He shrugged as if to ward her away, though his smooth singer's voice was perfectly civil. No-! I will arrange it so that you need never meet him, he said, not looking at her, but royal blood is royal blood and something must be done for him. I am a priestess still. Would to God-any God-I could find something in my heart which believed them, or some such comfort as that! Morgaine could only say, I would that you might, cousin.
I would not grieve, should she suffer some accident or mischance. Morgaine said, quiet and practical as always, We shall go to Niniane at once, then to the mirror before the sun rises. I know the High King gave Tintagel to Igraine when he married, so that she might have a place of her own, and I suppose, after her, the lady Morgaine, daughter of Igraine by the old Duke Gorlois. Viviane's had faded, too, when I came to Avalon, but she had used to paint it with blue dye.
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