Introduction: Thorne should be dead.He remembers the battlefield鈥攖he fire, the pain, the deafening roar of artillery. But instead of the void, he wakes beneath a Black Sun, in a world that defies reason.This place, Solvir, is alive in ways he doesn鈥檛 understand. Something inside him鈥攕omething he never asked for鈥攃alls out to it. A mark, a tether, a power that isn鈥檛 his. And Solvir鈥檚 creatures can feel it. Some are drawn in curiosity. Others in hunger.Not everything here wants him dead. But plenty of things wouldn鈥檛 mind....