And Yet the Sparrow Moves

Margopy Sparrow, a poor country girl, lands a job as a mail carrier at a private postal service called ‘Lily Express,’ driven by financial desperation.

“Guideline number seventeen for new mail carriers.

Don’t be too startled when you see a ghost.

A mail carrier’s extreme reaction might hurt the ghost’s feelings……?

Lily! Are you messing with me right now?”

What she’d assumed was an ordinary post office turned out to be a very special delivery company that handled only the belongings of the dead.

Roaming the wilderness alongside the spirits clinging to those keepsakes, Margopy eventually becomes the target of a gang of bandits, and a man appears before her just as things turn desperate.

“Since when does a Lily Express mail carrier double as a tree planter?”

His name is Froy Ratel… once Margopy’s lover. A former high-ranking officer turned the Empire’s most wanted, he appoints himself her bodyguard and starts following her with relentless persistence……