The considerateness is appreciated, especially since Shrieky is still pretty unsteady, even on his relatively short legs. He's not... as slow as he started out, but he's not going to be recognized for his power walking skills any time soon.

"Well, there was this man, and he and his wife dearly wanted children. So they performed the necessary sequence of steps, and late one night, she gave birth to a baby boy. At first, the boy was healthy, but when the sun came up, he suddenly grew weak, and by the time the sun was high in the sky, the little boy was dead."

He glances to Wolfgang, checking that he's paying attention, before continuing:

"A few years later, the man and the woman tried again for a child, and this time they had a little daughter, but again, when the sun rose? She died. They tried this one more time, a few years later, but once again, the moment the sun was in the sky, their child began to fade from them. So the man decided that he was going to stop the sun from taking any more of his children. He packed his bow and his arrows, and he set off east in the dead of night, so that when the sun first rose the next day, he would be right there waiting to shoot the sun down!"