It was the next morning about an hour before dawn when Harry woke to find a sword and shield in his cell "Sleeping Quarters." The main body of the shield was black but painted in the center was a golden harp resting beside the shield was a sheathed sword and a note.

Harry

Your Fight training begins a dawn

Arthur

Reading the note Harry thinks to himself, "great... I've got thirty minutes"

Two hours later in another part of Avalon, Ginny wakes in her own cell, "Sleeping Quarters." Just off to the side of Morrigane's room. Morrigane came out to the main area to find Ginny hard at work making compresses using a combination of Mugwart and of St. Johns Wart. Although Morrigane is very light on her feet for her age, without turning her head Ginny says "Morrigane..., if my beloved is going to start fight training today he will need these!"

"So he will Ginny... how can I help" Said Morrigane.

It was right about that time that Molly Weasly walked in and Ginny said "Mum... over here... will you prepare the Wound pastes while we work down the herbs themselves."

Molly watched both the speed and delicacy at which her daughter's hands could strip down the plants..., and she coulden't help but smile ever so slightly.

Morrigane told Molly "You have every right to be proud of her Mrs. Weasly" Ginny hands off the first batch of Mugwart and of St. Johns Wart.

No sooner had Molly finished the first batch. As if on cue Harry walks in his arms are covered with bruses and abrasions. Ginny looks at Harry telling him "Come here!" Ginny starts applying the compresses all over his arms. First rubbing them down with an oil liniment first then applying the compress.

With the Eyebrow heads coming to a point and a knot forming at the bridge of her nose she looked at him "Harry!" Ginny asked wooried about Harry "Why do you put yourself though this?"

Although every muscle in his body ached Harry turned to him saying softly in her ear "So I can be your knight in shining armor... got to get back out to practice" Harry walks back out to the fields

Ginny beat her mother to the punch asking, "Morrigane... "Whan is the sacred marriage...What the rites of the virgin huntress?"

With a placid look on her face Morrigane told them, "The ritual of the virgin huntress and the king stag take place at Beltane... The man playing the king stag hunts down and kills a buck... the maiden playing the virgin huntress awaits her lover in a cave... the cycle of life continues"

Mothers being mothers Molly Weasly was not happy with the explination asking Morrigan "So... the one does not know the other?"

"No it has always been that way..., had the elven matriarch not interfeared I would have accepted her honeymoon night as the ritual but now!" Morrigan told them "I have to prepare you to be the maiden Ginny"

Molly muttered "Sounds like men forcing themselves on women to me... they have a name for that, serving my daughter up like she is some kind of buffet!"

"Mum I know who the King stag will be... Harry!" Said Ginny.

Her face turned slightly crimson as Ginny looked down and her eyes were round and bulging as she raised her lower lip pushes her mouth upward Ginny replies "That may be a problem..., It's just I'm supposed to become Mrs. Harry Potter on that day... given the way the time shifts work!"

Morrigane looked at Ginny grinning mischievously telling Ginny "I am a goddess... time means nothing to me... I can move forward I and move backward!"