At the lake, Merlin and Sir Percival sit next to a fire. Sir Percival looks into it, he seems he has forgotten everything arround him. Merlin cooks and puts another piece of wood into the fire. He looks at Sir Percival: "You are so silently today?" Sir percival jumps out of his thoughts. After a moment he answers: "I have to think about what Arthur told me all the time: to find my credence." Merlin smiles: " What was your credence before? I know less about you. Who are you? Who have you been?"
Sir Percival looks up: "There isn't much to tell. Everything i believed in is dead." He pauses, sighs and starts again: "Before I came to Camelot, I lived in Cenred's kingdom. I was married." He smiles as he remembers that.
Merlin asks again: "Was she beautiful? I mean your wife?" Sir Percival goes on: "She was the most beautiful woman in the world. She and my children have been the most important thing in my life. They have been so lovely, I called them my angels." Sir Percival stops, tears run down his face: "It still hurts, when I only think on them." Merlin comes a step closer to Sir Percival: "What happened?" Sir Percival takes heart: "One day I wasn't at home, King Cenred came in our village. I don't know at all what happened. All I know is, as I returned in the evening my family was dead." Sir Percival stops again, he drinks a swallow of water. Merlin looks sadly into his face: "I'm sorry, I don't know what to say."
Sir Percival goes on: "They were hanged in our house. Neighbors told me, King Cenred wanted to have some fun with my wife. She said no and so one word caused the next. Cenred was nothing but a murderer. He even executed my children. This was the moment I lost everything, I lost my faith in justice, my faith in life."
Merlin fills a plate with soup: "And than you met Lancelot..." Sir Percival remembers: "It was in the tavern and I was drunken. He told me that he is on his way to Arthur to fight King Cenred. That was all I wanted: fighting and revenge." Merlin gives the filled plate to Sir Percival: "You don't look alike..?" Sir Percival takes his spoon: "That was at that time. Then I met Arthur and the knights of the round table. They all changed my life. I found back what I had lost: my believe in truth, in trust, in love and in justice. Arthur was all that, Arthur stand for all what I believed in. He saved me." He starts eating.
Merlin fills another plate: "And now it is your turn to save him." Sir Percival looks up: "But how, I don't know what to believe after all. Always the evil wins abouve the good." Merlin shakes his head: "But that isn't true. Look arround you, Camelot is safe, Morgana defeated, even King Cenred is dead." Sir Percival placess his plate on the ground: "Maybe, all I know is, that Gwen needs our help or she looses the throne." Merlin smiles: "No, that won't happen. Gwen is stronger as you think." Now it is Sir Percival who shakes his head: "I wished I had your trust, your faith." Merlin still smiles: "I'm sure, you find what you are looking for. Now lets eat, before it is entirely cold."