Okay, so this is an idea I've been tossing around for a while. It's a sequel to my one-shot A Single Tear.
I kept debating about whether or not I should leave well enought alone or if I should continue.
After much debate, I decided upon trying to continue it, but I lost the story for a while.
When I found it again, I couldn't remember what my ideas for the sequel had been so I started brainstorming.
As it turns out, I stuck upon an idea that I haven't seen done in any of the King Arthur stories that I've read and I decided, hey, why not?
You don't necessarily have to read A Single Tear to understand this one, but it does help understand background and basic things like who I'm talking about at first.
So here is chapter one of my story Worth It? It starts off immediately after where A Single Tear finished. It is a short chapter, but it's really more of a prologue.
Hope you enjoy! ^_^
Chapter 1: Cold
The woman wakes with a start, stiff and cold. She's sitting in their tree, the fact that the sun is not yet out making it colder still. The cold matches her frozen heart well, she realizes. With a grim nod, she accepts this truth. If he cannot be here, she will stay frozen, untouched by everything.
He is gone. Gone. And there is nothing that can be done by her or anyone.
But just as this thought crosses her mind, so does yet another. She can do nothing. That much is true, but there is one. Perhaps… Perhaps he can.
A man known for his magic and skill. Yes. She will go to him. She shall go to him and beg for his help. He must help her. He must, for if she does not… If he cannot, she shall surely lose her will to live. With these thoughts circling through her mind, she begins to pack her saddle bags and prepare her horse.
The sun is barely breaking through the gloom when she dons her armor and loads her weapons onto her horse. After taking one last inventory, she climbs onto the fine horse.
Without so much as a last glance at her home of one and thirty years, she urges her horse forward. After all, there is nothing here for her. All lies in her destination.
Briton. That is where she must go. Her quest? To find the Merlin.
Anyone have any theories yet? I'd love to hear them. Who knows? Maybe there is a Sherlock Holmes among you.
I'll try to update soon.
~Kanae~