In the backyard of the Governor's Mansion on Annarles Island, Charles was in the middle of painting his daughter, who was hovering in mid-air. "Sparkle, slightly raise your third tentacle on the left. Good, that's great. Now hold it... hold it. Done!"0

Charles stared at his work on the drawing board with a satisfied smile. A wriggling clump of tentacles riddled with glowing eyeballs descended toward him and stared at the portrait on the drawing board.0

The painting depicted a clump of tentacles riddled with green glowing eyeballs with a cross-shaped pupil in the middle of it. The background was the black tower, which was the elevator that led to the suspended monorail, and the airships heading to the surface world. 0

Overall, the entire painting appeared to be a coherent and harmonious integration of...0