Opening Threads

Before the story begins, the cosmos makes its introductions.

These first two pieces, the author’s Foreword and the narrative Prologue, serve as both compass and threshold. Read them to understand where the Cycle begins… and why it must.

Bright blue glowing ring with swirling lines floating in space against a star-filled background.

The First Voice speaks.
Before the Loom. Before the Weave. An echo emerges from the dark. Invocation, intention, and the start of the Cycle.

LOOM Foreword

Two figures, a woman and a man, stand in a forest of burning trees with flames and smoke, under a starry night sky.

What burned was never local.
The Silkweave flared, and the Pattern flinched across uncounted Alwhens.

LOOM Prologue