Morgaine heard the cry out of sleep, and yet, when she tiptoed to the door of the room where Raven slept, alone and in silence as ever, the women who attended her slept; they had not heard that cry. And at that, she felt the flooding, surging fury again, remembering Avalloch's words: Was it Accolon or Uwaine, or both at once. Morgause thought, Why, it is exactly as if we had been friends all our lives. I think it was written by Taliesin himself, though he may have made it from an older song.
Morgaine stabbed her stiffened fingers into his belly; he grunted and let her go with a curse. wish some priest'ud tell me why she gets all the good in life and I get all the misery? Stop grumbling, said the first speaker. Often I wished, then, that I had had children of my own that I could rear myself. But how dared he break in upon my peace, when I had almost won through to that utter quiet which was beyond life? I turned away from him and said, No.
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