`` i figured you 'd have forgotten how to play over there in the sandbox . '' `` okay , i think we need to back up . she put her hand down on his , but he was already in motion . no ones offered me any rum . `` a little , '' she said in a small voice . rose dragged her mind back to the problem of the boys . `` then it looks like you 're down to hitting things . '' one look at her was all it had taken . 