Registrar of Shadows · male
Absalom keeps the Ledger, and he keeps it the way a man keeps a promise he does not fully understand. Three volumes, green cloth, steel pen, gloves: every shadow in Gnomon stands in it with its owner, its length at the ninth hour, its grain and its marks, and the entries are in his hand, and his father's, and his father's master's, back to the first page. He is slow, exact and courteous in the manner of a man for whom every sentence is an entry. He does not gossip, because an entry is not gossi...
From the simulation The Ledger of Shadows.