Everything seemed, all at once, distant and small and looming over her, and there was a deep silence within her head. She will protect them, even against Uriens, while she lives. s Morgaine; he clenched his hand over the hilt of Excalibur, as if someone would take it from him that very moment. When the wound swelled, I thought I was for it, too, and my good friend Gawaine said, as long as I could drink wine I was in no danger -and he kept me well supplied, too.
Arthur had said he would ask her no question if she should bear a child, he had all but given her leave to have Lancelet as a lover . Command me? Not in a thousand years! she said, breathless with fury. Abruptly, not knowing what she was going to say until she heard herself saying it, she asked, Do you hate me that I abandoned you, my son? He hesitated. And Gwenhwyfar had known that this was good and sensible and kindly counsel, but she felt he had not understood it in full, just how sinful a woman she was and how evil and foul her thoughts.
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