Audio: "Arcana"

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Music: Guitar 1 & 4 stems from "A Talk with George" by Jonathan Coulton, licensed under Creative Commons.

I didn't decide on the slightly Gallic pronunciation of "Genem" until just before recording this. In my first draft of the story, the protagonist was a man named "Hemming;" when I changed the character to a woman, the name seemed inappropriate, and I switched it to "Genim" until I realized that, too, was telegraphing a bit too much.

(Yeah, I do tend to obsess about names. Remind me to tell you about Murder One sometime...)

Anyway, they are in New Orleans. You're lucky I was too lazy to go searching the web for public domain zydeco music.