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Childhood nightmares, shadows under the bed, and moving in the dark—the fear of what we cannot perceive persists from our earliest memories until the final moments of life. When a child awakes during the night, a teddy bear clutched in their arms in silent terror, what are they seeing? Why do the lights need to be on to calm them again?
Really, Ishmael only desires to drag that teddy to her sheets.
She accepts this generous gift given by her under-the-bed lurker, despite the conclusion that lies in disappearing under a bed and vanishing inside the corridors of the dark.