And even if it were otherwise, what we do in Avalon has little weight in the world outside. Morgaine had not seen him before, but she saw that Gwenhwyfar recognized him and shrank away. Do you think either Lancelet or Arthur believes it a test of loyalties? Arthur will not take the field And you dare call yourself the Merlin of Britain? she shrieked at him.
If Gareth faces the mystery in his heart, and it makes him a better man in his soul, does it matter whence it comes, from the Goddess or from Christ but she and her escort were gone. I know men like to boast of their conquest of maidens, she said. In his saffron tunic, his dark hair neatly combed from his face, he looked very like Lancelet.
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