she runs across the road , intending to push herself up the wet earth , to climb , when the white stretch limo comes fish-tailing down the slick hillside road , hell , it must be doing eighty , maybe even aquaplaning on the surface of the road , and she 's pushing her hands into a handful of weeds and earth , and she 's going to get up and away , she knows , when the wet earth crumbles and she tumbles back down onto the road .