Summary

Aquila is in Uroconium looking for work. He had been traveling throughout Britain during the past several months. There are things to steal in the shops yet the town has avoided a Saxon raid. Eugenus the Physician overhears Aquila talking to himself about the Saxons. He offers Aquila money for dinner. He will take it only if he can earn it. He has Aquila pick up a mended mule-harness at the saddler’s for him He finds Aquila interesting because he has a thrall mark on his neck, an emerald ring and he is dusty and hungry yet he rejects his charity. Aquila tells Eugenus the story of the Saxon raid, his capture by the Jutes, his escape and his quest to find Ambrosius. Eugenus was a personal physician to Constantine when he ruled Venta Belgarum. Now he is physician to Ambrosius, his...