Fire: So we had this idea, but I know how much we don't finish... so we thought that maybe we could make and adoption, or challenge agency.
Ice: In this Merlin failed in his task the first time, but learned after some years that he would get another chance... Thus the original, or as close to the original as possible, Arthurian legend. This conversation MUST be used. You can rewrite it if you want.
"What will you have me do in his service?" She glared at the wizened old man.
"You will do exactly as he asks, just as before." Her face became ragingly murderous and distressed. However, before she could speak his eyes flashed and he was once more speaking.
"You must remember that nothing, my dear Nimue, ever happens the same way twice." Withered lips pulled back into a jovial grin. "Much like lightning, its pattern of striking will never be repeated, as I can't say that it never strikes in the same place twice."
He turned to her then, with enthusiasm sparkling in his eyes. "Far, far in the distance there will be a tower so tall that if a tiny pebble is dropped from the top it will kill it touches the top of a head. Though that's not the fascinating part, on average it will be struck by lightning twenty-seven times in one pass around the sun, because at the very top there is a rod made of steel."
She rolled her eyes at the barmy old man. "You're still on about that whole solar centric idea are you?"
The bright star blue eyes under thick bushy white eyebrows were filled with disappointment. "If you actually paid any true attention to the stars young one you would know this as the truth."
She sighed, "And how exactly can a tower's flag pole be made to 'steal', as far as I know it could only happen if enchanted."
"No, no. Steel is a most often a carbonized iron, sometimes other elemental metals, get thrown into the mix…" The wizened old man trailed off then seeing the confusion in her eyes.
"The only elements are fire, water, wind, and earth, young one." She murmured
He laughed then. "My age far surpasses even your previous age my dear Nimue. I was speaking of science."
"Science is nothing." She told him.
"With no interference of magic, science is absolute. In time science will be able to explain everything other than magic. Magic, in contrast is the starting point of all miracles and beauty."
"You need to quit speaking as if the future is already here." She was petulant now, as she could see that the old man was flaunting all that he knew of the world to come.
The wizened old man's eyes sparkled in mirth. "Don't you just hate it when someone seems to have all the answers, but won't give them to you straight?"
Randa: We would like to point out that we know that Nimue is dead in the series...At least the first one.
Wonton: We have another idea to put up, don't know when, but if you want to work with this one we give the go ahead, just PM us with the link for the story... We'd like to read it.