Title: eccentrics
Fandom: The Brokenwood Mysteries
Rating: G
Length: 100 words
Content notes:
Author notes: takes place pre-canon
Summary: Closing her book, Gina looked at the elderly woman who Gary McLeod had already confirmed was a gossip. “I’m not sure you’ll like my observations.”

“Penny for your thoughts,” Mrs Marlowe said, taking a seat beside the woman she’d heard was the new coroner.

Looking up from her book. “None I can share,” Gina replied doing nothing to hide her disdain at been disturbed from her reading.

“Oh why not.”

Closing her book, Gina looked at the elderly woman who Gary McLeod had already confirmed was a gossip. “I’m not sure you’ll like my observations.”

“They are…”

“That this town is full of eccentrics,” she replied realising that for the first time in a long time that she was home even without making any friends.