Dad's Coal Pit Hid a Dungeon, Now Guilds Pay Me to Enter novel · Chapter 32 of 32
Chapter 32: The Door
Da-hae came into the lamp house at ten to six on Saturday morning with a long roll of linen under her arm.
There was snow on her shoulders.
She shut the door with her foot.
It was the sixth of February, and the stove had been lit since four.
Seok-hyun sat at the counter with the exercise book open at the day's page and a bowl of Sun-ja's stew going cold at his elbow.
He looked up and saw her face.
She was not frightened.
She had the look she wore when she had found the one place in a ceiling that would hold.
"I've been to the Round Room every night since the sixteenth," she said. "You didn't ask where."
"I knew you were down there. The heavy man said you took a ruler."
"I took three." She laid the roll across the counter and pushed the bowl aside to make room. "I wanted it exact."
"Every channel, every niche, to the finger."
She untied the cord and unrolled it.
The linen lay flat from one end of the counter to the other, and he stood to look.
It was a chart of the Taebaek range in her neat stubborn hand, in black ink, with the distances written in the margin.
Eleven channels ran in from the edges to a ring at the center.
At the end of each stood a small circle.
She had labeled every one.
Hwangji, with a dot of blue ink at the mouth.
Cheoram, twelve kilometers, with a smaller dot beside it.
Jangseong, nineteen.
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