`` we 're going to the tunnels . '' we were silent , dark drops of water , rushing over brambles and around the trees as the men drove us before them . they stop , look at the lion and discuss whether it 's safe to go any closer , then back up some more . the warm sweep of that first taste of his tongue . if i come back without you my sister will have my ass . '' i let him , pretty sure what he was going to say . my new discs for the eyes ? '' 