You defend her because you were her lover- Niniane flared, and Kevin raised his head. And if he was to face the final test he must go to it consenting. God is my witness to that, said Lancelet, but he looked at Gwenhwyfar with something like despair. Let there be no Christian rites for him! Let his body be flung to the ravens, and his head hung on the wall as a traitor! No! Ah, no, cried out Uriens, wailing.
And again and again we are told he made his chosen people to suffer, and even Christ himself suffered. In the memory of all these things, Morgaine came at last to see that what had happened with Lancelet, after all, was but Gwenhwyfar had Lancelet at her side, his head bandaged and his arm in a sling-he had been wounded by a Northman's battleaxe. Will you go to rest? Not yet awhile, Viviane said, and then on an impulse said, Go and ask the priestess Raven to attend me.
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