A wiry gnome with oil-darkened fingertips and clothes that look stitched from a dozen salvages. He moves like water through a crowd, shoulders first, eyes scouring edges and shadows. His left ear is scarred and folded, a notch mended with braided copper wire. He keeps a battered set of spectacles perched on the end of his nose when examining relics. Unexpectedly, he wears a child's bright blue ribbon tied to the inside of his coat where no one usually looks, and he smooths it absentmindedly when anxious.