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 Thirty-One The Message

Chapter Thirty-one

The Message

Hana leaned against Keishin’s shoulder, hoping that if her eyes were closed, her last fifteen minutes inside a convenience store that wasn’t real would feel longer. She refused to spend any of it imagining what was going to happen when it was over. She needed every second of it to rewrite a memory of her own. Here, in the instant-noodle aisle of a store with too many colors and bright lights, was where she should have met Keishin for the first time, not in a pawnshop littered with broken glass. Here, they might have had the chance to be more than just two strangers clinging to each other for safety and warmth. It made her think of her father’s story about how the pawned birds could reset time if they escaped. This, she thought, would be the moment she would fly straight back to if, like the birds, she could break free.

Paper rustled by her ear. Hana jolted up, nearly knocking Keishin’s coffee cup from his hand.