How is it with you now, my dear one? I am glad to see you up again, and well enough to work, he said, and kissed her. Morgaine could see Nimue standing in the prow of the boat, her cloak pulled over her head, tall and straight; but her face was hidden in the darkness of the cloak. Morgaine bent her head, squeezing her eyes tight against tears, and when she raised it again, Arthur was gone. He smiled, and now she could see the traces of pain and grief-yes, even of madness-around his eyes.
Would that she were here, to give me a charm-but not before my lord recovers . She found herself trembling, picking her steps carefully by the dimmest of starlight. And after a time her thoughts began to turn to what awaited her at Avalon. Niniane seemed so young! She had fair reddish-gold hair and blue eyes beneath silky long lashes.
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