i blink and i 'm in one memory , like this one here , back in a classroom in old prentisstown before mayor prentiss closed down the school and we 're learning about why the settlers came here in the first place- and then here i am again , in this one , where she and i are sleeping in an abandoned windmill just after leaving farbranch and the stars are coming out and she asks me to sleep outside because my noise is keeping her awake- or now here , with manchee , with my brilliant , brilliant dog , when he takes the burning ember into his mouth and sets off to start a fire , the fire that will let me save- let me save- are you there ?