Sunday, Aug 10th 1030.
It was close to 10:00 p.m., and the sun had already set, coloring the sky dark.
The oil lamps inside the building started to come to life one after another, and the lamplighters began moving across the streets, manually lighting the gas street lamps.
Lamplighters were working-class men often hired by municipal authorities or gas companies. They wore heavy wool coats, flat caps, and sturdy boots as they went around in the evenings to ignite lampposts and extinguish them at dawn.
A group of three young men, wearing flat caps and frock coats, walked past an old lamplighter, sneering and making jokes at him.
The old man silently did his job, reaching for the top of the lamppost and igniting the gas flame. He then turned to the three men, looking at them with a dry expression.
Seeing the fine coats and trousers they had on and then the flat caps they had donned, the old man knew that these people were part of the Marrowmen.
