And now you may spare the journey, said Gwenhwyfar irritably, but Gawaine shook his head. She drew a long breath, exasperation and resignation in one. When she had thought of it, she had even been pleased; Lancelet's son, by her own cousin Elaine-now dead in childbed -was a reasonable heir for the King. He shall have his cake, said the housekeeper, with an indulgent look at the boy.
I wept, at last, for Accolon lying dead on his pall, and for Arthur who hated me now, and for Elaine who had been my friend . The King sat paralyzed, seeming frozen, but after a moment, he nodded. She noted the great axe Meleagrant wore through his belt-it was like the one he had left near the throne, the one Balin had seized to murder Viviane . 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.
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