The Aliens of the Flaming Red Sun/19 Mistress and servant

The Aliens of the Flaming Red Sun/21 What Aunt Violet did next.
“Let’s go into the mud together and enjoy ourselves a bit.” Aunt Violet suggested brightly, “Please don’t try to do too much, I’m old and all this is exhausting.” They played together in the mud as Aunt and Nephew do, Aunt Violet showed young Blue Tentacles how to catch creepy crawlies and find edible plants. It should have been fun, just Aunt couldn’t easily concentrate on teaching him, she was thinking too hard. How in the Sun’s name she would save her nephew from what had happened to her? Blue Tentacles was tense as well. He could see his Aunt’s cheerfulness was forced and realized something very bad was happening. From time to time Aunt Violet kept repeating, “Remember Never let anyone force you into a marriage that you don’t want! Whatever they promise, whatever they threaten don’t let them”


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