so if something shady is going on , then she could be in trouble . '' i could feel his eyes boring into the side of my head , so i looked straight ahead . if you 're gon na offer something , it had better be higher stakes . '' i can only shake my head at this idiotic man that happens to be my half-brother . `` when everything 's a matter of life and death you tend to get serious very fast . '' he also used the magnets for more practical purposes as an electrical engineer . 