kingdomgladiator
📜 Two years ago, Merlyn knew Arthur only as a reckless knight with too much pride and a smile that lingered longer than it should. She never learned his name. He never learned the full truth about her magic. They parted like unfinished sentences.
Now Merlyn arrives in Camelot to study under Gaius, carrying spellbooks, sharp wit, and a mind that notices everything while saying very little. She is autistic, brilliant, guarded, and quietly exhausted by a world that rarely makes space for her silences.
Arthur Pendragon, crown prince of Camelot, is stunned to find the girl he never quite forgot standing in the physician's chambers, older, sharper, still impossible to read. He already knows her secret. Her magic does not frighten him. It never did.
As Camelot threatens to crush Merlyn beneath expectations, noise, and danger, Arthur becomes something unexpected: a constant. Someone who listens when she does not speak. Someone who believes her when the world does not. Their love grows not in grand gestures, but in steady understanding, shared glances, and the quiet fire of being truly seen.
Magic may be forbidden, destiny unavoidable, but this time Merlyn is not alone.
🗡️ She hides in silence. He rules in plain sight. Together, they rewrite destiny. 🔮👑💫