Storytime

I told Eddie that I had stolen his nose, and put it in a bunker: it's in a safe, in a deep cave, behind a deep dark wood guarded by dragons who are guarded by knights.  What will he do?

Eddie told me that knights wouldn't guard dragons (or his nose.) "OK," I said. "So it's just guarded by dragons. What do you do?"

Eddie decided that he would get on top of a dragon and ride it over the woods. Then he rode it down into the cave and told it to melt open the safe with its fire. Thus he got his nose back.

Since that hadn't worked, Papa took his nose again and put it on the moon. Eddie declared that he would take it back. How will he get there? "Can you walk to the moon?"

"Yeah," he said. "No way!" I told him. "You can't walk to the moon. Can you take a bus?"
"No," he said. "Can you take a train?" "No," he said. "Then how do you get there?"

He thought for a second, then remembered: "Fly!"
"Fly with what?"
"A... rocket ship!"
"But where will you get a rocket ship?"
"Rocketshipland!"
So Eddie walked to Rocketshipland, where he eloquently told the King of Rocketshipland of his plight, and the King was moved to give him a rocket ship. Then Eddie rode it to the moon and got his nose back.