Reborn as the Prince the Witch Stabbed, I Bought Her Off the Pyre novel · Chapter 59 of 64
Chapter 59: The Gifts Charter
"No," I said.
The word went down the hall the way it had in April.
"I won't switch it off. Not by Midsummer, and not after."
The lords began to shout, and Ottmar held up his hand and let them.
When it quieted, I turned to Gerd.
He'd come down from Velde with us in the blue coat the old king had sent him.
He was carrying the iron box from my study.
He put it down on the steps of the throne and opened it.
Forty sheets of heavy paper lay inside, each with the crown's seal at the bottom.
One of them still had my big pencil letters across the back.
"These are the crown's bonds," I said. "All forty. Forty thousand marks."
"Velde will give every one of them back to the crown today."
The hall went dead quiet.
The Master of the Mint took a step out from his pillar.
"For what?" Ottmar said.
I took a folded paper out of my coat.
I'd written it on the barge, on the way down, on my knee by Anke's firebox.
It was four lines long, because the old king had said a frightened town had to be able to read it.
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