Chosen Of The Tapestry: The Fralsningdor Chronicles: Book I – Cheever, Laura

Bacon and fresh jam. Crisp, clean linens and the scent of a bitter, homemade, herbal ointment that the Looms slathered liberally on her every small cut and scraped knee. Had she scraped her knees again? Climbing a tree, perhaps? It was hard to tell. Her right leg felt numb.

That didn’t bode well for her tree-climbing theory. Sound came next. Dozens of women chattering. The Looms, of course. Pots and pans clanked down the hallway, and Fran stretched, eyes still closed. She had better get to her chores soon, or she’d meet the business end of Indigo Loom Ka’ara’s wooden spoon. Yet again. But she was so warm and comfortable, and the familiar feel of the abbey’s coarsely woven wool blankets shifted against her skin.

What day was it? Seventh day? It was too chattery down the hall for it to be First day. Fran raised her hands to her eyes and rubbed, noticing as she did so that they felt crusty with salt and sleep. “She’s awake.” Now that was a familiar voice, but it definitely didn’t belong in her bedroom in the abbey! If White Loom Ben’net caught Fi’eren sneaking around the abbey grounds again, they’d both get a whooping.

Fi’eren’s Emph Hesh didn’t seem to mind, and believed that his mischievous nephew deserved any punishment the Weaver’s Looms felt fit to dole out for sneaking around after hours with their ward. Fran struggled to open her eyes, panicking. But the man settling down on the edge of her bed was most certainly not the gangly silversmith’s apprentice. This man was grown and strong and sure.

His crooked, masculine nose was covered in more stark freckles than the boyish version of him had had, and his dark green eyes glittered with flecks of gold, more wary and wise than his younger self had ever been. Scars littered his face and hands, evidence of years in the forge, not as a mere apprentice, but as a practiced smith in his own right.

A fresh scar, with mended skin but still colored an angry red, slashed across his right cheek. The muscles beneath his sleeves told the same story of dedicated work, and he was looking at her not like the wild teenage boy who had stolen her kisses in the woods, but like a mature man who had grown and built and stood by her side for years.

A decade of love and loss and lies came crashing back to her with that look, but the past few days remained hazy. “Fi’eren?” she croaked. Her voice sounded dry and rough, and Fi’eren motioned to someone that Fran couldn’t see. A moment later, Belle, her sweet precious girl, appeared with a glass of water.

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Used by permission. All rights reserved. First edition This book was professionally typeset on Reedsy Find out more at reedsy.com 1kitap1.com/en For my God, who inspired the Weaver, and for my husband, who inspired the king. — Soli Deo Gloria — 1kitap1.com/en Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

Genesis 2:24 1kitap1.com/en Foreword An introduction to gobbledygook, as spoken by the goblins of Fralsningdor: Fi’eren (fee-air-in) born of light Da’ahteach (dah-ah-teach) chosen of the pattern Enesh (eh-nesh) prince Ene’esha (en-a-esh-ah) princess Di’isha (dih-ish-ah) father Mi’isha (mih-ish-ah) mother Noma’ai (nome-ah-i) thank you Rachon (rach-on) son Rema (rem-ah) daughter Pachen (pach-en) brother Peshni (pesh-nee) sister Emph (emf) uncle Empha (emf-ah) aunt Resh (resh) courage Faelei (fay-lee) midsummer moon 1kitap1.com/en Prologue Melnda A discordant clash of goblin silver and elven steel rang through the hallways of Rosh Manth.

The royal fortress was cold, sour with the smell of sweat and fear, and slick with puddles of blood in various shades of red and brown. Magical blood. Needlessly spilled to satisfy the Itheireelan elves’ endless lust for power. It was dark, well past the second hour when the ambush began, and no one had had the time or the wherewithal to light a lantern or a fire before the carnage commenced.

Only the pale light of the full moon trickling in through the lofty windows offered any illumination with which to see.

This is a short excerpt from the opening of “Chosen of the Tapestry: The Fralsningdor Chronicles: Book I” by Cheever, Laura, quoted for review and introduction purposes. All rights belong to the copyright holders.

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Table of Contents

• Page 7: Foreword
• Page 11: Prologue
• Page 15: Chapter 1
• Page 22: Chapter 2
• Page 30: Chapter 3
• Page 40: Chapter 4
• Page 50: Chapter 5
• Page 56: Chapter 6
• Page 63: Chapter 7
• Page 72: Chapter 8
• Page 82: Chapter 9
• Page 89: Chapter 10
• Page 96: Chapter 11
• Page 103: Chapter 12
• Page 109: Chapter 13
• Page 114: Chapter 14
• Page 122: Chapter 15
• Page 130: Chapter 16
• Page 136: Chapter 17
• Page 142: Chapter 18
• Page 155: Chapter 19
• Page 164: Chapter 20
• Page 172: Chapter 21
• Page 182: Chapter 22
• Page 195: Chapter 23
• Page 202: Chapter 24
• Page 212: Chapter 25
• Page 218: Chapter 26
• Page 226: Chapter 27
• Page 234: Chapter 28
• Page 244: Chapter 29
• Page 254: Epilogue
• Page 257: Author’s Note
• Page 261: Acknowledgments
• Page 263: About the Author
• Page 265: Also by Laura Cheever

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