"Oh no! That's not good! Okay! Okay! Don't panic! Um!"

He looks around desperately. There's no sign of the -- well, it sort of looks like a small white-pink fuzzy bear-dog-rabbit-cat thing with antennae, but that takes too long to say, so let's go with wordvore.

"Hang on," says Dennis thoughtfully, "if it heads towards words and it eats words, then what we need is lots of words for bait, and, also we need to get our words back, so, where do people go when they can't quite remember what a word means?"