Just as he is out to enter his house, the matron midwife runs out carrying his newborn son Septimus Heap (who has been predicted to have extraordinary powers as he is the seventh son of a seventh son) wrapped in cloth and pronouncing him dead. He meets her in an alley way before he gets back and she tells him to keep the baby he found, raise her as his own and if anyone asks, acknowledge her as his daughter. Upon returning to a castle, he learns about the succession of Marcia Overstrand as ExtraOrdinary Wizard. He hides her in his cloak and takes her with him. Just outside the castle Silas finds an infant baby girl with violet eyes, stranded in the snow, and wrapped in a blanket. Here, we find Silas Heap trudging through the snow with some herbal medicines for his wife Sarah Heap. The book begins outside of The Castle, in The Ramblings.
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