"Stop!" ordered Arthur, "stop right there".

"What?"

"Gwen would never say that," he stated, firmly.

"And, even ignoring the pointlessly detailed description of Morgana's beauty, I know all this. Gwen and Morgana had both noticed something strange about Belten so the three of you followed him to the cemetery and watched him perform some magic ritual where he fed the offal to a black cat and then killed the cat and drank its blood."

"So I...?"

"So you went and looked at all those strange books you and Gaius have and discovered the purpose of the ritual was to prepare a sorcerer to summon a demon by sacrificing two maidens."

"Well, don't you think that's important to the story?"

"Merlin, if we were actually telling this story to people this would be the part where they went to the bar to get another drink. Research is not heroic. Research is boring. Can we just skip to the point where Gwen and Morgana disappeared and we went to rescue them?"

"Based on my research, you mean?"

"Whatever, Merlin."

"Fine then."

"Fine."