00:00You think the Warlord cares what becomes of you tonight?
00:03He will never love a skybound girl.
00:05He will feed you to his dragon for this.
00:08My father commands the King's own guard.
00:10No southern dog can touch me in this keep
00:12and no one is coming down that corridor for a skybound grind.
00:20You little skybound bitch!
00:37Every girl in the north dreams of her binding day.
00:40None of them dream of the cage.
00:42My people used to be the best dragon callers alive.
00:44We have not called one in a hundred years.
00:47A sky people with no dragons is just prey.
00:49So my father sells the only thing he has left.
00:52Me.
01:06Skybound.
01:07I came for what is promised.
01:19You belong to me now.
01:29Get up and dress.
01:30The Blackclaw warlord rides for our gate at dusk.
01:33And you will be waiting at the binding altar to take him as your husband.
01:36A husband?
01:36You have kept me behind these walls my whole life.
01:38I have never even spoken to a man who was not my guard.
01:41You will speak to this one tonight and bear his children after.
01:45Ravec of the Blackclaw.
01:46His dragons are the only thing between us and the Frost King.
01:49And he wants you for them.
01:50So my blood buys your dragons and you call it a treaty.
01:54I am trading one girl to keep ten thousand people alive.
01:57Say no.
01:58And the Blackclaw rides south.
02:00The Frost King come down off that ridge.
02:01And everyone in this keep is dead by spring.
02:03I am not the answer to your problems.
02:06Find another way.
02:07Then walk out that door and tell ten thousand people yourself.
02:10I will not be sold to a Blackclaw warlord to pay for your war.
02:13Find another way.
02:15Cassia.
02:15You will not shame me in front of the whole keep.
02:33So...
02:34This is the Dragonless Princess.
02:36They are selling me.
02:37They told me the North had nothing left worth taking.
02:40They were wrong.
02:42Let go of me.
02:43I have not been given to you yet.
02:45You were mine.
02:46The day your father ran out of options.
02:48Tonight is just the part with witnesses.
02:50Soft hand.
02:52A whole people who forgot how to hold their own beasts.
02:55I wonder the Frostkin are sharpening their knives.
02:57We were calling dragons out of the sky while your horde was still eating its dead.
03:02Do not lecture me on what we lost.
03:04They told me you were timid.
03:06Timid does not survive my keep.
03:08Your wrist, little queen.
03:15What is this?
03:16My cuff and yours came out of the same iron.
03:19After tonight, there is no one making it.
03:21The North gave you away, little queen.
03:23I keep what the North gives.
03:27You are shaking.
03:29Good.
03:30A dragon can smell a coward.
03:32And a coward it will not carry.
03:33Be afraid, but do not be a coward.
03:35My hands shake because your hand is on me.
03:37Do not mistake it for anything you would want to feel.
03:40Give it time.
03:41You will stop hating me when you realize I am the only one keeping your people alive.
03:46You can lock iron on me, but you cannot make me want it.
04:03Every one of them lives or dies on what I say next.
04:07No one walks out of a door with all of that on the other side of it.
04:17I will take you.
04:19Not for my father.
04:21For her.
04:21And every one of them out there on the ice.
04:24You give your word standing up like an equal.
04:27On your knees.
04:28You will thank the warlord for saving this keep with your worthless hand.
04:35She kneels to me.
04:37Not for you.
04:37And not because you put her there.
04:43She is mine now, old man.
04:45Remember that the next time you raise your hand to her.
04:47They call him a monster.
04:50Right now he is the only wall between me and a war that eats children.
04:54And tonight I will not just touch you.
04:57I will ruin you.
04:59And you will ask me for more.
05:04They say the Blackclough do not bed their brides.
05:07They break them.
05:08And his dragons sleep at the foot of bed and watch.
05:10Enough.
05:11She will be presentable.
05:12She will be obedient.
05:14And she will hold that alliance together.
05:17That is the end of it.
05:20Leave us.
05:22I will have a moment with my bride.
05:24Custom keeps the warlord and the bride apart until the altar.
05:27I do not ask twice.
05:29Tonight everyone will say I forced a scared girl into this.
05:33I want them to look at you and see something different.
05:36I want them to see you chose me.
05:38Not that your father sold you.
05:45It is too tight.
05:47It is meant to be uncomfortable.
05:48Every Blackclough bride wears one so nobody asks who she belongs to.
05:53Only I take it off.
05:55Wear it to the altar.
05:56Let them all see it before you say my name.
06:05I...
06:07Don't you?
06:11I...
06:11I...
06:12I...
06:14I...
06:15I...
06:20I...
06:34You are bleeding
06:36Frostkin blood, not mine
06:39Their scout will not report what he saw
06:43What happens tonight is yours to give
06:45I do not take it
06:48Do you take each other
06:50Through war and peace
06:52Until the end
06:53Say the words
06:54Loud enough for the whole North to hear
06:57By sky and by iron
06:59I bind my life to his
07:01Whatever comes for him
07:02Gets through me first
07:06Our people do not deserve death
07:08I am doing this for her
07:10For all the innocents in the North
07:12I am not doing this for him
07:15Then seal it
07:21No one has ever kissed you
07:23I can tell
07:23Tonight gives me everything
07:25But I am taking this right now
07:27In front of all of them
07:36I always believed our fathers would give you to me
07:38Then a southern brute rides in
07:40And takes you in an afternoon
07:42Let go of me
07:47A skybound altar makes a wife
07:50The Black Claw need more than words
07:52Bring him in
07:58The Proving
07:59He puts her in front of the dragon
08:01Everyone watches to see if it bows or bites
08:03No one from the North has ever passed it
08:05It will not bow to a sky girl with no gift in her blood
08:07He is going to get her killed in front of her own mother
08:10Do not pull back and do not look away
08:12It smells fear and it smells lies
08:14Show it neither
08:17You will burn my arm off
08:19Then we will both find out what you are made of
08:36Beast knows its queen
08:39Let the North remember it
08:41I am a person Ravec
08:50Not something you show off to your men
08:53You humiliated me out there
09:01Hello little queen
09:05Lothra
09:06You should not be in here
09:07Skybound blood should stay with skybound blood
09:09Our fathers meant you for me
09:11And one southern treaty does not unwrite it
09:12I am only here for what was promised first
09:15The binding is sealed Lothra
09:16Lay one finger on me and you are not insulting a girl
09:19Insulting the whole Blackclow horde
09:20Think hard about what that buys you
09:22He is drunk in the feast hall
09:24With Blackclow girls in his lap
09:25By the time he remembers he has a wife
09:27I will already have made you mine
09:29The warlord is in his cups
09:31And you are all alone girl
09:33One sound out of you
09:34And I will tell them you invited me in
09:38Ravec
09:41Where is your frightened little northern bride
09:43She does not even want you
09:45Come remind yourself
09:49What real women are
09:51I called for Ravec
09:53I do not even know why
09:54He is not my husband
09:55He is my warden
09:56But he is the only one I called
09:58In here
09:59No one will find us
10:01No!
10:03Ravec!
10:04Ravec!
10:05Help me!
10:06Help me!
10:08Help me!
10:14He is not coming for you
10:16You should thank me
10:18When I take you
10:20I will at least be gentle
10:22Which is more than that animal
10:24Would ever give you
10:29You think the warlord cares
10:31What becomes of you tonight
10:32He will never love a skybound girl
10:35He will feed you to his dragon for this
10:37My father commands the king's own guard
10:39No southern dog can touch me in this keep
10:42And no one is coming down that corridor
10:45For a skybound bride
10:49You little skybound bitch
11:08What is mine I keep
11:10What touches it I burn
11:19You put a hand
11:20On what belongs to a warlord
11:24Did you think the dragons would not smell it on you?
11:35You all came to watch a binding
11:37Watch this instead
11:39Look at her
11:40Look at her
11:41The north handed me their last real dragon caller
11:44From tonight she is one of mine
11:45We do not touch our own women like that
11:48We do not go after another man's wife
11:50And we do not lie to the man whose dragons are keeping your north standing
12:03What are you doing?
12:07He reached for a warlord's wife
12:09He will carry the answer on his face
12:11Where the whole north can read it
12:28What is mine I keep
12:31The whole north can watch what touching it costs
12:36That dragon keeps looking at me like it knows something I do not
12:39And honestly at this point
12:41So do I
12:44So this is where it happens
12:46Get it over with
12:47Look at the roost little queen
12:48That is where it happens
12:49Not here
12:50A Blacklaw wedding is not sealed in a bed
12:53It is sealed in fire
12:56At dawn everyone watches the warlord walk through his own dragon's breath
13:00If it is real
13:01The dragon holds
13:02If it is not
13:03He burns in front of everyone
13:04And she goes free
13:06You are going to walk in dragon fire
13:07To prove you own me?
13:09I am going to walk into dragon fire
13:11To prove this is real
13:13What you do with that is up to you
13:15A whole dying kingdom
13:17And the only thing in it worth burning for is you
13:19Do not say that
13:21You do not get to say that
13:23You bought me
13:24You may own this cluff on my wrist
13:26You will never own the rest of me
13:28I will not love you
13:33He's going to ravage me now
13:36I don't want to lose it like this
13:41I do not know what came over me
13:43I will take only what you give me tonight
13:45Sleep little queen
13:46At dawn you watch what your husband walks into for you
13:51He's sparing my virginity
13:53For now
14:34Judge me old friend
14:35The claim is true
14:38Rayback
14:39Rayback no
14:58What happens next is all unreal short
15:00You would have burned to ash
15:02A blast
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