The gas lamps that ringed Old Town and the warehouses beyond were being lit by young men carrying torches on narrow poles and even in the chilly weather, party-going young people were entering Old Town for a night of excitement, many dressed in either Victorian style or, as was far too often the case with younger women wearing just enough to skirt the city's decency laws. Several new businesses had opened in Old Town over the last few weeks. Club Purgatory, the Old Curiosity Shoppe and Marie's Curiosities were still there, as they'd always been, but they had been joined by a new magic shop called The Chamber of Secrets, a Victorian style tavern strangely named The Lost Room and a Scottish restaurant called Isle of Night. The Chamber of Secrets sold those things that tourists loved so much; fake wands, love potions that were mainly sports drink mixed with soda water and other such nonsense. The Lost Room, a well decorated and expensive eatery and bar, was a vampire-run business for those who had no interest in or more taste than the blood fest that was Club Purgatory.
