Her father's old high seat was spread with skins like those Meleagrant wore, and a great black bearskin lay at the foot of the seat. 13Far to the north, in the country of Lothian, word came seldom and unreliably of the quest for the Grail. ong shadows, king and Druid, the bright shadow who sat beside Arthur's throne as queen, and herself who had borne Arthur's shadow son . Nimue is past five years old, old enough for fostering.
I know you are to be Arthur's heir, even though he believes he will leave the kingdom to that son of Lancelet's. Broca came, examined her, smelled at the vomited stuff, and raised her eyebrows knowingly. There are women at this court-Mara, for instance-she is no bigger than you, but all the other women, and the men, call her Fat Mara. You are Druid-born, and of two royal lines.
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