Once a year, all of Orienne goes down to the Quiet Blocks to whitewash the tombs and say the names of its dead out loud. Archie Plume on the lime, the everlastings, the Naming at sundown, and what the Ward believes happens to a name nobody says.

Archie Plume calls them gifts because he has no record of paying for them. The glove, the Imprint, the Gleaning, and the golden rooms that open in the air whenever he uses them.