CHAPTER 12Kyla and Wyman, along with Herne and Sastra were on the third day of an expedition to buy more food to supplement their dwindling supplies. The snow had melted and though a cool breeze blew along the river, the weather had been fine with frosty mornings and the sun shone much of the time. With a satchel of Roman gold, silver and bronze coins that Anthony had supplied from the monastery funds they had reasoned, correctly as it turned out, that many villages along the river would be prepared to sell food and other necessities to them. To date, it had been a successful trip.
They were travelling north on the eastern bank of the River Sabrina that was named after the Celtic goddess of rivers. Though in Saxon claimed lands, this was considered safer than to the west where hostile tri
