Overview

This book is about the ordinary day on the Living Edge: what a person sees, hears, smells and touches between one bell and the next, what the hands do without thought, and what people feel about it. The Compendium describes how Duskara works, and the Gazetteer says where things are. Neither says what a kitchen sounds like when a pipe drips.

Most of the habits here follow from two facts: the wind always comes from one side, and the light always comes from the other. So the door is on the dayward wall, the sweet jar stands against the nightward one, and nobody is lost in the open in ordinary weather.