Dragon Seer's Gift: The Book Hunt

The Book Hunt is over. Every cylinder was found in the first week.

All will be revealed. You can find out exactly where the cylinders were hidden on this Where Were the Cylinders? page.
Find out more about the book by visiting my Dragon Seer's Gift page.

If you won and haven't claimed you book yet, take the numbered certificate to The Bookery on Signal Hill Road for a free copy of Dragon Seer's Gift. There will be ten winners.
Please note that The Bookery is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays.Click on the link above for more information about hours.

The Clues:

1. THIS CLUE HAS BEEN SOLVED. September 25th. A hard wind blew off the North Atlantic, shrinking Gwyn into the warmth of his down jacket. The ocean was out of sight, just beyond the hills on the other side of the lake. He could picture it, an icy, heaving expanse of black water stretching all the way from Newfoundland to Europe. Somewhere out there a storm was brewing. He could feel it in his bones.
Gwyn glanced at the mouth of the Virginia River beside him again, looking for the birds he’d come to see, two male wood ducks.

2. THIS CLUE HAS BEEN SOLVED. September 26th. He looked at the bridge that crossed the Rennie’s River where it flowed into the lake.  He’d found out about The Rooms on that very spot, three years before, while helping with the Christmas Bird Count for the first time.

3. THIS CLUE HAS BEEN SOLVED, September 22. Gwyn’s own street was the oddest in the neighbourhood. Two blocks were pure Georgetown, with plain wooden row houses hugging the sidewalks. The third (and final) block held four big Victorian mansions with lawns and trees, each unique, facing property owned by the Catholic Church. That last block, Gwyn’s block, looked as if it belonged to a different part of the city.

 4. THIS CLUE HAS BEEN SOLVED, September 20th. They passed The Rooms and the police station, coming out on Harvey Road by a granite monument. Gwyn vaguely remembered it was for some people who had died when a dance hall burnt down during World War II. The Knights of Columbus something or other.

5. THIS CLUE HAS BEEN SOLVED, September 19th Gwyn remembered something. “Dad went to school here, didn’t he?”
“Holloway School. Yes. They tore it down before we were born.”
                                        
6. THIS CLUE HAS BEEN SOLVED, September 24th. A few minutes later, when Gwyn left the woman at King’s Bridge Road, he had to make a quick decision. Across the road, the trail followed the Rennie’s River in the direction of home. Gwyn would be alone if Tyler caught him there, but it was faster. There was a break in the traffic so Gwyn jogged across the street and let the tree-lined trail swallow him.
                       
7. THIS CLUE HAS BEEN SOLVED, September 21st. Gwyn remembered there had been riots here in the 1930s, he’d seen a photograph in one of his textbooks of this building with all the windows shattered. Except for the windows, it hadn’t changed since then–a large, grey stone block that made Gwyn think of the word “edifice.” The front had a towering row of stone columns resting on a massive staircase that went all the way up to the second storey. It seemed more approachable from the side.

8. THIS CLUE HAS BEEN SOLVED, September 21st. Gwyn flung his arm at the huge pile of glass and steel and stone. “Look at it,” he cried. “You can see it from all over the city. It’s hideous. Tourists have stopped me in the Battery to ask, ‘What’s that ugly building?’ And they ruined an archaeological site to build it. An important one.”
Maddie sighed. “Most people have forgotten about Fort Townsend, Gwyn. Things would be easier if you could be like everyone else.”

9. THIS CLUE HAS BEEN SOLVED, September 20th. A February thaw had started, with puddles nestled on the ice like tiny, glacial lakes. The frozen snow from just a few days before was melting and the park looked like the end of an ice age. “That’s a sign of spring,” Maddie said nodding toward groups of kids who were hanging out in the band shell. It was the first time they’d seen teenagers in the park.

10. THIS CLUE HAS BEEN SOLVED. September 25th. His memories took him a quarter of the way around the lake without seeing anything. Finally, Gwyn looked up. The lake was veiled in curtains of falling snow, yesterday’s grey ice now a vast coverlet. It was just cold enough to keep the snow fluffy. Gwyn was warm and dry inside his winter gear. He was now opposite the Virginia River where he’d met Tyler Cull the day before. This part of the trail was nearer to the ocean but sheltered by hills from the worst of the winds so it was covered with trees and thickets.


If you didn't win a free book, (and even if you do), you can come to the book launch party on Sunday, October 2. You'll find all the information, with a map, at this Dragon Seer's Gift book launch page, part of the Canada-wide Culture Days celebration.

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