As soon as Boudicca had led Maeve to address her people and backed away again, the battle had begun. The Celtoi carried every advantage except position, and the Romani were painfully afraid to relinquish that, so the horde dictated the course of the battle, insisting they war as the tribes had always fought. Warfare for the Celtoi was virtually an art form. Trained from an early age, this was the purpose for which many of the nobles in the horde had been raised. There was not just the Romani to defeat, there was the glory of the tribe to be won and the accolade of heroes to be gained.
Boudicca desperately, desperately wanted to watch, so she manoeuvred her chariot, unwieldy with three people in it, around the line of the wagons and back to the flanks of the horde. In this position, she ho
