Series: Semper (2/4)
Rating: PG
Length: Drabble
Character: Dagonet
Notes: Takes place some point between the village and the ice. Title means 'always true'.
Semper Verus: Dagonet
He had never been the brightest of the knights, and he accepted that with grace, knowing that he could more than carry his own in battle. He had no special women; no army of bastards, like Bors; nor a hawk, like Tristan. He had left no mark on the world, no one to remember him by since his and Bors' village had been burned to the ground when they had been collected. The other knights would remember him, of course, but there were so many long passed on to remember, and the lifespan for the others wasn't very long in any case. In twenty, or as short as ten, years, no one would remember him or the things he had done, except in the capacity of one of the knights.
And he had never minded. He had never desired to be famous, or to be known. He had never wanted to leave anything behind other than the knowledge he had lived a full life. But in this moment, looking down at the small boy he cradled in his arms, he suddenly wanted to be remembered, to have someone care if died. And he had found that someone in the boy.