This gained more and more momentum as it got through, and the personalised elements that the reader doesn’t quite understand, like the story about the little elephant, are perfect…
A different kind of hero, but a hero nonetheless.
‘Lay’ should read ‘lie’ at the beginning of the second paragraph, and you need to capitalise the ‘i’ in the last sentence of the first paragraph, but other than that this works well… Good take on the challenge – MH :)
Mostly Harmless 
Gradual Uprising {LoA} 
Browncoatben 
JLaughter001