she settled back on her heels and followed the chain links wrapped around his shoulders . the bench had a vise screwed to it and was covered in tools . look at all of those weird images floating around . '' the barb 's worse off than that . if he noticed the silence between them , he made no sign of it . now he was convinced it was not something carried over from his dreams . it would have been impossible not to . `` could n't even bring myself to look at anyone else like that . 