Footsteps send Aglet scuttling back into hiding, though they don't sound the same as before. And what was that noise that came through the door? It almost sounded like a fight, but he can't imagine any encounter with a monster like that would be so brief and involve only the one scream. He holds still again, listening as something -- something else? -- enters the room. When it speaks and turns out to be a person, he lets out a tiny sigh of relief. Even if it is a Bean, anything is better than something with all those teeth and claws.

He can stay here, he thinks, and probably hide, but this place doesn't have any hidden passages he knows about and there could be more of whatever that thing was. Cautiously, Aglet creeps to the end of the nightstand again and pokes his head out to look around. What he sees makes him take his first audible (if still mousey) gasp. It's blue! The Bean is blue!