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Good evening and welcome back to the Sleepy Bookshelf, where we put down our worries from the day

and pick up a good book. I'm your host, Elizabeth,

and I'm so glad you chose to be here tonight.

This evening, we are returning to King Arthur

and the Knights of the Round Table.

But before that, we'll take a moment to relax and get ready for sleep.

Concentrate on how your body feels and where you are holding any tension. Take a big stretch and allow those areas to fully relax and sink into your bed.

Now let's take some nice deep breaths.

Inhale and collect all your thoughts and concerns from the day.

And exhale.

Letting them all go.

Once more now.

Inhale and exhale.

Lovely.

When King Vortigan, the usurper, was told that the rightful heirs were coming to reclaim the throne, he demanded a protective tower be built for him. But whenever they built it, the walls

would come tumbling down.

Vortigin consulted the wizards, who told him he must smear the castle in the blood of a boy with no parentage, so his soldiers picked a boy off the street called Merlin, who fit the description.

Merlin told the wizards the tower was being built on an underground lake,

and when they found that, to drain the lake,

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