Seventeen-year-old Eileen makes a living by salvaging the remains of memories. The seal of the old gods on her left arm allows her to read minds - to hear everyone's most wanted to hide their thoughts.
One day, she picked up a blood-stained academy token and was forced to enter the "Mirror World Academy" hanging upside down in the mirror.
There are hypocritical mentors, companions with secrets, and a madman who was sealed a hundred years ago - Varric.
Varric wants to use the Sea of Nothingness to swallow up all painful memories and plunge the world into an eternal dream of peace.
Erin's mother was the only person who understood him, and was also the first person to die at his hands.
Mind reading makes it impossible for Erin to turn a blind eye to lies: Who among the companions is the traitor? What is the instructor hiding?
As she reads about the loneliness and kindness deep within Varric's heart, she must make a choice—
Destroy his ideals, or give him a false salvation?
A dark fantasy about memory, betrayal and empathy.
"Every voice you hear is a knife. You can cut others with it, and you can cut yourself open with it."
