"Heck yeah, my dude," Magnus says. He straightens up, regretfully letting go of Galahad's hand, and maneuvers until he's sitting cross-legged in front of Galahad. "This is the alphabet; it's the most basic foundation," he says, and slowly goes through each letter in turn, waiting for Galahad to repeat each one.

Then it occurs to him that he doesn't know if knights from Camelot know how to read. Oh, but hadn't Galahad mentioned something about monks, or nuns, or something? Surely there was some kind of literacy there.