Let us hope that humankind has not invented a Frankenstein that goes by the name of Artificial Intelligence.
After all, the useful application of atomic energy is a helpful thing; the atomic bomb is something else...
The pixies, although finding themselves in the distant past, brought about by the mismanagement of Artificial Intelligence, come to realise that the problems of yesteryear have, sadly, been repeated in the world from which they have been forcefully ejected.
They discover that in the past, pickpockets are much the same as the modern-day variety; that bullies are still a threat, be it an individual or a group; that the ways and means of the confidence trickster haven't really changed, playing on the greed of individuals; and, thankfully, that humour and kindness can lighten many dark corners in the life of humanity.
The pixies' most important realisation are incidents from the past, for reasons that are really unknown, have been changed for modern day consumption; then in their own inimitable way, either by accident or design, attempt, with some success, to right the wrongs of days gone by.

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PLACE AND DATE: A school in England, 1940. There were forty or more pupils to a class, because many teachers were required to serve in the armed forces. Teachers often became frazzled! On this particular day, the teacher set the class a writing test of no more than two pages. At that time the author was keen on science fiction. He wrote a story involving a space ship with a human and an android crew, with the inevitable disagreements between the two groups and the consequences. The teacher told the class she thought the story was rubbish with the author being banished to another class. In the other class, the teacher asked for a volunteer to be pen and ink monitor. The author was chosen to do the job which had a lot of influence and power. Black or blue ink, soft or hard nib, the world was the author's oyster... It has been a long time between stories.

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