MERLIN

No! I kept your secret! Just as I promised! I told no one of your existence; no one! But you have to understand: we Britons are in a desperate fight. End-of-times sort of thing. I mean it. It’s happening down there now, as we speak. It’s awful! Big personalities just sort of clashing, all bloody. I hate to ask, but we need your help. But if I could, for one moment, change this world for the better, I would give up everything; everything! Money, drink;–– drinking-money. Look: good men will die without your help. Women. Children. I know your world was destroyed. I’m sorry. But please, don’t let ours die, too. I beg of you.