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parents away you would come returning back,’ said Sergycal, ‘and I was doing suspecting your parents would not being with you.’
    â€˜Unfortunately I was forced to kill them,’ said Mordred.
    â€˜Of course you were. It is being your destiny,’ said Sergycal. ‘And now I am doing swearing my allegiance to you, the sixteenth Lord Laclustre of Laclustre and the noble leader of the Knights Intolerant.’
    â€˜The Knights Intolerant?’ said Mordred. ‘What are, no, hold on, I thought I was the fifteenth Lord?’
    â€˜The ninth Lord is never spoke of, for he brought terrible disgrace upon the House of Laclustre,’ said Sergycal.
    â€˜How so?’ said pretty well everyone.
    â€˜He married beneath him.’
    â€˜What, you mean a commoner or worse still, a peasant?’ said Culvert.
    â€˜Worse,’ said Sergycal. ‘It grieves me to tell you that his wife had more than two legs.’
    â€˜You don’t mean he married a sheep or a horse, do you?’ said Mordred.
    â€˜Worse. His wife had more than four legs,’ said Sergycal, ‘a lot more.’
    â€˜You mean, he married a whole flock of sheep?’
    â€˜No. The ninthly Lord of Laclustre did marrying a centipedes,’ Sergycal whispered. ‘Now may we please never talking of it again do. Just suffice it to say so, my lord, that you are being the sixteenth Lord of Laclustre.’
    â€˜Agreed,’ said Mordred. ‘So tell me, good Sergycal, who are The Knights Intolerant?’
    â€˜They are being, my lord, an ancient and secretive order whose origins do stretching back in time go to well over a month ago,’ said Sergycal, ‘and you, my Lord, are being the Grand Inquisitor and Sacred Annihilator.’
    â€˜Annihilator? What are we supposed to annihilate?’ said Mordred.
    Annihilate was a word he loved and the idea of being the Sacred Annihilator sounded very exciting. He was, after all, very good at it for someone so young.
    â€˜The charter of the Knights Intolerant is doing stating that we exists to annihilate two things,’ Sergycal explained. ‘The first is being all our enemies and the second is being wizardy wizard peoples.’
    â€˜Wizards?’ said Mordred. ‘But aren’t they useful?’
    â€˜And who was sending you and your parents to the Rock of Death?’ 31
    â€˜King Arthur.’
    â€˜Yes, but who did the advising to him to?’
    â€˜Merlin.’
    â€˜Exactlys,’ said Sergycal, ‘and Merlin is therefore both of the things we are dedicated to annihilating being wrappered up in one. He is an enemys and he is a wizards.’
    â€˜You’re right,’ said Mordred. ‘You are a great and wise servant.’
    â€˜Can anyone join?’ said Captain Shortbread Silver.
    â€˜Membership is beings by invitation only,’ said Sergycal.
    â€˜Oh.’
    â€˜And you are inviteds.’
    â€˜Excellent,’ said the Captain. ‘Is there a badge?’
    â€˜There is indeed. And a hatly hat and a secrets handshakings.’
    â€˜And my neighbours, the Clapshamshires, would they be invited to join?’ said Mordred.
    â€˜That would do requiring a meeting of the Council,’ said Sergycal.
    â€˜And who are the council?’
    â€˜Well, my lord, that would be being you and me and the goodly captain,’ said Sergycal.
    â€˜That’s it?’
    â€˜Yes. And once the council have been approving the invitations, then all the Knights Intolerant are having to vote on it.’
    â€˜So how many people does that involve?’
    â€˜Well, my lord, there’s you and me and the goodly captains,’ said Sergycal.
    â€˜That’s it?’
    â€˜Yes, my lord,’ Sergycal replied. ‘It’s early days being today.’
    â€˜So exactly for how long have the Knights Intolerant been in existence?’
    â€˜Umm, let me do seeing. How long ago was it since you was left