Alter-ego ficathon excerpt

[vilakins]

I signed up for alterego_thon, the pastiche challenge, and we had to post an excerpt this weekend. The deadline is so far away, of course I didn't even start writing till today, operating as usual on the 'just in time' manufacturing principle. I'm doing Blake's 7 characters on Gauda Prime done with much of the plot and--I hope--the style of Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome. His character Roger is so like Vila, I couldn't resist.

Here's my excerpt, which is the opening scene.