Aha! I have trapped you! If I was not in your dream at all, then you would not be sure I did! [Youth grinned widely, feeling very clever indeed. All he knew for sure was that he didn't like to be ignored, and therefore surely he wouldn't just let someone ignore him whenever they wanted.]

[Youth scrutinized Bell, thinking. The duration of the book? Maybe it would be fair if it was ten, twenty pages. But there were a good hundred pages in that. Stay silent the entire time for a hug? But he could bargain.]

The mind is a good thing to work out! But I do not think I like the idea of waiting for the entire book! What of half? I will accept half! And I do not care to sit. I cannot get any stronger by sitting.