The Lantern Keeper: The Long Light

One spring was enough to show Elian Reed that Mossmere was home. One summer will show him what home asks of him. The lantern paths are restored. Travellers are arriving. The village is waking in ways it hasn't for a generation. And alongside the familiar rhythms of path-walking and shrine-tending, something older is stirring in the eastern hills — seven lanterns built by the Wayfinders three centuries ago and never lit, holding a promise whose meaning Elian is only beginning to understand. With a historian at his side and Brindle at his heel, he walks deeper into the network's history than any keeper has gone before. What he finds will not give him answers. It will give him something harder and more honest: the right question.