CHAPTER 26
Recklessly Abandoned
When he awoke, Krimshaw was not on a space ship at all, he was on a park bench on the planet Earth with a piece of paper stuck in his beard. He didn’t have a beard, quickly remembered this and ripped off the fake beard fastened to his face. He read the note:
We popped by to fuel up the space ships.
Ate some tasty fish. Left you behind.
Might be back some time. Do not, under
any circumstances, remove your beard.
“Hey there stranger, have I got a great deal for you! Invest now and in five years you’ll double, no, triple, no scratch that, triduple your money! Is triduple a word? For you it is! Oh dear god, what happened to your face?”
Somehow, Krimshaw instinctively knew that this man was the most useless organism that could ever exist. He promptly ate him. This didn’t go over well with some folks in blue uniforms, who promptly threw our friend Krimshaw in a jail cell.