Green

I wrote this to my Trope Bingo prompt “Green”.  Naturally what my brain wanted to write was a follow on to Sharing a Bed instead of something about, oh, plants.  This means that it is set in a world just to one side of ours in the year 1816.  Dunedin is Edinburgh and Lundun is London.  The story came in at 5,807 words and I hope that you enjoy it.

When Mungo Munro was young, his family had kept an apartment in a building on a wynd on the north side of the Old Town, overlooking Gor Loch.  His grandfather had seen property as an investment and purchased a house for the family on Thistle Street, moving their Dunedin base of operations into the New Town.  This New House, as the Munros called it, was where he brought his bride when they and their friends arrived in the city after the journey north from Lundun.  The resident staff had been expecting him because he'd had the sense to write to let them know that he was coming, but his marriage en route had been completely unexpected, so the butler and housekeeper had been astonished to be introduced to a young woman in men's clothing who proved to be Mrs Mungo.  The necessity of identifying which Mrs Munro she was became clear when Mungo discovered that his closest family had come to Dunedin from Balloch to meet him.

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This is now followed by Hester and Mungo 3.