The Boy At The House (18)

A couple of minutes later the whole gang is standing looking at the snoring figure in the couch.
"I wonder if he would wake up if we smashed saucepan lids", says Dilan.
"Shall we try it?", Luke says.
"No, stop it, he is sleeping deeply, but we must make up a plan", says Daniel.
They spread out in the room, maybe to make thinking easier, maybe to escape from thinking. There are plenty of windows and they can look out in all directions except towards the sea. Paula approaches a window. On the window shelf there are lots of tiny figures standing. They are warriors, soldiers, astronauts, ship captains, musceteers and lots of other small figures in plastic. Some are painted yellow, red, blue and green, some are fully grey.
"Is it you that has painted these?" Paula asks and looks towards Richard.
"Yes, most of them. Some dad has made."
Luke stands watching a little table, also on this are plastic figures, and there are also some small paint tins and a glass with brushes.
Suddenly the snoring stops and the man moves in the couch.