it is his most powerful tool to stay in power . he leaned out of the shower to check on her . he wondered but decided not to ask it out loud . `` oh wow , a summer with your grandparents and great-grandparents . a line of police cars with their lights flashing are blocking our only path . hes wiping the sweat on my back away . it must have been ten minutes since a word had been spoken in the car , and she had become used to the silence and to her own thoughts . 