The man that Merlin was speaking to seemed to be biting his tongue. It didn't help that he was giving me a glare of what seemed like disdain. Being the asshole I was, I figured that being nice to him would either make him like me more or would piss him off even more than he already was. I didn't know why he didn't like me but I felt like either would be fine so I extended my hand to him.

"And you are? I asked as I had extended my hand.

"Elijah Langston." He replied as he shook my hand. I didn't realize that the Langston's have served with Mordred for this long.

"Well, it's nice to meet you." I said with a smile.

"I heard from Mordred that you know her secret. How did you know?" Elijah asked with that same disdainful tone.

"Uh.." I couldn't think of a good answer and I really didn't want to say the truth with Merlin standing right there.

"They grew up together. Mordred probably just doesn't remember him." Arthur interjected. I felt like I now owed him a lot.

"Okay, I'll accept that, but only because you said so." Elijah said to Arthur.

"Good. Though Sir Elijah, do you know where Mordred is?" Arthur asked.

"She should be in her room resting after the long ride." Elijah answered.

"Could you go fetch her for me? Just tell her that I just need to have a word with her then she can go back to resting." Arthur asked.

"Of course. Though I doubt she'll be happy about it." He said before walking off. As he walked away Merlin did as well. strangely though he walked into the room next to us which had a large bath in it. Instead of stripping or doing anything else that one might normally do in a bathroom, Merlin just jumped into the tub. With a large splash he disappeared completely. I was stunned but to my surprise it was the weirdest thing I’ve seen, and I’ve seen some shit at this point.

“Surprising, huh. Don’t worry, he once tried to convince us that the wash sinks could create wine. Turns out he had just asked the Lady of the Lake to dump wine into it through the water. Him disappearing into water is not that uncommon and it’s simply a way for him to travel to the Lady of the Lake.” Arthur explained.

With that over we continued through the castle until we arrived at a small room with a bed against the back wall and an armor rack in the corner. A small dresser sat against the wall opposite of the bed and candle holders were everywhere. A single window was in the far corner of the room that let enough light in to somewhat illuminate the room.

“This will be your room from now on. I’ll have a maid servant assigned to you at some point soon. Until I call for you again you can rest here. Dinner will be at sundown so please rest.” Arthur said.

“Thank you.” I replied. He nodded and shut the door so that I could be alone I guess. Not knowing what else to do I plopped myself on the bed. Although it wasn’t nearly as nice as the bed’s in 1888 or even the twenty first century, it was still fairly comfortable.

“We need to talk!” I heard someone say from the amulet. I couldn’t really tell if it was Elysif or Mordred but they sounded mad. Holding out the amulet Mordred, Elysif, Iscarat, and Compton all appeared from the amulet.

“What’s up?” I asked as they all appeared. Mordred like myself was on the bed while the others all stood around it.

“I have a few rules for you.” Mordred said with a pissy tone.

“Okay, hit me.” I said which I soon regretted as she punched my arm. I guess either she doesn’t understand sarcasm or she just wanted to hit me.

“First off, don’t do anything strange or even possibly flirtatious to me. Second, don’t do anything that would even remotely make Merlin suspicious of you. Third, I don’t want you to do anything stupid.” Mordred said in a scolding voice that made me think she was a mother giving me a talking to.

“I can understand the last two but what about the first one? Did I do something to you in the past?” I asked.

“... no… you didn’t do anything… it’s nothing.” she said in a super embarrassed tone. Much to everyone's surprise she was turning beet red.

“Anyways, we have another issue.” Iscarat said.