CHAPTER 24
Rhodri entertained Rhian with the tales of Gwyn’s public outrage and private plotting, keeping a light tone on it to mask the very real fear that neither of the captives would survive. She interrupted him once to ask him to make sure a letter got to Brynach. She’d give it to him, this evening.
So, it runs in that direction, Rhodri thought. Well, and why not. It will only help her here, a relative of the queen.
George slept all the way in despite the jolts of the road, his head pillowed in a virgin’s lap like a mythical unicorn. Who rescued whom, he wondered. He wanted to hear the full tale.
The guards at the castle gate waved them in, the last stragglers of the hunting party in the late afternoon. Rhodri dismounted and handed his horse off to a groom, and roused George with
