بخش 02

Conor.

Mum?

I have come to get you, Conor O’Malley.

Why don’t you run, Conor O’Malley?

Why don’t you run for your mother?

You leave her alone! I’m not afraid of you!

I will visit you again on further nights, Conor O’Malley.

And I will shake your walls until you wake.

And then, I will tell you three stories.

You’re going to tell me stories?

I am.

I will tell you three stories, and when I have finished my stories,

you will tell me a fourth.

I don’t know anything about stories!

You will tell me a fourth, and it will be the truth.

What are you talking about?

This truth that you hide. The truth you dream.

You will tell me your nightmare. No.

Yes. That will be your truth.

And if I don’t?

Con, I was asleep.

You should be in your own bed, Con.

Just five minutes.

That’s not true. Yes, it is.

Come on, Con. Just five minutes. I promise.

Five minutes.

Night, night.