Arthur Pendragon ♔ King of Camelot (insibbegerest) wrote in kiseki_logs, @ 2015-02-12 13:09:00 |
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009 ♔ Audio/Action
I’ll forgo introductions as at this point I’m sure others are aware of the situation.
While I don’t doubt the good intentions of those here, I will say this: the Lady Morgana is ward to King Uther Pendragon of Camelot and in his absence she is therefore under my protection during her stay in this land, in place of my father.
I won’t allow any harm to come to her. [This is directed at one person in particular.]
Nor will I allow others to take advantage of her kindness. [That is directed at another one person in particular… you know who you are.]
I expect her to be treated with the respect she deserves. Should any feel to disregard this reminder, you will answer to me. [And to her, tbh.] While I lack authority afforded me in Camelot while in this land, understand that I won’t allow for her to be mistreated in any way.
[Filtered away from Morgana]
As it stands, Morgana is— [and it’s strange to say this at all, strange and he can’t get used to it and he’s clearly agitated] unaware of things that will happen in her future. She is from several years in the past in comparison to myself, Merlin, and Lancelot.
There are many things she doesn’t yet know. Many things that I believe would be best for her not to know. [He doesn’t want to keep everything from her, not some things, not when he could do better by her – not when he has a chance to not fail her this time, but…] At least, not for right now. And not found out carelessly through ill-chosen words.
She is – [he can’t just speak of it so easily, and he’s so worried that somehow Morgana will be able to see this, regardless, and he doesn’t want to say it so casually for everyone else to know when she’s still left in the dark. So he says nothing at all.]
She is a good person. Steadfast and determined and – a good friend to those she is loyal to. [He wants to believe that she is a good person, at the heart of it – that if it wasn’t because of everything that happened, she’d still be a good, kind person. It hurts to say that, though, and there’s a long pause in which nothing is said at all yet again] Despite my words, don’t feel you have to avoid her or withdraw from her. Just—
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Do not upset her needlessly. Treat her kindly. That’s all I ask.
[While everything up to this moment has been straight-forward and formal, with perhaps an underlying promise of threat should any harm actually come to Morgana – this last part is… tentative, almost as if he feels he has no right to ask it at all. And for anyone who knows Arthur, that’s perhaps the biggest giveaway to just how lost and uncertain he’s feeling.]
[And he leaves it at that – and should anyone wish to find him in person, he’ll be around. But distracted and overwhelmed. And, above all else, sad. This has brought up some pretty horrible memories in a lot of ways, after all. And he knows that it won’t be easy for Lancelot, once he awakens. And that it isn't easy for Merlin at all.]