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  1. Rec 33

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    Merlin arrives in Camelot and meets an arrogant, infuriatingly attractive knight. Who he thinks is just some Noble's son who wants to get dicked down by a peasant. While Merlin is happy to play along - nothing in Camelot is ever what it seems—and his simple fun is about to get so much more complicated.

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  2. Public Bookmark 3

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    He pulls Merlin into him, or pulls himself into Merlin, hand to his neck, mouth to his forehead. Desperate to feel something from that mysterious glow. Listening for breath, reaching for a pulse, any sound, any movement besides the indifferent lapping of waves.

    "Please."

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  3. Rec 20

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    The chamber ceiling recedes, opens before them. Arthur thinks he could go far as the starless night, be swallowed there, in the belly of a great and terrible serpent. He is no-one; he is nothing. He needs another half to complete him, and without it, he is worse than dead.

    Arthur hears of the Écrevisse, a cave that shows both a man’s greatest fear and deepest desire. To prove himself, he goes alone. Without Merlin. Yet the cave brings Merlin to him, as Arthur’s fears and desires become one.

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    Bookmarker's Notes

    BEAUTIFUL WRITING

  4. Rec 4

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    In Camelot, legend has it that unicorns are benevolent creatures known to swoop in and save helpless madiens, allowing only women close enough to touch them

    Merlin thinks it’s not that simple, and he supposes he’s probably correct when one day a unicorn gives its favor to the Crown Prince, Arthur

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  5. Rec 19

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    “I didn’t know!” Merlin’s voice rises in pitch now to match Arthur’s. “I didn’t know what you would do, not at first—”

    “And what about after I helped you get the druid boy out of the castle? Hmm?”

    Arthur has Merlin there, or at least he thinks he does. Certainly, Merlin deflates a bit, and the strange, heavy atmosphere that had settled over them seems to lighten slightly. But the next words out of Merlin’s mouth are, “So I was supposed to just let you make me leave too? I couldn’t do that, Arthur, I wouldn’t. Not then, not ever.”

    “I wouldn’t have sent you away,” Arthur protests before he can think better of it. He’s struggling to hold onto the anger, the betrayal, but in the face of Merlin’s own evident pain, his overwhelming instinct is to make it go away. “I would have never sent you away, Merlin!”

    “Why not?” Merlin demands.

    “Don’t—” Arthur swallows hard. “Don’t pretend you don’t know,” he goes on, barely more than a whisper. “Not now.”

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    In which Arthur finds discovers Merlin's magic due to Merlin's own bleeding heart, they acknowledge the bond they share, and Arthur realizes that he never had to know about Merlin's magic to truly know him anyway.

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