it was fenced off with bright white fences and everywhere you looked , horses and cattle could be seen grazing . bad things are happening in hearken and not for the first time . no branches cracking , no twigs snapping , no leaves crunching underfoot . `` i felt i must trust you with this . her eyes bug out of her head and i throw my head back and laugh . you know as well as i do that we would regret it in the morning . '' 