"Nay, but one whom I truly call friend was brought here from a different place and time. A reunion some 2400 years in the making." Merlin smiled, nodding as he recalled her. "This place is like another place I knew, in my time, a place where people from many worlds and times were brought together. That place was a home to me once, for a time, and therein, I found those I could call brother and sister. "

Merlin eyed the other man. "There ever are such times, when the darkness if pushed back for some small hours and the light reigns."