THE SHADOW WEAVER
book 1 of the "the wounds we leave" series
camicazii / 2019

| in which the daughter
of two master
assassins learns
what it means to
be human.

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— SHE WAS A SWEET, ROTTEN THING.

Born dead, tossed in a metal coffin, reborn as an experiment, Subject RED was destined for great things. Not a child, not a girl, but a weapon.

But what she would become was not a mere resuscitation of life. No, she was transformed, shaped by the hands of those who saw potential in her very existence. A puppet, perhaps, in their grand design, but also something more. A creation of flesh and bone, yes, but also of steel and secrets.

Subject RED was not sweet innocence; that had been extinguished long before her rebirth. Her sweetness was tainted by the darkness that clung to her, a reminder of the life she had left behind, a life that had been snuffed out like a candle in the night. Rotten, in the sense that she had been marred by the hands that had sought to shape her into a tool of power.

"This is the child of two of the most dangerous people on the planet, she mustn't be underestimated."

HYDRA and the Red Room's most ambitious project yet, their whispers about her were no more than the sweet lullabies of her childhood as she was nursed with their needles, rocked by their punches and weaned on their commands. She would be better then her predecessors. She would be trained, raised and molded to best them in every which way imaginable.

And when she had had completed the last step of the program, she would kill them. Her makers, her progenitors, her parents.

And then, Subject RED would help HYDRA and the Red Room heel the world to their feet.

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fourth of july — sufjan stevens
two birds — regina spektor
k. — cigarettes after sex
lights are on — tom rosenthal
look after you — the fray
soap — melanie martinez
slipping through my fingers — ABBA
sweet creature — harry styles
exile — taylor swift
heal — tom odell
leave a light on — tom walker
sign of the times — harry styles

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did you get enough love, my little dove
why do you cry?
and I'm sorry I left, but it was for the best
though it never felt right
my little versaillesthe hospital asked should the body be cast
before I say goodbye, my star in the sky
such a funny thought to wrap you up in cloth
do you find it all right, my dragonfly?shall we look at the moon, my little loon
why do you cry?
make the most of your life, while it is rife
while it is lightwell you do enough talk
my little hawk, why do you cry?
tell me what did you learn from the tillamook burn?
or the fourth of july?
we're all gonna die we're all gonna die
we're all gonna die
we're all gonna die
we're all gonna die

SASHENKA ROMANOFF BARNES

— SUBJECT RED

"oh, drunken gods of slaughter!
you know i've always been your favourite daughter."

1. a runt, an experiment destined to fail.
2. the outcome of an evanescent relationship, the product of two broken people's love.
3. trained by the red room and hydra to be a master assassin.

JAMES BUCHANAN BARNES

— THE WINTER SOLDIER

1. the shell of a broken man who somehow still manages to survive
2. a father, a man who thinks of himself as undeserving of his own daughter.
3. a selfless soldier who would lay down his life in order to protect his family.

NATASHA ROMANOFF

— THE BLACK WIDOW

1. a mother, a sister, a friend, an avenger.
2. the only survivor of the black widow program.
3. a woman forever questioning her life choices, forever roaming the earth in hopes of finding her family.

cast

samuel l. jackson nick fury
anthony mackie sam wilson
chris evans captain america
emily vancamp sharon carter
frank grillo crossbones
robert redford alexander pierce
cobie smulders maria hill
julie delpy          madame b

YOU ROBBED ME  OF  MY LIFE.
I COULD HAVE BEEN   HUMAN
— I COULD HAVE BEEN ALIVE
BUT YOU   TOOK    MY  HEART
AND YOU         MURDERED    IT
YOU MADE ME          INTO THIS.
— emily autumn, from
the asylum for victorian girls

author's note :

this book belongs to me, camicazii
my oc and her story belong to me but captain america : the winter soldier belongs to marvel .

edit august 2023 : I'M BACKKKKKK!!
hope you guys like the re-edited version of the shadow weaver bc i'm excited for y'all to see it 🤭

as you can probably tell already, the series has been renamed : it's no longer the morning star saga (which made no fucking sense btw) but the wounds we leave series (which doesn't make much more sense but at least it's pretty)

a few characters have been deleted from the series : skadi and rhea and piper's book has been deleted, her character not, because i just no longer have the time for their books so now it's sashenka (+piper, just no piper book) left :)

i might rewrite piper's book if i'm feeling like it, but for now she's just a side character in this story

this book isn't going to be changing much plot-wise, i'm just going to built sashenka's character a bit more and change 2-3 things :)

that's it for now, feel free to comment any questions if you have any, i'll answer them as best as i can !

happy reading, enjoy sashenka's book :)