George steepled his hands together. “Let’s look at this analytically. Creiddylad’s original farmers and crafts-folk may have thrived behind her closed walls, but how do they trade? Where does she recruit people of her own class or any other outsider?”
“She had one way at Edgewood which Gwyn restricted her from but she closed it against all but Gwyn, who had higher authority over it, and he respected her privacy. This satisfied the terms of her exile. That doesn’t mean she hasn’t found other means of travel. She could have her own trading arrangements, though I’ve never heard anyone speak about them, and it’s the sort of thing one hears in gossip—who’s buying or selling what, what’s the latest fashion, and so forth.”
“Still,” she continued, “it seems clear that she must be communicating w
