Laz spends long days toiling in the mine of Darkhán. A bottomless pit that has not seen a ray of sunlight in a million years.

He labors in the deep alongside his best friend, Dru. The cruelty of the mine has orphaned them both, and every day is a fight for survival.

After shift, they scavenge through the waste mounds left by the crusher machines deep in the gray zone. They search for a legendary grade eleven crystalline starlight oval. A precious jewel to buy passage to Citadel Sol, a golden metropolis overflowing with treasure and bathed in permanent sunshine.

To locate a starlight is a preposterous task, but Laz can't live without hope. Murderous rav'ns prowl the gray zone outside the mine, dust devils plummet from the sky to scour the flesh from the living, and ghosts of the dead haunt the plains.

May the dead wander no more. Follow the path to the forever light.

As Laz schemes a way forward, old legends are upended, alliances tested, and a new reality comes crashing down.

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