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00:00À notre mate selection ceremony, ma future mate, Grant,
00:03rejected me, et chose ma younger sister.
00:06En trois jours, Tribal Law would send me to the dying Dragon King.
00:15Je, Grant Mercer, future chief of the Mercer tribe,
00:19reject Mara Hale as ma mate.
00:21Then he turned and took Brenna's hand.
00:23I choose Brenna Hale.
00:24Brenna was the daughter of ma father's second mate.
00:27She had cried through the entire ceremony.
00:29Tribal Law was clear.
00:31Any female shifter who reached 22 without forming a mate bond
00:34lost the right to choose her own mate.
00:37The Council of Elders would assign her a mate.
00:40Brenna would turn 22 in six months.
00:42Please don't blame him.
00:43My mother is only our father's second mate.
00:46I have no powerful family to protect me.
00:48The Elders could give me to a cruel old chief.
00:50I wouldn't survive with him.
00:52I'm only protecting her.
00:54Once Brenna is safe, I'll end my betrothed to her and choose you again.
00:57You'll still be my mate.
00:59I'm older than Brenna.
01:00I turn 22 before she does.
01:02Only then did he remember the law.
01:04My 22nd birthday was three days away.
01:07By rejecting me in front of both tribes,
01:09he had also stripped me of the protection a mate bond would have given me.
01:13The Elders had assigned me to Ronan Ashford, the dying Dragon King.
01:17Grant rejected Mara for her sister.
01:20The Council will assign Mara first.
01:22You're Chief Hale's eldest daughter.
01:24How could your father let the Elders send you to a dying Dragon King?
01:27He'll find a way to help you.
01:28There was nothing left to ask.
01:30He still chose Brenna.
01:32I accept your rejection, Grant Mercer.
01:34Our betrothal ends here.
01:39The certainty drayed from Grant's face the moment I accepted his rejection.
01:46Mara...
01:46Don't worry.
01:48Mara must have said that in anger.
01:50She loves you so much.
01:51She can't live without you.
01:53Brenna looked at me.
01:54Her gaze dropped to the Moonstone necklace at my collarbone.
01:58Mara, can I borrow your Moonstone necklace for one night?
02:01I have no jewelry worthy of the ceremony.
02:04Grant chose me.
02:05I can't let our family be humiliated.
02:08I can't give you this necklace.
02:10Father can have the tribe's jewelers bring you new ones to choose from.
02:13I know you're upset because Grant chose me.
02:16But I really love this Moonstone necklace.
02:18Please, will you let me borrow it?
02:20Mara, do you have to be this hard on her over one necklace?
02:24Give it to Brennan.
02:25I'll have the jewelers send you two more to make up for it.
02:32This necklace was the last thing Mother left me.
02:35I would wear it at my bonding ceremony.
02:37That was Mother's dying wish.
02:39I would not let anyone destroy the necklace.
02:41She knows it isn't hers.
02:44She shouldn't be grabbing for it.
02:45Enough, Mara.
02:47Choosing Brenna was my decision.
02:48If you're angry, take it out on me.
02:50Don't take it out on her.
02:52You can give her every jewel in the Mercer tribe's treasury for all I care.
02:56But she won't touch a single thing that belongs to me.
02:59But it matches my ceremonial dress best.
03:02It's only one night.
03:03Is that too much?
03:04How much is the necklace?
03:05I'll buy it.
03:06He still did not understand.
03:08He thought money could buy my mother's heirloom.
03:16Grant ripped off my Moonstone necklace and handed it to Brenna.
03:20Give it back!
03:21I reached out to snatch the necklace back.
03:23Brenna stepped back, deliberately dropped it,
03:26then crushed it beneath her boot.
03:28You tried to snatch it from me, so I lost my grip.
03:32I didn't do it on purpose.
03:34She had stolen my mate.
03:35Now she had deliberately destroyed the only keepsake her mother had left me.
03:39I dropped to my knees and wrapped every fragment in my handkerchief.
03:43Tears kept falling to help me gather my hand.
03:46Grant crouched down to help me gather the fragments.
03:49It's just a necklace.
03:50Why are you making a scene?
03:52I'll replace it.
03:54Grant, you can never replace it.
03:56I slapped Brenna hard across the face when she tried to speak again.
03:59You knew Mother left this heirloom to me, but you still destroyed it on purpose.
04:04Stop pretending.
04:05You never wanted that necklace.
04:06You only wanted to steal what was mine.
04:09What?
04:09Mara, your mother left this to you?
04:11Why didn't you tell me?
04:12Would you have listened to me?
04:14All you ever think about is Brenda.
04:16I carried the fragments out and never looked back.
04:19That night, I stood before the Ancestral Fire with Father.
04:23I'll accept the Elder's Decree and bond with Ronan Ashford.
04:26Ronan is dying.
04:27If you bond with him, you may be widowed before winter.
04:29I can arrange for you to bond with a Shifter Warrior instead.
04:33The Elder's Decree already bore the Dragon King's seal.
04:36Grant's public rejection had made the Decree take effect three days before my birthday.
04:40Choosing anyone else now would be open defiance.
04:43The Hale Tribe would be punished because of me.
04:45I won't let them take that punishment for me.
04:47Mara, if you don't want this...
04:49My voice held steady.
04:51My hands did not.
04:53I am willing.
04:58For the next three days, I packed away everything Mother had left me
05:02and sealed every gift Grant had given me inside a wooden chest.
05:06On the day I leave, send all of these back to the Mercer Tribe.
05:09Before the chest was sent away,
05:11Brenna entered my room carrying a grey ceremonial dress and a crystal necklace.
05:15Grant believed expensive gifts could make betrayal look generous.
05:19The crystal necklace was costly.
05:21That only made the insult more obvious.
05:24Grant asked me to bring these.
05:25This grey ceremonial dress is for the day he brings you into the Mercer household.
05:30After all, I'll join his household before you do.
05:33Once I become the future chief's mate,
05:35you'll no longer be allowed to wear the gold clan marks reserved for that rank.
05:39The crystal isn't as precious as your mother's moonstone,
05:42but it's enough for a woman who joins the household after me.
05:45Lady Mara never said she would enter the Mercer Tribe with Grant.
05:48Who allowed you to speak?
05:50Get out, or I'll have the guards drag you away.
05:52Your mother is only father's second mate.
05:54You don't give orders to anyone in my room.
05:57Your bond with Grant isn't sealed.
05:59Father can still refuse to send you to the Mercer Tribe at all.
06:02If you want to become the future chief's mate,
06:04leave my room and keep quiet about everything you see.
06:07Brenna did not dare risk the position she had stolen.
06:10Sure enough, she told no one what she had seen.
06:13Grant kept sending jewelry, dyed hides, and carved ivory,
06:17trying to make up for the humiliation he had caused me.
06:21I sold everything and gave the money to the poor of the Hale Tribe.
06:24Three days later, the dragon court arrived to escort me.
06:28Ronan was too ill to come himself, so he sent 100 armored dragon guards.
06:32They filled the road beneath black and gold banners.
06:34At the Hale Gate, our procession met Grant's.
06:37He had come to seal his bond with Brenna.
06:39From inside the carriage, I heard him ask a guard a question.
06:42Who's the dragon court escorting?
06:43Mara Hale.
06:44Before nightfall, she'll be the dragon queen.
06:52Outside my carriage, the entire road fell silent.
06:56Voices carried through the curtain from both sides of the road.
06:59Grant came here to bond with Brenna,
07:01and now he has to watch Mara enter the dragon court.
07:04He threw away the future dragon queen for a woman who still had six months before the elders could assign
07:10her a mate.
07:11Grant said nothing for a long moment.
07:13Then Brenna's voice rose behind the carriage.
07:16Don't chase her.
07:17Mara wanted the crown.
07:19She agreed to bond with the dragon king willingly.
07:22She'd never have been sent to a dying man if I hadn't rejected her.
07:25Mara, you still had six months, but you cried and claimed the elders would take you to Mara.
07:31Did you already know her birthday came first?
07:35She spent three days packing and never shed a tear.
07:38She didn't care when you chose me.
07:41I heard Grant yank himself free of Brenna.
07:43Her startled cry followed.
07:45Be quiet!
07:46You knew Mara would be assigned first, yet you made me believe you had no way out.
07:49The sound of pounding hooves soon caught up with my carriage at the dragon court gates.
07:56Grant's horse cut across the black and gold procession.
07:59Mara, stop!
08:00Don't bond with him!
08:01I'll choose you as my mate!
08:07Clear the road.
08:09No one may delay the dragon king's bonding procession.
08:12Mara and I were promised to each other first.
08:15That was only a match our fathers discussed when we were children.
08:18You destroyed it when you chose Brenna in front of both tribes.
08:21You came here today to seal your bond with her.
08:24Don't call me yours now.
08:26I never planned to stay with Brenna.
08:28In six months, I'll end the betrothal and come back for you.
08:32Why can't you wait for me?
08:34He still believed he could throw me into danger and expect me to wait right where he left me.
08:39You made your choice.
08:40From the moment you took Brenna's hand, you stopped being a mate I could trust.
08:44I'll bond with Ronan Ashford today.
08:46You and I have nothing left between us.
08:50The dragon king's condition is worsening.
08:52The bonding ceremony can't be delayed.
08:54Then by blocking us, you're putting the dragon king at risk.
08:58Can the Mercer tribe answer for that?
09:01Graunt tried to reach my carriage again, but the guards forced his horse back.
09:05Open the gates.
09:08The black and gold gates opened.
09:10Make way.
09:12The dragon king is waiting for his queen.
09:18Inside the dragon court, the bonding rite began at once.
09:23Ronan was too weak to stand without help.
09:26The court healer stayed beside him while we gave our vows before the ancestral fire.
09:30Our blood joined, sealing the mate bond.
09:33The official court record named me dragon queen.
09:37He was pale and weak, but he never looked away from me.
09:41I was too ill to escort you here, so you had to ride in the bridal carriage alone.
09:45You deserve better.
09:46Then get well soon and escort me back to the Hull tribe yourself.
09:49Let everyone see I didn't choose the wrong man.
09:51Then I have another reason to stay alive.
09:53After the final vow, the attendants led us to the royal chamber.
09:59You decide whether we complete the final part of the bond.
10:02If you refuse, I'll never force you.
10:05That single lentence gave me more of a choice than Grant ever did.
10:09I entered the dragon court willingly.
10:11I am also willing to complete our mate bond.
10:14That night, we truly became mates.
10:16At dawn, Ronan was on his feet before the court healer even reached the bed.
10:20Everyone expected him to die, yet he crossed the chamber on his own.
10:25Your majesty, your fever is gone.
10:33That morning, Ronan himself walked me into the council chamber.
10:37His parents, the High King and High Queen, rose when they saw him standing without assistance.
10:43The healers said the mate bond might strengthen him.
10:45I never expected him to recover this much in one night.
10:48Mother, Mara deserves the credit.
10:52From today on, you will run the entire household of the dragon court.
10:56No steward may overrule you.
10:58The High King entrusted me with the royal seal, symbol of the dragon king's power,
11:02and doubled the dragon guards protecting my chamber.
11:04Those rewards were more than courtesy to a new queen.
11:06They told every tribe that the dragon court recognized my authority.
11:10One month later, Ronan's fever had not returned.
11:13The High King summoned every allied chief and noble family to a recovery feast at the dragon court.
11:20Grant and Brenna attended because the Mercer tribe could not defy a royal command.
11:25Not one noblewoman welcomed Brenna.
11:29They knew she had used her tears to steal my place, only to watch me become dragon queen.
11:39Mara.
11:42Inside the dragon court, you must address her as the dragon queen.
11:45And stop crying.
11:47If you disrupt the dragon king's recovery feast again, the High Queen will have you removed immediately.
11:51Brenna forced back her tears while the women around her laughed at her.
11:55She nearly lost the betrothed when Grant chased a carriage.
11:58Only foolish men still fall for her tears.
12:00Then Grant left her standing alone and walked straight towards me.
12:06Grant stopped me in the banquet courtyard and looked past me toward Ronan's empty council chair.
12:11Ronan was resting before the feast.
12:13Grant took Ronan's absence as proof that his illness had gotten worse.
12:16Is he getting worse?
12:17He hasn't attended one full council since you bonded.
12:21I warned you not to enter this court.
12:23I told you I'd make you the future chief's mate.
12:26Your promises became worthless the moment you rejected me.
12:29Choosing Brenna was temporary.
12:31I never planned to give the highest place a woman can have in my tribe to a daughter of a
12:35chief's second mate.
12:37Really?
12:39Brennan herself told the women at court that she had already slept with you.
12:42The Mercer tribe also sent formal bonding gifts to the Hale tribe.
12:45If you were only protecting her temporarily, why send bonding gifts?
12:49My voice carried across the entire courtyard.
12:52Every noble woman heard what I said.
12:54He rejected the dragon queen, slept with her younger sister, and still expects the dragon queen to wait for him?
12:58Lady Mercer raised an heir who wants two women, but won't take responsibility for either one.
13:04He made that choice while we were away.
13:06The Mercer tribe never approved it.
13:08The future chief's mate must have a powerful bloodline.
13:11Brenna will never hold that position.
13:12Behind her, Brenna finally stopped crying.
13:15Her hand closed around the bond token Grant had given her.
13:17Then why did your son take me to bed?
13:23Every voice in the courtyard stopped.
13:27Brenna pushed past Lady Mercer and raised Grant's bond token.
13:30He slept with me before the mate selection ceremony and promised to choose me.
13:35Abandoning me now would break that promise in front of every tribe.
13:38You got me drunk and wore Mara's ceremonial cloak.
13:40I touched you because I thought you were her.
13:42You're lying.
13:43You called my name that night and said you liked how soft and helpless I was.
13:46I only agreed to protect you from the elders.
13:54The woman I really wanted was...
13:55Be quiet!
13:57Are you trying to destroy the entire Mercer tribe?
14:01She was too late.
14:02The allied chiefs, court nobles, and dragon guards had heard everything.
14:05Dragon queen, give me justice.
14:06He slept with me, then chose me publicly.
14:09If he breaks his promise now, he must take responsibility.
14:11I looked at the sister who had crushed Mother's necklace because she wanted to steal my future.
14:15This is the last time I'll act as your older sister.
14:17After today, you'll never use our blood to demand my protection again.
14:20Grant chose you publicly and slept with you.
14:24If he denies you the position of future chief's mate, then by law he must sign a second mate contract
14:28with you.
14:33I'll arrange it when I return to the tribe.
14:37Mara...
14:37Will you forgive everything I did to you?
14:40Before I answered, Ronan entered the courtyard.
14:46He placed his cloak around my shoulders and sat beside me.
14:51What did Grant Mercer do that requires my queen's forgiveness?
14:57Ronan's question silent to the courtyard.
15:01I held Grant's gaze.
15:03Grant wants forgiveness for betraying me, humiliating me, and letting Brenna destroy Mother's necklace.
15:09Forgiveness is yours to give.
15:12He has no right to demand it.
15:13You chose another woman.
15:23Stay away from my mate.
15:25Grant turned pale but did not dare step closer.
15:29Ronan fastened my cloak and led me from the courtyard.
15:32Before the feast ended, every guest understood one thing.
15:35The Dragon King valued his queen and would allow no one to humiliate me.
15:38His public defense showed everyone that our bond was never just a political arrangement.
15:43The next day, Lady Mercer sent word to Father that the Mercer family would only sign a second mate contract
15:49with Brenna.
15:50Brenna threatened to kill herself and demanded that Father save her betrothal.
15:54Father was already disgusted by the shame she had brought the Hale tribe.
15:58He said Brenna could marry a distant chief as his highest-ranking mate if she refused the Mercer arrangement.
16:03Brenna only wanted the powerful Mercer family.
16:05She refused to leave.
16:06In the end, Brenna chose Grant anyway and signed a lower-ranking second mate contract that carried no marriage alliance
16:13rights.
16:16Lady Merson immediately chose Tessa Cole for Grant.
16:20Tessa was the highborn daughter of a powerful allied chief in the political match the Mercer tribe needed.
16:26Weeks later, Grant and Tessa held their bonding ceremony at the Mercer stronghold.
16:30After the ceremony began, Brenna burst into the hall.
16:34Brenna faced the guests with one hand over her belly.
16:36I'm carrying Grant's child.
16:38This is his first child and the first grandchild in the Mercer family.
16:44Grant must give me the same rank as Tessa.
16:48Otherwise, I'll end this pregnancy.
16:50Every guest turned towards Tessa, who still wore her wedding veil.
16:54Give her equal rank and the Cole tribe will leave this alliance today.
17:01Tessa's warning stopped the bonding ceremony.
17:04My tribe will never let a second mate's child be named heir before mine.
17:10This child is already on the way.
17:12He's Grant's firstborn.
17:14Then I'll leave now,
17:16and the Mercer tribe will lose all support from the Cole tribe.
17:19Grant looked at the allied warriors behind Tessa,
17:22then at the pregnant Brenna's...
17:25Once again, he chose the woman who offered him more.
17:31Brenna, you made me lose Mara.
17:35Now you want to destroy the Mercer alliance?
17:38This is your child.
17:40You promised you'd let me have him.
17:42The Mercer tribe has no shortage of women who can bear my heirs.
17:45Grant signaled the family healer.
17:47Bring the brew that ends a pregnancy.
17:52Make her drink it now.
17:53No, Grant, look at me.
17:56This is our child.
17:58Lady Mercer did not stop her son.
18:00A second mate doesn't bear a child before the chief's mate has her first.
18:03The Mercer elders agreed.
18:04Losing Tessa's alliance mattered more to them than Brenna's child.
18:07Two servants restrained Brenna's...
18:09The healer forced her mouth open and poured the brew down her throat.
18:15After Brenna was dragged away,
18:17Grant and Tessa completed their bonding ceremony.
18:19Late that night, Brenna lost the child.
18:25Grant!
18:26Brenna screamed Grant's name until her voice gave out.
18:29Grant never went to her.
18:30Her tears had once won Grant's sympathy.
18:33In a family ruled by bloodline and power,
18:35tears could protect neither her nor her child.
18:38Tessa became the future chief's mate and took control of the Mercer household.
18:42She forbade Grant from entering Brenna's room.
18:48For three full months, Brenna never had a chance to speak to Grant alone.
18:52Brenna had no status, no child, and no protection left.
18:55If Brennan looked at Grant for even a moment during morning greeting,
18:58Tessa scolded her in front of the whole household.
19:01Meanwhile, Ronan's health grew steadier each day.
19:05Several months later,
19:06I attended the High Queen's morning audience.
19:09I spoke only a few words before my vision went dark.
19:13Bring the Court Healer, now!
19:17Dragon Queen, you're carrying the Dragon King's heir.
19:26The High King and High Queen filled my chambers with gifts that same day.
19:32The Court Healers had once said Ronan might not live more than a few months.
19:36Now he was alive,
19:38and he would have a child.
19:40Now I want more.
19:43I want to watch our child grow up,
19:45and I want to grow old beside you.
19:47Three months later,
19:48my pregnancy was stable.
19:50Ronan held a celebration
19:51and invited the chiefs of every tribe
19:53and their mates to the Dragon Court.
19:56Tessa arrived at the Dragon Court with Brenna.
19:59Dragon Queen,
20:00how lucky you are.
20:01You conceived only months after bonding.
20:03Some women conceive and still can't keep the child.
20:06You kept Grant to yourself for three months,
20:09and you still haven't conceived.
20:12You killed my child.
20:14One day,
20:15you'll pay for it.
20:16They dared to trade insults at my own feast,
20:19deliberately trying to provoke me.
20:21I was the Dragon Queen now.
20:26Since Tessa won't let Grant near Brenna,
20:29Grant may choose two more women who willingly agree to sign mate contracts.
20:34Each woman must personally consent to her contract.
20:36Tessa has no right to refuse for them.
20:42Two court women who had willingly signed contracts
20:45entered the Mercer home under my seal.
20:48Tessa had no right to stop them.
20:50From that day on,
20:51Grant's highest-ranking mate and his three lower mates
20:53fought constantly.
20:57Several months passed,
20:59but none of them conceived.
21:01Rumors quickly spread among the tribes.
21:03Maybe the women were never the problem.
21:04Maybe Grant is.
21:06Lady Mercer could no longer ignore the whispers.
21:09She asked the Dragon Court to send a healer to examine Grant.
21:12You three.
21:13Three days later,
21:14a healer from the Dragon Court
21:16arrived at the Mercer tribe and examined Grant.
21:18The examination showed that someone had been drugging Grant for a long time,
21:22destroying his ability to father children.
21:24That's impossible!
21:26Brenna carried my child only months ago!
21:28The drugging began after that pregnancy.
21:30The damage can't be reversed.
21:31You'll never father another child.
21:32Grant summoned every servant who delivered his medicine
21:35and questioned them one by one.
21:36The drug was traced to the tonics Brenna sent him.
21:39The color drained from Grant's face.
21:43Brenna poisoned me.
21:48Grant left the examination room
21:50and stormed into Brenna's chambers.
21:52Brenna, you drugged me, didn't you?
21:56Yes, I did.
21:57What are you going to do about it?
21:58On your bonding day,
21:59you killed our child to protect Tess's alliance.
22:01You promised he could live.
22:03Then you decided a second mate couldn't bear the first heir.
22:06The healer says I may never conceive again.
22:08If I can't have a child,
22:09none of your women will.
22:10Grant's eyes reddened as his hand tightened around her throat.
22:13You vicious woman.
22:14You wanted to leave the Mercer family without an heir.
22:16Yes.
22:17You rejected my child,
22:19so no other woman will give you another.
22:22You wanted me and my sister.
22:24Losing my sister was your own choice,
22:26yet you blamed everything on me.
22:27Now you get nothing.
22:29We can all go down together.
22:31Tessa rushed into the room
22:32and attacked Brenna before she could finish.
22:34You vicious woman!
22:36You left Grant unable to produce an heir.
22:37You deserve to be drowned for this!
22:39The luck immediately ran between Brenna's finger.
22:43Brenna survived,
22:45but the slash left a scar that never faded.
22:47Lady Mercer locked her in a secluded room
22:49and forbade her from leaving.
22:51Tessa sent servants to beat her every day.
22:54As one wound healed,
22:56another opened.
22:57Learning he could never father another child
22:59devastated Grant.
23:00He shut himself in his study
23:02and drank every day.
23:03He also stopped handling his duties
23:05to the Council of Elders.
23:06A servant tried to please the future chief
23:09by bringing him drinking companions
23:10and lovers no one knew anything about.
23:12Grant drank and partied with them every night,
23:15numbing himself against the truth.
23:16Later,
23:17he rented a house outside the Mercer stronghold,
23:19out from under his family's watch.
23:21They also got him to take an addictive powder.
23:24Within weeks,
23:25Grant stopped attending council meetings
23:27and stopped returning home.
23:29Chief Mercer and Lady Mercer sent guards
23:32to search for him.
23:33They finally found him in that house.
23:36The guards wrapped him in blankets
23:38and carried him back to the Mercer stronghold.
23:43A court healer entered the room
23:45and immediately ordered everyone back.
23:47No one may touch him with bare skin.
23:50The court healer examined Grant
23:52in front of Chief Mercer and Lady Mercer.
23:55Grant's skin had begun to rot and ooze pus.
23:57The room smelled of infection.
24:00He caught an incurable disease
24:02from spending too long around infected people.
24:05He can't have contact with anyone
24:07or he may spread the disease.
24:09His skin will keep rotting
24:10until the disease reaches his blood and heart.
24:13He has less than a month.
24:15Chief Mercer and Lady Mercer
24:16immediately sealed the stronghold gates
24:18and ordered that no servant leave.
24:20They kept the news from spreading,
24:22but they could not stop Grant's body from decaying.
24:25His sores spread each day.
24:26Blood and pus soaked his clothes
24:28and the smell carried beyond the heavy doors.
24:30Tessa and the other mates stayed away.
24:32Not one of them would enter his room.
24:34Grant had once believed the Mercer tribe
24:36had no shortage of women who could bear his heirs.
24:38Now no one was willing to hold his hand.
24:43Before the month was out,
24:45Grant stopped breathing.
24:48The future Mercer chief died
24:50without leaving an heir.
24:53After Grant died,
24:55Tessa immediately demanded
24:56to be released from the Alliance.
24:58She took her entire dowry
24:59and returned to the coal tribe.
25:01Lady Merson began ending the mate contracts
25:03Grant had left behind.
25:04The two court women who had signed voluntarily
25:06also ended their contracts
25:07and returned to the dragon court under my seal.
25:09Lady Merson kept only Brenna.
25:11Servants cut Brenna's hair
25:12and dressed her in a rough gray robe.
25:14Brenna was sent to a remote mountain monastery
25:15where she would labor for life
25:17and never leave.
25:18After losing his son,
25:19Chief Mercer no longer had the will
25:21to lead the tribe.
25:22He handed over the tribal seal
25:23and, in front of the elders,
25:25gave up every position he held.
25:27He and Lady Mercer sold most of their estate.
25:29They returned to their distant homeland
25:31with only a few wagons and Grant's coffin.
25:34Before winter,
25:35the once-powerful Mercer stronghold stood empty.
25:37No one ever heard from the Mercer family again.
25:40The following spring,
25:41I went into labor without warning
25:43in my chambers at the dragon court.
25:47Ronan stood outside
25:49and heard my first cry of pain.
25:53By dawn,
25:54I had given birth to a healthy son
25:56at the dragon court.
25:57We named him Aiden Ashford.
25:58Ronan sat beside my bed
26:00and carefully took Aiden into his arms.
26:02After Aiden stopped crying,
26:03Ronan still refused to let a serpents take our son.
26:06The High Ming and High Queen
26:07came to my chambers that same day.
26:08The High King ordered the court granaries opened
26:11and commanded every tribe
26:12to celebrate for three days.
26:17He also named Aiden heir to the dragon crown
26:20and promised to teach him tribal law
26:21and court affairs himself.
26:23Ronan had once been given only months to live.
26:25Now he stood beside me holding our child.
26:27I once believed I had no future.
26:28Now I want to watch Aiden grow up
26:30and I want to grow old beside you.
26:31After the celebration,
26:33the court healer examined Ronan again.
26:35The treatment Ronan had begun
26:37before we bonded finally took effect.
26:39For the first time,
26:41his illness stopped worsening.
26:43Our mate bond had kept him alive
26:44until the medicine truly began to work.
26:47Over the next few months,
26:49Ronan stopped coughing blood
26:50and his pulse grew stronger each day.
26:52This time,
26:53the court healer said Ronan
26:54had begun to recover at last.
26:58Over the next 18 years,
27:00Ronan grew stronger each year.
27:01When Aiden learned to walk,
27:03Ronan guided him across the throne hall.
27:05When Aiden began studying government,
27:07Ronan taught him to read tribal maps
27:08and to hear petitions from ordinary tribespeople.
27:10The High King taught him how to rule.
27:12Ronan taught him who suffered when power was abused.
27:14I taught Aiden to hear both sides
27:16before passing judgment.
27:17At 18,
27:18Aiden settled a border conflict
27:19between two tribes
27:20without sending a single warrior.
27:21Aiden laid the peace oath
27:22signed by both sides in front of Ronan.
27:24After reading the oath,
27:25he summoned every elder and tribal chief
27:27that same night.
27:29Ronan announced that he would soon abditate
27:31and Aiden would inherit the title of Dragon King.
27:34Aiden looked first at Ronan,
27:36then at me.
27:37Ronan did not rush him.
27:38He just stood beside me
27:40and waited for Aiden to answer for himself.
27:42Aiden finally climbed the steps to the throne
27:44and accepted the title of Dragon King
27:46in front of every chief.
27:48At sunrise tomorrow,
27:49Aiden will receive the Dragon Crown.
27:54At sunrise the next day,
27:56the chiefs of every tribe
27:56gathered at the Dragon Court
27:58to witness Ronan's amputation.
27:59Aiden knelt before the throne
28:00while Ronan and I stood side by side
28:02in front of him.
28:02Ronan placed the Dragon Crown
28:04on Aiden's head.
28:05I returned the royal seal
28:06I had guarded for 18 years to Ronan
28:07and he placed it in Aiden's hands himself.
28:09In front of every chief,
28:11Aiden swore to protect each tribe
28:12that honored the court's laws.
28:13Every chief in the throne hall
28:14knelt on one knee
28:15and recognized him as the new Dragon King.
28:17The court named me Queen Mother.
28:19Ronan gave up the title of Dragon King.
28:21but he still stood beside me.
28:23After the coronation,
28:25our family gathered again
28:26in the chamber behind the throne.
28:28Ronan's hair had turned partly gray,
28:30but he was still strong.
28:31I promised to watch him grow.
28:33I also promised to grow old beside you.
28:35You kept both promises.
28:39In the years that followed,
28:41Aiden became a fair Dragon King
28:42respected by every tribe.
28:44Years later,
28:45Grant and Brennan
28:46were only names in old records.
28:48I no longer measured my life
28:49by what they had done.
28:50Grant chose my sister.
28:52I chose the Dragon King.
28:54Ronan still held my hand.
28:55Our son sat on the throne
28:57and the three of us remained together.
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29:00– Sous-titrage FR 2021
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