The feasting was breaking up now-people moving about the hall, nibbling at cakes and sweets, calling for wine and ale, stopping to speak to kinsmen and friends whom they saw only once or twice a year. she was young, she was beautiful enough for Uther to cast aside all caution and seek her with spells and charms. She told herself, as she rode toward Avalon that surely what she had seen had come of her own weariness and fear; and in any case e fires flared, sparks crashing skyward-there was the taste of fresh blood on her mouth, and now the cave mouth was shadowed with the antlers .
Can you ask? she whispered. She mourned for the girl-she had come to be fond of her, and had hoped to marry her to one of Arthur's Companions when she was older. Well, let him follow her as he could, there were other ways into Avalon where the shadow of the church did not prevent her passage. Gareth and Gawaine were seated further down the table, and Gwydion close to them, sharing a dish with Niniane.
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