The movement of the train under his feet was very unfamiliar and not at all like a boat. Unmoored, Silas sat back down, though part of him was a little grateful Miss Rosier hadn't felt a need to demonstrate her towering height over his. Her focus drew in his curiosity once more, "Monsters can't hurt you. I had one in a closet once, it was so big and frightening when I was even smaller. But Mama told me that one's size is often unequal to one's courage, and all I needed for the monster to vanish was to face it and declare that I was unafraid."
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