- Queen Annis: I would love to see your fool perform. Given all his failings, he must have SOME skills.
- Arthur: You'd think so, wouldn't you? You heard the queen. Jump to it.
- Merlin: I'm not a fool.
- Arthur: That's debatable.
- Merlin: And I don't have any skills.
- Arthur: I know that, but we can't refuse the queen when she's granted us safe passage, can we?
- [Merlin uses a nonverbal spell. Merlin juggles with four eggs, then makes them disappear. The crowd is entertained, while Arthur watches his performance with a weird look on his face]
- Lochru: For even as Camelot flowers, so the seeds of her destruction are being sown. The prophets speak of Arthur's Bane. You would do well to fear it, for it stalks him like a ghost in the night. Unless you act quickly, Emrys, even you can not alter the never-ending circle of his... fate.
- The Dragon: There was a time when the words of a Vates were considered a gift.
- Merlin: Then why do they feel like a burden?
- The Dragon: A wise man is not cowed by knowledge, Merlin. Instead, he uses it to guide him.