And it turned out the scary thing didn't mean to be scary. It was just scary cuz it was, but it really wanted to be Lily's friend, and it didn't know how to tell Lily that. And everyone kept running away from it when it tried, so that's why it kidnapped Lily. So when Lily learned how to talk to it, they agreed that they could try to be friends if it didn't tie Lily up anymore. So... So it let Lily go, and Lily stayed with it and was its friend so that it had a friend, cuz that's what it wanted, and it protected Lily from the other, different scary things in the place they lived.