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"Ask me something."

"What should I ask you?"

"Anything. I'm tired of sleeping."

"I'm never tired of sleeping. Gaius says I never stop-"

"Shut up. I don't want to hear about Gauis. Ask me something about me."

"Bit narcissistic, aren't you?"

"It's called survival, Merlin. You have to care about yourself, to survive, or things will hurt you-"

"Oh yes, you'd know all about that, with your incredibly hard life that you could have completely avoided if you'd just-"

"You know nothing about me."

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"Empty."

"What?"

"You sound empty."

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"Ask me something."

"Fine. Where are we?"

"Wouldn't you like to know."

"A different place each time? Somewhere you never let me see? I'm all for secrecy Morgana, but you do take it a bit far."

"Oh so you'd rather let Arthur find out about us? Funny, and here I thought he wasn't to know 'anything at all, Morgana, I'm a traitor, Morgana, he'd have me executed, Morgana.'"

"I am a traitor. I am betraying my king."

"And do you regret it?"

"Yes."

"Don't lie to me. I will make you scream until you tell me the truth..."

"I regret betraying Arthur. I regret spending these times with you, afterwards. That's not a lie."

"Yet how many times have you come back?"

"Too many."

"Ask me something. I'm bored of talking about you."

"Death by fire or ice?"

"Ice. It doesn't hurt to die of the cold. It's just like falling asleep."

"I'd have chosen fire. I want to feel everything, even at the end."

"Only foolish people who have not lived would choose pain over oblivion."

"Only people who no longer believe in love would choose painlessness over experience."

"Hark at the philosopher. Ask me something else."

"What are you afraid of?"

"Mice."

"I'm not going to ask if you don't tell me the truth."

"Execution."

"There's something else."

"Death isn't good enough for you?"

"Still, there's something else."

"No."

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"Take me home, Morgana. We're finished."

"No, not yet. Stay a little longer."

"This is the last time..."

"It won't be. It never is."

"That's what you're scared of, isn't it? You're afraid of being alone. The last of your kind, the last high priestess, and you're afraid to be alone."

"I am not scared to be alone. I'm not! I'm not!"

"I'll just go then."

"You'll leave me here? Again?"

"I was never there to begin with, Morgana."

Morgana wakes in the echoing chamber. Arms curled tightly around her body. Hot tears spilling down her skeletal cheeks.