More precious than gold

[archaeologist-d.livejournal.com]

Author: archaeologist_d
Title: More precious than gold
Rating: Gen
Pairing/s: none
Character/s: Merlin
Summary: It was hard living in Ealdor
Warnings: None
Word Count: 100
Prompt:His
Author's Notes: none

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A peasant in Ealdor didn't have much. A shirt, two if he were lucky, a coat patched and worn, neckerchiefs made from castoffs, boots cobbled together more with hope than actual hide.

A life filled with cold nights, days spent in desperation. Drafty huts. The fear of rain too soon or not at all and crops rotting in the fields. Hunting for rats and elusive fish in the streams and sometimes, always, hunger lurking there, an old, implacable enemy.

Bandits and the king's taxes and wolves howling in the hills.

But Merlin possessed one thing more precious than gold.

Magic.

Comments

[47eleven.livejournal.com]

What a great drabble

[archaeologist-d.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much!

[rotrude.livejournal.com]

Loved this look at pre Camelot MerliN!

[archaeologist-d.livejournal.com]

I'm sure it was hard in Ealdor. Thanks.

[issy5209.livejournal.com]

I love the way you have Merlin look at his magic like this

[archaeologist-d.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Glad you liked it!

[bunnysworld.livejournal.com]

Oh, I really like that!That's a unique things that is only his.

[archaeologist-d.livejournal.com]

Thanks.:D Just happy it worked for you.

[brunettepet.livejournal.com]

This is an excellent drabble. You painted a vivid picture of a peasant's difficult life and I like how Merlin sees his magic.

[archaeologist-d.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much. I wanted to show how hard it was with Merlin.

[afleur-de-lis.livejournal.com]

I really enjoyed this! I really loved how you brought Merlin's life before Camelot to life because his humble beginnings would have been hard.

However, I really loved how you showed that despite all the pain and misery that Merlin went through before he left Ealdor, that there was one thing that he found that made things bearable for him and that was his magic.

[archaeologist-d.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much. I'm glad you liked it! I wanted to show that Merlin had one thing that he could point to that he was proud and happy about.

[lawgoddess.livejournal.com]

Lovely. Very effective use of the drabble format.

[archaeologist-d.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much!

[dante-s-hell.livejournal.com]

Awesome drabble. So much with so little words.

[archaeologist-d.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much. I really love drabbles!

[weepingwillow9.livejournal.com]

Oooh, this is so good! Sounds like you're about to launch into tales of Merlin and Will's escapades :P

[archaeologist-d.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Nope, sorry no Will and Merlin escapades but glad you enjoyed it!