User blog comment:Red Geist/(Spoilers) Is the kid in the first mission of the ME3 demo a figment of Shepard's imagination or is he real?/@comment-809585-20120215110448

I was thinking this I would assume the kid is real however the soldiers were to focused on holding back the Reapers to help the kid or he is simply a figment of Shepards imagintation and his/her true fear of fighting the Reapers