Chapter Thirteen
LADY VALLENTYN MOVED quickly for a woman so heavy with child. Dagonet was surprised at the speed with which she returned with the chalice and her skin of water from Avalon.
The chalice she held carefully with two hands, carrying it in with ceremony. A maid followed with the skin, which she delivered directly into the lady’s hands after the chalice was carefully set down on the table.
It still glowed with magic, as it had eight hundred years ago when Dagonet had first seen it.
A heaviness settled in his chest at the sight of it. He could still remember the Children coming out of the wood by the shore, holding the chalice triumphantly aloft. The fight with Nimuë had been a difficult one that Dagonet had tried to join in, but the woman had knocked him out with one of her
