"Merlin, if I die -"
"If I need a servant in the next life-"
"Don't ask me"
"No man is worth your tears"
"You're certainly not"
"I'm happy to be your servant, until the day I
die."
"Just.... Take it."
It startles me sometimes, how often they'd talked about death. How sure they were that the other would someday die.
And it's poetic that Merlin denied Arthur's mortality so often, while Arthur was always afraid to lose Merlin.
And then Arthur dies,
And Merlin cries
And Merlin's death is nowhere near in reach.
There is no next life.
But by the gods, he wished there was.