so we do n't know if he 's dead , or gone .away , or whether he 's just sitting upstairs being invisible , and perhaps coming down and being invisible there . i would n't have left you to deal with all that alone . ' his eyes had not shifted , but somehow it seemed that he had become aware of the absorbed attention of the other two . i would n't even be trading if i were in those girls ' place . the men who came at me in the mountains were trying to kill me . 