User blog comment:Merlaa/Where did Merlin go?/@comment-50.47.87.216-20121231141751

I think that Merlin would have found a way to send word back to Gaius that the Arthur was dead and also telling him that there was hope that he would raise again. Merlin would never leave Camelot or his friends. I think that he was just mourning his friend but then after a few days he would return to protect Camelot just as he always has.