So this is a challenge I wrote for a prompt over at the Heart of Camelot. It was based on the song "Dante's Prayer."
He gazed at the stars above him, reflected in the waves lapping at his feet. Of all of the things he had seen, they were unchanging and constant. The same patterns, the same glittering points of light that had inspired so many. He hummed a soft tune, one that his mother had sang to him when he was still that innocent, careless boy from a tiny peasant village.
Cast your eyes on the ocean, cast your soul to the sea….
He kicked a rock into the water, vaguely wondering when he'd become so jaded and unemotional. Probably when he realized that no matter what he did, the world and its people would never stop repeating history. Trying to destroy each other. Arthur had always called him a girl. He flinched at the mention of his destiny. The king he would serve for as long as it took. He wished had never started to remember that little melody; it brought back unwanted memories from long ago. Memories that he had buried deep to try to ease the pain of losing everything and everyone close to him.
When the dark night seems endless…
A millennium and a half after the fall of Camelot, his emotional dam broke. He cried out in the deepest of anguish, and his magic; his very soul lashed out. He collapsed to the ground, sobbing and heartbroken. As the warlock laid there, broken by time, Fate decided to take pity upon the man that had been a faithful servant to her sister Destiny. The waves started to crash on the shore more violently, and a figure who gleamed in the moonlight stepped dripping from the lake.
Please remember me…
When dawn came, the local townspeople discovered the two sets of wet footprints on the sand.
I hope to update every few days or so.
EDIT: I removed the 6 drabble story arc and turned it into a one shot.
