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Nameless: A Fairy Tale
by A Very Tall Oak Tree in City Park
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After several hours, Mildred put up a hand to stop
him.
“Enough. The sun is setting, and you should go. However, I can tell
that we still have much to discuss. Return in three days’ time—we can
continue then.”
When Morgan had left and felt his way down the mountain path in the
fast-arriving night, he dwelt on the answers to the questions that
Mildred had given him. She had managed to give feasible answers, yet
had somehow eluded his questions so that he was left feeling just as
empty as he had when he had come. It made no sense to him—he would ask
Nameless about it when he found her again. He did not doubt that she
would keep her word and await his return.
Sure enough, he found her waiting sitting on her boulder, knitting an
olive green cloak. She half-smiled.
“She asked you to come back.”
For the umpteenth time that day, Morgan was stunned. “How do you know
this?”
“She finds you…worthy…of her attentions, I think,” Nameless answered
slowly. “I say to you, within a week she shall conceive your son.
Within another he shall be born. Within a third he will be the age
that you are now—your equal in strength and ability.”
Morgan shook his head. “No. Let me prove you wrong in this. I swear to
you that there has not passed this day, nor will there ever pass such
relations between her and me.”
Nameless gazed at him sadly. “I respect your courage, yet in this
matter I swear to you that I cannot be proven wrong.”
“Explain this to me, then. How it is that a boy can, within three
weeks of his birth, gain equal status to a knight?”
“I do not understand these things fully; I only know them to be true.
Believe me, Sir. I tell no lies.” Nameless’ gaze was fixed on a point
far away, and she seemed lost for a moment.
“What shall I do now? She wants to see me again in three days; shall I
stay here, or return home?”
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