Book 4, Chapter 8 Summary

Merlin begins to enjoy his homecoming. It is spring. He reads, makes medicines, plays music and walks around the countryside. On one of these walks, he comes across Keri from the nunnery. He asks her if she left she said yes, because it was like a cage. She intoxicates him. He grabs her breast and she bites him on the mouth, and they tumble to the ground. As they lie kissing, suddenly Merlin cannot stand it. It feels as if her mouth is a cave sucking him in.

Keri feels like a dying man holding him, so he pushes her away. Keri who was not so much like a nun anymore cannot understand that. She seems to look down on him. Keri tells Merlin that she never had the toothache. She lied when she told him he cured her. She asked...