The strange incident occurred while he was on one of his morning walks.
He took more or less the same route each day. On this occasion he was paying particular attention to the condition of the ground. It was part of his remit to look out for anything worth noting. He had noticed a small hole or two in previous days, but the one he was looking at now was quite large. He was trying to gauge the depth of it when, to his amazement, a small face appeared. He crouched down and their eyes locked. In that moment, they were equally surprised to see each other. He was even more surprised to find that it actually looked like the head of a mole.
He stood transfixed for several minutes.
At first, the creature seemed to be looking around, then it slowly climbed out, showing without doubt that it was indeed a mole. It scurried around for a while sniffing the ground then, as if disturbed, it shot straight back down.
He just stood there blinking.
He couldn’t wait to report it.
He thought about how he wouldn’t have thought twice about it if he’d seen a mole on one of his country walks back home, but here?
Let’s face it, he certainly didn’t expect to see one on the moon!