lets head toward your coffee shop then , he replied , smiling . gray did n't slow , but the world seemed to slow around him . this system makes us do wrong things . he would n't have had time to write anything . i want to talk to you on equal terms . usually more than you need at the first stage . she put her ice cream down and jammed the spoon into it . and then there were all these other smells that had to do with the hospital and its chemicals . she touched her mouth with shaking fingers . 