Mother Goose's New Tales for Traveling Children 4/4

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Chapter 4

Molly, Jeeves, and the little girl stepped out onto the bonemeal dust that covered the Plane of Eternal Torment. The Tree of Suffering glinted in the light of the system's primary star.

&quot;Oh no!&quot; said the little girl. &quot;Look!&quot;

Around the tree danced one-hundred tiny Jabbery-jooks. They waved their tiny fists in the air and shouted tiny chants in tiny voices.

&quot;Jabbery-jooks are the worst! &quot; said the little girl. &quot;And they're meaner and uglier than a thousand old automatons! Now we'll never get the fruit from the Tree of Suffering and get the space oats from the Wicked Witch of the Binary Cluster and I'll never have a friend! &quot;

&quot;Ooops!&quot; said Jeeves.

&quot;Send the automaton in,&quot; said Molly the Space Unicorn. &quot;I'm starving. And bored.&quot;

&quot;Good idea, Molly! Jeeves, go fetch me a fruit!&quot; said the little girl.

&quot;Does not compute,&quot; said Jeeves. &quot;Jabbery-jooks are very mean and they will rip out all of my screws. We have fruit back at the house. Why don't we give that to the witch and tell her it's from the Tree of Suffering?&quot;

&quot;Stop being a dick,&quot; said Molly.

The little girl stomped her foot and pointed at the Tree of Suffering.

&quot;Ooops,&quot; said Jeeves quietly. With a heavy automaton sigh, he walked out onto the Plane of Torment. The hundred tiny Jabbery-jooks gave a hundred tiny hoots of excitement as he approached. They jumped on Jeeves and tore out his screws with two hundred tiny hands.

While the Jabbery-jooks were distracted, the little girl rode in on Molly and plucked the biggest, shiniest fruit from the tree

&quot;Yaaay!&quot; said the little girl, waving her hands in the air.

&quot;Yaaay! said Molly the Space Unicorn, prancing her hooves.

&quot;What about Jeeves?&quot; said the little girl. The tiny Jabbery-jooks gibbered and danced and popped Jeeve's metal limbs apart at the seams.

&quot;Meh,&quot; said Molly. &quot;Just get another one.&quot;

&quot;Ooops,&quot; said Jeeves.

Molly and the little girl rode back to the witches ramshackle hut. The witch cooked everyone a porridge of space oats and fruit, and the three of them became best friends forever.

The End