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Most fantasy shorts stretch the sacrifice over half a season. This one gets it done early, which means the rest of the runtime has to earn its place.
So what fills it? Not plot. Reaction. You watch a household rearrange itself around an absence, then rearrange again when the absence comes home.
The consequence is that every episode after the sacrifice is a different kind of tension. Before, it's dread. After, it's arithmetic — who lied, who knew, who benefited.
Eight episodes means no filler, no recap episode, no cliffhanger padding. Everything on screen is load-bearing.
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- The sacrifice lands by episode three, and I respect that.
- Nothing gets explained twice.
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pacing post for Their Brother, the Dragon Sacrifice, because eight episodes is a bold choice and it works.
Most fantasy shorts stretch the sacrifice over half a season. This one gets it done early, which means the rest of the runtime has to earn its place.
So what fills it? Not plot. Reaction. You watch a household rearrange itself around an absence, then rearrange again when the absence comes home.
The consequence is that every episode after the sacrifice is a different kind of tension. Before, it's dread. After, it's arithmetic — who lied, who knew, who benefited.
Eight episodes means no filler, no recap episode, no cliffhanger padding. Everything on screen is load-bearing.
✨ What actually worked for me:
- The sacrifice lands by episode three, and I respect that.
- Nothing gets explained twice.
✨ Bottom line: one of the tightest eight-episode arcs on the app.
Did the pacing feel fast or right to you?
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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.
05:21Three days.
05:22Three days.
05:24Three days.
05:43Just as I had hoped, the manor was quiet this early.
05:47There would be no family around to see me arriving for my secret trip to the captain.
05:52though perhaps i've spoken too soon they seem angry
05:59and where have you been there are dragons on the loose boy you should be guarding this
06:04manner with your life not disappearing like a common coward forgive me my lord
06:10a stable rat dressed as a prince you probably stole these clothes you're lying a thief in
06:17fancy clothes are the clothes we give you not enough did you have to go steal these
06:29yet again you embarrass our family your stolen clothes don't look so nice now come on kaya
06:35ignore him you are just a stable boy the mud is where you belongs and where you should stay
06:47in three days i will be gone
07:04tell me when do you plan to tell the quins that you volunteered as the dragon sacrifice
07:08you know but how people see me as nothing more than a loyal butler but there is more
07:16to me than meets the eye
07:31i've decided not to tell them they'll find out soon enough will you keep this between us
07:38yes i will keep your secret the realm needs a sacrifice not a family scandal
07:43a heart can break twice boy once from cruelties and once from silence
07:50then let mine break quietly
07:54emrys was the man who found me as a baby later he would come to work for my family
07:59i know i can trust him certainly more than my family
08:06that scream came from lady quinn's rose garden mother
08:15my roses my beautiful innocent roses they're dead
08:26mother someone put salt in the soil nothing can survive in your garden
08:30who could have done this alistair was angry that you praised my pruning yesterday
08:34that's not true i've been gone and only just now returned
08:37gone where to destroy the evidence we should search his room
08:44there is nothing to find i swear please believe me
08:48there 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 very convenient that he was absent
09:35almost like he knew he needed an alibi
09:36what no that isn't what i was doing
09:39then what were you doing where were you exactly
09:42alistair
09:42i can't say but all become clear in three days
09:46it's clear to me now
09:47you intentionally destroyed my wife's prized roses
09:51i i didn't please 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
10:02her 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 please believe me
10:34don't hurt him dear sister
10:36we should feel sorry for alistair
10:37it's been hard for him to adjust to having me around as a foster brother
10:40but i understand
10:41doran 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 quinn's against me
10:54the quinn 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
11:10but to my surprise
11:12i found dorian sitting in my usual seat at the family table
11:16excuse me dorian
11:17there must be some mistake
11:19you're in my seat
11:21rather than fight dorian
11:23i figured it best to treat him with kindness
11:25and hope he did the same
11:27but lord quinn had other ideas
11:29the only mistake alistair
11:31is you thinking that there is a seat here for you at this table after what you did today
11:35you may dine with the servants
11:38until you stop these desperate cries for attention
11:40you will remain as you were when we found you
11:44an outsider
11:49yes my lord
11:49father
11:51you'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
12:03thank you
12:04now that he's washed the mud off his stolen clothes
12:07i'd like to propose a toast
12:08to alistair
12:10the cleanest stable 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
12:20not this nasty joke
12:27my lords
12:27the family sheep
12:28they 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 veil
13:15never save the realm
13:19just make it quick
13:35why haven't you killed me
13:39well well well there you are
13:42dorian
13:43come 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
13:55i 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
14:07and it will be
14:08me
14:11finally
14:12dorian 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
15:27father
15:28father
15:28father
15:28he's placed her just down
15:28yeah
15:30mother
15:35father
15:38father
15:39father
15:49my hidden magic will reset your broken bones but it will be painful
15:59the pain of emeryst setting my bones back into place was great but nothing compared to the pain of how
16:04my family treats me
16:08you have done so much for the quints
16:12you saved your sister kaya's life
16:17don't worry kaya i'm here
16:21alistair go save yourself i'm done for brother
16:28the hell you are you're gonna make it i'll get you to your horse
16:35alistair and nearly lost yours
16:40you nursed your blind sister elaine through fever
16:44back back and protected the animals of the stable with your life
16:50and still your family leaves you on the ground like trash
16:53it's true that i love my family even though they treat me so poorly
16:57but they once loved me too and i can never forget that
16:59it doesn't matter i'll soon be gone from this place forever
17:03gone gone to where
17:06my sister's heard my secret plan i've been caught
17:10what have you been hiding from us
17:16you
17:18you
17:19you
17:19you
17:19you
17:19you
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.
18:15My 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, you are so young, why would you give up your life so freely?
18:32I'm an orphan.
18:34Found near the Dragon Valley as a child, I have no true family to mourn me.
18:38That is because my family already treats me like I'm dead, though 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 run.
19:02I'm doing it, Father, look!
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 sister, Elaine, blinded by a fever, taught me to see more than just what was on the surface.
19:49Dorian, the son of a defeated noble sent to my father as payment.
19:53I 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, despite the pain.
20:41The Quinns loved me for many years.
20:45They 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.
21:35In three days.
21:35In 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 they seem angry
22:14and where have you been there are dragons on the loose boy you should be guarding this
22:18manor with your life not disappearing like a common coward forgive me my lord
22:24a stable rat dressed as a prince you probably stole these clothes you're lying
22:30a thief in fancy clothes are the clothes we give you not enough did you have to go steal these
22:44yet again you embarrass our family your stolen clothes don't look so nice now come on kaya
22:49ignore him you are just a stable boy the mud is where you belongs and where you should
22:54stay
23:01in three days i will be gone
23:19tell me when do you plan to tell the quins that you volunteered as the dragon sacrifice
23:23you know but how people 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 they'll find out soon enough
23:50will you keep this between us
23:53yes i will keep your secret the realm needs a sacrifice not a family scandal
23:57a heart can break twice boy once 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 certainly more than my family
24:20that scream came from lady quinn's rose garden
24:24mother
24:30my roses
24:31my beautiful innocent roses
24:34they're dead
24:41mother someone put salt in the soil nothing can survive in your garden
24:44who could have done this
24:46alistair was angry that you praised my pruning yesterday
24:48that's not true i've been gone and only just now returned
24:51gone where to 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
25:17a sack of salt
25:19half empty
25:27i told you he did it
25:29those roses were the one thing i trusted you with
25:34how could you
25:38i 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
25:46yes very convenient that he was absent
25:49almost like he knew he needed an alibi
25:51what no that isn't what i was doing
25:53then what were you doing where were you exactly
25:56alistair
25:57i can't say
25:58i can't say but all 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 please mother
26:07do not call me that
26:09do not call me that
26:10you've changed alistair
26:11i don't know this person you've become
26:13i'm not your mother and you're not my son
26:16my heart is breaking
26:17her 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
26:28i 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
26:44please 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
26:59it'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 quinn's against me
27:08the 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
27:27i 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
27:37i figured it best to treat him with kindness
27:39and hope he did the same
27:41but lord quinn had other ideas
27:43the only mistake alistair
27:46is you thinking that there is a seat here for you at this table
27:49after what you did today
27:50you may dine with the servants
27:52until you stop these desperate cries for attention
27:55you will remain as you were when we found you
27:58an outsider
28:03yes my lord
28:04father
28:05you'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
28:18thank you
28:19now that he's washed the mud off his stolen clothes
28:22i'd like to propose a toast
28:23to alistair
28:24the cleanest stable 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
28:34not this nasty joke
28:41my lords
28:42the family sheep
28:43they have escaped from their pins into the night
28:47how could this have happened
28:49alistair is the stable boy
28:50it was his responsibility
28:52he must have let them escape
28:55i couldn't believe it
28:57i cared for those sheep
28:58and would never let them loose
29:00but there's no time to argue
29:01with dragons in the realm
29:03i 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
29:28now i'll never make it to the veil
29:30never save the realm
29:34just make it quick
29:50why haven't you killed me
29:54well well well
29:55there you are
29:57dorian
29:57come 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
30:10i 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
30:21and it will be
30:23me
30:25finally
30:26dorian 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
31:03he spooked the sheep and caused a stampede
31:07it's not true
31:08there was a dragon
31:10i was only trying to save dorian
31:12the dragon that almost burnt us both alive has disappeared
31:14and where has this dragon gone
31:17why do you keep lying
31:18father please don't be so hard on alistair
31:20he only lies like this because he is so jealous of me
31:46father
31:47father
31:50father
31:51It's placed in just town.
31:53Yeah.
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.
32:32Don't worry, Kaya. I'm here.
32:35Alistair, go. Save yourself. I'm done for, brother.
32:43The hell you are! You're gonna make it. I'll get you to your horse.
32:50Alistair!
32:50And nearly lost yours.
32:55You nursed your blind sister Elaine through fever.
32:58Back! Back!
33:00And protected the animals of the stable with your life.
33:05And still your family leaves you on the ground like trash.
33:08It's true that I love my family even though they treat me so poorly.
33:11But they once loved me too, and I can never forget that.
33:14It doesn't matter.
33:16I'll soon be gone from this place forever.
33:19Gone? Gone to where?
33:21My sister's heard my secret plan.
33:23I've been caught.
33:25What have you been hiding from us?
33:42No!
33:50No!
33:51Don't, don't, don't preach!
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, you are so young, why would you give up your life so freely?
34:47I'm an orphan.
34:48Found near the dragon valley as a child, I have no true family to mourn me.
34:52That is because my family already treats me like I'm dead, though it was not always the case.
34:58I was raised a noble of House Quinn, by 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, delicate.
35:36My sister, Elaine, blinded by a fever, taught me to see more than just what was on the surface.
35:59I slept up.
36:03Dorian, 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.
36:17Yes.
36:18Yes.
36:18Yes.
36:19Yes.
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.
37:05No 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.
37:16Majesty, I do have one request.
37:18I wish that my identity stays a secret, that no one outside of the people in this room will know
37:25what I have volunteered to do.
37:27I 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.
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.
38:41He 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, ignore 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.
39:33Tell 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.
40:23Emerus 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.
40:39Mother!
40:44My roses.
40:46My beautiful, innocent roses.
40:49They're dead.
40:55Mother, someone put salt in the soil.
40:57Nothing can survive in your garden.
40:59Who could have done this?
41:00Alistair 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.
41:09We 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...
41:52I 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.
42:06What?
42:07No, that isn't what I was doing.
42:08Then what were you doing?
42:09Where were you exactly, Alistair?
42:12I can't say.
42:14But it all will 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.
43:15It'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 Quin family will blame you for this.
43:26And love me in return.
43:30It doesn't matter.
43:31It 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.
44:46My sacrifice to the Dragon King would earn a real toast, 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?
46:12Dorian, 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.
46:58Brother, watch out!
47:17Alistair attacked me.
47:18He 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.
47:26The dragon that almost burnt us both alive has disappeared.
47:29And where has this dragon gone?
47:32Why 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.
47:55Your brother, we just have to lose.
47:56Zaris.
47:58I've chatted you.
48:01Mother.
48:03Father.
48:05Jory's placed her just now.
48:18My hidden magic will reset your broken bones.
48:22But it will be painful.
48:28The pain of Emerus setting my bones back into place was great, but nothing compared to the pain of how
48:33my family treats me.
48:38You have done so much for the Quins.
48:41You saved your sister Kaya's life.
48:46Don't worry.
48:47Don't worry, Kaya.
48:47I'm here.
48:50Alistair.
48:51Go.
48:52Save yourself.
48:53I'm done for, brother.
48:58The hell you are.
48:59You're going to make it.
49:00I'll get you to your horse.
49:04Alistair!
49:05And nearly lost yours.
49:09You nursed your blind sister Elaine through fever.
49:13Back!
49:14Back!
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.
49:27And I can never forget that.
49:29It doesn't matter.
49:31I'll soon be gone from this place forever.
49:33Gone?
49:35Gone 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?
50:02Turn it off!
50:07Freeze!
50:07Freeze!
50:15Our realm is under dragon attack.
50:18The only way to end it is for one human to willingly enter the dragon valley as a sacrifice.
50:26Will anyone step forward to 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 in three days time with the arrival of the full moon.
50:55And there you will die.
50:57Before you go, I must ask, you are so young, why would you give up your life so freely?
51:02I'm an orphan.
51:03Found near the dragon valley as a child, I have no true family to mourn me.
51:07That is because my family already treats me like I'm dead, though it was not always the case.
51:13I was raised a noble of House Quinn, by Lord Quinn and Lady Quinn.
51:21They took me in as a child and brought me up as one of their own.
51:29Lord Quinn taught me to ride.
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, taught me to see more than just what was on the surface.
52:14I saw a few...
52:18I saw a number of her son.
52:18Dorian, 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 to me
52:50There is room for only one foundling in this family
52:58My family believed him
53:01Father banished me from the house, ordering me to live in the stables
53:07I've been there ever since, despite the pain
53:10The Quinns loved me for many years
53:14They saved my life
53:16Now I can repay them by saving their lives and 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 and you can travel home in my private
53:30carriage
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 will 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, so long as Alistair is alive
53:50This is my command, under penalty of death
54:02Three days
54:04In three days I will be gone
54:22Thank you
54:27Just as I had hoped, the manor was quiet this early
54:31There would be no family around to 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, not disappearing like a common coward
54:51Forgive 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
55:20You are just a stable boy
55:22The mud is where you belong and where you should stay
55:31In three days I will be gone
55:48Tell me, when do you plan to tell the quins that you volunteered as the dragon sacrifice?
55:52You know, but how?
55:57People 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, not a family scandal
56:26A 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
56:42I 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
57:44I 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...
58:04I 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
58:18Almost 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, Alistair?
58:27I 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 death
59:37And turn the Quinns against me
59:38The Quinns 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