"The Book has no rule for letters." – the old keeper, who has looked
THE GATE BOOK OF SCHARTE Entry of the night officer. Bureau number 4471. On the courier. A woman comes up the road every night at the ninth hour with a flat leather satchel chained to her wrist and asks for the hour, and in the hour she asks for nothing for herself. She asks that the letter in the satchel be let through: carried up by one of the three, left at the hut for the next one up, thrown over the wall beside the arch. She has crossed four borders with it. She has a fee, which she offers. She has been refused seven times, courteously, by seven officers who did not know what to do, because the Book has no rule for letters, and she has had the hour seven times and never once said please for herself, and the keeper, who does not praise, says it is the best plea in thirty years. I looked. The Book has three hundred years of decisions and no rule for letters; it has letters. Officer 1120 let a letter go up in the coat of one of his three and refused the carrier, and the Book has th...
From the lore of The Last Pass.