Reborn as the Prince the Witch Stabbed, I Bought Her Off the Pyre novel · Chapter 50 of 64

Chapter 50: What I Drink

Anke's POV

I'd woken up on fire.

That was the only way I knew to say it afterwards.

I'd been dreaming of nothing, and then my whole body was a forge with the bellows going, and the blanket was smoking under my hands.

I got out of bed without waking him.

I went down to the river, because it was the only thing in the Erlental bigger than me.

The cold of it went up my legs.

Then I put my arms in, and the river began to boil.

I stood there with the steam in my face and let it go out of me into the water.

It didn't stop.

It always stopped, in the quench pit at Velde, after a while.

This went on and on, and the river kept taking it, and still more came.

I thought about the book with its little stars.

I thought about the water I'd drunk at the forge every day for nearly two years, out of the river, out of the engine.

If I stopped drinking it, maybe this would stop growing.

I'd thought about that all day.

And I'd thought about the scaffold in Kronhal, and the faces in the crowd, and how they stepped back before they laughed.

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