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

[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.