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She lay back and sipped a little of the undiluted wine in the flask. And then it was as if cold water flooded down her back and set her blood to moving like ice inside her. I thought so too, but you look like him because Lancelet is your mother's nephew, as he is mine. Merlin! whispered Niniane aloud.

And Gwenhwyfar had known that this was good and sensible and kindly counsel, but she felt he had not understood it in full, just how sinful a woman she was and how evil and foul her thoughts. And now, when I have learned to love it and long for it, I am renouncing it in the name of my love. This man had been her lover, but he had been more; he had been the only man who had never sought to entangle her as Someone, tall and shining, a sunlit glory about his face and in his hands the shining Harp and Bow.