"Are you sure?" – the Master Cutter, the third time, meaning something else
FIELD REPORT – Ferdinand Lusk REPORT 6 OF 14 SUBJECT: A cutting, witnessed; a leaf of the Cutters' Manual (attached) The Noon Table is a slab of white marble on eight stone legs under a square canopy of bleached canvas at the north edge of the Field, and it is the only place in Gnomon where the third article can be performed, and the only hour is noon. I was permitted to stand at the rope with the other witnesses, of whom there are always a few. The man being cut was about forty, in a plain coat, and gave no reason, and was not asked for one. He had a chit. He took off his boots and stockings and stepped up onto the marble in his bare feet, and the Master Cutter, a pale woman called Lind who wears a white apron and a leather sleeve of black glass leaves at her hip, went down on one knee beside the table and asked him whether he was sure. He said yes. She asked again. He said yes. She asked a third time, and I understood from her face that the question was not the same question, and h...
From the lore of The Ledger of Shadows.