La petite roque

Médéric Rompel, a former soldier now working as the village postman, walks the winding country road that links the hamlet of Roüy‑le‑Tors with Carvelin each dawn. The path snakes past a bubbling brook, towering willows, and a dense, moss‑covered forest owned by the local mayor. His blue uniform and sturdy hazel staff have become as familiar to the landscape as the rustling leaves. The rhythm of his rounds feels as predictable as the sunrise.

On one mist‑laden morning he discovers a small, naked child lying on the moss, a pale handkerchief covering her face and a faint smear of blood on her leg. The shock of finding a dead girl turns his routine delivery into a baffling mystery, and he hesitates between preserving the scene and rushing to the mayor’s house with the strange objects he had already gathered—a child’s knife and a thimble. The forest seems to close in, urging him to untangle the quiet village’s hidden secrets. Listeners are invited to follow Médéric’s careful search for clues that could reveal how an ordinary community is shaken by an unsolved tragedy.