“The sooner you use it consistently, the sooner you’ll learn to wake up at night, and be done with it and the diapers.”
Mirka mumbled something non-committal and unintelligible in reply.
“Get up and get ready if you’re coming. We’ll talk later about the alarm. Did you at least manage to stay dry after you woke up?”
Mirka replied with a vague mumble as she swung her legs out from under the covers.
“That didn’t sound much like an answer.”
“No,” she mumbled just clearly enough to be understood.
“Well, get cleaned up then and get get ready so we can be off.” Her dad withdrew and closed the door behind him, leaving the room dark except for the crack of light under the door and faint light creeping around the window blind.