"The Aliens of the Flaming Red Sun/3 Sadistic Guards"@en . "\u201CCome on out of there. It\u2019s time to meet the other nice prisoners in the yard.\u201D Blue Grey Tentacles cowered in the alcove. He looked up at the guard scared. \u201CThe sun will get me!\u201D \u201CThe flare has ended!\u201D \u201CThe sun is angry!\u201D \u201CDon\u2019t waste even more time. It\u2019s already late. I can\u2019t get back to my family till you lot have all been round the yard.\u201D The guard reached a tentacle into the alcove, grabbed the prisoner and hauled. The little alien ended up on the cell floor. \u201CCome on out! \u201D \u201CI\u2019m stiff.\u201D The prisoner rubbed his tentacles. \u201CYou should have thought of that before you broke the law.\u201D The guard shook the little prisoner. \u201CAnd I\u2019d have given you a lot more than forty years. Remember on Terra just one year is more than forty of our years.\u201D He shook the prisoner again. The prisoner fe"@en . . . "\u201CCome on out of there. It\u2019s time to meet the other nice prisoners in the yard.\u201D Blue Grey Tentacles cowered in the alcove. He looked up at the guard scared. \u201CThe sun will get me!\u201D \u201CThe flare has ended!\u201D \u201CThe sun is angry!\u201D \u201CDon\u2019t waste even more time. It\u2019s already late. I can\u2019t get back to my family till you lot have all been round the yard.\u201D The guard reached a tentacle into the alcove, grabbed the prisoner and hauled. The little alien ended up on the cell floor. \u201CCome on out! \u201D \u201CI\u2019m stiff.\u201D The prisoner rubbed his tentacles. \u201CYou should have thought of that before you broke the law.\u201D The guard shook the little prisoner. \u201CAnd I\u2019d have given you a lot more than forty years. Remember on Terra just one year is more than forty of our years.\u201D He shook the prisoner again. The prisoner fell sprawling onto the floor a second time. \u201CIt\u2019s quite different here from that home of yours.\u201D The prisoner\u2019s tentacles rippled miserably. \u201CYou had everything, your parents leaders in the Computer Department of the Ruler Morowl. And the rubbish you did with those computers.\u201D \u201CI\u2019m sorry.\u201D The prisoner rippled his tentacles again in utter dejection. \u201CIf I\u2019d had your chances I wouldn\u2019t have to spend my time with criminals like you! I\u2019d have a better job. And I'd have a first class mudbath at home.\" The prisonner gulped miserably and thought of the mudbaths he couldn't have. \"I wouldn\u2019t have wasted my chances like you.\u201D The prisoner bent one of his tentacles round into a loop. With it he investigated the groove between two other tentacles. The guard wrenched the tentacle away. \u201CAnd stop playing with your reproductive organs. That\u2019s disgusting!\u201D The youngster quivered on the floor. Wrenching his tentacle so hard hurt. \u201CWere you doing that when you were talking to those Terrans?\u201D The prisoner lowered all his tentacles guiltily. \u201CI see you did,\u201D the guard continued. \u201CI suppose the Terrans know what that means. You really know how to get Terrans to respect us I don\u2019t wonder. And think what you\u2019ve done to them. I know Terrans look horrendous. You still shouldn\u2019t have done it. May our Lord the Sun forgive you because I can\u2019t. Come on into the yard.\u201D \u201CThe sun is angry!\u201D \u201CDon\u2019t start that again. The Lord Sun wants you to behave and keep to the rules.\u201D Miserably the prisoner got up onto his tentacles and hobbled stiffly out to the exercise yard, alternatively he may have crawled like the octopuses of Earth, our sources aren't clear. In the yard another guard was watching prisoners who were already moving round painfully in circles. He reached out a tentacle and pulled an elderly straggler. \u201CStop lagging and get more erect!\u201D The surface was artificial, easily as hard as asphalt or concrete and rough on soft tentacles. Nobody cared. Gingerly Blue Grey Tentacles put out some of his tentacles. He withdrew them at once. The surface was frighteningly hot and dry after the flare. The guard pushed him out and shut the door. \u201CMove smartly there.\u201D"@en .