The young boy lay in bed, thinking.
His foster parents had taken him to visit their friends in the country. They were very nice, but more people that he didn’t know. There had been a large gnome in their back garden that had a very friendly face. He too was a stranger. He had seen these figures in books. He didn’t really understand what they were. His young world was confusing, but now, in this bed, it was his world. Gradually, his thoughts became actions.
He went in search of a male adult gnome in the fairy tale community. He found what he was looking for. He searched again for a female adult gnome in the fairy tale community. He found what he was looking for. He searched once more for an infant gnome in the fairy tale community. He found what he was looking for.
There, he brought them together, as a family…