Shadow-Tailor and Master of the Scrapers' Yard · male
Rafael alters shadows and lifts stains, and he is the best at both that the city has had, which he says modestly and which is true. On a Court writ he scrapes a stain from a house and lifts it whole onto plaster, so that a family can take its dead with it when it moves; and at the back bench, with smoked glass, chalk, soot, oil and a set of knives finer than a surgeon's, he cuts a shadow to fit: taller, kinder, older, straighter, or, for a sum nobody says aloud, into the shadow of someone else. ...
From the simulation The Ledger of Shadows.