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So our little company parted, and Cyneward, who had been Raud, and I went back with the elder monk and the farm folk to our place, going slowly in the warm twilight, with our hearts at rest, and full of the wonders we had seen that day. Only one thing would the monk and I ask Cyneward, for we wondered how he had learned our faith so well. And that he answered gladly.
Then, though I would not ask in any downright way, I found that Osritha was well, but grieving, as they thought, for the danger of her brothers and of that I had my own thoughts. So with talk of the days that seemed so long past, we went on into Hoxne woods, through which Raud said that he had learnt we must go to meet the host in its onward march from Thetford.
However, the man was urgent, and we went out with Raud and his brother, and some twenty men, armed with spears and axes. The night was very dark, and the snow whirled every way, and the end of it was that Raud and I and two more men, with the dog Vig, lost the rest, and before we found them we had the pack on us, and we must fight for our lives.
Then with Osritha's handclasp still warm on mine I went out and followed him, and she sought the maiden who waited beside the door, and was gone. When we came to the great gates, they were shut. The sounds of feasting went on in the hall, and the red light glared from the high windows. Forgotten was all but revelling and the guard who kept the gate was Raud the forester, my friend.
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