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The fact is, Morgaine, he said, smiling his good-natured smile at her, I am an old man, and there is nothing that can be done about it. It was only a shadow, a shadow . I saw her always in your face, but you turned away from me, and when the Goddess rejected me, I sought another God. 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.

Thanks to you, dear cousin, Arthur said. And so I have heard Taliesin say. Morgaine, I dreamed-and in my dream I cried out for you, but I could not hold you- I held him close. But he told me not why, only bade me prepare all things for a festival, and I thought it was a child's whim, no more.