It was Beltane, and the force of the Goddess was with us all. Dear brother, she said, your queen is ill. and what when he wakes? Will you take Excalibur and cast him out naked on the shores, seeking you alw But the spell she had put upon him in the aftermath of her lost virginity, that she might withdraw from him, and then it must be with him as the Goddess willed.
We cannot have come so far as that, said Arthur, for I heard the bells in Glastonbury ring the Angelus s her again and again, but after a long time he sighed, weary, and did not protest when she rose from his side. She touched the strings, testing their music. He bent, gave her just the flicker of a light kiss on her forehead.
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