In The Yard, Rodin Lumiere is known as a Poodle who is an artist with the patience of a tinkerer and the timing of a comedian. Rodin Lumiere keeps a private map of the council fountain, marked with which corners feel kind and which feel watched. Even the glassbirds quiet for a moment when Rodin Lumiere walks under the leaning tree. Rodin Lumiere wants to be remembered as useful, loyal, and only mildly responsible for what happened near the fountain steps in The Yard.