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-Oh no.
[The video is washed out, too bright underneath the generic lighting of the even more generic passenger's quarters. Merlin's face slowly eclipses it, eyes wide and a little concerned. With a little trial and error, he's managed to master the device's functions faster than a medieval boy probably has a right to. But technology hasn't come up with an answer for clumsiness. Yet.]
All right?
[Merlin picks the communicator up, sighing in relief before he starts to grin.]
Are we really up there? Up in the stars, I mean. I know everyone keeps saying it, it's just hard to imagine. To think that a servant could be among the stars. I really used to look up to them.
[Merlin presses his lips together, quite possibly the only person amused by that. Arthur's always told him that he shouldn't try to be funny. This would be why.]
Has anyone ever been up here before? Do you think if we stepped outside the ship, it would be like falling out of a tree? Except that there are no trees in space, because there isn't any dirt.
Which makes me wonder...where do we get the apples?
[Merlin finally has the decency to look sheepish about his ramblings and odd questions.]
Sorry. And I've already heard about there being no air and space radiation, so I won't actually be trying to get out there. My guardian just always wanted me to take more of an interest in science. I guess this was one way of doing it.
[Merlin glances off-screen, and there's a hesitance with his last question that the others was lacking.]
Uhm, it is science, isn't it? And not magic?
[The video is washed out, too bright underneath the generic lighting of the even more generic passenger's quarters. Merlin's face slowly eclipses it, eyes wide and a little concerned. With a little trial and error, he's managed to master the device's functions faster than a medieval boy probably has a right to. But technology hasn't come up with an answer for clumsiness. Yet.]
All right?
[Merlin picks the communicator up, sighing in relief before he starts to grin.]
Are we really up there? Up in the stars, I mean. I know everyone keeps saying it, it's just hard to imagine. To think that a servant could be among the stars. I really used to look up to them.
[Merlin presses his lips together, quite possibly the only person amused by that. Arthur's always told him that he shouldn't try to be funny. This would be why.]
Has anyone ever been up here before? Do you think if we stepped outside the ship, it would be like falling out of a tree? Except that there are no trees in space, because there isn't any dirt.
Which makes me wonder...where do we get the apples?
[Merlin finally has the decency to look sheepish about his ramblings and odd questions.]
Sorry. And I've already heard about there being no air and space radiation, so I won't actually be trying to get out there. My guardian just always wanted me to take more of an interest in science. I guess this was one way of doing it.
[Merlin glances off-screen, and there's a hesitance with his last question that the others was lacking.]
Uhm, it is science, isn't it? And not magic?
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Duty to your fellow man, huh? Fair enough. If I don't see your prince walking around naked, I'll have you to thank.
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I'm Alistair.
[ the drooling, cheese-muttering king of ferelden ftr ]
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[A little recognition dawns in Merlin's face and voice.]
The man who likes to talk about cheese.
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...Yes...?
Is that what everybody is calling me now?
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[Merlin doesn't know everyone.]
Uhm. I like cheese.
[Maybe that'll be a good enough opener.]
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[ B-but he wants to talk about cheese. Ok, fine. ]
I do too! Some people would say probably too much. One time, my friend Wynne happened to drop by my tent for a conversation about my socks or something, and she took a whiff of the place and said, [ His "old lady" voice: ] "Young man, how could you sleep in a tent that smells like cheese, something something about hygiene."
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[Merlin never could quite identify it. Until now.]
So do you like eating it as well? Cheese, not the socks.
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Yes. The servants back in Denerim made the most hilarious faces when I tell them to bring me cheese wheels. They would ask me "what for" and I'll say "for lunch, of course."
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What did they think you were going to do with them? Use them for a cart?
[Though that does beg another question.]
How many cheese wheels did you have?
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I don't know, but not for eating, that's for sure.
As many as I would like. Being royalty has its perks, sometimes.
not here.
Re: not here.
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[Merlin sounds the strange word out, frowning.]
Yeah, that definitely has to smell like socks.
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