
Lundy doesn't believe him, believing the Market to be strict in regards to its rules, but never evil. He tells Lundy if it were truly the paradise she thinks it is, the doors wouldn't stop appearing once children turned eighteen. Ambiguously Evil: Lundy's father, who visited the Goblin Market and decided to not go back, believes that the Market is evil and predatory, targeting children, who he believes don't understand true value.

Seanan McGuire also wrote a short story for the book, " Juice Like Wounds " about how Mockery, Moon, and Lundy battled the Wasp Queen and how Mockery died, made available for free on Tor.com. Alas, everything costs at the goblin market, and when her time there is drawing to a close, she makes the kind of bargain that never plays out well. When she finds a doorway to a world founded on logic and reason, riddles and lies, she thinks she's found her paradise. This fourth entry and prequel tells the story of Lundy, a very serious young girl who would rather study and dream than become a respectable housewife and live up to the expectations of the world around her. It tells the story of Katherine Lundy, one of the teachers in Every Heart a Doorway, and her adventures in the Goblin Market.


In An Absent Dream is the fourth novella in the Wayward Children series by Seanan McGuire.
