‘No. I didn’t. What’s that got to do with it?’
Cathbad looked around. The sun was peeking between the uppermost branches now, growing larger and rosier as it neared the horizon, and sending out shafts of light to pierce through the leaves. ‘The day is drawing to a close. I’ll tell you as we walk, although Lovernios knows most of this already.
‘Druidic histories,’ Cathbad began, ‘Tell us how the Romani first came to Britannia years and years ago, way before any of us were born — excepting Artio, of course. A Caesar god led them then, and brought a very muddled and hardly successful expedition, for the Romani only stayed a short while. They came back the following year and took a few more token hostages and accepted homage from some of the tribal kings in the south. Kings, you notice! Even
