Disclaimer (this applies to all the chapters): I don't own King Arthur, nor any of the characters etc.
Because I'm in the middle of exams – and therefore, it's PROCRASTINATION TIME! – I thought I'd do a piece with a drabble (100 words exactly) for each year the Knights served in Britain. Not chronological, not one for every year or anything like that, just fifteen random shots (I went through my dictionary and randomly chose fifteen words, so some of them may seem a bit obscure!). Hope you enjoy, and please drop me a line and tell me what you thought! Oh, and I won't post them all at the same time – I guess I should leave some time for study…
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1. Tristran: Hunger
They always travelled light on missions, taking with them only what they needed. "Soldier's rations," Arthur said, though Tristran silently agreed with Bors when he proclaimed it to be "bugger all". As the days passed, smothered with snow and caked with mud, he would see Hawk flying far above, following invisible pathways of breezes and cloud. His cold, hungry brothers urged him to teach the "bloody thing" to hunt for them, but Tristran knew better. She was her own creature; no chains would bind her.
Unlike us, he thought bitterly. Wings clipped, we hunt for the Empire.
Fight, or die.