the swords flashed an orange color . i thought how extraordinary it must be to have danger as your business . `` so tonight we 're going to remember our dear friend ... a friend who was taken from us far too soon , but whose memory will go on . '' as he said , that was the way she broke in all her new partners . and now that it had happened he did n't know how he 'd ever face his friend again . `` that 's probably why it 's carrying that long , pointed stick . 