Oswyn
Written for readers who have finished Book 1.
Oswyn is the founder — the road-builder who raised the col-house from a shepherd's ruined shelter and became its first keeper. Weary at the end of a long working life, he stopped at the top of the pass, kept a fire and a kettle going through a winter when no one could see it, and found that the keeping was its own reason. Every warm window on the mountain road begins with him — and with two words a road-warden once wrote in her book: kept light.
