fyrethief

Fandom: King Arthur (2004 movie)
Title: Anticipation
Characters: An unnamed knight and his mother.
Length: 100
Rating: G
Summary: She hated the agreement, and there was nothing she could do but wait for them to come for her son.
Prompt: Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder what was going to happen next. [Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll.]

Author's Notes: ka100 has been restarted, woo! I've been waiting for one of the prompts to catch my muse - and I loved this one. Something different for the fandom. This probably doesn't technically fit the community's rules, since the main character is supposed to be one of the knights, but hey. Enjoy anyway. Cross-posted at the community, here.


She had plenty of time to grow accustomed to the arrangement. Perhaps that made it worse. So long to anticipate, to dread. So long to fall.

She watched him grow, and it hung like a nightmare over his shoulder, a geas she could not rid him - or herself - of.

The hope that it might, somehow, not come to pass was almost worse.

(What had they ever done to deserve this?)

Because one day he would come running in, bright young eyes fresh with ignorant excitement: "they've come!"

And she would smile bravely - and knowingly hand her son over to monsters.

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