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The dragon takes what it's offered. It doesn't pick a child. It doesn't lie about the deal. Somebody in that family does the choosing, signs the terms, then tells itself it had no options.
That's the trick. Put a monster on the horizon and everyone stops looking at the people splitting the bill.
Rewatch it. The dragon gets four minutes. The negotiation gets a whole episode.
And when the one they gave away comes back, nobody asks who signed. They want him gone again.
✨ What worked for me:
- The dragon never speaks. It doesn't have to.
- Every accusation aimed at it lands on someone in that room.
✨ Bottom line: the monster is a mirror, not a threat.
Who actually made the choice? Say it plainly.
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second post on Their Brother, the Dragon Sacrifice — I want to defend the dragon.
The dragon takes what it's offered. It doesn't pick a child. It doesn't lie about the deal. Somebody in that family does the choosing, signs the terms, then tells itself it had no options.
That's the trick. Put a monster on the horizon and everyone stops looking at the people splitting the bill.
Rewatch it. The dragon gets four minutes. The negotiation gets a whole episode.
And when the one they gave away comes back, nobody asks who signed. They want him gone again.
✨ What worked for me:
- The dragon never speaks. It doesn't have to.
- Every accusation aimed at it lands on someone in that room.
✨ Bottom line: the monster is a mirror, not a threat.
Who actually made the choice? Say it plainly.
— K, karma is a dish best served on screen 🥂
#DragonSacrifice, #FamilyBetrayal, #Dragon, #Karma, #ReelShort
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00:28I've decided not to tell them.
00:30They'll find out soon enough.
00:32Will you keep this between us?
00:35Yes, I will keep your secret.
00:37The realm needs a sacrifice, not a family scandal.
00:40A heart can break twice, boy.
00:42Once from cruelties, and once from silence.
00:47Then let mine break quietly.
00:51Emrys was the man who found me as a baby.
00:53Later, he would come to work for my family.
00:56I know I can trust him.
00:58Certainly more than my family.
01:03That scream came from Lady Quinn's rose garden.
01:31Our realm is under dragon attack.
01:35The only way to end it is for one human to willingly enter the Dragon Valley as a sacrifice.
01:42Will anyone step forward to save the realm?
01:47I volunteer as sacrifice.
01:57You are young to have such a death wish.
01:59I'm 18, your majesty.
02:01My only wish is that my life means something.
02:04Very well.
02:05You shall travel to the Dragon Valley in three days' time with the arrival of the full moon.
02:11And there you will die.
02:13Before you go, I must ask.
02:15You are so young, why would you give up your life so freely?
02:18I'm an orphan.
02:19Found near the Dragon Valley as a child.
02:21I have no true family to mourn me.
02:23That is because my family already treats me like I'm dead.
02:26Though it was not always the case.
02:29I was raised a noble of House Quinn by Lord Quinn and Lady Quinn.
02:37They took me in as a child and brought me up as one of their own.
02:45Lord Quinn taught me to ride.
02:48I'm doing it, Father. Look!
02:49That's it, Alistair.
02:50Soon you shall be riding a horse like a knight.
02:53My mother, Lady Quinn, taught me to be gentle.
02:58Remember, Alistair. Delicate.
03:07My older sister, the brave knight Kaya, taught me to fight.
03:11Better luck next time, brother.
03:15And my sister, Elaine, blinded by a fever, taught me to see more than just what was on the surface.
03:30What is that open?
03:35Dorian, the son of a defeated noble sent to my father as payment.
03:39I thought I found a brother that was like me.
03:42An orphan, except he came from noble birth.
03:46But it was not meant to be.
03:58While hunting, Dorian blamed me for a stab wound he gave himself.
04:06There is room for only one foundling in this family.
04:14My family believed him.
04:17Father banished me from the house, ordering me to live in the stables.
04:23I've been there ever since, despite the pain.
04:26The Quinns loved me for many years.
04:30They saved my life.
04:32Now I can repay them by saving their lives and the realm.
04:36No one will miss me.
04:40You are very brave to do this, Alistair.
04:42I will make sure you have the finest clothes from my palace and you can travel home in my private
04:46carriage.
04:47Majesty, I do have one request.
04:49Name it and it is yours.
04:50I wish that my identity stays a secret.
04:53That no one outside of the people in this room will know what I have volunteered to do.
04:57I promise no one will know.
05:00Let no one here ever speak Alistair's name or mention what he promised to do today so long as Alistair
05:05is alive.
05:06This is my command under penalty of death.
05:18Three days.
05:20In three days I will be gone.
05:43Just as I had hoped, the manor was quiet this early.
05:47There would be no family around to see me arriving from my secret trip to the capital.
05:52Though perhaps I've spoken too soon.
05:56They seem angry.
05:59And where have you been?
06:00There are dragons on the loose, boy.
06:02You should be guarding this manor with your life, not disappearing like a common coward.
06:07Forgive me, my lord.
06:10A stable rat dressed as a prince.
06:12You probably stole these clothes.
06:14You're lying!
06:16A thief in fancy clothes.
06:18Are the clothes we give you not enough?
06:20Did you have to go steal these?
06:26Yes.
06:29Yet again, you embarrass our family.
06:32Your stolen clothes don't look so nice now.
06:34Come on, Kaya, ignore him.
06:36You are just a stable boy.
06:38The mud is where you belong and where you should stay.
06:47In three days, I will be gone.
07:04Tell me, when do you plan to tell the Quinns that you volunteered as the dragon sacrifice?
07:08You know?
07:09But how?
07:13People see me as nothing more than a loyal butler.
07:15But there is more to me than meets the eye.
07:31I've decided not to tell them.
07:33They'll find out soon enough.
07:35Will you keep this between us?
07:38Yes.
07:39I will keep your secret.
07:40The realm needs a sacrifice, not a family scandal.
07:43A heart can break twice, boy.
07:45Once from cruelties and once from silence.
07:50Then let mine break quietly.
07:54Emerus was the man who found me as a baby.
07:57Later, he would come to work for my family.
07:59I know I can trust him.
08:01Certainly more than my family.
08:06That scream came from Lady Quinns' rose garden.
08:09Mother!
08:15My roses.
08:17My beautiful, innocent roses.
08:20They're dead.
08:25Mother.
08:27Someone put salt in the soil.
08:28Nothing can survive in your garden.
08:30Who could have done this?
08:31Alistair was angry that you praised my pruning yesterday.
08:34That's not true.
08:35I've been gone and only just now returned.
08:37Gone where?
08:38To destroy the evidence.
08:39We should search his room.
08:44There is nothing to find.
08:47I swear, please believe me.
08:49There, under his bed.
09:01I don't believe my eyes.
09:03A sack of salt.
09:04Half empty.
09:13I told you he did it.
09:15Those roses were the one thing I trusted you with.
09:19How could you...
09:23I swear I didn't harm your roses.
09:25I haven't even been here long enough to do it.
09:27You saw me arrive early this morning.
09:29That's true.
09:31Alistair wasn't here this morning.
09:32Yes.
09:33Very convenient that he was absent.
09:35Almost like he knew he needed an alibi.
09:37What?
09:37No, that isn't what I was doing.
09:39Then what were you doing?
09:40Where were you exactly, Alistair?
09:42I can't say.
09:44But it all will become clear in three days.
09:46It's clear to me now.
09:48You intentionally destroyed my wife's prized roses.
09:51I didn't.
09:52Please, mother.
09:53Do not call me that.
09:55You've changed, Alistair.
09:57I don't know this person you've become.
09:59I'm not your mother and you're not my son.
10:01My heart is breaking.
10:03Her words hurt worse than any beating ever could.
10:09First, you crippled Dorian on the hunt.
10:11And now you murder mother's prized rose garden.
10:14I didn't do any of those things.
10:18Isn't it suspicious that Dorian knew exactly where to find the salt?
10:21How dare you accuse Dorian!
10:29Please, Kaya.
10:30Please believe me.
10:34Don't hurt him, dear sister.
10:36We should feel sorry for Alistair.
10:38It's been hard for him to adjust to having me around as a foster brother.
10:40But I understand.
10:42Dorian, you're so kind despite everything Alistair has done to you.
10:45It's a shining light that even I can see.
10:48If only they knew the truth.
10:51That it was Dorian stabbed himself to turn the Quinns against me.
10:54The Quin family will blame you for this.
10:56And love me in return.
11:00It doesn't matter.
11:02In three days I'll be gone and never return.
11:07It took so long to clean the mud off me that I arrived at dinner late.
11:11But, to my surprise, I found Dorian sitting in my usual seat at the family table.
11:16Excuse me, Dorian.
11:18There must be some mistake.
11:19You're in my seat.
11:21Rather than fight Dorian, I figured it best to treat him with kindness and hope he did the same.
11:27But Lord Quinn had other ideas.
11:29The only mistake, Alistair, is you thinking that there is a seat here for you at this table after what
11:34you did today.
11:35You may dine with the servants.
11:38Until you stop these desperate cries for attention, you will remain as you were when we found you.
11:43An outsider.
11:49Yes, my lord.
11:50Father, you'll regret the way you've treated me when I'm gone.
11:53If you only knew that I've already promised to save your life.
12:04Now that he's washed the mud off his stolen clothes, I'd like to propose a toast to Alistair, the cleanest
12:11stable boy I know.
12:13If only they knew what I have promised to do.
12:16My sacrifice to the Dragon King would earn a real toast, not this nasty joke.
12:27My lords, the family sheep, they have escaped from their pins into the night.
12:33How could this have happened?
12:35Alistair is the stable boy.
12:36It was his responsibility.
12:37He must have let them escape.
12:41I couldn't believe it.
12:42I cared for those sheep and would never let them loose.
12:45But there's no time to argue.
12:47With dragons in the realm, I must hurry to save their lives.
13:00Come on, sheep.
13:01Come back to your pens.
13:06My worst fear.
13:07A dragon at my family's home.
13:13It will kill me.
13:14Now I'll never make it to the Vale.
13:16Never save the realm.
13:19Just make it quick.
13:35Why haven't you killed me?
13:43Dorian, come to rub it in my face.
13:44He has no idea the danger he's in.
13:49Dorian, you must leave.
13:51I wouldn't miss the sight of you scrambling for the world.
13:54You see, I was the one that let the sheep out of their pens.
14:01I did it because I knew that you would be blamed.
14:04There is only room for one of us in House Quinn, and it will be me.
14:11Finally, Dorian admits his plan.
14:14He wants to make my family hate me and love him.
14:22But Dorian has no idea what danger he's gotten us into.
14:25I need to act now or we both will die.
14:29Brother, watch out!
14:48Alistair attacked me.
14:49He spooked the sheep and caused a stampede.
14:53It's not true.
14:54There was a dragon.
14:55I was only trying to save Dorian.
14:57The dragon that almost burnt us both alive has disappeared.
15:00And where has this dragon gone?
15:02Why do you keep lying?
15:04Father, please, don't be so hard on Alistair.
15:06He only lies like this because he is so jealous of me.
15:25I think we're probably just dead, please.
15:27Zahra's.
15:29I've chatted you.
15:32Mother.
15:34Father.
15:36Jory's placed her just down.
15:49My hidden magic will reset your broken bones.
15:52But it will be painful.
15:59The pain of Emerus setting my bones back into place was great.
16:02But nothing compared to the pain of how my family treats me.
16:08You have done so much for the Quins.
16:12You saved your sister Kaya's life.
16:17Don't worry, Kaya.
16:18I'm here.
16:20Alistair.
16:22Go.
16:23Save yourself.
16:24I'm done for, brother.
16:29The hell you are.
16:30You're going to make it.
16:31I'll get you to your horse.
16:35Alistair!
16:36And nearly lost yours.
16:40You nursed your blind sister Elaine through fever.
16:43Back!
16:45Back!
16:45And protected the animals of the stable with your life.
16:50And still your family leaves you on the ground like trash.
16:54It's true that I love my family even though they treat me so poorly.
16:57But they once loved me too.
16:58And I can never forget that.
17:00It doesn't matter.
17:01I'll soon be gone from this place forever.
17:04Gone?
17:05Gone to where?
17:06My sister's heard my secret plan.
17:09I've been caught.
17:10What have you been hiding from us?
17:29I've been hiding from us.
17:46Our realm is under dragon attack.
17:49The only way to end it is for one human to willingly enter the dragon valley as a sacrifice.
17:56Will anyone step forward to save the realm?
18:02I volunteer as sacrifice.
18:11You are young to have such a death wish.
18:14I'm 18, your majesty.
18:16My only wish is that my life means something.
18:18Very well.
18:20You shall travel to the dragon valley in three days time with the arrival of the full moon.
18:25And there you will die.
18:28Before you go, I must ask.
18:29You are so young.
18:30Why would you give up your life so freely?
18:32I'm an orphan.
18:34Found near the dragon valley as a child.
18:36I have no true family to mourn me.
18:38That is because my family already treats me like I'm dead.
18:41Though it was not always the case.
18:44I was raised a noble of House Quinn by Lord Quinn and Lady Quinn.
18:52They took me in as a child and brought me up as one of their own.
19:00Lord Quinn taught me to ride.
19:02I'm doing it, Father.
19:04Look!
19:04That's it, Alistair.
19:05Soon you shall be riding a horse like a knight.
19:08My mother, Lady Quinn, taught me to be gentle.
19:12Remember, Alistair, delicate.
19:22My older sister, the brave knight, Kaya, taught me to fight.
19:26Better luck next time, brother.
19:30And my sister, Elaine, blinded by a fever,
19:33taught me to see more than just what was on the surface.
19:50Dorian, the son of a defeated noble sent to my father as payment.
19:54I thought I found a brother that was like me.
19:57An orphan, except he came from noble birth.
20:01But it was not meant to be.
20:12While hunted, Dorian blamed me for a stab wound he gave himself.
20:20There is room for only one foundling in this family.
20:29My family believed him.
20:31Father banished me from the house, ordering me to live in the stables.
20:38I've been there ever since.
20:39Despite the pain, the Quinns loved me for many years.
20:44They saved my life.
20:47Now I can repay them by saving their lives and the realm.
20:51No one will miss me.
20:54You are very brave to do this, Alistair.
20:57I will make sure you have the finest clothes from my palace and you can travel home in my private
21:01carriage.
21:02Majesty, I do have one request.
21:04Name it and it is yours.
21:05I wish that my identity stays a secret.
21:08That no one outside of the people in this room will know what I have volunteered to do.
21:12I promise no one will know.
21:14Let no one here ever speak Alistair's name or mention what he promised to do today so long as Alistair
21:20is alive.
21:21This is my command under penalty of death.
21:33Three days.
21:34In three days I will be gone.
21:58Just as I had hoped, the manor was quiet this early.
22:01There would be no family around to see me arriving from my secret trip to the capital.
22:07Though perhaps I've spoken too soon.
22:10They seem angry.
22:14And where have you been?
22:15There are dragons on the loose, boy.
22:17You should be guarding this manor with your life, not disappearing like a common coward.
22:22Forgive me, my lord.
22:24A stable rat dressed as a prince.
22:27You probably stole these clothes.
22:29You're lying!
22:30A thief in fancy clothes.
22:33Are the clothes we give you not enough?
22:34Did you have to go steal these?
22:44Yet again you embarrass our family.
22:46Your stolen clothes don't look so nice now.
22:49Come on, Kaya, ignore him.
22:50You are just a stable boy.
22:52The mud is where you belong and where you should stay.
23:01In three days I will be gone.
23:19Tell me, when do you plan to tell the Quinns that you volunteered as the dragon sacrifice?
23:23You know?
23:24But how?
23:27People see me as nothing more than a loyal butler.
23:30But there is more to me than meets the eye.
23:46I've decided not to tell them.
23:47They'll find out soon enough.
23:50Will you keep this between us?
23:52Yes.
23:53I will keep your secret.
23:55The realm needs a sacrifice, not a family scandal.
23:58A heart can break twice, boy.
23:59Once from cruelties and once from silence.
24:05Then let mine break quietly.
24:08Emrys was the man who found me as a baby.
24:11Later he would come to work for my family.
24:13I know I can trust him.
24:16Certainly more than my family.
24:20That scream came from Lady Quinns Rose Garden.
24:24Mother!
24:30My roses.
24:32My beautiful, innocent roses.
24:35They're dead.
24:40Mother, someone put salt in the soil.
24:43Nothing can survive in your garden.
24:44Who could have done this?
24:46Alistair was angry that you praised my pruning yesterday.
24:49That's not true.
24:50I've been gone and only just now returned.
24:51Gone where?
24:52To destroy the evidence.
24:54We should search his room.
24:59There is nothing to find.
25:01I swear, please believe me.
25:04There, under his bed.
25:16I don't believe my eyes.
25:18A sack of salt.
25:19Half empty.
25:28I told you he did it.
25:30Those roses were the one thing I trusted you with.
25:34How could you...
25:35How could you...
25:37I swear I didn't harm your roses.
25:40I haven't even been here long enough to do it.
25:42You saw me arrive early this morning.
25:44That's true.
25:45Alistair wasn't here this morning.
25:47Yes.
25:47Very convenient that he was absent.
25:49Almost like he knew he needed an alibi.
25:52What?
25:52No, that isn't what I was doing.
25:54Then what were you doing?
25:55Where were you exactly, Alistair?
25:57I can't say.
25:59But it all will become clear in three days.
26:01It's clear to me now.
26:02You intentionally destroyed my wife's prized roses.
26:06I didn't...
26:07Please, mother.
26:08Do not call me that.
26:10You've changed, Alistair.
26:11I don't know this person you've become.
26:14I'm not your mother and you're not my son.
26:16My heart is breaking.
26:18Her words hurt worse than any beating ever could.
26:24First, you crippled Dorian on the hunt.
26:26And now you murder mother's prized rose garden.
26:29I didn't do any of those things.
26:32Isn't it suspicious that Dorian knew exactly where to find the salt?
26:36How dare you accuse Dorian!
26:43Please, Kaya.
26:45Please believe me.
26:48Don't hurt him, dear sister.
26:50We should feel sorry for Alistair.
26:52It's been hard for him to adjust to having me around as a foster brother.
26:55But I understand.
26:56Dorian, you're so kind despite everything Alistair has done to you.
27:00It's a shining light that even I can see.
27:02If only they knew the truth.
27:05That it was Dorian stabbed himself to turn the Quinns against me.
27:09The Quinn family will blame you for this.
27:11And love me in return.
27:15It doesn't matter.
27:17In three days I'll be gone and never return.
27:22It took so long to clean the mud off me that I arrived at dinner late.
27:25But, to my surprise, I found Dorian sitting in my usual seat at the family table.
27:31Excuse me, Dorian.
27:32There must be some mistake.
27:33You're in my seat.
27:36Rather than fight Dorian, I figured it best to treat him with kindness and hope he did the same.
27:41But Lord Quinn had other ideas.
27:44The only mistake, Alistair, is you thinking that there is a seat here for you at this table after what
27:49you did today.
27:50You may dine with the servants.
27:52Until you stop these desperate cries for attention, you will remain as you were when we found you.
27:58An outsider.
28:03Yes, my lord.
28:04Father, you'll regret the way you've treated me when I'm gone.
28:08If you only knew that I've already promised to save your life.
28:19Now that he's washed the mud off his stolen clothes, I'd like to propose a toast to Alistair, the cleanest
28:25stable boy I know.
28:28If only they knew what I have promised to do.
28:31My sacrifice to the Dragon King would earn a real toast, not this nasty joke.
28:41My lords, the family sheep, they have escaped from their pins into the night.
28:47How could this have happened?
28:49Alistair is the stable boy.
28:51It was his responsibility.
28:52He must have let them escape.
28:55I couldn't believe it.
28:57I cared for those sheep and would never let them loose.
29:00But there's no time to argue.
29:02With dragons in the realm, I must hurry to save their lives.
29:15Come on, sheep.
29:16Come back to your pens.
29:21My worst fear.
29:22A dragon at my family's home.
29:27It will kill me.
29:29Now I'll never make it to the Vale.
29:30Never save the realm.
29:34Just make it quick.
29:50Why haven't you killed me?
29:57Dorian, come to rub it in my face.
29:59He has no idea the danger he's in.
30:04Dorian, you must leave.
30:06I wouldn't miss the sight of you scrambling for the world.
30:09You see, I was the one that let the sheep out of their pens.
30:15I did it because I knew that you would be blamed.
30:19There is only room for one of us in House Quinn, and it will be me.
30:26Finally, Dorian admits his plan.
30:28He wants to make my family hate me and love him.
30:37But Dorian has no idea what danger he's gotten us into.
30:40I need to act now or we both will die.
30:44Brother, watch out!
31:02Alistair attacked me.
31:04He spooked the sheep and caused a stampede.
31:07It's not true.
31:09There was a dragon.
31:10I was only trying to save Dorian.
31:12The dragon that almost burnt us both alive has disappeared.
31:15And where has this dragon gone?
31:17Why do you keep lying?
31:18Father, please, don't be so hard on Alistair.
31:21He only lies like this because he is so jealous of me.
31:40You've got a register, please.
31:42Zahra's.
31:44I've chatted you.
31:46Mother.
31:49Father.
31:50The jury's placed in the just tower.
32:04My hidden magic will reset your broken bones, but it will be painful.
32:13The pain of Emerus setting my bones back into place was great, but nothing compared to the pain of how
32:19my family treats me.
32:23You have done so much for the Quinns.
32:27You saved your sister Kaya's life.
32:31Don't worry, Kaya.
32:33I'm here.
32:35Alistair.
32:36Go.
32:37Save yourself.
32:39I'm done for, brother.
32:43The hell you are.
32:44You're going to make it.
32:46I'll get you to your horse.
32:50Alistair!
32:50And nearly lost yours.
32:55You nursed your blind sister Elaine through fever.
32:58Back!
32:59Back!
33:00And protected the animals of the stable with your life.
33:05And still your family leaves you on the ground like trash.
33:09It's true that I love my family even though they treat me so poorly.
33:11But they once loved me too.
33:13And I can never forget that.
33:14It doesn't matter.
33:16I'll soon be gone from this place forever.
33:19Gone?
33:20Gone to where?
33:21My sister's heard my secret plan.
33:23I've been caught.
33:24What have you been hiding from us?
33:51Hey, no!
33:52Don't go to the streets!
34:01Our realm is under dragon attack.
34:04The only way to end it is for one human to willingly enter the dragon valley as a sacrifice.
34:11Will anyone step forward to save the realm?
34:17I volunteer as sacrifice.
34:26You are young to have such a death wish.
34:28I'm 18, your majesty.
34:30My only wish is that my life means something.
34:33Very well.
34:35You shall travel to the dragon valley in three days' time with the arrival of the full moon.
34:40And there you will die.
34:42Before you go, I must ask.
34:44You are so young.
34:45Why would you give up your life so freely?
34:47I'm an orphan.
34:48Found near the dragon valley as a child.
34:50I have no true family to mourn me.
34:52That is because my family already treats me like I'm dead.
34:55Though it was not always the case.
34:58I was raised a noble of House Quinn.
35:01By Lord Quinn and Lady Quinn.
35:06They took me in as a child and brought me up as one of their own.
35:14Lord Quinn taught me to run.
35:17I'm doing it, Father. Look!
35:19That's it, Alistair.
35:20Soon you shall be riding a horse like a knight.
35:23My mother, Lady Quinn, taught me to be gentle.
35:27Remember, Alistair.
35:29Delicate.
35:36My older sister, the brave knight Kaya, taught me to fight.
35:40Better luck next time, brother.
35:45And my sister Elaine, blinded by a fever, taught me to see more than just what was on the surface.
36:04Dorian, the son of a defeated noble sent to my father as payment.
36:08I thought I found a brother that was like me.
36:11An orphan, except he came from noble birth.
36:15But it was not meant to be.
36:27While hunting, Dorian blamed me for a stab wound he gave him to me.
36:35There is room for only one foundling in this family.
36:43My family believed him.
36:46Father banished me from the house, ordering me to live in the stables.
36:52I've been there ever since, despite the pain.
36:56The Quinns loved me for many years.
36:59They saved my life.
37:01Now I can repay them by saving their lives and the realm.
37:06No one will miss me.
37:09You are very brave to do this, Alistair.
37:11I will make sure you have the finest clothes from my palace and you can travel home in my private
37:15carriage.
37:17Majesty, I do have one request.
37:18Name it and it is yours.
37:20I wish that my identity stays a secret.
37:22That no one outside of the people in this room will know what I have volunteered to do.
37:26I promise no one will know.
37:29Let no one here ever speak Alistair's name or mention what he promised to do today so long as Alistair
37:34is alive.
37:35This is my command under penalty of death.
37:47Three days.
37:49In three days I will be gone.
37:51In three days I will be gone.
38:12Just as I had hoped, the manor was quiet this early.
38:16There would be no family around to see me arriving from my secret trip to the capital.
38:22Though perhaps I've spoken too soon.
38:25They seem angry.
38:28And where have you been?
38:30There are dragons on the loose, boy.
38:32You should be guarding this manor with your life, not disappearing like a common coward.
38:36Forgive me, my lord.
38:39A stable rat dressed as a prince.
38:41You probably stole these clothes.
38:43You're lying.
38:45A thief in fancy clothes.
38:47Are the clothes we give you not enough?
38:49Did you have to go steal these?
38:58Yet again, you embarrass our family.
39:01Your stolen clothes don't look so nice now.
39:03Come on, Kaya.
39:04Ignore him.
39:05You are just a stable boy.
39:07The mud is where you belong and where you should stay.
39:16In three days, I will be gone.
39:34Tell me, when do you plan to tell the quins that you volunteered as the dragon sacrifice?
39:38You know?
39:39But how?
39:42People see me as nothing more than a loyal butler.
39:45But there is more to me than meets the eye.
40:00I've decided not to tell them.
40:02They'll find out soon enough.
40:04Will you keep this between us?
40:07Yes.
40:08I will keep your secret.
40:10The realm needs a sacrifice, not a family scandal.
40:12A heart can break twice, boy.
40:14Once from cruelties and once from silence.
40:19Then let mine break quietly.
40:23Emrys was the man who found me as a baby.
40:26Later, he would come to work for my family.
40:28I know I can trust him.
40:31Certainly more than my family.
40:35That scream came from Lady Quinn's rose garden.
40:38Mother!
40:44My roses.
40:46My beautiful, innocent roses.
40:49They're dead.
40:54Mother.
40:56Someone put salt in the soil.
40:57Nothing can survive in your garden.
40:59Who could have done this?
41:01Alistair was angry that you praised my pruning yesterday.
41:03That's not true.
41:04I've been gone and only just now returned.
41:06Gone where?
41:07To destroy the evidence.
41:08We should search his room.
41:13There is nothing to find.
41:16I swear, please believe me.
41:18There, under his bed.
41:30I don't believe my eyes.
41:32A sack of salt.
41:34Half empty.
41:42I told you he did it.
41:44Those roses were the one thing I trusted you with.
41:48How could you...
41:50I swear I didn't harm your roses.
41:55I haven't even been here long enough to do it.
41:57You saw me arrive early this morning.
41:59That's true.
42:00Alistair wasn't here this morning.
42:01Yes.
42:02Very convenient that he was absent.
42:04Almost like he knew he needed an alibi.
42:06No, that isn't what I was doing.
42:08Then what were you doing?
42:09Where were you exactly, Alistair?
42:12I can't say.
42:14It would all become clear in three days.
42:16It's clear to me now.
42:17You intentionally destroyed my wife's prized roses.
42:21I didn't.
42:21Please, mother.
42:22Do not call me that.
42:24You've changed, Alistair.
42:26I don't know this person you've become.
42:28I'm not your mother and you're not my son.
42:31My heart is breaking.
42:32Her words hurt worse than any beating ever could.
42:38First, you crippled Dorian on the hunt.
42:40And now you murder mother's prized rose garden.
42:43I didn't do any of those things.
42:47Isn't it suspicious that Dorian knew exactly where to find the salt?
42:50How dare you accuse Dorian?
42:58Please, Kaya.
42:59Please believe me.
43:03Don't hurt him, dear sister.
43:05We should feel sorry for Alistair.
43:07It's been hard for him to adjust to having me around as a foster brother.
43:10But I understand.
43:11Dorian, you're so kind despite everything Alistair has done to you.
43:14It's a shining light that even I can see.
43:17If only they knew the truth.
43:20That it was Dorian stabbed himself to turn the Quinns against me.
43:23The Quinn family will blame you for this.
43:26And love me in return.
43:30It doesn't matter.
43:31In three days I'll be gone and never return.
43:36It took so long to clean the mud off me that I arrived at dinner late.
43:40But, to my surprise, I found Dorian sitting in my usual seat at the family table.
43:46Excuse me, Dorian.
43:47There must be some mistake.
43:48You're in my seat.
43:50Rather than fight Dorian, I figured it best to treat him with kindness and hope he did the same.
43:56But Lord Quinn had other ideas.
43:58The only mistake, Alistair, is you thinking that there is a seat here for you at this table after what
44:04you did today.
44:05You may dine with the servants.
44:07Until you stop these desperate cries for attention, you will remain as you were when we found you.
44:13An outsider.
44:18Yes, my lord.
44:19Father, you'll regret the way you've treated me when I'm gone.
44:22If you only knew that I've already promised to save your life.
44:34Now that he's washed the mud off his stolen clothes, I'd like to propose a toast to Alistair, the cleanest
44:40stable boy I know.
44:43If only they knew what I have promised to do, my sacrifice to the Dragon King would earn a real
44:48toast, not this nasty joke.
44:56My lords, the family sheep, they have escaped from their pins into the night.
45:02How could this have happened?
45:04Alistair is the stable boy.
45:05It was his responsibility.
45:07He must have let them escape.
45:10I couldn't believe it.
45:12I cared for those sheep and would never let them loose.
45:14But there's no time to argue.
45:16With dragons in the realm, I must hurry to save their lives.
45:30Come on, sheep.
45:31Come back to your pens.
45:35My worst fear.
45:37A dragon at my family's home.
45:42It will kill me.
45:43Now I'll never make it to the Vale.
45:45Never save the realm.
45:48Just make it quick.
46:05Why haven't you killed me?
46:09Well, well, well.
46:10There you are.
46:11Dorian, come to rub it in my face.
46:14He has no idea the danger he's in.
46:18Dorian, you must leave.
46:20I wouldn't miss the sight of you scrambling for the world.
46:23You see, I was the one that let the sheep out of their pens.
46:30I did it because I knew that you would be blamed.
46:34There is only room for one of us in House Quinn, and it will be me.
46:41Finally, Dorian admits his plan.
46:43He wants to make my family hate me and love him.
46:51But Dorian has no idea what danger he's gotten us into.
46:55I need to act now or we both will die.
46:57I need to act now or we both will die.
46:58Brother, watch out!
47:17Alistair attacked me.
47:19He spooked the sheep and caused a stampede.
47:22It's not true.
47:23There was a dragon.
47:25I was only trying to save Dorian.
47:27The dragon that almost burnt us both alive has disappeared.
47:29And where has this dragon gone?
47:31Why do you keep lying?
47:33Father, please, don't be so hard on Alistair.
47:35He only lies like this because he is so jealous of me.
47:38Father, please, don't be so jealous of me.
47:54Your grandpa would just have clues.
47:56Cyrus.
47:58I've chatted you.
48:01Mother.
48:03Father.
48:19My hidden magic will reset your broken bones, but it will be painful.
48:28The pain of Emerus setting my bones back into place was great,
48:31but nothing compared to the pain of how my family treats me.
48:38You have done so much for the Quins.
48:41You saved your sister Kaya's life.
48:46Don't worry, Kaya, I'm here.
48:50Alistair, go. Save yourself. I'm done for, brother.
48:58The hell you are! You're going to make it. I'll get you to your horse.
49:04Alistair!
49:05And nearly lost yours.
49:09You nursed your blind sister Elaine through fever.
49:13Back! Back!
49:15And protected the animals of the stable with your life.
49:19And still your family leaves you on the ground like trash.
49:23It's true that I love my family even though they treat me so poorly.
49:26But they once loved me too, and I can never forget that.
49:29It doesn't matter.
49:31I'll soon be gone from this place forever.
49:34Gone? Gone to where?
49:36My sister's heard my secret plan.
49:38I've been caught.
49:39What have you been hiding from us?
49:42Gone! Gone! Gone!
50:05Hey, don't move!
50:07Freeze!
50:15our realm is under dragon attack
50:18the only way to end it is for one human
50:21to willingly enter the dragon valley
50:23as a sacrifice
50:26will anyone step forward
50:27to save the realm
50:31I volunteer as sacrifice
50:41you are young to have such a death wish
50:43I'm 18 your majesty
50:45my only wish is that my life means something
50:48very well
50:49you shall travel to the dragon valley
50:51in three days time with the arrival of the full moon
50:55and there you will die
50:57before you go I must ask
50:59you are so young why would you give up your life so freely
51:01I'm an orphan
51:03found near the dragon valley as a child
51:05I have no true family to mourn me
51:07that is because my family already treats me like I'm dead
51:10though it was not always the case
51:13I was raised a noble of house Quinn
51:16by lord Quinn and lady Quinn
51:21they took me in as a child
51:22and brought me up as one of their own
51:29lord Quinn taught me to run
51:32I'm doing it father look
51:33that's it Alistair
51:34soon you shall be riding a horse like a knight
51:37my mother lady Quinn taught me to be gentle
51:42remember Alistair delicate
51:51my older sister the brave knight Kaya taught me to fight
51:55better luck next time brother
51:59and my sister Elaine blinded by a fever
52:02taught me to see more than just what was on the surface
52:19Dorian the son of a defeated noble sent to my father as payment
52:23I thought I found a brother that was like me
52:26an orphan except he came from noble birth
52:30but it was not meant to be
52:41while hunting Dorian blamed me for a stab wound he gave him
52:50there is room for only one foundling in this family
52:58my family believed him
53:00father banished me from the house
53:02ordering me to live in the stables
53:07I've been there ever since
53:08despite the pain
53:10the quins loved me for many years
53:14they saved my life
53:16now I can repay them by saving their lives
53:18and the realm
53:20no one will miss me
53:23you are very brave to do this Alistair
53:26I will make sure you have the finest clothes from my palace
53:28and you can travel home in my private carriage
53:31majesty I do have one request
53:33name it and it is yours
53:34I wish that my identity stays a secret
53:36that no one outside of the people in this room
53:39will know what I have volunteered to do
53:41I promise no one will know
53:43let no one here ever speak Alistair's name
53:46or mention what he promised to do today
53:48so long as Alistair is alive
53:50this is my command
53:51under penalty of death
54:02three days
54:04in three days I will be gone
54:22thank you
54:27just as I had hoped
54:28the manor was quiet this early
54:30there would be no family around
54:32to see me arriving from my secret trip to the capital
54:36though perhaps I've spoken too soon
54:40they seem angry
54:43and where have you been?
54:44there are dragons on the loose, boy
54:46you should be guarding this manor with your life
54:49not disappearing like a common coward
54:50forgive me, my lord
54:54a stable rat dressed as a prince
54:56you probably stole these clothes
54:58you're lying
54:59a thief in fancy clothes
55:01are the clothes we give you not enough?
55:04did you have to go steal these?
55:13yet again you embarrass our family
55:16your stolen clothes don't look so nice now
55:18come on, Kaya, ignore him
55:19you are just a stable boy
55:22the mud is where you belong
55:23and where you should stay
55:31in three days I will be gone
55:48tell me
55:49when do you plan to tell the quins
55:50that you volunteered as the dragon sacrifice?
55:52you know?
55:53but how?
55:56people see me as nothing more than a loyal butler
55:59but there is more to me than meets the eye
56:15I've decided not to tell them
56:16they'll find out soon enough
56:19will you keep this between us?
56:22yes
56:23I will keep your secret
56:24the realm needs a sacrifice
56:25not a family scandal
56:27a heart can break twice, boy
56:28once from cruelties
56:30and once from silence
56:34then let mine break quietly
56:38Emrys was the man who found me as a baby
56:40later he would come to work for my family
56:43I know I can trust him
56:45certainly more than my family
56:50that scream came from Lady Quinn's rose garden
56:53mother
56:59my roses
57:01my beautiful innocent roses
57:03they're dead
57:09mother
57:10someone put salt in the soil
57:12nothing can survive in your garden
57:14who could have done this?
57:15Alistair was angry that you praised my pruning yesterday
57:17that's not true
57:19I've been gone and only just now returned
57:20gone where?
57:22to destroy the evidence
57:23we should search his room
57:28there is nothing to find
57:30I swear, please believe me
57:32there, under his bed
57:45I don't believe my eyes
57:46a sack of salt
57:48half empty
57:57I told you he did it
57:59those roses were the one thing I trusted you with
58:03how could you
58:07I swear I didn't harm your roses
58:09I haven't even been here long enough to do it
58:11you saw me arrive early this morning
58:13that's true
58:14Alistair wasn't here this morning
58:16yes, very convenient that he was absent
58:19almost like he knew he needed an alibi
58:20what?
58:21no, that isn't what I was doing
58:22then what were you doing?
58:24where were you exactly?
58:26Alistair
58:26I can't say
58:28but it all will become clear in three days
58:30it's clear to me now
58:31you intentionally destroyed my wife's prized roses
58:35I didn't
58:36please, mother
58:37do not call me that
58:39you've changed, Alistair
58:40I don't know this person you've become
58:43I'm not your mother and you're not my son
58:45my heart is breaking
58:46her words hurt worse than any beating ever could
58:53first you crippled Dorian on the hunt
58:55and now you murder mother's prized rose garden
58:58I didn't do any of those things
59:01isn't it suspicious that
59:03Dorian knew exactly where to find the salt
59:05how dare you accuse Dorian
59:13please, Kaya
59:14please believe me
59:18don't hurt him, dear sister
59:20we should feel sorry for Alistair
59:21it's been hard for him to adjust to having me around as a foster brother
59:24but I understand
59:25Dorian, you're so kind despite everything Alistair has done to you
59:29it's a shining light that even I can see
59:32if only they knew the truth
59:35that it was Dorian stabbed himself to turn the Quinns against me
59:38the Quin family will blame you for this
59:40and love me in return
59:44it doesn't matter
59:46in three days I'll be gone and never return
59:48you
59:48you