The Deathly Portent (2012)
“The Blue Pig was set back from the lane with a cobbled frontage and a drive leading through an archway at the side towards the back, presumably to adjoining stables. Francis led the way along a pathway in the cobbles, and a battered inn sign came into view, indeed depicting a crude blue boar which resembled the homely pig more than a little.
Francis pushed open the heavy wooden entrance door, and Ottilia passed into the shadowy darkness of a substantial hall. It was eerily silent, and her glanc...e took in more stout doors and stalwart wooden posts between the lath walls as Francis shut the main door and moved into the musty space.
“House, ho! What, is no one home?”
His shout echoed crazily into the oak beams above, and Ottilia had the oddest prescience of impending doom. She shivered a little.
“Cold?”
She turned and met concern in her husband’s eyes. Ottilia shook her head.
“A little disconcerted, that is all.”
His arm came about her shoulders for a moment. “That is not like you, my love.”MoreLess
Francis pushed open the heavy wooden entrance door, and Ottilia passed into the shadowy darkness of a substantial hall. It was eerily silent, and her glanc...e took in more stout doors and stalwart wooden posts between the lath walls as Francis shut the main door and moved into the musty space.
“House, ho! What, is no one home?”
His shout echoed crazily into the oak beams above, and Ottilia had the oddest prescience of impending doom. She shivered a little.
“Cold?”
She turned and met concern in her husband’s eyes. Ottilia shook her head.
“A little disconcerted, that is all.”
His arm came about her shoulders for a moment. “That is not like you, my love.”MoreLess
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