Not at all what I was expecting, but certainly lays out a situation and direction for the story. Never ceases to amuse me how stories become living things in this medium, how styles and direction shift with each author’s contribution.
Technical point, for me, even whispered dialog should follow the quotation mark rules, but that’s nit picking, isn’t it. Only other thing is that I struggled to find the tone of the monster’s speech, if he was condescending, joking, or something else. With as much as you fit in, probably not room for the little descriptors of speech though, so understandable.