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    "There once was a girl without a heart and a boy who drank starlight to keep the nightmares at bay–and they met, as stories often begin, in the dark of the forest…"

     

    As a Knight of Ferelden, Ser Cullen Rutherford is no stranger to the horrors which linger in the dark woods. While tracking a dangerous lindworm in the depths of the forest, Cullen is injured and lost within the tainted memories of his past. He awakens in the realm of the Lady of the Birch Wood–a strange elven woman who guides the lost and helps them find their way home. Desperate and falling victim to his addiction, Cullen makes a deal with her, signing away pieces of himself in exchange for another dose of lyrium–or Starlight as she calls it. But with each return to her wood, Cullen finds himself drawn to something more than the temptation of the song in his mind…

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