Merlyn blinks. Blinks again, rather owlishly and quite clearly caught off-balance. "...Yes," he says after a moment, sounding a little impressed, a little affronted, and mostly just surprised. After the lengths he's gone to to explain it, it's rather shocking for someone to pick it up that quickly. It hasn't occurred to him that maybe the reason for that is the lengths he's gone to. "Yes, exactly. I was born in the twenty-first century, if I recall correctly, and I lived for a great number of years, and in my old age, I finally got to the point of aiding Arthur, and then I retired. And then," he adds rather bitterly, "I was brought here, which I must say was a very unpleasant surprise."