That puts him on the outside of the crowd most of the time but the friends he chooses are good and true. So how can a puny prentice with only a half-length lantern stick match up to such a challenge? Well, our Rossamund is sensitive, and a bit of an independent thinker. Today already I have been informed of the taking of a family in the broad of day by the walls of Makepeace. Yesterday I learned that the whole second lantern-watch of Ashenstall was slain without quarter, not six nights gone, and also lamps pushed over on the Patrishalt stretch. Lamplighters are a stalwart, brave and proud body of men who strive to keep the roads open and safely lit for travellers, but monster attacks are on the rise and every far-flung village and town is calling for help: Almost each day reports come to me and I am applied to for aid. Now he's been sent from the Foundlingery to work in the Emperor's Service as a prentice lamplighter along the great Wormway. He's orphaned, small and insignificant, and bears his girl's name with as much dignity as he can manage. We've met Rossamund before so we know there isn't much to tell about him. More thrilling and fantastical adventures with the unlikely hero Rossamund Bookchild.
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