‘But at Mordred’s acclamation,’ she asked disappointedly, ‘the sword was only laid on the stone? Not thrust into it? Are you sure?’ ‘It was laid flat on top. I swear it’ – I made the sign of the cross – ‘on Christ’s blood, my Lady.’ She shrugged. ‘Dafydd ap Gruffud will translate the tale any way I want him to, and I like the idea of a sword in the stone.
