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Good evening. Welcome to send me to sleep, the world's sleepiest podcast.

I'm your host, Andrew. I'm here to help calm your mind and send you into a peaceful night's sleep.

Tonight I'll be reading chapters three to five of The Shadow Witch by Gertrude Crownfield.

So let your eyes fall heavy and your breath soften as we settle in for a peaceful night's sleep.

Chapter three. In the land of the fire fairies, great happiness rained. Only a little while before

Prince Radiance had brought the lovely Princess White Flame safely home to her father. After many

perilous and strange adventures, and King Red Flame had rewarded the noble Prince with his daughters

hand. In the King's marvellous palace, the Palace of Burning Coles, their fairy wedding had been

celebrated without bursts of joy and exaltation. In the very heart of the King's dominion stood the Palace

perfect in beauty from its dazzling foundations to its topmost flaming turret. Brightness

unquenchable shone from its walls. Warm than the spirit of friendliness streamed from its windows

and wide flung golden doors. Beyond it, in the garden of the Princess, the exquisite flame roses

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