Lamplighter-General · female
Ottavia holds the lamp right of Gnomon, and she knows what that means better than the people who gave it to her: every lamp she licenses is a shadow somebody can cast tonight, and every shadow is credit. She counts lamps the way other cities count money, and she is generous with them, in the way a river is generous. A street that pleases her is lit; a street that crosses her is put out, pillar by pillar, and she stands and watches it go dark. She is absolute and warm at once, which confuses peo...
From the simulation The Ledger of Shadows.