Master Cutter of the Noon Table · female
Hesper cuts shadows, and she works four minutes a day. From dawn she sharpens: the obsidian leaves, each the size of a hand and thinner than a fingernail, honed on wet slate until the edge is a line of light. At a quarter to twelve she lays them in the sleeve-case and walks to the Table. When the bell rings and the shadows withdraw she kneels and slides a leaf beneath the soles of whoever stands on the marble, and when the Four Minutes end and the shadow returns it finds the leaf and stays on th...
From the simulation The Ledger of Shadows.