​Fine, you don't wanna talk. Despil rolls his eyes and lets it drop. He's perfected the elusive slip too, and recognizes it in others. Fortunately for Merlin, he's never been a meddling snoop about shit people would prefer to keep a lid on.

But he will say this: "You can stop looking at me like that, you know."

And he knows that you know what he's talking about.