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“I do not think we could have any other sort of wedding, Eodwine! Daylight will fail more quickly than you imagine - we have so many things to prepare! Can we not have torches, instead of lanterns? Or perhaps both. Let’s hang the lanterns, as you said, and have people bearing torches as we...as we do the hand fasting.” She pressed against Eodwine with a shiver of excitement while she said the words. She did not know how to contain her joy and excitement.
“We should ask Modtryth to help!” she said with a sudden idea. “She will know how to go about preparing everything and will make things so much simpler!”
They were drawing close to Harreld now. He was talking with Ginna, their heads bent low together as they sat beside each other, and neither of them saw the three approaching newcomers.
“Once we finish here, I will go and find her,” Saeryn said quietly to Eodwine and then became silent as they came within speaking distance to Harreld.
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