[You do realize that this sort of thing would probably make it so that, even if you had been a kidnapper, not only would his family have not bothered to pay a ransom, but he wouldn't have wanted to go back.]
[What you do know makes no sense. But right now nothing makes sense, you least of all, and he's given up on making sense of it in favor of not having a headache.]
[He thinks that over for a minute; realistically speaking, if people know where he is, then hiding in a bookshelf isn't really any safer than being out and visible.]
[So he's pushing a few of the books out, enough to get space to crawl out, although he's still keeping a wary watch on Charles.]
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[What you do know makes no sense. But right now nothing makes sense, you least of all, and he's given up on making sense of it in favor of not having a headache.]
[He thinks that over for a minute; realistically speaking, if people know where he is, then hiding in a bookshelf isn't really any safer than being out and visible.]
[So he's pushing a few of the books out, enough to get space to crawl out, although he's still keeping a wary watch on Charles.]