Years and years ago, in the 1970s, I used to read those comics for girls with titles like Bunty, Judy, Jill, Jackie and so on. In one of them, there was a serial about a girl with an injured leg who, while undergoing surgery dreamt that she was in a parallel universe where instead of caring for children born with birth defects, they were cast out from the perfect society. They fought back by entering a competition against the ‘perfect’ people and winning.

Now, I don’t remember EVERY story I ever read in the Bunty etc. Most of them were run of the mill stuff about ballet, gym, horse riding, the usual middle class aspirations, and most of them were exactly the same. But I do recall a few stories that stand out in that way. This was one. Two other Theta Sigma stories were based very loosely on other stories from that era. Christine, and Perfect Tens.

This, is my version of that story. Chrístõ finds the Wild Flowers abandoned by the Pernandrian people, and determines to make things right. He does so by organizing a televised gala concert and having Julia and the Flowers dance and perform to the invited audience before he reveals the secret of the flowers and forces some home truths on the population of Pernandria.

His government complaining that he aided and abetted the forces of revolution instead of supporting the Status Quo is a hint of clashes that might yet come between the loyal Heir to the House of Lœngbærrow and his political leaders.