Arthur's POV:
It should have been impossible to reach Camelot in under a week.
Key word: Should
I had since learned that the sheer determination that could only be born from love and worry was enough to lower any time, and let me reach my destination with an impossible speed.
A day and a night, to be exact.
Just because I was able to reach this speed did not mean my body was doing well withstanding it.
All my muscles were sore, and I had a difficult time keeping my eyes open, but I ignored that easily, thinking only of Merlin, of how Merlin needed me.
When I was past the gates, there was already shouting from my knights.
"Sire! What's happened?"
"You're back early, what went wrong?"
"Somebody alert the castle that King Arthur has arrived back in Camelot!"
I ran up the steps of a still empty square, to find.... someone. I had to find someone.
There was nobody in sight, not a soul. Nobody to help me go back for Merlin.
After all, the sun hadn't even come up yet.
Up the stairs, through the corridors, around corners. I didn't know where I was going, I just knew I had to keep moving. I had to keep moving until I found someone.
A door. A room. A bed. Night time. People sleeping. People were sleeping in the room, there had to be somebody there. Somebody who could help me. Somebody who could help Merlin.
Not bothering to knock, I stumbled into the room.
"You two, find the knights of the Round Table, or at least one of them, please. Tell them their king is back. Tell them to meet... This evening in the meeting room. Tell them it's war, and we need to-" I was too weak. Everything went black.
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