ET- Underground Minds

  E.T. and the Flopglopple continued on through the wood above the garden. The path turned, along a natural wall of rock, which rose like a dragon’s scaly spine out of the ground. It was filled with cracks and fissures, one of which had suddenly claimed the attention of the Flopglopple. “Emanation. Mind from the deep!”

  E.T. froze with the Flopglopple, as their subtle mental receivers came on, and they heard dark voices, echoing in the planet’s depths and traveling along through subterranean seams, and exiting from the fissure in front of them.

  we never got our bicycles

  “Sinistro,” said the Flopglopple, and he and E.T. fell to their knees in front of the fissure, and listened to the next transmission:

  nor our ballfoot helmets

  “Electrum,” said E.T. softly.

  nor our own closet

  “Occulta,” concluded the Flopglopple.

  The sound of the dark voices grew faint, and traveled on, through other veins. “I wish,” said E.T., “I could do something for them to make up for all the trouble I caused. They were chastised, stripped of their mining guns and sent back to the depths in disgrace.”

- E.T. The Book of the Green Planet, chapter 14