Summary: Little Merlin wants to surprise his mother.
While I was working on 'Magic is Not Allowed' as my entry for the 'Full Spectrum' challenge on Heart of Camelot website, I was on the Chatroom of that site and was given a couple of other ideas using the same randomly generated items. Finally, I decided to write these up too. This idea came from ExcaliburMaiden.
Colour: Yellow; Character: Merlin; Emotion: Sad
"Merlin, what was that noise?" called Hunith, slowly sitting up in her bed.
"Ooo I fell down, and they're all broken," came the sad voice of her little son. "And I wanted to do you a surprise to make you feel better!"
"Well, you've been such a good boy while I was resting, that I DO feel much better already."
"Really?" His brilliant smile lit up his small face and melted her heart as it so often did, chasing away the last remnants of her headache.
"Now, what have you got there?"
"I picked these for you," he said, proudly holding up a bedraggled fistful of bright yellow dandelions.
The child frowned when he remembered the broken stems though, and with a flash of golden eyes, the wildflowers became whole again.
"Merlin!" said Hunith warningly. But whether it was due to his startled look of guilt, or the smudge of yellow dandelion dust on his cheek, she could only shake her head in fond amusement. Taking him by the hand she simply said, "Well now, I guess we should find a vase to put that in, shouldn't we?"