The Loom of Starweave Village: A Tapestry of Whispers

The starlight is fading, leaving rents in the indigo night above Starweave Village. Crops wither, magic sputters, and a creeping unease settles over the valley. In this village nestled amongst whispering willows, the villagers weave not just cloth, but the very fabric of their cosmos. Each thread, imbued with intention, holds the celestial dance of stars in place. Now, those threads are unraveling.

Seventeen-year-old Nessa Spindlewood, an orphan raised by the village weaver, feels the starlight’s plea in the tug of her threads. She can weave a sparrow’s flight and feel the echo in the sky, stitch a crescent moon and watch it pulse with celestial light. But mending the heavens? That's a tapestry beyond imagining.

Guided by the cryptic riddles of Crimble Thorne, a storyteller whose face is a roadmap of time and tales, Nessa embarks on a desperate quest. Their cantankerous companion? Jibber, Nessa’s sentient loom, a creaking collaborator demanding celestial silk and dreaming of tapestries that would make the stars themselves envious.

Their first clue leads them to the shunned Whispering Woods, where amidst ancient trees and eerie silence, they discover Moonwhisper Mushrooms, holding the essence of forgotten stories – stories that whisper of mending the heavens. With luminescent dust woven into their threads, they follow the next riddle to the fractured Skyfisher Isles, once vibrant with the clack of looms, now silenced by a generations-old feud.

Here, Nessa’s gift blossoms. She weaves not just threads, but visions, mending the frayed edges of a broken community with tapestries of empathy. But time is running out. As the void in the sky expands, draining the world’s magic, their quest leads them to the heart of a celestial storm, a tumultuous realm of swirling nebulae and crackling energy.

Within the storm, they find the storm weavers, not as monsters, but as beings lost in a tempest of their own making. Nessa realizes the sky isn’t just thread and starlight; it's a tapestry of stories, emotions, and interconnectedness. With Jibber translating the storm's turbulent whispers and Crimble weaving tales of forgotten harmony, they embark on the ultimate act of creation.

The final tapestry isn't woven by Nessa alone, but by a chorus of reconnected communities, their collective intention radiating outwards, mending

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Release date

Ebook: December 16, 2024