Merlin from Huniths perspective is crazy. Imagine you fall in love with the last dragonlord who is hunted down by a psychotic king so he has to flee but then you realize you're pregnant, oops turns out your son is not only the next in line for the dragonlord powers but also the most powerful sorcerer to ever walk this earth. Naturally you send him to an old friend who works in the court of earlier mentioned psychotic king who executes people on a 'someone said they did magic' kinda basis. But oh no now he somehow gets to be the princes manservant who is around the king much more than almost anyone else. Cool. So when your village gets attacked and said prince and your son help you you send him back there even though it would be more logical to keep him with you but you didn't want to interfere with the intense homoerotic tension so off you go my only child. And that right after you witnessed the prince crashing out over a supposed sorcerer who saved his fucking life.