"Nightmares? What nightmares?" Where was his father? Oh well— at either rate she wasn’t going to let the dear lad be afraid. "You don’t need to be afraid of anything, bot so long as I’m here."
“The scary monster - he tries to grab me…” he whispered, scared stiff just thinking about the terrors that haunted him at night. “I don’t want him to grab me and take me away,”