She says that the news is delayed because it was kept a secret for several months. A few months later, Sarah’s friend Sally Mullin conveys news of the queen’s assassination. Silas and Sarah, his wife, decide to raise the baby Silas found as if she were the baby they expected. She is upset because Septimus was stillborn. Just as Silas reaches home, the midwife frantically runs out of the building carrying a shape wrapped in cloth. She says that he must say silent about the baby he found, and raise her as if she was his biological daughter.

Before he reaches his house, Marcia Overstrand, the ExtraOrdinary Wizard who presides over the wizard community, intercepts him. Confident that he can take in another child, he decides to bring her home. With his extrasensory powers, he hears a heartbeat in the snow and uncovers an abandoned baby girl with violet irises. At the beginning of the novel, Silas Heap is walking home after a winter storm, anticipating the birth of his seventh son, Septimus. The book is known for its use of fantasy, creative vocabulary, and character development, which render it an accessible coming-of-age story. In the course of defeating those forces, it’s revealed that the boy is Silas’s son, Septimus. Silas and another wizard named Marcia later learn of a boy Jenna’s age who is being pursued by evil forces. Believing that Septimus died at birth, his father Silas raises an orphan baby, Jenna, in his place. The first book in the Septimus Heap series, it concerns the origin story of its overarching protagonist, Septimus Heap. Magyk is a 2005 work of fantasy written by English author Angie Sage.