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Scene 2: Nick of Time - The Floral Lounge

FX        Door Hum

Cilla        Hello Turnidus, Snyder

Snyder                Guten abend

Turnidus        Greetings Cilla. Just finished your watch?

Cilla                Yep. Can't sleep?

Turnidus        No - Something on my mind as you humans say, as well as calming down after my bedroom work - so I thought I'd come in here and polish my ornamental chrome trunk guard.

Snyder        It's extremely heavy

Cilla                Looks like a piece of armour

Turnidus        It's very old! Gulgolin presented it to me during the festival of shoes

Cilla                So does your race descend from elephants

Turnidus        I don't think so - I hope to see one when we get back to Earth, Gamak's promised to take me to 'Longleat Safari Park'.

Cilla        Oh right. Wanna beer?

Turnidus        No thank you Cilla.

Cilla        Want some of the amber nectar, wasp-chops?

Snyder        Nein Danke - and please do not mock my affliction

Cilla        Hey, I'm grateful you are afflicted - got rid of those pallbearers

Snyder        Indeed. So, Turnidus, did your race 'evolve' or 'settle' on Voltarabia

Turnidus        No one quite knows - although apparently the truth of our people's past is written in the sacred scrolls of Ranulf, in a long forgotten language

Cilla        Who's Ranulf?

Turnidus        The greatest Voltarabian apparently. Everyone enjoys the tale of Ranulf

Cilla                Go on then - amuse me

Turnidus        Many millions of years ago, there were tensions in the Voltarabian people. The warring element was getting stronger and stronger so they decided to split away from the peace loving ones. They settled on a planet of water and over the years became amphibious, developing webbed feet, many teeth, while their trunks disappeared. As time passed, they fought many wars, causing more death, ravaging more planets

Snyder        What happened to them?

Turnidus        The peace loving Voltarabians were ashamed of their destructive relatives and decided they had to stop them, and so they created the 'Arachnia'

Cilla        What dya mean created?

Turnidus        By the powers of Ranulf! From the falling dust of Ankellor, he summoned a species who would bring the fighting to an end. And so, the Arachnia were born. On Ranulf's command they left our home world and sought out the warring Voltarabians, vowing to conclude the constant destruction.

Snyder        And did they?

Turnidus        Yes, but in an unexpectedly horrendous way

Cilla        Ooh, I like a bit of gore!

Turnidus        The Arachnia ate them. Swallowed them down and digested them all!

Cilla        Solved the problem though!

Snyder        Mein Gott! So the Voltarabians effectively killed half their own race

Turnidus        Legend tells how Ranulf, was so appalled, that he left our world and our people through the falling dust of Ankellor, dispersing the tools of his magic across the universe

Cilla        The relics of Ranulf!?

Turnidus        Indeed - each containing mystery powers

Snyder        Seem to be a popular in mythology these relics

Turnidus        Oh it's usual in most cultures for artefacts from the
past to gain special status and thus become priceless

Cilla        Explains why Arran wanted that Fandilox relic

Turnidus        I saw a picture of it hanging up in Space Patrol HQ and I must say I wouldn’t mind a chance of fingering Frindle's ring as it's colloquially known

Snyder        And so the Voltarabians lived happily ever after as the story goes?

Turnidus        Yes! Peace and harmony have prevailed since

Cilla        So what happened to the Arachnia?

Turnidus        Vanished along with Ranulf

Snyder        What did they look like

Turnidus        No one knows - a mystery race!

Snyder        I presume they were derived from spiders

Turnidus        Why?

Cilla        Cos 'arachnid' is another name for a spider

Turnidus        Is it? How fascinating, we don't have spiders on Voltarabia - just clog-beetles

Snyder        What an interesting race you are Turnidus

Turnidus        Thank you and you should see my selection of garters!

Cilla        Right I'm off to bed, try and get some sleep before we land on Xoolian Major

Snyder                Me too

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Turnidus        How I miss Gulgolin and the tales he would tell! I wonder what he would make of my pregnancy? He never did get round to explaining the cycle of life or what the secret inside of me is…More myths…..more legends. Our lives create and dispel, enlarge and elaborate. I just hope my baybay will be safe…