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Since That Day
Prologue
My grandfather is now three months dead and yet people still whisper his name with a mixture of awe fear and reverence. King Arthur of Britannia, the man who united the feuding peoples and gave them peace, whose armies drove back invading hordes time and time again.
But to me he is none of those things. He's just my grandfather. And elderly man always ready to smile for me or tell me a story of times gone by. I miss that steady presence even now, and I always will. Even those who never even set eyes on him feel like they had lost something of themselves when they heard news of his death. He was that kind of person. Or at least, that's the type person he was when he died.
It was in those last few hours that he asked me, Elaine, to tell his story and that of his Knights and the strange events that followed the coronation and wedding of him and my grandmother.
It is winter now and bitterly cold. My writing will be slow, and when the time comes for my words to be copied the scribes may not be able to read what I have written. But I must write, I want to write this tale. I shall start now, before my fingers turn numb and useless.
Like almost everything else in his life the strangeness started in the morning, just as the first rays of light were breaking over the rooftops…