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"Snake," she says, standing before your vividly painted wardrobe. "The Le Fay symbol, right?"

"Right."

She glances at you where you sit crossed-legged on the rug by the fire; her hair cascades over the back of her jerkin in flaxen ripples. "Why a snake?"

Well, if you were to ask many at court nowadays, it's been conceived in a bout of dreadful divination for the sole purpose of befitting Morgana's current status as Camelot's number one undesirable. While surely a very creative take on the origin, the actual story contains a literal serpent rather than the metaphorical one they consider your mother.

"It's said the fae that gave our line magic - and, well, our name - first showed themself as a serpent." Elaine makes a series of hums as she studies the wardrobe with more interest. You turn the question on her. "Why swan?"

"Because they make for a vicious symbol?" When you stare at her pointedly, she relents with a chuckle. "It comes from the Swan Knight." She rolls her eyes and pulls at a loose thread of her sleeve, grumbling, "Because I guess we have the most risible of names."