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on: September 29, 2021, 05:46:36 AM
PodCastle 698: Solace of the Keeper

Author: Woody Dismukes
Narrator: Roberto Suarez
Host: Summer Fletcher
Audio Producer: Peter Behravesh

PodCastle 698: Solace of the Keeper is a PodCastle original.

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Show Notes
Rated PG-13



If you watch the wind for long enough, you may find yourself a wisp. And though we call ourselves the Keepers, not even we can keep what is not there.

We tell the living that we keep the dead, but only because that is what they want to tell themselves. Some of us believe it too, perhaps even many. Yet the most disciplined of us know this is not the case. It is the living that are kept from the dead.

I first arrived at the monastery under these same delusions, and in no hurry to upturn my faiths. I came to find solace, though not from what you think, for there are far worse punishments than exile among the dead. I took solace from my peers — I never liked them much — and solace from my future. I was destined to be damned, either as an urchin of the streets or an urchin of the graves. And so, by my life of petty crime, it was chosen for me that I should perish as the latter.




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