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coffee's poured, and I want to talk about the smallest person in Their Brother, the Dragon Sacrifice.
In a house of adults negotiating, a child keeps noticing. A chair nobody uses. A name nobody says at dinner. Grown-ups changing the subject.
Kids read a room faster than anyone admits. They just don't have words, so they watch.
That's what lands for me. It isn't only about the one given away. It's about everyone who adapted to the gap and called it normal.
And when the gap comes home, the child treats him like a person, not a problem.
✨ What worked for me:
- Nobody explains the child's role. You just see it.
- The smallest gestures carry the biggest weight here.
✨ Bottom line: a family drama with a very quiet moral centre.
Who noticed first in your family? Mine was always the youngest.
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coffee's poured, and I want to talk about the smallest person in Their Brother, the Dragon Sacrifice.
In a house of adults negotiating, a child keeps noticing. A chair nobody uses. A name nobody says at dinner. Grown-ups changing the subject.
Kids read a room faster than anyone admits. They just don't have words, so they watch.
That's what lands for me. It isn't only about the one given away. It's about everyone who adapted to the gap and called it normal.
And when the gap comes home, the child treats him like a person, not a problem.
✨ What worked for me:
- Nobody explains the child's role. You just see it.
- The smallest gestures carry the biggest weight here.
✨ Bottom line: a family drama with a very quiet moral centre.
Who noticed first in your family? Mine was always the youngest.
— CR, your coffee-break drama ☕
#DragonSacrifice, #FamilyDrama, #AllAges, #Dragon, #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.
05:21The manor was quiet this early.
05:39Just 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 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
15:38father
15:49my hidden magic will reset your broken bones but it will be painful
15:59the pain of emiris setting my bones back into place was great but nothing compared to the
16:03pain of how my 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
17:37The End
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.
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.
22:27He probably stole these clothes.
22:29You're lying!
22:30A thief in fancy clothes.
22:32Are 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, but there is more to me than meets the eye.
23:46I've decided not to tell them.
23:47They'll find out soon enough.
23:49Will 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.
24:21That scream came from Lady Quinn's 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.
24:49I'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.
25:29Those 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.
25:51What?
25:52No, that isn't what I was doing.
25:53Then 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 and 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?
29:54Well, well, well.
29:55There you are.
29:57Dorian.
29:58Come 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.
30:25Finally, 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.
31:49Father, please, don't be so foolish of you.
32:04My hidden magic will reset your broken bones
32:07But it will be painful
32:13The pain of Emerus setting my bones back into place was great
32:17But nothing compared to the pain of how my family treats me
32:23You have done so much for the Quince
32:27You saved your sister Kaya's life
32:32Don't worry Kaya, I'm here
32:35Alistair, go, save yourself
32:39I'm done for, brother
32:43The hell you are! You're gonna make it! I'll get you to your horse!
32:50Alistair!
32:51And 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
33:18Gone? Gone to where?
33:21My sister's heard my secret plan
33:23I've been caught
33:24What have you been hiding from us?
33:27RUN Gateway
33:28I think you're really bad
33:30And a hard time
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33:32I VAR
33:35I Marriage
33:43And I've been I cable
33:45But even though I'm out of my mind
33:47It nothing is
33:50I don't wanna believe
34:01our realm is under dragon attack the only way to end it is for one human to willingly enter the
34:08dragon valley as a sacrifice will anyone step forward to save the realm i volunteer as sacrifice
34:26you are young to have such a death wish i'm 18 your majesty my only wish is that my life
34:32means
34:32something very well you shall travel to the dragon valley in three days time with the arrival of the
34:38full moon and there you will die before you go i must ask you are so young why would you
34:45give up
34:46your life so freely i'm an orphan found near the dragon valley as a child i have no true family
34:51to
34:51mourn me that 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 queen
35:06they took me in as a child and brought me up as one of their own
35:14lord quinn taught me to run i'm doing it father look that's it alistair soon you shall be riding
35:20a horse like a knight my mother lady quinn taught me to be gentle remember alistair delicate
35:36my older sister the brave knight kaya taught me to fight better 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
35:59my sister elaine blinded by a fever taught me to see more than just what was on the surface
36:05my 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
36:35there is room for only one foundling in this family
36:43my family believed him father banished me from the house ordering me to live in the stables
36:52i've been there ever since despite the pain
36:56the quinn's loved me for many years
36:59they saved my life now i can repay them by saving their lives and the realm no one will miss
37:06me
37:09you are very brave to do this alistair i will make sure you have the finest clothes from my palace
37:14and
37:14you can travel home in my private carriage majesty i do have one request name it and it is yours
37:19i wish that my identity stays a secret that no one outside of the people in this room
37:25will know what i have volunteered to do i 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
37:34alistair is alive this is my command under penalty of death
37:38this is my command under penalty of death
37:48three days in 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.
47:56Zahra's.
47:58I've chatted, John.
48:03Mother, father.
48:18My 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, but nothing compared to the pain of how
48:33my family treats me.
48:38You have done so much for the Quinns.
48:41You saved your sister Kaya's life.
48:46Don't worry, Kaya, I'm here.
48:50Alistair, go.
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!
49:06And 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, and 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?
50:01I've been hiding from us.
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.
50:59You 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. Soon 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, 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
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.
53:37That 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.
53:44Let 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, under penalty of death.
54:02Three days.
54:04In three days I will be gone.
54:27Just as I had hoped,
54:28the manor was quiet this early.
54:31There 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.
54:51Forgive 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.
55:02Are 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
55:23and where you should stay.
55:31In three days I will be gone.
55:48Tell me, when do you plan to tell the Quinns
55:50that you volunteered as the dragon sacrifice?
55:52You know?
55:53But 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.
56:17They'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.
56:27A heart can break twice, boy.
56:29Once 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 Quinns' rose garden.
56:53Mother!
56:59My roses.
57:01My beautiful, innocent roses.
57:04They're dead.
57:09Mother, someone 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.
57:18That's not true.
57:19I've been gone and only just now returned.
57:21Gone where?
57:22To destroy the evidence.
57:23We should search his room.
57:28There is nothing to find.
57:30I swear, please believe me.
57:33There, under his bed.
57:45I don't believe my eyes.
57:47A 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.
58:15Alistair wasn't here this morning.
58:16Yes.
58:16Very convenient that he was absent.
58:19Almost like he knew he needed an alibi.
58:21What?
58:21No, that isn't what I was doing.
58:23Then what were you doing?
58:24Where were you exactly, Alistair?
58:26I can't say.
58:28But it all will become clear in three days.
58:30It's clear to me now.
58:32You 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.
58:41I 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.
58:47Her 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.
59:02Isn't it suspicious that Dorian 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.
59:22It'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 Quinn 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.
59:48Someone found this à Tyve, is a fear of my life.
59:48You're not just what I told them.
59:48You know what, boy?
59:48Have one hate wear.
59:48Ever t matter.
59:49Can you say is also the host?
59:49We'll be the first time.
59:49So dans the house?
59:50Maybe it's gonna be...