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She sat listening, feeling her whole body quiver as the harp strings quivered under his touch. but I will not be at the mercy of my body's hunger . Try me, Morgaine said. Tomorrow? Why not today? Gwenhwyfar asked, then stopped- no, that would be insulting haste indeed.

ting with the long pursuit and the cold in his wound, I said farewell to the men of Avalon, and rode away to Tintagel. He sends you this -he waved his hand at the shrouded figure on the pack horse- as a present, and he bid me say to you that he has his sword Excalibur, and the scabbard. God! How I wish it had not come to this! He came and looked at Gwydion's wound, then shrugged. He said it is like to a woman who is raped, and yet, after the invaders have left our coasts, bears a good son-is