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She met them, unflinching; but it was like a sword through her body. But though I never made any attempt to conceal who I was, not in all these years has any woman come to me, nor her kinfolk, and said, such and such a woman bore you a bastard child. The day I knew you priestess-born, I should have had you from there. And so, if Christ himself believed that men were reborn, how can it be wrong for mankind so to believe? Gwenhwyfar wondered how so much knowledge of Scripture had come to Nimue, living upon Avalon.

s and their horned helmets and with circlets of gold about their heads, strode into the hall of the Round Table, each with his retinue. She put her face into her hands and wept behind them, silently, and no longer cared that the abbess was watching her. I would like to look on my mother-not you, Mother, but lady Morgaine-I would like to look on her who bore me as my mother, not as the great priestess whom I am sworn to obey whatever she bids me. Our midwives say that fresh air and exercise are healthy for a breeding woman, and when my own favorite mare is in foal, I