Blackbeak Bluff Haggis for Algernon

In the back of his mind Merlin wondered, if he had trusted the God Guy too quickly. "Never follow strangers" - he may have not heard his from his own mom, but that self-preservation thought is instinctive. Therefore, to pacify his common sense, natural reflexes and wish to feel a tad bit better, he followed the guy, but kept a safe distance and an open field to flee, if he had to do so. 

They found the said bushes and the boy watched suspiciously, how the fellow plucked berry after berry, ate and swallowed them without flinching. He leaned towards the bush, sniffed it and scrunched his nose - did not seem like anything nice to him. Let alone wholesome. "Oh, I will wait for sure. That poison just might be such that takes you out after a while," he said. "While I wait - what are you really? That god stuff sounded positively weird," why not pass the time with small-talk.