[
O Most Unthankful] by Heather Elizabeth Peterson
Merlin/Arthur.
Dusk (HEP) is a consummately skilled writer, and this is my favourite of her stories. It's very, very good, and beautifully written, and firmly placed historically and mythologically, and heart-breaking.
It is a great privilege that the gods have granted me: to serve as tutor and guide of the one who someday will serve as High King of this isle, uniting our people and thrusting back the darkness that has already overwhelmed so much of the world. This much my visions have told me.
I tried to keep those visions in mind one sunny afternoon in June, as I confronted an angry youth whose sole goal in life, it now seemed, was to provoke his tutor into murdering him. 
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