they caught an alien squid. cross my heart. it was this giant alien thing, came down in a spaceship and all that; they shot it down with tanks or something. so they got this squid, right, and you reckon maybe on account of its use of spacefarrin' technology, they'd stand to learn a lesson or two from the creature. on science...the universe...everything. but naw. they decide to burn its space ship instead
"..."
it was made of paper. it came from space in a paper spaceship and they burnt it. that was the point. that and it had all these arms, too. long squid tentacle arms, but a million of them (it was an alien squid!); and they plugged all these arms into little sockets in a wall, flicked a switch and laughed. the whole town laughed. lights flashed, bulbs burst, and we cheered; we could almost feel the low rumbling of the machinations beneath us, grinding, turning...
"No more!"
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