Amber Tentacles and Yellow both showed Blue which were the tastiest and most nourishing parts of the kelp. This time Blue didn't mind at all that Plebeians were teaching him rather than Centaurians deemed fit to teach a Patrician youngster. Blue was just pleased to be swimming in muddy water and eating something fairly good. Proxima Centauri shone blood red in the sky and sunlight sparkled blood red on waves. A guilty, greenish colour spread over the eye-stalks of Yellow and downwards. “We forgot to bring food back to mother and dad” he exclaimed, “They’ll both be very hungry.” Footnotes