title: Sleeping, Sinning, Falling
author:  Mutsuo Takahashi 
description: Text: English (translation)<br> Original Language: Japanese
zlib_text: Shattered Dreams
  
  Ally Vance & Faith Ryan
  
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  Copyright © 2021 by Ally Vance & Faith Ryan
  
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  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are
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  The Japanese name Kage (kah-gay) literally translates to "shadow" in the
  Japanese language.
  
  The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life
  drift past him like a dream, and the traces of his memory fade from time like
  smoke in air, or ripples on a stream.
  
  —Dante Alighieri, _Inferno_
  
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