Disclaimer: I do not own Merlin, its characters, settings, or events; all rights belong to their respective creators.
So my NaNo goal for this year is at least one drabble a day (small, but bigger than last year, lol, and I've been wanting to experiment with drabbles). Apparently, the muse couldn't wait until NaNo actually started, so here's my first ever drabble. (Sorry for those waiting for a People update; it is in progress, even while I'm working towards my NaNo goal and is going very well at the moment.)
This is looking to become a series of color-based drabbles for the Merlin fandom.
Cover art by the ridiculously talented Phoebe594.
Characters: Morgana, Arthur
Relationship: Morgana and Arthur as siblings/childhood friends/enemies
Green
Sour and Alive and Cunning and Envy
Green eyes, with all the sharp sting of sour apples and unyielding hardness of emeralds, the beauty of both and the liveliness of neither. Green as the garden snake he'd once thought to taunt her with—impressed in spite of himself when she'd smiled coyly instead of flinching—and just as cunning. Green as the grass they'd played on as children, fighting fiercely without his father's permission, their lives stretching before them as endless and full of possibility as the summer sky overhead. Green with an envy that sucked away her joy and her life and everything he'd once loved.