"Sounds good." Merlin murmurs to himself. "I've never...told anyone." Even with Will, they never explicitly said it. Played it off as breaking the law, like kids like to do.
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"Sounds good." Merlin murmurs to himself. "I've never...told anyone." Even with Will, they never explicitly said it. Played it off as breaking the law, like kids like to do.