18/02/2026 05:37

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I never trusted Lot, but he is dead, and Gawaine is Arthur's staunchest man, so there is little to fear from Lothian, unless Morgause finds herself a lover with ambition to be High King on his own. And the Merlin would have profaned this. May that time be far-surely, my lord, you will live many, many years-and by then all those old folk who still believe they must give allegiance to the pagan ways will have gone. If we throw ourselves on Arthur's mercy-or you escape and I will stay and face Arthur- Gareth might have seen justice done.

Gwenhwyfar did not know that Morgaine had a child, and she should never know. She put her face into her hands and wept behind them, silently, and no longer cared that the abbess was watching her. Morgaine listened to him, appalled at the agony of bitterness in his words, the wounds dealt to his manhood. For the True Christ said unto mankind, I am the Way and the Truth and the Life.