Master Osman, however, occupies himself at the palace book-arts workshop. To begin with, I want you to go there and observe everything. I worry that the others, that is, the miniaturists, have ended up falling out with and slaying one another. They go by the workshop names that Head Illuminator Master Osman gave them years ago: ‘Butterfly,’ ‘Olive,’ ‘Stork’…You’re also to go and observe them as they work in their homes.”
