"I'm sorry, Carwyn," Barsali said in slow, heavily accented words in the king's common tongue.
He'd been practicing with Loftur for several days, and there were several things he'd intended to say to Carwyn and his woman once he had the chance. He thought that Olwyna should hear from him just how impressive her husband was in battle and how his unwavering determination to fight had impressed the veteran gladiator.
More importantly, he wanted to tell her that the last words on Carwyn's lips when he thought he was going to die had been her name and that he clearly loved her enough to give his own life fighting to keep harm from reaching her. But now, when he finally spoke the king's common tongue, he had to piece together a very different set of phrases that he'd never thought he would need to say.
