hungry , he thought , im hungry , and he tried to speak it , tried to tell it to the person . saliva sprayed into the air as he spat the words at her . i got down on my hands and knees and crawled down the stairs toward her . and they 're usually done here , in the common room , where there are enough seats for everyone and nothing to distract us from learning beyond the perfectly symmetrical and evenly spaced green fields outside the window. 