Hewitt said:
"I've heard of Avalon. In legend, it's where King Arthur rests. Morgan carried his body to the island, and let him rest there."
But Hewitt knew that wasn't what really happened— King Arthur didn't die in Avalon.
Morgan Rutherford Pendragon, Arthur's sister, was a witch so powerful that she instilled fear in others. Hewitt still remembered her beautifully poisonous face.
Whatever the Avalon in the Underworld was, it certainly wasn't King Arthur's tomb or some heavenly realm.
Because King Arthur was not in the Underworld.
This was Pendragon's territory.
Hewitt asked:
"Do you know where Avalon is?"
Cyrus said:
"I know a thing or two, and I can tell you."
Hewitt looked at him.
Cyrus continued:
"But can you tell me why you want to go there?"
Hewitt sincerely replied:
"Pendragon once promised that if I came to the Underworld, I could go to his realm, where there would surely be a place for me."
He spoke the truth.
Hewitt continued:
