mag 86 - “tucked in” isn’t really about being provided a false sense of security, safety is the last thing someone serving the fears would want their victims to feel. the entire point of it was that benjamin hatendi was still terrified of the creature of the dark when he hid beneath his blanket, and the dark is being kept well fed by hatendi’s fear of it. the fears don’t immediately go for the kill, why would they, you need the victim alive and afraid (excepting the end obvs). it’s only when he says, “fear had given way to routine” i.e. he stopped feeling abjectly afraid, that the thing directly attacks him.