I hardly need to point out that this is one of me Dad's writings, not mine, and it's...
Just a teeny bit NWS
“Take
me. Take me here. Take me now.” Mary arched backwards across her mother’s
tombstone, her bosoms heaving above her tight-laced corset, skirts riding up to
reveal her trembling, fishnetted thighs.
Percival
removed a deep purple velvet jacket and untied his cravat. Sliding his hands
over the cool white captive flesh, upwards towards her waist, he loosened her
bloomers and slid them off. Mary sucked in a sharp breath, her ribs came up
against the restricting girdle that bound her organs and she began to swoon.
“Percy,
get your mind off what’s down there and undo these stays or you’ll be shagging
a zombie.”
He
loved it when she talked dirty. He fumbled with the laces, released the pert
breasts, and allowed the night air into her lungs. Percival dropped his
breeches to his knees. Harsh iron straps and rivets that protected her parent’s
corpse from the attentions of the resurrection men pressed into Mary’s back and
bare buttocks. Her dark nipples hardened under his attention. Her delicate hand
guided him. She locked her legs around his waist, one stocking now ruckled down
around a slender ankle, and a long moan wafted across the moonlit graveyard
whose outer reaches were shrouded in an ever deepening St Pancras smog.
The
haunting sound startled a walrus that was, just at that moment, flopping its
bulk out of some rhododendron bushes where it had been relieving itself,
sheltered from prying eyes. Carrying a roll of Bronco under one flipper the
shortsighted creature peered about. Not far ahead the full moon reflected off a
moonlike gyrating white shape that was not immediately identifiable as a naked
arse. Blue veined and spot speckled it was performing gentle figures of eight
to the accompaniment of short high-pitched yelps. The amphibious mammal waddled
over to inspect the phenomenon close to, its approach undetected by the
self-absorbed couple. It sniffed at the exposed posterior. Its bristling
moustache brushed against the tender flesh and it snorted a fine spray of
sea-watery atomised mucus onto the pimpled derriere.
Something
shrivelled within Mary and plopped out through the gates of paradise into the
chill night air. She opened her eyes and, staring past her lover at the
silhouetted baldhead and shining, black button eyes let out a hideous scream.
Nocturnal
London held its breath, Percival dropped to his knees as if his face had been
slapped, the walrus staggered back in horror, tripped on the edge of a newly
exposed grave and fell backwards into the freshly opened coffin. The creature’s
great heart raced, faltered and stopped. Bands of cramped muscle tightened
around the animal’s chest, crimson pain pulsed through its body and then there
was nothing.
“I
think it’s dead.” Mary was staring down into the hole, her clothing in disarray
and some of her finest features shamelessly on display. Percival was on all
fours. He had thrown up.
“Oh
Cripes, what shall we do?” He was sick again. “Sorry about that, I think I’m in
shock. There’ll be an investigation. The Runners will knock on doors. Your dad
always thinks the worst of me, he’s bound to assume we were involved.”
“Fill
the grave in again.” The body snatchers had conveniently left their spade
sticking in the top of the pile of recently dug soil. She tossed him the
shovel. “Quick. There’s nothing suspicious about a fresh
grave in a churchyard.”
After
some strenuous shovelling they patted down the soil and, having robbed a nearby
grave of its flowers, Mary laid a posy on the burial. They scoured the area
around Mary’s mother’s tombstone for abandoned clothing, dressed quickly and
headed for the street.
“Whatever
you do don’t go boasting about this with your mates down the pub.”
“Do
you honestly think I’m ever going to tell anyone I spent the night burying a
walrus in a St Pancras churchyard?”
“Not
that, the other. You’re still married - and I’m not quite sixteen.”
One
hundred years later, the following article appeared in a local newspaper:
Walrus remains found buried under St Pancras station in London
A
Pacific walrus has been discovered among 19th century human burials underneath
St Pancras Station in London.
23 Jul 2013
Archaeologists
found the four-metre-long walrus with 1,500 human bodies as part of excavations
at the station, amid the renovation of the station into the Eurostar terminal.
The
bones were in a coffin and are thought to have been used for medical research
some time in the early 1800s.
Both
the archaeologist who discovered the bones and the zoologist who studied them
for the Museum of London are not sure how the bones came to be in St Pancras
Church on the northern side of the station.
“It’s
a bit of a mystery”, the archaeologist told this reporter
“We
did some research to see if we could find any record of a walrus being dealt
with, for example, by the London Zoological Society, but we drew a blank.”
The
archaeologist said there was a reference to Prince Albert “riding on the back
of a giant tortoise”, but added that this was not relevant to the bones they
found.
“It
is possible the animal bones were being dissected as practice, but it does seem
to be a rather exotic animal to be dealing with”, he added.
The
most plausible reason for the walrus being in London was that it was brought to
the city by whalers and sold for medical research or as a curiosity, they said.
While
the zoologist had found the remains of an ostrich and big cats on
archaeological excavations in London, this was his first encounter with a
walrus.
“Although
we have considerable evidence of whales in London, from porpoises up to blue
whales, in all my experience we haven’t had any other bones of walruses except
small fragments of skull which have been chipped to get out the tusks”, he told
the newspaper.
He
said that walrus skins were used for buffing metal and there was a trade in
their tusks for ivory.
How it came to be in St Pancras is a mystery even to
experts.
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