“I am Candy Cadet, come get your candy here. I have candy all day, everyday. Candy.

Candy. Candy.”

“Return to Candy Cadet again and maybe I will tell you a story?”

“Now I will tell you a story about a young woman who was sealed in a small room. In
the room was a furnace and five keys. She was told that each of the five keys would
unlock one of five doors outside her room. Inside each room was a child that she
could take with her as she fled the building. But she was only allowed to leave her
own room with one key, not all five. Desperate to find a way to save all five
children, the woman melted the five keys together in the furnace to create a single
key, hoping it would unlock all five doors. But, of course, it did not work that
way. Now her key opened none of the doors. Rather than leaving her room with a key
to one life, she had taken with her the key to five deaths.”

“Now I will tell you a story. A story about a kind man who would visit five orphans
and bring them toys and gladness. The man lived alone and lived in fear that
someone might break into the house of one of the five children. So he adopted all
five and brought them together in one place in his own home. He promised them to
never leave them, and they promised to always come home and never stay out too
late. He left one day to buy food, his heart being filled with gladness, but
returned to find that the burglar had chosen his home and killed all five of the
children. The man could only afford one coffin, so he stitched the five bodies
together to make one, and buried the child. That night, there was a knock at the
door.”

“Now I will tell you a story about a little boy. He had a red snake that he kept in
a metal cage whose hunger could not be satisfied. One day, the boy found five baby
kittens outside his house. He brought them inside and kept them in a shoebox. He
knew that the snake might kill them, but could not bring himself to get rid of the
snake. He knew that if he chose one kitten to feed to the snake, it might be
satisfied, but he could not choose. So, he went to bed, leaving the cage open. The
snake went to the shoebox, chose a kitten at random, and ate it. After five nights
had gone by, the boy was full of regret, and cut the snake open. He pieced the
remains together and put the kitten back into the shoebox.”

“Now I will tell you a story...”

“About a mother and a little boy who lived alone in a cabin in the dark woods.”

“There was a monster in the woods, but the mother caught it and kept it locked in
the basement.”
“The monster always made scary noises at night, but the mother would tell the boy
not to worry because it could never get out. Then she would sing the boy a lullaby
to sleep.”

“One day, the monster stopped growling and instead, listened and learned the
lullaby.”

“The next day when the mother went out to find food, the monster sang the lullaby
from the basement. The little boy heard the lullaby and opened the door.”