Mordred stalked the crumbling halls of a since long abandoned Roman Fortress. Each step from her little brown boots pitter pattering in a dull echo. Her quest? To meet Cynfarch..well technically the other way around but thats neither hither nor thither
As she passed once more into the courtyard, she heard a soft russle coming from bush. approaching it curiously she was then suprised as Cynfarch popped out with a Gaō
"Ahh! Cyn you big dummy were you hiding in the shrubs all day!?" Mordred said as she lightly thwacked at Cynfarch's head like a cat. Cynfarch nodded with an flustered yes embarrassed now that Mo-mo pointed it out. after helping cyn out of the bush and thwacking him some more, Mordred looked around the semi intact remains of the fort. "so what is this dump."
"this dump" as you call it is a old Roman fortress on Hadrian's wall!" Cynfarch said with enthusiastic delight still brushing leafs of himself. "Alright thats actually kinda cool.does this place have a name?" Mordred said halfheartedly swaying on her feet. "i don’t know but i did see a brick with 'Uxelodunum' carved in it"
Cynfarch then grasped Mordred's hand and ran up onto a rampart and into the remains of a watch tower. Were the two looked out amazed. "hey look you can see Luguwaljon" Mordred pointed out to which cyn squinted his eyes an outline of the settlement visible in the distance. "hey cyn you have any food im hungry." expecting his dragon of a friend to Eventually make her apatite know cyn had promptly prepared. "well i have hard and soft bread, pig fat, honey, some dried and wax sealed meat. Candied hazelnuts some cheese and a small container of olives." Mordred raised a brow at the mention of olives. "how'd you get olives? like fat meats and cheese are obvious farm boy, but olives?"
"aehh, my father said trading has been going well and he managed to get some olive jars from the market not alot Maybe three four small jars."
Mordred rolled her eyes but didn't press further, cyn was kind enough to bring snacks and she wasn't gonna question snacks. So after spreading some soft pig fat on a hard Cracker, and Cynfarch put some honey on his soft bread and added some hazelnuts, the two took delight in the simple Romanesque snack.
"strange to think such a large empire once ruled here huh, no Saeson, or picts, or scotii. Where did it all go huh?" Cynfarch asked no-one. Mordred looked at her companion and shrugged. "beats me, but who needs them we have the King of Knights to protect us now."
"...so cyn, your dad came from the Fens yeah, did he ever tell you what it was like?" Cynfarch hummed as tapped his chin before answering "not really he just said its a depressing marsh of Romano-Britons in a sea of Anglii."
"well well fen boy seems you got some deep roman roots. You a Catuvellauni on your father side and your mother?"Mordred spoke with her usual tease but there was a drop of envy. Cynfarch just shrugged "Rheged native, and apparently my dad's side served in the legions as both auxiliary and legionary as far as can be remembered. What about you mo-mo?"
Mordred rubbed her neck lightly flustered "don’t call me that i hate it!" as Mordred said that she knew it was a lie, shaking her head she pondered Cynfarch's question. "I honestly don’t know Mother never talked about father or who'd i image Would be father. Mother herself hardly shares stories of her family lineage all i know is there are half siblings, like this girl gareth, we rarely talk but she's waay too preppy for me. Like the human version of a puppy."
"Ah that sucks, so Mordred what should we do now?" Mordred paused and rubbed her chin before slapping Cynfarch on the back saying "your it"..she may have went too hard cause she ended up knocking the boy off the rampart.
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"i'm okay i landed in the bush"
after making sure to help her buddy who thankfully only lost a loose tooth the two ran around the fort playing tag and getting into rusted Ridge helmets. And peice of wood playing solder and the likes. As the sun set and both made their way back to their homes the homounculus pondered where and who she came from. sneaking past some guards because she technically wasn't allowed to go out on her own, Mordred quickly changed into fresh clothes and hid the dirt and grass stained one among other loose clothing. As she sat on her bed, she couldn't help but feel a sad sense of envy that her friend gets to see so much of Prydein while she was confined to the stone castle or wherever her mother, Morgan Le Fay took her. She was envious that Cynfarch could live a full life while she had a half-life*. But in equal measure she was certainly happy that she ran into Cynfarch because he had Unintentionally given her more then she could've had, he gave her a chance even if probably brief, to be a normal child.
*It is Fate cannon that Mordred is a homonculus be it one born as a baby similar to Illyasviel and Yui. And in her particular case grows at an abnormal rate where as illyasviel ceased growing at a pre-pubescent age and yui experienced no such thing and grew as a human Would. since there is no given metric of how fast Mordred grew Besides abnormal. I'll be going with the idea that Cynfarch met Mordred at the age of 6 and Mordred herself appears to be of a similar age when her biological age is half that so in this case 3. inconsistent probably but im open to interpretations.
