that was why she 'd tossed it out in the first place . besides , youve earned some time off . he could have fucked a watermelon by then . douglas leapt from his chair and desperately scampered for the door . did she really want to enter such a completely intimate relationship with a vampire ? `` death was like time or gravity . it bent the deck up and ceiling down till the entrance looked like a pipe tunnel , and beyond it the bare stars . 