Entangled - A Cursed ff x Medici the Magnificent cast

Chapter 4 - A Dying Warrior

Guinevere marched to her crew's rooms, knocking loudly on one of the doors and stepping in before getting an answer.
"Myrun, I need some herbs and potions" she announced spotting a mature woman narrowing her eyes at her while she was making some arrows.
The old woman was a fierce warrior and very dangerous with her poisons. But she was also the best healer of her crew.
"I heard you brought a dying man onboard" Myrun said diffidently "That young man managed to make you soft hearted".
Guinevere stiffened at the unfriendly mention of Arthur.
"He reminded me of my brother. I wish I can save him. Or at least making him feel less lonely".
"I won't tend to anyone else. I already take care of our brothers and those weird creatures. I can't deal with a dying one. Unless you allow me to cut his throat to end his suffering".
Guinevere turned rigid "I will do it, don't worry. I just need herbs".
"We are running out of herbs" Myrun said harshly "We need new raids. And some blood".
"We are moving to attack Uther the Impostor" Guinevere's lips twitched "You will have your dose of soldiers to slaughter. And enough treasure to buy any ingredient we need".
Myrun smirked mischievously "Sounds good, captain".

With Myrun's basket of herbs and bandages, Guinevere walked back to her brother's room.
The slaughtered man was still there, alive.
Guinevere recalled that Percy also mentioned his name. Lancelot, wasn't it?
But in front of her she just saw too much torn flesh and fresh blood mixed with dry blood.
His face had some cuts too, so she couldn't imagine how he would look like without those wounds.
Guinevere couldn't count how many scars he would get if he ever survived that.
She changed the bandages and applied some herbs and mixtures to stop the bleeding wounds.
Then she burned some dried leaves to clean the heavy smell into the room.
"What's that?" Percy's shy voice came from the door as she caught him watching.
"Osha roots" she replied patiently, placing some dried roots around the bed.
"For protecting from dark magic?".
She smiled at him "Exactly, good boy".
"God, is he still alive?" Arthur joined them, gaping at the man lying on the bed.
"He is. But I can't say for how long" Guinevere gathered the dirty bandages into an empty basket.
Arthur walked closer to her, until he wrapped an arm around her shoulder.
"You have a kind heart, captain" he said softly "I guess you've done more than enough for him".
She smiled faintly and looked at Percy "Shall we find a room for you?".
"I want to stay here with him" the boy said confidently.
"Are you sure?" she walked to him, caressing his soft cheek.
"Yes. I don't want to leave him alone. I feel safe with him" Percy stated, but Guinevere noticed that he didn't truly mean what he said. She didn't complain.
"As you wish. If you need something, my room is near" she lingered a bit, then allowed Arthur to guide her out of the room.

"We are landing tomorrow in a safe harbor" she said tiredly as they reached her room and Arthur locked the door "The Fey Folk can hide in the forest. Those who want to fight are welcome to join us, but they must accept to follow my orders. Then I was thinking that Ireland would be a safe place for them. I can't say how long this war of kings will carry on".
Arthur pulled her closer, stroking his thumb on her face with a dreamy expression "Thank you. You are doing so much for them, for us".
She abandoned herself in his arms "You know, it's a pleasant feeling, to help people after seeing so many horrors. Since I feel death swinging upon my head, I need to enjoy some goodness in my life of sinner".
Arthur lifted her chin up softly.
His gentleness was melting her heart.
"I can't say how grateful I am for having found you, Guinevere. I've seen hell, but you appeared and saved me and the Fey Kind. I owe you my life. I won't let anything, not even death, menace you".
"Like you can give orders to death" she teased him "You can always leave and start a new life away from this war. You said we were even, didn't you? Lead the Fey to the shores of Ireland".
Arthur blinked at her suggestion, then replied stubbornly "I don't run away, Guinevere. I can never run away from you. The Fey people can reach that land without my help".
She smiled "Maybe you will change your mind. Feel free to change it whenever you want".
"Nothing can change my mind. Unless it's an order, my captain. Are you ordering me to leave, Guinevere?".
The provoking look that he gave her was enough to make her legs weak.
She glanced around to gain her strength back.
"Why did you lock the door?".
"Because I don't want anyone to disturb us. I know I'm not worthy to be with you, but if I can be a good company to you..." he said humbly.
She rolled her eyes "Stop undervaluing yourself, Arthur. I'm not going to say no to you, so shut up and make me feel good".
In a daze because of her feelings, she pulled him closer to shut him up with a fierce kiss.

In the morning the Red Spear released the anchor close to a white shore.
The Fey Folk happily stormed out of the ships to reach the land.
Guinevere watched the show with a smile that couldn't leave her lips.
Many of them greeted her in their own way. She just replied with a wide smile to their words and bows.
She enjoyed the good feeling, knowing how her time was running out.
She watched Arthur joining them to accompany them into the nearest forest. Her heart was beating fast with pride. She wished he would change his mind and stay with the Fey, instead of coming back to her ship and sail towards death.

The darkness of the war was coming like a black cloud on the horizon, ready to cover the sun.
"Don't you want to stay with your people?" Guinevere asked when she noticed that Percy didn't join the other Fey.
"I want to stay with him" he said referring to Lancelot "And with you, milady".
Guinevere scoffed "I'm no lady. Do you want something more to eat? I'm sure the cook has something left for you".
"What about Lancelot? It's been days he doesn't eat" Percy complained.
Mentioning the slaughtered man was enough to cloud her joy.
"I'll think about it" she promised and felt the child's eyes following her to make sure that she wasn't lying as he fastened his paces to follow her.

He was still alive.
Guinevere almost hoped that he wouldn't make the night, so she could move on and focus on her mission.
But seeing how Percy cared for his friend, pushed her to keep trying to help Lancelot.
She kneeled next to him and tried to call him softly, with no results.
So she checked his bandages while Percy watched.
The only reaction that proved that Lancelot was still alive was when he suddenly opened his mouth.
Guinevere blinked, thinking she missed something, and tried to talk to him.
But from his mouth came just a sad sound.
Guinevere moved closer hoping to catch some words.
But he was just wailing.
Percy was traumatized.
Guinevere reached him and wrapped an arms around him to comfort him.
"He is in pain" Percy whispered shocked.
"Some wounds are deep and whenever I change the bandages they open again" she said patiently "You don't have to witness this. Let's go to the kitchens and get some food. I'll take some also to him".
Percy obeyed and followed her to the kitchens.
Guinevere felt better when she saw him tasting and then eating more hungrily the food that the cook was offering him.
She sneaked away with a bowl of soup and visited Lancelot again.
She didn't even know if he was able to eat. If he wouldn't die for his deadly wounds, he would surely die of starving.
Guinevere leaned towards him and opened his mouth to place a spoon on his tongue. The movements proved her that he could swallow, so she slowly fed him with the soup.
She watched his Adam's apple move. She feared that he could choke, so she checked that after swallowing he was still breathing.
To be alive never looked so hard.
Where was nothing more she could do, she tried something that she wasn't used to do anymore.
She prayed for that stranger's recovery.
Then she placed a rosary in his fingers.

Guinevere was about to leave him alone, when suddenly she saw his eyes open.
He was awake, she realized nervously.
She leaned closer to him to make him understand that he wasn't alone, but she couldn't make promises.
She felt uneasy under his deep staring.
He had eyes of a wonderful blue shade. It was like finding two sapphires.
He opened his mouth to speak, but just a growl came out and he gave up trying, falling back unconscious.
Guinevere guessed that the pain woke him up in that way and she felt rewarded with that weird event. It was like that stranger wanted to thank her before leaving.
She had to leave too. So she murmured a goodbye and walked away, expecting not to meet those lively blue eyes ever again.

A/N

So finally the series is out and I spent most of my weekend watching the ten episodes ✌

The storylines in the series went quite far far away from what I expected so this book version will be also very different from the series.

I hoped to see MORE about the Weeping Monk and the Red Spear, but I felt quite disappointed... I mean, they didn't even meet and they didn't reveal her real identity!
So this book is my revenge to get all that I missed in the series 😂

I turned quite obsessed with the Weeping Monks eyes, not to mention Daniel Sharman's outstanding portrayal that made his character being the best of the whole series according to me.

While I didn't like much how the Red Spear looked. Where are the flaming red hair and the green eyes? She looked mostly like a crazy wild woman, but I keep shipping her with the Weeping Monk. And I'm satisfied with my casting for this book 💚

If you've also seen the series, what are your opinion?
I'm really curious to know, I heard a lot of different point of views in these days and I hope that if you are reading this, you can also tell me your opinion of my version of the story so far 😊
Thank you!