Ashtin's Great Escape (and Other Disasters)

Previously

…Laison, the self-proclaimed captain, stood frozen, his plastic cutlass held aloft, his eyes wide. Before him, a muddy, triumphant Ashtin beamed, a garden hose still clutched in his small, grubby hands. The ‘terrifying kraken,’ a tangled mess of old rope and a forgotten beach ball, lay vanquished, its menacing tentacles now limp and uncooperative, thanks to a well-aim