and all memory waking from a thin tormented sleep like frothy water spilled across his face and he 's struggling to breathe , choking and coughing , for the demon brother has sucked up most of the oxygen in the room , how can the demon brother help it , his lungs are so strong , his breath so deep and his metabolism so heated , naturally the demon brother will suck up the oxygen in the brothers ' room where each night at bedtime their parents tuck the boys in , in twin beds , kissing each , declaring their love for each , and in the night the smaller brother is wakened from a nightmare of suffocation , his weak lungs unable to breathe , panicked and whimpering , in a plea for help managing to crawl from his bed and out of the room and into the hall , collapsed partway between the brothers ' room and their parents ' room where in the early morning the parents will discover him .