‘What if he makes me cry?’

‘Then we’ll listen and figure out what happened.

You never have to keep secrets that make you afraid.’

She thought a while before asking whether she could see the horse picture again.

That was her way of saying the conversation was over.

Mason’s questions were harder because he wanted an equation with a correct answer.

‘If we were real, why did he say we weren’t?’ he asked.

‘Because grown-ups can believe things that are wrong.