Chapter 29 - Shadows of the Gate

There is a particular heat that floods the face when a whole town has decided what you are.

A woman moves through a crowd that used to be neighbors, a baby asleep against her back and a small hand in hers, offering to help and finding suspicion in every glance. This is an hour about the stories people tell to make sense of their grief — and what it costs to stand still beneath them. How much scorn can you swallow before someone smaller than you decides they've had enough?

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Narrated by Rebecca Hasler.

Set in D.W. Sheppard’s vast interconnected world where protective Gates hold back deadly monsters and treacherous flora, where safety is never guaranteed.

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