It had been Nine months since Morgaine and Lancelot had celebrated by the Beltaine fires. Morgaine was also "The Lady of Avalon" in charge of training the next generation of "Priestesses was one again back on Avalon! She sent her 18 year old apprentice Nimue to part the mists and meet rider that had been dispatched to bring Lancelot three days hence back to the holy isle. Morgaine's time was growing ever closer and Lancelot had yet to arrive. Though she was of the holy isle of Avalon she was also a woman with child and subject to its joys and all pains in turn!
Standing on the barge in Priestess regalia Nimue on the shore on the mainland opposite Avalon Nimue invites Lancelot to join her on the barge departs as the silent oarsman paddle out into the middle of the lake and then stops! Nimue razes both her hand high into the air with the palm facing the sky. And then as if a knife had sliced them in to peaces the mists parted to reveal the land of never ending summer "Avalon" The barge continues on to the shores of Avalon
Before Lancelot can even get out the question Nimue tells him "Her time grows near Lancelot!" Nimue was the spitting image of her mother Viviane and had all the magic ability of her father Merlin and her mother and Morgaine's mentor a former Lady of Avalon, Viviane.
Nimue tells him "we must hurry!" as they make their way down the path to the wattle-and-daub house where Morgaine's labor has just begun
Lancelot walks into the chamber asking "Why didn't you summon me sooner?" As the first pains of labor hit Nimue takes her harp from the corner and takes her seat as she starts singing lilt her voice takes on an unearthly quality as Morgaine and Lancelot feel each note move through them it's as if each note of her lament drips from her lips like honey into water.
As she grimaced through the pain she said "I did send a rider!" as the sound of the harp eases Morgaine's heart the sensations of labor begin to lesion as the soon to be mother and father are transported to a land made just for them
Though Morgaine is a trained as Priestess she can't help but scream "Nimue, get the…"
Nimue replies "The midwife is on her way!" and will be here soon
It was four hours later as momentary silence is broken only by the cries of a baby! "As the midwife tells them you have a daughter."
Morgaine looks at her baby then at Lancelot telling the gathered crowd and pronounces "her name is Maeve"