A story for Ron

Once upon a time, in the centre of a dormant volcano, there was an innocent blue lake of childhood, learning lessons and growing up, and a Shy Little Girl, whose favourite pastime was reading.
One day when the Shy Little Girl said to her Mum 'Mummy, can I come shopping with you today?' a voice was heard suddenly above saying "May I! It's 'may I' not 'can I'."
When the Shy Little Girl looked up she saw the voice belonged to Big Cousin. He was leaning out of a window.
Big Cousin had seen that the Shy Little Girl didn't  rampage about, or break the branches of trees, or go fern bashing or fall out like the other children. In fact she was the contradiction of everything he thought he knew about children.
It may be also that he was feeling rather bored because he'd exhausted his creative projects. So Big Cousin decided to take an interest in the Shy Little Girl.
He continued the task of correcting her grammar. And the Shy Little Girl didn't mind; she liked the attention, and, if truth be known, had been feeling a bit lonely in spite of the characters in her books who were keeping her company.
Big Cousin, who, as has been said was very creative, also showed the Shy Little Girl how to draw and gave her charcoal with which to make some pictures of her own.
But then, on a day when Big Cousin was away attending to some other business, the Shy Little Girl was asked by one of the other children - who was a Little Devil - if she could get some charcoal for him.
And the Shy Little Girl went and got a piece of charcoal for the Little Devil.
When Big Cousin returned Little Devil lost no time in telling him that the Shy Little Girl had fallen from grace by taking a piece of charcoal without permission.
And Big Cousin was so angry to discover that the Shy Little Girl was capable of being naughty after all that he vowed only ever to have children on toast for breakfast in future.
After this the blue crater lake was never so still again as it once had been, and it was not long before the volcano erupted and everyone there was carried by a lahar down the mountainside and out to sea on the tsunami of life.
As years passed the Shy Little Girl and Big Cousin both suffered and survived many shipwrecks and each collected a treasure store of successes and failures, of achievements and regrets, of love and loss.
And in the end they were much wiser about what is important in life.
And about how to resist Little Devils.