In episode 37 Nettlesome Nurse, we see that Kieran does Lauren’s stitches under the light of the lone dull bulb over the kitchenette, and in episode 81 Willing Witness, we see that along with the little dull bulb over the kitchenette he has only been using a teeny-tiny glass lamp (most likely one of those antique oil lamps) to go over the paperwork, so one may be tempted to assume that he simply didn’t want Lauren to be spotted at his apartment and so used dim lights to make the presence of another less obvious, but in episode 90 Torturous Trap, we see that when he is reading staring into space blankly with a book in his hand on the couch, it is still under the light of the lone dull bulb over the kitchenette, which is at the other end of the room, meaning that his apartment just doesn’t have enough bright installed lights and he did not AT ALL wilfully compromise Lauren’s stitches by doing them under a dull light, and from episodes 86 and 87, Dazzling Demoiselle and Even Escape, we can see that Sinclair Manor is terrifically lit with various types of lamps and headache-inducing bright, so we don’t just have the visual representation of Greychapel and the 11th as dark and bright sides, but we can also assume that Greychapel is also facing a shortage of affordable electricity and that electricity is fucking expensive in Ardhalis, in this essay I will
