Hearts of Camelot
Official HoC Challenge Description: Write anywhere from 300 to 600 words on each of the characters below. I'm making this a bit more flexible than our regular drabble challenges, but please, stay within the limit.
To be more specific, I'd like you to explore a moment on the show where that character did something meaningful that made you respect them/see them in a positive light.
1st Optional Featured Character: Sefa
Ratings/Warnings: K+, very brief mentions of violence. Spoiler alert for season 5!
Word Count: 463
Summary: Sefa's thoughts and feelings as she visits her father, Ruadan at night. Set in 5x01; Arthur's Bane: part 1
Sefa felt grateful that she'd worn her warm red cloak over her dress because it was a bit windy outside, in the Darkling Woods. Drawing her cloak closer to her, she quietly stepped up on to the partly hidden path leading to the ruins of what once was a huge stone castle. It was her father Ruadan's temporary hideout. She startled herself when she saw an ebony black crow screeching loudly near the entrance, her heart hammering frantically. It belongs to the Lady Morgana, I'm assuming. Delivering a message…
While she was telling her father Ruadan about King Arthur and his men's plans, conflicted feelings were stirring inside Sefa's mind. She truly longed to make her father proud of her, but her stomach was twinging with guilt because of her betrayal to the king. She didn't understand the feuding between Camelot and the druids. Ruadan had taught her so much about fear, and how it was a weakness to be used against you.
Sefa wanted magic to be allowed again in Camelot for her father's peace of mind, even if it meant overthrowing Arthur's rule. This was so respectable druids like her father and anyone who possessed magic, could roam freely wherever in Albion they wished, without fear of being persecuted.
Turning to leave, Ruadan uttered his parting words, "You've served your purpose." Sefa felt a small rush of pride within her at first, which was slowly ebbing by the callous way he worded his praise.
Sefa spoke up when her father asked her how she was treated, as a last thought, mild concern displayed on his face. "They've been good to me, Father." She really meant it; Arthur and his wife Guinevere were very welcoming towards her.
Hearing her father's next response, Sefa secretly disagreed that Pendragons were only meant for death. She could sympathize with him though, the injustice of Uther killing her father's kind during the Great Purge.
…Also, it was kind of Merlin to help me pick up the fruit from the ground, and he does have the cutest smile, she thought. Sefa had felt herself smile genuinely when he was talking to her. It filled her with sadness, that this memory would soon become distant. She would love to get to know Merlin more, but getting too close with anyone associated with being allies with a Pendragon was dangerous.
Her father had undergone so much, and she could not bear for him to have any more bad memories. She could even put up with him working with Morgana, whom honestly frightened Sefa a little. Tears were building up in her grey eyes as she was watching her father mount his horse. Be safe, father. He would have a long journey, until he arrived to where Morgana's castle was.