Two Drowned Rats
A YSS story from Uniform Girls 12 The morning on the moor had been bleak, dark scudding clouds and a driving wind with every now and then cold rain. A July day but you wouldn’t have thought it, so my spirits surged when I came round the side of the hill and saw the low white building with smoke blowing this way and that from its chimney. My pace quickened for it was marked on the map: Inn. Yes, a heaven-sent release from the elements when I opened the stout door and closed it behind me. I took off my anorak, shaking it. A cheerful room, a bar at one side, a bright fire opposite. The room’s occupants, three middle-aged men, one of them behind the bar, had turned to the door, seemingly expectant looks on their faces. The barman smiled. ‘Good day, sir, and welcome. Though I must say we was expecting something else when that door opened.’ ‘Something a bit more spicy,’ offered one of the others, ‘begging your pardon. Though I ima