Dad's Coal Pit Hid a Dungeon, Now Guilds Pay Me to Enter novel · Chapter 21 of 32
Chapter 21: The Board, Day One
The board sat under the model of Pit Nine.
The painted blank at the end of the Number Four drift hung in its glass case just above the Director's head.
Seok-hyun saw it from the doorway of the Coal Museum's long hall at five to ten on Wednesday and could not stop seeing it.
Someone had set five chairs on a plywood dais and draped a green cloth over a table.
The model sat on its trestle behind them, and the lamps in the display cases had been left lit.
There were four hundred folding chairs in the hall, and the town had filled them by nine.
The five old miners had the front row, with their oxygen bottles on a rolling rack that the clinic nurse had pushed over herself.
Sun-ja sat beside them with the exercise book of council seats and the burial society's ledger on her knees.
Da-hae sat in the second row with her case on her lap, and the badge was pinned outside her windbreaker where everyone could see it.
On the left side, in the VIP seats, the master of Daewon sat alone with his coat folded beside him.
He did not look at the table where his own guild's legal office sat.
A woman from that office stood at the objector's table in a navy suit with a laptop.
Seok-hyun counted the board.
The Director sat in the center in his gray overcoat, with his hat on the table.
On his right sat a woman of sixty-five with a law professor's severe gray bun.
Beside her sat a heavy man who ran the Association's ember desk in Seoul.
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