Merlin is not owns by me
Morgana awoke sitting up with a cry of distress, she breathed heavily looking around. She had had another nightmare. She glanced over at Anna who lay sleeping against the opposite wall and Biarish who had fallen asleep sitting against another wall, Morgana breathed a quiet sigh relieved she hadn't woken them again.
The three of them had been moved from the small hut and taken to a larger building. They had been there for several days waiting. Quan worked for a warlord that was coming for them, Morgana was not looking forward to meeting him.
Morgana got up and walked over to the small table in the middle of the room getting her self a drink from the jug.
She slowly sipped the water from small cup not wanting to drink to much, they were only given so much a day.
"Morgana?" Anna's voice whispered catching Morgana's attention "what are you doing?"
"sorry, I didn't mean to wake you" Morgana said giving her a tired smile "I just had another bad dream"
"you have a lot of those" Anna commented slowly sitting up "I can understand, being here as given me some pretty bad dreams"
Morgana walked back over and sat down on the blankets she had been given as a bed.
"it's not just this place" Morgana told her "I've been having nightmare for years, it's why I meditate to try and control them"
Anna frowned thinking for a minute.
" I don't understand" She said "I thought the meditation was for your visions"
"it is" Morgana said with out elaborating. She lay back down and pulled one of the blankets up as a cover.
Morgana was lead into a room she walked with her head held high as she always did. Her eyes not wavering from Ben, Quan and the man who stood around a large table with what looked like a map of the mountain and the surrounding area. Morgana stood watching the men talking about something over the map, She allowed her gaze to drift down to the map looking it over is short glances while keeping her eyes on the men. She wished that she could read the writing on the map, but the spell she and Merlin had learned from Budiwata only worked for spoken language.
"So" Morgana looked up a little startled "this is the seer you told me about"
"that is what Ali's man tells me" Quan said "although she hasn't shown this to be true"
"hmm" Quan stepped around the table toward Morgana looking her up and down as he circled her, He stopped in front of her and looked at her face. "She is one of the better looking slaves Ben has supplied, if she is less talented than Ben has said then I am sure we can find a, satisfactory place for her."
Morgana had to fight the urge to step back and she was really tempted to spit at this man, but she new if she did Anna or Biarish would be punished.
"well" Ben said "I suggest you give your new master Chen a demonstration of your gifts"
"I can't" Morgana told him eyes not moving from Chen" my gift as you call it doesn't work like that"
Chen raised an eye brow and stepped back walking around the table slowly looking at the map.
"tell me" He said Morgana's eyes following him, she caught sight of some thing out of the rooms one window the corner of her lips twitched up a little " how does your gift, work"
"I see thing when I sleep" Morgana told him "sometimes these things happen again when I am awake"
"dreams?" Chen asked stopping and looking up from the map around at Ben and Quan. "you brought me a dream seer?"
"I wasn't told that part" Quan said glaring at Ben.
"does it matter" Ben asked "she can still see into the future"
Morgana looked out the window while they talked she focused on something in window in a small building across the small alley, Her eyes flashed gold for a second.
flash back to Morgana'a Vision
people ran around trying to catch the horses that had been set loose. The flames seemed to be unstoppable, nobody had been over concerned about the small fire, it could be easily doused with a small bucket of water but then the wind had picked up and fanned the flames causing them to jump and catch an oil jug. The explosion send the small group of guards that had found the fire flying. From there the fire spread faster than anyone had ever seen before.
end flash back
Her eye's flashed gold for a second, The candle in the window jumped and caught the curtains that hung open in the window. Morgana waited scanning the room pretending she was just looking around bored. She smiled lightly when,
"fire" a man shouted from outside.
Quan walk over and looked out the window, spotting the small fire on the curtains he turned back unconcerned He turned and walked back over to the table.
"it's just a small fire" He told Chen "nothing to worry about"
"are you sure?" Morgana asked
something in the tone she used when she asked the question caught Chen's attention.
"of course" Quan said thinking the woman was just scared of the fire.
"Why do you ask" Chen asked
Morgana looked out the window at the fire for a second seeing the men from her vision, She had seen the way these same guards treated the lower ranking people servants and slaves, They were not good men.
"oh no reason" She said turning back to Chen "it's just I had vision about a fire in my dreams last night."
Morgana's eyes glanced out the window again, She saw the curtains and flames jump with the sudden burst of wind.
Anticipating what would happen next she stepped back turning and ducking down with her harms covering the back of her neck just as the explosion blasted a hole in the wall, sending stone and mortar flying into the room.
Morgana stood up looking around the rubble, waving her hand in front of her to clear the dust. No one else had been prepared for the blast and had been knocked down or send flying. The two guards that had been standing by Morgana had been furthest from the blast so had recovered first. Morgana turned when she heard one of them groan, to see them starting to stand up their hands on their swords. She looked around quickly spotting a couple of Urns she focused on them.
"breodwian" Morgana said her eye flashed and the two Urns floated up and quickly flew over hitting each of the guards in the head knocking them out. She was glad Merlin insisted that she practice control as much as He did.
Chen and Ben started to move, slowly pushing them selves up they had yet to notice the map was on fire. Morgana quickly grabbed the sword from Quan's belt, He was very knocked out. She ran from the room before the men could come to their senses. Morgana ran around a corner and stopped hiding against the wall as more guards ran down the hall and into the map room. She heard Chen shouting about the map, and then her demanding to know were she was.
She took a deep breath and made her way down the hall. Everyone was panicking yelling about the fire it wasn't difficult to blend in. She just pretended she was one of the panicking servants.
"oh my god, Morgana" Anna exclaimed when She open the door and stepped in the room closing it behind her. The guards that had been posted at the door of the kitchen were Anna was washing pots had run off in the panic of the fire.
"what's going on? Are you alright"
"do you know where Biarish is?" Morgana asked as she checked the door that was used to deliver food and water to the kitchen for guards and or fire. She new it would spread fast.
"what? I think so. Why?" Anna asked
"because" Morgana said opening the door and gesturing for her to follow "were getting out of here"
" are you crazy" Anna asked rushing over to her "if we get caught"
"there going to be to distracted by the fire" Morgana told her cautiously stepping out the door and looking around "trust me, it's going to spread really fast, we need to go now"
"but" Anna started
"look" Morgana said cutting her off "it's up to you, I will not abandon you here if you want to escape but I will not sit around and wait if you want to stay. Make up your mind. Do you want to be a slave?"
"well, no" Anna said
"good then lets go" Morgana said grabbing her arm and pulling her out "were is Biarish"
Anna thought for a minute following along behind Morgana,
"He's was tending the stables I think" She said
Biarish and the other men working in the stables rushed around hurrying to get the horses out of their stalls. The wind was blowing the smoke from the fire which was spreading fast into the stables. He looked up and could see flames on the top corner of the stable.
"get those horses loose" He heard the head stable hand shout.
Biarish was just getting the last two when someone grabbed his arm, He turned to see Morgana and Anna.
"what are you doing here" He demanded
"escaping" Morgana said "care to join us?"
Biarish looked around the smoke filled burning stable and at his hand holding the reins of the two horses that were starting to panic.
"hell yes" Biarish said trying to calm the horses with Morgana trying to help.
"good" Morgana said " bring the horse"
The Three of them made there way through the streets of Chen's mountain fortress, hiding from guards. Morgana made it a point to unlock as many slave quarters as she could when they went past them. She would focus on the doors as they approached and passed.
"unlucan"
Ben spotted Morgana and the other two rushing out of the gates with two horses, everyone else was to distracted by the spreading fire to notice. Ben ordered the guards that were with him to follow him as He ran after them. He had been a ways away from the gate when He had seen them exit, so they had a bit of a head start when he reached the gate and ran through.
Ben and the guards that ran out after him could see them disappear around the mountains rocks, the trail would split up ahead. Morgana looked back just before she disappeared around the rock when one of the guards shouted for them to stop.
More slaves ran out behind them scattering.
"hurry" Morgana said picking up the passe to catch back up with Anna and Biarish who had reached the split in the path "mount up"
Biarish and Anna quickly mounted the horses Biarish reached down to help Morgana up confused when she stepped back away from him.
"Morgana come on" He said "What are you doing?"
"I'm not going with you, I am going down the other path" She told them
"but Morgana" Anna started to argue as Morgana ran around the front of the horses and took a hold of the reins and quickly guided them onto the path. She had seen the split path on the map and knew this one would take them straight out of the mountains, they would get safely away faster.
"they'll come after me, I'm the one they want" Morgana told them "I'll lead them away from you"
"we can't just" Anna started
"I'll be fine" Morgana cut her off letting go of the reins and circling back around the horse "now go"
She smacked the horses butts sending them running down the path, Anna and Biarish looked back over their shoulders at her for a moment before turning and continuing down the path.
Morgana ran down the other trail, jumping rocks and skidding around stones. She could hear Ben and the guards behind her, a couple time they caught sight of her. They were getting closer until Morgana ran into a narrowing in the path, it would be to narrow for the men chasing her but wide enough for her to get through, but she had to slow down.
Before she could go through some one grabbed her arm and pulled her back, She was turned to see Ben as he slammed her against the ground. Morgana had the wind knocked out of her as she hit the ground.
"you" Ben said climbing over to of her and holding her wrists down "should not have run"
Morgana struggled against him trying to free her hands from his grip. Ben held both her wrists with one hand raised his other hand back to strike her. Before He could Morgana's eyes flashed gold.
"aworpennes"
Ben and the small group of guards were surprised to find them selves be thrown in ever different direction. The guards were knocked out. Ben stood up drawing his sword ,He let out an angry yell and ran at Morgana. Morgana held the sword she carried ready as Ben attacked.
It was over quickly as Ben attacked Morgana countered and after a few blows Ben was on his knees with a blade in his side. He looked at the blade then up at Morgana confused
"but, your a priestess" He said "killing is against your vows"
Morgana let go of the sword allowing the man to fall to the ground, She walked around and kneeled down.
"I am not actually a priestess" She told him calmly the man was going to die she felt no need to be harsh. She remembered a time when she had thought the death of someone like Ben would make her happy. But she felt nothing, not happy not sad she would not morn him. She wasn't happy that she's had no other choice but to kill or be killed.
Morgana cleaned off the bloody sword and quickly turned making her way through the crevice in the stone wall. As she exited on the other side she was surprised to hear a familiar voice call her name. She turned to see,
"Merlin!"
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ending chapter here, yay their back together.