Chapter 14-3
They were beneath the trees within moments, the chanting stopping abruptly as each individual ducked beneath low-hanging branches and fell under the spell of the Otherness of the place they had Found. Boudicca felt the almost imperceptible shift of consciousness so reminiscent of a group Find. There was a sacredness in the air, a smell of musky leaves and an overwhelming profoundness which settled upon every Celtoi present. This was no longer a mobbing, even if Grania had been encouraging one; now it had been transmuted to a mystery, an appeasement of the Divine. They brought the Romani women forward, singly. They had been taken from the cages one by one, unable to bring the wagons into the Groves, and pushed through the crowd independent of each other. Boudicca was at the front now, with
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