Arthur is gone from Britain, away to fight in Armorica, Brittany, for his Breton allies, and he has left Bedwyr behind, and for how long can the Fox endure the loss of Arthur? How long can he obey orders that he does not like? True to his nature of rebellious fire, will the Fox follow the Bear to war in Armorica, and defy the prophesy spoken by the Merlin that he will die on foreign lands?

The cycle that builds, the circle that closes the way to the last and final years that lead to Arthur and Medraut’s deaths in civil war, the Battle of Camlann, The Fox on the Water begins the closing of the circle, tighter and tighter, until the last fall of the Red Dragon, and the fall of Arthur’s sword, Excalibor, into the lake, thrown from Bedwyr’s single hand; this story leads the way to Avalon, and the birth of the eternal legend of King Arthur.