mini commentfic collection [in the comments]
...for all the stuff from the one-sentence writing meme at the other journal (so far). yeah, they sort of didn't end up being one-sentence..
various fandoms, pairings, etc, etc.
various fandoms, pairings, etc, etc.
"It doesn't have to end like this," he says softly, magic humming under his skin, the gold of it in his eyes and pulsing in his blood. "I don't want to fight you."
"Did you not try to murder me?" she asks, wild-eyed, fingertips charred with magic of the darkest kind, "And then hold me in your arms as you waited out my death?"
The broad ring of rubble around them was once the castle's keep, the tallest tower seen from miles away. Back in the day, it had been Uther's pride, Camelot's.
"I don't expect you to forgive me," the pain is written in his eyes and the apology is clear on his face, "but you left me no choice. You betrayed us, all for the sake of hatred."
"There is always a choice, and you chose to betray your kin. All of it for what? An allegiance to your beloved prince? This is the price, Merlin. The only way it can ever end."
Her irises glimmer red then gold as she hisses words foreign to his tongue: altaué aetlaetnes.
He senses rather than hears the spell, and it is magic of a sort he has never known, can never know, will never know now.
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