They Left the Healer to Die Below, So I Came Back Up With the Monster's Heart novel · Chapter 24 of 24
Chapter 24: The Door Below
The clerk gave me the page.
It was blank and white, and he wrote ELEVEN at the top of it in his careful hand before he handed it over.
"In case you forget which one," he said.
A month later we went down to ten.
The city court had read its sentence on the steps of the hall the week before.
Hendrik Coppens would spend the rest of his life in the city prison for the death in bed seven.
The whole square had heard it read.
I didn't go to watch him taken.
Joris did, and came home, and sat with me on the bathhouse roof until it was dark.
There were seven of us in the party.
Daan walked in front with his lance, beside the youngest healer with her hand on her chest.
Joris walked with me.
The floor-five healer walked behind us with a sack of bread, because he said nobody had brought him breakfast the last time he was below.
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