`` you live so brightly , so honestly , that you need to be needed . `` you did succeed in driving us out of our homes , forcing us to run and hide . let 's get across and find a hole for the night which we can defend . '' but that had been over four hundred years ago . the drive whirred and the computer shook violently . but wait till you see what we did find . we wondered where youd gone off to . no , under no circumstances would he call his father . 