No more dreams, no more visions, the Blue Knight sought travel to the castle that was the stronghold of the Guardians of the Cave there whence Vivainne Desegur and her beloved Constance kept their vigil for the world.
He came that he might shew to them in speech that Shining City which he had seen in his vision and speak plain of the colour of a Greener Man that he was become.
As he went, the name of the Shining City was the City of Az because it held for him all things from beginning to the end.
In time passing he came to the great castle, situated as it was, high, high upon an impenetrable crag there. Climbing to it on small paths that switched this and that, he arrived to them with great welcome and feeling. The Blue Knight, Vivainne and Constance had passed together through many perils in the past to come to this future and their minds were often as one to the trials that the people of the world had inherited.
After some small time in talking of his time in the circle of stones, the Blue Knight came to his vision of the City of Az and its cloaking shadow which he intended to breach so that he might come thither and join with the people of Az in their great projects.
He spoke how he expected that many obstacles would surely be thrown to his path that he might fall and fail but that it was his intention to give his life in service of the great windmills in the City of Az that he had seen in his dream.
When Vivainne and Constance heard this, they talked together for some time together and then came to their friend and companion the Blue Knight.
They spoke thus, saying, We have not seen this vision, nor have we heard tell of this City of Az, but in you, dearest and faithful Knight we have full trust. If this is a journey upon which you feel that you must embark, then we shall ride with you, one on each side of you to protect you and make clear your path so that you may come through the darkness to this place of which you speak.
With this agreed there was much celebration and drinking of wine in toast. They took a last meal together, leaving half eaten flowers on each trencher to shew the mysteries and fine words were spoken. The three Knights Exemplar and Guardians of the Cave made an oath together that the purpose of each was as the purpose of all. The three were as one.
When the time was passed to the day of leaving, Vivaine and Constance bade farewell to their retinue who kept safe the stronghold and three set forth unto a journey that which came to them they knew not, but through it they must come together.
Is there a star or are stars that will watch this journey in silence?
The Guardians of the Cave 