CHAPTER 18On that sunny July day, Kyla stared out the front of the coach window beside a sleeping Zelene and smiled at the Saxon cavalryman riding beside them. The irony of it all! Here she was travelling through Gwent in a coach and horses provided by the Saxons and being escorted by two dozen Saxon cavalrymen after the kingdom that had been seized by Saxons.
The difference from her former homeland of Glouvia was that the Saxons were not annexing either Gwent or Llandover for Chieftain Tayte had honoured his agreement to her. All the lands east of the hill countries, that the Saxons called them, were recently combined into the Kingdom of Wessex. There were dozens of disposed kings or queens but Kyla was assured that by being a crown princess in the newly created Kingdom of Llandover with
