no grandma , i said , smile fading as i looked at her . this time when the noise came , he knew what it came from . before us the ground seems to stretch to infinity . `` i have a question , '' i call to him in the bathroom . why had she followed that strange urge to walk alone in the middle of the night when she knew that vampires and even worse things existed ? `` when i figure out what to do . '' 'she of all people should be free of that sort of thing . ' 