Editing Steerpike (section)

===Escape from the kitchen===
Steerpike first appears as a youth of seventeen years with an unclear past, working in Gormenghast's Great Kitchen under the chef [[Abiatha Swelter]], whom he hates. On the day that [[Titus Groan|Titus]], 77th Earl of Gormenghast, is born, Steerpike escapes from the kitchen after Swelter collapses from drink.  He is discovered by the chief retainer of the castle, [[Mr. Flay|Flay]], and locked in a small room. Steerpike escapes through the window and climbs over the vast roofscape of Gormenghast, spending the night in a great stone square, before arriving by accident in the attic of [[Fuchsia Groan|Fuchsia]], daughter to the Earl of Gormenghast.