The lost scabbard

Morgan threw Excalibur's scabbard into a lake and Arthur never found it. The scabbard, not the sword, is the thing that keeps its bearer from bleeding. Someone else found it: a miller's daughter, a poacher, a nun draining a fish pond. Write what the scabbard does to a life that was never meant to carry it, and what it costs to keep or to give up.

What would contradict the canon

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• The scabbard never reaches Arthur. The canon has him without it at the end.
• It protects from bleeding; it is not a sword, a wish, or a cure for illness.
• No court rescue: if Camelot appears at all, it appears as rumour.

Already sealed, and binding

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One way it might open

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Her father said the weir had caught a drowned dog, and sent her down with the hook.

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