The Crown Princess Faked Her Death and Married the Mercenary King novel · Chapter 19 of 24
Chapter 19: The Tent
The Crown's army surrendered by noon.
Six thousand men sat down in the gorge road with their spears in a heap, and the Company walked among them collecting swords.
The command tent stood at the foot of the pass, a big black canvas with the heron on the flap.
Ha-rin sent everyone out of it.
She sent out the bonesetter, who had already pulled the bolt and stitched the hole.
She sent out Gwang-ho, who wanted to report.
She sent out Bong-sun, who left a tub of hot water and a heap of clean cloth.
"Eat something, both of you," Bong-sun said, in the tone of a general.
Then she tied the tent flap shut from inside.
Do-gyeom sat on the edge of the camp cot with his coat off and his left arm in a sling.
He was dusty and stinking of smoke, and there was dried blood in the stubble at his jaw.
She had never wanted anyone so much in her life.
"Take off the rest," she said.
"I'm wounded."
"Not there."
A short laugh jolted out of him.
He undressed one-handed, awkwardly, until she stepped in and helped.
She peeled the stiff shirt away from the bandage, and wrung out a cloth in the tub, and started to wash him.
She wiped the soot off his face, and the blood off his neck, and his chest, and the great scarred slope of his shoulder.
He sat very still under her hands.
"You climbed a cliff with a hole in your arm," she said.
"The hole came later."
"If you'd been a second late..."
"I wasn't."
Her voice broke, and she wiped his shoulder harder than she needed to.
"I saw you on the map as a number all week. Out there you were not a number once."
He caught her wrist.
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