jeriendhal | 365 Days of Drabbles, Day One Hundred Fifty-Eight

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drhoz: “Goat Cheese Fire Shuts Down Tunnel - and this turns out to be a very good thing indeed.”

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Well, it was the best smelling fire that they’d ever put out. Even through breathing masks the sweet scent was overwhelming, as the fireman rushed in once again to fight the blaze as it burned for the third day.

“This is a disaster,” the transportation secretary said, looking at the billowing smoke still pouring from the tunnel mouth.

“Actually, it’s the best thing that could have happened, “Agent Bjorn told him.

“How do you figure that?”

“We have it on good authority that this cheese was due to be weaponised.”

“You’re joking!”

“The Nationalist Dairy Front is no joke, Minister.”