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The teachers refused him the flower and pushed him through the door crying. Josh watched all of this from the safety of a branch in a high tree and found himself confused.

A few moments later the boy came running out, defying the teachers. He stooped to pick up the flowers as he continued forward and the teachers flew pell-mell in front of his wild charge. Suddenly there were four ‘bots’ there. Josh didn’t know where they had come from but he saw them arm their weapons and fire at the helpless boy who was running away.

The child fell to the ground, his hands convulsively groping the beautiful yellow flowers with green stalks into a greenish yellow mush. ‘Bots’ surrounded the boy, lifting up his pale unresponsive body. The child’s eyes teared, the only protest his body would permit as they dragged him into the gray building.

Josh waited for hours. Finally, the boy walked out with the other children, a perfect line past gorgeous yellow flowers without a single look.

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