Though it's likely, if Morgaine returns not to court, that Drustan will wed with the daughter of the old Breton king Hoell- He chuckled. That would give joy to every woman in Lothian, if he tarried there. Do you think it would matter to Galahad, where he has gone, who sits on the throne he never wished for? I would have done better to make my son a priest, Gwenhwyfar. Within her echoed the fretful child's cry, but now, when she stood at last on the shores of home, she felt the old knowledge welling up, filling her like a cup overrunning its brim.
Morgaine dared not take her eyes from her stepson, but all through the meal she could feel Accolon's eyes on her, warming her as if she were standing in sunlight after the winter's chill. When life runs full at the rounding of the moon, then shall the Goddess receive the body of her lover . All the women said I look like him- and they asked, and I was angry that I did not know how to answer them. And you at my side, Lancelet, Arthur said, and moved to draw him close to them both.
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