His words only prompted another violent shudder. Lou Ellen’d been sinking back into the very corners of her mind, but somehow that sentence got through. If only a little bit.
It was known that the blonde girl had nightmares ever since the Battle of Manhattan happened…
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He considered making a crack about Sleeping Beauty and what it had taken to wake her up, but he decided that that would be too much. Besides, the original tale was quite disturbing and not at all child-friendly.
His fingers were but mere puppets to desperation, and so they wrapped around her ankles. ‘If you don’t wake up, I’m going to pull and your face is going to meet the floor.’
