AN: Blue Eyes is the title of the song for this one.
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Nimueh had been so innocent when she met Uther and Ygraine. She had been one of those bright eyed people who only saw the good in the world. But then it all went wrong.
She tried to channel a different person's life force into the unborn prince, but the gods overruled her and took the Queen's life for the babe. That was the day Uther locked her up in the dungeon, bound in chains that held her magic back.
For months Uther kept her down there. No food, no water, only her internal magic keeping her alive. After all of that time in the dark, she couldn't bare it. Her mind snapped.
She became nearly rabid in her insanity. She no longer cried. They were meaningless. Now she felt only hatred. Try as she might, she could not escape without help. Uther only came to see her once, and that was when he saw the monster he had created by imprisoning her. The longer she was chained up, more her magic seemed to swell. Her only thought, to make Uther pay for what he did.
Balinor was the one who got her out of the city. But during the escape, she saw what Uther had done to any magic user he found. The man thought he had the power to outlaw the use of magic. Her world was shattered and everyone, other than Balinor and the traitor Gaius, who practiced the art had been killed.
Twenty years it continued. Almost everyone was too afraid to stand up to Uther, the rest were not strong enough to match his knights. Nimueh couldn't return to Camelot, it would do no good. She needed a plan. She needed someone to break Uther's focus so she could do what she needed. She was tired of waiting.
Hatred burned inside of her as she watched a sorcerer protect the cursed city and the royals who ruled it. Why would he do that after seeing what Uther had done? It made no sense.
She hated that boy. He was worse than Gaius. He not only turned his back on his own kind, he was fighting his kin. It didn't take long for her to cause the boy to fear her. She wanted him to suffer.
She watched in her pool as the boy watched a witch burned. She saw him stare unflinching as the woman attempted to use her magic to escape the flames before her eyes seemed to dull. She screamed her last as the flames consumed her. The boy stayed until all that was left was pale ash.
She had known that the boy was powerful, but he was untrained. She thought her last fireball had ended him, but now she was the burning, from the inside out. She couldn't understand him. It didn't make sense.
He did this to her for threatening his family, yet he watched as kin was slaughtered? The boy had never actually killed anyone one with his magic before, she was sure of that. He would be filled with self hatred and fear his own growing power. It would always hurt him to know that that he had beast inside waiting to kill.
She could die knowing he would suffer. She had no more tears to cry, she just let go. Uther would fall and magic would be restored. Her job was done.
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AN: Whoa… That one turned out much longer than I had expected. I like it!