Hi, Does anyone remember glowbulbs in any other book? They show up in book search only in 500YA. Who invented them? When? Were they only in use in Dragaera City? Was the spell for them lost in the disaster? "Lara turned at these voices, and seeing two warlike figures silhouetted against the light from the slowly approaching glowbulb" Five Hundred Years After, Chapter the Twenty-third, page 350 Book Search does not have the words "slowly approaching" Glowbulbs followed people around. Dunaan knew how to disable (Chapter the Twenty-ninth, page 451) a glowbulb. Otherwise, "it", the glowbulb "would have helpfully lighted him up and alerted everyone in the area that someone was crouching in an alley" Heh, why is a glowbug floating over in that alley? Did glowbulbs want to be helpful? Or were they just programmed to follow people in the dark? Dunaan did not just shoo the glowbulb away. He did not just turn it off. He disabled the glowbulb. I do not remember Vlad ever having to disable a glowbulb. Could glowbulbs have gone away because of the enhanced Orb? Why have the Empire pay for glowbulbs to be made when most citizens could call on the Orb and make their own light? Even Easterners with a Jhereg-purchased citizenship can use light spells. Bye. Linda G. Book Search on glowbulb Score 1 at 8.8% in chapter 500ya23.html … upon the ground and that, moreover, there appeared, in the uneven light cast by the nearest glowbulb, still some distance away, a stream of blood flowing from a not inconsiderable gash in his forehead. … Score 1 at 46.6% in chapter 500ya23.html …." Lara turned at these voices, and seeing two warlike figures silhouetted against the light from the glowbulb, decided that there was no longer time for saving anything, but, rather, she must use her most … Score 1 at 53.2% in chapter 500ya23.html … for their presence but wondering who they were. Pel stepped out of the way of the glowbulb, thus allowing the light to fall on the Countess's face, after which he said, "Well, my dear … Score 1 at 54.3% in chapter 500ya23.html …, and turned so the light fell on his face (the glowbulb, we should add, was only now moving into place above the ensemble, so quick had been all of the action). "You are without … Score 1 at 1.4% in chapter 500ya13.html … darkness pressing silence onto the streets of Dragaera, which darkness was broken only by the occasional glowbulb or lantern outside a public house and which silence was broken only by the occasional lone footstep … Score 1 at 10.6% in chapter 500ya29.html … waited between two buildings next to which Khaavren invariably walked, and had, moreover, disabled the one glowbulb that operated in the vicinity (otherwise, of course, it would have helpfully lighted him up and alerted … Score 1 at 3.9% in chapter 500ya12.html …, we hasten to add, see this clearly, for night had quite fallen and there were few glowbulbs in this part of the city, but the three gold cloaks were unmistakable, as was the direction …