The Foundlings

Dazed and angry, the healer maiden Morgaine escapes to the Lake nearby her village, thinking of her obscure past. To her surprise, she finds a man lying in the grass there, a man with no name and no language known to others, who had raised himself in the forest after being abandoned by a man strangely similar to the now-dying King. Feeling a kinship to his past and seeing a strange familiarity in his eyes, she brings him to her home where he learns to speak and struggles to understand his memories of the past.

Life goes on as usual--and the village is talking of many things. The seeming scandal of the maiden Morgaine carrying a naked, collapsed man through the village to her house. The disappearance of an infant, supposedly dead, and the appearance of one in Morgaine's house, and another, older one in the forest, being raised by the druid Merlin. The King is now dying, and is heirless, and begins to talk of people who live by the lake--one, specifically, a woman who the villagers think he is confusing with Morgaine herself. The King and the foundling man both begin searching near the far side of the Lake, where it is rumored that many things had originated--the King, searching to atone for his remembrances, and the man, to recognize his memories for what they truly are and what they will mean for the future of the heirless King, the lady of the Lake, Morgaine, the foundling child, and himself.