This fic was a real labour of love. It's my first Merlin fic, and it's inspired by Keats' poem 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci' (if any of you remember my Keats-obsessed phase a while ago). I wrote it for the paperlegends Merlin Big Bang, and I can't quite believe that it has finally posted - I worked on this for months, and just indulged myself on every aspect of it. Or as I described it on twitter: it's like one of my angsty one-shots, only it's 35k long.

I know that most of my flist is H/D rather than Merlin, but I hope you read it anyway - I'd say you don't need knowledge of the show to read it, although if you are a Merlin fan then it might make you even more sad. It is rather angsty - more so than is my norm.

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