father's illness began, and that evening Lancelot sits next to Elyan and Gwaine and laughs with them. Elyan's kestrel daemon, Amalthea, play fights with Gwaine's falcon daemon, Ricarda, while Gwaine and Elyan and Lancelot pretend to argue over who's the better huntsman. Hertha lies under the table, at Lancelot's feet, despondently