"Well I'm waiting" said Arthur stepping closer to the knights who seemed to shrink under his glare, "Percival since you were the first to be affected what happened?"
"It started out light your majesty. I found this amazing woman in pain in the woods an obvious prisoner of the bandits she was still bound but she latched onto me as if I was her saviour, it made me feel special my Lord," uttered Percival sheepishly, "How was I so lucky that such a treasure was looking up to me? But then Merlin tried to interfere and bandage her hand, looking back I know I over reacted but she flinched and shied away from his touch like he burned her and that's all I could see so I snapped at Merlin and told him to get back whilst I carried her away from here and him."
"The lamia affected us all Arthur, no one but Gwen and Merlin stayed away from her influence and I am sorry to say they suffered, we could just not understand how they did not worship the ground she walked on why they did not tend to her every need just to see her smile. This caused tension in the group and I was the first to snap" Uttered Sir Leon getting riled up.
"Calm down and carry on with the story," said Arthur still shocked that the lamia still seemed to evoke such strong reactions from them now even after she was dead Arthur began to see what the knights must have been like when she was alive.
"This anger continued on growing until Merlin tried to interfere, tried to say Lamia was evil but she wasn't she was all the good in the world who didn't deserve him" Sir Leon started, taking over form Percival but stopped obviously thinking over his next words "…someone who wasn't even a knight, not even a physician who is nothing but a servant …." Arthurs sword was drew from its scabbard and held against Leon's throat
"Give me one reason why I should not just run you in right now for what you said to Merlin!" shouted Arthur drawing attention from the other practicing knights about why their king was holding one of them at sword point. Leon only stared into the distance
"I can give you no explanations and you won't be interested in my apologies but hold off killing me until you hear the rest of the story as the worst is yet to come. The insults were only the start soon the argument escalated until the threat of physical violence hung in the air. Gwen I believe tried to intervene in one of the arguments but we pushed her down and advance towards her but Merlin spoke up directing all out attention on him. We were all so angry with the lamia whispering into our brains horrid thoughts and despicable action until they happened. I can't remember who threw the first punch but only that it felt good and the pressure inside our heads lessened the more we put in."
"Yet the wanting to hurt Merlin didn't seem to come from her, "interrupted Elyan with dead eyes "but ourselves like the beating was something he deserved. The more we beat him the more it felt like we should his cries were the worst the more they sounded the more we wanted to hear them again to know that Merlin was finally getting what was coming to him for acting like a knight or a member of the court when all he is, is pathetic servant from some small village."
The knights all looked ashamed when Elyan revealed the secret. Arthur looked around to see all the knights that were training had left leaving just him and the four knights alone. Arthur directed his gaze at Elyan "So what happened next?"