"Prices are chalked on the screens and never lied about." – the third stall from the arch
FIELD REPORT – Ferdinand Lusk REPORT 5 OF 14 SUBJECT: The Night Market; the prices of the third stall (attached); a loss The Market is a lane of stalls under the arcades behind the Umbrarium, and it opens when the Guild has lit the quarter and closes at the first grey. Each stall is a screen of white canvas with a lamp standing before it. The seller stands between lamp and screen, and their lesser shadows go out behind them onto the canvas, three or four or six of them according to the seller's licence, and the buyers walk along the lane looking at the screens as one looks at horses at a fair. The prices are chalked on the canvas. I attach those of the third stall from the arch, which belongs to a broker called Vane, because she let me copy them. PRICES OF THE THIRD STALL, chalked A steady shadow, to hold a seat until dawn: two hours. A quick one, to keep a door: one hour. A shadow that has sat with the dying, and comes back soft: six hours. A shadow to stand in at a vigil: four hou...
From the lore of The Ledger of Shadows.