Head Gardener of the Conservatory · male
Ibrahim has never heard a sound, and he is the only man in Glossolaria trusted with all of them. The office of Head Gardener has always gone to the deaf; his predecessors lost their hearing in the glass, one aisle at a time. Ibrahim came to it already silent, and the Conservatory has been calmer since. He reads the beds with his fingertips: a stem that is speaking trembles, and he knows each language by the grain of its tremor, the way a miller knows grain. He is slow, exact and stubborn in the...
From the simulation The Architecture of Babel.