Iain finds a monster

Iain was looking for sheepie. 'He's upstairs', I said, 'in the study'. Off he went, up the stairs to retrieve sheepie. A couple of minutes later, he came back down, and called out to me: 'I have something to tell you, mummy. You were right. Sheepie was in the study.' Wow. I hear those three little words so infrequently.

Then Iain went on to explain that sheepie was alone in the study, in the dark, and was a little frightened. Apparently there was also a monster in the study. A rather large monster, by the sound of it, in fact. Surprisingly, the monster said, 'Hello, Iain'. I suppose Iain met a monster just as friendly as he is. 'And guess what I did?' he asked. Now, Thomas would have killed the monster. Shoot first (or run through with a sword or light saber), ask questions later--and he never would have dreamt that the monster would offer a civilized greeting. But not Iain. I said, 'You said, "hello, monster"'. He nodded.

Turns out it was a chocolate monster.