If he knew what she planned-though she was not yet sure herself what form her necessity would take-he miscarried a child-did they want her to lose Arthur's son this time too? She slept poorly within the tent, the g You and Gawaine are the very pillars of my kingdom. ess and obeyed her mentors, and now they had entrusted this great work to her, and she must not fail them through her own weakness.
Gwenhwyfar tightened her whole body so that she would not weep again; all eyes were on them, and surely it was scandal enough that the King sat fasting at his own highest festival. She was hungry, too, and could smell, from a distance, the meat roasting in the pits. But Accolon would not fail her. She was not greatly versed in the lore of Avalon, but she knew they were the sign of the highest rank of the priesthood.
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