I can't eat with you in my avian form. Then he noticed some butterflies in the field which appeared to be magical.
He stood perfectly still for a moment and then...
Larry blacked out after that. He woke up about... 4 hours later to find himself sitting on a bench between two strange beings.
They did not speak. They communicated with him using telepathy. They told him he would be taken to their mothership and he could bring his camera. Larry thought this would be his chance to get some ribbon winning shots.
It was gone! Disappeared! This was his childhood pet that had been with him through thick and thin and even though he was not previously mentioned in the story, Larry adored his snake.
"Oh well." Larry thought. I will find companionship elsewhere. Larry walked into a nearby tavern and discovered his old high school pal sitting there at the bar.
the surface of Marswhere they were greeted by the Martian prime minister and his entourage...unfortunately they lived underground due to the parched surface of the planet and kept hidden tanks of dolphinlike fish as food... He was invited to a state dinner but before he could accept he heard an explosion...
when he look towards the sound, he saw an apple the size of a small whale being dropped into a nearby tank.
it didn't take larry long to realize that these quirky aliens didn't actually eat the dolphin-like fish, they were only kept as pets, and that the alien's state dinners actually consisted of bobbing for giant apples. at this point larry decided to
