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Book Information:
Genre: Epic Fantasy
Author: Chris Wooding
Name: Weavers of Saramyr
Series: Book 1 of The Braided Path
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Weavers of Saramyr

By Chris Wooding

One
Kaiku was twenty harvests of age the first time she died. There was no memory of how she had come to
this . place. Recollection evaded her, made slippery by ecstasy, the sensation of tranquillity that soaked
every fibre of her body. And the sights, oh, such sights as would have made her weep if she could. The
world to her was a golden shimmer, millions upon millions of tiny threads crowding her gaze, shifting,
waving. They tugged and teased her gently, wafting her unhurriedly onward towards some unseen
destination. Once they parted to delineate a shape that slid through them, a distant glimpse of something
vast and wondrous, like the whales she used to watch off the coast at Mishani’s summer house. She tried
to catch it with her eye, but it was gone in a moment, and the tapestry had sewn shut behind it.

These are the Fields of Omecha, she thought. Yet how could that be so? She had not passed through
the Gate yet, not met the guardian Yoru, the laughing, pot-bellied dwarf with his red skin and piggy tusks
and ears, carrying the endless jug of wine given to him by Isisya to ease his long vigil. No, not the Fields,
then; merely the approach to the Gate, the soft path to the entrance of the realm of the blessed dead.

She felt no remorse or sorrow. She was full of such harmony that she had space in her heart for nothing
else. She thought she might burst from the wonder of the golden, glittering world she drifted through. This
was what the monks strived for when they crossed their legs and sat for years upon a pillar in
contemplation; this was what the old addicts in their smokehouses sought when they sucked on their
pipes of burnt amaxa root. This was completeness.

But suddenly there was a wrench, a terrible burning in her breast. She felt a shudder through the
shimmering fibres that caressed her, felt them draw back… and then, appallingly, she was being pulled
away, down, back to where she had come from. She thought she saw the outline of the Gate in the
distance, and Yoru laughing and raising his jug in farewell to her. She wanted to scream, but she had no