Welcome to Stories from Among the Stars.

You're listening to The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean, narrated by Katie Eric.

Chapter 30, happily never after.

Ten months ago.

The prince heard a voice and thought it was familiar.

He advanced toward it, and as he approached, Rapunzel recognized him, and crying, threw her arms around his neck.

The brother's grim, Rapunzel.

It had been so incredibly long since something had gone right.

Devon hummed happily all the way from Eastley to Southampton, was still humming when she caught a

straightforward train to Brighton with Kai in tow. She endured a call from Ramsey at noon

railing about, obvious victims left in hotel bathrooms, and police who sought a woman of her

description. She promised to do better and shrugged it off. They were already on the move.

What was the fuss? I don't like travelling. Kai had scarcely looked up from Mario,

preferring to hide himself in the safety of the game, but he'd put the console down, long enough

to frown out of the window. Where are we going now? To the seaside.

Salem would have wanted to go to the seaside, she thought disconnectedly. Shells and sand.

You'll like it. Even better than where we were before. He pulled a four-year-old's pout and said in an old man's voice,

Can I have a lager? I miss having a lager with me lunch. Um, no. Less than an hour later, Brighton rolled

into sights with its mix of souvenir shops and authentically archaic buildings.

The tail end of February was not a popular time to visit,

and the streets were eased of the burdensome tourists.

She paid an exorbitant amount of money for a hotel room,

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