Reader-Major of the College · female
Ilse reads shadows and stains, and she is the best reader Gnomon has had in a century, which she says is not a compliment to her but a complaint about the century. Lay a shadow on her white table under the one lamp and she will tell you where it has lain: on stone, on water, on wood, how long, in what light, whether it has ever fallen across another person, which leaves a seam. Stains she reads by depth: a true stain is darkest at the hours the person sat there most, and a forged one is dark all...
From the simulation The Ledger of Shadows.