CHAPTER 32
Even in the open air, George found the noise of the encampment at mid-day deafening.
Llefelys had brought nearly a hundred people with him, staff and servants as well as his immediate circle. Most had come from the court with him, but a few were picked up at the second way they traversed, still within Llefelys’s domain, before they crossed from Gaul. These last brought the tents and pavilions that this annual event required.
The wagons had only a few miles to cover once the last way brought them to Britain, and George was glad of it. They’d been up since dawn, and he watched with interest how the group was organized, with outriders for the baggage carts and a royal guard for the king and queen of Gaul.
He stuck close to Rhian, for whom all of this was also new, and they excl
