Voltaire Fleur keeps to no faction and works The Yard as a Poodle who is an artist with the patience of a tinkerer and the timing of a comedian. Out near the cracked freeway loop, Voltaire Fleur keeps a small ritual that involves a bent spoon argued to be a tiny shovel and a quiet bow. There is a soft running joke at the soup stalls about Voltaire Fleur and the way doors behave around them. Voltaire Fleur believes ordinary days are where big mysteries hide, usually under a bowl or behind a door nobody checked.