They Left the Healer to Die Below, So I Came Back Up With the Monster's Heart novel · Chapter 18 of 24

Chapter 18: Gold

I carried the heart myself.

It took both arms, and neither hand could close a blister on the way up.

We came up the last steps of the Mouth at dawn, the five of us, by the light of the heart.

Daan leaned on Joris.

The old porter carried the broken halves of his lance because she said a man should keep his first one.

The market was just opening.

A baker saw us come over the top step and dropped a tray of rolls.

Then the fishwives saw the heart, and then everyone did.

It was so bright that people had to shade their eyes to look at it.

By the time we crossed the square, there were two hundred people behind us, and the hall doors were open.

The guild was already inside.

Coppens was sitting in his chair on the dais with his left hand on his chest and five Golds in a row beside him.

The Gold with the iron beard and the Gold with the shaved head sat on his right.

They stared at Daan.

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