December 23, 5065. 9:39 a.m.
With an enormous pop, the offending insulation quadrupled in size once again. Xbarg starred helplessly as it swallowed his control panel, pushed up the ceiling tiles, and bent the door frames from rectangles to arches. He could hear the ship’s seams creaking as it struggled to contain the growing mountain within.
This call was over, Xbarg realized, lest the growing Deluxe Enveloping abundance swallow him alive. With great effort, he wriggled free and began hurriedly punching and scooting along the ship’s wall toward the exit hatch.
December 28, 5065 7:15 p.m.
Xbarg watched sadly as his beloved ship blasted off toward its new destination with its Enveloping Insulation contained securely inside its metal walls. Briefly, he wondered if the impending recipients would be surprised by their expanding new purchase.
No, he assured himself. When they purchased the insulation from the Premiere Galactic Online Auction site, they would have known that it was an auto-expansion variety because they didn’t have to input their building size into the electronic order form.
