Harv had quietly stuffed the piece of cloth into his shoe and then limped 
home, not saying a word to anyone. That night Nell, lying on her red mattress, 
was troubled by vague dreams about strange lights and finally woke up to see a 
blue monster in her room: It was Harv underneath his blanket with a torch, 
doing something. She climbed out very slowly so
as not to disturb Dinosaur, Duck, Peter, and Purple, and stuck her head beneath 
the blanket, and found Harv, holding the little flashlight in his teeth, 
working at something with a pair of toothpicks.