Water Moon

Water Moon

Author: Samantha Sotto Yambao Listening Length: 9h 40m
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A woman inherits a pawnshop where you can sell your regrets, and then embarks on a magical quest when a charming young physicist wanders into the shop, in this dreamlike fantasy novel. On a backstreet in Tokyo lies a pawnshop, but not everyone can find it. Most will see a cozy ramen restaurant. And only the chosen ones...

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Chapter Seven Rule Number Two

Chapter Seven

Rule Number Two

Hana stood in front of the pawnshop’s door, her fingers wrapped around its tarnished brass knob. The metal chilled her skin. She had watched countless clients walk in and out of their pawnshop, but not once had she dared to follow them outside. Her clients were not bound by the same rules as she was, and this particular rule did not require an enforcer.

What Hana had been told about the world outside the front door was something out of a tale mothers would tell their children to make them behave. She had heard that there was a time when it might have been difficult to tell the two worlds apart, but now they could not be more different. Her clients’ world was a twisting maze of blind corners and dark paths of regret. Hana had not met a single client who was not lost. Raised in a world where detours were forbidden and one’s entire life was mapped, she could not imagine a more terrifying place. To be sent to the other world was called “exile,” though Hana knew that it was just a kinder word for the truth. To linger in the world beyond the door was to be erased, until not a strand of hair, an inch of skin, or a fragment of bone remained.