I shall rule as Lady of Avalon, and you as my consort and duke of war. It seems not to run with the vows of Avalon that I should so hate the mother who bore me and the father who got me. No, she could not survive the bearing of this child, and yet she felt she could not bear to take the irrevocable step that it should die unborn. The abbess gave her a draught of something which would clear the lungs, but it only made her queasy, she said, and she could take no more of it.
When Taliesin had gone, Morgaine went on toward the brew house, thinking deeply. Goddess, it is all true. I heard Mordred's the son of one of the fairy witches and Arthur took him to court in pawn for his soul, to live a hundred years-you'll see, he'll not age, sir Mordred there. When did you eat last, Morgaine? I cannot remember, I confessed, and suddenly I was aware of my deathly weakness; he called the serving-woma
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