Fated to the Cruel Falcon

Episode 1

Snow has one shot to prove she isn't a "defect." If she wins, she keeps training to become a soldier. If she loses, she drops to the lowest class in the bunny kingdom. Her mother, Juniper, always believed in her — but the herd doesn't. The mockery is brutal: she can't even hop, and the other bunnies call her pathetic, a waste of a daughter.

Only Prince Thorne defends her, promising she belongs and will continue training. Snow clings to that kindness, especially tonight, when Thorne will publicly choose his mate. She's been hoping it's her. Dandelion, meanwhile, is already circling, warning Snow that everything she has will soon be hers.

Episode 2

It's Snow's 18th birthday, and her friends surprise her with gifts — a small bright spot before the bunny ball. But the celebration hides an edge. Whispers cut through the room: she's a freak, an embarrassment. Even the queen of the burrow gets in a jab, asking Snow to give everyone a hop she can't perform.

Snow's wish is painfully simple: that the Burrow Goddess makes Thorne her mate. He's the only chance she has at being accepted. But Thorne is nowhere to be found when she needs him, and a strange voice echoes in her head — a sign that something far bigger than a birthday party is already in motion.

Episode 3

Panicked and alone, Snow goes looking for Thorne — he's the only one who cares, the only one who can protect her. Instead, she walks straight into a scene she can't unsee. Dandelion is with him, and the truth lands like a slap: they've been messing around for years.

When Snow confronts him, Thorne doesn't soften. He mocks her, calling her slow in the head and slow on her feet, and asks if she's ever heard of pity. Everything she thought was special was charity. Then he says the words that break her: he wants Dandelion to be his mate.

Episode 4

Snow begs Thorne not to leave her — he's the only bunny who ever made the forest feel like home. It's no use. Dandelion and the herd turn on her with full venom: she's a defect with no parents and no money, unfit to stand beside a prince. Thorne hides behind duty, claiming he must protect the kingdom and his future mate.

The crowd pushes for the cruelest outcome — banishment, or worse. Thorne warns that if anyone touches Dandelion, the punishment is exile. Snow is left with nothing. And in the shadows, watching the bunnies tear each other apart, the Falcon King sees his opening. "Let the invasion begin."

Episode 5

The attack comes without warning. The bunny kingdom is overrun, and Snow is caught in the chaos, desperate to fight for her herd. Someone pulls her away, insisting they're trying to save her — but no falcon would ever save a bunny. She'd rather die a fighter than a coward, and she says so.

Her rescuer refuses to let her go, dragging her from the slaughter. When the dust settles, Snow is somewhere unfamiliar, and one question gnaws at her: how did this stranger know exactly where to bring her?

Episode 6

Snow finds her grandmother, who heard the wings and pulled her inside. The news is devastating. The herd suffered heavy casualties. They're in falcon territory now. The bunny king was murdered, and Prince Thorne has vanished — or maybe he simply fled.

Worst of all, Juniper, Snow's mother, was killed during the raid. Snow refuses to serve the falcon king, but his royal decree has already gone out: every bunny must return to the training grounds to bolster his ranks. Her grandmother warns that the falcon king's mercilessness knows no bounds. They call him the cruel one. Snow wants to know who is responsible for her mother's death.

Episode 7

In the falcon court, the king is preoccupied with something bigger than the bunnies. His scouts report no sign of cat activity near the borders, but he orders them to keep searching. The files seized during the invasion, he insists, prove the bunnies were talking to bird-hunting vermin — and he won't be caught unguarded.

Meanwhile, Snow faces the other bunnies in training, and the cruelty follows her into captivity. They mock her mother's death, sneer that running is in her blood, and twist the knife about Thorne abandoning her. Snow fires back that her mother held her own just fine — but the taunts about being useless and easy to leave behind clearly land.

Episode 8

A falcon steps in when the bullying goes too far, reminding everyone that under this regime, they respect one another. The bunnies brush it off as teasing, "a bunny thing." Curious, the falcon offers to walk Snow home and admits he saw her at the bunny dance — and that he recognizes her. He knows the whispers about her.

Snow turns the conversation to the falcon king: they say he's cruel, a monster, responsible for her mother's death. The stranger pushes back, asking what proof she actually has. She lists his crimes — slaying their king, sending Thorne running, vowing to destroy everyone who protected the herd. Still, she admits this falcon seems kind. She never gets his name.

Episode 9

Snow is caught out after curfew and warned that the falcon king is stricter than the bunny king ever was. A message is waiting for her: report to sparring training at seven in the morning. The order sickens her — the same king who killed her mother now wants her to train for his agenda. Her grandmother begs her to obey, afraid of losing her too.

Elsewhere, the Falcon King orders an investigation into Juniper's death, because her daughter believes he's to blame. Then, in a moment he can't explain, he finds himself standing at Snow's tent. The realization hits him: she must be his mate.

Episode 10

The bond is undeniable — and forbidden. Snow feels it too, and she can't reconcile it: it's so wrong, yet it feels so right. Caught between grief and a pull she can't fight, she gives in. The Falcon King, the man she blames for her mother's death, is the one her body and heart reach for.

Neither of them knows how to stop it, and neither seems to want to. But if anyone discovers what's happening between a bunny defect and the falcon ruler, the consequences would be catastrophic. The question now is who breaks first — and who finds out.