Chapter 6
A Cleansing of the Soul'It was Merlyn who called for the voyage to Erin, the quest, and I too remember it well.' Uther sipped the last of the infusion and let his head be lowered to the sleeping cot. He was tired, but his mind was also back at the seashore on a sunny day with his feet crunching through the stones of the beach, watching as weapons and the last supplies were being carried through the surf and placed into small skiffs so they could be paddled out to the larger boats that were waiting some distance off shore. He could remember the high feeling of excitement, the people as they laughed, sang and danced. There had been drums beating and the reedy tones of horns and pipes; it had been more like a festival rather than the beginning of a dangerous raid against a hostile
