He laid his hand for a moment on Morgaine's; gentle as the touch was, she shivered again. So I took horse, and rode eastward through the hills; nor did I return to Caerleon for many years, nor knew I anything of what befell in Arthur's court . Lot was always clean-trimmed and clean-shaven, and so was Lancelet all the time he stayed here. Sir Ectorius still limped heavily from the night he had spent imprisoned in the cold, but he came forward at Cai's side, and Cai, as keeper of his castle, bowed before Arthur.
There was an appalled silence as the legionaries strode out of the hall, turning crisply on their heels and letting their mailed boots stamp and ring on the stones. But I am Arthur's man for life or death, and he knows it. never once has he reproached me. The Sacred Regalia were gone out of this world forever, and the last of them, the sword Excalibur, must go with them.
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