honeymonster | Pippi Rules: example.

There was another plop. That was Pippi jumping in. She reached Tommy about the same time as the shark did. Terrified, Tommy was screaming at the top of his lungs. He felt the shark's sharp teeth scrape against his leg. But just at that instant Pippi grabbed the bloodthirsty beast with both hands and lifted him out of the water.

"Don't you have any shame in you?" she asked. The shark looked around, surprised and ill at ease. He wasn't able to breathe above the surface.

"Promise never to do that again and I'll let you go," said Pippi gravely. With all her force she flung him far out into the sea. He lost no time in getting away from there and decided to head for the Atlantic Ocean instead.

In the mean time Tommy had managed to scramble up on a small plateau, and he sat there trembling all over. His leg was bleeding. Then Pippi came up. She behaved very strangely. First she lifted Tommy up in the air and then she hugged him so hard that he lost his breath. Then all of a sudden she let go of him and sat down on the cliff. She put her head in her hands. She cried. Pippi cried! Tommy and Annika and all the Kurrekurredutt children looked at her, surprised and frightened.

"You cry because Tommy almost eaten up?"

"No," Pippi answered crossly, and wiped her eyes. "I cry because poor little hungry shark no get breakfast today."

--Astrid Lindgren
Pippi in the South Seas