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00:00:05My mother was once chosen by Selina.
00:00:07Her mate bond with my father was real.
00:00:10But in Grey Hollow, Selina's choice was not enough.
00:00:19You can be my wife.
00:00:21You can stay in Grey Hollow.
00:00:26But I leave for war against Red Brage Pack before dawn.
00:00:30If I die, you will still serve Grey Hollow in the way you are worth most.
00:00:38Bondless widow can still be traded.
00:00:40A bond can be given by Selina.
00:00:43Aluna is accepted by the pack.
00:00:45My mother thought the bond would give her a home.
00:00:47My father used it to keep her useful.
00:00:49Daemon is dead.
00:00:51The bond is gone.
00:00:52Then the clause stands.
00:00:54We give Blackpun the widow.
00:00:57Blackpunt gives us the eastern hunting line.
00:01:01That is the trade.
00:01:03No proper she-wolf would willingly enter an exiled pack so a bondless widow is enough.
00:01:10That was the first time I heard the name Blackpun.
00:01:13The adults said it like a curse.
00:01:15Like a place wolves were sent where no one wanted them alive.
00:01:20The first time I saw the alpha of Blackpun, he came out of the forest as a black wolf.
00:01:25They said he killed his Luna.
00:01:27They said his wolf had gone mad before he was driven out.
00:01:30When he changed into a man in front of us,
00:01:32I believed every word.
00:01:42We brought the widow.
00:01:44Grey Hollow recognizes your claim to the eastern line.
00:01:50A pup can stay with her.
00:01:52Blackpun needs pups too, doesn't it?
00:01:55For that, Grey Hollow want passage through the lower ridge.
00:02:01My lord, I will follow Blackpun's rules.
00:02:04Put me with the Omegas.
00:02:05Put me in the kitchen.
00:02:06Keep me out of your hall if you must.
00:02:08Just let my pup live under your protection.
00:02:14Do not look at him like that, weak pup.
00:02:17You are lucky any alpha would take you.
00:02:26My alpha.
00:02:28Her father's body is not even cold and she is already begging another alpha?
00:02:33Like mother, like...
00:02:34Enough.
00:02:42The pup stays.
00:02:44The woman stays.
00:02:46Grey Hollow leave.
00:02:48That day I called a monster alpha.
00:02:50I thought I was begging him not to throw it back.
00:02:52I did not know the moment his blood touched the packstone.
00:02:56Grey Hollow had lost us.
00:03:02In the end,
00:03:04under Grey Hollow's elders
00:03:05and Blackpun's sledgeher,
00:03:07the transfer was sealed.
00:03:09My mother and I became Blackpun wolves.
00:03:11Bring them in.
00:03:24My mother put down our bundle
00:03:26and started looking for work.
00:03:28She wanted to be useful
00:03:30in Grey Hollow.
00:03:33Useful wolves might get leftovers.
00:03:36Useless wolves were thrown away first.
00:03:39My mother thought his silence
00:03:40meant she was already doing something wrong.
00:03:45Enough.
00:03:47We don't need you doing this here.
00:03:57The Omega room was tucked under the stairs.
00:04:01Shabby,
00:04:02but cleaner
00:04:03than Grey Hollow's basement.
00:04:04My mother took one look
00:04:07and decided people
00:04:09like us
00:04:10belonged there.
00:04:16Nia,
00:04:17don't be afraid.
00:04:18We can sleep here.
00:04:21Meshna.
00:04:29Mom,
00:04:30I'm not afraid.
00:04:31In Grey Hollow,
00:04:32we slept in the Omega basement too.
00:04:34This place is cleaner.
00:04:38Maybe
00:04:39if your wolf scent grows stronger
00:04:41or if one day
00:04:42I can give this pack
00:04:43a strong pup,
00:04:44things will get easier.
00:04:45When my father was alive,
00:04:47he watched my mother closely.
00:04:49He did not let her
00:04:50leave the pack house.
00:04:52He did not let us
00:04:53stand beside him.
00:04:57Mama,
00:04:58if father had a bond with you,
00:05:01why did he write us
00:05:02into Blackpens' ledger?
00:05:03He did not let others
00:05:05see her bond mark.
00:05:10Cover that mark.
00:05:12A bond does not make her lunar.
00:05:19But even then,
00:05:20I felt it was not only
00:05:22because my wolf scent
00:05:23was weak.
00:05:23My father
00:05:24hid my mother's bond mark
00:05:26long before anyone knew
00:05:28what kind of pup
00:05:29I would become.
00:05:35Because Blackpens'
00:05:36Blackpens had land
00:05:36had land Grey Hollow wanted.
00:05:38She did not say the rest,
00:05:40but I knew.
00:05:41My father sent my mother
00:05:42here to die.
00:05:43Before he left,
00:05:44he had already decided
00:05:46to sell her for land.
00:05:47He could not come back,
00:05:49and he would not let my mother
00:05:50live well either.
00:05:53I guessed it not because
00:05:54I was clever,
00:05:55but because they made it
00:05:56too obvious.
00:05:57The elders said it,
00:05:59the kitchen wolves said it,
00:06:00even the pups knew.
00:06:02A bondless widow could buy
00:06:03Grey Hollow land,
00:06:04and Blackpine was
00:06:06where wolves were sent,
00:06:07where no one
00:06:08wanted them alive.
00:06:13about mere death.
00:06:14Whoa.
00:06:25Bye.
00:06:31What about...
00:06:32what about...
00:06:34This life is...
00:06:34No, that's the Paranauts.
00:06:35I'm going to hide.
00:06:35I'm going to die.
00:06:36Oh, that's...
00:06:37never get.
00:06:37I'm going to die.
00:06:38I'm going to die.
00:06:44Use it.
00:06:45He sounded angry.
00:06:47The room looked better.
00:06:49That made it harder to understand him.
00:07:07What?
00:07:11Supper is starting.
00:07:12Where should I stand?
00:07:14With the Omegas?
00:07:15Or outside the hall?
00:07:19I can serve first.
00:07:21Nia can wait with me.
00:07:23There.
00:07:24In Grey Hollow, supper had rules.
00:07:27My mother served first.
00:07:29I waited behind the kitchen door.
00:07:32After the pack eats,
00:07:33where do we take what is left?
00:07:35We only ate when the pack was done.
00:07:38Sit before the pup falls over.
00:07:51Do not look at the pup's table.
00:07:53Wolves who cannot scent like wolves
00:07:55do not eat like wolves.
00:07:56In Grey Hollow,
00:07:58Alpha blood ate first.
00:08:00Warriors ate next.
00:08:02Pure.
00:08:03Blood pups got the warm balls.
00:08:06My mother and I waited until the serving line was empty.
00:08:09Kitchen pups wait.
00:08:19Eat.
00:08:23That was the first time I sat at a pack table before the soup turned cold.
00:08:28I did not know if Ronan was angry.
00:08:31I only knew he did not send us to the leftovers line.
00:08:36Grey Hollow never let us use scent.
00:08:39Cleansing herbs, they said.
00:08:42My mother's blood was not clean enough.
00:08:45And my wolf scent was too weak to matter.
00:08:50Clean the Grey Hollow scent.
00:08:52That night, Blackpeen gave us herbs and hot water.
00:08:58My mother looked more frightened than she had in the snow.
00:09:03First night.
00:09:04If I smell clean, maybe he will not be disgusted.
00:09:15Nia, remember this.
00:09:17If the Alpha comes tonight, cover your ears.
00:09:20Whatever you hear, do not come out.
00:09:23Pretend you heard nothing.
00:09:24I nodded hard.
00:09:25I knew.
00:09:26In Grey Hollow.
00:09:28When a man came through the door at night.
00:09:31Children learned to stay quiet.
00:09:34My father hurt my mother before.
00:09:37I ran to Beckian to stop him.
00:09:39He threw me aside.
00:09:41And I hurt both months after that.
00:09:44This time, I would not call out.
00:09:48My mother and I had to live carefully.
00:09:51Living was the only hope we had.
00:09:54Even if I did not know where that hope was.
00:10:02Soon, the door opened hard.
00:10:04Ronan stood there with a light.
00:10:05Staring at me on the floor.
00:10:07I tried to shrink away.
00:10:08My hands were sweating.
00:10:10He was bigger than my father had ever been.
00:10:12Three.
00:10:29The room had changed.
00:10:31The platform was wide.
00:10:33The furs were old but clean.
00:10:35And the floor no longer touched my back.
00:10:38Ronan put me down.
00:10:39Threw a blanket over me.
00:10:41And left.
00:10:43He did not stay.
00:10:45He did not touch my mother.
00:10:51Mama, it's warm.
00:10:52I have never been this warm in winter.
00:10:55Nia, the soup was warm too.
00:10:57I think this is what living feels like.
00:11:00You called him my alpha.
00:11:01Tomorrow, call him that again.
00:11:03From now on, call him that.
00:11:04Alpha Rona is better than father.
00:11:16In Grey Hollow, wolf enhancement.
00:11:19Elixir was never for pups like me.
00:11:21It was for strong pups.
00:11:23Alpha born pups.
00:11:24Pups worth strengthening.
00:11:26They said if I touched it, my weak wolf would break.
00:11:30The broth tasted warm and sweet.
00:11:33Weak scent.
00:11:34A drop may help her wolf hold.
00:11:36I thought it was medicine.
00:11:38One drop.
00:11:39I thought Black Pine was trying to make my weak wolf a little stronger.
00:11:43I did not know the Elixir was not waking a weak wolf.
00:11:46It was touching something much older.
00:11:50Will it hurt her?
00:11:51Not if her wolf is only weak.
00:11:55I knew why my mother could not sleep.
00:11:58I had taken the wolf enhancement Elixir.
00:12:04If my wolf still did not wake, then Grey Hollow was right.
00:12:08I was not a weak wolf.
00:12:10I was no wolf at all.
00:12:11And if Ronan saw that, maybe Black Pine would throw us away too.
00:12:15My mother kept looking at my wrist.
00:12:17She wanted a sign.
00:12:19A claw.
00:12:20A scent.
00:12:21Anything that could prove I was worth keeping.
00:12:23That night, the Elixir did not wake my wolf the way it was supposed to.
00:12:28Something inside me answered.
00:12:30But it felt wrong.
00:12:32Mom.
00:12:33What is happening?
00:12:36Nia, listen to me.
00:12:39No one.
00:12:40Did I do something wrong?
00:12:43No.
00:12:44No, baby.
00:12:46You did nothing wrong.
00:12:47But if they see it, they will throw us out.
00:12:49Do you understand?
00:12:51They will say you are strange.
00:12:52They will say I brought trouble into this pack.
00:12:55My mother had been afraid I had no wolf.
00:12:57When she saw me finally react, she looked even more scared.
00:13:01Mom.
00:13:03Alara.
00:13:04I had taken the wolf enhancement elixir.
00:13:06If my wolf still did not wake, Grey Hollow was right.
00:13:10I was not a weak wolf.
00:13:11I was no wolf at all.
00:13:12But when my body finally answered, it looked worse than silence.
00:13:17In Grey Hollow, when a weak pup reacted badly, they used bitter ash herbs to press the wolf back down.
00:13:24My mother had seen them do it to other children.
00:13:26That was the only way she knew to save me.
00:13:29I was only trying to help her.
00:13:36Mom!
00:13:38Ronan saw the ash herbs and looked angrier than before.
00:13:42I thought he was angry because I had ruined the room.
00:13:46Then he wrapped me in fur and carried me out.
00:13:50Healer.
00:13:50Door open.
00:13:54Look at her.
00:13:55Elixir reaction.
00:13:56And ash herbs on top of it.
00:13:58A wolf is not gone.
00:14:00It has been pressed down too long.
00:14:02And this is not a common weak wolf response.
00:14:04One full drop was too much at once.
00:14:07For one second, I almost felt happy.
00:14:11I had a wolf.
00:14:13Something inside me had answered.
00:14:16I did not know yet that the thing they feared would one day become the part of me that saved
00:14:20us.
00:14:20I took the elixir and still made everyone scared.
00:14:27Maybe Grey Hollow was right.
00:14:29Maybe I cannot take it.
00:14:34Then smaller drops.
00:14:35Let the wolf learn.
00:14:39A buried wolf does not stand in one night.
00:14:43He did not say I was strong.
00:14:46He did not say I was special.
00:14:48He only said my wolf needed time.
00:14:51For the first time, my weakness sounded like something that had been done to me.
00:14:55Not something I was.
00:14:59No more Grey Hollow herbs.
00:15:05Tomorrow.
00:15:06Smaller.
00:15:11I thought the elixir had proved I was broken.
00:15:14Ronan treated it like my wolf had only taken too much too soon.
00:15:18Like strength was something I could learn, little by little.
00:15:27Less than half a drop, mixed with moon herb water.
00:15:31After that night, even half a drop looked frightening.
00:15:36My mother was afraid it would hurt me again.
00:15:39I was afraid it would prove I still could not hold it.
00:15:43Ronan said nothing.
00:15:45He only stood there until I drank.
00:15:48Ronan still looked angry.
00:15:50He did not ask if I felt better.
00:15:53He did not praise me for drinking the medicine.
00:15:59But every time I stopped eating, his eyes went to my bowl.
00:16:16I wanted to ask if I could train one day.
00:16:19I wanted to ask if the thing under the bandage was truly a wolf.
00:16:25Not today.
00:16:26But Ronan said not today.
00:16:27In Black Pine, not today sounded different from never.
00:16:33Grey Hollow was afraid of Ronan.
00:16:35But Black Pine was afraid of the wolves who made Ronan stop speaking.
00:16:39Your father's wolves crossed the North Line.
00:16:43I did not know who his father was.
00:16:46I only knew the room changed when that token hit the table.
00:16:50Doors barred.
00:16:51Pups inside.
00:16:52Mark covered.
00:16:53My alpha!
00:16:54The first time I called him my alpha.
00:16:57Inside.
00:16:57I was begging him not to send us back.
00:16:59Come back!
00:17:00This time, I called him that because I wanted him to return.
00:17:07He left before the moon rose.
00:17:09My mother told me not to listen.
00:17:11But I could still hear their paws in the snow.
00:17:14I thought he would be back by morning.
00:17:17But that night, Black Pine waited.
00:17:20And Ronan did not come back.
00:17:23Ronan left before the moon rose.
00:17:25He told us to stay inside.
00:17:27But Black Pine did not sleep that night.
00:17:30Every grown wolf kept looking at the North Door.
00:17:32And that made me more afraid than any howl.
00:17:43Mom, is that him?
00:17:46My mother did not say yes.
00:17:48She did not say no.
00:17:50Her hand was shaking over my wrist.
00:17:52That was how I knew she was afraid too.
00:18:06Where is Alpha Ronan?
00:18:08North line.
00:18:12Alpha stayed behind.
00:18:14Alpha stayed behind.
00:18:15Those three words sat in the hall like snow that would not melt.
00:18:20Ronan had carried me through the night once.
00:18:22Mom, he has to come back.
00:18:24Now he was the one left in the snow.
00:18:35No one leaves until Alpha returns.
00:18:39They barred the doors because Ronan had not returned.
00:18:42I understood the rule.
00:18:44Pups stayed inside.
00:18:45Weak wolves stayed behind.
00:18:47That was how Pax kept children alive.
00:18:57Mom, did Alpha Ronan stay behind to protect us?
00:19:00My mother kept tightening the bandage around my wrist.
00:19:04It covered my mark.
00:19:05And it gave her hands something to do.
00:19:08Ronan had stayed behind.
00:19:10If Black Pine lost its Alpha, the little safety we had just begun to believe in would disappear with him.
00:19:15So she packed the herbs and forced herself to move.
00:19:22Alpha said everyone inside.
00:19:25Then we move quietly.
00:19:28He came for me in the night.
00:19:29We cannot leave him in the snow.
00:19:41I thought my mother would tell me, weak pups should not run into danger.
00:19:45Instead, she covered my mark, tightened my cloak, and taught me how to break a rule without making a sound.
00:19:53Grey Hollow sent us to Black Pine because they thought we would die here.
00:19:57Ronan did not let that happen.
00:19:59Now Black Pine wanted us to stay inside and wait.
00:20:02But waiting felt worse than the snow.
00:20:08We broke Ronan's rule and left Black Pine.
00:20:11My mother did not say she was scared.
00:20:13But she kept looking back at the house.
00:20:15I knew she was not only afraid of the forest.
00:20:18She was afraid we would find him too late.
00:20:36I did not know how to track wolves.
00:20:39But I knew Ronan's scent by then.
00:20:42Pine.
00:20:42Snow.
00:20:43Blood.
00:20:44Every broken branch smelled like him.
00:20:47And every step made my mother's face worse.
00:20:56My alpha.
00:20:57I thought we were too late.
00:20:59The snow had covered his tracks.
00:21:01And the forest would not answer me.
00:21:03For the first time, I understood why my mother afraid to come.
00:21:10The pup.
00:21:10I thought we had come to find Ronan.
00:21:13Then I saw the wolves who had come to finish him.
00:21:19Black Pine left its pup in the snow.
00:21:27Mom.
00:21:28If he is gone, will they take us back?
00:21:33For one moment, I thought Ronan was really gone.
00:21:36And if he was gone, Black Pine was just another place that could not keep us.
00:21:41The silver wolves stopped looking at us.
00:21:44They looked behind us.
00:21:46That was when I heard him.
00:21:47Not wounded.
00:21:48Not dying.
00:21:50Angry.
00:21:50My alpha.
00:21:52Oh.
00:21:54Oh.
00:21:56Oh.
00:21:59Oh.
00:22:08You left the house.
00:22:10He had won.
00:22:11He had come back.
00:22:14Inside.
00:22:15But the first thing he did was not smile.
00:22:18He looked at us like we had scared him into anger.
00:22:22I thought we had come to save him.
00:22:24But Ronan had already won.
00:22:26We found a battlefield.
00:22:28And he brought back proof.
00:22:30By sunrise, everyone would hear that Black Pine's alpha had returned.
00:22:37Grey Hollow came before they knew Ronan had returned.
00:22:40They thought Black Pine had lost its alpha.
00:22:43They thought my mother and I would be cold, hungry, and begging to be taken back.
00:22:47You are sitting by the fire.
00:22:53I thought Black Pine would have put you below stairs by now.
00:23:00If Black Pine cannot keep you, Grey Hollow can still take you back.
00:23:05The woman can work in the kitchen.
00:23:07The pup can serve the pup's table.
00:23:10She did not come because she missed us.
00:23:12She came because she thought she could use us again.
00:23:16They came because they thought he was gone.
00:23:18Then the door opened.
00:23:19Finish the broth.
00:23:22We did not know you had returned, Alpha Ronan.
00:23:25I can see that.
00:23:27And Ronan walked in with the enemy's token in his hand.
00:23:30Grey Hollow came to see us cold and ruined.
00:23:34They stay here.
00:23:36Instead, they saw me by the fire.
00:23:38My mother beside me.
00:23:39And Ronan standing in front of us.
00:23:42Do not make me say it twice.
00:23:44Out.
00:23:46I still did not understand Pac-Law.
00:23:48I only understood that he did not let them take us back.
00:23:54They will need these before the next snow.
00:23:57Grey Hollow thought Black Pine was a place where unwanted walls went to freeze.
00:24:01Then they saw Black Pine's winter stores.
00:24:04She had come to see us cold.
00:24:05She found me by the fire.
00:24:08Where did she get that cloak?
00:24:10Winter stores.
00:24:11Pups get warmth first.
00:24:12She had come to pity my mother.
00:24:14She found my mother beside me with medicine, warm cloth, and a place no one had taken away.
00:24:20Black Pine is feeding her too well.
00:24:24Grey Hollow did not ask if I was happy.
00:24:26They asked what I had eaten.
00:24:28They did not ask if my mother was safe.
00:24:31They asked what Black Pine had given us.
00:24:35The pup was sitting by the fire.
00:24:37Wearing Black Pine fur.
00:24:39Drinking hot broth.
00:24:42Hot broth with moon herb?
00:24:44How would I know?
00:24:45It smelled like it.
00:24:47Weak scent does not steady itself.
00:24:50She was barely a wolf here.
00:24:51Then Black Pine changed something.
00:24:53Food, herbs, alpha protection, maybe elixir.
00:25:11Find out what Black Pine gave her.
00:25:13And if the pup is not what we thought.
00:25:16Then we sold too cheaply.
00:25:29In Grey Hollow, adults watched my bowl to see what they could take away.
00:25:34In Black Pine, Ronan watched until I finished.
00:25:36He still looked angry.
00:25:38But my bowl stayed mine.
00:25:59Mom, can a weak pup learn too?
00:26:04Not today.
00:26:09In Grey Hollow, not for you meant forever.
00:26:12It meant never ask again.
00:26:14In Black Pine, Ronan said.
00:26:16Not today.
00:26:17He said no.
00:26:19He said not today.
00:26:21I did not know if that meant tomorrow.
00:26:23But for the first time tomorrow, sounded possible.
00:26:30Less than half a drop.
00:26:33Mixed with moon herb water.
00:26:37Last time, one drop almost broke me open.
00:26:40This time, the bowl was smaller.
00:26:42The light was weaker.
00:26:43But I was still afraid.
00:26:45I was afraid the wolf inside me would answer wrong again.
00:27:12I did not hear what the healer said.
00:27:15I only knew that.
00:27:16For the first time, the thing inside me did not feel like a punishment.
00:27:19It felt small, frightened, and alive.
00:27:22Mother.
00:27:24That was not weak.
00:27:31Keep it quiet.
00:27:37Watch her through the night.
00:27:39If the pulse jumps, call me.
00:27:42My mother had slept in rooms with men before.
00:27:45She knew how to stay quiet.
00:27:47How to protect me.
00:27:49How to wait for a night to pass.
00:27:50But Ronan did not come closer.
00:27:52He sat by the door.
00:28:01You do not have to stay.
00:28:03I know the signs.
00:28:15I know the signs.
00:28:17Cold.
00:28:19That was the first night my mother slept in the same room as an alpha and woke up untouched.
00:28:24She did not know what to do with that kind of safety.
00:28:30Stable.
00:28:30Stable.
00:28:55We brought what belonged to Damon.
00:28:58The pup should remember her father's scent.
00:29:01Grey Hollow did not bring memories.
00:29:03They brought a hook.
00:29:05They wanted to see if I would still answer to Damon's scent.
00:29:13Do not hide her.
00:29:15She is Damon's blood.
00:29:28She knows enough.
00:29:32Finish it.
00:29:55What was that?
00:30:01Not what she sounded like in Grey Hollow
00:30:04They came to see if I still belong to Daemon
00:30:07They left hearing a sound Grey Hollow had never heard from me
00:30:19She pulled away from Daemon's scent
00:30:22She was sitting by Black Pine's fire, drinking their herbs, wearing their fur
00:30:43If Black Pine woke something in her, she should not stay there
00:30:54The pup is Daemon's blood
00:31:04You remembered that late
00:31:06Blood does not disappear because of one trade
00:31:16It disappeared when you sold her
00:31:21Then we reopened the trade
00:31:24When they thought I was weak, I was a burden
00:31:30No
00:31:33Black Pine did not know what it was taking, Grey Hollow did not know what it was giving
00:31:36When they thought I might be useful, I became blood
00:31:40I did not understand trade
00:31:42But I understood that Grey Hollow wanted to name me again
00:32:03The widow was settlement
00:32:05The pup is Daemon's blood
00:32:09Daemon's widow should know better than to keep his blood from Grey Hollow
00:32:16Her name is Alara
00:32:18They kept saying blood
00:32:20Ronan kept the ledger open
00:32:22I did not understand Pack Law
00:32:24But I saw my name beside my mother's
00:32:26And for once, no one separated us
00:32:36Both names are in my ledger
00:32:49The girl carries Grey Hollow blood
00:32:53You sold her too
00:33:08Then this is not finished
00:33:14It is here
00:33:19Grey Hollow came to name me again
00:33:21Ronan closed the ledger before they could
00:33:23But when they left, I saw their faces
00:33:27They had stopped looking at me like a burden
00:33:30That frightened me more
00:33:42Black Pint's ledger protects her there
00:33:45But Crown Pack will not care about Black Pint ink
00:33:51If she is rare, Grey Hollow should not be the last to speak
00:34:15Do not say White Wolf, not yet
00:34:20Say enough to make them come
00:34:22Grey Hollow had already sold us once
00:34:26When they could not take me back with their own hands
00:34:32Stronger wolves
00:34:47Weak pup
00:34:48White response
00:34:51Black pine
00:34:58My son Ronan has hidden enough from me
00:35:12Grey Hollow used the old message trail
00:35:15Crown scent crossed it before dawn
00:35:18I did not know it then
00:35:20But Ronan had smelled Crown Pack before
00:35:24Not like an enemy from far away
00:35:26That is his father's house
00:35:28He had been driven out of
00:35:40No visitors
00:35:42No visitors
00:35:43No scent tests
00:35:45No elixir outside this room
00:35:57Is it because of Nia?
00:36:05Keep it covered
00:36:06Keep it covered
00:36:07Keep it covered
00:36:15My mother had seen bundles before
00:36:17A bundle meant leaving
00:36:19A bundle
00:36:21A bundle meant someone else
00:36:22Had decided
00:36:23Where we were going
00:36:29Mama
00:36:30Are we being sold again?
00:36:49Mama
00:36:51Are we being sold again?
00:36:53My mother had packed before
00:36:54Every bundle in my memory meant someone else had decided where we would go
00:36:59Grey Hollow packed us once
00:37:01And called it a trade
00:37:03I thought Black Pine was doing the same
00:37:11If you want us gone
00:37:13Say it to my face
00:37:21Do not dress it up as protection
00:37:29If Crown Pack comes
00:37:30You run this way
00:37:34You run this way
00:37:46You are not sending us away
00:37:49I was giving you a way out
00:37:54I do not want you taken
00:38:07Crown Riders at the North Gate
00:38:08For the first time
00:38:10A bundle did not mean someone was throwing us away
00:38:13It meant someone
00:38:14Had thought of how we might survive
00:38:28Grey Hollow came with noise
00:38:30Crown Pack came with silence
00:38:32Even before they spoke
00:38:34I knew they were not like the small packs that came to bargain
00:38:37They came like the snow already belonged to them
00:38:47Crown Pack claims the pup
00:38:53No
00:38:54A rare wolf does not belong in an exile's den
00:39:03Your father has been patient
00:39:04I knew Crown Pack was dangerous
00:39:06I did not know it was his father's house
00:39:09The place that had driven him out had come to take me in
00:39:12Tell him to come himself
00:39:19He will
00:39:29You built a den of strays
00:39:31And called it a pack
00:39:36Ronin
00:39:37Heir of the Crown Line
00:39:44Exile
00:39:46Traitor
00:39:48Lunar Killer
00:39:50Mummy
00:39:52Did he really kill someone?
00:39:55He did not defend himself
00:39:57That scared me more than the words
00:39:59In Grey Hollow
00:40:00Guilty Wolves shouted
00:40:01Ronin only moved his father behind him
00:40:04The Crown does not forget blood
00:40:07It does not forget murder either
00:40:11Then it remembers where to find me
00:40:13That night Crown Pack did not take me
00:40:15But it left something worse behind
00:40:17A name Ronin never used
00:40:19And a crime he would not deny
00:40:20Pups inside
00:40:22Doors barred
00:40:35Crown Pack called him
00:40:40Ronin did not deny any of it
00:40:42He only barred the doors and sent the pups inside
00:40:45That made the words feel heavier
00:40:51Lunar Killer
00:40:52Lunar Killer
00:40:52Crown would not say it for nothing
00:41:03Mama
00:41:03Mama
00:41:04Did he really kill someone?
00:41:06He heard the fear
00:41:07I know he did
00:41:09But he still did not defend himself
00:41:11He gave my mother the bar for the door
00:41:13The same way he always did when the night became too dangerous
00:41:23Inside
00:41:24Inside
00:41:24Barred
00:41:31Mom
00:41:32Are we safe with him?
00:41:38My mother was afraid of the name Crown Pack had given him
00:41:41But the room around us was full of things Ronin had done without explaining
00:41:46A platform off the cold floor
00:41:49A cloak cut to miss eyes
00:41:53A bar that locked from inside
00:42:03Pups first
00:42:04Wounded next
00:42:15Why don't you tell them the truth?
00:42:22The truth can wait
00:42:23The door cannot
00:42:28Tonight we stay inside
00:42:30Tomorrow
00:42:31We watch what he does
00:42:34My mother did not say she trusted him
00:42:37Not yet
00:42:38But that night
00:42:39She stopped packing
00:42:41In our life
00:42:43That was already a choice
00:42:59Lunar killer
00:43:01I did not see his past that night
00:43:03But later
00:43:04I learned Crown Pack did not call wolves
00:43:07Weak the way Grey Hollow did
00:43:09They had a stone for it
00:43:11A rite
00:43:12A rite
00:43:13A beautiful name for throwing wolves away
00:43:31The crown does not carry weak blood
00:43:56Go before the moon sets
00:44:17He killed the luna
00:44:20He killed the luna
00:44:28But the wolves he carried out that night became Black Pine
00:44:37Give us the pup
00:44:38Crown Pack has no quarrel with the widow
00:44:46Be clever for once
00:44:47Give the child back to real blood
00:44:48And maybe Crown Pack will still keep you alive
00:44:52They spoke to my mother
00:44:53Like she was a door they could open to reach me
00:44:56Grey Hollow had used her fear before
00:44:59This time
00:45:00Crown Pack used the same hand
00:45:15I was sent here as settlement
00:45:22I am not leaving as cargo
00:45:25And my daughter is not being carried away like one
00:45:37Then she dies with Black Pine
00:45:43Leave
00:45:47Her mother was still afraid
00:45:49I could feel it in the way her hand shook behind my shoulder
00:45:53But she did not step back
00:45:56For the first time
00:45:57She did not wait for someone else to decide where we belong
00:46:02Crown Pack had called him a killer
00:46:04Black Pine still followed him
00:46:06But some of them looked at his back differently
00:46:08I hated that
00:46:09I did not know why yet
00:46:25Nia!
00:46:31Alpha Ronan
00:46:32I did not save him
00:46:36Not yet
00:46:36I only stood beside him for one breath
00:46:39But for that one breath
00:46:40Crown Pack stopped pushing him down
00:46:42Enough
00:46:47It is her
00:46:54I did not know how to fight Crown Pack
00:46:56I only knew Ronan was standing alone
00:46:59And I did not want him to stand alone
00:47:02For one breath
00:47:03The pressure at the door weakened
00:47:05I did not understand why
00:47:07I only knew it happened when I stood beside him
00:47:10You are doing what they all did
00:47:13Deciding where I go without asking me
00:47:17Crown Pack will take her
00:47:18Then say you are afraid
00:47:21Do not call it my choice when you never gave me one
00:47:24I do not want you taken
00:47:26The road is there
00:47:27If you choose it
00:47:28That night
00:47:29Ronan did not close the road
00:47:31My mother did not take it
00:47:33For the first time
00:47:34Leaving or staying was not a command
00:47:37It waited on the table
00:47:43The road was still there
00:47:45Ronan did not close it
00:47:46He did not order us to stay
00:47:48And he did not order us to leave
00:47:51That made my mother stand there longer than any command would have
00:48:03You gave me a way out
00:48:09I am choosing not to take it
00:48:15My mother had spent her life behind doors other people closed
00:48:21That night
00:48:22She pushed the bar herself
00:48:24I did not know if that meant we were brave
00:48:27I only knew we had stopped running
00:48:29Then bar the doors
00:48:46Grey Hollow could not take us back from Ronan
00:48:53Black Pine watches the north gate
00:48:56The back trail is thinner
00:48:57So they brought stronger wolves
00:48:59And showed them the road around our new home
00:49:04You sold the pup once
00:49:05Now you guide us back to her
00:49:07We sold what had no value
00:49:09We did not know what she was
00:49:23That was the sound of betrayal
00:49:25Not a shout
00:49:26Not a blade
00:49:28Just one old voice outside our door
00:49:31Mom
00:49:32Someone is outside
00:49:45Telling them exactly where to find us
00:49:50She is in the east room
00:50:03Ronan was at the north door
00:50:04Because that was where Crown Pack wanted him to look
00:50:07Grey Hollow had shown them another way in
00:50:23Move
00:50:26You should have come back when you were told
00:50:32Mama
00:50:56I had been sold once under a full moon
00:50:58This time
00:50:59They did not call it a trade
00:51:02They called me key
00:51:12They did not bring me to a den
00:51:14They did not bring me to a healer
00:51:16They brought me to a stone
00:51:17That was when I understood
00:51:19Crown Pack had not come for a pup
00:51:23They had come for what they thought I could open
00:51:27Grey Hollow did not regret losing me
00:51:30Kay
00:51:30Your wolf can wake the crown stone
00:51:37If we had known what she was
00:51:39We would never have sold her with the widow
00:51:45They regretted the price
00:51:48Alpha Ronan will come
00:51:50I know
00:51:53That is why you are here
00:52:11For one breath
00:52:13Alpha Ronan
00:52:13I thought he had come to carry me home again
00:52:17He had done it before
00:52:19Through walls
00:52:20Through snow
00:52:21Through every door that tried to keep us trapped
00:52:23I needed the key
00:52:27I was waiting for my son
00:52:31Eyes down
00:52:35Tonight
00:52:36Black Pine ends
00:52:59An exile cannot keep a park
00:53:06Eyes down
00:53:08He told me not to look
00:53:09But I had spent too long looking away in Grey Hollow
00:53:12I knew what happened when children looked down
00:53:15And adults took what they wanted
00:53:20A rare wolf belongs to the crown
00:53:23Not to a broken alpha who collects unwanted things
00:53:27He called us unwanted things
00:53:29My mother
00:53:31Black Pine
00:53:32Ronan
00:53:33Me
00:53:33Me
00:53:34And for the first time
00:53:35The wolf inside me did not feel afraid
00:53:37It felt angry
00:53:40People
00:53:40Christmas
00:53:41They put him into other
00:53:42In Russia
00:53:47A rare wolf
00:53:52A rare wolf
00:53:53A rare wolf
00:54:08Hold her down.
00:54:25Nia, eyes down.
00:54:26He told me to look away.
00:54:28My mother was reaching for me.
00:54:30Black Pine could not lift its head.
00:54:32And the man who had carried me through the night was being taken apart in front of me.
00:54:38To be continued...
00:55:06Dad!
00:55:18i had called him alpha because i was afraid to be sent away but that night when the crown tried
00:55:23to take his wolf from him the word alpha was not enough so i called him dad not because he
00:55:30owned
00:55:30me because he was the first one who made me feel like i could run all my life they called
00:55:35me weak
00:55:37impossible but when i called him dad the wolf inside me finally knew who were protecting
00:56:05find the child now
00:56:36dad
00:56:49you do not touch her again
00:56:55the crown stone was supposed to judge wolves
00:56:58that night it began to remember
00:57:01that
00:57:02that
00:57:02that
00:57:03that
00:57:04that
00:57:04that
00:57:05that
00:57:05that
00:57:05that
00:57:05that
00:57:05that
00:57:06that
00:57:06that
00:57:11that
00:57:24that
00:57:25that
00:57:25that
00:57:35me
00:57:36that
00:57:36that
00:57:36Children being sorted, wolves being named unfit before they could stand.
00:58:01Go before the moon sets.
00:58:03If they stay, the crown will bury them under a prettier name.
00:58:09They said Ronan stole broken wolves from the crown, but the stone showed the first line.
00:58:22You chose the unfit over the crown.
00:58:25I chose wolves over stone.
00:58:30He did not steal them alone.
00:58:33I sold open the door with him.
00:58:35Then the stone showed the second line.
00:58:37Ronan did not kill the moon.
00:58:39She stayed behind so he could get the others out.
00:58:48He killed the Lunar!
00:58:59Ronan had carried the living out.
00:59:01Magnus kept the dead behind him and called that truth.
00:59:19The stone showed it clearly.
00:59:22Ronan did not kill the Lunar.
00:59:24He carried the living out.
00:59:27Magnus kept the dead behind him and called that truth.
00:59:34The stone showed it clearly.
00:59:35Then why did you call him Lunar Killer?
00:59:41Enough.
00:59:43Come here.
00:59:47He still did not defend himself.
00:59:49Even after the stone spoke for him, he only wanted me away from the danger.
01:00:02The crown decides truth.
01:00:16Not anymore.
01:00:32I remember the stone room.
01:00:35Some of them had forgotten.
01:00:37Some had remembered and never said it out loud.
01:00:40That night, the stone said it for them.
01:00:43Ronan had not gathered useless wolves.
01:00:45He had opened the door.
01:00:48For the wolves the crown wanted to throw away.
01:00:52Strays kneel easily.
01:01:02We are not kneeling.
01:01:04We are standing where he put us.
01:01:07Behind him!
01:01:09Alive!
01:01:15What.
01:01:16I miss purple sensation.
01:01:30Aird.
01:01:31Or dead.
01:01:31Gray Hollow thought Black Pine was where unwanted wolves disappeared.
01:01:35But Black Pine had always been something else.
01:01:37It was the where rownan opened…
01:01:39And the wolves who walked through it together.
01:01:55We did not know what Crown would do.
01:01:59We only gave them a name.
01:02:04Elara, tell her.
01:02:06Grey Hollow raised her.
01:02:11You knew I was hungry.
01:02:14You knew I was cold.
01:02:16You knew Mama was afraid.
01:02:30You traded them once.
01:02:32You do not stand near them again.
01:02:38Grey Hollow had called me weak, then blood, then key.
01:02:45But none of their names could reach me anymore.
01:02:49Ronan stood there.
01:02:52My mother stood there.
01:02:56Black Pine stood there.
01:03:02And for the first time, Grey Hollow had no place to put me.
01:03:09The Crown decides who belongs.
01:03:14Not here.
01:03:27You are still my blood.
01:03:29I am their alpha.
01:03:36Magnus kept saying blood.
01:03:39Ronan did not look back at the blood he came from.
01:03:42He stood in front of the wolves who had chosen him.
01:03:45He stood in front of theерь.
01:03:54He stood in front of the wolves who had chosen him.
01:04:04Lord, I saw him him.
01:04:10My blood was pushed the horn.
01:04:36I gave you blood, Ronan.
01:04:39You gave me a cage.
01:04:55Magnus had ruled by command, Ronan had built black pine with doors opened, food shared,
01:05:01and wolves kept alive.
01:05:04That night, even the crown command found no place to land.
01:05:28We only guided them because Crownpact forced us.
01:05:35Ilara, you know Grey Hollow raised the child.
01:05:43I was hungry there.
01:06:00You bought land with a widow and a pup, then you sold the pup again.
01:06:07The line returns to Blackpean.
01:06:14Daemon's widow.
01:06:19My name is Ilara.
01:06:26You traded them once.
01:06:28You do not stand near them again.
01:06:31Grey Hollow lost the land they bought with us.
01:06:34They lost the crown road they tried to use.
01:06:36And when my mother said her own name, they lost the last name they had for her too.
01:06:47After the fighting, Blackpine did not look grand.
01:06:50The door was cracked.
01:06:52The floor was scratched.
01:06:53Half the wolves still carried bandages.
01:06:56But it was standing.
01:07:24There was no salvation.
01:07:25It was enumerated love right away now.
01:07:27Your name.
01:07:32This time, I write it myself.
01:07:44In Grey Hollow, names were written for us.
01:07:48Widow.
01:07:48Settlement.
01:07:50Weak pup.
01:07:51Blood.
01:07:52He.
01:07:52That morning, my mother wrote her own name.
01:07:56And no one corrected it.
01:08:12Can I write mine?
01:08:24If you can hold the pen.
01:08:26I had been called many things.
01:08:29Weak pup.
01:08:30Damon's blood.
01:08:32Crown's key.
01:08:34I had heard every name adults gave me when they wanted to use me.
01:08:38But this one was mine.
01:08:40Dad.
01:08:46In Grey Hollow, tomorrow meant to survive in one more day.
01:08:50Again tomorrow.
01:08:52In Black Pine, tomorrow sounded like a promise.
01:09:24Stand with them.
01:09:26Stand with them.
01:09:27persons to accept some heart and peace.
01:09:31Had a Griff for the sortie.
01:09:41And in the future.
01:09:42But about every day.
01:09:44And I couldn't breathe with some surprises
01:09:49Number two.
01:09:52Are you following the wind?
01:10:10In Grey Hollow, when I made a sound, someone told me to be quiet.
01:10:15In Black Pine, I howled once, and someone answered.
01:10:33Grey Hollow thought Black Pine was where unwanted wolves disappeared.
01:10:38They were wrong.
01:10:40Black Pine was where unwanted wolves learned to answer back.
01:10:44And that morning, when I howled, it answered me first.
01:11:04It is over.
01:11:06Damon is never coming back.
01:11:08This is where your road ends.
01:11:13No.
01:11:15This is where ours begins.
01:11:17I do not want to force you the way Damon did.
01:11:19A mark means our souls answer each other.
01:11:22It means you would feel everything in me, even the parts of me that are too possessive.
01:11:37You are free, Alara.
01:11:39You always have been.
01:12:00My mother didn't just find a home.
01:12:02She became the heart of one.
01:12:05Step 3
01:12:06I love you.
01:12:07I love you.
01:12:13It means everyone.
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