Ky began to feel like a child whose teacher is trying to coax her past some childish fear.

All my childish fears of the dark returned.

And those who love their king ought not to play upon his childish fears to turn him from that duty.

Seven had been assimilated as a child, and in many ways, perhaps, that childish fear still drove her.

Sometime I'll tell you all about my childish fears, but right now I'm busy.

By some means I had not planned, going down into the cellar put my childish fears of it behind me.

Refusing to heed her childish fear of the dark, she opened the door and hurried inside.

Then she at once felt silly that she'd allowed her childish fears to surge up so and take control of her.

If so it had only been a childish fear, she told herself as the doorbell rang.