Reunions (Divides Crossed 12)

by DJ Dubois

After the face off at the Severn, life returns to normal. Merlin and Josiane work on their project. Rodor and Mithian govern. Imagine everyone's surprise when a group of refugees turns up. Lots of surprises. While there's joy for Josiane and Gawain with two of them, another creates conflict and rivalry. Can the issues be resolved or will there be more tension?

1. State of Affairs

Reunions [Divides Crossed 12]

DJ Dubois

March 2018

Rating: T (Teen)

Notes: This is the twelfth installment of the "Divides Crossed" series. Merlin and his cohorts (this version at least) belong to the BBC and Scyfy. Britomart is from Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene. Ywain and Malodius are from Chretien's Yvain Knight of the Lion. Josiane and her cohorts are adapted from the Boeve de Haumtone. Please send comments to dante0220 .

Prologue

The triple goddess speaks….

Thunder rumbles. Lightning flares. Storms both literal and figurative lash out at Britannia's landscape. Even as the Greater Good pulls Camelot's willful weeds from the garden, other noxious pests sprout, grow and fester. Meleagant schemes in Cawdor. Traitors ride to Destination Unknown to Bard and Reader (but not to me) alike. Arthur sulks in the midst of his own self-inflicted mess. Gaius awaits judgment of a higher sort. Nemeth bears some pain and scars. Even my own priestesses deal with their own issues. Truly threats rise from within and without.

Nemeth…Ah… The kingdom used by Fortune to illustrate her long standing point: what was on the bottom can quickly come to the top. Rodor and Mithian, as we've seen, have glided on Opportunity's, Diplomacy's and Luck's breezes to buttress the kingdom's outlook. Size has more than doubled. Reputation has grown by leaps and bounds. Influence has her drifting toward the political center. Whereas she only had four or five stellar knights in an average at best field, now her numbers swell. Whereas Kay would have become another Pendragon, now Mithian looks to the future. Apprenticeship's robes fit Emrys well. Her newfound friends lend further stability.

Speaking of which, even as Guinevere, Hunith and Josiane adjust to life in Whitgate's court, it seems that more arrivals are about to cross the drawbridge so to speak. Do not trouble yourself, Good Reader, these travelers bear but the gladdest of news. The tidings shown between Hunith and Emrys not to mention Gawain and Josiane only prove the first plucks from Harmony's harp.

One of those waits here. The others come from Gaul. They are guided by another of my priestesses, Sister Thessala. How these events affect the rest will determine much…..