It is now two years after Arthur and Gwenhwyfar's wedding. Morgaine sits with Gwenhwyfar's other ladies-in-waiting at Caerleon late in the summer, as the men are off fighting the Saxons. She and the ladies are spinning and Morgaine begins to drift off into a trance. When the women try to snap her out of it, Morgaine is saying that there is blood on the hearth, before the King's high seat, slain like a slaughtered sheep. When she comes to, she has no recollection of what she saw.
Using the Sight again, Morgaine sees the men coming home from their latest battles. When the men come home, the feast is already prepared. Morgaine sits with Balan and they talk of Lancelet. Balan mentions that Lancelet looks like he has a heavy heart......
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