Would you do that then, Mother? But you have the king's new cloak set up on the other loom- Uriens does not need it so much as Avalloch, Morgaine said. She knelt before the Holy Thorn, whispering a soft prayer to the Goddess, and asking leave of the tree; then she cut a slip for planting. Why do you weep, sister? She who lies here is at peace and in God's hands, she has no need of mourning. Gwydion felt the tensing of her muscles and asked in a rasping whisper, Lancelet's signal? He dug the knife again into the yielding skin at her throat, and she whispered, sweating in terror, Yes.
Oh, my husband, I was not seeking to be praised, she said impatiently. And something in her crawled in terror at what she saw in those eyes. Niniane's face hardened in anger. then, after three more months, when she should have felt the first quickening, it had proved to be nothing after all.
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