"There's ways of not telling him that ain't lying," he murmured, though he knew Merlin was right. "I should have just kept it to what he asked, nothing more."

And it was a vow he made to himself. Just what he had to, nothing more.

"I could've been pushing," he said, because it was what he was afraid of. "Even if I didn't mean to." He stared up at Merlin, serious and intense. "I got to watch that."