Purple chose kelp yet again and complained that the slime worm flavoured sauce wasn’t as good as what he had eaten before. This time there was no way Straight Tentacles would quietly pay to get Purple a better quality dish. Still Purple enjoyed the kelp until he started thinking about a really unpleasant incident a long time before at his master’s mansion. He told the others what had happened. “The cooks tried to swindle the master, my former employer they dared to serve ordinary kelp, the type they give servants to the Patricians. And then they tried to get my former employer to pay for it as if it were Patrician quality kelp.“ “Did the kelp taste bad?” Black and Gold asked. “The cooks took great care how they prepared it,” Purple explained, “the Patrician family had no complaints and v