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00:00:30Every girl in the north dreams of her binding day. None of them dream of the cage.
00:00:35My people used to be the best dragon callers alive. We have not called one in a hundred years.
00:00:39A sky people with no dragons is just prey, so my father sells the only thing he has left. Me.
00:00:58Sky bound.
00:01:00I came for what is promised.
00:01:12You belong to me now.
00:01:21Get up and dress. The Blackclaw warlord rides for our gate at dusk, and you will be waiting at the
00:01:27binding altar to take him as your husband.
00:01:29A husband? You have kept me behind these walls my whole life. I have never even spoken to a man
00:01:33who is not my guard.
00:01:34You will speak to this one tonight, and bear his children after.
00:01:38Ravec of the Blackclaw. His dragons are the only thing between us and the Froskin. He wants you for them.
00:01:43So my blood buys your dragons, and you call it a treaty.
00:01:47I am trading one girl to keep ten thousand people alive. Say no. And the Blackclaw rides south, the Froskin
00:01:53come down off that ridge, and everyone in this keep is dead by spring.
00:01:56I am not the answer to your problems. Find another way.
00:02:00Then walk out that door and tell ten thousand people yourself!
00:02:03I will not be sold to a Blackclaw warlord to pay for your war. Find another way.
00:02:07Cassia, you will not shame me in front of the whole keep.
00:02:28So, this is the Dragonless Princess. They are selling me. They told me the North had nothing left worth taking.
00:02:35They were wrong.
00:02:36Let go of me. I have not been given to you yet.
00:02:39You were mine. The day your father ran out of options. Tonight is just the part with witnesses.
00:02:44Soft hand.
00:02:47A whole people who forgot how to hold their own beasts. No wonder the Froskin are sharpening their knives.
00:02:52We were calling dragons out of the sky while your horde was still eating its dead.
00:02:56Do not lecture me on what we lost.
00:02:58They told me you were timid. Timid does not survive my keep. Your wrist, little queen.
00:03:10What is this?
00:03:11My cuff and yours came out of the same iron. After tonight, there is no one making it.
00:03:16The North gave you away, little queen. I keep what the North gives.
00:03:21You are shaking. Good. A dragon can smell a coward. And a coward it will not carry. Be afraid, but
00:03:29do not be a coward.
00:03:30My hands shake because your hand is on me. Do not mistake it for anything you would want to feel.
00:03:35Give it time. You will stop hating me when you realize I am the only one keeping your people alive.
00:03:40You can lock iron on me, but you cannot make me want it.
00:03:58Every one of them lives or dies on what I say next.
00:04:01No one walks out of a door with all of that on the other side of it.
00:04:12I will take you. Not for my father. For her. And every one of them out there on the ice.
00:04:18You give your word standing up like an equal. On your knees. You will thank the warlord for saving this
00:04:25keep with your worthless hands.
00:04:30She kneels to me. Not for you. And not because you put her there.
00:04:38She is mine now, old man. Remember that the next time you raise your hand to her.
00:04:42They call him a monster. Right now he is the only wall between me and a war that eats children.
00:04:49And tonight I will not just touch you. I will ruin you. And you will ask me for more.
00:05:00They say the Blackcloth do not bed their brides. They break them. And his dragons sleep at the foot of
00:05:05bed and watch.
00:05:06Enough. She will be presentable. She will be obedient. And she will hold that alliance together.
00:05:14That is the end of it.
00:05:16Leave us. I will have a moment with my bride.
00:05:20Custom keeps the warlord and the bride apart until the altar.
00:05:23I do not ask twice. Tonight everyone will say I forced a scared girl into this.
00:05:29I want them to look at you and see something different.
00:05:32I want them to see you chose me. Not that your father sold you.
00:05:41It is too tight.
00:05:43It is meant to be uncomfortable. Every Blackclaw bride wears one so nobody asks who she belongs to.
00:05:49Only I take it off.
00:05:51Wear it to the altar. Let them all see it before you say my name.
00:05:55Yip!
00:06:03Youutvo!
00:06:13Every Black week started writing a lesson okay?
00:06:14It's the last one so no don't want to work.
00:06:17And it's quite as its remaining.
00:06:17Hope to go.
00:06:17Wait for the next one because...
00:06:17I will report you.
00:06:18We'll report you first.
00:06:18I let you go!
00:06:32you are bleeding
00:06:33froskin blood not mine
00:06:37their scout will not report what he saw
00:06:41what happens tonight is yours to give
00:06:43i do not take it
00:06:46do you take each other
00:06:47through war and peace until the end
00:06:51say the words loud enough for the whole north to hear
00:06:55by sky and by iron i bind my life to his
00:06:58whatever comes for him gets through me first
00:07:03our people do not deserve death i am doing this for her
00:07:07for all the innocents in the north i am not doing this for him
00:07:12then seal it
00:07:18no one has ever kissed you i can tell tonight gives me everything but i am taking this right now
00:07:24and
00:07:24in front of all of them
00:07:35i always believed our fathers would give you to me
00:07:38then a southern brute rides in and takes you in an afternoon
00:07:40let go of me
00:07:46a skybound altar makes a wife
00:07:48the black claw need more than words
00:07:52bring him in
00:07:57the proving
00:07:58he puts her in front of the dragon
00:08:00everyone watches to see if it bows or bites
00:08:02no one from the north has ever passed it
00:08:04it will not bow to a sky girl with no gift in her blood
00:08:07he is going to get her killed in front of her own mother
00:08:09do not pull back and do not look away
00:08:11it smells fear and it smells lies
00:08:14show it neither
00:08:16you will burn my arm off
00:08:18then we will both find out what you are made of
00:08:21the beast knows its queen
00:08:38let the north remember it
00:08:47i am a person rayvek
00:08:49not something you show off to your men
00:08:52you humiliated me out there
00:09:00hello little queen
00:09:06lothra you should not be in here
00:09:07skybound blood should stay with skybound blood
00:09:09our fathers meant you for me
00:09:11and one southern treaty does not unwrite it
00:09:13i am only here for what was promised first
00:09:15the binding is sealed lothra
00:09:17lay one finger on me
00:09:18and you are not insulting a girl
00:09:19insulting the whole black claw horde
00:09:21think hard about what that buys you
00:09:22he is drunk in the feast hall
00:09:24with black claw girls in his lap
00:09:26by the time he remembers he has a wife
00:09:28i will already have made you mine
00:09:30the warlord is in his cups
00:09:31and you are all alone girl
00:09:33one sound out of you
00:09:35and i will tell them you invited me in
00:09:38rayvek
00:09:40rayvek
00:09:41where is your frightened little northern bride
00:09:43she does not even want you
00:09:45come remind yourself
00:09:49what real women are
00:09:52i called for rayvek
00:09:53i do not even know why
00:09:55he is not my husband
00:09:56he is my warden
00:09:57but he is the only one i called
00:09:59in here
00:10:00no one will find us
00:10:02no
00:10:03rayvek
00:10:04rayvek
00:10:05rayvek
00:10:05help me
00:10:13rayvek
00:10:14please
00:10:16he is not coming for you
00:10:18you should thank me
00:10:20when i take you
00:10:22i will at least be gentle
00:10:24which is more than that animal
00:10:26would ever give you
00:10:31you think the warlord cares
00:10:33what becomes of you tonight
00:10:34he will never love a skybound girl
00:10:37he will feed you to his dragon for this
00:10:39my father commands the king's own guard
00:10:41no southern dog can touch me in this keep
00:10:44and no one is coming down that corridor
00:10:47for a skybound grind
00:10:51you little skybound bitch
00:11:10what is mine i keep
00:11:12what touches it i burn
00:11:22you put a hand
00:11:24on what belongs to a warlord
00:11:28did you think the dragons would not smell it on you
00:11:38you all came to watch a binding
00:11:41watch this
00:11:42instead look at her
00:11:44the north handed me their last real dragon caller
00:11:47from tonight she is one of mine
00:11:49we do not touch our own women like that
00:11:51we do not go after another man's wife
00:11:54and we do not lie to the man whose dragons are keeping your north standing
00:12:06what are you doing
00:12:10he reached for a warlord's wife
00:12:12he will carry the answer on his face
00:12:15where the whole north can read it
00:12:31what is mine i keep
00:12:34the whole north can watch what touching it costs
00:12:40that dragon keeps looking at me like it knows something i do not
00:12:43and honestly at this point
00:12:44so do i
00:12:49so this is where it happens
00:12:50get it over with
00:12:52look at the roost little queen
00:12:53that is where it happens
00:12:54not here
00:12:55a blacklaw wedding is not sealed in a bed
00:12:57it is sealed in fire
00:13:00at dawn everyone watches the warlord walk through his own dragon's breath
00:13:04if it is real
00:13:05the dragon holds
00:13:06if it is not
00:13:07he burns in front of everyone and she goes free
00:13:10you are going to walk in dragon fire to prove you own me
00:13:13i am going to walk into dragon fire to prove this is real
00:13:17what you do with that is up to you
00:13:19a whole dying kingdom
00:13:22and the only thing in it worth burning for is you
00:13:24do not say that
00:13:25you do not get to say that
00:13:27you bought me
00:13:28you may own this cluff on my wrist
00:13:30you will never own the rest of me
00:13:33i will not love you
00:13:38he's going to ravage me now
00:13:40i don't want to lose it like this
00:13:45i do not know what came over me
00:13:48i will take only what you give me tonight
00:13:50sleep little queen
00:13:51at dawn you watch what your husband walks into for you
00:13:56he's sparing my virginity
00:13:57for now
00:14:40judge me old friend
00:14:41the claim is true
00:14:43rayback
00:14:44rayback no
00:15:06you walked into it
00:15:08for me
00:15:09you would have burned to ash
00:15:11a binding is sealed
00:15:12the horde has seen it
00:15:13that is all that happened here
00:15:15now you come to me
00:15:17to my bed
00:15:17i will try to be patient
00:15:20i will not beg
00:15:21but i also will not love
00:15:38so he actually did it
00:15:40walked into the fire for you
00:15:44i honestly did not think you would
00:15:46not for some scared little northern girl
00:15:49i do not know you
00:15:50i do not know you
00:15:50give your name before you speak to me like i am livestock
00:15:57drusilla
00:15:59my father rides at the warlord's right hand
00:16:01the strongest warrior in this horde
00:16:03and before your father sold you north
00:16:05i was the one in ravage's bed
00:16:07so i know things about him that you do not
00:16:12you do not know how to keep a warlord little northern bird
00:16:15i had him before you wore that cuff
00:16:18and i will have him after
00:16:19ask anyone in this keep whose furs he slept in last winter
00:16:49first night here
00:16:50and my wife will not eat
00:16:52is this a northern thing
00:16:54or are you actually trying to starve yourself
00:16:57starving myself
00:17:00skybound children went hungry all winter so i could eat
00:17:03i do not waste food
00:17:07i do not even know what half of this is
00:17:09you have never put southern meat in your mouth
00:17:11my father never let his daughters pass the inner wall
00:17:16we ate what the kitchens cooked
00:17:17and the kitchens cook north
00:17:23open
00:17:25no wife of mine goes hungry at my own fire
00:17:32there
00:17:34the north did not crumble
00:17:37your color is up wife
00:17:38i am warm from the fire
00:17:39the fire is behind you
00:17:41i am the one in front
00:17:42i am the one in front
00:18:15we just got married and he is already doing this
00:18:18i knew it
00:18:19i knew exactly what he was
00:18:25kassia
00:18:25kassia
00:18:26stop
00:18:27not one more step
00:18:34sit
00:18:36run from her in tears
00:18:37and by morning the whole keep says the north broke in a week
00:18:57black claw law does not let a warlord settle a woman's war
00:19:01this is between the two of you wife
00:19:05settle it
00:19:07or sit there and watch it settle itself
00:19:09i warned you the first night little bird
00:19:14he needed a treaty
00:19:16not a wife
00:19:17you cannot even hold his eyes
00:19:19i have held the rest of him for years
00:19:21are you truly going to let her do this rayback
00:19:24she is in your seat little queen
00:19:26and weeping
00:19:28has never moved a black claw off anything
00:19:39watch northern girl
00:19:42this is how you hold a man like him
00:19:45he wants me to break and beg him to stop
00:19:47i will choke on my own tongue
00:19:49before i give that woman the satisfaction
00:19:52well wife
00:19:54the seat is still yours if you want it
00:20:14your beast is as ill-mannered as your bride
00:20:18raybeck
00:20:19call it off and let me finish what i came up up to do
00:20:23eyes on me cassia
00:20:25watch what you keep handing another woman
00:20:27because you are too proud to take it yourself
00:20:30enough games
00:20:33let me give him the rest
00:20:35where the little bird can watch
00:20:37and learn her place
00:20:40stop that is enough
00:20:42that is enough the seat is mine and so is the man
00:20:46move
00:20:48you heard the queen
00:20:50off
00:20:50i will say this once
00:20:53i am cassia revak's wife
00:20:55stay away from him
00:20:57or find out what happens to women who do not
00:21:01he does not want you
00:21:03he does not want you
00:21:04your own father sold you off like a lame mask no other man would take
00:21:21he keeps you because you tease and never give
00:21:24the day he tires of your weeping he throws you back over the wall to your dying little kingdom dragon
00:21:28or no dragon
00:21:29say one more word about my people and i will give you a matching mark on the other side
00:21:35your people are already dead little bird
00:21:38they simply have not
00:21:39lain down yet
00:21:41a dragonless treaty playing at warlord's wife
00:21:44he will tire of you
00:21:46and i will still be here
00:21:49and your north will still be ash
00:21:51under our boots
00:21:56you raised this hand at a black claw queen
00:21:58be glad i only gave it back to you
00:22:01he hit her for touching me not because she was embarrassing him
00:22:04for touching me
00:22:05i am still thinking about that
00:22:18the black claw do not kill women
00:22:20be glad
00:22:22get out of my keep
00:22:24and hope i forget your father's name by morning
00:22:35come to the war map then
00:22:37queen
00:22:38the whole horde should see where the queen stands
00:22:41have you lost your mind
00:22:43you let that woman pour at you while i sat caged behind your dragons
00:22:47and now you call me to your map as if nothing happened on it
00:22:50drusilla's father holds my eastern passes so i let her games go on too long
00:22:54today you ended them for me in front of the whole horde
00:22:57they saw their queen show her teeth
00:22:59i will not pretend i am sorry they did
00:23:01you needed her father's spears so i paid for them in shame in front of your whole horde
00:23:06you know nothing of what shame does to a northern woman
00:23:09i know it could fire where there were only tears
00:23:11an hour ago you could not hold my eyes
00:23:13now you have struck a warrior's daughter and bared your teeth at me on my own terrace
00:23:18i want you exactly this way in my bed
00:23:20you are exactly the monster they warned me about when i was little
00:23:30you want a dead bride say so a blade is faster than a slow death in this frozen pit
00:23:36as a thing you bought
00:23:37cassia put it down
00:23:39why she was right
00:23:41you do not care if i live or die here
00:23:43so i will spare us both the rest of it
00:23:50look at my side
00:23:53i walked through dragon fire to take you
00:23:56a man does not burn for a thing he regrets buying
00:23:59i walked into that beast fire in front of the whole horde
00:24:01so your people could sleep knowing the binding was true
00:24:04you think i burned for your father's alliance
00:24:07i burned for you
00:24:08give me the knife little queen
00:24:09i burned for you once
00:24:10i will walk back into that fire every dawn they ask
00:24:14before i let you do that to yourself
00:24:30do not touch me
00:24:33the binding fire is barely cold and you let that woman drape herself across your war terrace
00:24:38you bar your door to me every night
00:24:41tell me what a man owes a wife who bolts her door
00:24:44i do not want you bedding other women
00:24:47but you will not bed me
00:24:48i am a warlord little queen
00:24:50i fight all day
00:24:51at night i need a woman
00:24:52if that is not you it will be someone else
00:24:54then perhaps i will find some southern boy and let him have me where you can watch
00:24:58and we will see how the great warlord likes it
00:25:01i would feed him to my dragons one piece at a time
00:25:06and put the leash in your hand
00:25:12then do it rayvek
00:25:15take me now and be done
00:25:17so i can hate you honestly
00:25:19go on
00:25:20you will not get gentle from me
00:25:22gentlemen do not survive the frozen waste
00:25:24but i swore at the binding fire
00:25:26that you come to me on your own feet or not at all
00:25:28and my horde has watched me keep harder oaths than that
00:25:31though the horde will sing about your hand at that woman's mouth for a year
00:25:35keep the jealousy
00:25:36i do not want drusala
00:25:37then why parade her in front of me at all
00:25:39if you do not want her
00:25:41i told you i do not do love
00:25:43but i want you
00:25:44only you
00:25:45more than i know what to do with
00:25:46i told myself i would never feel anything for him
00:25:50i came all the way down here telling myself that
00:25:52i am such a liar
00:25:55all that fury at drusala
00:25:58and now you are breathing hard with my hands
00:26:01on you
00:26:02tell me to stop then
00:26:12no
00:26:12not on the same stones where she just stood
00:26:15i will not take a place that woman warmed an hour ago
00:26:23then i wait
00:26:25i told you i could be patient
00:26:27you will learn how patient a warlord can be
00:26:29when he has decided a thing is his
00:26:40that beast has never bowed its head to anyone but me
00:26:43three times now it has left my side to come to you
00:26:46lift your hand cassia
00:26:47slow
00:26:49let me see what the north forgot how to do
00:27:08giant stone what is that
00:27:10get it off the bed
00:27:11a hatchling
00:27:13born on my roost three nights ago
00:27:16same night that big one came to you
00:27:18i want to see something do not move
00:27:22it hates me
00:27:23take it back to its roost before it bites one of us
00:27:25baby this young does not trust anyone except
00:27:27who hatched it
00:27:30not even me
00:27:33hold still
00:27:34open your hand
00:27:35do not reach
00:27:36let it come to you
00:27:49it stopped
00:27:51why did it stop
00:27:53a hundred years the north has not called a beast
00:27:55and a three night wilt crawls into her hand like she hatched it herself
00:27:59the skybound never lost the blood
00:28:01they lost the teachers
00:28:02and no one alive has thought to teach her but me
00:28:06keep it then
00:28:07it shows
00:28:08feed it raw meat
00:28:09and keep it off my firks
00:28:20my wife at the hearth
00:28:22i did not take you for a woman who knew which end of a fire to stand at little queen
00:28:26council so early
00:28:28the bread is not even out of the oven
00:28:29i do not eat in the morning
00:28:31i have a council on the terrace
00:28:32go to the markets
00:28:34buy whatever northern women buy
00:28:37you think a string of beads is the whole of what a woman wants
00:28:52council waits
00:28:53keep the keep standing until i am back wife
00:29:23this i baked with my own hands husband
00:29:25and i am not carrying it back down those stairs
00:29:29eat
00:29:31captains
00:29:33i would have the warlock alone
00:29:35my lord
00:29:35we were mapping the frostkin raids on the northern passes
00:29:38this is no audience for a southern feast
00:29:39and a bride playing serving girl
00:29:41the frostkin take the passes
00:29:43because the north has no dragons to hold them
00:29:46i was born in that north captain
00:29:48you map my home
00:29:49i will stand here while you do it
00:29:52five blades drawn
00:29:53and a roost full of dragons
00:29:55her hand did not shake once
00:30:09you broke a council of war
00:30:12little queen
00:30:13how will you make it worth the captains
00:30:15i just sent away hungry
00:30:19there is something i want
00:30:21i do not quite know how to ask a warlord for it
00:30:23no honey and no games
00:30:25ask it straight and i will answer it straight
00:30:28the passes your captains were mapping
00:30:32brira is still behind them
00:30:33she is 17 and i left her there
00:30:35fly me north one day
00:30:37long enough to put this in her hands and see that she is safe
00:30:40is that all
00:30:42no
00:30:42you cannot cage me in the south forever
00:30:44she is 17
00:30:45she is my sister
00:30:46she is the only thing back there i still care about
00:30:49you came south so your people would not die
00:30:51i've heard nothing of your family
00:30:53your sister
00:30:54the passes are burning
00:30:55and i am not flying my wife into a frostkin war for a wooden bird
00:31:23you are real
00:31:27you are actually standing in my room
00:31:29how are you here
00:31:30i thought i would not see you again before midwinter if ever
00:31:35how did you cross the whole north to the south in a single day
00:31:40i said i would not take you into danger
00:31:42i never said i would not bring her to you
00:31:44i sent someone at dawn before you even showed up with that bread
00:31:48you flew through burning passes
00:31:50to pull a skybound girl out of a war
00:31:54why would the monster of the south do that
00:31:59that is what husbands do
00:32:00and soon you will do what wives do
00:32:10he sent a dragon to bring my sister here before i even ask
00:32:14he is never going to admit what that means
00:32:19neither am i
00:32:20not yet
00:32:22now one night
00:32:23tell me everything about the south he says i cannot see
00:32:35you are out of the passes and you are safe
00:32:38ask me for anything you want
00:32:39the warlord all but owns the south
00:32:41the night market under the black moon
00:32:43the one the warlord's people throw past the walls
00:32:46with the fire dancers
00:32:47and the caged sky plane hatchlings
00:32:49i want to dance
00:32:51no
00:32:51i am not allowed past the keep without rave
00:32:54not among strange southern men
00:32:58you said whatever i want
00:33:00i am going
00:33:01if you are too frightened of your husband's sister
00:33:03that is your trouble
00:33:04coming or not
00:33:13he said not past the keep
00:33:14he did not say anything about the street right outside the keep
00:33:17technically
00:33:24shall i hold them back my lord
00:33:25no
00:33:27follow
00:33:28keep your distance
00:33:29wren
00:33:29tobin on my wife the whole night
00:33:31one southern hand on her
00:33:32you take the hand
00:33:50sky and stone look at all of it
00:33:55dance with me sister
00:34:02wren
00:34:02hand off me
00:34:03we are dancing
00:34:04nothing more
00:34:05the warlord does not know his wife is past the walls
00:34:08i have to send word up
00:34:12want it back
00:34:13you will have to reach down a married woman's dress for it
00:34:18we both know what ravek does to men who put a hand where it does not belong
00:34:29for about five minutes i completely forgot i was sold to a warlord
00:34:32it was the best five minutes i have had in weeks
00:34:44it was the best five minutes i have had in weeks
00:35:09my wife
00:35:09my wife
00:35:10dancing among strange men under a black moon
00:35:12you have been a bold little queen tonight
00:35:14brea wanted the fire dancers
00:35:16i was not gonna send a girl of seventeen into a horde market alone
00:35:19i know
00:35:20i have had eyes on you both since the first drum
00:35:24half the market watched my wife dance tonight
00:35:26and not one of them will ever know what that costs to touch
00:35:29dance with me
00:35:33warlords do not dance
00:35:34you try and bed me but you won't try and dance with me
00:35:37one dance ravek
00:35:38please
00:35:39please
00:37:57I should not.
00:37:58My husband is somewhere about.
00:38:00One second I want him gone, and the next I am looking for him in a crowd.
00:38:04I need to pick one.
00:38:10One cup, it cannot hurt.
00:38:12Let me only tell my sister where I am.
00:38:14Of course.
00:38:15Tell her you are in good hands.
00:38:17My sworn brother casts me out, then leaves his sweet northern wife unguarded at his own market.
00:38:22By dawn, she will not even remember my face.
00:38:39Drink up, Cassia.
00:39:06Off her.
00:39:09Now, I let you keep breathing.
00:39:11When the Horde dragged you out of this keep, you crawl back and touch what is mine.
00:39:17Brother, I did not know she was yours.
00:39:20She looked like any other girl at the market.
00:39:22I swear it.
00:39:24My guards are poisoned, and my wife can barely stand up.
00:39:27You knew exactly who she was.
00:39:29You picked her.
00:39:31Stay with her.
00:39:33When this starts, turn her face away.
00:39:37What did he give her?
00:39:38Something he is going to tell me right now.
00:39:58Not this one.
00:40:00You do not need to see this.
00:40:02Close your eyes.
00:40:04The powder.
00:40:05What was in the cup.
00:40:07Dreamleaf.
00:40:07Just under a killing dose.
00:40:09She wakes by morning and remembers nothing.
00:40:12I was only going to take her for a few hours.
00:40:14He drugged my wife to take her.
00:40:17You all heard him say it.
00:40:21You poured it yourself.
00:40:24You held her up while you waited for it to work.
00:40:27We swore the shield oath, Ravek.
00:40:29My shield over your back, yours over mine.
00:40:31You do not kill your sworn brother.
00:40:33You broke the oath when you touched what is mine.
00:40:36Iron holds.
00:40:37Fire proves.
00:40:38The Horde remembers.
00:40:57There was a man.
00:40:59A cup of spiced wine.
00:41:02I told him my husband was somewhere about, and then the floor came up at me.
00:41:06He is dealt with.
00:41:07He will not bother you again.
00:41:09Ever.
00:41:10You left me at that stall.
00:41:12You told me some drunk would put his hands on me, and I should not come crying to you.
00:41:16I did.
00:41:17I rode off and left my gate open for the one man down here who hates me most.
00:41:22That is my fault.
00:41:24Not yours.
00:41:25Who was he to you?
00:41:27You said his name like it cost you something.
00:41:30My sworn brother, once.
00:41:33I exiled him years ago for what he did to women in my villages.
00:41:36I should have killed him then.
00:41:38The shield oath talked me out of it.
00:41:41You paid for that mercy tonight.
00:41:44Drink.
00:41:44Slow.
00:41:45I am not leaving this room tonight.
00:41:47You are gentler with me half as asleep than you ever let the Horde see.
00:41:50Tell one of them that, and I will deny it to your face.
00:42:01Your people never taught you because they forgot how themselves.
00:42:04So I am teaching you on mine.
00:42:07Put your hand out.
00:42:25It wants nothing to do with me.
00:42:27Nothing down here does.
00:42:29It can smell that you are scared.
00:42:31A sky fang will not bow to something that is afraid of it.
00:42:35Stop asking for its permission.
00:42:38You have ridden them since before you could walk.
00:42:41I have a week of being laughed at by your warriors.
00:42:44Then give them something else to talk about.
00:42:49Do not reach for it.
00:42:50Let it come to you.
00:42:51Find what the two of you have in common and hold on to that.
00:43:00I feel heat.
00:43:02A heartbeat.
00:43:03Follow it.
00:43:04Push into it.
00:43:14This one already chose you once.
00:43:16In front of everyone.
00:43:17Start with the easy one.
00:43:25It came to me.
00:43:26I did not pull it.
00:43:28It just came.
00:43:30It is not a leash.
00:43:31It is not a spur.
00:43:33It is a line between you.
00:43:35Pull too hard and it breaks.
00:43:37Hold it.
00:43:37And it holds you back.
00:43:40My whole life the elders told me our blood went cold.
00:43:43That the dragons closed the door on us and were never coming back.
00:43:46So why is it opening for me here?
00:43:48On your dragons?
00:43:49Your blood never went cold.
00:43:51Your people just lost the ones who knew how to teach it.
00:43:54A gift no one uses goes to sleep.
00:43:56I am waking it up.
00:43:58A hundred years of my people dying.
00:44:01Just because no one taught them.
00:44:03A hundred years your kings married for armies.
00:44:05When they should have been marrying for dragon callers.
00:44:12Yours finally did.
00:44:14Even if he did not know it.
00:44:22No hand on yours today.
00:44:24Just you and it.
00:44:25Hold the thread and do not let it pull you off it.
00:44:31I am not asking.
00:44:33I am the one voice you have not listened to yet.
00:44:35Come hear me out.
00:44:51A hundred years in the north raised no one who could do that.
00:44:54I bought you for a deal I had no idea I was getting the last caller alive.
00:44:58You did not buy this.
00:44:59You taught it.
00:45:01Those are different things.
00:45:02I am not letting you forget that.
00:45:12My father's banner is coming home and I am leading it.
00:45:16Three winters is a long time for a woman to sleep alone.
00:45:20Your father's banner is welcome under my roof.
00:45:22Stand.
00:45:28So this is the northern bride.
00:45:30They say she showed up not knowing how to dress herself.
00:45:33And that she cannot walk past a sky fawn without holding someone's hand.
00:45:37People say a lot of things in this keep.
00:45:38Most of them are already out of date.
00:45:47He turns away the second the border needs him.
00:45:50He'll keep doing that.
00:45:51Let me show you around while he is busy.
00:45:54The hot springs at dusk.
00:45:56Just us women.
00:45:58At dusk then.
00:45:59I can find it on my own.
00:46:03Come alone.
00:46:04The springs are no place for guards.
00:46:25Come in, little queen.
00:46:27Let us all get a look at what the warlord traded a whole kingdom for.
00:46:30I came for a bath, not a show.
00:46:32Move over or get out.
00:46:36Lay a hand on me and he takes it.
00:46:37You saw what he did to his own sworn brother on the das.
00:46:40His sworn brother touched something he wanted for himself.
00:46:43That is different.
00:46:44Ravek is at his war table and he cannot hear you.
00:46:47This water is for black claw women.
00:46:48And a treaty in a dress is not one of us.
00:46:51Take it off her!
00:47:00He will know about this before you even get back down there.
00:47:03Tell him!
00:47:04Tell him his little northern treaty stood naked on the rocks
00:47:07and could not call a single bird to help her!
00:47:21Who's hands?
00:47:25Ravek, it was just women being women.
00:47:28I was in your furs for three winters.
00:47:30She has not been there a single night and everyone knows it!
00:47:33The whole keep watched my fire.
00:47:35Skyfin bowed to her this morning.
00:47:39And you, strip the last dragoncaller alive on a rock for fun.
00:47:43I am a war captain's daughter!
00:47:45You cannot cast me out over a treaty bribe!
00:47:49You put hands on my queen in front of half the horde.
00:47:51The horde remembers.
00:47:52Your father stays.
00:47:54You leave at first light and you do not come back.
00:47:57If I see your face here again, my dragons will not wait for permission.
00:48:17Out there she said I was a treaty in a borrowed gown.
00:48:23For a moment on those rocks I believed her.
00:48:25She said it because it is the cruelest thing she could reach for, not because it is true.
00:48:30Then tell me a true thing.
00:48:32You have bled for me, killed for me, walked into your own dragon's fire for me,
00:48:36and I still do not know the man who did it!
00:48:38My father's own captain put hands on my mother in front of the whole hall,
00:48:42so I opened his throat at the high table.
00:48:44I was still a boy.
00:48:51He laughed when I drew the knife.
00:48:53The horde follows what it fears.
00:48:55I learned that before I learned to shave.
00:48:57Everyone who has ever gotten close to me wanted something from me.
00:49:00The dragons, the land, or me dead.
00:49:02So I stopped letting people close.
00:49:04It was easier.
00:49:05I came here with nothing.
00:49:06No dragon, no army, nothing at all.
00:49:09I came because I had no other choice.
00:49:12And somewhere in the middle of it, I stopped just getting through each day.
00:49:15That is the first time anyone has put a hand on that mark and not pulled it back.
00:49:25At dawn after the binding,
00:49:27I walked into my own dragon's fire to seal the claim
00:49:30and came out burned down my whole left side.
00:49:33I swore in that fire,
00:49:35I would not take you until you came to me wanting it.
00:49:38And the horde let a warlord wait.
00:49:40They watched my dragon bow past me to you instead.
00:49:43They have been afraid of my wife ever since.
00:49:46So am I a little.
00:49:48Afraid of what?
00:49:49I have nowhere in the wide world
00:49:51but the keep of the man who bought me.
00:49:54Afraid I signed a deal
00:49:55and ended up with someone I would burn everything down for.
00:49:59That was not the plan.
00:50:01I do not like wanting things I cannot control.
00:50:03Then stop trying to rule it.
00:50:05You have bled for me.
00:50:08Put your cloak on me.
00:50:10And waited at a fire that no one else in your horde would.
00:50:13You have done everything.
00:50:15Except the one thing you keep saying no to.
00:50:18Say it plain.
00:50:19I am done guessing at what you want.
00:50:42I am done guessing at what you want.
00:50:51I am done guessing at what you want.
00:50:51Just this.
00:50:52I have been turning away from you for months.
00:50:54I am done with that.
00:50:56Do not make me ask twice.
00:50:57Ask me then.
00:50:59Out loud.
00:50:59I want to hear you actually say it.
00:51:01Please.
00:51:03I want you.
00:51:04All of you.
00:51:05Not just the warlord.
00:51:06Now.
00:51:21Say it.
00:51:22The thing you will not say in your home.
00:51:24Mine.
00:51:25Mine.
00:51:26Not the treaties.
00:51:27Not the Norths.
00:51:28Mine.
00:51:28No.
00:51:35Your sister carved this.
00:51:36Bria.
00:51:37The morning my father sold me.
00:51:40so the sky would know where I was wherever you took me.
00:51:45She said a skybound girl should never be somewhere a bird cannot find her.
00:51:49She was right.
00:51:52By summer, every sky thing alive will know exactly where you are.
00:51:56A few weeks ago, a man like you would have frightened me out of my skin.
00:52:01Now I cannot find the part of me that was afraid.
00:52:26What is it?
00:52:28Just say it. Stop trying to protect me from it.
00:52:31Frostkin banners on the northern passes.
00:52:34Boren, coming straight for the border.
00:52:36He thinks the north has no dragons and that I have gone soft.
00:52:40Is he wrong about the second part?
00:52:43He is wrong about what it makes me.
00:52:48Get up, little queen.
00:52:50It is time everyone met you before Boren does.
00:52:53What do you K Sweep?
00:52:58Let's go!
00:53:07Let's do it.
00:53:08Let's do it.
00:53:12Let's do it.
00:53:16Let's do it.
00:53:35No chain, no caller.
00:53:38Bring it down and no one on this wall will ever call you dragonless again.
00:53:52I am the last of the North that can hear you.
00:53:55Come down.
00:54:10Every dragon on this roof knows her now.
00:54:12The whole horde can see it.
00:54:30The North finally sent me something worth riding for.
00:54:43Boren crossed the Gree Pass at dawn.
00:54:45Three hundred lances, two frost sky widths.
00:54:47He is moving for the Neck.
00:54:49He wants the Neck before the Thor.
00:54:51If he takes it, the whole North ride's divided and he can pick us apart.
00:54:56I ride, you stay.
00:54:58And Boren, he will take the Neck and then he will ride south for you.
00:55:02While I am out there, you run the keep.
00:55:04You do not cross the outer wall.
00:55:06The dragons will know.
00:55:08If Boren takes you, I will not stop until there is nothing left of him.
00:55:13You do not want to see what that looks like.
00:55:18Do not push the dragons.
00:55:20They will come to you, but they cannot carry you yet.
00:55:49He told you to stay.
00:55:54He told the Cuff to hold me.
00:55:59I am not testing them.
00:56:02I am asking.
00:56:04What are you doing?
00:56:06He said the harness is not a chain.
00:56:09A real caller does not tell the dragon to obey.
00:56:11She asks it to choose.
00:56:19There are two of them out there now.
00:56:21I know.
00:56:40Open the gate.
00:56:41The warlord's order, my lady.
00:56:43The inner face...
00:56:44The warlord's order was for the Cuff.
00:56:46He did not give an order.
00:57:02He is going to be furious.
00:57:04He is going to be alive for it.
00:57:07That is what matters.
00:57:08Last time I crossed a gate without his permission,
00:57:11he took my horse.
00:57:12He will not take yours.
00:57:14How do you know?
00:57:15Because you are doing this for me.
00:57:17He will know that.
00:57:25There are froskin scouts in these hills.
00:57:28Revak's outriders cleared them two days ago,
00:57:31but Boring will have sent more.
00:57:32He knows we left the keep.
00:57:34Somebody at that gate will send a bird.
00:57:36Then we ride faster than the bird.
00:57:43It is not flying.
00:57:47It is circling.
00:57:49Is that bad?
00:57:51It circles when it is watching something it cannot reach yet.
00:58:01Something on the left ridge.
00:58:03I do not see.
00:58:05I do not see.
00:58:26The warlord of the Black Clow is two hours north of here running our false trail.
00:58:30He is very fast and he is going the wrong direction.
00:58:33Lay down.
00:58:33Tell Boren he sent a captain to take a princess and he should have sent a warlord.
00:58:39We have two frost sky fangs in these hills, cold and loaded.
00:58:44Call yours off or we loose them.
00:58:57Not today.
00:58:58I am sorry.
00:59:20Brennan and Tobin were two hours behind us.
00:59:22They will have found the gate guards.
00:59:23They will go north and find Revak before they come south for me.
00:59:26That was the plan.
00:59:28That was always the plan.
00:59:30I am not bait by accident.
00:59:33Revak cannot reach Boren without riding into those dragons.
00:59:36Boren needs leverage to hold him back.
00:59:38I am the leverage.
00:59:40While he has me, Ravak has to stop.
00:59:45You walked out of the keep to get captured.
00:59:48I walked out because he rode into a trap.
00:59:52Boren's fake trail.
00:59:53The move at the neck, all of it was to pull him forward.
00:59:56If I stay in the keep, he charges through and dies.
00:59:59If I am here, he stops.
01:00:02I need him to think.
01:00:12I have heard two things about the new Black Clo wife.
01:00:15That she is very beautiful, and that no Skybound has called a dragon in a hundred years.
01:00:20I see both are true.
01:00:21The second one will not be true much longer.
01:00:24The Warlord tell you that?
01:00:25The Warlord showed me.
01:00:28Ravak teaches his wife party tricks the way you teach a child.
01:00:31The calling is not a trick.
01:00:33A real caller is born that way, and the North has not had one in a hundred years.
01:00:37You are a princess from a dying line in a dying kingdom, and your husband knows it.
01:00:43He bought you to stop the Skybound from hitting his border.
01:00:46That is it.
01:00:47Then why are you using me to stop him?
01:00:49A man who bought his wife just to hold a border does not ride two days ahead of his whole
01:00:54army when she goes missing.
01:00:55You know exactly what he is coming to do.
01:00:58You need me between you and him.
01:01:01Send him a message.
01:01:03He pulls back to his border, he ends the Skybound Alliance, and you go home.
01:01:08Everyone walks away.
01:01:09And if I say no...
01:01:18Then I send him a different kind of message.
01:01:29Gateguard at the keep says she walked out four hours before we turn back.
01:01:33The Skyfling went with her.
01:01:34She was not taken, Lord.
01:01:36She walked through that gate by choice.
01:01:38I know.
01:01:40Then why?
01:01:41Because she knew Boren's fake trail would pull me north before I realized she was gone.
01:01:47She knew I would be two hours past her before I turned around.
01:01:51She did this so I would stop.
01:01:52My wife walked out of the keep and let herself get taken so I would not ride into those dragons
01:01:56without a plan.
01:01:57Is that good or bad, Lord?
01:02:01It is exactly what I would have done.
01:02:03Now we do what I do next.
01:02:16He is there.
01:02:20You see him?
01:02:22I see him.
01:02:24Lord Boren is about to talk to him.
01:02:26You stand here where he can see you and hear the terms.
01:02:36Ravek of the Black Claw!
01:02:38I have your wife.
01:02:40And I have two Frost Scythanes loaded and waiting.
01:02:43You have until the sun clears the ridge.
01:02:45To send your horde back and give me the neck.
01:02:48Or I send back pieces.
01:02:50Do not.
01:02:51He will ride up that hill within both those dragons and he will not stop.
01:02:56That is the point.
01:02:58I need to know if he still will.
01:03:00I will.
01:03:13Far enough!
01:03:15You see her?
01:03:17I see her.
01:03:18Then you know what this costs you.
01:03:21Dissolve the Skybound Alliance and pull back to your border.
01:03:24You have until midday.
01:03:26You brought two Frost Skyfangs into my passes, blocked my road, and took my wife.
01:03:32Midday is generous.
01:03:33Midday.
01:03:35Or I take the hand she let you hold.
01:03:59He is going to ride that camp apart.
01:04:02Not until he has a way through the Frost Skyfangs.
01:04:05He will wait for one.
01:04:07And if no way comes?
01:04:10Then I make one.
01:04:25Cassia!
01:04:25Be quiet.
01:04:39The Frost Skyfangs are chained on the East Ledge.
01:04:42Two callers inside the upper camp.
01:04:44If you breach the gate, the callers loose.
01:04:47The dragons before you are through it.
01:04:49Take the callers first and the Frost Skyflings go wild inside a camp full of our people.
01:04:54We do not breach the gate.
01:04:56We make Borin open it.
01:04:59Twelve riders.
01:05:00Ravine behind the East Ledge.
01:05:02Wait until dark.
01:05:03Nobody makes a sound until I am inside.
01:05:05How do you get inside, Lord?
01:05:07He will not open that gate unless you give him what he wants.
01:05:10He will open it to watch me kneel.
01:05:17Lord, if it goes wrong in there...
01:05:19It will not go wrong.
01:05:20Pick your twelve.
01:05:40Weapons.
01:05:43Lord Borin will have the Warlord's word spoken aloud in front of his captains.
01:05:46It's not written, spoken.
01:05:48Take me to him.
01:06:05He is counting the chains.
01:06:23Say it out loud.
01:06:25The Black Claw ends its deal with the Skybound.
01:06:29Pulls back south of the Gripas and gives me the neck.
01:06:33Say it!
01:06:34Do you know what the binding cost me?
01:06:36A burn across your ribs.
01:06:38I heard.
01:06:39I walked into that fire not knowing if my dragon would hold.
01:06:42I have been in plenty of battles.
01:06:44I always knew the odds going in.
01:06:46That fire, I had nothing.
01:06:48It is the only time I have ever been actually scared.
01:06:58I will not say those words.
01:07:03Get to the ledge!
01:07:23Run!
01:07:25Not.
01:07:25Yet.
01:07:42Whatever comes out of that tent...
01:07:44Stay behind me.
01:08:08Why are you out of this?
01:08:16Cassia, the Caller is still.
01:08:18I know.
01:08:19He is not the only voice you know.
01:08:22I am here!
01:08:23Leave him!
01:08:25Come to me!
01:08:27Don't listen to her!
01:08:37No!
01:08:40Come back!
01:09:01That is not possible.
01:09:03Those dragons belong to a caller.
01:09:05They cannot just...
01:09:06They could not before.
01:09:07Things change.
01:09:08I knew she could do it.
01:09:20You were going to kneel for him.
01:09:23I was going to say the words and then tear the camp apart once you were clear.
01:09:28The kneeling was just to get the gate open.
01:09:31You told him the fire was the only thing that frightened you.
01:09:35I lied.
01:09:36You scared me.
01:09:37Every day since the temple, I could walk into that fire again.
01:09:40I could not lose you.
01:09:41Say the rest of it.
01:09:42I love you.
01:09:43I have loved you since you put your bare hand on that dragon and did not pull back.
01:09:47Tell me you heard that.
01:09:48I heard you!
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