Now, now it is too late to turn back. Therefore, my beloved daughter, forget all shame and be joyful because you, too, are of the same nature as myself. And Gwenhwyfar, even as she put her arms around him, crying with thankfulness, had a moment of shattering fear and doubt. He said, I know it well-not once in a hundred years, now, is that old sacrifice exacted.
she never knew which of the priests, the one here in Avalon, or the one on Ynis Witrin . Arthur had hardly smiled since he had come from the bishop's rooms, but he was smiling now. Never once, in all these years, had it occurred to her that it was anything other than the gravest mischance that Morgaine had gotten herself with child by her half-brother. She went back into the hall where the servants were clearing the tables and said roughly, Give me some wine.
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