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Audrey Valencia

The Patchwork Inn

The Whispering Woods hum with a symphony only Calla Stitchweave can hear—a melody of rustling leaves, murmuring streams, and echoes of forgotten lullabies.  Calla, inheritor of the Patchwork Inn, a place woven from borrowed realities, finds its magic fading. The inn’s heart, a magical quilt, is fraying, mirroring the decay spreading through the borrowed rooms, threatening to unravel the very fabric of existence.
Calla’s inheritance is more than just an inn; it's the responsibility to mend a fracturing world.  Guided by the quilt’s frayed threads, she journeys into the Whispering Woods, a realm of forgotten pacts and whispered secrets.  She’s joined by an unlikely fellowship: Fenwick, a bard haunted by a melody he can’t grasp; Mina, a tailor whose touch weaves comfort from scraps of cloth; and Thread, a cryptic emerald-eyed cat, guardian of the inn’s deepest mysteries.
Their path leads them through groves of memory-trees whispering forgotten stories and glades where reality bends, revealing glimpses into the borrowed worlds.  They encounter spectral travelers, their wounds mirroring the inn’s decay, and mischievous pixies guarding secrets of the past.  With each encounter, they uncover fragments of the forgotten seamstress who wove the worlds, a weaver burdened by loneliness and despair, her unraveling the source of the inn’s decline.
As the world around them fractures, Fenwick’s melody takes shape, revealed as the seamstress’s lost lullaby of creation, holding the power to soothe a broken world. Mina discovers her empathy isn't limited to cloth and thread, but a power to weave connections between shattered realities.  Calla, facing her own fears, realizes the inn isn't just about mending rooms, but mending souls.
Their journey culminates in a confrontation with the seamstress, not a battle of magic, but an offering of empathy. Fenwick’s lullaby calms the chaotic energies, Mina weaves a cloak of comfort from shared regrets, and Calla offers not pity, but understanding. In the heart of the unraveling, the act of sharing, of connecting through stories and empathy, becomes the ultimate act of mending.  Can their combined strength restore the magic of the Patchwork Inn and save a world on the brink of unraveling, or will they be lost amongst the frayed threads of a broken reality? Step into the Whispering Woods and discover the

131 printed pages
Original publication
2024
Publication year
2024
Publisher
PublishDrive
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