And round its neck was a fragment of leather, and on that a scrap of red cloth-it was something like to the bag in which she had borne her gear when she rode from Caerleon. Arthur bears the sword of Avalon still, and if he keeps not his oath to Avalon, they will require it at his hands. I could remember without weeping, and recall the days of love without unending sorrow welling up like tears from the very depths of my being. Perhaps I hoped that he, a Christian king, would refuse when he knew; or perhaps even now he wanted a young wife who could give him children.
she had sent with him a slip of the Holy Thorn, so that it might still blossom in the world outside. But even in his dreams he twitched and moaned and muttered as if his dreams were evil, and Morgause knew it was not only the pain of his unhealed wound. Later, perhaps. If we are to have fish, she said, you will have to change your tunic again and go fishing for it yourself.
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