Merlin answered in a calm mental voice that carried respect and care. His intention of helping Laura, showing her smiling more, happier, and his intention of helping Logan, showing him happier too, and strong and happy with his mother and siblings, flowed along the link.

Merlin's answers about himself were just as simple, showing him as a man, but with three images all overlapped. Magic was the simplest word for him, and the sense was of a man who changed things, trying to make them better.

All of his images were against a backdrop of warmth and honesty, and of wanting nothing more than to help them both.