Haunting Weir
Kari L. Ronning
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Haunting Weir
Haunted Weir Workings Book 1
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Three Muses Ink presents
The Haunted Weir Working Series
(Blood Lantern Available exclusively through the mailing list)
This series was written in response to very tangible demons, both real and inside, that I thought would swallow me. My response to that time of trauma and trial was to create something from all that dark energy. This book is dedicated to that: the magic and majesty of writing, storytelling and the true power it gives us when we create, read and experience something that can come from nothing but a few written words.
– Kari L. Ronning
Haunting Weir
By
Kari L. Ronning
A.M. Gagnon
Artwork by
Kari L. Ronning
The Haunted Weir Workings
Book One
Table of Contents
Prologue
Weirimen
Chapter One
The Haunting Weir
Chapter Two
Soul Lantern
Chapter Three
Umbra Sweets
Chapter Four
House on the Other Side
Chapter Five
Weaving Pit
Chapter Six
Weir Wisp Memories
Chapter Seven
Lucid
Chapter Eight
The Woods of Reaching
Chapter Nine
Deadly Forest Knight
Chapter Ten
Elf and Dryad
Chapter Eleven
Wivenguilder
Chapter Twelve
Insidious Talk
Chapter Thirteen
Uneaten Nightmares
Chapter Fourteen
Catatoran
Chapter Fifteen
Elves and Eyes
Chapter Sixteen
The Consciatosium
Chapter Seventeen
Face of Hunger
Chapter Eighteen
Elven Aid
Chapter Nineteen
Woven Weirs
Chapter Twenty
The Walking Weir
Chapter Twenty-One
Blade and Lantern
Chapter Twenty-Two
Guild
The Haunted Weir Workings will continue in Book Two:
About the Authors
Character Names and Locations Pronunciation Guide
Prologue
Weirimen
A barrier exists between your soul and pure evil. A hint of evil exists in all people, just as even the cleanest water has imperfections. Like a lake, your own inner damn keeps the majority of evil out of your soul’s waterways. Bad thoughts still happen, dark intentions, crimes against each other, but there is this device in all people known as a Haunting Weir. The Weir protects from Primary Evil, a force altogether different from everyday bad thoughts, petty ugliness and random acts of unpleasantness.
Primary evil has a face. Its voice perforates your dreams. It hums to you when you are at your lowest, comforts you with ideas of self-harm, violence against those you hate or covet, and incites the most depraved unthinkable plans, ideas, and maladies that should not otherwise exist in the world. Primary evil has a grin.
It takes the forms of demons, devils, and creatures of nightmare: things born of nothing but hate, darkness and the secretion of neglect, starvation, and hopelessness. The manifestations are vast and varied, in as many forms as any malignant cancer, born of darkness in both people and random swirling energy in a universe not fully understood. They can be dealt with as a doctor would a parasite.
When something breaches a Haunting Weir, it causes sickness, possession, unexplained harrowing acts and the Weirimen are sought out. Pillars against the darkness, they are trained as surgeons of the soul, able to root out and remove the evil that has attached itself to the light of someone’s existence. Both hunters and healers, these gifted few serve those afflicted by darkness rarely even understood. Inside everyone exists a Haunting Weir but only the Weirimen can reseal it once evil has broken through its barrier.
