"So... it's nice to look at but not nice to live at?"

"I think the people who do live there probably like it fine. But I didn't want to - look for a swap and pack up all my things and be away from my family and need a new job -"

"Oh."

"I don't know if I've had a reason to want to stay at a place before."

"You've never had a place where you liked anything about it?"

"There was a raccoon I was friends with in a wagon once."

"There was a place on a mountain that had pretty sunsets, even if it was hard to get down from the mountain."

A pause.

More quietly than the rest: "The clean place had lots of food until I realized I shouldn't eat it."

"Oh... what was wrong with the food?"

Eefa shivers a bit.

"It made me stay asleep for dreams."

"Do you usually wake up a lot in the night?"

"What's a lot?"

"- does it happen more nights than it doesn't?"

"Yes."

"Except when I ate the food at the clean place and then I'd stay asleep." Eefa says, shaking at the memory.

"And that's bad because you have a lot of nightmares?"

Hrm.

Eefa looks closely at Mikko to see if he looks like he's gonna try making her sleep when she doesn't want to, like in the clean place.

"There's some medications for nightmares but I don't think any of them are safe for kids your age." Or species! But they're not talking about that.

"No." says Eefa very firmly.

"Right. You're much too little. I hope the nightmares get better. A lot of kids grow out of them."

Eefa's no very much includes her when she is bigger but Mikko seems to have gotten the basic point.

"Waking up is safer sometimes." she says. 

"Safer how?"

"If someone tries to surprise me in the night," she says. 

"Is the night shift orange waking you up making noise?"

"No." 

Is the nightshift orange doing something in the night which should be waking her up, she doesn't ask.

"Oh, good, I think he's very quiet but he's here long enough he does need to unpack a meal and eat it."

Eefa nods, she's seen the nightshift orange eating before. 

"I hope you're getting enough sleep around your nightmares. It's important for growing and for staying healthy and for learning."

Eefa looks at Mikko suspiciously.