Morgaine greeted Gareth and gave him her gift, a fine dyed-leather belt on which he could carry sword and dagger. Mother- she stammered, not knowing whether she spoke to Viviane or to the Goddess. he first moment that I looked on your face, no one could be dearer to me than you! he said and wound his arms around her. They know what Arthur's legion can do, they found it out at Celidon Wood.
She turned, her crimson draperies moving silently around her, and left the room. But you will not, perhaps, be so hard tested. even the Beltane fires are no longer lighted on Avalon, though I have heard that they keep the old rites still in the wildnesses of North Wales and in Cornwall. But even as she opened her mouth for that, the whole weight of her life seemed to descend on her in deadly weariness.
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