Peril at Sea

(Pirates of the Caribbean) 

What if....

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Immortal territory

PART SIX

Looking down on Outer Earth you will see that on the great northern continent there is a great desert near the sea.  North of this desert there is a great fertile plain and to the east of this is a line of mountains, the coal mountains. In these mountains is a city.

This is part of the Immortal territory and the plain is the slave lands.

In the slave lands are towns and villages named after days of the week where the working slaves and their managers live. Each town or village has at least five managers living in it in large houses. Every month the managers change to a different village. The slaves are taken from the lands around Immortal territories on raids and are flown in on large freight ships which look like metal fish.

They are taken to the Immortal capital in the mountains

where they are given their uniforms and inspected and told what jobs they will have and that it is futile to try to escape because of all the wonderful security and blah de blah de blah. Next they are issued with identity cards and flown to one of the various towns where they will probably work for the rest of their lives. Practically every citizen in Immortal territory has at least one slave so they are in high demand.  A household slave will, in small families, run errands and cook meals and generally do the housework.  A family slave will look after the children, a private slave has a number of different jobs, a show slave is chosen for her appearance and a work slave works in the slave lands or in the mines in the mountains.

Bridget's car

One day Bridget went to the car sellers to buy a car (which is usually what you do at a car sellers). She chose a gold coloured car which although well advertised was not as good as it looked. Bridget drove the car out into the public gardens which was a favorite place for tourists and young children. She stopped by one of the gardener's houses and offered him a ride and since his friends were there too she let them in also.

They were driving along happily enough when the car started making loud revving noises and acting as if it had a mind of its own, first it drove over a heap of prunings on the side of the road, then across a garden at full speed until it reached a wall which it bumped into then drove over, shaking out everyone in the process.

On the other side it fell onto the grass and burst into flames. Of course the police soon arrived and the fire brigade and the paramedic although they all protested that they were quite alright and would like to go home. The next day the detectives came around with a long lengthy boring explanation including lots of mathematical figures and long words and they recommended that Bridget didn't buy another car of the same sort until they had pronounced them safe to drive. Unfortunately Bridget wasn't listening and only really heard the beginning and the very end and kept nodding to keep them happy. When the car people heard about the accident they were extremely sorry and said they would send her another car to compensate. It was the same sort but they were sure it wouldn't matter and that kind of accident wouldn't happen again. Soon after that the police told them to stop selling that kind of car until they said it was safe. But in the meanwhile hundreds of unsuspecting people were in for a big and rather unpleasant surprise.

THE END

The Anderson family sandcastle

The other day we built a very large sandcastle.

It took us perhaps an hour.
First we dug a trench

Then we built a wall.

next we dug a hole in the middle.

we built a tower and a road inside and Andrew dug a well.

then we took photos of it.

then we went home, and left the sandcastle to an unknown fate.

Star Wars cartoons part two: What Yoda does in his spare time.