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Morgana arrives at the Unseelie lair and gets a rather cold welcome, as Mab is not happy with how things went.
Both independently brood a bit and then each one decides to send a monster. Mab going to Ysbaddaden for a Giant, Morgana to Caoránach for a Dragon.
Ygraine is back, and asked by Morgause she says that no, Morgause does not have a sister. Of course given that Morgana is obviously part fey, the Rangers assumed as much. That was clearly a changeling. Lancelot knows how those work. The fey need some sort of sample of a person, then they create a copy. Usually they do that with babies, then exchange the copy for the original. Apparently it can be done with adults.
The Knights of the Round Table get two separate calls for help. They and the other knights that are available right now have to build two teams. Arthur leads one himself and Guinevere immediately joins that one. Everyone expects Lancelot to lead the other team, instead he immediately joins Arthur's and Guinevere's. An annoyed Galehaut joins too. So Morgause leads the second team with Ywain as the only other Ranger. The remaining available knights fill out the teams, only Gawain comes up with an excuse. (Several knights are not available because they are on quests, Palamedes, Dinadan, Lamorak and Tristan, for example, are notably absent, while others are on guard duty, led by Kay).
Arthurs team arrives at a village threatened by an Unseelie warrior: A blind Earth Giant can feel every movement on or in the ground and throws dust around that blinds others, giving it an advantage.
Morgause' team confronts a Cockatrice that turns everyone to stone who looks at its eyes. It happens to one Ywain, Morgause manages to undo it (might be the first time we see her actually cast a spell) but of course every time that happens to a knight, they are out of the battle for a while and especially Morgause has to avoid it. The mysterious Green Knight Ranger helps out again so it is three Rangers against each monster, but it is still a near hopeless fight.
Morgause has an idea. She tries to use the jewel in her dagger like a crystal ball, communicate with the other Rangers. It works. Each team learns that the other is in just as much trouble. They get the idea to lure the Unseelie towards each other. Morgause' team retreats, the Cockatrice in pursuit, and reaches the village that the Giant is destroying. When the Cockatrice touches the ground, the Earth Giant assumes another opponent and attacks. It is immune to the Cockatrice’ power, because it is blind and the Cockatrice can not talk to clear up the misunderstanding. But since the Cockatrice can fly, it can get away from the Giant. If the Rangers let it. Thanks to the Earth Giant’s dust attacks, they can’t see the Cockatrice’ eyes either and can force the confrontation, beating both Unseelie in the end. (Killing the Cockatrice frees all its victims.)
We also have a few situations where Lancelot is clearly paying more attention to Guinevere than to Galehaut, at one point saving her from an attack that she could have tanked thanks to her suit, while missing that Galehaut gets hit.
When the knights all go back to the castle, Galehaut tells Lancelot that he has enough. He breaks up with him. Lancelot can come back to him when he stopped pining for Guinevere.
Mab and Morgana accuse each other of ruining the plan but come to the conclusion that they are both good at this and can win if they coordinate their attacks.
In a B-Plot, Kay gets to do something. He is basically managing the castle by now and has moved into a role like Alpha 5 or Solon. Not sure what exactly he does, except cleaning Morgana's room out.
So ...
Yeah, things change a bit with Morgana as an open opponent. She is kinda commited to Mab's cause of destroying Camelot's leadership so the Unseelie have freew reign, but mostly she blames Arthur for ruining her chances with Accolon.
We also get something wit Lancelot that will become a bit of a pattern - his romantic relationships don't work out. Usually for the same reason ...
And communication via morpher is established. Had she grown up in modern times, Morgause probably would have had the thought earlier.