Sad Tentacles was with a group of overseers in the boathouse checking if anything else was missing as well as the submarine when one unfortunate Centaurian was selected to tell Leering Eye Stalks the latest development. Quietly holding his head and tentacles in the prescribed way for a deferential and dutiful slave Sad accompanied that supervisor and hoped he would get a chance to help Purple, the boy or his mistress. Leering was in an extremely good mood when the two found him and was entertaining himself describing in some detail what punishment he thought was proper for the runaway boy. His audience was a group of servants and relatives of the family who clearly would have preferred to do something different. “Why is it taking so long to catch one silly half-grown boy? Wherever can he