Summary

Chapter 16

It is morning and Artos decides to go for a hike in the mountains to do some thinking. He takes his new dog, Cabal, with him. He is worried about the impending confrontation between himself and Maglaunus when he must somehow find a way to refuse Guen's hand in marriage. Artos comes upon a grouping of stone monoliths. From between them steps the figure of a woman.

It is Guen. She tells him that she has been waiting for him. What will he tell her father in a few days time, she wants to know. He hesitates and she guesses that he does not want her. She urges him to reconsider as the shame would be hard for her to bear. She confides that her father will offer a 100 men with the finest horses for her dowry. Artos argues that this is...