#NaNoWriMo Day 9: The Return of the Rat

The rat that plagued the keep is back, and this time he means to rile everyone's sensibilities:

Word of the rat’s presence soon spread throughout the keep, and from everyone’s reaction, the small creature might as well have been a vulture, come to roost on the battlement and lay siege to the castle: the nobles locked themselves in their apartments with their card tables and tea, the servants lifted the hems of their skirts and hid in the servants’ hall, and though everyone was in some manner o...