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    The snow bites into his cheek. The wind carves his cheekbone as he hunches his too-small shoulders. The cloak wrapped haphazardly around his neck flaps and snaps in the gale, threatening to choke him. He can’t even summon the strength to grit his teeth.

    Undead legs move on.

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    It shouldn't be a surprise, really, if the knights think punching each other in the arm is a viable and efficient way of cheering each other up, that they also think insulting each other is a perfectly good way to show affection. Insults are compliments, threats are reassurances, and actual bodily harm is considered good manners or at the very least the mark of genuine companionship. Basically, take everything Merlin's ever been taught about how you actually treat the people you care about and flip it on its head, because stars know that if any one of these men actually behave as though being nice won't incinerate them, the world will actually end.

    Alright, maybe he's being a bit harsh.

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    The sharp crack rings out through the clearing.

    Heads whip around to see Merlin lying on his side, painfully still. Any remaining bandits die in an instant, corpses kicked aside as the knights rush to converge around the fallen body. Lancelot is the first to arrive, sword dropped as soon as he gets close enough to hover his hands over Merlin's form.

    "Tell me where it hurts," he whispers, eyes on Merlin's ghostly face, "let me help, please, Merlin, what happened?"

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    21 May 2026

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    AU for s03e11, specifically the scene with the two brutes who try to bully Merlin.

    Merlin was thirteen when he found out all about the unspoken hungers of men. His mother had cradled him in her arms afterwards, cheeks wet with fresh tears as she brushed a small trembling hand through his hair and hummed an old lullaby. It’d been his favourite once, about a young dragon enamoured with the sun — he flew so high and nigh he singed his scales in its halo-fire.
    Merlin dried his eyes in his mother’s tunic and put up his first mental wall that day.
    It wasn’t his last.
    It starts like any other day, aside from the fact it is anything but, and tonight, one other wall shall be erected, brick after brick and conjured mortar, to join the rest.

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    16 May 2026

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    Merlin tries to carry on as normal after the events of Lamia but Arthur notices that something is amiss with his servant and vows to get to the bottom of it.

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    12 May 2026