He bent over her hand and said in a low voice, My lady, I beg you to go with the other women. One eye was certainly larger than the other, and had a squint; yet, trying to be fair, Gwenhwyfar thought the man's deformity was no fault of his, and she really knew nothing against him. There was a smell of roasting meat in the air, and most of the people jostling round her commented greedily on it. The priestesses of Avalon drink only waterfront the Sacred Well.
The monk put back his hood and said, Are you Queen Morgaine of Wales? I am, she said. This could not go on-Arthur had a right to know where dwelt his nearest kinswoman, now that his mother was dead! B priests who wants nothing more than to have power over a king? You think only of your pride, Gwenhwyfar said angrily, and pride too is a sin. She was never alone; the little dark people always attended her, though she seldom actually saw them-she was their mother and their priestess and they would never leave her.
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