Reborn as the Prince the Witch Stabbed, I Bought Her Off the Pyre novel · Chapter 17 of 64

Chapter 17: The Salt Village

Everyone on that road was looking at me.

The whole town, with its lanterns, and Lotte with her warm hands around mine, and Anke behind her, white as the snow.

I couldn't lie to her, and I couldn't tell her the truth on a road with half of Velde listening.

"I was stabbed in August," I said. "My heart stopped on the table. When I woke up, I'd lost everything before it."

Lotte's smile wavered.

"Everything?"

"Your face. The road. The cart. I'm sorry."

Then she squeezed my hands harder.

"Then I'll remember it for you," she said. "Somebody has to."

Behind me, the alewife pushed to the front of the crowd with her ladle.

"Seventeen women up that mountain," she said, "and we ate their bread."

Nobody answered her.

"Well, I'm not having it." She held up the ladle. "Velde is met. Here, now, in the road. Who's carrying food up that pass?"

The father of the two boys put his hand up first.

Then the cooper, and the cook, and a dozen others, and then it was everyone.

The gate warden stood at the back with his keys on his belt.

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