Oh, they're wonderful! I love this so much because I can just see them and it's just /right/ in every way.

I adored too much of it to choose a specific thing to quote, but if pressed my favourite paragraph was this:


‘Only to yourself,’ Arthur says, because even though he’s seen Merlin halt time and split the earth asunder, seen him stalking the battlefield with blood on his face and fire at his fingertips, he’s also seen him conjuring ribbons and dolls for little girls in the marketplace, face lit up and smiling wide as though he were the one receiving the gift; to Arthur he will always be the same ridiculous, reckless idiot who barged his way into his life all those years ago and stubbornly refused to leave.