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A mysterious curse befell Lisshardra Valley causing the people unbearable pain at the slightest contact of skin-to-skin. One day, Aya the village herbalist accidentally brushes hands with a traveling storyteller and discovers she is immune—but only to this man's touch. Together, guided by Aya's dream visions, this mismatched pair embarks on a quest to cure the rest of the world’s misery.
Publisher: Sasoriza Books
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Genres:
Tropes: Evolving Powers, Fellowship, Fish Out of Water, Found Family, Lost Civilization, Magical Disaster, Quest
Word Count: 73250
Setting: other world
Languages Available: English
Tropes: Evolving Powers, Fellowship, Fish Out of Water, Found Family, Lost Civilization, Magical Disaster, Quest
Word Count: 73250
Setting: other world
Languages Available: English
A mother should be able to embrace her own newborn child without the blight flaring up. What if she’s wrong? Aya thought as she approached the cottage. What if the midwife’s optimism was foolish hope? What if this and every pregnancy was doomed?
Funeral bells ringing up from the valley floor carried on the spring breeze. An infant had died of weakness. Aya had given balms, salves, and herbal tisanes to the parents for the past several weeks to no avail.
READ MOREMourners wailed grief in eerie harmony with songbirds chirping blissfully in the meadow’s trees. Bells and drums of the funeral procession were muted by the high-pitched ringing that constantly whistled deep inside Aya’s ears—a minor side-effect of the blight shared by all. Since that night when the blight fell like a thunderclap, everyone in Lisshardra Valley endured the same constant ringing in their ears, day and night, young or old. Now, four months later, she could hardly remember that it was not always this way.
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