Reborn as the Prince the Witch Stabbed, I Bought Her Off the Pyre novel · Chapter 61 of 64
Chapter 61: What Machines Are For
"It's never killed anyone," I said.
Anke had read it over my shoulder.
"It's been fired at men. She's right about that." She handed the letter back. "And I made it."
The king's envoy rode in from Kronhal two days later to settle the terms of the treaty.
He was a lean lord with a soldier's back, who had served Ottmar's father and didn't like me.
The councils sent the woman in the white coat and the head of the Erlental's council.
They all sat down at the long table in the lodge hall, with the bread and the beer.
The cook glared at anyone who put a cup down on her clean wood.
"The crown will sign a treaty," the king's envoy said. "On two conditions."
"The crown keeps the right to build engines of war, for its own defense."
"And the crown keeps its guns."
"Against whom?" said the woman in the white coat.
"Against anyone who comes."
"Then the councils have a condition too," said the head of the Erlental's council.
"No engine from Aldmark ever comes over the mountain. No boilers, no wheels, no rails past the border stone."
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