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Book Information:
Genre: Fantasy
Author: Sean Russell
Name: Gatherer of Clouds
Series: Book two of a Duology
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Gatherer
of Clouds
BY Sean
Russell

One
The wind known as the Nagana blew in its season, turning the capital of the province of Seh into a city of whispers
and sighs. The near empty avenues succumbed to the Nagana’s invasion as it wound its way among the uninhabited
residences, wrenching at shutters and filling the streets with the echoes of the city’s former life—before the plague
had swept the north. Rhojo-ma was a city half full of vibrant northerners and half full of the ghosts of the plague dead;
only a decade gone, they walked in living memory still.

In the late afternoon the Nagana came out of the north to haunt the city with the voices of its past, and the people in
the streets hurried on their way, attempting to ignore the sounds. No family had been untouched by the plague and
the whispering of ghosts spoke to everyone.

By the curb of a lesser avenue, on the low wall of a bridge that arced over the canal, sat a Neophyte Botahist monk.
Apparently oblivious to the life of the city, he chanted—a low, barely melodic sound that mingled with the wind
echoing down an empty stone stairwell and off a nearby wall.

If he was unaware of the city around him, it could be said that the city, or at least those who walked its streets, were
barely more aware of him. Their only acknowledgment, the reflex action of a sign to Botahara as they passed, but few
turned their gaze to look for the source of the chant. A monk sitting by his alms cup was as common a sight as a river
man at his oar.

A coin rattled dully into the monk’s leather cup and he gave a quick double bow, not interrupting his chant or looking
up to see who his benefactor might be.

Without warning the already cool air turned colder and the wind died to a calm. The whispering of ghosts fell