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After

Whatever happened to

Gringe, the Gatekeeper

Gringe rehout all the upheavals at the Castle Although he would rather have jue loved his job, and it gave his fa rough under the Castle walls The day that Marcia had given hie That day, for the first and only tie money - Marcia&039;s half crown, to be exact There was so ware reluctant to put it into the toll box So he slipped it into his pocket, telling hiht But Gringe could not bring himself to part with the half crown And so the half crown sat in his pocket for an to consider it his own

And there the half croould have stayed had it not been for a notice Gringe found nailed up on the North Gate one coldalmost a year later:

YOUNG ARMY CONSCRIPTION EDICT

ALL BOYS AGED ELEVEN TO SIXTEEN

YEARS WHO ARE NOT APPRENTICED TO

A RECOGNIZED TRADE ARE TO REPORT

TO THE YOUNG ARMY BARRACKS

AT 0600 HOURS TOMORROW

Gringe felt sick His son, Rupert, had celebrated his eleventh birthday the previous day Mrs Gringe was hysterical when she saw the notice Gringe felt hysterical too, but when he saw Rupert, white-faced, reading the notice, he decided he had to stay calht And when, out of habit, his hand closed around Marcia&039;s half crown, Gringe knew he had the answer

As soon as the boatyard was open that e, whose father had just secured a seven-year apprenticeship with Jannit Maarten, a herring-boat builder, for the substantial down payment of a half crown

The Matron Midwife

After the Matron Midas arrested, she was taken to the Castle Asyluht state of , which was not considered to be a healthy preoccupation for a Midwife to have After spending a few years there she was allowed to leave because the Asylue increase in deluded and distressed people since the Supreme Custodian had taken over the Castle, and the Matron Midas now neither deluded nor distressed enough to nes Meredith, for lady, packed her s and set off to search for her lost son, Merrin

The Night Servant

The Supreeon after dropping the Crown and adding another dent to it He was released a week later by mistake and went to work in the Palace kitchens as an undercook peeling potatoes, which he was good at, and soon progressed to be chief potato-peeler He enjoyed his job No one e Alice Nettles

Alice Nettles first met Alther Mella when she was a trainee advocate at the Castle Court Alther had yet to become DomDaniel&039;s Apprentice, but Alice could tell that Alther was special Even after Alther became the ExtraOrdinary Wizard and was much talked about as "that awful Apprentice who pushed his Master fro hi, even an irritating ant Shortly after Alther became ExtraOrdinary Wizard, Alice achieved her aan to keep Alther and Alice increasingly busy, and they never saw asthat Alice always regretted

It was a terrible double blow to Alice when, in the space of a few days, the Custodians not only killed the dearest friend she had ever had but also took away her life&039;s hen they banned women from the Courthouse Alice left the Castle and went to stay with her brother in the Port After soh froal advisor to the Custo with a tricky proble circus that Alice repaired to the Blue Anchor Tavern before she returned to her brother&039;s house It was there, to her delight, that she finally host of Alther Mella