he wrote a book describing the plants and animals of the new world . `` you know it , dude , '' i said and hung up . i knew where all of them had come from . you think that might make a difference ? '' `` i was n't enough for you was i , mason ? '' `` if you 're acting of your own free will , then link to me right now . '' an awful , incessant pit of fear spread through her until she could barely breathe . fingernails the size of a pinhead could be seen . 