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In the crypt

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‘Another fuse has blown again,’ muttered the ancient priest; he turned his head to see a rather striking red-headed woman who had just stood up and dusted herself down, and then beamed; she looked to Francis (whom she knew really rather well, particularly since he was a vampire), and then she looked to the ancient priest – ‘maybe I can help?’ she said.

The ancient priest muttered again: ‘well, I’m not an oracle, that’s for sure, and it isn’t mention in my job description either, but I don’t know what’s the matter with that thing; I’m stumped.’

But now the red-headed woman was able to say: ‘I am a dab hand at many things, including changing fuses, come on let’s do it.’

So they opened the crypt and crept down, and fortunately a large torch was at hand, and it was charged.

She carefully walked across and opened the fuse box, ‘now, the best thing is to turn off all of it, then changed the broken one, and then pushed them all up again,’ as she grinned; and a moment later the crypt was light again, although it was in the underground, of course.

She looked around, ‘there is hardly anything here,’ she looked rather disappointed, as she said: ‘no coffins now then,’ as she looked to Francis; ‘certainly not,’ he replied, ‘all our stuff is much more modern, and in another place anyway, but I guess we don’t need to go there any more, we can just close it down.’

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48 thoughts on “In the crypt”

  8. but… but! where is the romance in flipping tiny circuit breaker switches?? no the whole semi-ritual of replacing fuses (with their working parts under glass like some industrial religious artifact) looking for the good one among the old ones

    …may the fuse go, go unbroken

    when I lay my body down…

    fun Six

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  15. Remember to look in the cobwebbed corners 😉

    I remember watching a ‘Father Brown’ episode where he was rescued because in his church there was a ‘vent’ under a rug that led to the maze of tunnels that connected to the cellar of an older mansion that had a skelton guarding a treasure – the person that turned to the skelton got stuck because the secret passage from the fire place had closed!

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