Lay still, Steven, and I'll tell you a bedtime story.
	I'll tell you a bedtime story that's not for all
	children. It's a very special story, that only special
	children will understand. It's a half-awake story, and
	it will be better if you close your eyes. It's a
	story that takes place in a dream, like other
	nightmares you have known. It's a dream that Alice has
	dreamed. You can dream along with him. You can follow
	Alice down the staircase, deep, down the stairs to the
	pit where he doesn't want to go, but he has to.

	If you go to sleep now, Steven, you can go down the
	long and endless stairway and sing sweet songs to Alice
	and free him. And if you can't get to sleep, Steven,
	and in the middle of the night you get out of bed, when
	everything is quiet and the trees are still and the
	birds are hiding from the dark, you can lie down on
	your bedroom floor and press your ear tightly to the
	boards. If you listen very carefully you can hear
	Alice searching for a way out, forever chasing
	rainbows.

	Sleep tight, Steven. And have a good night.