Chapter 21
EVERYTHING THAT had happened over the last months suddenly made sense.
This machine was what the Guentherite order had been trying to recreate. This was what the iron was for.
And this was why they wanted control of Saardam, why they were building the strange thing in the harbour, and similar things all along the river, and why they needed to get rid of a church that didn’t allow its followers to practice magic.
While she had been talking to Octavio, several things had happened. The young men whose task it was to make use of the distraction to go to the platform had arrived there. On the platform, the prisoners were too far away from Johanna and the group to hear what had been said, and they couldn’t see the water because the mayor’s house was in the way. They were confused
