This is a perfectly good sub-plot. When Dahut is behaving scandalously with Niall in Ys, Queen Bodilis sends Maeloch to Eriu to gather intelligence about Niall. Thus, Maeloch and his crew are at sea when Ys is inundated. As far as I have reread so far this time, Maeloch does not yet know about that disaster. Camping on an island, they meet Eochaid, one of Niall's hostages freed by Rufinus, and Gunnung, whom Maeloch kills because he boasts of having had sex with Dahut who urged him to challenge her father. Maeloch and Eochaid establish that the Niall who is (was) with Dahut in Ys answers the description of the Hivernian High King, Niall of the Nine Hostages. Maeloch will send two men back to Ys with this information while he continues to Eriu. He is going in the wrong direction but he cannot know that yet. We await further developments with enhanced interest.
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Kaor, Paul!
Maeloch was one of those people in Ys who couldn't believe anything evil said about Dahut was true. Others, of course, were more suspicious and skeptical!
Ad astra! Sean
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