Nothing leaves you unchanged. M/M, AU continued.
TO COME UNBOUND (TO LONG TO BE FOUND)
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After the mystic, they kept tripping, for a while.
And in more than one night had Morgana woken to Merlin hovering from the bed, eyes strangely distant and mind adrift. Fear and awe and the sense of awareness anchored her body like it failed to do with his.
She smoothed his brow and floated with him. The room was still and peaceful. Morgana watched the images pass by, their troubled past, and longed for creation, the moment of present.
'Come back to me,' she'd whisper into the night at his ear, palm warm against his, and waited.
Slowly, so slowly, his irises returned to familiar blue.
His lips curled, as he awoke on the mattress.
'I'm here. I'm right here.'