Lamp-trimmer of the Shadowless Hostel · female
Oda was born at noon, in the Four Minutes, and has never cast a shadow in her life. The Ledger has no line for her; the Registrar keeps a blank page, clean, in the third volume, and turns it when he passes. By the law she is nothing: she cannot sign, own, testify or leave, and nobody is obliged to answer her. By the same law she has never owed anything to anyone, which makes her, the Preacher says, the only free person in Gnomon, and she says that is easy for him to say, he had one once. She is...
From the simulation The Ledger of Shadows.