He grimaced. “Lord Æthelhelm won’t like that. He says we’re not to take prisoners. We’re to kill them all. Every last man.” “All of them?” “More land, you see? He says he’ll share out Mercian land to us. And give us all of Northumbria too!” “All of Northumbria!” Hyglac shrugged. “Not sure I want to be part of that war. They’re god-damned savages in Northumbria.” “They are,” Finan said fervently.
