"Noted.  I will try to remember that real people from my own world have feelings too."

"But, Gus - if you actually wake up others in this town, they may end up a lot less stable and predictable and simple than they used to be.  Some of them may end up less nice than they used to be.  Maybe the ones who were already not perfectly nice get much more unpredictable and destructive.  I genuinely don't know.  It may or may not be part of the price of waking people up."

"The world where people are okay and the town is okay and everything always stays okay--I don't know if it survives events already starting up anyway, like Jojamart, but waking people up is another layer of risk to that okayness on top of that.  It's what scares Leah, and why she asked me to stop waking people up, and why I haven't been telling you that Leah must be a bad person just because she asked that."

"I'm saying this because you have a very strong belief that everything will be okay and I want you to be right, but the world of awake people--might, or might not, still be like that."

"Noted.  I will try to remember that real people from my own world have feelings too."

"But, Gus - if you actually wake up others in this town, they may end up a lot less stable and predictable and simple than they used to be.  Some of them may end up less nice than they used to be.  Maybe the ones who were already not perfectly nice get much more unpredictable and destructive.  I genuinely don't know.  It may or may not be part of the price of waking people up."

"The world where people are okay and the town is okay and everything always stays okay--I don't know if it survives events already starting up anyway, like Jojamart, but waking people up is another layer of risk to that okayness on top of that.  It's what scares Leah, and an obvious reason for her to ask me to stop waking people up.  Which is why I haven't been telling you that Leah must be a bad person just because she asked that."

"I'm saying this because you have a very strong belief that everything will be okay and I want you to be right, but the world of awake people--might, or might not, still be like that."

"Noted.  I will try to remember that real people from my own world have feelings too."

"But, Gus - if you actually wake up others in this town, they may end up a lot less stable and predictable and simple than they used to be.  Some of them may end up less nice than they used to be.  Maybe the ones who were already not perfectly nice get much more unpredictable and destructive.  I genuinely don't know.  It may or may not be part of the price of waking people up."

"The world where people are okay and the town is okay and everything always stays okay--I don't know if it survives events already starting up anyway, like Jojamart, but waking people up is another layer of risk to that okayness on top of that.  It's what scares Leah, and an obvious reason for her to ask me to stop waking people up.  Which is why I haven't been telling you that Leah must be a bad person just because she asked that."

"I'm saying this because you have a very strong belief that everything will be okay, and I want you to be right, but the world of awake people--might, or might not, still be like that."

"Noted.  I will try to remember that real people from my own world have feelings too."

"But, Gus--if you actually wake up others in this town, they may end up a lot less stable and predictable and simple than they used to be.  Some of them may end up less nice than they used to be.  Maybe the ones who were already not perfectly nice get much more unpredictable and destructive.  I genuinely don't know.  It may or may not be part of the price of waking people up."

"The world where people are okay and the town is okay and everything always stays okay--I don't know if it survives events already starting up anyway, like Jojamart, but waking people up is another layer of risk to that okayness on top of that.  It's what scares Leah, and an obvious reason for her to ask me to stop waking people up.  Which is why I haven't been telling you that Leah must be a bad person just because she asked that."

"I'm saying this because you have a very strong belief that everything will be okay, and I want you to be right, but the world of awake people--might, or might not, still be like that."