10/02/2026 14:49

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hey regret, Arthur said, smiling at his queen, I think it is the days when we were all young, and the closeness that was between us all. he sacrifice that hold over him? A child I could keep, a child I could hold in my own arms, a babe to love . And something at the back of her mind told her that this was not the way; the King's sister and the King's friend should not go seeking a hayloft. And she wondered a little at herself.

Nor will I wait upon the Gods to do what I see clearly must be done-who's to say that the Goddess cannot work through my hand as well as another. I heard the echo of a reverent whisper and returned it in a tongue of which I knew less than a dozen words, just audible where I stood and where Accolon still knelt in reverence. Slowly, slowly, in the silence of Avalon, I recovered my strength. And what would my nephew and my friend say, then? Your nephew -he put just enough emphasis on the word that Gwenhwyfar could hear that it should