Taming the General

Episode 1

The king's decree lands like a blade: every household must send one able man to fight the returning demon war, or forfeit its land. In the Green house, that man would be Elias — too weak to cross a room, let alone a battlefield. So his twin sister Ella cuts her hair and takes his name.

She reports for duty as Ella Green of Ashford, warning her family not to come after her. Among the recruits she catches her first glimpse of General Micah Roth, the man who saved her life seven years ago. He doesn't recognize her. And she carries a second reason for being here that she's never told anyone.

Episode 2

Training begins brutally, and Micah still sees only a scrawny recruit. When he looks closely at "Ella," Ella panics — the last time he looked at her that way, her house was burning and he pulled her from the flames, saving a pendant from her mother.

He greets her as Ella Green's son and orders her not to shame her father's name. Then a sparring match turns heads: Ella drops the bullying cadet Bram Holt flat. Micah watches, startled, and asks where the boy learned to fight like that. Ella can't tell whether she's relieved he doesn't know her — or heartbroken.

Episode 3

Summoned to the general's tent, Ella is sure she's been found out and expects to hang by sunrise. Instead, Micah wants to talk about her father — and about "little Ella." He remembers a stubborn girl who refused to cry. She corrects him: she's twenty-one now, not a child.

The wine loosens his tongue. He admits she crosses his mind more than she should — more than his best friend's daughter ever should. Ella leaves reeling, certain he thinks about her. Outside, Bram is waiting, spoiling for another fight, and a sergeant punishes them both with an early-morning trial.

Episode 4

The sergeant's punishment is a river crossing under mock enemy fire — and everyone blames Ella Green and Bram Holt for it. Armor off, gear off, into the freezing water. For Ella, undressing in front of the company means exposure and death.

She fakes a collapse instead, and the men read it as cowardice. Bram sneers that her earlier win was luck. Humiliated and sick with lies, Ella slips out of camp at midnight for a few private minutes to wash. Bram catches her leaving and accuses her of desertion.

Episode 5

At the river, Bram's suspicion forces the moment Ella has dreaded. Micah appears, spots the pendant around her neck — the one he pulled from the fire himself — and finally sees her. "Ella, what the hell are you doing in my army?"

She tells him the truth: she's saving her brother and her father, and proving she's stronger than he thinks. Strength was never the question, he says. Her father is his best friend; he should not be looking at her. But he is. And he can't forgive himself for it — though his face says he doesn't regret it at all.

Episode 6

Micah orders her home at dawn. Ella refuses: if she leaves, Elias takes her place and dies. She asks him to look away for the length of one war and help her keep her secret. If she's caught, she hangs — and if he's caught hiding her, he hangs beside her.

He gives in, cursing her stubbornness, then makes a decision. The only way to keep her hidden is to make her his personal aide, sleeping in the commander's tent. He sets rules: never leave his sight, be Elias before the men, and come to him if anyone lays a hand on her.

Episode 7

Sharing the commander's tent proves its own kind of torture. Ella needles him about making a lady sleep on a cot; he reminds her she's a soldier here, not a lady. Neither of them sleeps. In the dark he admits he can't — because she's his best friend's daughter, and because holding her hand would give the men ideas neither of them could survive.

By dawn, the camp has noticed. Whispers spread that Green came out of the general's tent and now warms his bed. Bram decides to find out what's really going on in there.

Episode 8

Micah makes it official: Ella Green serves as his personal aide, answering to no orders but his. The camp seethes with rumors that the "little prince" earned his place some other way. Ella lets them talk, as long as nobody looks too closely.

Then she proves her worth, spotting three-clawed marks along the supply road that officers dismissed as bears. Demon claw marks, she insists — something is hunting that road. Micah is impressed. The closeness that follows is dangerous: armor straps, lingering hands, and his quiet admission that he doesn't get to want her.

Episode 9

Sent on an errand, Ella is cornered by Bram and the other cadets, who accuse her of tricking or bribing her way into the general's tent. She fires back that she earned her place and fights better than any of them. It escalates fast.

Bram drags her toward the yard to strip her uniform off in front of the whole camp. Ella fights back and breaks his nose with a demon-iron weapon. But the cadets aren't done — they're certain Ella is hiding something, and tearing off that uniform would expose her bindings and end everything.

Episode 10

The cadets haul Ella into the yard, shackled, determined to strip the general's favorite in front of everyone. Bram taunts that they'll see what Ella is hiding. Ella's mind races: if the sash comes off, the bindings show, and both she and Elias are dead.

She fights, but they keep coming. Then a voice cuts through — Micah, shouting her real name, "Ella," in front of all of them. He just told the men who hate her exactly what she is. Whatever happens next, there's no hiding now.

Keep watching to see whether Micah can shield Ella from the army closing in — and from what's clawing its way up from underground.