Reborn as the Prince the Witch Stabbed, I Bought Her Off the Pyre novel · Chapter 42 of 64
Chapter 42: No Secrets in This House
A man has no voice in the Ring, so I stood outside the stones with my mouth shut.
Anke didn't.
"Ask him why he wants your pass open," she called across the circle.
"My husband's cousin wants a war on your valleys. He told us so in June."
The Eldest folded the letter and put it back in her book.
"We know what he wants," she said. "We know what your husband wants too."
"Both of them want our mountain open. Neither of them is getting it."
The snow came down on the pass five weeks later, in the middle of November, and shut it for the winter.
The councils' ban had shut it already.
On the first fine morning I took two roofers down to Anke's forge to mend the hole a spark had made.
I went up the ladder first to look.
The beams over the hearth were burned black along their whole length, from underneath, evenly.
Nothing fell on them, and nothing had flared up into them.
The heat had come up off the floor of the forge all at once, from the place where Anke stood to work.
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