He thinks you the innocent victim of my magic, Elaine, and blames me, not you. Gwenhwyfar waved permission, glad for once of her near sight that meant she need not clearly see the misshapen body. The girl had the measles when she was six years old, and her eyesight is not good, and she is not too broad in the wit, either. Gwenhwyfar would not have been surprised had he stood aside for Niniane, but instead he brought out a harp Gwenhwyfar recognized.
Was this new temptation offered her, now, because she had already fallen into grievous sin by meddling wi aiting for the day when Avalon fades forever into the mists? I felt a scalding bitterness in my throat. The Lady of the Lake, waiting-woman to a queen? How dared Morgaine forsake her true and appointed path in this way? And yet when she had sent Must I account for my movements to you? It is my house and I move in it as I will and that is my only answer.
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