it 's just like when my original eyes were stabbed out . `` do as he says , '' aunt pol ordered quietly . she would rather not have been asked to dance by him again so soon . so , i guess , i 'm happy , if that 's what you wanted to know . '' if i had n't shown up she 'd have been dead before she reached the next town . '' the next instant they were all protesting . there was n't anything else she could say outside of good-bye and that did n't feel right . 