Fred Confronts Robert
The Never Ending Quest - Episode 12649
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"Look, you sick bastard," Fred said, "it's obvious what your game is.
No doubt tonight the trousers would mysteriously disappear too, and
tomorrow
you'd suggest using the princesses' underpants for the sail." "Nobody
calls me a sick
bastard and gets away with it," said Robert, and he looked as though he
might attack Fred. However Astra told him sharply: "Behave yourself!"
Perhaps he
remembered what had happened the last time that he had crossed Astra. At
any
rate, he subsided into aggrieved muttering.
Alexis thought that trousers wouldn't have made a very effective sail anyway. They weren't the right shape to catch the wind. Nobody asked her for her opinion, though. With no sail, they had to rely on the current, which meant their progress was slower, and probably also in a different direction from before. Fred thought that Robert might have put all their lives in jeopardy by stealing the sail, for before too many days had passed their food and water would run out. A few hours later:
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