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Gwen's Ironic Figures: A Narrative Fiction

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"Come, my lady, time to wake," a voice said to Merlin's left. My lady? And was that Gwen? Why was Gwen in his room, trying to wake him up? "Mmm," he said, reluctant to open his eyes. Wait a minute—did he just sound more feminine than he should have? He opened his eyes and looked into Gwen's smiling face. It was nice to see her, but . . . Was the mattress way more comfortable and higher up than it should be? He sat up and looked around the room—Morgana's room. "Are you all right, Morgana? Did you not sleep well again?" "F-fine," he said in Morgana's voice. He looked down at himself to see two obviously feminine features he'd never seen from this perspective before. His head was spinning wildly and he fell back onto the bed. "Are you sure? You …show more content…

She gave him another odd look, but opened the wardrobe and began rifling through it. She pulled out a green dress he'd seen Morgana wear on several occasions and laid it over the top of the dressing screen. She then began tidying around the room while Merlin finished eating. Once he was done, he stood and walked over to the screen. Gwen came over, which was a good thing, because Merlin managed to get his hands twisted up in the nightgown's laces. She took one look at the snarl he'd created and "tsk'd" at him. "You really seem off this morning. Are you sure you slept well?" "Now that you mention it, I don't think I slept very much at all," he lied. She didn't need to know his confusion stemmed from being in the wrong body. "Hmm," she replied. She eventually sorted out the laces and worked the nightgown off Merlin. She handed him clean underthings, which Merlin looked at with trepidation. To his relief, they weren't much different from male undergarments and he managed to get them on all right. Gwen slid the dress on over his shoulders, helping him get his arms in the right places. She did up the laces then helped him sit so she could slide the stockings and slippers

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