The silos are empty, the last of the rat catchers left town this morning and we are alone again.
In their defence, the rat catchers held out a lot longer this year and only seven didn't come back. Last year the county refused to send any more out to us - sent the police instead and wasted everybody's time on the very obviously deceased.
We were all accused of murder at some point, occasionally we were accused twice in the same day! They knew as much as we did yet they kept trying to find rational explanations for the missing because apparently rat kings were "just a myth".
They soon learned not to ask so many questions and the county sent us twelve goats in appeasement. A whole twelve goats! I dare say that's been helping the rat catchers survive better this year. You never know, they might even untangle the rat king before Christmas.
In their defence, the rat catchers held out a lot longer this year and only seven didn't come back. Last year the county refused to send any more out to us - sent the police instead and wasted everybody's time on the very obviously deceased.
We were all accused of murder at some point, occasionally we were accused twice in the same day! They knew as much as we did yet they kept trying to find rational explanations for the missing because apparently rat kings were "just a myth".
They soon learned not to ask so many questions and the county sent us twelve goats in appeasement. A whole twelve goats! I dare say that's been helping the rat catchers survive better this year. You never know, they might even untangle the rat king before Christmas.
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