Tristran meets a small hairy man who helps him through the woods. She meets a farm boy, Brevis, at a crossroads, takes his goat, and transforms him into a second goat, using the two animals to pull her small chariot. In a small, grey house in the woods, three ancient and mighty witches known as the Lillim learn of the fallen star by reading the entrails of a dead goat, and the eldest of the Lilim consumes their last reserves of "years", later revealed to be the heart of another fallen star, to become young again. Neither of the remaining brothers are aware that their other slain brothers, each one killed for the crown, are with them in ghost form. Septimus departs on his own after poisoning Tertius at a nearby inn. He then dies, and his sons leave together. Tristran enters Faerie and begins his search for the star.Īt Stormhold, in Faerie, the King of Stormhold gathers his sons to determine who will be his heir he hurls the Power of Stormhold, a topaz that marks its bearer as the ruler of the land, into the sky, knocking that selfsame star from the sky. Tristran tells his father of the bargain, and Dunstan gives Tristran the snowdrop, as well as helping him pass the guards at the wall by alluding to his faerie heritage. Thinking that he will never actually do it, Victoria promises to do whatever he asks if he brings her the star. One night, while Tristran is walking her home from the shop where he works, he sees a shooting star land in Faerie, and he vows to bring it to her in exchange for a kiss, and perhaps her hand in marriage. In February (a little over nine months later), he receives a baby in a basket - his and Una's son, Tristran.Įighteen years after these events, Tristran - now a young man with a half-sister named Louisa - seeks the love of Victoria Forester, the town beauty. A month later, Dunstan marries Daisy as planned. Enthralled by her beauty during the encounter, Dunstan later meets Una in the woods that night and makes love to her. He purchases a glass snowdrop from Una with a kiss, and gives the flower to his fiancée Daisy. The next day in the market, he meets Una, a beautiful woman imprisoned by the witch called Semele. A young man named Dunstan Thorn rents out his cottage to a stranger in exchange for his "Heart's Desire," in addition to a monetary payment. As the book begins, the market has just begun and the town is filled with visitors and vendors. On the outskirts of Wall, a small town in rural England, the Faerie Market is held every nine years on the other side of the wall dividing Faerie - a mystical realm of magic - from our world and for which the town of Wall is named.
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