Reborn as the Prince the Witch Stabbed, I Bought Her Off the Pyre novel · Chapter 34 of 64
Chapter 34: The Ring
"Forty fathoms," I said.
The Eldest wrote it down in a small, neat hand.
"And how long has it been drinking?"
"Since March of last year."
She wrote that down too, closed the book and walked away up the bank without another word.
"What does she want with that?" Anke asked.
"She feels water through rock," the woman in the white coat said. "Perhaps she wants to know how far she would have to reach."
Tiefbrunn was half a day down the valley, a gray stone town built around a spring.
The spring sat in a round stone basin in the middle of the square.
Around it stood a ring of standing stones, each one taller than a man.
The rim of the basin was carved with marks, one above the other, going back hundreds of years.
The water was over all of them.
It ran over the rim and across the flagstones in a thin sheet, and the morning sun shone on it.
"It's been rising since last spring," Lotte said. "They say it's a wet year."
I looked up at the mountains, where the snow was only now going off the high ground.
It hadn't been a wet year anywhere I'd heard of.
By midmorning a hundred and forty women stood inside the stones.
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