The Mage Returns by Christina D Stewart

Author:Christina D Stewart
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub

Merlin Wins One

The sun had barely risen above the horizon and was spreading shadows across Merlin's lawn when his staff brought him to full consciousness him with the report of a new dawn. Merlin grumbled under his breath about those who never slept being totally inconsiderate of those who did need their beauty rest. A complaint to which the staff replied that Merlin should be fine to wake up at any time given his lack of beauty. Had an outsider been able to hear the conversation they would have recognized a dialogue between two long-married lovers jousting lovingly, with each knowing the next line in their own performance.

Merlin did indeed wake and the first thing he said outside of their normal script was, "Shower. Hot." After which he tottered off towards the bathroom in an attempt to wash away the feelings of the previous day. That sort of aggression and extreme emotion left him more tired and drained now than it had when he was much younger. He shook his head in disgust.

Two minutes later, with hot water plastering his beard to his face, he complained out loud, "I once fought twenty-four hours in a row with a sword and now I can hardy kick the butts of five young men - or was it six - before I have to take a break." He poured a generous amount of shampoo into his hand, looked at it with disgust but began working it into his hair anyway. "And this stuff! Who ever heard of having to wash your hair. I went years, no centuries without having to do that. And now some television star says, "Do that - with this!" and the entire human world expects us to wash our hair."

He grumbled the entire time he was in the shower, but before he shut off the water, he took a few seconds to thank the spirits of the water he'd used for allowing him to heat it up for his own personal comfort.

He grinned wryly with the thought that he loved a hot-water shower and that it was man's best invention bar none, but that he felt the need to grumble every time he took one. Those young people who considered very long ice-cold showers to be healthier were missing an essential part of civilization and their sanity he decided.

His staff sent a quick message that consistency may not be one of his strongest characteristics. He returned a rather large harrumph.

Merlin ate his normal breakfast of yogurt with raspberries. On a day he decided to break old habits, he'd have yogurt and blueberries. He smiled at the memory, one of the rare ones from his childhood he still remembered, of his mother feeding him yogurt she'd made herself and covered with raspberries he'd picked earlier that morning. Again, the thought appeared unbidden that one sign of him getting old was when he began reminiscing about his childhood. He banished it immediately before his staff could comment.

The thought, asking if he

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