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Epic fantasy romance meets arranged marriage! In "Sold to the Warlord Born for the Sky", a brave northern princess marries a fierce dragon-riding warlord to save her dying kingdom. Can this unexpected union turn into true love and redemption? 🐉
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Epic fantasy romance meets arranged marriage! In "Sold to the Warlord Born for the Sky", a brave northern princess marries a fierce dragon-riding warlord to save her dying kingdom. Can this unexpected union turn into true love and redemption? 🐉
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Royalty/Nobility, Dragon, Love After Marriage, Possessive, Redemption
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00:05They say the Blackclough do not bed their brides, they break them
00:08And his dragons sleep at the foot of bed and watch
00:10Enough, she will be presentable, she will be obedient
00:14And she will hold that alliance together
00:18That is the end of it
00:20Leave us
00:23I will have a moment with my bride
00:25Custom keeps the warlord and the bride apart until the altar
00:28I do not ask twice
00:30Tonight everyone will say I forced a scared girl into this
00:34I want them to look at you and see something different
00:36I want them to see you chose me
00:38Not that your father sold you
01:03Every girl in the north dreams of her binding day
01:05None of them dream of the cage
01:07My people used to be the best dragon callers alive
01:10We have not called one in a hundred years
01:12A sky people with no dragons is just prey
01:14So my father sells the only thing he has left
01:17Me
01:31Skybound
01:32I came for what is promised
01:45You belong to me now
01:54Get up and dress
01:55The Blackclaw warlord rides for our gate at dusk
01:58And you will be waiting at the binding altar to take him as your husband
02:01A husband?
02:02You have kept me behind these walls my whole life
02:04I have never even spoken to a man who is not my guard
02:06You will speak to this one tonight
02:08And bear his children after
02:11Ravec of the Blackclaw
02:12His dragons are the only thing between us and the Frosk
02:15And he wants you for them
02:16So my blood buys your dragons
02:17And you call it a treaty
02:20I am trading one girl to keep ten thousand people alive
02:23Say no
02:24And the Blackclaw rides south
02:25The Froskin come down off that ridge
02:27And everyone in this keep is dead by spring
02:29I am not the answer to your problems
02:31Find another way
02:33Then walk out that door and tell ten thousand people yourself
02:35I will not be sold to a Blackclaw warlord to pay for your war
02:38Find another way
02:40Cassia
02:41You will not shame me in front of the whole keep
03:00So, this is the Dragonless Princess
03:03They are selling me
03:04They told me the North had nothing left worth taking
03:07They were wrong
03:08Let go of me
03:09I have not been given to you yet
03:11You were mine
03:12The day your father ran out of options
03:14Tonight is just the part with witnesses
03:16Soft hand
03:19A whole people who forgot how to hold their own beasts
03:22No wonder the Froskin are sharpening their knives
03:24We were calling dragons out of the sky
03:26While your horde was still eating its dead
03:28Do not lecture me on what we lost
03:30They told me you were timid
03:32Timid does not survive my keep
03:34Your wrist, little queen
03:42What is this?
03:43My cuff and yours came out of the same iron
03:46After tonight, there is no one making it
03:48The North gave you away, little queen
03:50I keep what the North gives
03:54You are shaking
03:56Good
03:57A dragon can smell a coward
03:58And a coward it will not carry
04:00Be afraid, but do not be a coward
04:02My hands shake because your hand is on me
04:04Do not mistake it for anything you would want to feel
04:07Give it time
04:08You will stop hating me
04:09When you realize I am the only one keeping your people alive
04:12You can lock iron on me
04:14But you cannot make me want it
04:30Every one of them lives or dies on what I say next
04:34No one walks out of a door with all of that on the other side of it
04:44I will take you
04:46Not for my father
04:47For her
04:48And every one of them out there on the ice
04:51You give your word standing up like an equal
04:53On your knees
04:55You will thank the warlord for saving this keep
04:58With your worthless hand
05:02She kneels to me
05:03Not for you
05:04And not because you put her there
05:10She is mine now, old man
05:12Remember that the next time you raise your hand to her
05:14They call him a monster
05:16Right now he is the only wall
05:19Between me and a war that eats children
05:21And tonight I will not just touch you
05:24I will ruin you
05:25And you will ask me for more
05:33They say the Blackcloth do not bed their brides
05:35They break them
05:36And his dragons sleep at the foot of bed and watch
05:38Enough
05:39She will be presentable
05:41She will be obedient
05:42And she will hold that alliance together
05:46That is the end of it
05:48Leave us
05:51I will have a moment with my bride
05:52Custom keeps the warlord and the bride apart until the altar
05:56I do not ask twice
05:57Tonight everyone will say I forced a scared girl into this
06:01I want them to look at you and see something different
06:04I want them to see you chose me
06:06Not that your father sold you
06:14It is too tight
06:15It is meant to be uncomfortable
06:17Every Blackcloth bride wears one so nobody asks who she belongs to
06:21Only I take it off
06:23Wear it to the altar
06:25Let them all see it before you say my name
06:40Let them all see it
07:04You are bleeding
07:06Frostkin blood, not mine
07:09Their scout will not report what he saw
07:13What happens tonight is yours to give
07:15I do not take it
07:18Do you take each other
07:20Through war and peace
07:22Until the end
07:23Say the words
07:24Loud enough for the whole North to hear
07:27By sky and by iron
07:29I bind my life to his
07:31Whatever comes for him
07:32Gets through me first
07:36Our people do not deserve death
07:38I am doing this for her
07:40For all the innocents in the North
07:41I am not doing this for him
07:45Then seal it!
07:51No one has ever kissed you
07:53I can tell
07:53Tonight gives me everything
07:55But I am taking this right now
07:57In front of all of them
07:58I always believed our fathers would give you to me
08:10Then a southern brute
08:11Then a southern brute rides in and takes you in an afternoon
08:12Let go of me!
08:18A skybound altar makes a wife
08:21The Black Claw need more than words
08:24Bring him in!
08:29The proving
08:30He puts her in front of the dragon
08:32Everyone watches to see if it bows or bites
08:35No one from the North has ever passed it
08:36It will not bow to a sky girl with no gift in her blood
08:39He is going to get her killed in front of her own mother
08:41Do not pull back and do not look away
08:44It smells fear and it smells lies
08:46Show it neither
08:49You will burn my arm off
08:51Then we will both find out what you are made of
09:07The beast knows its queen
09:10Let the North remember it
09:19I am a person, Raybeck
09:21Not something you show off to your men
09:24You humiliated me out there
09:32Hello, little queen
09:38Lothra, you should not be in here
09:40Skybound Blood should stay with Skybound Blood
09:42Our fathers meant you for me
09:43And one southern treaty does not unwrite it
09:45I am only here for what was promised first
09:47The binding is sealed, Lothra
09:49Lay one finger on me
09:50And you are not insulting a girl
09:51Insulting the whole Black Claw horde
09:53Think hard about what that buys you
09:54He is drunk in the feast hall
09:56With Black Claw girls in his lap
09:58By the time he remembers he has a wife
10:00I will already have made you mine
10:02The warlord is in his cups
10:03And you are all alone, girl
10:05One sound out of you
10:07And I will tell them you invited me in
10:10Raybeck!
10:13Where is your frightened little northern bride?
10:16She does not even want you
10:17Come remind yourself
10:21What real women are
10:24I called for Raybeck
10:25I do not even know why
10:27He is not my husband
10:28He is my warden
10:29But he is the only one I called
10:31In here
10:32No one will find us
10:34No!
10:35Raybeck!
10:37Raybeck!
10:37Help me!
10:45Raybeck!
10:46Please!
10:48He is not coming for you
10:50You should thank me
10:52When I take you
10:54I will at least be gentle
10:56Which is more than that animal
10:58Would ever give you
11:03You think the warlord cares
11:05What becomes of you tonight
11:06He will never love a skybound girl
11:09He will feed you to his dragon for this
11:11My father commands the king's own guard
11:13No southern dog can touch me in this keep
11:16And no one is coming down that corridor
11:19For a skybound bride
11:23You little skybound bitch
11:42What is mine I keep
11:43What touches it I burn
11:54You put a hand
11:55On what belongs to a warlord
11:59Did you think the dragons would not smell it on you?
12:10You all came to watch a binding
12:12Watch this instead
12:15Look at her
12:16The North handed me their last real dragon caller
12:19From tonight she is one of mine
12:20We do not touch our own women like that
12:23We do not go after another man's wife
12:26And we do not lie to the man whose dragons are keeping your North standing
12:38What are you doing?
12:42He reached for a warlord's wife
12:44He will carry the answer on his face
12:47Where the whole North can read it
13:03What is mine I keep
13:06The whole North can watch what touching it costs
13:11That dragon keeps looking at me like it knows something I do not
13:14And honestly at this point
13:16So do I
13:20So this is where it happens
13:22Get it over with
13:23Look at the roost little queen
13:24That is where it happens
13:25Not here
13:27A Blacklaw wedding is not sealed in a bed
13:29It is sealed in fire
13:31At dawn everyone watches the warlord walk through his own dragon's breath
13:35If it is real
13:37The dragon holds
13:38If it is not
13:39He burns in front of everyone and she goes free
13:42You are going to walk in dragon fire to prove you own me
13:45I am going to walk into dragon fire to prove this is real
13:49What you do with that is up to you
13:51A whole dying kingdom
13:53And the only thing in it worth burning for is you
13:55Do not say that
13:57You do not get to say that
13:59You bought me
14:00You may own this cluff on my wrist
14:02You will never own the rest of me
14:04I will not love you
14:09He's going to ravage me now
14:12I don't want to lose it like this
14:17I do not know what came over me
14:19I will take only what you give me tonight
14:21Sleep little queen
14:22At dawn you watch what your husband walks into for you
14:27He's sparing my virginity
14:29For now
14:47ihr will never of war
14:49ihr will not die
14:49ihr will not die
14:49ihr will not die
14:49ihr will not die
14:55ihrbe
14:56grab
15:11Judge me, old friend.
15:13The claim is true.
15:15Ravak.
15:16Ravak, no.
15:38You walked into it.
15:39For me, you would have burned to ash.
15:42A binding is sealed.
15:44The Horde has seen it.
15:45That is all that happened here.
15:47Now you come to me, to my bed.
15:49I will try to be patient.
15:51I will not beg, but I also will not love.
16:10So he actually did it.
16:12Walked into the fire for you.
16:16I honestly did not think he would.
16:18Not for some scared little northern girl.
16:20I do not know you.
16:22Give your name before you speak to me like I am livestock.
16:29Drusilla.
16:30My father rides at the warlord's right hand, the strongest warrior in this horde.
16:34And before your father sold you north, I was the one in Ravak's bed.
16:39So I know things about him that you do not.
16:43You do not know how to keep a warlord, little northern bird.
16:47I had him before you wore that cuff, and I will have him after.
16:50Ask anyone in this keep whose furs he slept in last winter.
17:20First night here, and my wife will not eat.
17:23Is this a northern thing?
17:25Or are you actually trying to starve yourself?
17:29Starving myself?
17:31Skybound children went hungry all winter so I could eat.
17:34I do not waste food.
17:38I do not even know what half of this is.
17:41You have never put southern meat in your mouth.
17:43My father never let his daughters pass the inner wall.
17:47We ate what the kitchens cooked, and the kitchens cook north.
17:54Open.
17:56No wife of mine goes hungry at my own fire.
18:04There.
18:05The north did not crumble.
18:08Your color is up, wife.
18:09I am warm from the fire.
18:11The fire is behind you.
18:12I am the one in front.
18:32He walked into dragon fire in front of everyone to keep my people safe.
18:35Whatever else he is, he did that.
18:38I can say thank you for that much, even if it kills me.
18:46We just got married, and he is already doing this.
18:49I knew it.
18:51I knew exactly what he was.
18:57Cassia, stop.
18:58Not one more step.
19:05Sit.
19:07Run from her in tears, and by morning the whole keep says the north broke in a week.
19:12Run from her in tears.
19:15Let's go.
19:18Okay.
19:35Let's go.
19:38Run from her in tears.
19:59Every girl in the north dreams of her binding day.
20:02None of them dream of the cage.
20:04My people used to be the best dragon callers alive.
20:07We have not called one in a hundred years.
20:09A sky people with no dragons is just prey.
20:11So my father sells the only thing he has left.
20:14Me.
20:28Skybound.
20:29I came for what is promised.
20:42You belong to me now.
20:51Get up and dress.
20:52The Blackclaw warlord rides for our gate at dusk.
20:55And you will be waiting at the binding altar to take him as your husband.
20:58A husband?
20:59You have kept me behind these walls my whole life.
21:01I have never even spoken to a man who is not my guard.
21:03You will speak to this one tonight and bear his children after.
21:07Ravek of the Blackclaw.
21:09His dragons are the only thing between us and the Frostkin.
21:12And he wants you for them.
21:13So my blood buys your dragons and you call it a treaty.
21:16I am trading one girl to keep 10,000 people alive.
21:20Say no.
21:20And the Blackclaw rides south.
21:22The Frostkin come down off that ridge.
21:23And everyone in this keep is dead by spring.
21:25I am not the answer to your problems.
21:28Find another way.
21:29Then walk out that door and tell 10,000 people yourself.
21:32I will not be sold to a Blackclaw warlord to pay for your war.
21:35Find another way.
21:37Cassia.
21:37You will not shame me in front of the whole keep.
21:57So, this is the Dragonless Princess.
22:00They are selling me.
22:01They told me the North had nothing left worth taking.
22:04They were wrong.
22:05Let go of me.
22:06I have not been given to you yet.
22:08You were mine the day your father ran out of options.
22:12Tonight is just the part with witnesses.
22:13Soft hand.
22:16A whole people who forgot how to hold their own beasts.
22:19No wonder the Frostkin are sharpening their knives.
22:21We were calling dragons out of the sky while your horde was still eating its dead.
22:25Do not lecture me on what we lost.
22:27They told me you were timid.
22:30Timid does not survive my keep.
22:32Your wrist, little queen.
22:39What is this?
22:40My cuff and yours came out of the same iron.
22:43After tonight, there is no one making it.
22:45The North gave you away, little queen.
22:47I keep what the North gives.
22:51You are shaking.
22:53Good.
22:54A dragon can smell a coward.
22:55And a coward it will not carry.
22:57Be afraid, but do not be a coward.
22:59My hands shake because your hand is on me.
23:01Do not mistake it for anything you would want to feel.
23:04Give it time.
23:05You will stop hating me when you realize I am the only one keeping your people alive.
23:09You can lock iron on me, but you cannot make me want it.
23:27Every one of them lives or dies on what I say next.
23:31No one walks out of a door with all of that on the other side of it.
23:41I will take you.
23:43Not for my father.
23:44For her.
23:45And every one of them out there on the ice.
23:47You give your word standing up like an equal on your knees.
23:52You will thank the warlord for saving this keep with your worthless hand.
23:59She kneels to me.
24:00Not for you.
24:01And not because you put her there.
24:07She is mine now, old man.
24:09Remember that the next time you raise your hand to her.
24:11They call him a monster.
24:13Right now he is the only wall between me and a war that eats children.
24:18And tonight I will not just touch you.
24:21I will ruin you.
24:22And you will ask me for more.
24:29They say the Blackclough do not bed their brides.
24:32They break them.
24:33And his dragons sleep at the foot of bed and watch.
24:35Enough.
24:36She will be presentable.
24:37She will be obedient.
24:39And she will hold that alliance together.
24:43That is the end of it.
24:45Sleevas.
24:47I will have a moment with my bride.
24:49Custom keeps the warlord and the bride apart until the altar.
24:52I do not ask twice.
24:54Tonight everyone will say I forced a scared girl into this.
24:58I want them to look at you and see something different.
25:01I want them to see you chose me.
25:03Not that your father sold you.
25:11It is too tight.
25:12It is meant to be uncomfortable.
25:14Every Blackclough bride wears one so nobody asks who she belongs to.
25:18Only I take it off.
25:20Wear it to the altar.
25:22Let them all see it before you say my name.
25:35Or if you will.
25:37I don't guess what you say about how many times once you think the girl must have done.
25:39I'm doing it.
25:45Why don't you think I wanna see someone is able to say I'm not ready?
25:47I don't know why I can see someone in my dining company.
25:48You leah!
25:49You leah!
25:53I don't know what you are!
26:01You are bleeding.
26:02Frostkin blood, not mine.
26:06Their scout will not report what he saw.
26:10What happens tonight is yours to give.
26:12I do not take it.
26:15Do you take each other through war and peace until the end?
26:20Say the words.
26:21Loud enough for the whole North to hear.
26:24By sky and by iron, I bind my life to his.
26:28Whatever comes for him gets through me first.
26:33Our people do not deserve death.
26:35I am doing this for her.
26:36For all the innocents in the North.
26:38I am not doing this for him.
26:41Then seal it!
26:47No one has ever kissed you, I can tell.
26:51Tonight gives me everything, but I am taking this right now.
26:53In front of all of them!
27:04I always believed our fathers would give you to me.
27:07Then a southern brute rides in and takes you in an afternoon.
27:10Let go of me!
27:14A sky-bound altar makes a wife.
27:18The Black Claw need more than words.
27:21Bring him in!
27:26The Proving.
27:27He puts her in front of the dragon.
27:29Everyone watches to see if it bows or bites.
27:32No one from the North has ever passed it.
27:33It will not bow to a sky girl with no gift in her blood.
27:36He is going to get her killed in front of her own mother.
27:38Do not pull back and do not look away.
27:40It smells fear and it smells lies.
27:43Show it neither.
27:45You will burn my arm off.
27:47Then we will both find out what you are made of.
28:04The Beast knows its queen!
28:07Let the North remember it!
28:16I am a person, Raybeck.
28:18Not something you show off to your men.
28:21You humiliated me out there.
28:29Hello, little queen.
28:35Lothra, you should not be in here.
28:36Skybound Blood should stay with Skybound Blood.
28:38Our fathers meant you for me
28:40and One Southern Treaty does not unwrite it.
28:42I am only here for what was promised first.
28:44The binding is sealed, Lothra.
28:45Lay one finger on me
28:46and you are not insulting a girl
28:48insulting the whole Black Claw horde.
28:50Think hard about what that buys you.
28:51He is drunk in the feast hall
28:53with Black Claw girls in his lap.
28:55By the time he remembers he has a wife,
28:57I will already have made you mine.
28:58The warlord is in his cups
29:00and you are all alone, girl.
29:02One sound out of you
29:03and I will tell them you invited me in.
29:07Raybeck!
29:10Where is your frightened little northern bride?
29:12She does not even want you.
29:15Come remind yourself
29:18what real women are.
29:21I called for Raybeck.
29:22I do not even know why.
29:23He is not my husband.
29:24He is my warden.
29:26But he is the only one I called.
29:28In here, no one will find us.
29:31No!
29:32Raybeck!
29:33Raybeck!
29:34Help me!
29:42Raybeck!
29:43Please!
29:45He is not coming for you.
29:47You should thank me.
29:49When I take you,
29:51I will at least be gentle,
29:53which is more than that animal
29:54would ever give you.
29:59You think the warlord cares
30:01what becomes of you tonight.
30:03He will never love a skybound girl.
30:06He will feed you to his dragon for this.
30:08My father commands the king's own guard.
30:10No southern dog can touch me in this keep
30:13and no one is coming down that corridor
30:15for a skybound bride.
30:20You little skybound bitch!
30:38What is mine I keep.
30:41What touches it I burn.
30:51You put a hand
30:52on what belongs to a warlord.
30:56Did you think the dragons
30:57would not smell it on you?
31:07You all came to watch a binding.
31:10Watch this instead.
31:11Look at her.
31:13The North handed me
31:14their last real dragon caller.
31:16From tonight,
31:16she is one of mine.
31:17We do not touch
31:18our own women like that.
31:20We do not go after
31:21another man's wife.
31:23And we do not lie to the man
31:24whose dragons are keeping
31:26your North standing.
31:34What are you doing?
31:39He reached for a warlord's wife.
31:41He will carry the answer
31:43on his face
31:43where the whole North
31:44can read it.
32:00What is mine I keep.
32:02The whole North can watch
32:04what touching it costs.
32:08That dragon keeps looking at me
32:10like it knows something I do not.
32:11And honestly,
32:12at this point,
32:13so do I.
32:17So this is where it happens.
32:19Get it over with.
32:20Look at the roost,
32:21little queen.
32:21That is where it happens.
32:22Not here.
32:23A Blacklaw wedding
32:24is not sealed in a bed.
32:26It is sealed in fire.
32:28At dawn,
32:29everyone watches
32:30the warlord walk
32:30through his own dragon's breath.
32:32If it is real,
32:33the dragon holds.
32:34If it is not,
32:36he burns in front of everyone
32:37and she goes free.
32:38You are going to walk
32:39in dragon fire
32:40to prove you own me?
32:42I am going to walk
32:42into dragon fire
32:43to prove this is real.
32:45What you do with that
32:46is up to you.
32:48A whole dying kingdom.
32:50And the only thing in it
32:51worth burning for is you.
32:52Do not say that.
32:53You do not get to say that.
32:55You bought me.
32:57You may own this cluff
32:58on my wrist.
32:59You will never own
33:00the rest of me.
33:01I will not love you.
33:06He's going to ravage me now.
33:08I don't want to lose it
33:10like this.
33:13I do not know
33:14what came over me.
33:16I will take only
33:17what you give me tonight.
33:18Sleep, little queen.
33:20At dawn,
33:20you watch what your husband
33:21walks into for you.
33:24He's sparing my virginity
33:26for now.
33:33I don't care.
33:57I don't know.
34:08Judge me, old friend. The claim is true.
34:12Rayback. Rayback, no.
34:34You walked into it.
34:36For me, you would have burned to ash.
34:39Your binding is sealed. The Horde has seen it.
34:42That is all that happened here.
34:43Now you come to me, to my bed.
34:46I will try to be patient.
34:48I will not beg, but I also will not love.
35:07So he actually did it.
35:09Walked into the fire for you.
35:12I honestly did not think you would.
35:14Not for some scared little northern girl.
35:17I do not know you.
35:18Give your name before you speak to me like I am livestock.
35:25Drusilla.
35:27My father rides at the warlord's right hand, the strongest warrior in this horde.
35:31And before your father sold you north, I was the one in Ravak's bed.
35:35So I know things about him that you do not.
35:40You do not know how to keep a warlord, little northern bird.
35:44I had him before you wore that cuff, and I will have him after.
35:47Ask anyone in this keep whose furs he slept in last winter.
36:16First night here, and my wife will not eat.
36:20Is this a northern thing?
36:22Or are you actually trying to starve yourself?
36:25Starving myself?
36:27Skybound children went hungry all winter so I could eat.
36:31I do not waste food.
36:35I do not even know what half of this is.
36:37You have never put southern meat in your mouth.
36:40My father never let his daughters pass the inner wall.
36:44We ate what the kitchens cooked, and the kitchens cook north.
36:51Open.
36:53No wife of mine goes hungry at my own fire.
37:00There.
37:02The north did not crumble.
37:04Your color is up, wife.
37:06I am warm from the fire.
37:07The fire is behind you.
37:09I am the one in front.
37:28He walked into dragon fire in front of everyone to keep my people safe.
37:32Whatever else he is, he did that.
37:34I can say thank you for that much, even if it kills me.
37:42We just got married, and he is already doing this.
37:45I knew it.
37:47I knew exactly what he was.
37:52Cassia.
37:54Stop.
37:55Not one more step.
38:02Sit.
38:03Run from her in tears, and by morning the whole keep says the north broke in a week.
38:08I ship.
38:13I used to move.
38:56Every girl in the north dreams of her binding day.
38:59None of them dream of the cage.
39:00My people used to be the best dragon callers alive.
39:03We have not called one in a hundred years.
39:05A sky people with no dragons is just prey.
39:07So my father sells the only thing he has left.
39:10Me.
39:24Skybound.
39:26I came for what is promised.
39:38You belong to me now.
39:47Get up and dress.
39:49The Black Claw warlord rides for our gate at dusk.
39:51And you will be waiting at the binding altar to take him as your husband.
39:55A husband?
39:55You have kept me behind these walls my whole life.
39:57I have never even spoken to a man who was not my guard.
40:00You will speak to this one tonight and bear his children after.
40:04Ravek of the Black Claw.
40:05His dragons are the only thing between us and the Frost.
40:08And he wants you for them.
40:09So my blood buys your dragons and you call it a treaty.
40:13I am trading one girl to keep ten thousand people alive.
40:16Say no.
40:17And the Black Claw rides south.
40:19The Frostkin come down off that ridge.
40:20And everyone in this keep is dead by spring.
40:22I am not the answer to your problems.
40:25Find another way.
40:26Then walk out that door and tell ten thousand people yourself.
40:28I will not be sold to a Black Claw warlord to pay for your war.
40:32Find another way.
40:33Cassia, you will not shame me in front of the whole keep.
40:54So, this is the Dragonless Princess.
40:56They are selling me.
40:57They told me the North had nothing left worth taking.
41:01They were wrong.
41:02Let go of me.
41:03I have not been given to you yet.
41:05You were mine.
41:06The day your father ran out of options.
41:08Tonight is just the part with witnesses.
41:10Soft hand.
41:13A whole people who forgot how to hold their own beasts.
41:16No wonder the Frostkin are sharpening their knives.
41:18We were calling dragons out of the sky while your horde was still eating its dead.
41:22Do not lecture me on what we lost.
41:24They told me you were timid.
41:26Timid does not survive my keep.
41:28Your wrist, little queen.
41:36What is this?
41:37My cuff and yours came out of the same iron.
41:39After tonight, there is no one making it.
41:42The North gave you away, little queen.
41:44I keep what the North gives.
41:47You are shaking.
41:50Good.
41:50A dragon can smell a coward.
41:52And a coward it will not carry.
41:53Be afraid, but do not be a coward.
41:56My hands shake because your hand is on me.
41:58Do not mistake it for anything you would want to feel.
42:01Give it time.
42:01You will stop hating me when you realize I am the only one keeping your people alive.
42:06You can lock iron on me, but you cannot make me want it.
42:24Every one of them lives or dies on what I say next.
42:27No one walks out of a door with all of that on the other side of it.
42:31No.
42:37I will take you.
42:39Not for my father.
42:41For her.
42:42And every one of them out there on the ice.
42:44You give your word standing up like an equal.
42:47On your knees.
42:48You will thank the warlord for saving this keep with your worthless hand.
42:56She kneels to me.
42:57Not for you.
42:58And not because you put her there.
43:04She is mine now, old man.
43:05Remember that the next time you raise your hand to her.
43:08They call him a monster.
43:10Right now he is the only wall between me and a war that eats children.
43:15And tonight I will not just touch you.
43:17I will ruin you and you will ask me for more.
43:26They say the Blackclough do not bed their brides.
43:28They break them.
43:29And his dragons sleep at the foot of bed and watch.
43:32Enough.
43:33She will be presentable.
43:34She will be obedient.
43:36And she will hold that alliance together.
43:39That is the end of it.
43:41Leave us.
43:44I will have a moment with my bride.
43:46Custom keeps the warlord and the bride apart until the altar.
43:49I do not ask twice.
43:51Tonight everyone will say I forced a scared girl into this.
43:55I want them to look at you and see something different.
43:57I want them to see you chose me.
43:59Not that your father sold you.
44:07It is too tight.
44:09It is meant to be uncomfortable.
44:10Every Blackclough bride wears one so nobody asks who she belongs to.
44:14Only I take it off.
44:17Wear it to the altar.
44:18Let them all see it before you say my name.
44:27I don't see you.
44:36I will not see you.
44:57You are bleeding.
44:59Frostkin blood, not mine.
45:03Their scout will not report what he saw.
45:06What happens tonight is yours to give.
45:09I do not take it.
45:11Do you take each other through war and peace until the end?
45:17Say the words.
45:18Loud enough for the whole North to hear.
45:21By sky and by iron, I bind my life to his.
45:25Whatever comes for him gets through me first.
45:29Our people do not deserve death.
45:32I am doing this for her, for all the innocents in the North.
45:35I am not doing this for him.
45:38Then seal it!
45:44No one has ever kissed you, I can tell.
45:47Tonight gives me everything, but I am taking this right now in front of all of them!
45:51I am not fighting!
45:55I am not fighting!
45:57I am not fighting!
45:58I am not fighting!
46:00I am not fighting!
46:01I always believed our father's would give you to me.
46:03Then a southern brute rides in and takes you in an afternoon.
46:07Let go of me!
46:11A sky-bound altar makes a wife.
46:15The Black Claw need more than words.
46:17Bring him in!
46:23The Proving. He puts her in front of the dragon.
46:26Everyone watches to see if it bows or bites.
46:28No one from the North has ever passed it.
46:30It will not bow to a sky girl with no gift in her blood.
46:32He is going to get her killed in front of her own mother.
46:34Do not pull back and do not look away.
46:37It smells fear and it smells lies.
46:40Show it neither.
46:42You will burn my arm off.
46:44Then we will both find out what you are made of.
47:01The Beast knows its queen! Let the North remember it!
47:12I am a person, Raybeck. Not something you show off to your men.
47:17You humiliated me out there.
47:25Hello, little queen.
47:31Lothra, you should not be in here.
47:33Skybound blood should stay with skybound blood.
47:35Our fathers meant you for me.
47:37And one southern treaty does not unwrite it.
47:38I am only here for what was promised first.
47:41The binding is sealed, Lothra.
47:42Lay one finger on me and you are not insulting Agur,
47:45insulting the whole Black Claw horde.
47:46Think hard about what that buys you.
47:48He is drunk in the feast hall with Black Claw girls in his lap.
47:51By the time he remembers he has a wife,
47:53I will already have made you mine.
47:55The warlord is in his cups and you are all alone, girl.
47:59One sound out of you and I will tell them you invited me in.
48:03Raybeck!
48:07Where is your frightened little northern bride?
48:09She does not even want you.
48:11Come remind yourself.
48:15What real women are.
48:17I called for Raybeck.
48:19I do not even know why.
48:20He is not my husband.
48:21He is my warden.
48:22But he is the only one I called.
48:25In here.
48:25No one will find us.
48:27No!
48:29Raybeck!
48:30Raybeck!
48:31Help me!
48:38Raybeck!
48:39Please!
48:42He is not coming for you.
48:44You should thank me.
48:46When I take you,
48:48I will at least be gentle.
48:50Which is more than that animal would ever give you.
48:56You think the warlord cares what becomes of you tonight?
49:00He will never love a skybound girl.
49:02He will feed you to his dragon for this.
49:05My father commands the King's own guard.
49:07No southern dog can touch me in this keep
49:09and no one is coming down that corridor.
49:12for a skybound gride.
49:16You little skybound bitch!
49:19Ah!
49:19Ah!
49:23Ah!
49:26Ah!
49:28Ah!
49:29Ah!
49:32Ah!
49:33Ah!
49:33Ah!
49:33Ah!
49:34Ah!
49:35Ah!
49:37Ah!
49:38Ah!
49:53Ah!
49:57Ah!
49:59Ah!
50:00Ah!
50:04you all came to watch a binding watch this instead look at her the north handed me their
50:11last real dragon caller from tonight she is one of mine we do not touch our own women like that
50:16we do not go after another man's wife and we do not lie to the man whose dragons are keeping
50:22your north standing what are you doing he reached for a warlord's wife he will carry the answer on
50:39his face where the whole north can read it
50:56what is mine i keep the whole north can watch what touching it costs
51:05that dragon keeps looking at me like it knows something i do not and honestly at this point
51:09so do i so this is where it happens get it over with look at the roost little queen that
51:18is where
51:18it happens not here a blacklaw wedding is not sealed in a bed it is sealed in fire at dawn
51:25everyone watches the warlord walk through his own dragon's breath if it is real the dragon holds
51:31if it is not he burns in front of everyone and she goes free you are going to walk in
51:36dragonfire to
51:37prove you own me i am going to walk into dragonfire to prove this is real what you do with
51:43that is up
51:43to you a whole dying kingdom and the only thing in it worth burning for is you do not say
51:50that you
51:50do not get to say that you bought me you may own this cluff on my wrist you will never
51:56own the rest
51:57of me i will not love you
52:03he's going to ravage me now i don't want to lose it like this
52:10i do not know what came over me i will take only what you give me tonight sleep little queen
52:16at dawn you watch what your husband walks into for you
52:21he's sparing my virginity for now
52:38he's sparing my virginity well
53:05Judge me, old friend.
53:06The claim is true.
53:08Raven, Raven, no.
53:31You walked into it for me.
53:34You would have burned to ash.
53:35A binding is sealed.
53:37The Horde has seen it.
53:38That is all that happened here.
53:40Now you come to me, to my bed.
53:42I will try to be patient.
53:44I will not beg, but I also will not love.
54:03So he actually did it.
54:05Walked into the fire for you.
54:09I honestly did not think you would.
54:11Not for some scared little northern girl.
54:14I do not know you.
54:15Give your name before you speak to me like I am livestock.
54:22Drusilla.
54:23My father rides at the warlord's right hand, the strongest warrior in this horde.
54:28And before your father sold you north, I was the one in Ravek's bed.
54:32So I know things about him that you do not.
54:36You do not know how to keep a warlord, little northern bird.
54:40I had him before you wore that cuff and I will have him after.
54:44Ask anyone in this keep whose furs he slept in last winter.
55:13First night here and my wife will not eat.
55:17Is this a northern thing?
55:19Or are you actually trying to starve yourself?
55:22Starving myself?
55:24Skybound children went hungry all winter so I could eat.
55:27I do not waste food.
55:32I do not even know what half of this is.
55:34You have never put southern meat in your mouth.
55:36My father never let his daughters pass the inner wall.
55:40We ate what the kitchens cooked.
55:42And the kitchens cook north.
55:47Open.
55:49No wife of mine goes hungry at my own fire.
55:57There.
55:59The north did not crumble.
56:01Your colour is up, wife.
56:03I am warm from the fire.
56:04The fire is behind you.
56:05I am the one in front.
56:07You have to be able to detox it forward.
56:11Right.
56:25He walked into Dragonfire in front of everyone to keep my people safe.
56:29Whatever else he is, he did that.
56:31I can say thank you for that much, even if it kills me.
56:39We just got married and he is already doing this.
56:42I knew it.
56:44I knew exactly what he was.
56:49Cassia, stop.
56:52Not one more step.
56:58Sit.
57:00Run from her in tears and by morning the whole keep says the North broke in a week.
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