He stood for a moment silent, and for a moment Morgaine thought he would kiss her too; instead, smiling, he laid his hand against her cheek. Within a year he could read as well as the priest himself and speak in Latin as if he were one of thos not even when Lancelet had come north before Beltane-he said, to see that the lighthouses had been put in order on the coast so that ships would not be driven on to the rocks. It is done and she is with me .
and then I was in Avalon again, staring in horror at the mirror where I could see nothing, nothing but the widening stain of blood in the sacred waters of the Well. She must deny herself, even though the waxing moon made the surging blood in her veins a very agony of frustration. and she, she was old almost past childbearing; would her child be some monster? Sometimes, when women bore babies in their old age, it was so. She said suddenly, looking up, her hand in his, Does it seem sometimes to you that we are no longer young, Lancelet? He nodded and sighed.
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