How does a horror movie start?
Two women in a deserted hostel in the middle of nowhere. The lights are out, no cell signal, no electricity, no water and there is a corpse on the lawn...
The warden is the only person who knows they are here...
The reality was not so different : the earlier storm had knocked the grid out, and the hostel was code-locked, manned by a "warden", living in the village. What we didn't say was that there was stillplenty of daylight when we arrived, and the corpse was an old rabbit. Being resourceful girls, we had food that didn't need cooling, large resources of water and dynamo torches. The warden also lent us a battery-operated lantern and got the water flowing again. The room was still warm from being heated earlier in the day.
So we enjoyed a cold dinner, played 3D tic-tac-toe, read by the lantern (only we used mine from the car that only needs winding), and woke up to electricity and its promise of hot water.
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