He was already unconsciously starting to walk back the other way as he took the feeling in … Gawain or someone had said he’d been fighting with the invaders, and his own inner senses told him the young man was alive. He had no doubt of that …
Yes, he thought, walking faster through the fading wisps of dusk, yes, he had to try, for the living, as well as the dead … Everything was suddenly lucid: go back to where he’d seen the Grail light, to the very point, that was important, pick up the trail from there, because that was the true beginning of his new life … He was already in his new life, he thought, walking out of a dream into the lucid air, where the first stars were trembling out, Venus like a soft eye following the sun down … His new life would start where all his roads had ended and would start with his son … Yes … yes … my son … my son … We start from there … Perhaps he’d find Gawain again, if he lived, and he might … he might … He looked steadily at the richly bright evening star as the road curved away from his direction and he headed across the smooth fields, past dim, clustered blots of trees.
The world, he suddenly thought, will start there …
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