In This House, A Mouse

I’m working on finishing In This World, but I keep thinking of more things I want to add. Just the other night we playtested an “alternate history” rules variant and now that absolutely has to go in the book. Plus there’s my usual perfectionist streak.

But the real thing slowing me down is… a mouse. A tiny frenemy, who has penetrated the perimeter and found a way into the innards of my house.

Tiny feet sneaking around the rafters is… distracting. Like Batman, it haunts the night. I merely adopted the dark, it was born in it.

I am morally opposed to harming the tiny mammal, but the battle to evict it is on. I’ve got motion detector cameras, live capture traps, strategies, tactics, plans within plans, the writings of Sun-Tzu, thousands of years of military history… and yet, the mouse remains completely unconquered.

Thus far the score stands mouse 1, human 0. Pray for me.