The Cafe at the End of Lantern Lane
Chapter 14 · free to read
Riku pushed. Hana knocked. They had four hours and no plan beyond knocking.
Twelve houses said yes. Then twenty. Then all of them, because Granny Fumi was already halfway up the lane and shouting.
The lane had not carried a procession in a hundred years.
A lit lantern of your own. That was the whole trick, and it had been the whole trick for a hundred years.
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