title: A Wish
author: Dearing, S.L.
description: It’s been just over a year since the Gathering was last hosted at Lia Fail and peace has once again returned to the little village, but the scars of the past are affecting everyone in the Stark family.
  
  It’s the Christmas-Yule season and Alia Stark is desperate to bring joy back into her house.  So as she watches the stars flickering in the velvet night sky, she sees several shoot across the void and it’s then she makes A Wish.
  
  This is the first in a series of short stories based on the Lia Fail Chronicles.  This is NOT a stand-alone short story.  It is a continuation of the novel The Gathering.  It will eventually be compiled with several other stories to form a 1.5 volume of shorts that will fill the time between book one and book two in the Lia Fail Chronicles.