One Summer

Chapter Forty

Forty

Realisation

I was told I would be looking after three individuals. And here, in this beach house, it would appear that there are significantly more than three individuals.

Slowly, I take the wooden stairs to the upstairs bedrooms.

The email definitely said three animals: Bull, Corn and Hog, which I admittedly thought were quite weird names, but weird names for pets are a thing now – hence Nemo – and who was I to question it?

The binder makes it very clear that there are not three pets, there are three types, and the names mentioned are not individual pet names, they are species.

Bull snakes, corn snakes and hognose snakes.

I am petsitting not for a snake owner, but for a snake breeder.