Fictober 2022 - Day 9
Prompt: “Do you remember?”
Fandom: BBC Merlin
Pairing(s): all of them
Rating: Teen and Up
Words: 2547
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"Do you remember?"
They all ask him eventually. He can’t fault them for the question, nor the horror and wonder in their eyes. They have only ever lived one lifetime, though they have lived several lives.
"Yes", he used to say, in the very beginning. "Of course I do."
Let me show you. This, Gwen, used to be the castle courtyard, where we first met. This, Lancelot, the glade in which you saved my life. The desert, Gwaine, where you confessed your love for me, the very first time.
Nowadays, those earliest memories are still there, but they blur at the edges like a faded photograph, crackle like static over a radio. What Camelot was, what his life was there, lingers just beyond his grasp.
"Oh,” says Elyan, sitting across from him in a booth at a hole-in-the-wall diner in 1923. “That’s… really sad.”
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