Will and Testament

Falan,

I swore that I would never talk to you again in life, and this letter proves me right. You were a fool to leave and a greater fool not to return. But perhaps I can be forgiving in death. Try to be less of a fool, if nothing else.

I have held this knot, as you have asked, without question and without telling a soul these many years. I can only hope that in the afterlife my curiosity will be slaked. Perhaps it is worthless and it was merely your way of tormenting an old man. But that is not like you, despite your failings. I enclose it to you upon my death, for I don't know what it is and I sure as hell don't want it in my coffin with me.

I send it by way of Bran Tredegar, son of your sister's. He is looking for something in life, like you, and perhaps you can serve as a warning to him.

Grandfather Figtree