Bartholomew was born in a dark, seldom-visited bog thick with old fey magic. Years spent alone in its shadows left their mark on him, until he became something close to a piece of the dark himself. When the upheaval scattering the monster-folk finally reached his forgotten corner of the world, he was driven from the only home his family had ever known. Now he's ended up at the Sanctuary, forced to learn how to be part of a community instead of alone in the dark.