When the Blue Knight had departed the company of Fair Vivainne Desegur, he journeyed long days into a land that he knew not. Guided by the whims of his horse to this path or that, he cared not what direction he was following, only that he be alone and quiet after the many exertions and perils of his journeys and quests of the ten years past. A near trackless moorland of scant bushes and low ground fell before his presence, with some small animals which must scatter at his coming. The sky was filled end to end with low mists which clung at his passing and seemed intent to trouble him.
Some days he might cross paths with some herb gatherer or lost scullion, but in this place none were keen to trade words with another, and so the Blue Knight did not tarry for them and neither they for he.
At last, he came to a place that seemed scoured clean by the wind, although there was none, some broken twelve stones made a poor circle as one space was amiss, but the ground was dry. In this place he gathered to himself some time to remain and reflect his quest to deliver his found wisdom about.
It seemed so plain that the weakness in his need lay not in the discovery of precious thought, but in its delivery. Thoughts concerning the direction of travel a person might take through life were many and various. Any number of sage thinkers had born great conceits surrounding the reduction of suffering that appeared so endemic, but in the execution of these philosophies, time and again, the value and heart of the message was lost.
His own thoughts concerning the eradication of violence in the resolution of conflict might prove nought but yet another layer of wisdom that must dash itself against the rocks of inertia unless an arrow could be fashioned to carry his message true to its target.
The Blue Knight was much troubled by this and, lying by his small fire with his trusted horse Prosek tied fast to a small bush he fell into a deep sleep.
In his sleep the stones about did move alive and came people standing. One was forward to his feet appearing an shepherdess and said, We will show you many things.
The Guardians of the Cave 