Keeper of the Border Lamp · male
Jonas measures everyone who comes to Gnomon and sees almost nobody go. He stands at the post with his chain and his tables, marks the length of a shadow on the flagstones at the ninth hour or works it out from the time, notes the grain and any seam and any lag, and writes the chit that becomes the first line of a stranger's entry. He has done it for twenty-two years. He is the first face of the city and knows it, and he is dry and patient and kind in a way that costs him nothing, and he tells ev...
From the simulation The Ledger of Shadows.