ET- Hollowing Turnip

  The robot went to a nearby Jumpum tree. “Lift up, please.” The Jumpum lifted a long root, revealing the hiding place of a number of high intensity tools. “Thank you.” The robot carried a laser torch back to the cave. He pointed it at the turnip. “Kitchen duty. Preparing vegetable.”

  The thick toughened skin slowly yielded and a doorshaped wedge was cut out of the turnip’s face. The robot’s metal fingers retracted and were replaced by a pair of pointed digging tools. “Emergency service items. Entrenchment orders, briizz.”

  And he hollowed out the turnip.

  In the cover of darkness, E.T. stepped outside and examined the surface of the turnip. The Fusion Blooms had now grown deeply into the turnip’s flesh, only their petals showing on the surface, from which their warm breath was expelled. He ran his hand over a few of the Blooms, murmuring softly to them, and then went back into the cave.

  The door in the turnip faced into the cave, and he circled around to it, and entered the giant vegetable. The robot was at work inside, exposing the inner mouth of the buried Fusion Blooms, thereby connecting inside with outside through the hollow body of the Blooms.
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  E.T. stepped from the door of the turnip and walked wearily to the rear of the cave, where he had grown a little fungus bed for himself, and onto which he laid himself with a sigh. “A Flopglopple is not easily overtaken, but a dry old demoted Doctor of Botany, formerly First Class, may not be so difficult a quarry.” He sighed again and rolled over. In very little time, exhausted from his labors and his constant hiding, he fell asleep.

- E.T. The Book of the Green Planet, chapter 20