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The King's maid hid his heir
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00:00The healer says you're with child. Do you even know who put it there?
00:03Who is the father?
00:05I don't know his name.
00:07Then he will never claim it.
00:10You will be the only one carrying the shame.
00:13Are you ready for that?
00:34Close the door, then get out.
00:38You're hurt.
00:41Drummed. It makes me a danger. Leave.
00:45I'll fetch the physician.
00:46No. No one can know.
00:56Stop! You'll bleed out!
01:00You would rather bleed out than touch me?
01:02Yes.
01:04What do they give you?
01:05Night fire. It burns until a man takes a woman or until it kills him.
01:10I won't ask that of you. I'd soon to burn.
01:12Then I won't leave you to die.
01:16Don't come closer unless you mean it.
01:18I mean it.
01:22Tell me to stop.
01:24Don't stop.
01:45This will not be gentle.
01:47I understand.
01:49One more word and I stop.
02:03Half a crest.
02:05The only thing that could lead me back to him.
02:07And proof enough to hang me.
02:10My lord, the household is searching the east wing.
02:18Keep the child and the palace bed is gone.
02:21The wages, the rations, your recommendation.
02:25All of it.
02:26And they will call you that girl before they remember your name.
02:29They'll say you opened your legs for a stranger and couldn't even get a ring for it.
02:32I won't choose for you, but I want you to hear what you're choosing.
02:37You came to me in this.
02:40Finer than anything that has ever been in this house.
02:42Whoever left you was not starving.
02:45They had everything.
02:47Every coin, every door, every name.
02:50And they still let me go.
02:52Like a torn glove.
02:54I have nothing.
02:55No name, no father, no future they'd recognize.
02:58And I am keeping my baby.
03:01Not because I'm brave.
03:02Because I won't let him be thrown away the way I was.
03:05He will never have to wonder if he was wanted.
03:09That much I can give him.
03:11Then we pay the cost together.
03:22The bone was set crooked.
03:24It must be broken and set again.
03:26And if it isn't?
03:28He loses the use of that hand.
03:30A needle, a spade, a pen, none of them.
03:37Don't lose it.
03:38She still owes us.
03:39My little magpie.
03:40Stay on this bench.
03:41I'll settle the fee.
03:46These won't cover the surgeon's fee.
03:48How long do I have?
03:49Ten days.
03:51After that, the bone begins to set where it is.
03:53Eighteen generations, Leander.
03:54One son in each.
03:57If you leave no heir, the Wixart line ends with you.
04:01A kingdom without an heir is waiting to be divided.
04:04Then stop offering me women as if they were border treaties.
04:06Believe me, I'm done choosing wives for you.
04:10If heaven has any mercy, it can drop a grandson straight into my arms.
04:17Heaven heard me.
04:20Leander, this boy has your face.
04:27I'm sorry, ma'am.
04:30Your name?
04:31Mom said not to give strangers my name.
04:34I have to go.
04:46He was wearing half of your private locket.
04:49Leander, he's your son.
04:53My grandson.
04:55I have a son.
05:02The woman from seven years ago.
05:04She must be his mother.
05:05I have been looking for her for seven years.
05:10Seal every street around the infirmary.
05:12Send riders to the parish gates.
05:15Find them both.
05:16You left the bench.
05:23Let's go find that lady who hit me.
05:26Tomorrow we go to the palace carriage court.
05:29Together.
05:40Stay beside me.
05:42Hold.
05:43Hold.
05:43Hold.
05:44Hold.
05:45Hold.
05:47Hold.
05:48Hold.
05:55That's her carriage.
05:57Hold.
05:58The woman who ran into you.
06:00Before she gets away.
06:15Lady Blackmer.
06:18Your carriage struck my son.
06:20This seal came off that door.
06:23Remove your hand.
06:24Pay his heater.
06:26First you throw your bastard under my wheels.
06:29Now you claw at my carriage.
06:32Look at the broken socket.
06:33Did this seal come from your door?
06:35Answer her and lose your post.
06:39Then the Royal Road Warden gets the seal and the broken socket.
06:42And every witness here goes with me.
06:46Fetch my steward.
06:50Take it and go.
06:52Too proud to bend?
06:54Too late by silence.
06:56Write the injury.
06:57Her responsibility.
06:58The full sum.
06:59And the day it will be paid.
07:02The Blackmill carriage accepts responsibility.
07:05After the next quarter day.
07:07That is three months.
07:08Then he waits three months.
07:12Unheld me!
07:14Pay the surgeon now.
07:16Or I will not let you take one step through that gate.
07:18You dare detain.
07:19A lady of Ravenshel?
07:21I dare keep my son from losing his hand.
07:27Your Majesty.
07:28Witnesses saw the little boy run this way.
07:30Your Majesty.
07:31This woman is attacking my carriage.
07:38Your Majesty!
07:41Keep moving.
07:42Find the boy.
07:44You made me miss him!
07:45Pay what you owe.
07:46And you may chase after whomever you please.
07:51I am the woman he is going to marry.
07:54I will be his queen.
07:55Then begin by paying what you owe one of his subjects.
07:59Mum!
08:02Drive.
08:09I am sorry love.
08:10Not today.
08:11We can smell it.
08:13Smelling is free.
08:14Now the bread at home will taste like beef.
08:16The palace requires new maids.
08:18Five spells.
08:19Silver crowns a week.
08:21Twice the usual wage.
08:22With one hot meal every day.
08:24One week's wage would pay the surgeon.
08:26They should hire you.
08:28You work harder than anyone.
08:31Then I'll earn that wage.
08:34Her?
08:35She bore a child outside wedlock.
08:38A woman without virtue has no place beneath the king's roof.
08:42The notice asks whether my hands are fit for work.
08:44Not whether my life pleases Lady Blackmore.
08:47A palace maid's character is her first qualification.
08:49No husband.
08:50No name for the father.
08:52Only a bastard brought up in sin.
08:54The woman who struck my child does not decide the rule.
08:57Especially while she still owes his healer.
09:04Have I seen the king before?
09:08Why does this woman feel so familiar?
09:16Your Majesty, she is an unmarried mother.
09:18To employ her would put the crown's sign upon vice.
09:21How old is the child?
09:22Six.
09:23A six-year-old bastard.
09:26Can you work the listed hours?
09:28Yes.
09:29His meals, medicine and care are arranged.
09:31You raised him alone?
09:33Every day for six years.
09:34I fed him, clothed him and kept him alive.
09:37I will not call that shameful to earn this post.
09:41The crown requires duty, Lady Blackmore.
09:43Not gossip dressed as virtue.
09:45She raised a child for six years.
09:47That is the experience this store lacks.
09:51She is hired.
09:58A six-year-old should be able to lift his own cup.
10:05And dress himself without bleeding for the honor.
10:08What makes him trust a stranger?
10:11He watches the exits.
10:13Then the hands.
10:14He remembers who asks before touching.
10:16And who keeps a promise.
10:18My boy is clever.
10:19And very handsome.
10:21Mine is better looking.
10:24Of course, your majesty.
10:26You hesitated?
10:26I did not, your majesty.
10:30Would you care to judge for yourself?
10:34You carry your son's likeness with you.
10:36Everywhere.
10:48Clothes, silver, toys.
10:49Six years worth.
10:50And clear the east wing, all of it.
10:52The east wing is four halls.
10:53Then he will have four halls.
10:56Mother, you will spoil him.
10:58Of course I will.
10:59Who else is going to?
11:00And he will like me best.
11:03That is not fit for an heir.
11:06Then it is not fit for a child.
11:14He will like me better.
11:17For your son.
11:18It does not replace my wages.
11:20No.
11:21It buys no claim over him?
11:23None.
11:23And it buys nothing else?
11:26I am asking about a child's shirt.
11:29Then we understand each other.
11:33Where is he while you work?
11:34At home.
11:35His arm is still braced.
11:38Bring him.
11:39Keep him within your sight.
11:42Then I will.
11:51Thank you, but he can't have almonds.
11:53Not even a single crumb.
11:55Not even from a knife that's touched almonds.
11:57I did not know.
12:03This came from the fruit oven.
12:07Only this one.
12:09The cake on the blue plate.
12:10The one you checked.
12:11The one I checked.
12:15The cake on the blue plate.
12:16Honorer.
12:16The clerk has altered the payment entry.
12:18You should see what your demand has become.
12:29It's fine if you'd like to eat.
12:37Bitter.
12:40Mama.
12:41The cake tasted bitter.
12:44Fetch the palace physician.
12:46Now.
12:48No one leaves.
12:51Can you swallow?
12:54This is what happens when you admit an unwed mother.
12:57Her fatherless child fouls a royal room.
13:01Tell us, Honoris.
13:02Who is his father?
13:05As Honorer brought her son.
13:06He is in the service antechamber.
13:09Then it is time I met him.
13:16Move.
13:17Who allowed a fatherless child into the palace?
13:21You brought your bastard here to pass him off as the lost heir.
13:24Rules are rules.
13:25If she wants a child, she can want a wage instead.
13:27My sister works and leaves hers at home.
13:29Why can't she?
13:30Every one of you had a mother.
13:32Say that again in front of her.
13:35He's dying while you stand here gossing!
13:40I want you!
13:42Mum!
13:43Mum, help me!
13:55Open it!
13:58Felix, spit out the cake.
14:00Lie on your side.
14:01Keep the air open.
14:05Run!
14:06Get the physician!
14:10Help!
14:11Somebody help my child!
14:13He has stopped knocking.
14:18My son is in there.
14:20Please.
14:21Save him, your majesty.
14:24Release her.
14:26Get the physician to this door.
14:29Your majesty, you cannot break a royal door for a maid's imposter.
14:47Almond, he can't.
14:48There's cake in his throat.
14:50He's not breathing.
14:52Hit him again.
14:53Harder!
15:06The boy stole food he couldn't handle.
15:08Tragic.
15:12How dare you!
15:15Accident.
15:17Almond oil on his lips.
15:19The storeroom key.
15:20Dropped in the court below.
15:21Lady Octavia is barred from the nursery and the dispensary.
15:26You cannot confine me.
15:28I am a raven's hurl, and the woman this court expects you to marry.
15:32That expectation may secure your place of court.
15:34It gives you no claim to this child's food, or his life.
15:39Confine her to the outer court.
15:41If she goes near the child again, arrest her.
15:51The arm has shifted again.
15:52He needs the surgeon's room now.
16:02This wing stands under the duke's guarantee.
16:05This is an injured child, not a household claim.
16:06Open the door!
16:07Could cost him the use of his hand!
16:17Physician, answer me!
16:18Keep his arms still.
16:20Another delay could cost him the use of that hand.
16:25Take the child and get out.
16:30Clear the way.
16:32Your Majesty, the duke's guarantee.
16:45Go.
16:58It's set, but he needs herbs every week to heal properly.
17:02The setting, medicines, and follow-up visits will cost 50 silver crowns.
17:06The crown covers this.
17:11No!
17:13I won't owe you, Your Majesty.
17:16Put it on my wage account.
17:19I'll work off every coin.
17:37Get out of the way, it's raining.
17:38Paper flowers, sir.
17:39Only two cobbies.
17:40They won't wink.
17:41Who buys paper in a storm?
17:48Stop the carriage.
17:49Look at her.
17:49Your Majesty's just a street vendor.
17:51Buy them all.
17:52Double the price.
17:53Don't say it's me.
17:56I'll take the whole basket.
17:57My Master admires your persistence.
17:59All of them?
18:00But they are wet.
18:01Keep the change.
18:06Tell your Master he's a generous fool.
18:08A fool, am I?
18:16Keep your back straight.
18:18The nobles don't want to see you limp.
18:21Yes, ma'am.
18:21I can manage.
18:26He looks at a maid,
18:28while I am left in the outer court.
18:31Once I am with child,
18:33no one can stop me from becoming queen.