she squeezes my arm before opening my bedroom door and leading the way back into the kitchen . he was followed by cone thumping after him . i see myself walking into the store , through the front , and into a private room in back . id be happy to accompany you tonight . the casts went back three years and it took me a couple of days to get through them . i thought we agreed that you would send in a report every hour . a sleek , all-glass building of no more than twenty floors stretched into the night sky . 