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Little echoes, little glimpses of the past like still-glowing embers in the dark. The scent of smoke and the sea. Fire-light dancing in bright blue eyes. The bloodbeat of the war drums and ritual chant ringing battle-lust and sword-song in his ears. A yearning, buried deep, for an old equilibrium in the absent space at his side.
Memories that will come as if in a dream, in those hushed nights lying under woolen tents in the battle encampments of East Anglia or abandoned farmlands of Mercia, during the cold and soggy marches across Northumbria as the Great Army razes a bloody path through England’s fractured kingdoms.In time, these are the seeds from which a long dormant wish sprouts full-throated into a desire that haunts him in the shape of a single question: What if?