Reborn as the Prince the Witch Stabbed, I Bought Her Off the Pyre novel · Chapter 47 of 64

Chapter 47: Three Days

I didn't have an answer for her.

I stood in the snow in my unlaced boots and let her scream it at me, because she was right.

The healer from Velde came out of the council house behind me and went straight to the child.

She put two fingers on the small neck, and then she shook her head.

The mother sat down in the snow with her daughter and stopped screaming, which was worse.

Then, at the top of the street, the crowd parted for a small, straight old woman with a black stick.

The Eldest had walked down from Tiefbrunn through the night with ten of her women behind her.

There was frost in her white plait.

She looked at the mother, and the child, and the pump with no handle.

Then she looked at me.

"Lord of Velde," she said. "The pass is shut to Aldmark by the vote of the Ring. This valley had no right to receive you."

"The ban says the man who brings an engine over drowns," I said. "I didn't bring one."

"So I am told." She turned to her women. "Look."

They went through all twelve wagons and found mutton, fish, cheese, butter and apples.

"Then he goes back over the ridge today," the Eldest said.

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