Reborn as the Prince the Witch Stabbed, I Bought Her Off the Pyre novel · Chapter 23 of 64
Chapter 23: Anke's Choice
"No," I said.
Mechthild Sturm nodded.
"I thought you'd say that. You paid a ruby for her." She put the knife back in her sleeve. "The ninth bell, then."
She got up off her cushioned chair and went inside.
I didn't sleep.
Gerd sat up with me in the inn by the quay, and neither of us said anything worth remembering.
At the ninth bell the guildhouse hall was fuller than the day before.
People stood on the window ledges.
The justiciar came in, sat down under the king's arms and unrolled a paper in front of him.
I had seen men read a verdict before, in my first life, at an inquest into a flooded shaft.
They always looked at the paper, never at the man.
He was looking at the paper.
"The court has heard the Master of the Finders," he began. "And the court has heard the Lord of Velde say, not today."
The doors at the back of the hall banged open.
Every head turned.
Anke was standing in the doorway in her brown wool dress, gray with four days of road dust.
She had walked out of my house, past the law and her own oath, and down a hundred miles of valley.
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