#okay no but i seriously believe #from the bottom of my heart #that arthur simply #did #not #want #to #hear #that merlin has magic #from his father’s lips #that is something between /merlin/ and /him/ #he won’t let his father ruin this too #he already scolded arthur for his knights #he scolded him for gwen #but arthur’s SURE as fuck not going to let him say a fucking WORD about merlin #he’s willing to BANISH his father to the spirit world FOREVER #to not have to hear those words (slythermint)
I mean it does look like Arthur’s in a hurry to blow the horn before Uther finishes the sentence
As long as he doesn’t HEAR it, he can pretend it’s not there. As soon as he KNOWS he will have to do something that he doesn’t want to do, not to Merlin.