he peered over his shoulder at her and she waddled up his spine to sit on his shoulders making little grunting noises . or better yet , a city within a city within a town . it took only one shot of the sawed-off to make a bigger hole through those concentric rings of holes . the men , they wished to have some entertainment of her , but i would not let them . the breath she tried to take shook her lungs . i shook my head , getting it out of the clouds . 