Here Lies Arthur
“Why can’t he see the danger? I want to grab him in the street, push him into a doorway and say, “Bedwyr, it’s me, look, your old friend Gwyn.” Say, “She can’t be worth it. Don’t you understand what will happen when Arthur finds out?”
But he does understand. He likes the danger. He’s been trained for danger; lived for danger all his life, been taught to go and seek it out on battlefields and in the hunt. And this summer past it’s all been taken from him. The best future he can hope for is to be ...a half-man, riding patrol along the field-banks, watching over Arthur’s cows and barley. The pain in his bad leg always, souring him. Gwenhwyfar makes him feel like a man again. Arthur has no use for a broken warrior, but Arthur’s wife has.
Each morning when he goes out to see the horses in their stable behind his brother’s house he looks across the smoky slope of the town to her roof, and thinks of her asleep beneath it. The hope of meeting her is what pulls him through each day.MoreLess
But he does understand. He likes the danger. He’s been trained for danger; lived for danger all his life, been taught to go and seek it out on battlefields and in the hunt. And this summer past it’s all been taken from him. The best future he can hope for is to be ...a half-man, riding patrol along the field-banks, watching over Arthur’s cows and barley. The pain in his bad leg always, souring him. Gwenhwyfar makes him feel like a man again. Arthur has no use for a broken warrior, but Arthur’s wife has.
Each morning when he goes out to see the horses in their stable behind his brother’s house he looks across the smoky slope of the town to her roof, and thinks of her asleep beneath it. The hope of meeting her is what pulls him through each day.MoreLess
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