[Stephen can't sleep, either. He knows that he's the adult in this situation and that he probably has some kind of pseudo-paternal responsibility to say something comforting at this point. What's he supposed to do, though, lie to the kid? If there's a third person in the house menacing them with dolls (...what is his life), that's something they're going to have to deal with together.
He keeps his voice low, nearly a whsiper.]
We need to clear this place room by room or it's not going to be safe for us to sleep. Think you can help me with that?
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[Stephen can't sleep, either. He knows that he's the adult in this situation and that he probably has some kind of pseudo-paternal responsibility to say something comforting at this point. What's he supposed to do, though, lie to the kid? If there's a third person in the house menacing them with dolls (...what is his life), that's something they're going to have to deal with together.
He keeps his voice low, nearly a whsiper.]
We need to clear this place room by room or it's not going to be safe for us to sleep. Think you can help me with that?