Continuing on with the idea that people often buried their treasure during times of unrest, Branda visits Mildryth with a plea to accompany her on a short journey outside of the city walls. She has need to withdraw a little money from a deposit hidden by her now dead husband. Almost inevitably, their paths cross with that of Wulfhere. For the outlaw it presents an opportunity to avenge himself on the two women, both of whom he presumes to have done him a wrong when he was forced to flee York before the advancing Vikings, and he can also relieve Branda of her money. Mildryth, however, has other ideas.

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