[If anyone's been missing Arthur for the last few days, it's because he crawled into a hole and died he's been resting, at Merlin's insistence, since his run-in with the vines left him with a rather bad broken arm, which is in a sling at the moment.]
[He is struggling with his noodles, meanwhile, even though this time at least he knows better than to attempt to use a chopstick and is opting for a fork instead]