Is your convent as nice as this one? Mother Lionors is a kind woman, the girl said, and we are all very happy here-once we had a woman among our sisters who had been a queen. 13When Morgaine left Arthur's court at Caerleon, asking leave only to pay a visit to Avalon and her foster- Niniane signalled; a servant holding a single torch reached out to another, and the light passed swiftly from hand to hand until the shore was all ablaze with torchlight. But if they were both freed of sin, if he did penance for that great sin unconfessed, and humbled himself, then no doubt God would forgive him too .
No, hear me, Morgaine-there is reason in what he says. The fate of all Britain is more important than our love. Then I have done you wrong too, and I must somehow amend it. Why not? Gareth asked and laid his hand on the younger man's shoulder, looking down at him as he had always done-Morgause thought of a younger Gareth, smiling down at his little brother.
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