ah, they were fighting, she could not see their faces now, nor hear the words they flung at one another . He had not done this in a long time. And even so, they might mean nothing. so cruelly used- You don't know, she whispered, you don't know- and she was sobbing again, clinging to him.
Then, taking her darkest, heavy cloak and tying the small sickle of her initiation about her waist beneath her gown, she slipped out. Send one of your women to tell Taliesin that he is here, and another to the kitchens-if we shall have music this night, it is only fitting we have Gawaine saluted Morgaine, saying, Kinswoman, and bowed to the Queen. And then we have many of the men of the Tribes, with pikes and axes, and the Old People, who can fight from ambush and drop men with their elf-arrows unseen.
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