Ficlet: Goats

[meridian_rose]

This is a character moment I wrote about the character's shared sense of humour. It will require some editing if it's actually to be included in the novel WiP so I'll share it here as is. Inspired by this advert 

If there was one incident Romaine had to point to that summed up how he and El were on exactly the same wavelength and thereby such good partners, it was this, which happened three months into El's probationary period.

They visited a farm where there'd been reports of a sighting of a dangerous supernatural. The farmer who'd reported the creature to the agency eyed them with misgiving, chewing on his pipe. Romaine assured him that he was able to handle the creature and had dealt with them before.

"It's not that," the man said. "You'll have to cross the goat paddock to get to the field where I saw it last. Nasty buggers, some of them. Sharp hooves."

Romaine and El, in unison, as if they had rehearsed it, said solemnly, "I ain't afraid of no goats."

The man, understandably not reassured, shrugged and gestured for them to go ahead, goats, ghosts, hooves or creatures be damned.