‘Your letter mentioned Wynter’s book of arms – The Dark Devices. Nobody else knows of it – nor did I until the book revealed itself. So how could you? Then there’s your name. In my job you can smell an anagram a mile off, even a German one. Ferensen. Add an H for Hieronymus, jumble the letters and you get fernsehen, meaning to see into the future, which is what a seer does.’ Finch added in a whisper, ‘Good evening, Hieronymus Seer.’
