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 Fifty-One Souls and Skin

Chapter Fifty-one

Souls and Skin

Twenty-one years ago

The infant boy’s cry filled the Horishi’s home just as Toshio’s month-old daughter’s wail had done earlier that day. When Toshio laid Hana over the Horishi’s table, he had not given a single thought to how she would feel when her fate was carved into her small body. His blinding focus from the moment she was born had been to give her a soul. But when the first of countless needles pierced his little girl’s skin and made her cry, Hana’s pain became his own. That’s how he knew that the mother of the crying boy was suffering too. But he also knew that her pain far exceeded his. And that it was all his fault.