to see the truth of everyone around you
33:30including me
33:31does that concern you
33:33no
33:35zara
33:35the warmth between you
33:37that is real
33:38cloth you wove it differently this time
33:40it will not collapse if defied
33:42it only grows
33:43not yet
33:44what
33:44nothing
33:45lyra talks a great deal
33:49rohan 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 selaine and house blackwell together outrank him at every council
34:07he 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
34:17he is not going to wait for the council
34:19he is going to move before the seal breaks
34:21lord cassian
34:23can you call
34:24the council
34:26formally
34:27openly
34:28before rohan moves first
34:33i can
34:34but if rohan 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
34:42not until the seal is fully gone
34:5815 years ago house greth attacked house solani without declaration without cause and without consequence
35:03my door three years old was taken that same night
35:05a covenant seal placed on a child of hecate's bloodline to suppress her divine gift
35:10she was kept as a servant in house greth for 15 years
35:13i am asking this council to answer for what was done
35:16house greth denies every accusation
35:18the girl in question was an orphan found wandering near our territory
35:21we took her in out of charity
35:23the covenant seal was placed for her own protection
35:26her gift was unstable
35:27lord cassian has no proof of anything he has claimed
35:30furthermore
35:31this girl has no documented bloodline
35:34no house solian birth record survives the attack on their estate
35:38lord cassian is asking the council to accept the word of a castless servant over the standing of house greth
35:45i have proof
35:47when ronan showed up to my house i used my gift and read his ring
35:50what i found wasn't pretty
35:5115 years of deliberate moves against house solane
35:54the attack
35:55taking the child
35:56locking hectima's gift inside her with that seal
35:58all of it
36:00that ring has witnessed everything
36:01he read my ring without permission
36:03article 7 of the accord permits a reading of house insignia when a missing heir is involved
36:07that itself is a violation of the accord
36:09everything he claims to have read is inadmissible
36:11zara solande is a missing heir
36:13her father sits at this table
36:24zara
36:25left side
36:26now
36:33zara
36:33fight it
36:35do not let it reach the covenant
36:36do not
36:48what did you give her
36:51nothing that was not necessary
36:56zara
36:58zara
36:59zara
37:00hectias is here
37:01she is fighting it
37:03hold on
37:27this is what you were born for zara solenia
37:32now let them see you
37:36welcome home
37:42zara
37:57zara
37:59Oh
38:26My name is Zara Soleen
38:29My house made a covenant with Hector at our founding
38:32Her gift allows me to see the complete truth of any person in this room
38:35Nothing hidden survives it
38:37You accepted payment from House Grief six years ago
38:40In exchange for blocking House Zalane's petition to this council
38:44You told your household it was a trade agreement
38:46I am not here to expose every secret in this room
38:49I am here to confirm one thing
38:52Everything Lord Blackwell told this council is true
38:54I can see it in every person who was present at House Grief during the years they kept me
38:58Every action
38:59Every decision
39:01Every order given
39:03This council will not accept the testimony of a girl who just had a vow pressed to her wrist
39:07Sit down Rowan
39:19Rowan, you lost
39:21Accept the judgment of the council for the mistakes you have made
39:30You're done Rowan
39:31Look around you
39:32I'm not done until I say I'm done
39:34I'm not done
39:35I'm not done
40:03I'm not done
40:07It 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 and watched me go down.
40:26You tried to kill a divine gift.
40:29In neutral land.
40:30In front of eight houses sitting in the room.
40:33Every lord hearing it clearly.
40:34I protected my house.
40:37What she would have done with that gift, I can see every lie you've ever told.
40:41Don't try another one.
40:42I move that House Crane be held responsible for the attempted use of Hades-sourced poison on a divine heir
40:47in neutral ground.
40:48Isilter Crane to be stripped of her house title and remanded to council custody pending full judgment.
40:52You cannot.
40:53I am the daughter of House Crane.
40:55My father will...
40:56Your father is not in this room.
40:57Rowan.
40:58Rowan, tell them.
40:59Tell them I did it for us.
41:01For the house.
41:02You told me to get it.
41:03You said, get it.
41:06You're not going to say anything.
41:09Are you?
41:11I did everything for you.
41:13Every single thing.
41:15The room.
41:17The vial.
41:20Fifteen years of watching you look at her instead of me and I said nothing.
41:23I did everything you needed and you won't even...
41:26I loved you.
41:28That was real.
41:29Even if nothing else was.
41:44I want you to know something before you go.
41:47You 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.
41:56That is what I came to tell you.
41:58After everything you did, I feel nothing when I look at you.
42:05The council exiled him.
42:07He lost any powers he had.
42:17I do not know how to do this.
42:19I do not know how to do this.
42:27Every single day.
42:29I said your name every single day so I would not forget the sound of it.
42:34So it would still be ready when you came back.
42:40Welcome home, Zara.
42:53You found her.
42:55You brought her home.
42:58House Barnett has House Solina's gratitude for what you did and I mean that without reservation.
43:03I did not come today for gratitude.
43:05No.
43:06I did not think so.
43:07What are your intentions toward my daughter, Lord Blackwell?
43:10Honorable ones, I want the right to court her.
43:11Properly, openly, with your knowledge and consent.
43:13Nothing hidden, nothing rushed.
43:14She has been kept hidden and castless for fifteen years.
43:16She has just received her full divine gift and learned who she is.
43:19She is not a prize to be collected, Lord Blackwell, by anyone.
43:21Including the man who helped find her.
43:23I know that.
43:24The decision is hers entirely.
43:25I am asking your permission to be considered, not your permission to decide for her.
43:29She already knows you came.
43:31She saw it in your face the moment you arrived.
43:33I am aware of that.
43:34Good.
43:34Then there is no point pretending this conversation is a secret.
43:46I spoke with your father.
43:48I know.
43:48I saw it in your face before you said a word.
43:50Is that going to be a permanent condition?
43:52Reading everything before anyone speaks?
43:54Yes.
43:56Good.
43:59In the Accord Hall.
44:01When you read me, what did you see?
44:03Everything you have done.
44:04Everything you intend.
44:06Everything you have been afraid to say out loud since the gate at House Greth.
44:10And?
44:11And nothing hidden.
44:12You are exactly what you appear to be.
44:14That is rarer than you know.
44:16Do you see that?
44:20I see it.
44:22I told you.
44:23A decree of purpose.
44:25It only grows.
44:27So, what do we do with it?
44:29I have a few ideas.
44:31You are not as serious as you pretend to be.
44:33And you are not as unbothered as you pretend to be.
44:36I read you, you know.
44:38What am I supposed to do with it?
44:39I know.
44:42You are not afraid of that.
44:45I had nothing to hide.
44:54Lyra is going to be insufferable about this.
44:56I heard that.
44:58Come on.
44:59Your father is going to send someone to find us soon.
45:01Let him.
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