It was snowing that day… 

The stars seemed to have been crying. I was by the end of it but how could I have known what was about to happen. When things happen that are out of your control there is a moment when you have a choice to make. I admit, I’ve made mistakes but in that moment I did what had to be done. For everyone. Selfish it might seem to the naked eye but in that moment I saw the truth and I was not blinded. I simply did what was right. As if guided…

The cold wasn’t all that bad. It was just the temperature after all. I had a ton of clothes on. A thick winter jacket, hoody, a sweater and t-shirt, pants and long John’s.  I was actually kinda toasty. Overdressed would be me by definition. I think I was even sweating standing out there in the snow. The wind from the forefront of a blizzard kissing me.

I stood there with a group of friends I didn’t really connect with. They were from her side of town. I was the invader. Poor broke kid invader. They lived in houses that were built of different wood and structure that made my families feel like they were mere timber. 

I knew she was too good for me so I held onto her even tighter than I should have and she did the same. Her friends had things and could do things with their excess and I was more so there to help digest the surplus of their bonanza. So when we got into that car we really didn’t go that far till time saw to it that me and Malory be separated for all eternity. 

At Least that was its intention A little luck or odd interventions. No guardian angel to save the day to grab us up and fly away. It was a collision between vehicles in a pincer fashion. I could see how her head would hit with passion and spill from it all things and thoughts of us together forever more. 

Time slowed and things froze both the wind and snow and metal and bumper…

I remember grabbing upon my safety belt, trying to gain traction during this infraction to throw myself away in her stay. That’s when oddities came to be. The universe showed me its mercy by intervening with spectacular obnoxiousness. We live in infinity and thus allow for all possibility and there in that point at deaths last step I saw the portal open. 

From within crawled out things black of ooze. Black of heart and goo. Forms crawling and creeping and seeping all at once. Even with time so frozen they scurried as if unopposed. Unaffected. Outside of our realities perspective. 

They came for me. They came for her. They came for all of us. I am sure. I was the only one with the proper eyes to see. Through me came a current of power. A voice louder than any heard from any hour. 

STOP.

BEGONE.

YOU DO NOT BELONG.

It wasn’t a shout. It wasn’t a scream. It wasn’t but was everything. These creatures froze for a moment and then were thrown back from where they’d come from.  However they latched onto my one and only. The girl without which I’d feel so lonely. Malory, by twisted fate, they looked to abduct and carry away. 

Now it was my time to do what must be done. I know I’m not supposed to be someone who does these sorts of things in this space. This place. This realm of reality. To commit to doing it I would be committing a horrible sin. I would use magic and banish them back again but instead of Melory in their hands. An empty vessel… I would hold her. Keep her to myself. I would not let her go to anyone else. 

Tucked her away I did. Keep her safe I will. Will I ever remember? Will she be released from me? Forgive me. I couldn’t let them take her…

Time resumes as the portal closes and the cars collide and my Malory dies. I barely survive. Never the same. My name Corin my oath made, my word golden. One day I will release you. One day I will be forgiven.

Merlin be given the name of a human who must come to terms. Take on the gods and their twisted words and throw them back at them. He does not belong in this song. He does not belong but he is all along. Through magic we vanquish those who pray on the weak and banish those who wish to speak those hateful words of end and sorry. 

For tomorrow we ride better…

Manifest do your best. New Merlin is on their quest. Sex is an object when in reality. Divinity and infinity. For a Merlin defends the flock. A Merlin stands at the dock. Merlin bats away the existential beings and things that can’t be fought by anyone else. Those that live in between. Need be fought by a Merlin.  

Obstacle 34. Coronation