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Werewolf the Podcast: There are not just Soldiers in the Trenches. (Episode 225)

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Major Simon de Montfort opens by taking the army to task for its dreadful breakfasts. He treats porridge like a personal insult, and immortality like a matter of manners, because even eternal monsters still need to look as though they belong at the table. The story stays at Mons on the First World War front, where the mud is bad and the etiquette is worse. A small group of soldiers comes to him with news of something strange. They are uneasy and suspicious, and they seem to think it is better left buried. He does not share that instinct. He pushes them gently at first, then with more calculation. He leans on his rank, his class, and his official curiosity. He talks like a man offering a favour while making it plain that he wants a proper look. The soldiers do not fully trust him, which only makes him more interested. He keeps suggesting there may be reward, food, new weapons, or some other advantage if they show him what they have found. His manner stays polished even when the threat under it is obvious. The conversation turns on buried things, secrecy, and the value of a man's memory. He frames his curiosity as practicality and his pressure as business. Then he stops pretending. The shed becomes a very small place for an argument. Gunshots follow. The men fall. He savors the aftermath with the calm of someone long past surprise. Then the mood shifts again, because a woman in a red, diaphanous evening dress is suddenly there, with a black cat at her side. She applauds him. He bows, still watching her carefully. The closing line makes the arrangement plain enough: whatever else has been going on, he has been warned not to let the devil stand behind him.

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War, porridge, and one deadly bargain too far.

This episode follows Major Simon de Montfort through First World War scenes at Mons, where a talk of a creature and a possible reward slides into a deadly confrontation.

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Press play for First World War front-line menace, black humor, and a Major whose manners are lethal.

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