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Nimue, once upon a time, was a human woman. Apprentice to Merlin, she learned everything she could absorb from the great man. Through him, she learned of politics, warfare, and prophecies. It was she who stayed in his shadow, listened as he advised Arthur. Knowing him as well as she did, it was little wonder the young woman should fall in love with him.

As for Merlin, well, Nimue was lovely enough that many believed her to be a nymph, and not human at all. Her intelligence and magical skills had been proven already, or he would not have taken her as an apprentice. Cupid pricked the wise one sharply.
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But prophecies, once born, are rarely ignored. Arthur was to fall in tragic battle. This had been foreseen by Merlin himself. Knowing as well that there was nothing he could do to avert his friend's fate, he chose an alternative. He would wait for Arthur to return. But surely his power would not last if he were forced to use it to keep himself alive all that time! He did the only thing he could think of then: he asked Nimue to be the one to seal him away. Excalibur would call to him when Arthur walked once more.

Thus did she obey. Nimue was bound to him as apprentice, but also as Arthur's subject. If she did not do this horrible task, Merlin would do it himself. And who was to say how that would end? He had to be sealed into a moment, something he had never attempted to do from inside the spell. She helped him lay down on the hewn stone bier, gave him a draught to make him sleep. It was her hand that closed his eyes. Her voice that whispered goodbye as her feet carried her outside of the cave, her hands pushed the stone in front of the entry way as she uttered the spell of binding.

And her heart that broke.

She gave into it. Emotionally falling apart at the thoughts of the long loneliness now ahead of her, Nimue's power now granted her a last gift: oblivion. The sound of glass shattering filled Nimue's world.

Then there was the blackness.