that note said we were next . '' there were forty-two of us , not counting the kids who had left on the buses . she was looking at him , smiling . reckon it had a hand in getting us out in one piece . cage said and grabbed the man . she mumbled again : thats no emergency . this hesitation , this sense that he was doing a nasty on the way to getting back at g.b . standing in the driveway with the moonlight pouring down on us , neither of us says a word . 