Tell me, Elaine said, I swore, once, I would never ask you this- was Lancelet your lover, did you ever lie with him? Morgaine looked at her drawn face and said gently, No, Elaine. I know not how Christians regard an oath, but I assure you, among those who worship the Goddess, it is taken in all seriousness. But I have not the gift of music as Morgaine has, nor the nephew of Marcus-have you heard Drustan play, Morgaine? She shook her head, and Isotta said, I will ask him to come and play for us. For a moment Morgaine was inclined to protest.
But Accolon had roused in her an anguished memory of her years in Avalon-the torches borne to the top of the Tor, the Beltane fires lighted and the maidens waiting in the plowed fields . It is the custom for Arthur's Companions. Some serving-man or knight of the lady Igraine, I suppose. his faith always to shelter the old religion, and Avalon-as did I, said Arthur moodily, and stood staring at Dragon Island.
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