Reborn as the Prince the Witch Stabbed, I Bought Her Off the Pyre novel · Chapter 57 of 64

Chapter 57: The Gate

Anke's POV

He read it out twice, the second time slower.

Then he folded the slate under his arm and went back to standing at the stone, and he didn't say anything at all.

My husband stopped talking.

He buried the king in the chapel yard on the third day, because the king had asked to lie at Velde, near the names.

He wrote the crown's men a letter about it and sent it down the line.

He did everything that needed doing, and he did it well, and he didn't say one word he didn't have to.

At night he lay beside me with his eyes open, and I put my hand on his chest and felt his heart going.

I knew he was thinking about the engine, because I'd watched him look at it.

By the end of May, Velde was full of mothers.

They came up the river on every barge, from Hessa and the river towns below it, some from as far as Kronhal.

Every one of them had a girl in her arms, and every one had heard about the new king's list.

"They write her name down," a woman from the river towns said to me, at my forge door. "Then what? They wrote names down before."

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