The Mark of the Horse Lord
“NEXT DAY WHEN the bargaining for the red mare was over and she had changed owners, they pushed on north-westward into the tribal lands beyond the shadow of Rome. Gault met them two nights later, a picked handful of warriors with him. And after that there were days and nights – so many that Phaedrus lost count of them – among the coastal marshes and steep woodland glens and great inland-running arms of the sea, with always the huge mountain mass that Sinnoch said was Cruachan the Shield-boss of the World, towering higher and higher into the northern sky. A constant shifting from place to place, strange faces seen in the fire-light and gone again next morning; word spoken softly and passed on, in herdsman’s bothy or at river ford. Little bands of men with spears who appeared as it were from nowhere in the half-light of dusk or dawn, and were given their orders and merged into nowhere again.
They came at last to three great cliff caves that must once have had their feet in the western wa...ters, though now there was a strip of rocky shore between them, and made their fire in the heart of the largest of them; and after that for a while there was no more changing camp.MoreLess
They came at last to three great cliff caves that must once have had their feet in the western wa...ters, though now there was a strip of rocky shore between them, and made their fire in the heart of the largest of them; and after that for a while there was no more changing camp.MoreLess
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