A Kiss of Steel and Shadows

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This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. The morning mist clung to the cobblestones of Valenhall like ghostly fingers, reluctant to release their grip on the ancient city. Seraphina Blackthorne pulled her woolen cloak tighter around her shoulders as she navigated the narrow alleyways toward her forge. The weight of her leather satchel, heavy with tools and unfinished projects, reminded her of the work that awaited her in the dim hours before dawn. At nineteen, Seraphina had already earned a reputation that most smiths twice her age would envy. Her delicate hands, scarred from years of working with fire and metal, could craft blades that sang with an otherworldly resonance. The nobles of Valenhall whispered that her steel held magic, though Seraphina herself remained skeptical of such claims. She knew only the rhythm of hammer against anvil, the dance of flame and iron, and the satisfaction of creating something beautiful and deadly from raw materials. The forge stood at the end of Ember Lane, a modest stone building that had belonged to her father before his untimely death three years prior. The familiar scent of coal and metal shavings greeted her as she unlocked the heavy oak door. Inside, the forge waited like a sleeping dragon, its cold hearth ready to roar back to life at her command. Seraphina had barely begun stoking the coals when a shadow fell across her doorway. She looked up to find a figure silhouetted against the pale morning light, tall and imposing despite the casual way he leaned against her doorframe. The stranger wore a dark traveling cloak that seemed to absorb the light around it, and when he stepped forward into her workshop, she caught her first glimpse of his face. Duration - 37m. Author - Elara von Schwarza. Narrator - Digital Voice Madison G. Published Date - Thursday, 23 January 2025. Copyright - © 2025 Elara von Schwarza ©.

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English