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Chapter 3
Then suddenly the presumed dead manservant opened his icy blue eyes. They were widened in agony and showed pure fear. "Why... did you... do this?" Merlin gasped. He was obviously struggling for breath. "Why?" His voice broke off again.
Arthur was thunderstruck. He couldn't think straight any more, his thoughts got mixed up and they became more like fuzzy visions dancing through his mind. "I must be dreaming..." The young Prince stammered timidly. "There's no other explanation."
"Arthur, you betrayed me...! I trusted you!" Accusingly and deeply hurt Merlin stared up to him, now stumbling backwards, his face being distorted to a panic-stricken mask.
"Arthur!"
At last Arthur found the strength to force his legs to obey him completely and he started running. Merlin cried his name again, this time even more desperately. But Arthur ignored his erstwhile manservant's frantic screams...he just wanted to bring as much space between himself and Merlin as possible .
If this all was just a dream, wasn't he supposed somehow to wake up? Arthur thought heading for the DarkForest. He just wanted to flee this nightmare... to flee the memory. The wood was now only a few paces away as Arthur at once caught his foot on something lying in front of him, causing him to sprawl down to the ground. He instantly bobbed up again with a surprising yelp, as he'd realised what had caused him to fall down.
"You cannot escape me!" a too familiar voice whispered in his head.
Gasping Arthur stared stunned at the deadly wounded Merlin and a cry of desperation escaped the Prince's lips.
"You are not real!"
"You cannot escape. Not after everything you've done to me." Merlin's threat resounded in his mind over and over again.
"Leave me alone!"
Then everything went black.
Suddenly Arthur awoke with a start.
Breathing unsteady and quickly he sat up and looked around. He was in his chambers, the curtains were closed and even though the sun already had to be risen, no shaft of sunlight found its way into Arthur's room. The annoying patter of rain was the only sound to hear.
"It was all just a dream..." he tried to calm himself. " Just a dream..."
Wiping away the sweat from his brow, Arthur tried to forget about his nightmare, with no success.
The shock was still too deep.
But there was no reason to be scared. Merlin couldn't harm him, could he? At least not in his dreams and it was for sure, he would not be able to come back.
With this mindset Arthur was confident that nobody was ever going to find out what really had happened.
Maybe there are some mistakes in it...
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