Reborn as the Prince the Witch Stabbed, I Bought Her Off the Pyre novel · Chapter 20 of 64
Chapter 20: Silver Under the Water
Lorenz's POV
I was standing at the head of the mine shaft when the engine took its first breath.
The great timber beam over the shaft tipped down, slow as a church bell, and the rod went down into the dark.
Then it came up again, and forty fathoms below us, water began to move.
A minute later it came pouring out of the drain mouth below the head-frame, black and cold, and ran down the hillside into the river.
The miner's son, beside me, had tears running into his collar.
"F-forty years," he said. "My grandfather dug that drain. I never saw water in it."
The seer stood at the edge of the shaft with her eyes half closed, watching something none of us could see.
"It's going down," she said. "A hand's width already."
Three weeks later, on the first of April, the king's Master of the Mint rode up the valley road to watch my mine stay drowned.
He was a gray, dry man in a fur collar.
He brought a clerk, four of the king's guards and a set of brass scales in a box on a mule.
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