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Stardust Condition:Like New Viestad takes us on aYoung Tristran Thorn will do anything to win the cold heart of beautiful Victoriaeven fetch her the star they watch fall from the night sky. But to do so, he must enter the unexplored lands on the other side of the ancient wall that gives their tiny village its name. Beyond that old stone wall, Tristran learns, lies Faeriewhere nothing, not even a fallen star, is what he imagined.