"Zero." – called, nineteen years ago. One stroke on the slate.
THE GATE BOOK OF SCHARTE Entry in the hand of the old keeper, written nineteen years after the night it concerns, at the request of the officer of the night, Bureau number 4471, who read the Book and asked. The Book has, for that night, in my hand: ZERO. And under it, one stroke. No officer has asked me about it in nineteen years, because no officer reads the Book, because they are here for one night. This one read it. I said I would tell the one who did, and I am a woman of my word, and I am seventy-four, and it is time it was in the Book in words. The tower called zero. I had held the key eleven thousand nights and heard zero called four times before, and on a zero you hear the hour if they want it, and you say no at the chair to everyone, standing, and the town goes down to the inn, and the first night is free. There were nine on the road. I heard six hours. The seventh was my son. He was thirty-one. He had been going up the road for two years without telling me, on the nights th...
From the lore of The Last Pass.