"Mam is a witch. Morgan le Fey. She's...insane, though she never tried to kill me. Wizards, though...Merlin did. So, yes. Culture - men with the robes and the stick and the pointy hat, oh yes, they are just find and can be ambiguous as anything. A woman, though, with powers?"

He shrugs, remembering all the fights he had had, defending his mother's honour as a boy.

Mordred glances up again, the look in his golden eyes knowing.

"She didn't leave me in the dirt, like the legends always say."