Reborn as the Prince the Witch Stabbed, I Bought Her Off the Pyre novel · Chapter 45 of 64
Chapter 45: The Gallery
"Tonight?" I said.
"Tonight, if you want it." She knocked the dust out of her eyebrows. "I'd wait for light, boy. The horses would."
We loaded by lantern all night.
By dawn twelve wagons stood in the lodge yard on runners for the snow, with the whole ice house in them under straw.
The mutton went in the first four, then the fish in barrels, then the cheese, the butter and the apples.
Lotte packed every load herself and laid her hands flat on each one before the tarpaulin went over it.
"That'll keep it cold to the far side," she said. "Further, if I ride on top."
The healer climbed up beside the first driver with her bag on her knees.
Gerd held my horse's head while I got up.
"Somebody has to stay and write to the king," he said. "And somebody has to stop the cook following you."
We reached the Hollow Cross at noon.
The old stone cross stood where it always had, at the foot of the pass, buried in snow to its arms.
Above it, where the salt road used to climb into the first chute, there was a black mouth in the mountain.
It was as tall as two wagons and as wide as one, cut square into the gray rock.
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