pink leaves

The feeling in Joe's numb legs had returned a few hours after the trial had
ended, but he was still sitting on The Schweebler. It was a much faster way
of getting round the ship and it was quite fun too.
As Joe raced through the corridors of the Blue Dwarf, trying to beat his
last lap time, something caught his eye, something small and pink.
He pulled up to it and picked it up, it was a small pink leaf.
Joe had a quick flashback of seeing a big pink tree being sucked into the
engines of a starbug, he was sure that the tree had perished yet here was a
leaf that unmistakebly belonged to that same tree.
Confused, Joe started following a trail of pink leaves that led him to the
doors of the medibay, and then down some more corridors.
He sped round a corner and screeched to a halt, the pink tree was there,
rustling away to someone. He started towards it and the tree moved slightly
to the side, what Joe saw then made his blood run cold and a look of horror
cross his face, he turned the Schweebler around and made it run as fast as
it could in the other direction.
For what Joe saw was this, Dr Keto holding a rather threatening looking
bottle of ointment with a spray attachment. Remembering the treatment that
Dr Keto had administered for his glue problem (he felt he should be grateful
really, but he wasn't) and the incident when he had first boarded the Blue
Dwarf and Dr Keto made him rub fish paste onto his brusied and broken ribs,
had made him extremely wary of the Doctor and he didn't want to be around if
and when the ointment started flying.
So he headed towards one of the cargo bays for some target practice.
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