Book 2, Chapter 12 Summary

Merlin goes in to talk to Ambrosius. Uther has already told him what happened. Ambrosius asks Merlin if he saw the Druids. While he is with Ambrosius, Merlin has a vision of a man and woman on a hillside. The man has a dragon brooch. Ambrosius asks Merlin if he has the sight. Merlin tells him how it works for him. Merlin admits that he knows that Ambrosius is his father.

Ambrosius tells of how he met the Lady Niniane and their time at the cave. He tells how he wanted her to come with him but she refused. He went away and she stayed in Maridunnum. Later he found she had a child but he thought it was someone else's. He actually thought Dinias was her child. Merlin explained to him that Dinias belonged to his grandfather. Merlin said that...