It was those final words that brought something more than curiosity and annoyance out of the High Queen.

"I doubt it not-you are the only man in all of Britain who could speak of the High Queen as a girl!"

Gwenhwyfar shrank away, saying, "I'd be afraid to be the High Queen!"

Already her rank as High Queen was a reality.

The idea shook her, and she stifled her unease with a quick picture of Raven as High Queen.

"How old is the High Queen?"

Who would know the High Queen and the brave Lancelet?

In a land beset by war, a woman had become High Queen.

'The High Queen will receive you in the Sun Chamber,' and Fergus had known at once what was ahead.

Or shall I go down in history as the High Queen who lost Tara for always?