Zornhau (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} zornhau) wrote,@ 2008-05-07 13:39:00 |
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| Entry tags: | fatherhood, kurtzhau |
Walking to nursery with Sun Tzu Junior
A German sorcerer has cast Kurtzhau’s Romans back to the Jurassic, where they’ve been abducted by a flying saucer. The aliens didn’t expect Marcellanus to be a magician, otherwise they wouldn’t have stored the weapons so close to the lockup…
Me: So Marcellanus the Scholar worked his spell and the doors slid open to reveal the control room. The aliens were odd – triangular heads and three arms, but Tertius didn’t care. He drew his gladius--
Me: They used them to take out the allasaurs, remember?
Kurtzhau (aged 4): (Nods.)
Me: So Tertius shouted “Charge!” The entire century piled into the control room. Some of the aliens drew weapons and fired. Some of the Romans died. But within a few seconds there was nothing left of the aliens but bits of chopped up green stuff.
Kurtzhau (aged 4): What about their pilums, Daddy?
Me: They used them to take out the allasaurs, remember?
Kurtzhau (aged 4): (Nods.)
Me: So Tertius shouted “Charge!” The entire century piled into the control room. Some of the aliens drew weapons and fired. Some of the Romans died. But within a few seconds there was nothing left of the aliens but bits of chopped up green stuff.
Then Marcellanus swore and pointed to the window. Outside was a good view of the Moon – a very big Moon. He turned around and checked the other window. A big round blue and white disk that could only be the Earth.
Kurtzhau (aged 4): Daddy, what was wrong, Daddy?
Me: That’s what Centurion Tertius asked. Marcellanus replied that they stuck between the Earth and the Moon on a ship they didn’t know how to steer,
“That’s bad,” said Tertius.
Kurtzhau (aged 4): They should have captured the aliens, Daddy, not killed them all. Then Marcellanus and Tertius would have had somebody to steer the flying saucer!
