The predecessor's chamber was not where Keth'serai usually brought candidates.
Most of what was taught in the Archives was taught in the lineage room, the archive proper, the three working chambers where the Leth had conducted the business of interpretation for two thousand years. The predecessor's chamber was older than the tradition had a clear memory of, and its contents were not the kind of thing that was useful early in a candidate's education. It was useful, in Keth'serai's experience, precisely once: at the moment when a candidate needed to understand not just what the lineage produced but what the lineage cost.
She had brought four candidates here in four centuries. Three of them had become Leth.
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