Letters to my Successor

Advice from Gervinus van Lauren, eleventh Librarian of Hush House, to the one who will come after him.

Some of the advice is practical - don't worry about losing the House Key; always close the seaward windows; make sure you feed the cockatoo. Much more of it is rarefied, specifically about the 'Inks of Revelation'. And some of it relates to van Lauren's own doom...

'When I was another, I made a foolish wager with the Hooded Princes, to solve seven riddles. I had not realised the riddles would be set by me for the one I would become. Six are resolved. The seventh will be the end of me. It waits now in the cellar of the Gaol, where Collers still believes I can keep it confined. But the first riddle told me I would not see the Second Dawn...' 1 Return to library