The Aliens of the Flaming Red Sun/25 The Journey Continues

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The Journey Continues
Purple had been driving for a long time, furthermore the find and burial was stressful for all. As an experienced engineer Purple was used to giving orders to lower ranking slaves so Purple decided on a rest while the regular driver took over the controls. Unfortunately Purple soon wished he’d carried on driving as with nothing to do he couldn’t banish disturbing thoughts. The religious message at the death ceremony had certainly been correct, indeed Purple had driven Patricians to formal Death Ceremonies when deceased Centaurians from the master’s family were laid to rest in the sacred  mud  of Patrician burial sites and Purple had heard the same assurance of superior divine mud then. Such messages were even given at times when the servants all knew a departed Patrician Centaurian had not lead a particularly good life. If that message was true how was it that the religious message after the submarine was found empty spoke about divine retribution? Avoiding sinful religious doubt  would be far easier if the different Sun Priests and Sun Worshipers just would avoid contradicting themselves or contradicting each other.

 That’s as far as I’ve written the story up to now. If readers would like to find out how the story developed before this point please click on The Aliens of the Flaming Red Sun. There readers will find all the sections of the story in sequence.