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[leonsurvivor]

[The video opens to an extremely perturbed-looking face. He has an unruly thatch of blond curls, and is dressed in what appears to be medieval chainmail. He’s looking into the camera with a combined look of distrust and consternation.]

I appear to have been kidnapped. I am unaware of this manner of witchcraft keeping me here, but be aware that I am not a man who easily gives up. If it’s information about Prince Arthur and Camelot you are after, then you’d best look elsewhere. I am loyal to my King and my home.

Anyone with information about how to leave this place would be most welcome to find me.

[He nods, clearly finished his speech. This is then followed by about a minute of Leon trying to work out how to turn off the camera, his face becoming increasingly more perturbed by the second. There’s a brief look of triumph on his face as he works it out, then the feed ends.]

Comments

[Video]

[leonsurvivor]

The basics of it, I believe. I have been informed that the visitors of this place use... magic.

[Video]

[dragonspeak]

That's one of putting it. When the gods bring people here, they're given an ability--each god's house has different abilities.

[Video]

[leonsurvivor]

As in a magical ability?

[Don't sugar-coat it, Merlin.]

[Video]

[dragonspeak]

Yeah...magical abilities.

[He can't help it! It's not exactly an easy topic to bring up in Camelot.]

[Video]

[leonsurvivor]

[Leon has to pause to give himself time to think about. He's never been a man of impulsive action, and he doesn't intend to start now, no matter what circumstances he's been put in.]

We're not in Camelot anymore. I understand that different laws must apply here.

[Another pause.]

Does that mean Arthur has magic as well?

[Video]

[dragonspeak]

[Right to the heart of the matter, Leon. There's a frown on Merlin's end before he nods.]

He's...not accepting it. That he has magic, I mean. Seems convinced that the gods must have skipped over him, but I don't think they did. Everyone has something.

[Video]

[leonsurvivor]

It's difficult for him. Magic has been outlawed since he was born.

[Not that Leon really remembers a great deal about Camelot before the great purge, but there are still a few foggy memories.]</small.

[Video]

[dragonspeak]

I know. I haven't tried pushing him about it. [Not too much, at least.

He eyes Sir Leon cautiously.] You're taking it a bit better than I expected.

[Video]

[leonsurvivor]

It's... a great deal to take in. I would not be doing anyone a service by losing my head over it.

[Video]

[dragonspeak]

Kind of overwhelming at first, isn't it?

[Goes quiet for a second.] I guess the main problem is the magic, for everyone who's from Camelot.

[Video]

[leonsurvivor]

That would be putting it mildly, yes.

[Leon's inner turmoil may be a little more subdued than other people's from their world. But it's certainly present. He was only a small child when the great purge began. By the time he began his training as a knight, it was expected that he would uphold each and all of Uther's laws. But in this place... well none of those apply, do they? Racking his brain, Leon can't discern whether or not he ever really thought about his own opinion on magic at all.]

[Video]

[dragonspeak]

[come to think of it, Leon's never really said anything about magic, has he? While he's always upheld the king's laws, he's never voiced his opinions like Arthur and the others have.]

Leon...? What are you thinking?

[Video]

[leonsurvivor]

I'm thinking I should perhaps find a little more about this place.

[Give him some time, Merlin. Twenty years spent helping combat magic don't disappear over night.]