Merlin, Magic and the Medieval Church: An Examination of Correlations Between the Character of Merlin the Wizard from the Thirteenth Century Vulgate Cycle and Medieval Writings on Magic

It had just begun to open.

The pain almost blinded him, but he fought to focus on the building up ahead. As he waited on his bird, he looked out across the lake to where the trees locked together in a dark wall, a twisted and forbidding mass.