They Left the Healer to Die Below, So I Came Back Up With the Monster's Heart novel · Chapter 15 of 24

Chapter 15: The Glove

He did it at the first bell, in front of the whole morning hall.

The parties were at the long tables eating bread before they went down, and the Golds had just taken their seats on the dais.

Coppens sat in the middle with his hand on his chest.

He had a new black glove on his right hand.

I stood at the back with Daan and the cordless healers.

Griet stood beside me in her infirmary apron, because Joris had sent for her at dawn.

Joris walked up the middle of the hall with the rail of bed seven in his hands.

He didn't go to his seat at the end of the Gold table.

He stopped below the dais and turned around to face the benches.

"Five years ago my sister died in bed seven in our infirmary," he said.

The hall went quiet.

"Before she died she cut four words into the rail of her bed with a hairpin."

He held the rail up over his head and turned it so the front benches could see the underside.

"HIS HAND IS WARM," he read out. "That's what she wrote."

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