The Flame Keeper
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Wallace only knows the shabby restaurant he works at to be his home. His life is shrouded in mystery, questions about his past occasionally troubling him, but he accepts it as he wishes to live a simple life. After all, that's all he knows. But when a stranger arrives at the restaurant demanding that he leave immediately, his little world opens into something extraordinary.
He soon embarks on a journey of self-discovery, navigating through the harsh realities of the big cities, and finds himself juggling his emotions and the outside world whose secrets will not wait for him.
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