`` you ca n't watch all night , '' twitch said . they were black and had a slight curl at the end . she faced him with a blank expression . perhaps this all came about for no reason . she was every dream he had refused to acknowledge , every hope for a future he could never have . `` i hear you have forty-eight hours of leave starting right now , sergeant . '' `` you were told that i would introduce this subject , '' he said . 