On Ayta’s seventh birthday, there came a knock on the door, and her namesake stood before her. Gran Ayta. Once a thing of myth, descended from legends. Now she seemed just a stooped old woman, but appearances can be deceiving.
Ayta’s lonely childhood was soon transformed by Gran’s fantastic stories of flight from one world to the next. From distant Siberia to the Second World of Alterran, from there to the very Land of the Dead she had come, or so she claimed. And she had returned with secrets taken from that underworld, to teach her granddaughter.
Ayta would need to come to terms with the legacy she had inherited, bearing these myths in a world which has no need for what it sees as childish things. A childish world that she knew was soon to end...
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Tales From When I Had A Face, Audio Edition Credits“Tales From When I Had A Face” was written by James Curcio, and edited by Brian Johnson.
Each episode is accompanied by an immersive soundtrack produced by James Curcio, featuring collaborating artists David Bessell, Jenn E, and P. Emerson Williams.
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