Chapter 1

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Eva looked out of the car window at the countryside speeding by, a blur of greens and browns. Her younger brother Thomas was chattering away to the grandparents in the front of the car. For the last three weeks he had had an obsession with the legend of King Arthur and Merlin. He was always pretending he was knight of Camelot, which is why they were heading towards Cadbury Castle. It was one of many places the fabled Kingdom of Camelot was supposed to be. Although it wasn't really Eva's cup of tea she was going along with it to keep her brother happy.

When they arrived Thomas went running on ahead waving a stick about pretending it was a sword. Eva giggled at her brother as he ran around. They sat on top of the hill where the great Castle would have once stood and had they're picnic. Rather than sitting through another story about King Arthur and his adventures Eva announced she was going to walk through the woods that surrounded the hill.

"Okay dear, we'll meet you back at the car in an hour" Eva's Grandmother said to her.

"Okay then, see you soon" Eva replied.

There was no path in the woods and the ground was very rough. Eva kept stumbling over roots and rocks and was finding it hard to keep her balance. She stopped to admire the view, though there wasn't very much to see, she looked upward to the sky and her eyes widened. Almost in a perfect circle around her sitting in the trees were hundreds of big, black crows. All staring straight at her. They were silent at first, simply watching, but suddenly one of them screeched at her which then set off the ominous bunch. All of them were crowing and cawing at her. Eva stepped back and gasped as she lost her footing. She went crashing backwards and rolled a few feet down the hill. Her body slammed into the base of an old Oak tree and she heard a sickening crack as her head came in contact with a large stone. Her world blurred and she saw was a pair of black, beady eyes staring at her. The crow screeched one last time before Eva lost consciousness completely.

Eva heard voices in the background, people talking.

"What happened to her?" A commanding voice sounded

"I don't know she just fainted" A girl replied.

"She's bleeding, someone fetch Gaius" The same commanding voice spoke.

Eva fluttered her eyes open and caught a glimpse of a young blond hair man standing over her. She was slipping in and out of consciousness. Eva felt herself being scooped up in strong arms and she was taken inside.

When Eva woke she was in a candle lit room, with stone walls. She was lying on some sort of bed, though it wasn't comfortable. She sat up and was greeted by a throbbing pain coming from the back of her skull. Suddenly her memory flooded back to her, the castle, the picnic, her fall, the crows. She certainly wasn't in hospital or back at her grandparents' house. Looking around the dimly lit room again she saw shelves with various jars and books on them. Old looking furniture was dotted around. She decided to get up and look around. Her eyes scanned the shelves, and she rifled through some of the papers that covered a desk. She jumped as the door to the room opened and an old man with long grey hair walked in.

"Ah good your awake, how are you feeling?" he inquired.

Eva stared blankly at him, where on earth was she, he was dressed in very old fashioned clothes none of this made sense to her. After a few minutes silence she spoke.

"I'm fine, I think but where am I?"

"Well you're in Camelot of course, I'm Gaius, the King's Physician"

Eva could not believe what this man had just told her. She was in Camelot. Had she actually travelled back in time or was this just a sick joke.

"I'm in Camelot, and you're the King's Physician, you mean King Arthur?"

Gaius chuckled at this.

"No, no my dear, Arthur is not the king yet, I am King Uther's physician."

Eva's eyes nearly popped out. She had to have gone back in time, it was the only explanation, no one would go to these lengths just to play a trick on her.

"You were brought here by Prince Arthur, you fainted in the street and received a rather nasty head wound" Gaius explained. Eva felt lightheaded again and swayed as she stood. Gaius rushed over to support her, he led her to a seat and sat her down.

"I don't remember anything, I don't know how I got here or why I'm here" Eva gushed.

"Well you were carrying papers saying you were to work for the King, as a servant to Prince Arthur." Gaius handed her a rolled up piece of parchment. Sure enough there on the paper it said everything she needed to know. Yet it seemed so alien to her. She was going to be a servant to Prince Arthur, she couldn't get her head round it. Suddenly it occurred to her she hadn't told Gaius her name.

"My name is Eva by the way"

"It's nice to meet you Eva" Gaius replied kindly.

Just then the door swung open again and a young looking boy with black hair entered. A second figure appeared at the door, a tall man, the blond haired man she had seen earlier. Prince Arthur.

"Ah Merlin your back" Gaius spoke "This is Eva" He introduced. Merlin stretched out his hand in friendship. Eva just stared wide-eyed at him, Merlin slowly retracted his arm.

"You're Merlin!" She asked her mouth almost hanging open. "Yes I'm Merlin" Eva looked at black haired boy. "Why do you sound so surprised?" he asked.

"I think I've got mixed up with someone else, the Merlin I'm thinking of is a great sorcerer "

Prince Arthur roared with laughter from the doorway. "Merlin! A sorcerer! You're very funny" he exclaimed.

Eva smiled at him, he was very handsome, but you could tell he knew it.

"I want to say to thank you Sire, for bringing me to Gaius"

Arthur smiled "Well you can always make it up to me, I hear you are to help Merlin with his chores."

"Yes, apparently so" Eva replied. She had only learnt this a little over five minutes ago.

"Good. Well Merlin can show you to your sleeping quarters" With that Arthur strode out of the house.

Merlin looked over to Eva "Come on I'll show you where your going to sleep, your in the castle." Eva nodded and followed Merlin towards the towering structure of the castle. One thing Eva could be certain of was that she was very far from home.

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