Crap On The Road

What's your idea? asked Decca, grinning. Change the name to Team Seafood?

Mate! said Karko. That's not funny!

No, agreed Ageless. That's not funny. Starpuss does not qualify as seafood. But I do have an idea.

Spit it out, mate, said Decca.

She doesn't LOOK dead, said Ageless, nudging the gently undulating body of Starpuss.

I know, said Decca. She just floats down there, doesn't decompose or anything. Sometimes she nods.

She nods? said Ageless. I knew it. Wait on! How does she nod?

Well, she looks kind of agreeable, said Decca, changing his tune. As if she's not dead.

Exactly! said Ageless. We can make use of that.

Phew! said Karko admiringly. You mean she could be in the team?

I'm just thinking, said Ageless. Those legs. They look strong.

They were strong, agreed Karko. She was our girlfriend, he added.

Aha, said Ageless, thinking guiltily about Kobo, and how he had left her at Brighton.

I have a girlfriend, he said. She's a fossilised clam, and she doesn't have legs.

Bad luck, said Karko.

It's alright, said Ageless. She has wonderful lips.

Decca looked uncomfortable at the thought of Kobo's wonderful lips.

Yeah, he said, but what about Starpuss?

We put her inside a carapace, with her legs sticking out, said Ageless. See how she moves then.

She'd be fine under water, said Decca, but crap on the road.

Not necessarily, said Ageless. You boys heard of Galvani?