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I know every step of the way we are going-we can shelter this night in a place I know near the shores, and ride on in the morning. Niniane said to me that you would be coming there after Pentecost. And she remembered that Morgaine, too, had known more, she sometimes thought, of the holy writings than she herself did. Do you know-never before have I wakened in your arms without fear.

r all I know, she may have been jesting with me-I saw nothing to suggest that Queen Morgause is not the most Christian of ladies. Morgaine bent her head, squeezing her eyes tight against tears, and when she raised it again, Arthur was gone. Me, he welcomed as if I had been his favorite uncle in childhood, saying how good it was to see a familiar face from Avalon, embracing me, making much of me-all as if he loved me well. If it should come about at any time that you give a child to the throne, be assured that I will never question.