Indeed, Marcia had warned him that one day Syrah would drift away completely. It had been a hard lesson for Septimus to learn-that Magyk and Physik could not fix everything, but he now understood that the fragile Syrah would never be fully in this world. A few years back, Syrah had been rescued by Septimus and taken to the safety of the Wizard Tower, but despite the best efforts of the ExtraOrdinary Wizard, Marcia Overstrand and a State-of-the-Art DisEnchanting Chamber, Sarah had not fully recovered. After drawing the Questing Stone she had spent many lifetimes on a distant island, Possessed by a Darke entity called the Syren. However, all had not gone well for Syrah.
Some five hundred years ago she had been the ExtraOrdinary Apprentice, just as Septimus was now. To Septimus’s concern, she sat carelessly upon the parapet, gazing out to the distant blue hills on the horizon. Painfully thin, she wore a long dress of an indeterminate colour as washed-out as its wearer. Trying to ignore the chasm behind him, Septimus was fixing his attention upon the almost translucent face of an ethereal looking young woman. He was sitting on a spiky patch of camomile, wedged against a low parapet, which was all that separated the garden-and, more worryingly, him-from a two hundred foot drop to the sluggish brown waters of the river below. Septimus Heap, sixteen years old, with deep green eyes and long straw-coloured hair tied back into a ponytail, was an uncomfortable guest in one of the smaller gardens. A sharpness in the air announced the time of year when the season turns towards winter, but in the straggle of gardens on the rooftops of the Ramblings, a lingering warmth deep in the stones kept the chill at bay. It was an autumn afternoon in the Castle. We’ll kick off with a visit that Septimus makes to Syrah Syara. I’m hoping to gather here some glimpses into life at the Castle after the main Septimus Heap series ended. I’ve had so many wonderful letters and requests for more in our Septimus world, and at last I have some time to think about it and even to begin to write a few episodes.
There will be some low-key romance and possibly a few bad words. This is a section for older Septimus fans - please note the ‘older’ here, as this is more at YA reading level.
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