Day 353 - Further addendum:

This has been a stimulating and really quite incredible experience. The foolish Monster whose food I ate was so distracted that it did not see me make my escape from the tunnel. I will try to describe the Monster as best I can. It was tremendously tall, like all Monsters, and had an unkempt appearance. Its cloth coverings were very messy looking, not nearly as neat as those on the Enormous One. It had long, shaggy, dirty blonde hair in what is, I believe, normally called a "mullet" cut, along with a mustache and a few days growth of chin stubble. An astoundingly ugly sight!

As the Monster complained loudly about the missing food a She-Monster came in the room. Not my She-Monster, another one. It was wearing fairly similar cloths, with the knees ripped out of the lower ones, and had even longer hair, but not face hair. She-Monsters don't normally have facial hair. At least, not much.

I was so fascinated with the colors in the room that I just stood there for the next few minutes...or hours...and studied them. I have no idea why. I've never done that before. During those minutes...or hours...the Monsters talked loudly for a while about the missing food. Then they talked about money. Then they decided to go out and get something to eat. Good! In all this time they never noticed me...thank goodness! They appear to be very stupid, these two.

Anyway, they finally left and I finally decided that the colors on the walls were perfect just as they were and I started looking for water. As luck would have it, I found a bird cage with a budgie in it. His name is Toto. I have talked to him a little, and he is a cheerful sort. He let me drink from his water dish, which I could just get my tongue to by putting it between the bars on his cage. I took a good drink and I feel much better even than before, but I'm getting sleepy.

Toto says that these two Monsters don't have the brains of a bird between them, but they are basically harmless...and there is no cat. Bravo! Toto hates cats. We are in absolute agreement on that. He has also no objections if I eat some of his seeds! There's a whole box of them on the floor. Hooray! But now I need a nap. I am going to find a nice, safe place underneath something and sleep for at least 12 hours.

Corridus (zzzzzzz)