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Merlin and Saber and the Sword

don't take the sword. i know you will, because i know you. i've known you for a thousand lifetimes, and i'll know you a thousand more because i love you and i cannot bear to see you suffer. but you always take up the sword, there is not a version of this story where you don't eventually take it upon yourself. your self and identity is so fractured it's split into a thousand different iterations, and they all take the sword.

and i will tell you to take it, but every time i'll beg you not to. because i can't bear to see you suffer. i'll stay by your side every time, and watch the story unfold. so I may pick you up once again. and tell you that you did your best, you did wonderful, no one else could've done as well as you did. i love you i love you i love you. please don't take the sword. but you always do.