Those Who Went Before
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The Lady in White and the Hunter of Night is Helvensgate’s most beloved children’s tale. It tells of two lovers, blessed by magic and damned by fate, whose quest to save the kingdom left them cursed to sleep for centuries.
Everything in the story is wrong.
A thousand years ago, Adecca was sent away from her village to serve the spirits of the dead; Mikael was exiled after being cursed by the Wood. They were each other’s best and only friends—or so Adecca thought—until, with one desperate and unexpected kiss, Mikael enchanted them both with eternal sleep.
Now Adecca has awakened to an empire in crisis. The empire’s machines are out of control, and act as if they have minds of their own, and the empress and the engineering guilds are on the brink of a civil war. Surely, as the stories go, the Lady and the Hunter will heal the heart of this broken nation. Adecca could have everything she ever wanted here—a home, and actual friends!—and all she must do is give up the truth of what she really feels for Mikael and who she truly is.
Clearly, something must be sacrificed. But does it always have to be her?
