Blue Tentacles ran to the area where the flying machine with his family landed and Aunt Violet was quite out of breath when she caught up with him. Almost at once one little cousin rushed out shouting, “Where’s Scarlet Tentacles?” “He’s Blue Tentacles now.” an adult quickly corrected, then added quietly, "He was Scarlet Tentacles before he went to prison." Everyone was embarrassed. Older cousins came out, adults needed to stop them talking about what Blue Tentacles had done. Some had heard about it from their parents, others had been told worse things from Centaurians their own age, from adults outside their family or from the media. Young Blue Tentacles found his limbs going almost white with humiliation.