You've been sliding down the ladder of success so quickly these last few years you must have got splinters in your backside.
All the promises I made just to let you down
You believed in me, but I'm broken
I have nothing left
And all I feel is this cruel wanting - Evanescence
Gudrun a dying high priestess of the Old Ways crawls in front of the altar stone, propping herself up against another broken stone. 'Mab! Queen Mab!' she cried out. A figure formed out of the great rock - it is Queen Mab. Darkly beautiful dressed in glittering robes which swirled in the wind behind her. 'Ah, Lady...why didnt you come before? Ive followed you all my life and now its ending. We are in hell! You must stop the killings?' the old priestess gripped the hem of the goddess robes desperately. Mab crouched down beside her. 'I no longer have the power, Gudrun too many of my followers have forsaken the Old Ways and become Christian.' she rasped quietly. Gudrun's eyes glinted fiercely. 'Fight! Come out of the land of magick and fight for what we once had, The people will come back to the Old Ways as if newborn fight, Lady!' she held out a bloodstained hand, the Queen clasped her hand. 'I swear to bring back the Old Ways!' Mab vowed. Gudrun smiled. 'Raise me up I want to see the sun go down one last time before I die.'
Mab helped Gudrun stand upright, painfully, and the two women watched as the sun sank below the horizon letting the darkness descend.
Ambrosia watched in anger as Queen Mab fawned over the newborn babe, she had not even spared a glance towards the poor girl who had bore him. "Served her purpose." Mab was stone cold she had no love in her heart. The old woman remembered in her youth how the people had loved the goddess once how they had celebrated the old ways and paid homage to their queen. Mab had always been beautiful, benevolent, but now? A monster. Ambrosia could not bring herself to feel sympathy for Mab or her cause she remembered the slaughter, her friends, family, neighbours, all murdered by christians and where had Mab been then? She did not deserve her love. She did not deserve her faith.
"Then you changed and became a christian." Mab rasped. Much to her delight Ambrosia was offended and denied this, so she had not turned her back on the old ways. The goddess was happy about this she was fond of Ambrosia. Ok things were far from ideal but it would all work out in the end, once Merlin was grown and leading her cause, leading the people back to her everything would go back to how it should be. Ambrosia would forgive her with time and love her once again. Mab had complete faith in this, Ambrosia would return to her, and Mab would be triumphant.