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Strangers
It would take the men of Uladh until the end of that fateful day to dismantle their considerable encampment around Tara and begin their journey back to Eamhain Mhacha.
During that time CúChulainn stubbornly refused to answer Conchobar’s repeated summons to the king’s tent to give answer for what Mac Neasa had termed his treasonous actions.
Those messengers who insisted that CúChulainn bend to the king’s will were sent back with blackened eyes from the place where the champion had decided to retire for the day – the tent of Clan Manach, and the arms of his wife, Emer.
Words were never immediately necessary following periods of separation. Once inside the tent CúChulainn had simply swept Emer up from her feet and gorged himself on the scent of her neck and bosom, covering
