Of all the places that Douglas had seen on their journey, he had to admit that this place was the biggest. It was dull, yet there was beauty in the simplistic scenery that surrounded them. It was a place big enough that the geographer could have written many things in his big book. There were no lamplighters here, at least none where they landed, and Douglas thought that it would be nice at night to have the lamplighter here to keep the nights from being so dark. The only relief was the stars that Douglas could see at night.

The little prince started out to explore this strange new world. There were many things that Douglas saw as he and the little prince traveled throughout this vast new planet. The little prince walked a lot. They met a funny creature that looked like a moving loop (which Douglas later learned was called a snake). They met a lone flower, and then a group of flowers. They met a fox. A very talkative fox, Douglas thought. They climbed sharp mountains. They met a railway switchman, and then a sales clerk. All these things were nice to have met, but Douglas found that none of them were too terribly interesting.

Peculiar Planet

Antoine de Saint-Esupery

Online Source: The Little Prince

And then on one day, a man fell out of the sky. Now the man himself didn’t fall out of the sky, rather a thing that Douglas had never seen before fell out of the sky, and a man crawled out from inside it. It looked unlike anything that Douglas had ever seen on his adventures through the universe. The man took no notice of the little prince and Douglas on the first day he fell from the sky. And so the little prince and Douglas sat in the sand and watched the man.

The next morning, the little prince talked to the man.

“Draw me a sheep…”

The man seemed startled. You would too if you had fallen from the sky in a sea of sand to find a little prince talking to you. The man asked questions that the little prince didn’t answer, until the man finally drew a sheep.

Days came and went. Douglas sat and waited for something exciting to happen, but it never seemed to. The little prince and the man would talk. The man would ask questions and fix his flying box, and the little prince would tell stories of where he came from, the rose, and his adventures. Douglas grew to like the man. To Douglas, the man seemed very curious, always asking the little prince questions. Being curious is often a good thing, because how can you get answers if you don’t ask questions? The man was also diligent in trying to fix his flying thing, a quality that the lamplighter had. He did not seem vain like the rose, for instead of talking of himself, he listened to the little prince talk. The man was also an explorer it seemed. Why else would he have been flying around? “He must have seen many things on his adventures,” Douglas thought, “unlike the geographer who felt himself too important to go on adventures.”

It was then that one day, the snake came back to talk to the little prince. Douglas felt a cold chill whenever this thing talked, even though it was very hot. Douglas became leery of the intentions of the snake. This string-like creature kept talking about sending the little prince back to his star. This worried Douglas. Though he liked living on Asteroid B-612, there was still so much to see on this planet. This place was big enough that if Douglas decided to grow, he could, and have to worry about being plucked.

Funny Creature

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Online Source: The Little Prince

Douglas made a daring decision. One day, while the man and the little prince were talking, Doulas sprouted a little shoot again. He gripped the end of the little prince’s scarf, and, waiting for the right moment when the scarf was swinging, he leapt from the little prince’s scarf, and landed on the man’s jacket that was lying by the flying thing. He crawled up under the collar, for he still wanted to see the world, and a pocket would block his view.

From his new vantage point, Douglas saw the little prince differently now. The man was much taller than the little prince, and Douglas now saw how small and fragile the little prince was. He also saw how sad he was.

Then, one night, the little prince left. The man ran after the little prince, but said nothing to keep him from leaving. The little prince walked away from the man, and Douglas saw the snake, and in a flash he saw him bite the little prince. The little prince stood there for a moment, and then, silently, he fell.

He Fell Gently

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Online Source: The Little Prince

Douglas had never felt the kind of sadness that he felt now. It was a very strong feeling, and Douglas thought that his shell would crack from sorrow.

The man returned to his flying thing, and then, after having crawled back inside it, the man, and now Douglas too, left.

Author's note: Putting this story together was a little challenging. The story of the pilot, rather than being a single story in the little prince, is woven throughout the entire book. After all, the pilot is the narrator of the book. I had to take bits and pieces of the story involving the pilot from different parts of the book, and try and weave them together in such a way that I could find a place for Douglas. The pilot's story is one that I did not change, because I felt no need to stray from what happened in the book. I made mention of the other people and things that the little prince came in contact with - such as the snake, the roses, and the other people - but decided not to expound on their stories for the sake of focusing on the events surrounding the little prince and the pilot. I had also made the decision to change the carrier for Douglas, who is now with the pilot instead of the little prince.