The Aliens of the Flaming Red Sun/1 Dash to Freedom

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The Aliens of the Flaming Red Sun 31 Freedom and Danger
It would be good if I could write that this had a happy ending, that Purple got young Blue Tentacles away from moral danger, that they both lived a free and wholesome life together as father and son somewhere else. All too often real life doesn’t have a happy ending and it didn’t end happily for our two either. The bond between then that would have been if they had known that they were father and son just wasn’t there.

What did former slave Purple do? He wasn’t used to taking decisions for himself and the Old Tramp, Brown Tentacles had promised to help them escape. The submarine surfaced very briefly while Purple picked the Tramp up at a pre-arranged spot, then the boat dived again and rushed swiftly but smoothly on towards some coastal swamps that Brown knew. The boy was at the back of the vehicle with the tramp he loved and no Centaurian advised his about what was right and what was wrong. Purple was at the front with his tentacles on the controls and his tentacles were even inside the engine, sensitively and expertly Purple manipulated the sub. Purple paid little attention to what was happening at the back of the boat, he was focused on running the engine as he had never been focused before in his life. From time to time Purple mumbled to himself something like, “Come on baby, faster!” “Good baby, that’s fast!” “Go faster baby, I know you can do it”


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