... I feel safer than before, because I know more people. I was really scared because I didn’t think two was enough, and now there aren’t two any more. There are loads. And you’re better off that way.’
‘Who are these loads? Ellie and Will and people like that?’
‘Yeah, people like that.’
‘They won’t be around forever.’
‘Some of them will, some of them won’t. But, see, I didn’t know before that anyone else could do that job, and they can. You can find people. It’s like those acrobatic displays.’
‘What acrobatic displays?’
‘Those ones when you stand on top of loads of people in a pyramid. It doesn’t really matter who they are, does it, as long as they’re there and you don’t let them go away without finding someone else.’
‘You really think that? It doesn’t matter who’s underneath you?’
‘I do now, yeah. I didn’t, but now I do. Because you can’t stand on top of your mum and dad if they’re going to mess around and wander off and get depressed.’