And she suddenly saw her plan complete as Nimue whispered, Must I go forth too? Is it mine to avenge the Goddess? She, Morgaine, would deal with the Holy Regalia. How can they do so when he allows his wife to live in open sin with Lancelet? Yes, I know you speak of these few days. If our son is to rule in a Christian land, is it fating that Druid banner should fly above his father's castle?They rode slowly through the encamped armies in the plain before Caerleon. Surely it is time, she thought, that Lancelet should have to answer for all he has wrought.
Your mother is- Morgaine stopped and softened the words; he was, after all, only a child. God grant him some such vision as mine, for you need him more here than you need me, Arthur, and if he comes not soon, I shall go forth myself to seek him. At the edge of the grove there was a pool, standing beneath three of the sacred trees, hazel and willow and alder-a magic older than the magic of the oak. Gwenhwyfar would never be anything but her enemy.
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