Meanwhile, our heroes proceed in their Quest for the Holy Pail accompanied by a parade of creatures. The two boars well sated from their meal of Duke Delay. Two feisty hedgehogs. A flock of wondrous birds. A unicorn with not a care in the world. And forty recently freed cherubs no longer slaving under the tyranny of evil forces.

Quixotic took out his lyre and broke into song:

It's getting to the point where I'm having so much fun

I am so happy

Sometimes it helps to madly reach all out

To the lonely

I am yours, you are mine, we are what we are

You make it love

Remember what we've said, and done
And how we helped  each other
Jesu  have mercy
Don't let the past remind us of what we are not now
We are not dreaming
I am yours, you are mine, we are what we are
We are together

Finding ourselves together this way, we are free
And I am laughing
This only means that we love our Lord, I do, that's forever
Yes, and for always
I am yours, you are mine, we are what we are
We are together

Something inside is telling me that we've found a secret
And we are seeking.
A new approach to life, and laughter is the key to the heart
We are together

I am yours, you are mine, we are what we are
We try so hard
We try so hard
We try so hard

Comes the evening
Following the afternoon
What have we got to lose?
Jesu Christe
You show us the way, we are grateful
What have we got to lose?

Which way shall we go?
The least of our worries
Listen to your heart
Oh my heart is thriving
What's life, if one does not reach out
We're tryin' and that's what is the use

Jesu has an answer
He says don't  fly away
What have you got to lose?
Will you come see me
In your happiest hours
What have you got to lose?

Chestnut brown canary
Ruby throated sparrow
Sing a song, don't be long
Thrill me to the marrow

Voices of the angels
Ring around the moonlight
Asking me, said she so free
How can you catch the sparrow?

Lacy lilting lady
Justice fleeting and elusive
Changed my life, made it right
Be my lady

Do do do do do, do do do do do do
Do do do do do, do do do do

Lancelot turned to his comrades. What pray tell are we to do with these children? The innocents must be fed and provided with a place to live and learn.

Sir Quixotic piped up: Sir Lancelot.  The Lord has shown us to this quest and to these children and the good Lord Jesus Christ will help us find a home for them. (Blesses himself)

But we are mere mortals and the Lord has given us the tools, the mens, to make our own decisions. We must surely pray for guidance, but it is lunch time soon and I do not even see an apple tree.

Well Lancelot, I was not speaking on some ethereal plane, I mean look over there at 4:00.  Quixotic pointed to an abbey just to the north.

Oh, I see. Ummmm. I guess we can stop for a bite? Lancelot  replied, and with that the column moved toward the abbey.

This abbey turned out not to be what they had thought. The smaller building in the front of this community was but a chapel and the terrain hid the huge monastery behind it.

Bottomly, come here at once !! Quixotic ordered and the cherubs' leader followed our trio through the main gate.  Two monks stood guard and immediately opened the entry to the estate upon seeing the three knights.  As was required, the heroes stripped themselves of their weapons before proceeding toward the larger building with the largest guard.

The priest welcomed the four into the main room and brought them to a table.

I am Father Steele and I manage this center of learning. And you are the great Sir Quixotic of whom I have heard much. Much things and good things, I might add.

I am Quixotic Father and I have with me two other knights of the Roundish Table; Sir Gaharis and Sir Lancelot.  This young man is Bottomly.

Lancelot then proceeded to tell the priest of the doings of the late Duke Delay and how the children had been freed from slavery.

You mean to say there are forty children outside who have not supped?  You knights know better than that.  Brother Graham, BROTHER GRAHAM, Father Steele called.  A rather short but husky monk appeared.

Brother Graham, this is Sir Lancelot along with Sir Quixotic and Beau Manes.  This youngster is the leader of two score children. Would you be so kind as to take Bottomly here with you and have him show you his friends and return with all the children?

Why of course Father. Replied Graham.

The children were brought into the inner sanctum to a great dining table and fruits and meats of all kinds were spread upon the table in fine dishes. And the children ate their fill full of joy as Graham told them stories of knights and ogres.

Father, you represent the best of the clerics and we thank you for your charity, for your courtesy and for your time. We wish to know some things about your great monastery. Could you tell us from whence it came...er...who first established this great house of learning.

Perhaps you should inquire of your senior comrade, Father Steele said pointing to Quixotic.

Quixotic looked at the floor as Lancelot turned to him. 

You knew this was here the entire trip did you not?  Speak up Quixotic.

Father Steele, sensing the embarrassment and humility of Quixotic spoke up:

Thirty years ago, this was a great field filled with the dead of a great battle. Uther's army had just finished off the worst duke of the realm. Sir Quixotic, that one day had vanquished a full score of warriors from the north and was grievously wounded.  My uncle was a hermit living in a small hut located right where this room now looms.  Uncle Thomas took Sir Quixotic in and healed him of his wounds.

Several months passed until our senior friend was healthy enough to take leave and he promised Thomas that he would return one day and reward him.  Of course Thomas replied that he was bound to aid a good knight in a good cause and that it was his duty to his Lord & Savior (blesses himself).  Quixotic meanwhile, was released by Uther to pursue a quest for the Sacred Books and the knight proceeded to Wales where he met with Talesian, the Bard.  

Our friend traveled for almost a fortnight before finding the great educator in a small enclave on the northwest coast.  Out of supplies and worn out from his journey, Quixotic was welcomed by the bard.  Do you seek the old knowledge?  asked Talesian.

Yes Master.  I was told in a dream that there was a cache of old pages brought over by the Romans two centuries ago; that the Latin of Ovid and the Greek of Homer were available for the brave to seek. I believe that this learning should be sought and the pages cared for after being properly catalogued.

Talesian led Quixotic to the border of Wales and England and they came to an old tomb. After opening the edifice labeled Libris Dei, the two entered and Quixotic was shown hundreds upon hundreds of books. With permission of Talesian, Quixotic made arrangements to have the books transported here. All at his own expense.

Peasants were employed to begin work on our little chapel.  Word spread across the land and into Europe of the great find and monks arrived here from all lands.  The monks, working with the peasants built all that you see here.

Quixotic did all of this and asked nothing in return.

Lancelot looked at his old friend, puzzled.  He turned to Father Steele, How doth thou know of these strange and wondrous things?

Because Sir Quixotic took with him a young man as his squire and that young man was me.  But come, I will show you more.

Father Steele led the knights on a long march to the rear of the building and outside into a beautiful farming area.  The HolyGardens the monks called it.  To the east was a small graveyard. 

Father Steele showed them a marker:  Here Lies The Great Quixotic, The Model For All Chivalry.

Lancelot gasped.  He turned to Sir Quixotic. What....

Sir Quixotic took the beaten and rusty bucket from his head and handed it to Lancelot.

This is what you seek.  You have passed all the tests.  And with that the knight evaporated into the mist.

The bucket glowed and the two remaining knights saw the wondrous aura with awe as they bent down on their knees.

THIS IS THE HOLY VESSEL OF OUR LORD JESU CHRISTE. YOU CANNOT TAKE THIS WITH YOU. BUT YOU MUST TELL OTHERS OF WHAT OCCURRED ON THIS SACRED GROUND.

And with that, the Holy Pail rose into the ether.