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Morgaine took her to the room she shared with Gwenhwyfar's ladies, who were all at the games; the servants were gone too, so Morgaine thought, Somewhere I have seen her. as if she stood on the Tor at the center of the ring stones, hearing the terrifying cry ringing through the wor as fallen at her loom- She felt the woman restlessly chafing her hands, calling her name, heard Accolon's voice, felt him lift and carry her.

But not like the flowers of my home. For many years she had felt it like a deep pain that she would never have any right to turn to him before other men, but must sit at his side and be only a kinswoman and his queen. I had done this deliberately. In her body Morgaine felt a stab of hunger so great that it was pain as she thought of the Beltane fires, now only two months away.