The day we arrived, that fortress gave the impression of being impregnable, but the walls began to give way before the intense battering to which they were subjected. Despite the evident superiority in numbers of the invading army, the Hittani inhabitants would not go down without a fight. In close combat they were much stronger than the invaders, but although the battle lasted for some time, they had only managed to delay the inevitable.
Surviving prisoners were led away to the cells.
‘They must be the Visigoths,’ I said, hearing their voices. ‘Now everything will change.’
‘At least we will be able to understand them, and they us,’ Carlos assured.
We had found it hard to get our intentions across to the previous inhabitants of the fortress, but now we hoped that our relationship with
