Book I: Preludes and LamentationsBound by fate,Seven Crows awakento power and tragedy.Seven orphan children, bound together by fate and a mysterious friend that only they can see, have been separated ever since the incident that left their orphanage in ruins. Years later, something powerful and frightening begins to awaken within them, darkness stirs around them, and they are propelled out into the world to find each other once again. This is only the beginning...One crow for sorrow,Two crows for joy,Three crows a girl,Four crows a boy,Five crows for silver,Six crows for gold,Seven crows a story,Never to be told.– anonymous folk poem