It was the storm that people blamed for all the whales we found yesterday morning. Newscasters said those lies with all the fervour of a zealot on the brink of losing their faith. We could see it in their eyes - so desperate to believe something so utterly impossible.
Our town is over 200 miles from the nearest coast and, though the storm was strong enough to knock down trees and send roof tiles soaring away, it couldn't possibly have lifted eighteen full grown humpback whales and spread them out so neatly apart and all facing towards the old Evercliffe estate.
When things don't make sense people revert back to superstition and it took less than a day for people to look to the estate and wonder what they did to bring the whales to us and, more importantly, why. Everyone's been so busy planning to storm the estate that they've stopped keeping an eye on the whales.
Their mouths were closed when we found them.
Now they're open.
Our town is over 200 miles from the nearest coast and, though the storm was strong enough to knock down trees and send roof tiles soaring away, it couldn't possibly have lifted eighteen full grown humpback whales and spread them out so neatly apart and all facing towards the old Evercliffe estate.
When things don't make sense people revert back to superstition and it took less than a day for people to look to the estate and wonder what they did to bring the whales to us and, more importantly, why. Everyone's been so busy planning to storm the estate that they've stopped keeping an eye on the whales.
Their mouths were closed when we found them.
Now they're open.
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