Chapter 26

A month had passed since the departure of Morgana and Merlyn missed her a lot. The mood in the castle had been very tense and withdrawn for the first week. A lot had happened since then of course.

Before Morgana had gone to find her sister, she had passed through Uther's chambers and had done something Merlyn had thought was stupid at the time but was probably what was best for even her. Morgana had told Uther she had magic. A week after Morgana left, she was called by the king. Merlyn remembered the day well.

Merlyn knocked gently and opened the door to the king's chambers. The rooms were as she remembered them but the man inside was not. He looked pale with red rimmed eyes and looked thinner… in one word, he looked broken.
"Uther." Merlyn said coolly. She felt a pang of guilt when she saw the haunted look in the king's eyes when she addressed him in that tone.
"Please sit." He said motioning at the chair before him. Merlyn sat down. "How are you?" asked Uther as manner of conversation.
"What do you think?" she said looking at him and he sighed.
"I understand you are angry at me."
"With reason."
"Yes. I only wanted what was best for my children."
"What was best? Lying to them? Killing the very people that helped ypu have a son? What did you want them to do when they found out? Hug you? I am not surprised Morgana wants to leave."
"She told you. Do you know what else she told me? That she has magic." said Uther in a harsh laugh. "My daughter has magic."
Merlyn was stunned that Morgana had told Uther but she knew Morgana. Morgana was impulsive and combine that with her temper you get a dynamite.
"Yes, she does and yet she is still Morgana, the loving, princess that she always was."
"You know?"
"Yes. She told me. the windows blowing and the fire that started in her rooms was her magic manifesting. You can imagine the fear she had that her father was going to have her executed!"
"I would never have killed my daughter!"
"Really? So tell me what would you have done? Confined her to her chambers to hide her shameful secret while you continued to murder her kind? Is that it?"
Uther remained quiet. "Look, I didn't come here to fight you. you had your reasons which I don't agree with. Morgana has magic, I have magic. Yes. I have magic and have been saving your son's life for a long time and yes Arthur knows too. You know what he said when I told him? That he loved him and he was grateful for what I had done for him and Camelot. Unlike you. Excuse me." said Merlyn rising to leave.

"I always suspected you had magic. After all your father did."

"What?" said Merlyn stunned. "My father had magic?" asked Merlyn stunned. Just how many secrets did this man have?
"Please sit." Said Uther and Merlyn sat.

"I knew your father long back. We were very close as you know. Your father was a dragon Lord." "Dragon Lord?"
"Yes. He had special magic allowing him to control dragons. They obeyed his commands. There were many like him and with his help, I was able to claim Camelot. He was my closest friends. However when I was betrayed by Nimueh and I banned magic, I gave him a choice. To stay here in Camelot as my right hand man but never do magic again or go on the run. In return to saving his life, he would bring me the great dragon. He did as everything he knew was here in Camelot. He gave the dragon to me and swore never to do magic."
"Just like Gaius?"
"Yes. Just like Gaius only I made him a knight and gave him lands."
"Would you have killed him had he chose to run?"
"I do not know." said Uther then he raised his face, "I know I have done so many things. I have been reflecting and I know Ygraine would have never wanted me to be like this. I needed someone to blame and in doing so, I did a lot of damage." Merlyn was surprised Uthre was accepting guilt. For a man so arrogant, that had to be the hardest thing he could do. "You could still make it right."
"Not I. Arthur will. I know he will."
"You are leaving him to clean up your messes?" asked Merlyn but she knew that even though Uther had seen the error of his ways, there was no way he was going to say it in front of the kingdom. He was too proud for that.
"He will do a better job than me. Could you tell him to come to my chambers tomorrow night?"
"I will but I don't know whether he will agree."
"Please urge him to." "I will do my best."

Even now, she was still reeling from the revelation. Her father had been a dragon Lord. That was where she had got her magic from. She wondered why her father had never told her. given her own magic, she was sure she would never have told anyone. She knew her mother didn't know since they had met after the great purge.

When she had asked Gaius, he had told her since her father was gone, the powers had passed to her. the powers of the dragon Lord passed to the first son but if there was no son, they passed to the first child.
"How am I to learn a power that no one else know? How am I to be able to control a dragon?"
"You will know when you need to. from what I know, it comes from within. It is like a command. You have to say it with meaning to the dragon and it will listen to you." Gaius had said.

When she had told Arthur, he had been stunned. "Is there something you cant do my love?"
"Hmm…maybe…" she said coyly and he laughed.

Arthur had gone to see his father after a lot of pestering from her to go and hear his father out. She knew he had gone hoping to get more secrets. To her surprise, he had returned with the Camelot seal. His father had relinquished the throne to Arthur.

Apparently after all he had done, he didn't deserve the throne and for the first time in Arthur's life, Uther had apologized and complimented him.

Merlyn's heart broke when Arthur said, "He told me he loved me Merlyn, that he was proud of me. Why hasn't he ever said that to me? Why?"
"He is a proud man Arthur. You are an amazing man and it just took him some time to admit it." the next day, an official council meeting was held with Arthur holding the seal.

On another note, Gwen and Lancelot had got married 2 weeks after Morgana left. Apparently they couldn't wait anymore. They had a small ceremony. She gave Gwen a beautiful white dress and she had looked so beautiful. Merlyn could see the love between the 2 and she was glad they had found Lance. They were meant to be.

Morris and Julie were there and Julie was Gwen's maid of honor. They too were going strong given the stares they shared throughout the bonding ceremony.

Merlyn was content. She had the love of her life who was now king and was sure to change the laws in the future and bring Camelot to its golden age, Uther knew of her magic and she not on her way to the pyre, her baby was growing perfectly and what more could she want? Well one thing…for Morgana to return and for the cravings to end.

She had recently stopped vomiting and now as if she had taken a sudden turn, she couldn't stop eating. Currently she craved duck and honey not eaten together but yeah.

Arthur was so sweet and gentle with her. He would often talk to the baby and he had taken to calling the baby he. He said it was a son while she said it was a daughter just to oppose him. It was quite funny when she referred to the baby as 'her/she' and he said 'he/him'. She knew though whether it was a girl or a boy, Arthur was going to love this child with all he had.

They had not announced anything yet. She was 3 months and a week pregnant and soon, they would have to make it public. The midwife had assured her the danger zone had passed and she could now relax.

There was one thing though that was starting to happen. Her magic was becoming erratic. It was not noticeable but when she was angry or she wanted something, it happened or zoomed to her. Gaius told her since she was highly magical, her magic was reacting her to her high emotions. She hoped it would end soon.

As she was lost in thought, the door was opened and there was Gwen looking breathless but very excited and she said, "My lady, Morgana is back!"

Thank you for reading.

I hope I filled some blanks. Arthur is now prince regent since Uther is not dead but just unfit to rule, Gwen is married and Morgana is back!

So how will Morgana be? Will she still be her lovely bubbly self after a month with her sister? Find out next chapter!