StarLighter: Diary of an Explorer Dwella is an Explorer of the people — a lone wilderness scout trained from childhood to sense life from miles away, cast silent messages, and read the earth under her feet. She has walked the wild for years, guided only by her instincts, her spear, and a wolf companion named Theta. She does not believe in magic. Then a dead Explorer's medallion begins to sing. A mountain cave deposits her in a desert on another world entirely — a planet of starships, military bases, and a civilization that has been waiting, for thousands of years, for someone exactly like her.