Peter Heather

The end result is that they do.

Absolutely.

It's about another, within a decade or so, that's true.

Okay.

It does.

Well, Compton is trying to take over the whole empire to start with.

And in fact, it's partly Brexit.

I mean, I call it the first Brexit in one book, just as a joke, but it's partly ejected in that in the aftermath of the fallout from all these attacks, the central empire says goodbye.

Yeah, we're not coming back.

Yeah.

It's gone from the official empire from about the second decade of the fifth century.

I mean, I think, and I'm not alone, most people do think this, there's a sub-Roman population, at least in southern Britain, that keeps its ties to the continent, that keeps its Latinate

for a generation or two.

The Continental Chronicles say it's in about 440 that the manure really hits the air conditioning in Britain.

Oh, really?

So, you know, 25 years after the separation is when things get really nasty.

I think they're probably right.

I think they know what they're talking about.

Yes, large-scale intrusion.

So I think there's a sort of...