eventually , she turned back on her side to face me , a little closer than she was before . id taken a star-liner away while hed faced the conflagration face-first . is n't that what they always did in the movies ? mack rubs the place on his arm where i punched him . the female voice on the other end of the line was high-pitched and frantic . that could drive him crazy sometimes , since most people treated him like the young adult he appeared to be . well what 's the lock and key for ? 