But-damn you-do you think I have not tried? And what said Arthur? He said that the Queen was above my criticism, and whatever she chose to do was well done. ghting in Brittany, then? I thought you safe in Avalon, she remonstrated, as she led him within and set him by the fire. Those women who live in the world that is coming will need men to guard them. No, she thought, Bishop Patricius and Kevin the Merlin, you were wrong as Arthur was wrong.
And she marked the gentleness of Morgaine's hands as she lifted him and gave him her herb medicines and cooling drinks. Or a High Queen. She had wondered often, alone in the temple at Avalon, when she was forbidden to mingle with the other maidens or to go to the rites, whe ess and obeyed her mentors, and now they had entrusted this great work to her, and she must not fail them through her own weakness.
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