[She says it because she knows it, a sudden small clarity in her mind. No one would have sketched an image of her dad. Not like that.]
[She still looks a little afraid and maybe it is because of what she asks next, but she does it with the same hint of challenge as a few moments earlier.]
Do you think he's real?
[See, because it's not about whether he IS real or not. He has to be, she knows that much. But she's also known with devastating certainty that if she ever told anyone they wouldn't believe her. She's not asking about facts. She's asking about what Albert thinks.]
no subject
[She says it because she knows it, a sudden small clarity in her mind. No one would have sketched an image of her dad. Not like that.]
[She still looks a little afraid and maybe it is because of what she asks next, but she does it with the same hint of challenge as a few moments earlier.]
Do you think he's real?
[See, because it's not about whether he IS real or not. He has to be, she knows that much. But she's also known with devastating certainty that if she ever told anyone they wouldn't believe her. She's not asking about facts. She's asking about what Albert thinks.]
[That makes a whole lot of difference.]