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 Forty-Two The Night Market

Chapter Forty-two

The Night Market

Four anchors, as large as houses, hooked into the ground, one in each corner of the grassy field. The ropes attached to them disappeared into the night sky. Muffled voices and the clinking and clanking that came with a market coming to life seeped through the starless sky. Keishin looked up, straining to see through the thick soup of clouds. “How do we get up there? And notice how I did not bother to question how it was even possible for a market to be set up in the sky. I expect that I wouldn’t understand any explanation you gave me anyway.”

“We get up by climbing ladders. And the answer to the question you didn’t ask but, deep inside, really want to know the answer to is ‘crows.’?”