I prescribe light. Then I go home and wonder whom I am prescribing it for. – Dr A. Kell
Leaf from the Drowned Archive. Pages from the casebook of Dr Ashby Kell, physician at the Lantern Infirmary in the Fungal Warrens, given to the Archive by Dr Kell "so that someone other than me has read them". Names have been removed by the doctor. Case. Ropemaker's widow, sixty-one. Struck from the Register in the spring when her late husband's lamp lapsed; her son is on the fleet and did not relight it in time. Came in complaining of nothing. Brought by a neighbour, who complained on her behalf that she sits in the dark and smiles. Pupils very wide, slow to close under the examination lamp. Reads the print of my eye chart at twelve feet with the lamp turned down to a bead. Asked whether she wished to be relit; I have a little influence with the Board. She said, quite gently, "What for?" Prescribed: an hour of lamplight daily at the Infirmary. Did not come. Case. Two children, brother and sister, seven and nine, born unlit in the deep Warrens. Brought by Mother Cinder's acolytes for...
From the lore of The Gaslit Reach.