Peeg House- | Welcome To The

Leo took a breath.

Room to let. Cheap. Inquire within.

“How much for the first month?” he heard himself ask. Welcome to the Peeg House-

“Um,” he said.

And somewhere above, in Room 7, a single lamp flickered on, casting a warm golden square onto the rain-slicked pavement below. Leo took a breath

No one looked up when Leo entered.

Leo should have run. Every nerve in his body was screaming it. But he was tired. So tired. And the smell of woodsmoke and pears was strangely gentle. Inquire within

The first was a pig. But not like any pig on a farm. This one was the size of a bulldog, with bristly ginger hair and spectacles perched on its snout. It held a tiny cup of tea in its trotters and was reading a newspaper upside down.