Reborn as the Prince the Witch Stabbed, I Bought Her Off the Pyre novel · Chapter 44 of 64

Chapter 44: The Ice House

I sat her down by the fire in the lodge hall, and the cook put soup in her hands.

She held it without drinking it.

"It started in the main town of the Erlental, after the first snow," she said.

"A child first, then her mother, then the whole street. They empty out from both ends and die in a day or two."

"The healers lay hands on them from dawn to dark. The healers are falling down in the street now."

"How many dead?" I asked.

"Forty when I left. More since."

"And there's no barley. The salt took the fields in the summer, you heard them say it at the Ring."

"What does the Eldest say?"

The woman in the white coat looked into her soup.

"She says nothing can cross the mountain before April," she said. "And by April it will be over, one way or the other."

"The Erlental's council will break the ban, if anyone can come. I'm to tell you that."

The widow had come up from the town with Anke.

She sat on the bench by the door with her big hands on her knees, listening.

"Two chutes left," she said, before I could ask. "The rest of the gallery's roofed."

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