get your hands off me, and go back to whoever will have you, for if you touch me again with one fingertip I swe Perhaps, in Avalon, we may keep the secret wisdom-but the time is past when we can spread it again into the world. him to be King in Arthur's place? But is our king to be chosen because some woman wants him in her bed? Again he spat. Too long, I fear, was he left in Morgause's keeping.
Christ has triumphed over all the old and pretended Gods who shall now be subservient to his name. She did not want it known or rumored in the countryside that the King's sister rode for Avalon, but now there was no help for it. She thought she had long outgrown shame for this-I am priestess, I need make no accounting to any man for what I must do-but she could not force herself to meet Accolon's eyes. One day-yes, one day, I shall have a secret to tell Arthur, and then I can hold the King's conscience in my hand.
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