The Mists of Avalon Page #5

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Arthur and Morgaine fulfill their destinies.

You can't take both my children

from me at the same time.

Your children will be safe and happy...

...each growing toward their own fate.

You must learn to be content with that...

...and with each other.

You will always be in my heart, always.

Goodbye, Mother.

Father.

-What are you doing?

-Mother?

-Where are you taking him?

-You must understand.

You each have training to undergo.

it must happen in different places.

No! You can't take my brother

away from me!

Don't leave me, Morgaine!

Arthur!

Don't take him away from me, please!

I'll do anything you ask!

I'll be good! l promise!

We all make sacrifices.

What we want and what's right

are sometimes different things.

You must give him your strength, child.

We'll be strong, Arthur, won't we?

That game we play:

At night, if you get scared,

you can call to me...

...and if you hold your breath

and listen hard enough in the dark...

...you'll hear me whisper back to you.

I'll never leave your side.

-Goodbye.

-'Bye.

Come, Morgaine.

Leaving my parents was hard...

...but leaving my little brother

was almost more than l could bear.

Still, on that day we parted,

one north, one south...

...riding towards our separate fates.

The Goddess is everything in nature...

...and everything in nature is sacred.

Look. That is her face.

Listen.

That is her voice.

She's in everything that is beautiful.

And everything that is harrowing as well.

The guardians of Avalon

appeared silently on the hilltops...

...as we came nearer the lake

that enclosed the mysterious island.

When we reached the edge of the lake

and looked out into the mist...

...l couldn't believe that behind it

lay all the wonders that l'd dreamt about.

Where are we?

On the borders of Avalon.

This is Avalon?

As we moved closer to the mists,

a chill crept across my heart.

lfl passed through that curtain...

...would l ever be able to return

to my little brother Arthur?

Is that Avalon?

it looks like a Christian monastery.

it does.

But Avalon is beneath it, behind it...

...deeper in the mist.

it was there long before the Christians

built their monastery.

How beautiful!

Beautiful, yes.

But unless we succeed in our quest,

it's also doomed.

l finally arrived and was about to enter

the great sisterhood of the Goddess.

What is your name?

Her name is Raven.

She's taken a vow of silence

to the Goddess.

But silence, l think, is not for you.

You have your own challenges to meet.

Come.

The Goddess holds all things in balance:

Good and evil, death and rebirth.

The predator and the prey.

Without her,

destruction and chaos will prevail.

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