Wolf Wood (Part Two): The Dangerous Years - Plot & Excerpts
Earlier that day, the English had suffered a crushing defeat at Formigny, a small village ten miles away. An army of five thousand had been caught in a pincer movement and routed. Her immediate concern was for Robin who had gone out with a scouting party and had not yet returned. He was now thirty-one and a very different person from the bashful country boy she met when she first arrived in Sherborne. Robin spoke good French and had learnt to write the sort of English that was fashionable in Westminster. He reported directly to the Commander of the garrison, Matthew Gough. Like everyone else, they feared for their future. Their original intention had been to move to Gascony and settle in Bordeaux. The people of that region were staunchly independent and regarded themselves as subjects of the English king. Like the Bretons, they had resisted the French for centuries. Now it looked as if they would soon become French like the people of Languedoc to their east. They had once been part of the Mediterranean world.
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