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“You locked yourself in here for a reason, Merlin,” Kilgharrah reminds him sternly. Merlin coughs and reels back into the tower, running his sleeve over his face. Kilgharrah blows out some smoke in his face. Elyan waves up to him, and Merlin waves back. “Bye now!” he yells as the knight turns on his heels and leaves. It’s too far away to see, but Merlin likes to imagine the apprehension on his face. Merlin waits thirty seconds for Elyan to be done, and the purple-cloaked knight looks up. Never mind that Avalon University would hardly allow an evil dragon to make home on their campus.ĭown on the ground, Merlin watches as Elyan-thank God for loyal, kind Elyan-approaches the knight and explains the situation for him. He had been amused by the first four knights who tried to come and save Merlin from-an evil sorcerer on campus, or maybe just the dragon. “They really aren’t the smartest types, are they?” Kilgharrah says disapprovingly.

The dragon wrapped around the tower doesn’t help, of course. In fact, Knight Number Three had gone ahead and done that. Merlin groans in despair and lets his head drop in his arms the way that he’s leaning against the window, one might well take him for a princess in need of help. “Is there a princess there with you?” the knight calls out. “Go,” Merlin calls out, waving his hand pointedly towards the exit of the campus of Avalon University, home of magic and witchcraft, “away!” At the time he’d spelled it into existence-about two weeks ago, although Merlin has lost track of time a little bit-he thought that the higher up he’d be, the fewer people would bother him.

Maybe he should have created a tower that wasn’t so high up.

The knight peers up dumbly towards the sound of Merlin’s voice. His cloak billows all heroically, purple and, if Merlin’s honest, kind of an eyesore. “I am not interested in being rescued!” he shouts down towards the knight. People just aren’t allowed to hide away in towers anymore. The real problem, according to him, or at least the one that is bugging him most right this moment before the next thing comes around. This is the problem with modern society, Merlin decides when he throws yet another ward over the entrance to his tower.