he was planning on killing me as well , which is why he was so free with information . `` maybe you should listen to your mother 's advice , lake . '' `` if things could have only been different . he disappeared among the crowd of our people . amazingly , nothing seemed to be broken . `` my word is law among my people . so what , or who , was it ? off toward town , fence posts on each side of the road gradually disappear below water level . 