We found Ms. Kali in the Staff Lounge. She was in her thirties now, but she's still very pretty.
"I've heard about that. Nancy, why don't we all take a look at this Warton's ode to King Arthur."
She opened up a leather-bound book. She flipped to the middle of the page. On it were the words in flowering spidery script:
"Yet in vain a paynim foe
Armed with fate the mighty blow:
For when he fell, the Elfin queen,
All in secret and unseen,
O'er the fainting hero threw
Her mantle of ambrosial blue,
And bade her spirits bear him far,
In Merlin's agate-axled car,
To her green isle's enamelled steep,
Far in the navel of the deep.
O'er his wounds she sprinkled dew
From flowers that in Arabia grew.
……
There he reigns a mighty king,
Thence to Britain shall return,
If right prophetic rolls I learn,
Borne on victory's spreading plume,
His ancient sceptre to resume,
His knightly table to restore,
And brave the tournaments of yore."
"It basically means that a foe of a different religion tried in vain to deal Arthur a mighty blow. But he gets himself killed instead. The secretive Elfin Queen, Lady of the Lake, asked her spirits to carry Arthur back to Avalon safely. She also heals his wounds. And he will rule Avalon there, and from then on he will return to Britain to resume ruling like what the priests prophesized."
"Well, so?" William asked.
"So Marco wants to have his revenge on you. But he's gonna get in trouble instead, and Nancy's gonna save you."