Far Away

HARPER

So you’d better get some sleep.

HARPER

You can help me clean up in the morning. Will you do that?

HARPER

Of course. I’m not surprised you can’t sleep, what an upsetting thing to see. But now you understand, it’s not so bad. You’re part of a big movement now to make things better. You can be proud of that. You can look at the stars and think here we are in our little bit of space, and I’m on the side of the people who are putting things right, and your soul will expand right into the sky.

HARPER

Where they’re escaping to. You don’t want to have to keep any more secrets.

They’ll go off in the lorry very early in the morning.

HARPER

That would have been the child of the traitor. Or sometimes you get bad children who even betray their parents.

Yes, it had to be done to save the others.

HARPER

One of the people in the lorry was a traitor. He wasn’t really one of them, he was pretending, he was going to betray them, they found out and told your uncle. Then he attacked your uncle, he attacked the other people, your uncle had to fight him.

HARPER

Hitting who?

HARPER

No, he has to do it himself. But thank you for offering, that’s very kind. So after all that excitement do you think you could go back to bed?