Never Ending Story

statue; bigger than any Umpyre, and that was saying something. Gene remembered seeing four identical statues around the tennis court where the Never Ending Challenge Tournament took place. There was something familiar about it. He searched the Borg data banks for a match
 
..stick, and found it under his vest(a) ...swan vesta... it was striking...
 
twelve on the clock above the great library - and that was yet another example of crude technology.

Suddenly it came to Gene in a flash. Everything in this place was at least four thousand million years old and the statues were of a bipedal ape from that period
 
year down in the caves when Wombles are supposed to be asleep. But many stay up way past their bedtime; drinking, swapping fairy tales and playing Hunt the Sweetie Wrapper
 
, a property that made them incredibly useful. The walls of the little pub were decorated entirely with discarded wrappers; mostly strawberry creams
 
and old beer mats, put in place by the old codger that sat in the corner. Every Friday night he would.........
 
enthrall the younger Wombles with his fairy tales - about the land beyond the Forbidden Forrest, inhabited by big yellow Wombles, where fire rained out of a purple sky and, if you went far enough, you could find the gateway to Hell itself. To Gene, it sounded horrifyingly familiar
 
to the lesser spotted oracle, who could no more predict what tomorrow would bring let alone what day tomorrow would be.........
 
which wasn't surprizing given that days or nights sometimes just didn't happen! The Umpyres accepted this as normal but, while Borg was happy to play tennis all day, Gene had been thinking. That blue sky overhead was pure illusion
 
created by The Electric Light Orchestra whose unfinished works was to be ode to the Aurora Borealis on a .......
 
shoestring. They couldn't afford the large ionophone array that it was originally written for so they tried to build their own from old ignition coils and garden planters lined with tinfoil. It didn't work
 
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