She had to prod the cook awake and set him to heating more water over the kitchen fire . I bore a child to the Horned One. sed again the sweetness of womanhood in her heart and body when she had felt old, dead, abandoned . Oh no, Viviane thought, if harm had come to her, I would surely have seen it in the mirror .
She needed no longer to summon the barge-she need only step through the mists here, and be in Avalon. That would make all this land under the High King a Christian land, and Arthur's legion a holy army under the protection of Mary the Virgin. Between us, we could have ruled this land; they would have called Gwenhwyfar the High Queen, but she would have had Arthur only in body; he would have been mine in heart and soul and mind. She looked up into his eyes.
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