CHAPTER 7
The pursuitAs soon as Rheged saw Viviane he called out, anxious to know what had happened with the black knight, but before she could answer, Cai slumped forward in a dead faint, falling off his horse. Caradawc and Gerin rushed forward to attend to him and amidst the confusion Viviane slipped away. She wanted more than anything to stay with Caradawc, to be taken ‘home’, to live as his queen and wife, to sing and play the lute and weave fine thread. And most of all, she wanted to be taken into Caradawc’s arms and to tell him all that had happened, but to do that she would have to tell him that he had killed his own father — and that he was a puppet manipulated by a dark spirit from her past. She would have to tell him many things that she did not want to tell him — many things sh
