Scene 8
Morgana and Merlin are on stage.
Morgana
Well?
Merlin
This is incredibly bad.
Morgana
What?
Merlin
Grenademan has a powerful chaos artifact.
Morgana
And?
Merlin
How can you not consider this a problem?
Morgana
How can you possibly care about what those two assholes care about anything? They use us as playthings and force us to remember it. I’ve had to consult with Guenevere the Oxford Scholar for 400 cycles in a row now. That’s centuries subjectively speaking.
Merlin
Can you put that away?
Morgana
Put what away?
Merlin
Your ego, its suffocating the room, this is serious.
Morgana
Look, just because you have a man crush on Order doesn’t mean that this is my problem. I think that this is just because you’re worried about losing our bet.
Merlin
What? No! I’m just looking out for both of us. He has to be sent away.
Morgana
That’s your solution to anything Chaos portals in, portal them away. Order’s side. Chaos’s side. You want to keep Camelot clean and simple.
Merlin
Anything and everything all of the time.
Morgana
What?
Merlin
People have no idea how close Camelot is to all corners of Western Civilization. Everything is connected. This game between Chaos and Order is part of the reason the legend is so prominent. It is a tragedy, like Romeo and Juliet. The world needs it. Its important. I have a duty to keep it together.
Morgana
Nothing you said is wrong. But you forget who you are talking to. I know you Merlin. This isnt about some higher duty. This is you living in the past like some washed up high school jock reliving their high school football days. You’re terrified of moving on.
Merlin
It did all the things we designed it to do. People don’t understand what Camelot was supposed to do. And its still doing it. It represents the ideals of order and good and hope.
Morgana
Order you say?
Merlin
I mean….(beat) You can’t have Order without Chaos.
Morgana
So hope and believing in something greater than yourself?
Merlin
Precisely.
Morgana
Like Grenademan?
Merlin
No not like that idiot. He’s a literal hand grenade loose in the court and will break everything. He is a literal agent of chaos.
Morgana
And you are supposed to be championing chaos.
Merlin
I-(beat)
Morgana
We didnt have to switch up. You were the one who got bored. You were the one who pitched the idea of switching to them.
(Beat as Merlin doesnt say anything)
You just wanted Order to admit that he liked you as his champion. You wanted him to acknowledge you. And he didn’t. Because he’s Order.
Merlin
Abstralatoria! (Lights and if possible pyrotechnics pursue)
Who are YOU to psycho analyze ME?
Morgana
I knew magic when you were just an infant.
Trajaliyia! (more lights and pyrotechnics)
You don’t intimidate ME.
Merlin
Know your place!
Morgana
My place is anywhere I want it to be.
Merlin
You tread on dangerous ground.
Morgana
Do I? Do I old man? Well, you say Grenademan is dangerous? That he is a problem? Let’s see just how much of a problem he can be.
(Lights go out, Lights go up, Morgana is gone.)
Merlin
I hate it when she does that.
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