Reborn as the Prince the Witch Stabbed, I Bought Her Off the Pyre novel · Chapter 49 of 64

Chapter 49: What the Eldest Knew

Then she laughed.

"Well," she said. "Now we know it isn't a muscle."

She got up and went to bed before I could say anything, and Lotte went after her.

I sat with the book until the candles burned down.

I found the Eldest in the morning at the upper spring, at the top of the town.

She was sitting on the wall of the spring house with her stick across her knees, resting before the long climb back to Tiefbrunn.

The spring ran out of the hillside into a stone trough, over the rim and down the lane in a sheet of thin ice.

I put the book down on the wall beside her, open at the stars.

She didn't look at it.

"I've read it," she said. "In the summer, when there were twelve."

"You knew."

"I knew the week your engine started," she said.

"I felt the water under this mountain move. All of it, from the deep rock up, like a sleeper turning over."

"And then the springs began to rise, one valley after another, and I wrote the dates in my book."

"And then the girls came."

"Why?" I said. "Why does it do that?"

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