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I sleep in a room with four of the Queen's ladies, and any man who came there would be seized by the guards- She had invoked the powers of the Horned One through the Lady, and he had gone where she could not follow. Gwydion grabbed her other wrist and pulled her toward him, then struck her full force across the temple, and she fell to the ground without a cry. She hid the scabbard under her cloak and went swiftly out through the thinning darkness to the ferry.

Avalon, through her hand, would bring him down. He stretched out his hands and she gave him a tug upward. She dared not spin; it would throw her into that strange state between sleep and waking, and she feared what she might see. At the table next to them were Morgaine and her husband, and other guests; they were all kin, but she could not see their faces clearly.