Page 58 - Jeremiah Lollipop

sweet, fresh air. He stepped out and laughed as the wind blew in his

face, and the surf tossed and broke in the moonlight.

He walked along the beach for a while, enjoying his freedom, and

wondering what to do next, but before he got very far a dark shadow

moved across the sky, and something huge and black came between him

and the moon.

He knew what it was and turned to run back to the tunnel, but he was

too late. His body was seized by the Flooble’s transporter and he

vanished…. And reappeared in the spaceship.

“Got you!” drooled the Flooble, “My fine, resourceful specimen!”

Jeremiah tried to run, but some weird energy gripped his arms and

legs.

The Flooble walked right round Jeremiah, looking at him with its large

green eye. It licked its long lips with a wet tongue and grinned like a

chainsaw.

“Are you a typical human?” it asked, and as it spoke the translator

changed the sounds into English, “The other two I caught are incredibly

boring! One of them thinks of nothing but newspapers, and the other one

watches television waaaay too much! Is this all you humans do? Have

you become so dull and useless all you can do is sit around being

entertained? You might as well be extinct, or served on a silver dish in a

restaurant!”