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00:01L'Erdrick a heart from my chest and sealed me alive inside a bloodcoque.
00:06Last life, I chose Aldrick at the right of choosing.
00:08The crown barely responded to his blood.
00:10So I forced my own moonfire into him and gave him the power to take the throne.
00:14The moment he became emperor, he killed me.
00:16Then Aldrick sent his armies to Moon Hollow.
00:18800,000 of my people died beneath the same dragon's flame I had given him.
00:22Not one survived.
00:23I never wanted your cursed throne.
00:25If you had not thrown yourself at me, I would be with Rin now.
00:30Sous-titrage Société Radio-Canada
01:06The princess stood below the altar, dragon marks glowing along their wrists and collarbones
01:10Aldrich's mark shone the brightest
01:12Gold, pulsing like a second heartbeat
01:14He caught my gaze and flinched
01:15The disgust in his eyes was impossible to miss
01:18Then he turned away, eyes cutting straight to Ren at the edge of the crowd
01:21She stood half hidden behind a pillar, fingers twisting the silk of her sleeve
01:24No mark, no crest
01:26Just a minor lord's daughter with wide, wet eyes
01:28His gaze softened, so that's what you want
01:30I won't choose you again
01:39Below the steps, the princess stood in a line, waiting for my answer
01:42I was a gift from Moon Hollow to the Aurelian throne
01:44Sent here as a child, raised alongside the princes
01:47I grew up in this court
01:48The emperor has always doted on me
01:50But I know what that affection really is
01:52I'm not just me
01:53Win me, win a kingdom
01:54Whoever I choose becomes crown prince
01:56The princes were already whispering
01:57Everyone knows Sir Rabbit's in love with Aldrich
02:00Today's just a formality
02:03Lucky bastard
02:04Not the strongest bloodline
02:06Not the sharpest mind
02:07Not even the best looking
02:09But the saint wants him
02:11So the crown's his for the taking
02:14And he still walks around scrowling
02:16Like she owes him something
02:18I glanced toward Aldrich
02:19He stood rigid
02:20Jaw tight
02:21Face blank
02:21I looked at his dragon mark again
02:23Closely, this time
02:24Bright, yes
02:25But the glow was shallow
02:26Then my gaze moved past him to the man standing at the far end of the line
02:30Sorin
02:30The emperor's forgotten son
02:32Dark hair, dark eyes
02:33A face that gave nothing away
02:35No dragon mark touched his skin
02:36He had been born without a flame
02:38His mother died bringing him into the world
02:40And the court had called him cursed ever since
02:42Years ago, Kashin sent him to the borderlands
02:44No one expected him to return alive
02:46Yet there he stood
02:47Apart from his brothers
02:48As if he already knew he did not belong among them
02:51Our eyes met
02:52I smiled
02:52Leant close to the emperor
02:53And whispered
02:54Kashin's smile vanished
02:56Are you certain, Serevin?
02:58Is this your choice?
03:01Aldrich stepped forward
03:03He dropped to his knees before the throne
03:04And pressed his forehead to the floor
03:06Your majesty, I'm honored by Serevin's regard
03:09However
03:12My heart belongs to Lady Rurn
03:14I cannot let her be cast aside
03:18I beg you
03:21Allow me to wed them both
03:23Enough!
03:24Enough!
03:27The dragon marks on every prince in the room dimmed
03:30Instinct, failing to the source
03:31A minor lord's daughter
03:33Equal to the moon hollow saint
03:35Are you out of your mind?
03:37Rin's birth may be beneath Serevin's
03:40That's exactly why I must stand for her
03:42If I can't even protect the woman I love
03:45How can I protect an empire?
03:47Silence fell across the hall
03:48Then the murmurs began
03:49I thought Aldrich was merely unremarkable
03:52Turns out he's completely deluded
03:54He hasn't even heard Serevin's choice
03:57And he's already demanding two wives
03:59He's so certain she'll choose him no matter what
04:02That's why he dares ask for this
04:04Aldrich
04:05You're set on this?
04:07The girl
04:07Over everything else
04:09I beg you father
04:11Cashin studied him for a long moment
04:13Then looked towards Serevin
04:14Serevin stood at the edge of the hall
04:15Silent and unreadable
04:17At last
04:17Cashin waved his hand
04:19Enough!
04:20The wedding will take place in seven days
04:22Make your preparations
04:24Aldrich's face lit up
04:25He rushed to Rin and seized her hands
04:27Seven days Wern
04:28He's letting me have you both
04:31But you're the only one I want
04:35Wern's tears spilled over
04:36Clutching his fingers
04:37Then spotted me walking past
04:39And shrank back
04:40Dipping into a hasty curtsy
04:41Aldrich pulled her up
04:42Before she finished
04:43If you're upset
04:44Take it out on me
04:46Not Rin
04:47She bruises easily
04:48He tapped a strand of hair
04:50Behind Wern's ear
04:51Right in front of me
04:52After the wedding
04:53She'll be your equal in every way
04:55So she won't be bowing to you anymore
04:57Your highness
04:58As long as I can be with you
04:59I'm willing to accept a lesser rank
05:01Please don't quarrel with the saint over me
05:05When you take the throne
05:06You'll need Moon Hollow's loyalty
05:09You must consider their feelings
05:11Foolish girl
05:13The dragon crown was always mine
05:16Once I'm emperor
05:17Moon Hollow will bow with everyone else
05:21Serevin's feelings are irrelevant
05:22Behave after the wedding
05:24And I may still give you a child
05:26To keep you occupied
05:27Displease me
05:28And even that mercy is gone
05:30Last life
05:31Wern slept from a bridge
05:33On the castle grounds
05:34The guards pulled her out
05:35But years of bitterness
05:36Had already hollowed her
05:37From the inside
05:37She wasted away
05:38Within a few seasons
05:39Aldrich pinned it on me anyway
05:41The bridge was steps from your chambers
05:43You heard her fall
05:45And you chose to let her drown
05:47The cold finished what your jealousy started
05:50He used Wern's death to justify everything
05:52When I still gave him no response
05:54His gaze followed mine across the hall
05:55Soren stood beneath the northern banners
05:57Alone as always
05:58You're about to become my wife
06:00Have some shame and stop staring at other men
06:02Especially him
06:04He may have a prince's name
06:05But he was born without a dragon mark
06:08He killed his mother coming into this world
06:10And every flame he touches turns to ash
06:14He isn't a dragon, Cerevian
06:16He's a snake wearing royal blood
06:18Stay away from him
06:19I won't have you bringing his bad luck
06:21Into our marriage
06:24Soren, seven days
06:25I'll be waiting for you
06:26You won't stand me up, will you?
06:28Something shifted behind his gaze
06:29Then his face hardened
06:32Whatever game you're playing with, Aldrich
06:34Leave me out of it
06:35I'm not playing a game
06:36You spent years chasing him
06:39I have no interest in becoming the weapon you used to punish another man
06:44Good
06:44Because I don't need a weapon
06:48I need a husband
06:50I'm marrying you, Soren
06:51I won't regret it
06:53And whether you agree or not
06:55You'll be standing beside me in seven days
06:59You have no idea what you're choosing
07:00Then come to the wedding and prove me wrong
07:03Soren stared at me for a long moment
07:05Then he left without another word
07:06Watching his broad back disappear through the doors
07:09I felt something I hadn't felt in two lifetimes
07:11Safe
07:12Last life
07:12He had ridden back from the borderlands alone
07:14I lay sealed inside that coffin
07:16Fading in the dark
07:17Then I heard it
07:18Steel on steel
07:19Keep fighting through Aldrich's guards
07:20Screaming my name and tearing at the coffin with his bare hands
07:24Servant!
07:25Aldrich gave you order
07:27A hundred arrows
07:27Soren's blood seeped through the cracks and fell across my face
07:31Across my heart
07:32Only then did I understand the love he had carried in silence for years
07:35Aldrich caught my wrist and dragged me around
07:37What is so-one's getting married?
07:39What does Soren's attendance Frebbins matter?
07:42A useless thing like him belongs at the border
07:44Bleeding in some frozen ditch where no one has to look at him
07:48What happened?
07:49Did that face turn your head?
07:51Listen carefully, Seravi
07:53I don't love you
07:54I never will
07:55But you are still going to be my wife
07:59So behave like one
08:01You don't get to humiliate me
08:03By panting after another man
08:05In front of the entire court
08:09Ren's eyes flicked between us
08:10She stepped closer to Aldrich
08:12Your highness, please don't misunderstand
08:14Soren is handsome
08:15Perhaps the saint simply forgot herself for a moment
08:18Forgot?
08:20She's about to become my wife
08:21She'd better remember where she belongs
08:25All I did was greet an old friend
08:26You were throwing yourself at another woman's fiancée
08:29Before the rite was even over
08:30So shut your mouth, Wynne
08:33You!
08:34Aldrich pulled her against him
08:35I turned and walked away
08:36Back in my chambers
08:37Aldrich was everywhere
08:38A fire rose he'd given me when we first met
08:40Was still pressed inside an old spellbook
08:42I had kept it for years
08:44Now it only looked like blood
08:45I ordered the servants to clear out everything he had ever given me
08:48What could burn went into the fire
08:49What couldn't?
08:50I smashed
08:51By dawn, the room was empty
08:53The moonfall had taken more from me than I thought
08:55My moon marks had faded
08:56And my magic barely answered
08:58When I woke, three days had passed
09:00My lady, you're finally awake
09:01Briar nearly dropped the tea tray
09:04What happened at the rite?
09:06Everyone says Aldrich is marrying both you and Wynne
09:08Same rank
09:09No difference
09:10You missed everything
09:11Aldrich had an entire wing redone for Wynne
09:13He even took a moonshed chandelier from the royal vaults for her bedroom
09:16She doesn't like sweet wine
09:18So he performed the whole estate
09:19I smiled at Briar
09:20How are you smiling?
09:22If you marry him, you'll disappear in that house
09:24She's already acting like its mistress
09:27Relax Briar, I'm not marrying him
09:29Then Aldrich walked through the door
09:31He heard every word
09:34Aldrich froze
09:35Then a slow, contemptuous smile pulled at his mouth
09:37If you truly meant any of this, you would have gone to the emperor and publicly denied our marriage
09:42But you didn't
09:43You're angry because you can't stand watching me give Wynne the affection you've always begged for
09:48So now you're pretending not to want me, hoping I'll chase after you
09:54I came to inform you of something
09:56The Moon Hollow treasures you brought with you, I had the stewards move half of them to Wynne's chambers
10:01Don't make that face
10:03Wynne is marrying into the royal family with nothing while you have more wealth than you could spend in a
10:07lifetime
10:09Consider it your first gesture of goodwill towards her
10:12It will give her a wedding worthy of the court
10:13Those treasures were entrusted to me by Moon Huddam
10:16They belong to me, Aldrin
10:19Who gave you the right to hand them to someone else?
10:21If you care so much about Rurk, why not give her something from your own vault?
10:25Or does Prince Aldrich only know how to prove his love with another woman's treasures?
10:29Enough!
10:30I'm giving you a chance to show Wynne some goodwill
10:33In return, I'll spend the wedding night in your chambers
10:36But I promised Wynne I would never touch you
10:38Once midnight passes, I'll go to her
10:40Return everything you took, Aldrich
10:42I never agreed to marry you
10:46Uncertainty crossed his face
10:48Then his gaze landed on the enchanted fire rose lying on my desk
10:51Relief softened his expression
10:53You're angry, I understand
10:55But you still kept the first gift I ever gave you
10:58Don't pretend you've stopped loving me
11:00I walked to the desk and picked up the rose
11:03Its crimson petals still glowed faintly between my fingers
11:05I closed my fist
11:07Silver moonfire burst through the cracks between my fingers
11:10The rose shrieked, split apart, and burned down to black dust in my palm
11:13Serevan, what are you doing?
11:16So this is your latest performance
11:17Destroy every gift, if it helps you feel powerful
11:21You'll still be standing beside me at the altar, in seven days
11:24He turned and slammed the door behind him
11:28I stood alone in the empty room until my niece finally gave out
11:31The moon hollow treasures were gone
11:33My father had chosen every one of them for me
11:35And I had not been able to protect a single piece
11:37On the morning of the wedding, Briar dressed me before sunrise
11:40She placed the silver bridal crown of moon hollow into my hair
11:43By the time I stepped into the courtyard, the palace was already alive with bells, banners, and waiting nobles
11:48Aldric arrived on a white warhorse wreathing golden flame
11:51Dressed in gold, his dragon mark burning bright across his collarbone
11:54So much for marrying me
11:56Then he saw the moon hollow bridal crown woven into my hair, and the smile vanished
12:00That is not a consort's crown
12:01He dismounted and walked toward me
12:04Trying to remind Wynne that you outrank her
12:07Before the wedding has even begun
12:08He flicked two fingers toward the attendants
12:10Two attendants seized my arms
12:12You wanted my attention Serevan
12:14Now you have it
12:17Aldric grabbed the crown and ripped it from my hair
12:21Stop
12:23That was Soren's voice
12:24He stood at the edge of the courtyard in black ceremonial coat
12:27Looking exactly as the court had always seen him
12:30Cold, unwanted, out of place
12:32But he had come
12:32Soren caught Aldric's wrist, and forced his hand away from my hair
12:36Let her go
12:37Aldric tried to wrench free, but Soren shoved him back hard enough to send him stumbling across the stones
12:42He stepped closer and carefully set the moon hollow crown back into my hair
12:45Soren, you dare touch my bride
12:48She is not your bride
12:49I stepped out from behind Soren and took his hand
12:52The man I am marrying today is Soren
12:56No
12:58You chose him
12:59I chose him at the right
13:01I told you more than once that I was not marrying you
13:06I waited for him today
13:08And I will leave this courtyard as his wife
13:13Aldric's dragon mark flared
13:14Golden fire crawled across his collarbone as he turned on Soren
13:17A dragonless cripple the court had already cast aside
13:23Step away from her
13:24The flames behind him surged higher
13:26A golden dragon took shape in the heat
13:28Its wings spreading across the courtyard in a blaze of light
13:30The noble stumbled back as its shadow fell over the wedding stones
13:33Aldric lifted his chin
13:42Soren did not move
13:43He stood beneath the burning shape of Aldric's beast
13:45Silent and utterly unafraid
13:47Then he drew his sword
13:48Aldric's smile vanished
13:49You really do want to die
13:53Golden fire tore across the courtyard
13:55Soren stepped through it
13:56The flames scorched him
13:57But his blade struck Aldric's heart enough to force him back a full step
14:01He had no dragon flame
14:02But he had survived years of battles meant to kill him
14:04Every movement was fast, brutal, and precise
14:07Aldric's dragon roared overhead as golden fire crashed down around them
14:10Soren slipped beneath the flames
14:12Drove his shoulder into Aldric's chest
14:14And slammed him against the stone altar
14:16Aldric's face twisted with humiliation
14:18His dragon mark flared
14:19And golden fire exploded from his blade at point-blank range
14:22Throwing Soren across the stones
14:24Soren landed hard on one knee
14:25Grey veins spread beneath the skin of his throat
14:28Aldric advanced through the flames
14:29His dragon looming behind him
14:31Look behind me
14:32Where is yours, the dragon?
14:38You have no mark
14:39No flame
14:41No beast answering your blood
14:43So tell me, cripple
14:45What exactly do you have that could ever compare to me?
14:49Something dark flashed across Soren's face
14:51Spreading down beneath his collar as he forced himself upright
14:54Heat rolled from his body
14:55But it carried no flame
14:56Only ash
14:57Real pain broke through his cold expression
14:59His sword slipped lower
15:00I felt it then
15:01The same force that had answered my moon marks at the right
15:04Was roaring beneath Soren's skin
15:05Trapped behind layers of dead magic
15:07It was a cage
15:08Aldric brought his sword down
15:09I ran between them and caught Soren's hand
15:12Fire surged through our joined palms
15:15The grey veins flared white
15:17Soren arched with a sharp breath
15:18As cracks of light spread across the ash beneath his skin
15:21Burning fragments peeled away from his throat and chest
15:24Dissolving before they touched the ground
15:25The entire courtyard shook
15:27Golden dragon marks blazed across Soren's skin
15:29Brighter and deeper than Aldric's had ever been
15:31Every flame in the courtyard bent toward him
15:33Behind Soren, something vast opened its eyes
15:38Aldric's golden dragon faltered above the altar
15:40The dragon marks on the other princes dimmed
15:42Aldric's nearly went dark
15:43He stared at Soren, all color draining from his face
15:46A roar shook the courtyard
15:47The dragon crown tore free from the altar
15:49Black gold fire coiled around it as it rose above the wedding guests
15:52The pressure of its power swept across the stones
15:55Forcing nobles and princes alike to their knees
15:57Aldric braced himself against his sword
15:59Teeth clenched as his legs began to tremble
16:02He can't control it
16:03Look at him
16:04That thing has been buried inside him his entire life
16:08He is not an heir
16:09He is a threat
16:10The crown turned toward Soren
16:12Black gold fire rushed over him
16:14Swallowing him from sight
16:18I started toward him
16:20But heat rolled across the courtyard
16:21And drove everyone else back
16:23Inside the blaze
16:24Soren stood rigid
16:25The power was tearing him apart
16:26It wrapped around his arms
16:28Flood through the golden marks across his skin
16:30And sank into his body
16:31Soren stood at the center of the scorched courtyard
16:33Breathing hard but untouched
16:34I crossed the blackened stones and took his hand
16:37The moment our hands joined
16:38His dragon marks flared brighter
16:39Black gold light swept through his dark hair
16:42Leaving silver at the ends
16:43He looked taller
16:44Fiercer
16:44No longer like the forgotten prince the court had cast aside
16:47The ground trembled beneath us
16:49A vast dragon rose behind Soren
16:51No
16:52Aldric stumbled backward
16:54You don't have a dragon
16:55Soren looked at him
16:57Molten gold still burning in his eyes
16:58I do now
17:01The dragon crown descended and settled onto Soren's head
17:04The great beast behind him lowered its head
17:06And every flame in the palace bowed
17:08The courtyard erupted
17:19Emperor Kashin arrived as the nobles dropped to their knees
17:21He stopped at the edge of the scorched courtyard
17:23Staring at the sun he had allowed the empire to dismiss for years
17:28Soren ignored the kneeling court and tightened his hand around mine
17:31The ash inside me is gone
17:33Your moonfire broke the seal
17:35I looked at the golden marks burning across his skin
17:38Still hardly able to believe what I had awakened
17:42You were a dragon all along
17:46I spent years mistaking a sealed power for weakness
17:50I was wrong
17:51Soren removed the dragon crown and placed it beside him on the scorched stones
17:55Then, before the entire court, he went down on one knee
17:59You chose me when I had no mark, no flame
18:01And no reason to believe I could stand beside you
18:05Now I have everything they said I never would
18:07But I still need to hear your answer
18:09It's the ravity of Moon Hollow
18:11Will you marry me?
18:14I told you already
18:17You were going to marry me whether you agreed or not
18:19A rare smile touched Soren's mouth
18:21Then he bent his head and kissed me beneath the bowed wings of his dragon
18:26Kashin looked from the bowed dragon to the waiting wedding chariot
18:33Only when Soren helped me into the chariot did Aldric finally seem to understand that we were leaving
18:39He shoved through the attendants and caught the carriage curtain before it fell
18:42Get down
18:43You have made your point
18:45You humiliated me in front of the entire court
18:47And you proved that Soren was not as useless
18:51As everyone believed
18:53But this has gone far enough
18:55You loved me for years
18:57You cannot simply marry someone else because you are angry
19:00I am not angry, Aldrian
19:03Then what is this?
19:04You expect me to believe you suddenly love him?
19:09I chose him
19:10You chose me
19:11You were always supposed to choose
19:13I will forgive this
19:16I will let you keep the crown, the title, and your place beside me
19:19Wynne can have my affection
19:21But you will still be my wife
19:23You should be grateful I am still willing to take you after this humiliation
19:28Let her go
19:29Aldric looked at the golden dragon marks covering Soren's skin, and hatred twisted his face
19:33You think one awakened beast makes you worthy of her?
19:38No
19:39Her choice does
19:40Aldric stumbled into the attendants
19:42Something inside him broke
19:43Sir Raven come down
19:45You cannot do this to me
19:46I was meant to have the crown
19:48I was meant to have Moonholland
19:50You were meant to be mine
19:54The spectral stags began to move
19:56You will regret this
19:59Only after the doors of the bridal chamber closed behind us, Soren finally turned to face me
20:04Serevian, there is still time
20:08Time for what?
20:09To change your mind
20:10You chose a man everyone believed was cursed
20:13Then, within a single morning, that man became heir to the Empire
20:17I don't know whether you wanted Sorak
20:19Or what Sorak became today
20:24For years I looked past you
20:26Because I thought I already knew what I wanted
20:29We grew up in the same court
20:31But I never truly saw you
20:32That was my mistake
20:34Not this
20:36Soren
20:37I chose you before the crown did
20:40Before the dragon
20:42Before any of them knew what you were
20:44So don't ask whether I want the man or the power
20:47I chose you when everyone else still called you nothing
20:53My silver cornet slipped from my hair and fell onto the carpet
20:57Then stopped when he felt the tears on my face
21:00Did I hurt you?
21:02No
21:02I'm just afraid of losing you
21:04You won't lose me, I swear
21:07You said that as though you can command fate now
21:09I can command a dragon
21:14That night, Sorin held me like a man who had spent years wanting something he had never allowed himself to
21:19reach for
21:20By morning, pale light spilled across the bed
21:22Sorin was already awake beside me
21:24He reached toward the table beside the bed and picked up a small velvet box
21:28Oh my God
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