Challenge 67: Blindfold
Title: Put Away Childish Things
Author: glinda_penguin
Fandom: Merlin
Prompt: Blindfold
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Morgana stands in the courtyard, blindfolded and surrounded by soldiers. There are many of them and so confident that they have her beaten that they have not even bothered to tie her hands.
She closes her eyes and remembers another blindfold, from a summer long ago. In this brief moment of calm she remembers hours spent with Gwen, secretly practicing fighting with wooden swords. Aping the knights’ training she was no longer allowed to attend.
Here and now, she steals the first attacker’s sword and spins, unseeing and elegant, unerringly cutting down all comers, Gwen’s proud laughter in her ears.
Author: glinda_penguin
Fandom: Merlin
Prompt: Blindfold
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Morgana stands in the courtyard, blindfolded and surrounded by soldiers. There are many of them and so confident that they have her beaten that they have not even bothered to tie her hands.
She closes her eyes and remembers another blindfold, from a summer long ago. In this brief moment of calm she remembers hours spent with Gwen, secretly practicing fighting with wooden swords. Aping the knights’ training she was no longer allowed to attend.
Here and now, she steals the first attacker’s sword and spins, unseeing and elegant, unerringly cutting down all comers, Gwen’s proud laughter in her ears.