English Alien Hand 07: An Alien Hand

"Tilloo! How often have you been told not to go that way?”  "But why does Daddy go there every day?” "Because that’s his job, Tilloo!” ‘That way’ was an underground passage.

Tilloo’s father went every day for work along that passage. And every day he came back from that direction. What lay at the end of that forbidden route? Not only Tilloo, but a great majority of the community would have liked to know. Tilloo’s father  was one of the select few permitted to go that way.

The above conversation invariably took place between Tilloo and his mother whenever he insisted on following his father. Today, however, was different. Tilloo’s father was enjoying a siesta at home and Tilloo managed to get hold of his security card. Then, evading his watchful mother’s eye, Tilloo made his way to the forbidden passage.