Christ Church Priory, Canterbury, 990 AD
Christ Church Priory, Canterbury, 990 AD(one night earlier)
(one night earlier)Aelfwynn lay on his pallet unable to sleep, his mind awhirl with the events that had not only robbed him and his brother of their best friend but had also undoubtedly combined to leave him as the principal suspect. He could plead his innocence as much as he liked but he had no alibi. On the morning of the tragedy, resigned to having blundered over his presentation, he had wandered into the woods near the priory. His excuse if challenged would have been that he had ventured forth to collect oak galls to make ink. There was no need for this plausible explanation because he had found the solitude he craved. Nobody seeing him was what he had sought, but then he could not ha
