THE SYSTEM IS DYNAMIC
The town was divided. The abbey had demanded that Fiz and his friends stop their depredations of their garden. The abbot had said the two boys should enter the monastery, start the path to monkdom, and learn discipline.
Sibilla and Berta were especially divided. Sibilla thought it was a bad idea, while Berta championed the safety of her dyes. Neither of them, however, wanted to support the abbot, so they aired their differences with each other and didn’t talk for three days.
In the end, Fiz’s accomplice in crime was sent to Aniane then to one of Aniane’s satellite villages. Not even Saint-Jean de-Fos.
Fiz was alone.
“Better dead than living defeated,” Guilhem was explaining to Artemisia. He was trying to make it clear why he was the only person she should have de
