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 Fifteen

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Hana’s eyes watered, but she didn’t dare to blink. She feared her thoughts would wander from the full moon quivering in the fusuma’s painted lake and escape. She knew exactly where they would go. The second they slipped from her, they would dart away and find Keishin behind the sliding cloth panel, lying on the Horishi’s table, making a cruel trade so that she could find her mother.

Hot tears stung her eyes. Hana blinked. A small boat drifted over the lake and scattered the moon’s reflection, leaving Hana with nothing to stare at except the truth: Though it was the Horishi’s hand that gripped the nomi, it was she who was stabbing it into Keishin’s skin. She cursed under her breath and pushed the fusuma open. “Stop!”