S1.4: Lottie’s brilliant idea

There is some discussion about how to proceed. 

“It was my idea so I should get to tell it!” 

“Yes, but we all know this bit so is there any point in telling it?” – Masongill. 

“Hmm. But the ethos of telling ‘short’ tales in the Potting Shed is that we never know, there, who knows what, so we tell everything.” This is pTravis. “Why don’t we just pretend that there is someone listening-in who does not know what happened. And, in any case, although Lottie had a bright idea, not every part of her idea was very bright. So let me restart things by asking Lottie a question. You could have picked any pea but you did not pick Emlyn, the Pod’s enforcer. Why not?” 

“No, not him obviously! He dropped me out of the Pod on my head! He’s a psycho! But shouldn’t I explain my big idea first? I mean to our imaginary, invisible, frankly non-existent, audience?” 

Seeing nods from the others, she continues. “Well, I realised that since Fabian doesn’t speak, but he does think, we needed a way he could warn other people by the power of thought alone. Spooky! And who does that sound like? The Pod and her minion peas. So I ‘borrowed’ a pea!” 

“And how did that go?” 

“Well I borrowed Tiffany Anne because I thought she was my friend. I found her, out and about in the woods, picked her up and carried her back to the Potting Shed... And then I had a blinding headache and felt the thought ‘Put Tiffany Anne down, idiot! She is about her Pod’s business!’ 

“So I dropped her, but then I saw Curt, or was it Roland (who can tell the difference?) who didn't seem to be doing much and, gingerly, picked him up. I felt a strange sense of tension which came from outside me but nothing bad actually happened so I said aloud to him ‘I am borrowing this pea to see if he can help the Potting Shed’s need for a kind of radio. Our chairman – Alcock; you know; that platipus; the moody, brooding one – would approve! And you like him.’ Again, nothing happened, so I took him back to find Fabian and Alcock.”