Merlin glanced between the two, and his eyes narrowed, a touch of anger appearing thusly, and he sat, but he faced them both, and nodded. Only if you both will sit with me. Guests and new friends should treat fairly with one another."

For a moment, as he looked at the man, a darkness seemed to gather, and his eyes went a dead black, but he shook his head, and the anger vanished. His eyes returned to normal. In a careful voice, he spoke softly. "Be careful what games you start sir. I do not wish a feud, so newly arrived. Nor a war, so newly gone out of all such." His words were utterly bare of formality, and yet utterly absent of all emotion as he looked at them.

Then he smiled wider. "We have, it seems, much to discuss, and much to learn from one another."