First and foremost: What?
The scene is set, Guinevere is sneaking around the castle after King Arthur has fallen asleep and then she's calling out all of the knights even after she's been cheating on her husband? Nah, she can chill. Then the knights start kissing up to her, for obvious reasons, but she's still unnecessary. The way she talks about Kay saying "he has always had a vicious tongue no one can correct." Someone needs to teach her that bitches get stitches.
Calogrenant,VERY RELUCTANTLY, begins to tell the court about how some guy took him to a fountain and performed a rain dance that caused a crazy storm. When said storm ended, a guy came out of nowhere and accused Calogrenant of starting a war with him and as these stories go, they naturally fought. Unfortunately, our boy Cal lost. Having the greatest friends he could imagine, Yvain volunteers to avenge Calogrenant's shame. But Gunivere clearly didn't learn at an early age the national no snitchin policy and told Arthur in the A.Ms what happened despite Cal's clear discomfort.
BUT YOU MUST BE WONDERING WHERE THE BEAUTIFUL WOMEN ARE!
They're there. Half of Cal's story was about the gorgeous maidens he saw. Then Yvain encountered the "beautiful lady" and went on a page long declaration of how he is a slave to her love. Then he becomes her actual slave? Cannot lie, I love how she testes him by asking all those questions about what made him fall in love with her. For a split second, it was as if courtly love was just as dumb a concept to them as it is to us.
This has been an odd start to yet another odd story. People think Yvain is dead, Kay thinks he was drunk and ran away. I don't know, shrugs are all I can do.
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