"\"In many places they would think you are too young to consent to sex or marriage.\" Aunt Violet said seriously, \u201CAmong Terrans adults who have sex with a youngster like you go to prison.\u201D The boy stiffened a bit because he wouldn't accept for one moment that he was too young to marry the wonderful tramp. \u201CI think it\u2019s horribly awful when people keep reminding me about Terrans and prison!\u201D he grumbled. \u201CAll right I won\u2019t mention Terrans again,\u201D Aunt Violet continued, \"I married when I was your age and it wasn't nice at all.\" Aunt Violet felt the boy\u2019s tentacles stiffen further as he felt sure the tramp was right for him. She went on sadly, \u201CIt looked so good before we married. There were all those rich things my husband had that my family hadn\u2019t got. Later it was no good at all. Old Groovy Tentacles just wanted me for sex and nothing else. And it wasn\u2019t even normal sex he wanted. Normal adults don\u2019t choose youngsters like you and they don't choose youngsters like the child I was then. It was the sex he wanted when he wanted it and I just didn\u2019t count.\u201D The boy felt sorry for Aunt Violet, he was sure his tramp wasn\u2019t like that at all. Aunt Violet worried about her nephew. Did he even know yet about the terrible marriage his father was planning? \u201CThen I got older, I wanted more sex and other Centaurians would have thought I was attractive but old Groovy Tentacles stopped liking me. Instead he kept any number of adolescent servants and he liked them much better than he liked me. He went with me just often enough to have children and he was cold and uninterested then. My husband just wanted many children, very many children. Yes I know your family really looked down on me and called me Old Droopy Womb when you didn't suppose I could hear you. Do you think it was fun for me? And I don't like to think about what he was doing with the young servants. I can guess some of it. He did it to me when I was younger. I still don't like to think about it.\u201D Aunt violet buried her head in her tentacle. The boy felt very uncomfortable. Blue Tentacles knew what Aunt Violet described shouldn\u2019t happen but didn\u2019t know how to react. His father always told him that servants didn\u2019t count and was angry if he or any of his brothers and sisters showed respect or compassion for anyone from the manual workers\u2019 class and below. At the same time his mother was really sad whenever Blue Tentacles or others didn\u2019t respect her parents, their grandparents, together with the relatives and friends of their grandparents. \u201CAnd when our children reached adolescence, what he wanted to do with his own flesh and blood?\u201D she mumbled barely audibly. \u201CWhat\u2019s wrong, Aunt? What did you say?\u201D Blue Tentacles asked concerned. \u201CNone of that matters now, Our Lord the Sun protected us, Groovy Tentacles is dead and there\u2019s no more harm done.\u201D Aunt Violet lifted her head out of her tentacles. \u201CLet\u2019s go into the mud together and enjoy ourselves a bit.\u201D Aunt Violet suggested brightly, \u201CPlease don\u2019t try to do too much, I\u2019m old and all this is exhausting.\u201D They played together in the mud as Aunt and Nephew do, Aunt Violet showed young Blue Tentacles how to catch creepy crawlies and find edible plants. It should have been fun, just Aunt couldn\u2019t easily concentrate on teaching him, she was thinking too hard. How in the Sun\u2019s name could she save her nephew from what had happened to her? Blue Tentacles was tense as well. He could see his Aunt\u2019s cheerfulness was forced and realized something very bad was happening. From time to time Aunt Violet kept saying things like, \u201CRemember Never let anyone force you into a marriage that you don\u2019t want! Whatever they promise, whatever they threaten don\u2019t let them.\u201D \u201CWhat\u2019s the matter?\u201D the boy asked Aunt Violet wasn\u2019t sure how to answer. So he didn\u2019t know yet what his father was planning. Should she tell him? That could upset things more. Surely his mother should be telling him, not his aunt. Aunt Violet called Blue Tentacles mother on a remote control device and asked if she could speak to her son, then she called up to find out what the chauffeur was doing. Blue Tentacles' Mother was still very busy in the secure communications room but she came and fetched her son. Blue Tentacles asked what was wrong and his tentacles shook with agitation, then his mother hurried him away. \n* Chapter 19 Mistress and servant Footnotes"@en . "\"In many places they would think you are too young to consent to sex or marriage.\" Aunt Violet said seriously, \u201CAmong Terrans adults who have sex with a youngster like you go to prison.\u201D The boy stiffened a bit because he wouldn't accept for one moment that he was too young to marry the wonderful tramp. \u201CI think it\u2019s horribly awful when people keep reminding me about Terrans and prison!\u201D he grumbled. \u201CAll right I won\u2019t mention Terrans again,\u201D Aunt Violet continued, \"I married when I was your age and it wasn't nice at all.\" Aunt Violet felt the boy\u2019s tentacles stiffen further as he felt sure the tramp was right for him. She went on sadly, \u201CIt looked so good before we married. There were all those rich things my husband had that my family hadn\u2019t got. Later it was no good at all. Old Groo"@en . . "The Aliens of the Flaming Red Sun/18 Aunt Violet warns about Marriage."@en .