Water Moon

Water Moon

Author: Samantha Sotto Yambao Listening Length: 9h 40m

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 Eight

Lies

Keishin was not in the habit of lying, but today, half kneeling in the back room of a strange little pawnshop, in the company of its wounded owner, he made an exception. The woman whose bleeding foot was now resting on his knee would not have accepted his help otherwise. He steadied his hand, hovering a tweezer over the shard of glass stuck in her heel. “I’m going to pull it out now. Try not to move, okay?”

The woman nodded, her back stiff against the chair. “Thank you.”