"You said you would sleep," Erik said wearily.
"I know, I know," Zoe replied, "I did sleep, I swear!... for a reasonable length of time," she assured. .
Erik sighed: though she was older (not by too much, however, now that he thought about it), Zoe reminded him very much of his kids.
Finding Zoe at all hours in front of the computer did remind him of how he would wake up at night to go to the bathroom and find the light on in Maja's room: sometimes she was still awake reading, otherwise she was asleep with a book in her hands.
"You must sleep, Maja, you'll have enough time to read tomorrow," he would tell her.
"But Dad," she would retort, "I need to know how it ends!"
Zoe's determination to find the infectors was very similar to Maja's desire to know how the story ends.
Then it
