but i know if she let me touch her , i could own her . `` probably in the next twenty to thirty minutes if we 're lucky . she had also been surprised at the skills of t.a . they should be thanking me not preparing to fight with me . im sorry was i rattling on he snapped back to attention remembering where he was . it was a moment before she realized that she had sunk six inches into the asphalt , clear past her ankles , like the road was made of mud . 