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The Balagan, The Lightship Of Organised Chaos

from Kaboomba! by Johnny Acecraft

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The resplendent alien alights daintily upon the crystal-encrusted bow of the Balagan, the Lightship of Organised Chaos. He speedily entreats his feet to set the route to the nearest seat to ease a fleeting sinking feeling. All around the ground below are dotted assorted besotted Lightship-spotters eagerly ticking the box in their books next to 'Balagan'. The craft is artfully decked with stacks of artifacts predating its departure from its home beyond the stars. Suddenly the Balagan swings towards the stern, a stern reminder of the forces working ceaselessly to bring the Balagan down. The alien who so recently permitted his battered frame the unfettered rest it needed leaps now to his feet and barks an order at an orderly to bring the guns to bear, but the order comes too late. For soon the Balagan is plunging, engines pumping clumps of unclean fumes upon the humans down below. He, resigned to fate, retakes his place upon the seat, there to await inevitable death bereft of dignity or grace. But wait! A light alights, it blinds his eyes, he tries to prise his eyelids shut but can't, his gaze remains fixed betwixt six pricks of light so bright his sight is wiped and he surrenders to an unencumbered limp and listless slumber under which the ship's aggressors seize control of his soul and beam it to the hold of their old and trusted gold-encrusted space transporter up above. The resplendent alien awakes to find his Lightship gone and from then on his life is never quite the same again...

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from Kaboomba!, released July 30, 2009
Written by J. Hinton
Featuring Fairy Luna on mandolin and tin whistle

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