A Ghastwarden — an ancient creature that feeds on dread — captures a small, relentlessly cheerful Tillen and cages her in its lair of bone. But the Tillen has no fear to feed on, only endless conversation, bizarre stories, and the unshakeable conviction that every monster is simply a friend who hasn't been properly introduced. As the creature of darkness struggles against an adversary its millennia of predation never prepared it for, something begins to change inside Moth Hill — something that has no name in the old languages of dread.
