“All is well?” Culhwch asked.
“Yes. Lucius and Adara should return today. How are things in the village. Alma is doing well?”
“Well enough. But we had a surprise last night. Alma’s cousin, Sigwyll Sloane, returned after many years in the Roman cavalry auxiliaries along the Rhine frontier.”
“I didn’t know she had a cousin in the army,” Einion said.
“She doesn’t talk much of him. They were very close, but when he enlisted, she was not happy. He was a good lad, but she worried about him getting killed.”
“Well, obviously he didn’t,” Einion said.
“No. But he has been discharged early due to an injury,” Culhwch said. “A Germanic spear through his knee. He can’t ride anymore, and walks with an awful limp.”
“Still, he could be dead.” Einion added, blunt as ever.
“Yes. He would wish it so t
