“Times were different, and I think they were more apparent, but I don’t know that they were harder. In some respects seeing what was coming and what was around you was easier than walking through parts of today.” He pauses from eating the strawberry as she speaks of Uther again. Really, that she should live in such a place when magic was there to keep magic and nothing was there for her is appalling. “I cannot conceive of such a view of your life as you have looking back across being young, knowing what you know of the magic so near you.”

He looks at her, thinking of her duty once a year. “I believe you are wondrous to watch on such an evening.”