PC691: The Healer of Branford

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PodCastle 691: The Healer of Branford

Author: C. A. Barrett
Narrator: Kat Kourbeti
Host: Summer Fletcher
Audio Producer: Peter Behravesh

PodCastle 691: The Healer of Branford is a PodCastle original.

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Content warning for animal cruelty.

Show Notes
Rated PG-13


After twenty years, Maud decided that it was safe to return to her hometown. She had never personally known a cat to live to the age of twenty, and even if someone had taken one inside and cosseted it into old age it would be too feeble to recognize her now. So Maud tied a scarf over her aching face and found a straight walking-stick. She went up to Branford by the old cobbled road. Her path rose alongside ample hills of heath spangled with flowers, bright purple and yellow reminders of the magic flowing underneath the soil. She saw a distant flock of birds wheeling in the air, and felt just as light. Branford, City of Magic-on-the-Moor, would be home again. Branford would take away her pain.

She was almost at the city gate when a small orange tabby-cat sprang up from his napping. He leaped to the top of a hitching-post and stared at her, blinked twice, then cried out “Maud Coffand! Maud Coffand, the cats know what you did!”


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