How could she turn this omen, for omen it surely was, aside from the impending destruction of Avalon? The God has prepared a place for the traitor. The one thing I asked of them-to delay the wedding till I could send for Morgause, who was my only living kinswoman-they would not do. And this much was true, for whatever the folk of the fairy country might be, they were not mankind. Nor will you ever.
I think my sanity depends on this-that I know that what benefits Avalon must in the long years benefit Britain. She had wondered often, alone in the temple at Avalon, when she was forbidden to mingle with the other maidens or to go to the rites, whe Gwenhwyfar stood by Lancelet's bed, and said, She is right, my dear, you should sleep. The fate of all Britain is more important than our love.
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