Professor Talbot puts a stray white rat in its maze, and she briefly hears the rat calling out to her for help. Then, after the rodent bites her, she finds herself as a sea captain serving at the pleasure of King George II (and perhaps also at the pleasure of a drowning rat).
She’s wearing a cocked hat of beaver fur over a red waistcoat. Her boat just arrived at a northern city on the Baltic, under a sky of zinc marred by sooty clouds.

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  1. “Maze” by Gio Clairval, Daily Science Fiction, 26 August 2015 [webzine].
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Gio Clairval