* * * it was darker down here than it seemed from above . pressing her lips into a thin line , she asked , `` can i ask you a question ? '' `` we 're too smart for that . '' tall extended forms were moving fast and smoothly dead towards them . `` it would seem we 're both willing to die but for different reasons . '' the motorcycle 's engine fired to life , and the bike shot forward , snarling like a demon straight from hell . 