"& above the 3 of them, Old Star & Old Mother rose into their appointed places & stared at each other across the starry ruins of their ancient broken marriage." The Waste Lands (The Dark Tower #3), Stephen King. Roland, the Last Gunslinger, moves closer to the Dark Tower of his nightmares as he crosses a desert of damnation in a macabre world that is a twisted mirror of our own. W/ him are those he has drawn to this world, street-smart Eddie & courageous Susannah.