Torche Tombante
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Audiobook – Chapter 01 – Shadow’s Shadow
The soft click of the door latch brought Askatla the silence she had craved since the start of a disastrous dinner to which she greatly regretted having accepted her father’s invitation, a dinner at which her father had never appeared. Releasing a small sigh, she resignedly tapped across the library, around the immense mahogany desk…
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Chapter 23 – Voreinader
The sallow stone floors and rough arched ceilings gave off a catacombic air which was comically incongruous with the brilliantly lit and decorated furnishings of the billeterie, where the floors were suddenly covered in mosaics and the pillars in finely sculpted sconces. He continued after checking his coat and hat and picking up a pair…
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Chapter 22 – 颸 Suzushiikaze
The cool wine breeze set a few stray hairs dancing around the periphery of Askatla’s vision as she gazed absently past her cousin at the pond separating the front manor and its hillside vineyards from the rear orchards. A pair of mules laden with hundred kilo baskets of apples and pears picked their way along…