Reborn as the Prince the Witch Stabbed, I Bought Her Off the Pyre novel · Chapter 39 of 64
Chapter 39: The Names
"If the engine stops, the mine floods," I said. "In a month, the water's back at the top of the shaft."
"I know," the woman in the white coat said. "So does she."
"Then she knows she's asking Velde to die."
"She knows exactly what she's asking," the woman said. "She always does."
On the twenty-eighth of August the king came up the valley road to read the names, as he had sworn to do every year.
He brought the Master of the Mint, twenty guards and a black stick with a silver head that he hadn't had last year.
He got down from his horse slowly, and Gerd went to hold his stirrup without being asked.
"Don't fuss, Holler," the king said, and leaned on him all the way to the stone.
He read the nineteen names aloud in front of the town, the way he had a year ago.
His voice still carried, but he had to stop twice to get his breath.
Afterwards I walked him up the hill to the engine, because he asked to see it.
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