Reborn as the Prince the Witch Stabbed, I Bought Her Off the Pyre novel · Chapter 52 of 64

Chapter 52: The King at Velde

Of course he knew.

I thought of the glazier in the palace gallery with his basket of broken panes.

I thought of the high ringing behind the nursery doors.

"His daughter," Anke said beside me, very low.

"He's known since August," I said. "Since the first time she cried."

The Eldest inclined her head to us both, and walked away to her house.

The king came north in the middle of April, the moment the valley road was dry.

He came to meet the councils, because for the first time in three hundred years they were coming to meet him.

He was waiting on the square at Velde when they walked out of the mountain.

The woman in the white coat came first, down the salt road from the gallery, with the head of the Erlental's council beside her.

Six more council women walked behind them in their good cloaks.

The whole town stood along the road to watch them come in.

Nobody threw anything, and nobody called out.

The alewife had told them she'd break the head of anyone who did.

The king stood by the stone of names with his silver-headed stick, and when they reached him he took his hat off.

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