if I had known, child, I would have come to you. She had been scrupulously careful of her aging husband's pride; never did she make him feel less than a man for his occasional and clumsy use of her body. Now he sat up as she approached him, looking happily drunken and befuddled. It came to me that even if I stretched forth my hand to him as the Death-crone he would see nothing but my own face, Morgaine.
Was ever a queen plagued with so many damnable fools about her? she shouted. The Goddess will never withdraw herself from mankind. or? If Lancelet were here, said Morgaine, many of our troubles would be over, for he would settle Meleagrant with a few words. And Maline was looking at her in the half-wary, half-exasperated way which Morgaine's unexpected seeings always evoked.
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