BRIDE — Season 1, Episode 10
S1E10 — Bride
S1E10.1 Night Falls
Night settles over Zaramoko with deceptive calm.
Guard rotations continue unchanged. Lanterns burn at measured intervals. The palace exhales into routine.
Layla moves through the corridors without urgency.
This is not escape.
There is no searching, no testing, no improvisation. Every step has been decided long before it is taken. She passes through spaces where she is expected to be, and through others where no one thinks to look for her anymore.
Trust has softened the edges of vigilance.
Her breathing is steady.
This is the clearest her mind has ever been.
S1E10.2 The Waiting King
Nassori waits alone.
No guards outside the chamber. No visible weapons within reach. The room is lit softly, intentionally.
He is not preparing.
He is present.
Layla enters without announcement.
He turns to face her with no surprise in his expression.
No fear.
No calculation.
Only attention.
S1E10.3 The Strike
Layla does not speak.
She closes the distance in one clean motion.
The blade enters him precisely where it must. No flourish. No hesitation.
Perfect.
Nassori exhales slowly.
He looks at her with quiet admiration.
He smiles.
He falls without a word.
S1E10.4 Fracture
Layla drops beside him as his body hits the floor.
She catches his head before stone can.
Blood spreads across her hands. Warm. Immediate.
She presses against the wound instinctively, knowing even as she does that it is useless.
“Why didn’t you stop me?” she whispers.
“You could have stopped me…”
The truth arrives all at once.
He never knew.
Not her fear.
Not her love.
Not the reason she came.
S1E10.5 Silence
The chamber remains still.
No alarms sound.
No guards rush in.
The world has not caught up yet.
Layla holds him as if proximity might undo consequence.
It does not.
S1E10.6 The Scream
The sound that leaves Layla is not language.
It tears through the chamber, down corridors, into the sleeping palace.
Grief. Horror. Recognition. Loss.
All collapsing into one raw release.
Guards begin to move.
It is already too late.
S1E10.7 Cut to Black
No final words.
No comfort.
No resolution.
Only the echo of her scream as the screen goes dark.
Season One ends.