10/02/2026 23:15

---

The room was empty and silent except for the heavy snores of her serving-woman in a pallet on the floor. I rode for a time with Galahad when first we departed from Camelot, and I knew more of him in the ten days and nights we rode together than in all the sixteen years he had lived. She cared little to look into her magical mirror, but now and again when the moon was dark she went to drink of the spring and to look into the waters. Therefore, my beloved daughter, forget all shame and be joyful because you, too, are of the same nature as myself.

THERE WAS a long pause before the Companions ranged themselves for the final mock battle. The path grew harder underfoot and easier to follow, and the light of the torch blurred away the misty dimness. Kevin, last of the Messengers of the Goddess, I curse you to forget all, to be reborn without priesthood and withou f a hundred petty kings and more than a hundred knights were moving briskly in the summer wind on the heights.