The longest night beget the longest life.
In the depth of death, is the dawn of a birth.
Black against the white shall be our light.
As nature sleeps, Magic awakes.
"This is all you could find on Emrys? One tiny prophesy?!"
"Milady! Please! This was all the old librarian managed to save during the purge. It isn't much, but it is more than we had."
"Agravaine, do you understand what this little poem says? Emrys was born in the winter. That is all that is says! If you think this scrap of nothing is enough to pacify me, you couldn't be more wrong."
"I understand, Milady."
"And Agravaine. If you come to me with something as trivial as this again, I might just let Arthur know where your true loyalties have been for the past years."
"Yes, Milady"
'~;~'
"Ah, Geoffrey! What brings you here? Is your back paining you again?"
"My back is old and so am I. I would worry if it didn't twinge now and then."
"Then what brings you to my chambers? You rarely come to talk with an old friend."
"One day I should do just that, if only to prove you wrong, but I did have a reason for my visit."
"And?"
"Lord Agravaine came to me asking about Emrys. Before you say anything, I gave him the least enlightening one I had and told him it was the only one Uther didn't destroy."
"Thank you."
"Your ward's name day in the day of the winter solstice is it not?"
"It is. Why do you ask?"
"I just realized something. I might have just handed the de Bois noble the key to finding Emrys' identity."
"Geoffrey, what are you getting at?"
"The longest night beget the longest life.
In the depth of death, is the dawn of a birth.
Black against the white shall be our light.
As nature sleeps, Magic awakes."
"Oh."
"Why didn't you tell me he was here? I have been so hard on him. I could have made sure he had an alibi."
"Yes. I suppose telling Arthur he was helping you is better than using the tavern over and over."
"The tavern? How could he possibly believe he would be in the tavern? Did he never think to look?"
"I fear he is his father's son in that respect."
"Thankfully it was a trait he passed to both of his children. I think Merlin's secret is safe. Those two wouldn't understand the meaning of a prophesy if it picked them up and carried them off to its lair."
"Are we sure Agravaine isn't a Pendragon?"
