why dont you do some of your funny phrases for me ? i tossed back the first arm , then stared down the gulch . st. martin-in-the-fields was no different . `` that does n't mean i have to just give up . if we all disappeared , that would send up red flags for whoever is watching us . *** some period of time passed , two minutes , five minutes , with me standing in the dark , eyes adjusted as well as they could be , enough to make out the fixtures familiar to me , the knocks coming quite regularly . 