One With Nature 2

Little Mo: 1

After Artoria and her army returned, a giant welcoming party was held by the people as she rode past them with her knights to her castle. Only when she made it back and settled down did I drop the Mordred bomb.

To say it caused an uproar was an understatement.

Artoria herself looked at Mordred like she was the strangest thing she'd ever seen. The mirror-like resemblance between them was probably the only reason she didn't ask if I was sure if it's her child.

She ordered for Mordred to be fed and have a room for the night, before immediately calling an emergency meeting for the Knights of the Round Table.

They probably thought it has something to do with Vortigern. Judging by how heated their current argument was, I bet they wish that was the case.

Agravain didn't want to put up with another one of his mother's schemes, which was understandable, and wanted Mordred to be sent as far from Camelot as possible. Lionel, Cador, and Tristan agreed with him.

Percival didn't believe it was right to judge Mordred for something she had no control over, which was her birth. Lancelot immediately backed him up, and so did Brunor and Bors.

Gawain used to agree with Agravain... Until he saw little Mordred. Then he went full on big brother mode and refused to let anyone as much as look at her the wrong way.

Merlin, unsurprisingly, stayed neutral. What was surprising was that Bedivere and Kay did the same. But, I guess they just believed that Artoria will make the right decision.

As for Artoria herself, she was just observing the argument going on between her knights with a hand on the side of her head. She made it look like she was just leaning on her hand, but anyone who looked closely can tell she was just nursing the headache she was feeling.

"We can't just let another of Morgan's games go on," Agravain stated, standing over the table with his hands firmly on it. "It's better to be safe and just have the child sent away."

"And what does a child that had no hand in its own birth do to support Morgan's ideals," Percival argued back.

"Her very existence is something that supports Morgan's schemes," Agravain glared at Percival.

"With all due respect, Sir Agravain, could the same not be said for you and Sir Gawain?" Brunor said back, crossing his arms.

"Sir Agravain and Sir Gawain are not the product of personal assault on our King," Cador practically growled.

I was confused on why Cador felt so strongly for this, since he always struck me as professional and cool-headed, but then I remembered hearing that Cador had a hand in raising Guinevere, so I guess he believes that her chance to have a child with Artoria was taken by Morgan 'raping' her sister, which produced Mordred.

"That is Morgan's sin to bare," Lancelot argued back. "The child did nothing wrong. No one chooses how they're born."

"Tell me about it," I mumbled, but it was ignored in the heat of the argument.

They kept throwing a few more opinions. This is a seriously bad situation because both sides had justified reasons to hold their stance on the subject.

"She's a CHILD!" Gawain yelled somewhere along the argument, smacking his hands on the table.

"We were all children once, Gawain, but that didn't stop Morgan from using us," Agravain argued back, almost snarling at his brother.

"And we escaped!" Gawain reasoned.

"I am sad to say this, Sir Gawain, but this child did not escape," Tristan said before he turned his head to face me. "It was taken. How do we know that they were not already influenced by Morgan in some way."