Mub

Loo and Mub began gathering up Buster's teddybear and toys.

Christmas on Ganymede and Other Stories Greenberg, Martin H. 1990

Loo and Mub had the cot pillow and the teddybear floating in the air above the cot, with Buster's broken Christmas Treason 227 truck doing a figure-of-eight between them.

Christmas on Ganymede and Other Stories Greenberg, Martin H. 1990

Loo and Mub were harder to pin down; there were a couple of places where the people had slanty eyes or had dark brown skin and black curly hair.

Christmas on Ganymede and Other Stories Greenberg, Martin H. 1990

Mub went home for her breakfast and Loo for her dinner, both with orders to come back tomorrow night or sooner if Richard called them.

Christmas on Ganymede and Other Stories Greenberg, Martin H. 1990

Mub was lying in Buster's cot being a sick Mummy and Loo was kneeling beside her being the Nurse.

Christmas on Ganymede and Other Stories Greenberg, Martin H. 1990

So he called up Loo and Mub, linked them to each other through his mind, and spoke:

Christmas on Ganymede and Other Stories Greenberg, Martin H. 1990

Mub was waiting to lick the spoon with the icing sugar on it.

Christmas on Ganymede and Other Stories Greenberg, Martin H. 1990

Just so long as they knew where everything was they could move it just like that, and Mub sent a thought of her Daddy snapping his fingers.

Christmas on Ganymede and Other Stories Greenberg, Martin H. 1990

Then Mub and Loo, linked to the distant room through Buster's and Richard's minds, began to move the grown-up who sat before the screen.

Christmas on Ganymede and Other Stories Greenberg, Martin H. 1990

Mub didn't know what to make of her Daddy sometimes.

Christmas on Ganymede and Other Stories Greenberg, Martin H. 1990