Drabble: Sublimity (Merlin/Arthur, AU)
Summary: They manifest a nature's sublimity. That is why Gabriel is represented with wings. Not that angels have wings, but that you may know that they leave the heights and the most elevated dwelling to approach human nature. -- Saint John Chrysostom (AN: Written for rane_ab's Guardian Angel plot bunny.)
Sublimity
"Wait, this is It's a Wonderful Life, right? You're some incompetent angel trying to get your wings."
Merlin looks amused.
The wings unfurl, huge and sunlit, almost translucently pale. Merlin's eyes flash gold. For a moment the wings open out, beyond a human scale, beyond comprehension and no longer visible.
Then it's just Merlin, leaning back against the wall in scruffy jeans and a hoodie, indecently smug. But when Arthur blinks he sees an afterimage, the huge span of those wings. "You're not human," he says, really understanding it for the first time.
"No." Merlin's face goes blank. "I'm not."
Sublimity
"Wait, this is It's a Wonderful Life, right? You're some incompetent angel trying to get your wings."
Merlin looks amused.
The wings unfurl, huge and sunlit, almost translucently pale. Merlin's eyes flash gold. For a moment the wings open out, beyond a human scale, beyond comprehension and no longer visible.
Then it's just Merlin, leaning back against the wall in scruffy jeans and a hoodie, indecently smug. But when Arthur blinks he sees an afterimage, the huge span of those wings. "You're not human," he says, really understanding it for the first time.
"No." Merlin's face goes blank. "I'm not."