In either case, the boy took the apparent slightly-improved mood to ask, “Now, you sure you don’t want to go downstairs?”
“One question before that-” Holding up a hand and putting the subject of going downstairs on pause, the girl asked, “Is everyone freaking out about you? Like… one way or the other?”
“Uh…” This inquiry only seemed to make Dillion more baffled. After thinking over the question, he offered, “No?”
“Yeah, I think we can go down.”
After rising to his feet, the boy offered his hand out to help his sister up from bed; while she regarded it as unnecessary, it was a nice gesture she supposed and she went along with it with a quick, “Thanks.”
“Heh, no problem.”