One of the monks goes for a walk and wants to examine a standing stone near a stream spring. A mounted Pict quickly arrives and waves him away. The Picts don't want any monks to meddle with the sacred springs.
Gobrien diplomatically orders the guilty monk to guard the monastery pigs for some days for punishment.
A group of Angle warriors arrive near the monastery. Drustan the SubRoman British chieftain hastily sends a large patrol to fight them if necessary.
Rather than a fight, Gobrien tries to evangelize the Angles. The Angle chieftain watches the British warriors then he accepts to be baptized.
Gobrien goes to the village with the British warriors.
Then Lady Marwena and Gobrien, with an escort from the village, go to visit Gweninn (daughter of the Pictish chief) and her husband (Marwena's son) in the Pictish hillfort.
There's some argument between Gobrien and the local druid... But Gobrien understands that Gweninn still has no children and that it's worrying for Marwena and for the Picts too. The old chieftain Nectan (Gweninn's father) is hostile to the monk, but Gweninn accepts to be baptized although she would not fully reject her old faith.
Then they come out of the hillfort to go to the village with a Pictish and SubRoman British escort.
The druid comes with them because on the way Gweninn wants to pray a stone idol by a sacred spring. Even Lady Marwena, although Christian without doubt, shows respect to the idol. Gobrien is very unhappy with all this but is wise enough to avoid open opposition.
Gobrien is even more unhappy when, some time later in the woods, he has to witness a public ritual of love between the old druid and an old female healer
...during three game turns: the red hearts are turn markers.Far away from there, near the old broch, trouble is brewing. The Scots are restless, and a second group of Angles become threatening. Drustan map Fergus arrives with his troop and prepares to fight the Angles.
The first troop of Angles, whose chief had accepted to be baptized by Gobrien, changes sides and allies with the hostile Angles. Their chief was still near the village and is immediately killed on Drustan's order. The fighting goes on.
Drustan keeps the Angles far from his own village but cannot prevent them from advancing towards the Pictish hillfort. Angle scouts on foot and mounted begin to harass the Picts.
Nectan the old Pictish chieftain charges some Angle mounted infantry but falls terribly wounded.
There's a ceremony in Drustan's village to celebrate the baptism of Gweninn. The village is well guarded now and the Angles don't come near (and they don't need to, they are busy attacking the Pictish hillfort).
Nectan has been brought unconscious near his hut on top of the hillfort and the druid is helping him.
A short time later, the Angles storm the hillfort. The druid and an old servant commit suicide by jumping from the top of the hillfort, carrying the body of their chieftain with them. Only a few children manage to climb down the cliff and to escape.