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"And that's basically the whole castle. What do you think?" Merlin asked as he and Harmony strode out of the castle. Harmony tapped a finger on the knot at the end of her hilt.

"I think half of Camelot could be housed here." Merlin shrugged as he noticed the large crowd beginning to assemble around a high wooden platform with a chopping block and an executioner holding an axe.

"What do you suppose is happening here?" Merlin asked as two of Camelot's guards walked out, dragging a ragged-looking man between them.

"Looks like someone got on Uther's bad side," Harmony said solemnly as the man bowed at the chopping block and said king appeared on a high balcony. "What is he doing up there? What has he to fear down here?" she muttered over the pounding drums.

"Let this serve as a lesson to all!" Uther shouted from his perch. "This man, Thomas James Collins, is adjudged guilty of conspiring to use enchantments and magic. And pursuant to the laws of Camelot, I -Uther Pendragon- have decreed that such practices are banned, on penalty of death. I pride myself as a fair and just king but for the crime of sorcery, there is but on sentence I can pass." The drums increased ferocity as Thomas's head was forced onto the chopping block. The executioner raised his axe and in one swift, sickening motion, ended the life before him. Harmony and Merlin turned away, the former with a hand to her lips, feeling as if she were to be sick.

"Disgusting," Merlin said as he turned back to watch the body fall on it's side. "How that man can do that with such passiveness." Harmony turned back and stood up straight as Uther, now smiling in a fatherly way as if he hadn't seen the death he'd ordered. The girl released Merlin's arm and moved towards the platform.

"When I first arrived here, this land was mired in chaos. But with the people's help, magic was driven from the realm. So I declare a festival, to celebrate 20 years since the Great Dragon was captured and Camelot freed from the evil of sorcery." Harmony glared hard at the man as her hand came to rest on the platform, her corner now covered in the victim's blood and being transferred to her hand. "Let the celebrations begin," Uther said and the crowd began to disperse.

A loud, pain-filled cry filled the courtyard, causing the crowd to stop and turn back to see a haggard old woman with a face full of wrinkles, struggled grey hair and dressed in rags that looks more like blankets draped over her, shedding tears while gripping the skirt of her clothes in a white-knuckle grip.

"There is but one evil in this world and it is not magic!" she cried, tears running through the creases in her cheeks like small rivers. "It is you! With your hatred and your ignorance!" The woman gestured to the platform as Harmony began to weave through the crowd towards her, being mindful of her bloody appendage. "You took my son!" Harmony leapt forward and grabbed the woman by her blood-covered hand, smearing the foul liquid on the woman's robes.

"Miss, please. I understand you are in pain but you cannot-"

"I swear to you!" the woman continued as Harmony tried reasoning quietly with her. "Before these celebrations are over, you will share my tears!"

"Ma'am!" Harmony said a little more forcefully as she grabbed the other arm.

"An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth...a son for a son!"

"Ma'am!" Harmony yelled.

"Seize her!" Uther said as he pointed at the old woman.

"Your Majesty please!" Harmony yelled. The woman shoved against her, knocking the swordswoman to the cobblestone ground before she grabbed a cord holding a large piece of dark amber around her throat and whispered some words into it. The muttered words were projected over the courtyard by their power and the pain of their maker, before she turned into a pillar of smoke and vanished into the air. "Wait!" Harmony yelled as she stood up, but the woman was already gone. "No."

Merlin walked over quickly and took Harmony by her elbow, raising her to her feet.

"I thought I could reason with her."

" People will listen when they want to listen. If not, there's nothing anyone can really do," Merlin said gently as he lead Harmony back inside. The girl shook her head, making her braid quiver.

"What kind of tyrannical creature have I sold myself to?" she thought quietly.