UPPER CORRIDOR
Arthur, Anne and the guards dragged Gwen down the Upper Corridor.
"No, please," Gwen said. "You've got to listen to me! Please, I haven't done anything wrong! You have to listen to me, please! I am innocent, I swear! Let me go! I swear to you!" Gwen turned her head and saw Merlin and Colette approaching her. "Merlin! Colette! Merlin, Colette, please help me!" She said to the guards, "Why won't you listen to me?!"
Gaius took Merlin and Colette's arms and escorted them out.
"Please listen to me!"
GAIUS' CHAMBERS
Merlin, Colette and Gaius entered and Gaius slammed the door before asking, "What have you done?!"
"What?" Merlin replied.
"I warned you! Oh, I understand. You thought you were doing good."
"I couldn't let her father die knowing I could cure him."
"Didn't you think it might look a bit suspicious, the curing of one man?"
"Well then, all I have to do is... Colette and I'll cure everyone! No one will ever have to know it was magic."
"It's too late! They think Gwen's a sorceress! They think she caused the disease!"
"But she didn't!" He rushed to leave and Colette, grumbling, followed him.
"Oh, and how are you going to prove that?!"
Merlin and Colette stopped to think, exchanged a look, then left.
COUNCIL CHAMBER
Arthur and Anne entered and guards dragged Gwen in behind them.
"Please listen to me I have done nothing, please!" Gwen begged. "I swear I haven't done anything!"
Guards dropped her on the floor.
Uther said to Arthur and Anne, "Well done."
"Why will no one believe me?! He got better, he just recovered. I didn't do anything!"
Morgana entered and said, "I believe you. Perhaps this is a disease that is not always fatal. Have you thought of that? Perhaps he recovered naturally."
"And what of this poultice that was found?" Uther asked.
"What poultice?" Gwen questioned. "I don't know anything about a poultice!"
"It was found in your house. Undo this enchantment. Put an end to this contagion."
"I can't!"
"I will show you no mercy."
"I am not a witch. I don't know how to stop the illness!"
"If you will not undo your sorcery, you force my hand and I must find you guilty..."
"But I told you, I..."
"It is therefore my duty to pronounce judgment. And under the circumstance I have no choice but to sentence you to death."
"No."
"I can only hope that when you die, this evil plague dies with you."
"No! No!"
"Take her away."
Guards dragged Gwen backwards out of the room as she cried, "Please, no! I'm innocent! Please, please, no! Please help me! Please, I beg you! No!"
Courtiers left. Morgana watched Gwen get dragged off, then turned to Uther and said, "I know Gwen, she's my maidservant, sometimes tends to Anne, not an enchantress."
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The Golden Age
FantasyColette and her brother Merlin travel to the land of Camelot, unknowing of the ban against magic and save the prince and princess, securing their place in the castle. Though, neither sibling knows their true destiny. After all, who does? *I don't o...
