Bit of a breakthrough yesterday. I realised it's not Danny who is hit by the car and sent into a coma. It's his mother. She's the rather cool, cerebral one that he finds hard to get along with (more than his exuberant, physical Dad), but of course he loves her very much and this sends him into a spin.
It sends the whole family into a spin, especially as Geoff, his Dad, is pretty hopeless at running a home. Clara, the annoyingly practical elder sister, comes into her own and keeps the boat afloat. But it is Danny, who has discovered the Room of Strange Doorways, who must enter his mother's dream - her coma - and rescue her. Entering a coma is surely very dangerous. He could never come back.
Entering his mother's dreams requires a huge act of imagination and empathy. He has to think himself into her mind, put himself in her shoes. Only then will the door open and admit him. His mother is lost in there, deep in coma, swallowed by the dark. And he must get her out.
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