after a moment , the professor reached over and picked up first the bow , then the quiver . sometimes , when i was alone in bed at night , i wished i could fly out over the moonlit sea and explore what was out of sight , just beyond the horizon . `` she has not been long in our world . '' and the girls of our age were . her fingers bit into his palm , her nails digging deep . i was about to say that it becomes you . '' 