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I will have a cup, she said, remembering, like a pain within her, when as priestess of Avalon she had been proud to drink only of the Holy Well. The silver and pottery dishes had vanished-she supposed they too had been sent to Camelot, and she wonder Never, never had Arthur come to her for comfort, never had he acknowledged that he had done her any w Evil counsel, Mordred-murderer! He turned with a convulsive moment of fear and looked at the crumpled body of Niniane at his feet.

Arthur? Arthur had not protected her from ravishment. The wine here is too strong for me, he said. I have not been there for two or three years, but I shall go again, now the countryside is quiet. Arthur turned as Gwydion came from the wood.