Veila's Quest: Dreamweavers Series Prequel: Dreamweavers, #0

By Isa Pearl Ritchie

Veila might be the wost ever dreamcharmer, but she's on a quest to prove herself.

More than anything, Veila wants to find a sensitive – a special human who can help with the dream work, but sentives are so rare that no one has seen any in a long time. Veila seeks the support and guidance of the Priestess Tree, who only tells her to be patient.

Veila can't help but rush headfirst into trouble and soon she finds herself, and the Dreamrealm, in grave danger! Veila might have caused the mess, but she's also the only one who can save her world, before it's too late.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Isa Pearl Ritchie
• Release date: Oct 31, 2019
• ISBN: 9781393560869

Isa Pearl Ritchie

Isa Pearl Ritchie is a Wellington-based writer. As a child, she loved creating imaginary worlds. She grew up in the Waikato as a Pākehā child in a bicultural family and Māori was her first written language. She has completed a PhD on food sovereignty in Aotearoa. Her second novel, Fishing for Māui, was selected as one of the top books of 2018 in the New Zealand Listener and was a finalist in the NZ Booklovers Award for Best Adult Fiction Book 2019. Awa and the Dreamrealm is her first book for young people.

Book preview

1

I found one!

I swam through the air, racing as fast as I could across the purply sky towards the Priestess Tree. She stretched up majestically into the air, her trunk beautifully curled and twisted in shades of brown, dark red and gold.

I found one! I’m sure this time! I said, swirling around the tree trunk a few times before landing with a thump onto the grass beside her.

Found what, Little one?

The Priestess Tree’s voice sounded in my head.

I found a sensitive – I’m sure of it!

I reached my hand towards the tree, illuminating her bark into apricot colours with my glow.

See… I said, showing her the child I had just seen in the liminal space, so small and soft for a human.

This one is far too young to tell, the Priestess Tree said.

I slumped against her trunk and sighed.

but surely the young ones are the most sensitive, I said.

In a way, the Priestess Tree replied, but not in the ways required to help us.

I sighed.

But I really want to find one!

Sensitives are very rare, little one, but be patient and perhaps you will find one in time.

Why do I always have to be patient!? I thumped my palms against the soft, spongy grass.

Oh Veila, the Priestess Tree said, patience will serve you well, as a dreamcharmer… just as it does for most of us in the Dreamrealm… indeed, for most living creatures.

Yeah, yeah… I plucked a small star-shaped flower from the grass and began picking petals, letting them drift into the air.

Why do I always have to be wrong…? I’m the worst dreamcharmer – always getting into trouble. Lecitia is always telling me that and she’s right; that’s why I need to prove myself. I need to do something really special.

I slumped lower against the tree.

Veila, the Priestess Tree interrupted my