'Are you even listening? Meeeerlin! I swear you are getting curiouser and curiouser by the day, Merlin'. He had told him, and it was true. The boy's whole body had seemed to be as tense as a string about to snap any minute, but for one shiny moment in time it relaxed, when he had turned around and glared into Arthur's face, particularly his lips, like he was deaf, and trying to read the words off his mouth. The prince couldn't explain it, but it angered him to no end. Recently his days were just as unbearable as his nights.