had he just called dad `` commander '' ? `` welcome to my humble little shop . unconsciously , the girl put her hand to the round metal ornament which decorated her otherwise plain brown gown . one minute you 're twenty years old and filled with fire ; the next , you 're forty-six and tired in the mornings . he had five or so lives left , so he kept playing but he really wasnt very good at all . this will be a long and bloody war . as i triumphantly finished the third it seemed he was gone at last ! 