Chapter 12 when the magæ travel to settle elsewhere, taking Thom along

Edwin, and whomever goes with him, find the village of Aysgarth less than half a mile upriver along the Ure. As you remember from first arrival, there were few houses downriver, but several herds of domestic animals grazing.

Aysgarth consists of three hamlets, one on the far side of the river, and two on your side, spaced less than 200 paces apart. The villagers are busy, as you can see from a distance, but they stop what they are doing to watch as you arrive, one first, and then a couple, and before you arrive, everybody is looking curiously at you.