- Uhtred reluctantly prepares to take power in Mercia but he has an alternate plan in his mind. Brida joins the Danes in attacking the Welsh.
- As Mercian nobles doubt Uhtred's conversion, he must agree to strip in front of them and Edward's retinue for his fourth baptism. The Mercian 'witan' (state council) now accepts him as temporary ruler till a noble son ages to wed widowed queen Aethelfed, yet she privately warns him the country will still not accept a Wessex appointee, however fit. Uhtred bitterly surprises Edward, who orders the capital taken under his guard's control, by handing over the throne to her, whom the nobles only accept although a woman, after a vow of chastity during her rule. After Uhtred levies a Mercian host to recapture the capital Aylsbury, but Aethelfled prefers a parlor with her brother, their mother convinces Edward to agree with a sibling of each throne and a joint expedition force to stop Danish intrusions in the north. Liberated in Debeubarth fort, Brida tortures the commander to death. When Welsh king Hywell plans to recapture it, Sigtryggr incinerates them in a field trap. Uhtred's son Junior doubts the sincerity of his baptism, decides to enter a Wessex abbey in honor of father Beocca's ultimate sacrifice for his life and leaves without saying goodbye to his father as Pyrig reports, adding it's a youngster to be proud of. Despite haughty abuse, Eardwulf offers Sigtryggr a sneaky way into nearly undefended Winchester.—KGF Vissers
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